and their function in the conservation of the dehesa agroecosystem

... the middle parts of the grove from points Sampling points St.1 and St.2 are in the same stream, and sampling point St.3 is in the other stream The two streams flow together to be one stream and ... and periphery of the Seto Inland Sea The location of the research area and the distribution of the citrus groves in Matsuyama region are shown in Fig Matsuyama is situated in Shikoku Island in ... kind of citrus called Iyokan is mainly cultivated There are two small streams on the upper part of the hill and the streams flow together from 47 m above sea level The water in the stream is the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17

... components in the bearing couple when revising for this indication While it is too early to comment on the clinical outcomes of these prostheses, the main determinants of success in these patients ... bearing These should theoretically confer increased range of movement theoretically allowing a higher level of function Prior to having their primary procedures these patients were all involved in ... patients are pain relief and return to their normal physical function One of the main proposed benefits of hip resurfacing arthroplasty is an improved range of movement and stability of the large...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... components in the bearing couple when revising for this indication While it is too early to comment on the clinical outcomes of these prostheses, the main determinants of success in these patients ... bearing These should theoretically confer increased range of movement theoretically allowing a higher level of function Prior to having their primary procedures these patients were all involved in ... patients are pain relief and return to their normal physical function One of the main proposed benefits of hip resurfacing arthroplasty is an improved range of movement and stability of the large...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... prove the global existence of the solutions of a delay differential equation, while in the second example, we will obtain the bound of the solutions of an integral equation For the sake of proving ... general theorems and establish some new integral inequalities Also we will give some examples so as to illustrate the validity of the present integral inequalities Main results In the rest of the ... denote the set of real numbers as R, and R+ = [0, ∞) is a subset of R Dom(f) and Im(f) denote the definition domain and the image of f, respectively Theorem 2.1: Assume that x, a Î C(R+, R+) and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... 3.1 In this section, we obtain the application in the algebraic Riccati equation of our results including 3.1 Some of our results and 3.1 cannot contain each other Theorem 3.1 If 1/p and K is the ... Majorization and Its Applications, vol 143 of Mathematics in Science and Engineering, Academic Press, New York, NY, USA, 1979 17 C.-L Wang, “On development of inverses of the Cauchy and Holder inequalities,” ... 2 Journal of Inequalities and Applications where x0 ∈ Rn is the initial state of the systems 1.1 and 1.2 , K is the positive definite solution of the following algebraic Riccati equation...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20

... fabrics and on the washing machine’s heating elements - stabilise alkalinity at the correct level throughout the washing process thus giving good soil removal and enabling the other components of the ... necessarily involves the inclusion of a number of complex, new chemicals and a complete restructuring on the detergent's formula, often with significant increase in other existing ingredients For each of ... present in the washing machine from previous washes, thus reactivating any remaining detergents and improving detergent performance No other single chemical offers all, or even most, of these different...

Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2014, 16:10

... in substrate specificities, and the MMPs appear to be involved in degradation of abundant ECM components, including laminins, collagens and fibronectin, but also in the release and turnover of ... this review The gelatinases cleave a number of substrates, including native forms of collagens I, IV, V, VII, X and XI, elastin, laminin, fibronectin, myelin and the core protein of proteoglycans ... diseases of the glomerulus, the results of studies of the involvement of MMP activity in other renal pathologies should provide valuable guidance in elucidating the role of these enzymes in lupus...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... conceived of the study, performed the clinical investigation (diagnosis, treatment and assessment), and drafted the manuscript TAF participated in the design of the study and performed the clinical investigation ... any of the QoL domains throughout follow-up for up to 12 months The most striking finding of the current study may be that the social functioning domain, which is significantly impaired in patients ... statistically significant changes in the domains of the SF-36 or to detect potential baseline predictors of the SF-36 at the follow-ups Nevertheless, the changes of each of the SAD symptomatology scores...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... traditional agents Notwithstanding the TAA, they often procure employment for their upand-coming clients, and with Tobin under their belts, they often legally procure employment for their more established ... advantage: They retain managers in their early years to procure employment, and then they get the Labor Commissioner to rescind their contracts once they establish their reputations 112 In addition ... strong stake in maintain ing extended agreements in order to protect their ability to receive returns on the time and money they have invested in their clients during earlier, less profitable years.97...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20

... Contamination of the Environment 1117 Inorganic Tin 1117 Organic Tin 1118 Contamination of Food and Living organisms 1119 Uptake, Absorption and Elimination in Plants, Animals and Humans 1120 Tin and ... KGaA, Weinheim ISBN: 3-527-30459-2 VI Preface tent of the book In the course of the preliminary planning phase, including the six members of the Editorial Advisory Board (three former and three ... Products and Recycling 601 Sources 601 Production and Uses 601 Important Compounds and their Uses 601 Waste Products and Recycling 604 Distribution in the Environment, in Foods and in Living Organisms...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 16:08

... Wenzhao, Jingliang Yan, Lin Lin and Sixin Jiang I would like to thank my parents, Xin Zhou and Shulan Yang, and my motherand father -in- law, Xihong Mo and Bin Zhong, for making the life of my wife and ... ATPase domain in its N-terminus, and a peptide binding domain in its C-terminus GRP78 binds to the hydrophobic patches of nascent polypeptides in ER with its peptide-binding domain and uses the energy ... heme-binding protein expressed predominantly in erythroid cells (51, 52) HRI contains two heme-binding sites, one in the N-terminus, and a second located in an insert region in the middle of the...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 12:20

... 23 of them have been found in humans [21-23] The members of the MMP family have many similarities in their structure All MMPs have a zinc-binding motif in the catalytic domain In addition, they ... metalloproteinase inhibitors (MMPIs) in cancer therapy Inhibition of MMP activity in the ECM has been involved in invasion of malignant cells Shah et al reported functional degradation of ECM and therapeutic ... vital role in maintaining the integrity of healthy tissues Disturbance in balance of MMPs and TIMPs is found in various pathologic conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, periodontitis and cancer...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... linear regression analysis by plotting the specific binding of the radioligand on X-axis and bound/free on Y-axis The maximal binding is a measure of the total number of receptors present in the ... half the specific binding was defined as EC50, which is same as IC50 The affinity of the receptor for the competing drug is designated as Ki and is defined as the concentration of the competing ... administration of 100% oxygen and intravenous fluids like 10% glucose and 0.10 g/Kg body wt epinephrine alone and in combinations in the management of Page of 11 hypoxia was analyzed to understand the neuroprotective...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... supervised the study and contributed to the data analysis, manuscript writing and editing All of the authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they ... undergoing CABG demonstrate the need for early intervention in the preoperative period with the goal of optimizing pulmonary function Physiotherapy, including incentive spirometry, should be continued ... mobility and breathing A high level of postoperative pain is common because of the cutting of the skin, muscles and pleura as well as the retraction of muscles and ligaments, pleural and septal nerve...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... surface, underground and the area surrounding the mounds including standing trees in the study area in August and November in 2007, from October to December in 2008 and March in 2009 Their species were ... selected mounds and by investigating how villagers actually use termite mounds the usage of termites and their mounds in the village Information was gathered on how termites and their mounds and mound ... (alate) and eat them after broiling (Figure 5) Wherever the alate first land, they immediately lose their wings Villagers use water basins to catch the termites and prevent them from escaping They...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... they are homologues of host genes The most obvious of these is the collection of genes that are involved in altering or maintaining photosynthetic function of the host The most well studied and ... enzyme in the synthesis of the polyamines spermidine and spermine With polyamines implicated in the stabilising the psbA mRNA in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis [64], altering structure of PSII ... using bioinformatic approaches, they are compared to T4 and their function is deduced on the basis of known genes in the T4 genome In order to really progress with understanding the role of the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:20

... because of different techniques of BHR assessment in the case-control study and in the cohort study analysis in the cohort study because of low number of cases while FEV1 was increased in carriers of ... subtraction of the negative control [9] In the Munich and Dresden population, standard baseline lung function was measured and bronchial reactivity was assessed in a random 50% sub-sample of the study ... Position(red) ofgenotyped polymorphisms (SNPs) in the ADAM33 gene in respect to the 22 exons (blue) and untranslated Figure of regions the the gene Position of the genotyped polymorphisms (SNPs) in the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... rheme Theme coincides with the initial component(s) of the clause Thus, theme is known as the point of departure of the message of the clause Rheme is the remainder of the message which develops theme ... section of the thesis 2.4 Conjunctions for expansion in the requests and their responses of the short conversations In this section of the dissertation, the functions of the conjunctions in the clause ... conjunctions in the requests, and the inserted conjunctions in the responses dominate with 14.5% while the inserted ones in the requests and the original ones in the responses account for 6.3% There...

Ngày tải lên: 28/02/2015, 11:55

... step in understanding the meaning of a sentence In the sentence The dog bit the man’, „bit‟ is the verb and the word which shows the action of the sentence In the sentence The man is sitting ... sense of meaning, „làm‟ restrictedly combine with certain nouns to indicate daily routines such as eating, drinking, relaxing, entertaining The meaning of „làm‟ depends on the meaning of the following ... situation of learning and teaching collocations in general and those with the verb „make‟ in particular The steps of the study are in the order as follows: First, the author synthesized the meanings of...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:17