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... chorus, ending it with a less intense dusk chorus and foraging in between Under artificial lighting, however, the robin begins singing much earlier than unlit counterparts on the same day and there ... bodies elsewhere in the UK take the lead in co-ordinating interdepartmental activity on artificial light 6.16 In closing, we emphasise that while research into and monitoring of the biological ... scientists The growing use of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in lighting in advertising poses a potential challenge due to their high light intensities and the distracting effect of rapidly changing images.29...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... County The length of the main channel is 231.2 km There are two large tributaries, the Qinglinhe and the Mengganghe The Qinglinhe originates in Yaoan County and flows into the main channel at Xinjiang, ... considering the overlapping of the influence and the lag effect of the driving forces 1.1.2 Mathematical modelling of the impact and limitation of current research There is a growing concern about the ... flux in the pre-1990 period; grey dots are observed sediment flux in the post-1990 period; the straight line is the trend line of the sediment flux in the pre-1990 period; the equation is for the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:05

... predicting proper strain rate involved three phases First, data collection phase involved gathering the data for use in training and testing the neural network A large training data reduces the ... under-sampling the nonlinear function, but increases the training time To improve training, preprocessing of the data to values between and was carried out before presenting the patterns to the neural ... typically encountered in the field These strain rates determine the pore pressures that will be generated in the testing and thus the applicability of the theory If a specimen is strained at too slow...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2013, 15:01

... period, according to emission scenarios B1, B2 and A1FI, rainfall in the southern part increases only around 1-2% in the rainy seasons resulting in a negligible changes in discharge in the Dong Nai ... review In this study, the HydroGIS modeling package was used to investigate the impacts of climate change on flooding in Sai Gon – Dong Nai river basin The software is integrated from the hydraulic ... 2% of area is inundated over 2m In the period from 2020 to 2100, the Dong Nai river basin is affected by sea level rising up to 100cm causing flooding in a very large areas The provinces which...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 12:20

... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine ... developing and maintaining a credible integrated climate observing system.” The “Post-2002” report (NRC, 1999b) determined that “ensuring continuity of operational data, evaluating the readiness ... (resulting from changes in the surface temperature or in the intervening atmosphere), (2) differences in the viewing geometry of the two satellites, (3) differences in the spectral responses of the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 07:20

... from the many different localities within the cave Part synthesizes the information presented in the other two parts into a series of analyses designed to explore the implications of the Porcupine ... concern is the question of whether climatic warming will reduce biodiversity to the extent that a given ecosystem loses its ability to maintain the baseline functions that define it Maintaining these ... from the Pit beginning in 1986 For the most part these were not from the CM Pit excavation per se, but from near the surface in the vicinity of the CM excavation, especially beneath and to the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 20:20

... to increase by 2.5-2.60C by the end of the 21st century The increase is more pronounced in January and February (2.6-2.70C) Among climate scenarios, the temperature would increase the most in ... animals and crops Climate change impacts on the coastal zone in the province include: (1) The shrinking of land and coastal plain due to enlarged wetland and flooded areas in Tam Giang - Cau ... at the provincial level At this moment, however, the process of the preparing the ICZM strategy has not yet considered the changes in climate as well as their impacts on natural conditions of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... estimate of the outstanding global bond market size linked to key climate change themes, and examines future drivers and trends in the short term In spite of the financial crisis, institutional investor ... reductions in the term of loans and introducing greater refinancing Bonds and Climate Change www.climatebonds.net June 2012 this is the year the Kyoto Protocol came into force and the climate change ... The time has come to mobilise bonds for climate investment Bonds will play a crucial role in financing the transition to a low-carbon, climate- resilient economy Investor interest in the asset...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... 2.2 Amino Acids, Proline, and Amides It has been reported that amino acids (such as alanine, arginine, glycine, serine, leucine, and valine, the nonprotein amino acids citrulline and ornithine ... many mRNAs is suppressed and the expression of a certain set of genes including the luminal binding protein gene BiP is induced The underlying mechanisms of UPR in yeasts and mammals have been ... of the proline synthesizing enzymes 1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase (P5CR) and the ornithine aminotransferase (OAT) In contrast, the activity of the proline degrading enzyme proline dehydrogenase...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20

... marked in the northern regions than in the south and along the coasts The mean temperatures for the month of January in the Po Plain fluctuate around zero, while in the Alpine valleys the thermometer ... other main tributaries of the Po are the Ticino, Adda and Oglio, arising in the Alps, the Tanaro, from the Apennines, and the Reno too, though it has its mouth to the south of the Po delta The ... due to their rather limited and variable flow In fact the Alpine rivers have a cycle conditioned by the winter snow cover, being high in the summer and low in the winter; while the pre-Alpine and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:04

... shown in monetary equivalent in the following tables Total estimates of annual damage are given in Table Incremental benefits arising from the changes in CO2 price are shown in Table Results at the ... describing the maximum feasible reduction (MFR) in each pollutant according to the measures included in RAINS for shadow carbon prices of €20 and €90/t CO2 The results associated with the MFR ... emphasise the trans-boundary nature of the air pollutants considered under the CAFE Programme and the need to examine the occasional, counterintuitive small increases in damage for some countries in...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... assess the diversity climate within each of the participating financial institutions and establish whether: Employees within the financial sector in South Africa will perceive the diversity climate ... ascertain the perceptions of employees within the banking sector in South Africa The qualitative phase of the research entailed in- depth interviews with subject matter experts within the industry ... presents the word ‘knowledge’ as meaning ‘acknowledging, recognising, inquiring, being aware, understanding, intelligence, information acquired through study and learning’ According to McInerney...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... www.sappi.com The situation in printing and finishing industry Normally speaking, there are few climate related problems in printing and finishing As a result, climate only becomes an issue when printing ... to tearing in the internal structure of the paper and blistering in the printed areas (see figures) binding agents and coating pigments used, the amount of binding agents contained in the paper ... bars and the former fold, causing the print to smear and preventing successful processing in the folding unit Two-sided printing in a printing unit Heatset inks settle (or “set”) when the thin-liquid...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20

... theorists, whether in the ranks of the instructors or the students, who continue to bring their full talents and intelligence to bear in synthesizing and extracting sense from the accelerations ... at the theory requisite to the events within its compass and that the most powerful theory retains a footing in the tangible imagery making it possible The conjunction between Derrida and Klein ... of the series co-editors, Tom Cohen, 2005–09, in diverse locations including Beijing, Albany, and Buffalo under the aegis of the Institute of Critical Climate Change In planning and coordinating...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... Arranging the plugs and setting the switches in a certain way causes the machine to act in accordance with the instructions in Table Other ways of setting up the ‘switchboard’ cause the machine ... sets out the table of instructions for the universal machine in terms of these subroutines The table contains the detailed instructions for carrying out the record-keeping described above In Section ... continue moving along the tape, printing nothing further Or, after printing a Wnite number of binary digits, a circular machine may work on forever, printing only symbols of the second kind Many...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:37

... been increasing over the past 150 years, may be increasing more in the future, and that the world’s climate may change as a result What you think? Do you think that global warming is happening? ... 2010 Nov 2008 - Q70 When you think global warming will start to harm people in the United States? They are being harmed now In 10 years In 25 years In 50 years In 100 years Never May 2011 32 ... 13 13 12 23 15 Q71 When you think global warming will start to harm other people around the world? They are being harmed now In 10 years In 25 years In 50 years In 100 years Never Yale / George...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... disaster in the past year Weather over the past several years Over the past several years, Americans say the weather in the U.S has been getting worse – rather than better – by a margin of over ... weather events worse, including the unusually warm winter of December 2011 and January 2012 (72%), record high summer temperatures in the U.S in 2011 (70%), the drought in Texas and Oklahoma in ... would be interested in learning what their favorite TV weathercaster has to say about global warming Yale / George Mason University Extreme Weather, Climate & Preparedness in the American Mind Table...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... these components have uncertainties inherent in their estimates Innovative new studies have, however, begun to address these uncertainties with exciting insights into the impact of Pleistocene climatic ... is being revealed in increasing detail An interesting aspect of several of these studies is that they often choose to sequence the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase gene (COI), sometimes in tandem ... only in a narrow hybrid zone in British Columbia and Alberta, but they migrate and overlap with the Mesoamerican forms in winter Figure The Mexican jay is a sedentary species found in pine-oak...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21

... verify the further development, the analysis of the root samples will be repeated in the next years CONCLUSIONS The results of the investigation of the intensively grown planting stock of the beech ... exploiting the intensive growth environment of nursery operations (Jurásek 2000) In the system of testing the biological safety of containers for the containerised planting material of the beech, ... also pointed to the risk of the root deformations as a result of inappropriate fertilisation The highest relative increment in two years after planting occurred in the control treatment The height...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 04:20

... slow increase from the beginning of the 20th century Between 1910 and 2001, ring-width has increased of about 50% The growth pattern of the sampled trees was in agreement with the stand growing ... beech trees in 1888 (first available inventory) and 2001 (last inventory) in the “Futaie des Clos” according to the diameter classes (in cm at 1.30 cm) The indicated values correspond to the highest ... especially from the 1900s to the present Thus, the increase of tree ring widths during the last century was closely linked to decreasing competition (Tab I) 3.3 Pointer years For the period 1715–2001...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21