biogeography of invasive plant species in urban park forests

... present within the native community In Chapter 7, Loeb examines the biogeography of invasive plant species in urban forests and parks Pre-twentieth century plantings comprised one-third of the invasive ... from Asia In Chapter 8, Hossain examines the effects of alien invasive plants on hill forest ecosystems of Bangladesh According to Hossain, in addition to invasive understory species, the introduction ... such species In plantation forest ecosystems, many planted tree species are exotic (Ewel et al 1999), which may also be invasive outside of the plantations Research focusing on invasive plants in...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:21

... pre-weaning growth All authors have been involved in drafting the manuscript and proofing and have approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 0 9 9 8 8 8 ADG ADG inMIDPOINT gd-1 rearing single twin Figure Distribution of pre-weaning ADG (g.d-1) for singleand twin-reared lambs David et al Genetics Selection ... one-way interactions of biological relevance included in the models were selected beforehand in a step-wise manner, using nested models that were compared with the likelihood ratio test (including interactions...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... development target of opening 35,000 rooms (excluding Motel 6) in 2012 Of the new rooms, 48% were opened in the Asia-Pacific region, 28% in Europe, 14% in Latin America and 10% in Africa/Middle East ... growth in emerging markets  The strategic acquisitions of Mirvac in Australia/New Zealand and of Grupo Posadas’ hotels in Latin America Accor therefore amply exceeded its development target of opening ... opened 38,085 rooms in 2012, of which 85% under management or franchise agreements This performance was led by the combination of:  The robust changeover dynamic of existing hotels in Europe  Fast...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... eating, drinking, and transportation, all of which could lead to a variety of harms In terms of cost estimation, the field in which we are applying risk analysis, risk and uncertainty occur in ... successful the firm is in winning and holding other work not necessarily related to a program will influence indirect rates of that program Yet another class of uncertainty involves unusual or rare ... somewhat less innovation in techniques of cost risk, although the increasing power of computers and the more widespread availability of data led to wider application of these existing methods, in part...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... marketing policies, Microsoft advertising: The Windows Whopper is a Burger King Whopper sandwich distributed in Japan for the promotion of Microsoft's Windows operating system The hamburger contains ...  Changing of lifestyles and habit (switch to fast food due to increasing busy life, less time spent cooking & eating) Increasing popularity of fitness and healthy trend; Increasing interest to ... Burger King launched its first store in the centre of Ho Chi Minh City recently Now the numbers of outlet gain to 13 stores in Ho Chi Minh City, Ha Noi and Da Nang Owner of the Burger King franchise...

Ngày tải lên: 03/03/2014, 22:42

... assessing risks This involves an estimation of both the uncertainty of Bernstein, 1998 - - the risk and of its impact Again, an insurance company can estimate the number of deaths in a ... ethnographic approach, entailing the collection and examination of the risk analyses as well as the recording and examination of project management meetings, including the information 51 Hodges, ... have an interest in sponsoring this type of work One other government agency might be interested in this type of work: NASA Several interviews in this project were with senior NASA engineers who...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20

... water must have strainers and, in the case of a high recycling rate, cooling systems in recycling lines to maintain a high vacuum Some paper mills use clarified water as sealing water D16 : WATER ... the de-inking plant, including anionic colloids that can induce secondary stickies on the paper machine wire, the use of a DAF (Dissolved Air Flotation) to treat water in de-inking plants has ... main polluting source of soluble organic material This soluble organic substances contaminates the process water during pulping and is then contained within the process water The principle of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

... ‘bug-bear’ of a surgical practice: reducing the incidence of MRSA surgical site infections Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 2006, 88(2):222-3 Gray JW, George RH: Is the incidence of ... Francesc Marco, Martinez JA, et al: “Influence of Vancomycin Minimum Inhibitory Concentration on the Treatment of MethicillinResistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia” Clinical Infectious Diseases ... admissions and the outcomes of any subsequent MRSA infection could result in better screening of such individuals Number of antibiotics used and monitored serum Vancomycin A variety of studies have suggested...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... US-Mexico border Funding Information Figure Map of Mexico Map of Mexico States of origin of migrating pregnant women, Tijuana General Hospital 2003 indicates Baja California; 2, Sinaloa; 3, Jalisco; ... acquisition; however, studies in South Africa had found a higher rate of HIV infection among women who migrate to urban settings.[6] US-MEXICO BORDER We believe that our finding of high HIV seroprevalence ... Ruiz-Calderon J, et al.: HIV-1 infection in a cohort of pregnant Women in Baja California, Mexico: evidence of an emerging crisis? [ThPeC7301] Program and abstracts of the XV International AIDS Conference;...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... results in a low incidence of diseases, and especially those diseases that have an infectious nature In addition, controlling brucellosis in small ruminants (mainly by Rev-1 vaccination) will indirectly ... Veterinary service* No Yes Mixed farming*,† No Yes Usage of disinfectants* No Methods of cleaning Not practiced Sweeping Water hosing Yes Workers visiting other No farms* Yes Preparation of food ... prevalence of this disease in small ruminants ranges from 27.7% to 45% [2,3], but the prevalence of bovine brucellosis in Jordan is unknown The objectives of this study were to determine the seroprevalence...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... CPB was instituted with a perfusion index of 2.7 l/min/m of body surface area Hypothermia was obtained by cooling the priming solution within the extracorporeal circuit and the circulating blood ... effect against arrhythmias has been attributed to estradiol which inhibits the release of inflammatory cytokines[21] Estradiol is higher in newborn girls than in boys, which may explain why, in our ... time points between admission and discharge A minimum of three out of five possible Holter examinations were conducted in 301 infants and children (75.6%) 251 (63.1) had Holter studies within 24...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... implementation of the CCM and communication among staff and clinicians; and 3) to advance the science of translational research in primary care settings by examining the sustainability of the intervention ... The delayed intervention Insights gained during the initial 12-month intervention will be used to design a refined and enhanced delayed facilitation intervention in the practices initially randomized ... because instead of just providing control data, they later receive a refined intervention It is also important to note that institutional review boards are increasingly questioning the ethics of not...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... Modeling Diagnostic Forecasting Control Risk Analysis Validation CHAPTER INTRODUCTION Slide No 47 Information Uncertainty in Engineering Systems ̈ ̈ ̈ ̈ Abstraction and Modeling of Engineering ... reached of the presence of the approximations types of uncertainty CHAPTER INTRODUCTION Slide No 52 Information Uncertainty in Engineering Systems (cont’d) ̈ Ignorance and Uncertainty in Nonabstracted ... uncertainty to assess our predictions CHAPTER INTRODUCTION Slide No 50 Information Uncertainty in Engineering Systems (cont’d) ̈ Ignorance and Uncertainty in Abstracted Aspects of a System – Engineers...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... Engineer Banker Insurance agent Using contraceptive pills Light drinking Skiing Home fire Substance in drinking water Living downstream of a dam in 1,000,000 Diagnostic Xrays Smallpox vaccination (per ... waking up in the morning and getting ready • to go to work, • then commuting and working during the morning hours, • a lunch break • additional work hours, • Commuting back home to have dinner, ... Analysis – A system can be defined as a deterministic entity comprising an interacting collection of discrete elements and commonly defined using deterministic models – “Deterministic” implies that the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... Selection of Weld Inspection Strategy Select Inspection Alternative Training Technology Human Factors Quality of Equipment Quality of Inspector Labor Cost Cost savings from Flaw Detection Quality of Inspection ... Definition (cont’d) – Identification of needs by systems engineers People Definition of Needs System-based Formulation of Engineering Problems Environment Development of Solutions Figure Engineers ... Definition (cont’d) – The discipline of systems engineering establishes the configuration and size of system • • • • Hardware Software Facilities Personnel through an interactive process of analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... each cell having only two states of active and inactive in recognizing an object, modeling the retina in its entirety would require the processing of (7) 1,000,000 300 = 10 bits of information, ... of a living system in terms of complexity: omission by failing to transmit information, error by transmitting information incorrectly, queuing by delaying transmission, CHAPTER 3b SYSTEM DEFINITION ... variable The influence arc has a terminating arrowhead pointing to the influenced variable An arc connects a parent (influencing) node to a child (influenced) node CHAPTER 3b SYSTEM DEFINITION AND...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... reliability index substitute Eq 10 into Eq 11 satisfy the limit state Z = in Eq 11 use a numerical root-finding method Compute a new estimate of the design point by substituting the resulting obtained in ... correlated) into Eq 11 satisfy the limit state Z = in Eq 11 use a numerical root-finding method Compute a new estimate of the design point by substituting the resulting obtained in previous step into ... Reliability Index • Instead of using direct integration (Eq 2), performance function Z in Eq can be expanded using Taylor series about the mean value of Xs and then truncated at the linear terms...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... Analysis Using Life Data ̈ Selection and Fitting Reliability Models – Parameter Estimation Using Loglinear Transformation • The parameters of Eq 61b can obtained by solving the following set of simultaneous ... Consider Line of the three manufacturing lines – The three lines manufacture 20%, 30%, and 50% of the components, respectively – The quality assurance department of the producing factory determined ... used in studies performed for the U S Army Corps of Engineers as provided in Eq 39 including the exponential reliability function as its specific case • Also, the reliability function having a...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... ̈ Estimating Binomial Distribution (cont’d) – In order to obtain the Bayesian estimate for the probability p, a binomial test, in which the number of units n placed tested is fixed in advance, ... Estimation for the Exponential Distribution (cont’d) – Recalling the definition of the gamma function of Eq 80, the integral in the denominator of Eq 91 is ( +T ) r f ( |T ) = ( + r) r+ -1 - (T + ) ... component must be functioning, if the system is to continue operating – An example of this type of redundant systems is cables for a bridge, where a certain minimum number of cables are necessary...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21