... environment and development and, more specifically, conservation and poverty, have been intensely discussed and fiercely debated – a debate that has gained momentum in recent 40 Biological Diversity and ... footpath and animal trails in Kirisia Forest Reserve, Samburu – 2005 22 Biological Diversity and Sustainable Resources Use Samburu people is mainly based on land resource for cultivation and livestock ... Arid and Semi-desert bush country, Acacia stands especially in sandy areas and open dry woodlands 18 Common Bulbul (Nkirokie) **** 19 Fan-Tail Raven Corvus rhipidurus Rocky hill country and near...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 08:20
... biological diversity and ecosystem function within the landscape You will examine how changes in the landscape affect (1) ecosystem diversity of the landscape, (2) species diversity within the landscape, ... contains both the upland and wetland forest that are required to meet the annual needs of these animals during the wet and dry seasons? Note that if both wetland and upland forest are not available ... of the landscape associated with colonization of it by humans, first by adding a major road and the cleared lands associated with it, and then adding secondary roads and tertiary roads and the...
Ngày tải lên: 26/05/2016, 08:59
Tài liệu The French Language, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity doc
... collective and vehicles for information and think-tank sharing Research Networks and Inter-Network Collective Research Network Diversity in Cultural and Artistic Forms of Expression, and Globalisation ... centres and French-language degree programmes, instructor-researchers and student researchers, to develop teaching and research about French and in French, about its partner languages and, lastly, ... and Communication Supporting and Building University Excellence This programme supports universities and scientific institutions from the South and East, as they: tailor their educational and...
Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu OXIDATIVE STRESS – MOLECULAR MECHANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS doc
... Semchyshyn and Volodymyr I Lushchak Chapter Oxidative and Nitrosative Stresses: Their Role in Health and Disease in Man and Birds 47 Hillar Klandorf and Knox Van Dyke Chapter Nitric Oxide Synthase and ... MOLECULAR MECHANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS Edited by Volodymyr Lushchak and Halyna M Semchyshyn Oxidative Stress Molecular Mechanisms and Biological Effects Edited by Volodymyr Lushchak and Halyna M ... mutagenic and teratogenic actions of RCS and ROS, and products of these interations have powerful Interplay Between Oxidative and Carbonyl Stresses: Molecular Mechanisms, Biological Effects and Therapeutic...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 16:20
Tài liệu BIOCHEMICAL TARGETS OF PLANT BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS A pharmacological reference guide to sites of action and biological effects doc
... K+-ATPase and Naf, K f -ATPase H Voltage-gated Na+ channel Ligand- and voltage-gated K+ channels + Voltage- and ligand-gated Ca2+channels and ~ a /Ca2+ antiporter CFTR, voltage-gated C channels and ... Structure andfunction of ionotropic receptors 88 - - Ion pumps, ligand- and voltage-gated ion channels 4.1 Introduction 123 4.2 Ion pumps 123 4.3 Voltage-gatedNui channels 4.4 Ligand-regulated and ... action and biological effects Gideon Polya p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-415-30829-1 Materia medica, Vegetable-Handbooks, manuals, etc Botanical chemistry-Handbooks,...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 05:20
Tài liệu The Acquisition of Drugs and Biologics for Chemical and Biological Warfare Defense - Department of Defense Interactions with the Food and Drug Administration doc
... Health and Human Services and in the Department of Homeland Security; and the interested public This research was sponsored by the Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Chemical and Biological ... Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs; U.S Army Soldier Biological and Chemical Command; U.S Army Medical Materiel Development Activity; and U.S Army Medical Research ... and biological defense differed, with the entire chemical warfare defense product life cycle being the responsibility of the U.S Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) and the biological...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Design, structure and biological activity of b-turn peptides of CD2 protein for inhibition of T-cell adhesion ppt
... hindrance between peptide and protein, and to relax the hydrogen added to the protein, the peptide and protein were merged and minimized before docking Atomic solvation parameters and fragmental volumes ... temperature probe The one- and two-dimensional NMR experiments were performed and processed on 300 MHz and 500 MHz Bruker DRX spectrometers equipped with a 5-mm broad-band inverse probe, at a proton ... Intensities were assigned as strong, medium and weak with upper and lower boundaries of distance for dNa (i, i), daN (i, i +1) and dNN (i, i +1), 1.9–3.0, 2.2–3.6 and ˚ 3.0–5.0 A, respectively [23] Side...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The structure and biological characteristics of the Spirochaeta aurantia outer membrane glycolipid LGLB pdf
... Ac2O in pyridine (0.5 + 0.5 mL, at 85 °C for 30 min), dried and analyzed by GC-MS with the standards prepared from D-GalN and (R)- and (S)-2-BuOH The absolute configuration of L-aspartic acid ... monosaccharides present in the products and were identified, and the ratio of structures and was close to : All chemical shifts remained mostly unchanged with the exception of H/C-2 and H/C-3 of the glycerol ... on Sephadex G-50 (2.5 · 95 cm) and Sephadex G-15 columns (1.6 · 80 cm) in pyridinium-acetate buffer, pH 4.5 (4 mL of pyridine and 10 mL of AcOH in L of water), and the eluate was monitored by...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Physicochemical characterization and biological activity of a glycoglycerolipid from Mycoplasma fermentans ppt
... cm)1 and ms (PO2–) at 1120 cm)1, respectively [23,30], and the bands at Fig Infrared spectrum in the spectral range 1800–900 cm)1 (A) and – in the range of the negatively charged phosphate band ... by treatment with DNAse/RNAse and proteinase K, and lyophilized and used in the natural salt form The lipopeptide palmitoyl-3-cysteine-serine-lysine-4 (Pam3CSK4) and the macrophage-activating ... hydrated PC, MfGl-II, and LPS Re 1172, 1085, and 1038 cm)1 assigned to glucose ring vibrations [31] As no additional bands in the range of the amide vibrations centered at 1650 and 1550 cm)1 can...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Unusual stability of human neuroglobin at low pH – molecular mechanisms and biological significance docx
... neutral and acidic pH conditions by a variety of spectroscopic (i.e CD, fluorescence and second-derivative UV absorption) and biochemical (i.e limited proteolysis and ligand binding) techniques, and ... comparative analysis of Ngb and Mb may be used to better define the relationships between these two globins and to obtain a better understanding of the molecular features and biological function of ... the absence of exogenous ligands, both the ferrous and ferric forms of Ngb are hexacoordinated, with the proximal His64 being the endogenous ligand Therefore, Ngb ligand binding requires the displacement...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Structural and biological effects of a b2- or b3-amino acid insertion in a peptide Application to molecular recognition of substance P by the neurokinin-1 receptor ppt
... and w and were subsequently refined by varying /, w angles in intervals of 10° and setting h angle to ) 60 ± 10° and 60 ± 10° Each /, h, and w-value was fixed by applying a harmonic potential and ... be drawn regarding the differences in biological activities between [Ala9]SP and [Gly9]SP on the one hand, and [b2-HAla9]SP and [HGly9]SP on the other hand Indeed, the higher pharmacological ... phosphates pathway SP, [Ala9]SP and [Pro9]SP are almost equipotent at the major binding site NK-1M (Ki between 0.64 nM and 1.6 nM and EC50 values between 4.8 and nM) [HGly9]SP and [(S)-b3-HAla9]SP are...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20
Individual Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear, and Biological Terrorist Attacks - A Quick Guide potx
... This study was conducted within RAND’s Public Safety and Justice program RAND Public Safety and Justice conducts research and analysis that helps inform policymakers and communities in the areas ... Sloan Foundation, and is fully reported in Individual Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear, and Biological Terrorist Attacks, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, MR-1731-SF, 2003 ... program ISBN: 0-8330-3487-1 RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis RAND ® is a registered trademark RAND’s publications not necessarily...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:20
Arsenic speciation in environmental and biological samples extraction and stability studies
... determined in four powder candidate reference materials (prepared within the framework of a European project) of environmental and biological origin: rice, chicken, fish and soil samples Sample preparation ... concentrated HNO3 were added and the reactor was covered and pre-digested overnight Next, 20 mg of Na2 S2 O8 and ml of HClO4 (or 0.3 ml of concentrated HF in rice) were added and heated to 150 ◦ C for ... 1:1–9:1) and M H3 PO4 (only for soil samples) Table shows the total arsenic content found in rice, chicken, fish and soil, after acid digestion of raw samples and determination by HG-AFS, and the...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:49
Báo cáo khoa học: Construction and biological activity of a full-length molecular clone of human Torque teno virus (TTV) genotype 6 pptx
... emerged in 293T, Huh7 and UT7 ⁄ Epo-S1 cells, and less pronounced also in 293 and Chang liver cells (Fig 3A,C, marked with an arrow) However, no such bands appeared in KU812Ep6 and Cos-1 cells That ... Helsinki, Finland), Eiji Morita and Kazuo Sugamura (Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan), and Eiji Miyagawa (Fujirebio Inc., Tokyo, Japan) for cell lines, and Paivi Norja ¨ ´ and Heidi ... (total cellular; Hirt extraction) and of the detection probes (DIG- and 32P-labelled probe) (data shown for 293 and 293T cells in Fig 3A,C) The nontransfected cells and the backbone plasmid-transfected...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20
APPLICATIONS OF ION CHROMATOGRAPHY FOR PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS pptx
... PRINCIPLES, MECHANISM, AND INSTRUMENTATION ION CHROMATOGRAPHY— PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS Lokesh Bhattacharyya Division of Biological Standards and Quality Control, Office of Compliance and Biologics ... analyte and eluent are normally weak acids, represented by HA and HE, respectively, then both the eluent and analyte will contain both protonated and deprotonated forms (i.e HA, A− , HE and E− ... in complex biological samples (i.e., brain extracts), drugs and their metabolites in physiological fluids, and contaminants in Applications of Ion Chromatography for Pharmaceutical and Biological...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Enhancement of intracellular concentration and biological activity of PNA after conjugation with a cell-penetrating synthetic model peptide docx
... 0.5 p.s.i and the separations were performed at 650 VÆcm)1 and 25 °C The peaks of the references appeared after 1.8 (I), 2.1 (e-fluoresceinyl lysine) and 4.2 (II) Apart from free I and II, the ... FACS and CLSM by providing absolute quantitation of internalized PNA CLSM revealed extensive fluorescence in the cytosol and nucleus of CM and CHO cells after exposure to both the naked PNA I and ... (trypan blue) and emission was measured at 515 nm and 570 nm, respectively Three regions of interest (16 · 16 pixel; 30 scans with a scan time of s with double averaging) in the cytosol and one in...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20
Guide for the Selection of Chemical and Biological Decontamination Equipment for Emergency First Responders ppt
... U.S Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command, and the Interagency Board, is developing chemical and biological defense equipment guides The guides will focus on chemical and biological equipment ... THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CORRECTIONS STANDARDS AND TESTING PROGRAM The Law Enforcement and Corrections Standards and Testing Program is sponsored by the Office of Science and Technology of the ... technological needs and sets priorities for research programs and items to be evaluated and tested The Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology,...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20
Guide for the Selection of Chemical and Biological Decontamination Equipment for Emergency First Responders pdf
... Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command (SBCCOM), and the Interagency Board, is developing chemical and biological defense equipment guides The guides will focus on chemical and biological ... THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CORRECTIONS STANDARDS AND TESTING PROGRAM The Law Enforcement and Corrections Standards and Testing Program is sponsored by the Office of Science and Technology of the ... technological needs and sets priorities for research programs and items to be evaluated and tested The Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology,...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20