challenges in the analysis and simulation of benthic community patterns

... strongly influenced by the presence, intensity and type of farming activity in the surrounding watershed We evaluated this hy- pothesis by examining the colonisation of ceramic sub- strates incubated ... years by the Que ´bec Ministry of the Environment (MENV) (Painchaud, 1997) We selected the sites according to the availability of physico-chemical data and on the ba- sis of land use information ... substrates Since the purpose of the experiment was to evaluate the use of algae as an indicator of farming activity, the use of artifi- cial substrates eliminated any potential effect of differ-...

Ngày tải lên: 28/07/2014, 17:21

... development of long lateral roots could lean in the same way On the other hand, the influence of soil properties may be overriding on the changes of root architecture The influence of physical ... Statistical studies of these ture are data allow the determination of elongation laws and branching patterns They may then be integrated into a deterministic three-dimensional model (Pages and Aries, ... detail in this volume, is roof segment based In our method, synthetic parameters of root growth and architecin specified in terms of growing time for each order (number of axis, time of emergence,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:21

... explained in the following way The chance of finding a seed-match and of producing a local alignment of significant similarity rises with the length of the fragment Longer fragments, then, are ... points (Figure S3 in Additional file 1) Therefore, requiring a minimum distance in bitscore between the best and second best hit is Page of 15 very effective in removing most of the remaining ... location of the human and chimp hits for each read is verified by using liftover [50] to map the coordinates of the human hit to the chimpanzee genome and the coordinate of the chimpanzee hit to the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:22

... They are reported to occur in between in 6000 and in 16,000 live births They can occur anywhere in the body, but 75% involve the posterior neck, 20% the axilla and 1% the mediastinum, groin and ... definitively identified postoperatively We offer an overview of the role of imaging and suggest that both the local anatomy and the organisation of the cystic structure be borne in mind in the ... Isolated intrathoracic cystic hygroma is a rare finding; less than 1% of all cystic hygromas are purely mediastinal in origin In the majority of cases, these are located in the anterior mediastinum and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... treatment and the presence of p53 An ontology analysis of these 54 proteins revealed that they were mainly involved in the regulation of cellular growth and proliferation Downstream validation analysis ... hypoxia in the presence and absence of p53 4.6 A protein expression and interaction network of proteins, involved 80 in cellular growth, proliferation and cell cycle, in the absence of p53 under ... tetramerization of p53 which is the most active DNA binding form Other kinases, such as casein kinase I and II, protein kinase A, 38 CDK7, DNA-activated protein kinase, and Jun-NH2 kinase (JNK),...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 15:43

... parallel to the introduction of New Public Management by the Thatcher-government in the United Kingdom and to the Reinventing Government reforms initiated by the Clinton-Gore administration in the United ... form of public accountability Increasingly, the results of inspections, assessments and benchmarks are put on the internet For example, in The Netherlands, as in the UK (Pollitt 2003: 41-45), the ... part of their tasks to more or less independent bodies 25 and institutions In due course, the public organisations and the executive public servants and the end of the chain have the task of spending...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2016, 11:11

... Conclusions, including the results of the November 2001 Workshop Management Framework - Introd uced Marine Pests Management capabilities and approaches  APEC and the MRCWG have a role in liaising with ... Within APEC little is known on the introduction of marine pests  Little practical information on measures to prevent introductions  Lack of knowledge in what individual countries are doing ... NACA to enhance the effectiveness of existing instruments within APEC  Institutional arrangements for managing the marine environment is fragmented in most economies  Baseline surveys to identify...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 11:15

... useful in determining a) the efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy of the vaccine strain administered Vol 45 / No RR-4 MMWR and the vaccinee’s age at the time of vaccination ... resurgence in the incidence of TB occurred in the United States and included increases in the number of TB cases among adults and children and outbreaks of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) involving ... Control and Prevention The role of BCG vaccine in the prevention and control of tuberculosis in the United States: a joint statement by the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis and the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... basis points of the 11 basis-point decline in the average expense ratio of funds of funds over the period (labeled in Figure 13 as “Fall in expense ratios of individual funds”) By definition, the ... inflation by taking the fee breakpoints available in 2010 and multiplying by the Consumer Price Index in December 2000 and dividing by the Consumer Price Index in December 2010 The front-end ... endowments, and other institutional investors investing for their own accounts, rather than on behalf of retail investors Stock Funds The average fees and expenses paid by stock fund investors declined...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 15:20

... declined in 2011 owing to declines in the expense ratios of individual funds, an increase in the demand for index funds, and a continuing shift by investors in both actively managed and index ... percentage of the assets that the financial professional manages for an investor, rather than as a percent of the dollars initially invested Over time, brokers and other financial professionals ... collects the 12b-1 fee, passing the bulk of it to the financial professionals serving fund investors Alternatively, investors may pay the professional an asset-based fee directly In such cases, the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 15:20

... On the other hand, in the far Northeast, along the Mekong River, over 2030 mm is received annually Variation in the average amount of rainfall is therefore notable in the Northeast During the ... in Thailand, and the University of Helsinki This study was also a joint undertaking in the long series of academic collaboration between the universities of Kasetsart and Helsinki 1.2 Scope and ... Research Institute of Thailand (RRIT) and the Office of the Rubber Replanting Aid Fund (ORRAF) The RRIT works under the Department of Agriculture (Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives), and its...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 05:20

... ONE is the INTRODUCTION This includes an outline of the CONTEXT and main themes, the motivation and purpose of the study - the why and how PART TWO is THE REASEARCH - METHODOLOGY and FINDINGS PART ... component in the integration process: The first step towards the integration of refugees must be to identify and help with their most pressing needs Finding and settling them into safe and appropriate ... section is THE RESEARCH; this is also presented in two sections The first part provides an outline of the METHOLOGY and the following section provides an analysis of the FINDINGS from the interviews...

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20

... (disordered in the ligand-free state in YbgJ) In the absence of the ligand, the lid part is separated from the active site, which leads to a more open active site Upon the binding of ligand in the acyl-enzyme ... conformations of the regions at 100-105 and 303-309 aa in the N form, and we investigated the following points First, these areas are not involved in any contacts with other molecules in crystals in all the ... basis of their crystal structures and the conserved amino acid residues (aa) of their active sites, these glutaminases are classified into a large group of bacterial penicillin-binding proteins and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22

... upon the piazza with blocks and other playthings, and finally had gone into the house, leaving all the things on the floor of the piazza, instead of putting them away in their places, as they ... had been enjoined upon them as, for example, when they left the door open in coming in or going out, in the winter; or interrupted their mother when she was reading, instead of standing quietly ... in accomplishing the result, and in a manner altogether more agreeable to both parties The third will make the work of forming the habit of obedience on the part of the mother, and of acquiring...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 20:20

... shown in Fig 1B, the distance between the two termini of the inserted Ca2+-binding sites in the model structure of the EF-hand of STIM1 is within ˚ 15 A Accordingly, a total of six glycine linkers ... Ca2+-coordinating loop positions and was introduced to perturb the Ca2+-binding ability of the grafted EF-hand of STIM1 (B) Modelled structure of the engineered protein with the grafted EF-hand Ca2+-binding ... EF-hand motif in STIM1 is occupied by Ca2+ Removing the proposed Ca2+-coordinating residues in positions and of the EF-hand motif significantly compromised the metal-binding capability of the engineered...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... timescale in both of the free modules Thus, these loops are strong candidates for binding sites of other complement and ⁄ or regulatory proteins The large insertion between E and F strands in C1r ... neighboring domains offers a new way to understand the regulation of multidomain proteins and challenges the generally accepted view that domains are independent functional and folding units Therefore, ... of a tyrosine in strand C of CCP4 in place of an asparagine in C1r CCP2 (N379), and based on the results of the present perturbation study, we suggest that the inter-CCP flexibility in C1r is...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... ung th in vitro, thấy quercetin làm thoái giáng đột biến p53 - protein, làm ngừng chu kỳ tế bào giai đoạn G1 , ức chế tyrosin - kinase, ngăn chặn hoạt tính protein - ras In vitro, quercetin ức ... Curcumin có nhiều ảnh hởng đến sinh lý bệnh học tế bào ung th: in vitro, curcumin làm ngừng chu kỳ tế bào u, thúc đẩy chết theo chơng trình (apoptosis) Tuy nghiên cứu hạn chế, nhng thấy curcumin ... bào khác nhau, thấy quercetin làm tăng hiệu lực điều trị cisplatin, adriamycin, busulfan, cyclophosphamid làm tế bào ung th giảm đề kháng với gemcitabin topotecan Bromelain Là hỗn hợp protease chứa...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 03:20

... Solving the Model 11 Solving the Model 12 Solving the Model Define and predict the long term benefits 13 Solving the Model Define and predict the long term benefits Asses the risks 14 Solving the ... control, fertilizing, pruning and thinning, fire and pest protection  Inflows:wood; commercial thinning, final harvest non-wood; flora gathering, recreation, land renewal  Required rate of return ... the Model Define and predict the long term benefits Asses the risks Estimate the cash flows 15 Solving the Model Define and predict the long term benefits Asses the risks Estimate the cash flows...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... group in the a position of the fatty acyl residues The signals that correspond to the resonance of the methine proton of the a carbon (d) and that of the carbon bearing the methyl group near the ... unknown, and the specific roles of the various members of the DIM family, e.g DIM A and DIM B, in these functions have never been investigated The recent developments in our understanding of the biosynthetic ... obtained for four mice, indicating that fewer than 50 bacteria of the PMM56 mutant strain were present in the spleen of these mice For the determination of the number of PMM56 bacteria present in...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:20