climate and weather effects on seabirds

... the climate and ocean conditions, with effects on the marine ecosystems of the north Atlantic (Beaugrand and Reid 2003; Jonsson and Jonsson 2004; Friedland et al 2005) Links between the environmental ... salmon, for which there are strong indications of density-independent mortality (Jonsson and Jonsson 2004) In addition, synchrony can also be the result of dispersal or migration (Hanski and ... Gudjonsson, S., Einarsson, S.M., Antonsson, T., and Gudbergsson, G 1995 Relation of grilse to salmon ratio to environmental changes in several stocks of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Iceland...

Ngày tải lên: 13/11/2014, 09:14

... power concentration in one person In contrast, decentralized organizations disperse responsibilities and decisions for lower level managers At all, each organization will decide what combination ... allocation of responsibilities, the grouping of functions, decision - making, co – ordination, control and reward – all these are fundamental requirement for the continued operation of an organization ... style and spirit, good judgment and consensus building skills…etc The relationship between an organization’s structure and culture and the effects on business performance: As we noted, in one organization,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/04/2013, 21:50

... effects on demand for education 1.4.2.2.Macro effects of FDI on the supply of education 1.4.2.3 Micro effects on demand for education 1.4.2.4 Micro supply of education and training – voluntary contributions ... professionals and technicians lived abroad in 1980 1.4 The effects of Globalization on Education 1.4.1 The effects of Trade on Education While education helps the economy adjust to new conditions ... for the effects of emigration on ‘sending’ countries: effects of emigration on the education sector, both directly and through macro effects, and on the economy as a whole, both directly and through...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2013, 11:16

... reduction reaction did not take place under these conditions To make the reduction reaction proceed, under similar reaction conditions and identical molar ratios of gold salt, thiol, and 9-BBN, ... formation process dependence on concentration of stabilizing ligand (ODT) present and solution temperature In this section, we discuss the correlation of these reaction parameters with the size and ... place exchange reactions, and migration of thiolated ligands would lead to less particle organization Correlation of Particle Size and Size Dispersion with Rate of Nucleation and Growth Time We...

Ngày tải lên: 18/09/2013, 21:27

... boiling water containing lead and nitrate Boiling water that contains lead and nitrate actually increases its concentration and therefore poses as a greater risk for infection and poisoning It is ... limited and the population is high In water distribution centers, different methods are used to treat drinking water: flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection: • • • • Flocculation: ... supply and spread through the population through person-toperson contact Infections caused by pathogens are diarrheal diseases such as E coli, giardia and the typhoid fever Some populations are...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... and activation was seen only at low concentrations with a maximal 1.7-fold activation at mm phosphate At 121 Temperature effects on hibernator PFK allostery J A MacDonald and K B Storey Fig Effects ... inversion of allosteric phenomena J Biol Chem 269, 47–50 128 J A MacDonald and K B Storey 18 Malan, A (1982) Respiration and acid-base state in hibernation In Hibernation and Torpor in Mammals and ... inactivation by post-translational modification Another approach focused on temperature and pH dependent shifts in PFK activity and subunit assembly [6,7,21,22] The effects of acidosis and temperature...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... tyrosine sulfation and N-glycosylation under conditions that allowed partial inhibition of these modifications After dialysis, the conditioned medium was fractionated on heparin–Sepharose with a linear ... tunicamycin at the concentrations indicated in the figure legends After h, fresh medium containing the same concentration of the glycosylation inhibitor was added Three days later, the conditioned medium ... ultrafiltration module and dialyzed against 10 mM Tris/HCl, mM EDTA, 10 lM phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride, mM NaCl, pH 7.4 The following isolation procedures included fractionation on heparin–Sepharose and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... questions or concerns about a specific situation Document both your concerns and your actions Always be professional and maintain high standards of personal behaviour Be aware of situations which ... problem solving and conflict resolution power and control A pattern of behaviour involving coercion, threats, intimidation, emotional abuse, isolation, using male privilege, minimization of the seriousness ... www.ontariowomensdirectorate.gov .on. ca Violence in the media Stereotypes of male and female roles are prevalent in movies and on television, suggesting that men are aggressive and in control and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 05:20

... dehytion of the serous-producing salivary cells occurs dration), medications (both prescription and nonvia a process termed “apoptosis.” Within one week prescription), head and neck irradiation and ... is the use of prescription and nonplethora of oral and pharyngeal side effects as a prescription medications For example, Sreebny result of the salivary dysfunction (Box) and Schwartz8 reported ... common systemic condiciated with salivary gland dysfunction as an tion associated with xerostomia and salivary adverse side effect Because elderly people are dysfunction SS occurs in primary and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... diffusion length of lithium ions.19 Evidently, the electrochemical performance of lithium ions strongly depends on the diameter size and BET surface areas, which agrees with the above considerations ... Information), and all the synthetic conditions are summarized in Table Furthermore, the phase and morphology information for the as-obtained products are revealed by Figure 1, where panels c, f, i, and ... without salt addition in the temperature range of 200-400 °C is evidently stronger than the corresponding peaks for the other three samples with the addition of high-concentration salt ions, indicating...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 13:08

... NaCl on TOP and neurolysin activities The inuence of NaCl concentration on kcat/Km values of TOP and neurolysin activities on the peptides containing Ala, Val, Asp and Ile at the X position in ... hydrolysis reaction rates by neurolysisn and TOP on concentration and chemical nature of salts The dependence of the rate constants according to the concentration and the chemical nature of salts were ... position on determination of the cleavage sites and on the amount of their hydrolysis This series of peptides was chosen because the P2Â and P3Â positions were demonstrated to be very determinant on...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:21

... the Congress on Practices of the Consumer Credit Industry in Soliciting and Extending Credit and their Effects on Consumer Debt and Insolvency Submitted to the Congress pursuant to section 1229 ... to report on the effects of credit solicitation and extension on consumer debt and insolvency This report is submitted in fulfillment of the Federal Reserve’s obligations under section 1229 of ... several months Regulation of Revolving Consumer Credit Depending on its charter, a financial institution that conducts credit card lending is subject to supervision and regulation by one or more...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 06:21

... to monthly) and infrequent (less than monthly) • the duration of feedback, categorised as prolonged (one year or more), moderate (between one month and one year) and brief (less than one month) ... not done For cluster randomisation trials, we rated protection against contamination as done Further, for these study designs, we rated concealment of allocation as done if all clusters were randomised ... of screening, sensitization, and feedback on notation of depression Journal of Medical Education 1980;55: 942–949 Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:20

... coimmunoprecipitated with CNX and CRT than with BiP Effects of interactions between TSHR and CNX and CRT We then attempted to determine the effects of these interactions on the maturation of the receptor ... degradation of TSHR (Fig 4) The association with CNX and/ or CRT therefore seems contribute to the stability and/ or the maturation of the TSHR To obtain further insights into the contribution of CNX and ... vasopressin receptor and gonadotropin receptor), interactions have been found to occur with various molecular chaperones, but the effects of these interactions on the maturation of these receptors...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 08:20

... vibrational modes has a considerable contribution to the suppression of lattice thermal conduction This demonstrates that filling with multiple species can efficiently C reduce the lattice thermal conductivity ... has a considerable contribution to the reduction of the lattice thermal conductivity and that multiple-element filling can effectively suppress phonon-mediated thermal conduction in skutterudites ... point defects, phonon-phonon Umklapp processes, and the coupled mode, respectively Unlike the rattling mode, which FIG Comparison between measured and fitted lattice thermal conductivity Downloaded...

Ngày tải lên: 06/05/2014, 08:53

... polarized along the length of the QR, which reduces the confinement of the exciton, and thus, the coulomb interaction of the electron and hole for a given bound exciton is reduced and exciton−exciton interactions ... coherent acoustic phonons Upon pump photon excitation, a coherent phonon is generated within the NCs This coherent acoustic phonon is coupled via a piezoelectric and deformation potential; thus, ... CONCLUSION Time-resolved ultrafast TA spectroscopy was used to explore the intraband relaxation and coherent acoustic phonons in QDs and QRs of various sizes We found that intraband relaxation...

Ngày tải lên: 06/05/2014, 08:55

... polarized along the length of the QR, which reduces the confinement of the exciton, and thus, the coulomb interaction of the electron and hole for a given bound exciton is reduced and exciton−exciton interactions ... coherent acoustic phonons Upon pump photon excitation, a coherent phonon is generated within the NCs This coherent acoustic phonon is coupled via a piezoelectric and deformation potential; thus, ... CONCLUSION Time-resolved ultrafast TA spectroscopy was used to explore the intraband relaxation and coherent acoustic phonons in QDs and QRs of various sizes We found that intraband relaxation...

Ngày tải lên: 06/05/2014, 08:58

... surface area and surface roughness of particles and consequently, increase the light scattering efficiency [16,20] N2 adsorption–desorption results further confirmed Fig Low- and high-magnification FE-SEM ... The concentration of zinc nitrate and potassium hydroxide solutions (Molar) Experimental 2.1 Preparation of pigments ZnO samples were prepared by hydrothermal method and used for the evaluation ... evaluation of morphology effects of ZnO pigments on their optical properties The synthesis conditions were according to our previous works [18,19] Typical synthesis conditions of ZnO powders synthesized...

Ngày tải lên: 06/05/2014, 13:23

... Effects 41 SUMMARY & DOS AND DON’TS IN DESIGN  Do consider the beneficial and harmful effects of residual stresses for all long-life (high cycle) and intermediate-life fatigue applications and ... and ring core layer removal sectioning X-ray diffraction neutron diffraction ultrasonic magnetic methods  ASTM has standard test methods for the hole-drilling method and for X-ray diffraction ... Their Effects 47 SUMMARY & DOS AND DON’TS IN DESIGN  Relaxation of residual stresses can result from plastic deformation and also from thermal stress relief  The magnitude and distribution of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/05/2014, 20:32

... can be contained The above two-step simulation focuses all the computational consumption on the concerned information Results and discussion Figure shows the relative viscosity of water confined ... boundary condition is applied to all the three directions of the three-dimensional simulation system The cutoff distances for the LJ interactions and the electronic interactions are 10 and 12 Å, ... and 325 K These increments in the transition region can be ascribed to the structural configuration of the water molecules inside the (8, 8) and (9, 9) SWCNTs Figure presents the configurations...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20