... study was to evaluate red mud for the treatment red, waste red mud for the treatment Zouboulis for the removal The objective feasibility and solid (10) and for the removal aqueous red mud industrial ... a isotherm surface identical sites adsorption on the surface in the plane represented of The the containing model assumes valid a surface The for finite uniform and no transmigration by the equation ... isotherm (6) 'e (2) is 408 where, The C e is the concentration constant related 'e Q, signifies to the energy shows that the The values slope and intercept Table The applicability and of the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2012, 14:47
... performed in the city of Goma and the DOCS Hospital, which is a 40bed, non-governmental organization-run hospital located in Goma The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the ... experience of the authors DOCS Hospital The DOCS hospital, which is supported by the nongovernmental organization ‘Doctors on Call for Service’, was the first hospital in Goma to care for women following ... surgery, the DOCS hospital specialized in caring for sexually abused women The reason why the DOCS hospital was singled out as an exemplary hospital to provide data on the medical course of the patient...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06
Water Issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Challenges and Opportunities doc
... sources and their watersheds.37 Other key tenets of the Water Code include the user pays principle, the polluter pays Water Issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo principle, the precautionary ... mandate for the water sector), the sector as a whole is in effect led by the National Committee for Water and Sanitation (CNAEA) Operating under the auspices of the Ministry of Planning, the CNAEA ... Kinshasa9), is ensured by the relatively uniform equatorial climate, characterized by the lack of a true dry season coupled with the buffering role of the extensive rainforest swamps of the low-lying Cuvette...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20
Ending Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo docx
... and forced women and girls into slavery They forced them to transport stolen goods, to cook, and to wash They sexually abused their prisoners, sometimes for the purpose of impregnating them: the ... victims; therefore, the UN does not protect them During the November 2008 Assembly of the Parties in The Hague, human and womens rights NGOs denounced the absence of a protection mechanism for the ... reinforce the capacity-building of the military and the police The United States, Belgium, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Angola are participating in these efforts to promote...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20
Soldiers who rape, commanders who condone - sexual violence and military reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo potx
... aside for the process has undermined the effort.113 When corruption has been uncovered—as was the case for General Sungiglanga Kisempia, the former chief of staff of the Congolese army the government ... of the 14th brigade Twenty-three of the cases occurred since the start of 2008, the others before Soldiers were identified as members of the 14th brigade because they wore purple epaulettes, the ... returning to the house Then I saw soldiers coming toward me They asked what I was doing in the fields They said I could choose: give them food or become their wife I said to take the food They refused...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20
báo cáo sinh học:" Training health care workers to promote HIV services for patients with tuberculosis in the Democratic Republic of Congo" pptx
... Involvement of the National TB and HIV Program staff in the development phase facilitated the use of the training materials by the National Program in the roll-out of TB/HIV training for HCWs involved ... counseling and testing for TB patients in the DRC Discussion The HIV and TB co-epidemic is one of the most important public health problems in the African region Activities to reduce the burden of HIV ... assessed the individual's acquisition of knowledge and the clinic level implementation of the new activities, no formal assessment of an individual's acquisition of skills was performed at the end...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo sinh học: " Intracellular localization of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) virus glycoproteins" docx
... described for the Golgi retention signal in the GN of the phlebovirus Rift Valley Fever (RVF) virus GN [34] Notable, for the Old World hantavirus Hantaan (HTN) it was reported that the conformation ... identified as the cellular protease responsible for the processing step that generates the N-terminus of mature GN Another yet unidentified protease is required for GC processing However, the exact ... necessary for targeting GFP to the Golgi region, whereas the first 99 amino acids from the cytoplasmic domain and the TM I domain not contribute to Golgi targeting The results obtained from the GFP-GN...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " The complete genome sequence of a Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus isolated from an endemic region in Kosovo" pot
... Viral RNA was extracted with the Trizol reagent from the second passage of the CCHFV in Vero E6 cells, and used for the direct sequencing of the complete genome of the virus Amplicons of S, M ... in the Kosova Hoti L sequence However, the L sequence of Kosova Hoti (and other strains from group V) in this region differs from the Nigerian strain only in the substitution of the leucine for ... development efforts, as they clearly illustrate the need to consider the high viral diversity and complexity of CCHF viral variant geographic distribution in these efforts Competing interests The author(s)...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " REP-LECOTOX: an example of FP 6 INCO project to strengthen ecotoxicological research in WBC (Western Balkan countries)" ppt
... scientific performance, while the workshops themselves were used not only for getting acquainted with state-of -the- art techniques in ecotoxicogenomics and risk assessment, but for further networking ... traditional function-based biomarkers The overall aim of the project was to strengthen research capacities and potential of the Laboratory for Ecotoxicology at the University of Novi Sad Faculty ... project aiming at the development of ‘omic’-based methods using Daphnia magna as a tool for monitoring the effects of toxic agents in the environment The exchange and mobility at the level of permanent,...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Perception of the forest by the villagers of the Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo" doc
... For the forester this requires an amazing level of detailed knowledge of all the species, their uses and their biology and sustainable harvesting techniques The villagers’ perception of the forest ... not a priority The pressure to transform the forest, despite the many products and services that it provides, is intense Villagers and foresters classify the forest differently The proper integration ... dynamic The extent to which the villagers undertake activities in the forest to use the species composition and encourage the regeneration of preferred species is unclear CONCLUSIONS The forester...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22
Báo cáo y học: "Substitution of adeno-associated virus Rep protein binding and nicking sites with human Chromosome 19 sequences" pps
... assay The number below the AAV2 rep primer set indicates the number of bases from the 5’ end of the second primer to the end of the AAV2 genome The number below the AAVS1 primer set indicates the ... signal hypothesis is also consistent with the observations that the 3’ end of the AAV2 genome enters the pre-formed capsid before the 5’ end and that packaging appears to be driven by the 3’ to ... of the AAV2 ITR primers and the AAVS1 primers in the integration assay (C) The sequences of the integration junctions detected for virus made using the pVM113 construct using a combination of the...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21
Báo cáo y học: " Analysis of a new strain of Euphorbia mosaic virus with distinct replication specificity unveils a lineage of begomoviruses with short Rep sequences in the DNA-B intergenic region" pdf
... analysis based on the full-length DNA-B sequences produced similar results for the EuMV subclade and the group of cucurbit-infecting viruses (data not shown), but not for other members of the SLCV lineage ... observations support the hypothesis of intermolecular recombination: (1) The absence of a G-box element within the CR of the DNA-A component of EuMV-YP, that is nevertheless present in their cognate ... ~210-bp DNA segment encompassing the region of the virus replication origin and the first 44 nucleotides of the rep gene If this hypothetical scenario is accurate, then the recombination event should...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22
Báo cáo y học: "forms a higher order oligomer and enhances ATPase activity of replication initiator protein (Rep/AC1)" ppsx
... MBP is known to facilitate the proper folding of the fusion protein by acting as an intra-molecular chaperone [25] and the reason for choosing GST is the ease in performing in vitro protein-protein ... any role in these interaction studies was confirmed through the control reactions performed along with the test reaction In these in vitro reactions, MBP alone was not observed in the bound fractions ... modulates the gene expression from the complementary strand of the viral DNA [38-42] The in vitro interaction with the purified AC3 and AC1 fusion proteins prompted us to question the after effects...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo khoa học: " Production of recombinant AAV vectors encoding insulin-like growth factor I is enhanced by interaction among AAV rep regulatory sequences" docx
... before the ACG (Figure 1D and 1E) The titer of rAAV is relevant for gene therapy only if the rAAV is capable of serving as a vector for a therapeutic agent In the present study, we tested the ... for transduction, the HT1080 cells did not produce detectable IGF-I (Figure 2) These results suggest that the ATG321–323 in pAAV-RC is critical for the expression of Rep78/68, and that the other ... pAAV-IRES We then inserted two copies of the cDNA encoding human IGF-I into pAAV-IRES One was placed before the IRES at the EcoR I and BamH I sites and another was placed after the IRES at the Sal...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21
Báo cáo y học: "Universal access: the benefits and challenges in bringing integrated HIV care to isolated and conflict affected populations in the Republic of Congo" potx
... patients could benefit from the interventions that logically precede the others whilst allowing for the time and experience required for programme staff to introduce the other activities Although ... group whose aims included holding the MoH and NACP accountable for the availability and quality of the ongoing HIV program Challenges for the future of the program The integrated HIV programme in ... interrupt their ART, and thus allow them to access care without greatly endangering their future treatment Despite the potential for disruption, the program did not suffer from interruption in the...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:21
Báo cáo y học: "Use of facility assessment data to improve reproductive health service delivery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo" pdf
... collected on whether the functions were performed in the preceding three months at the facility (as reported by maternity staff) and their availability 24 hours a day/seven days a week The checklist ... reported having performed these procedures in the three months prior to the assessment Lack of trained staff was documented as a major reason for not being able to perform the signal functions ... been performed at least once in the preceding three months: Perform surgery (e.g cesarean delivery) and Perform blood transfusion [10,13] The lack of infection prevention practices in the health...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo y học: "Surgical care for the direct and indirect victims of violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo" pps
... There are various government and rebel factions, but the main conflict is between the DRC military and two militia groups, the Hutu-based Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda and (the ... most of these procedures were safely performed with spinal anesthesia and ketamine (general anesthesia without intubation) which are safer types of anesthesia to administer for nurse-anesthetists ... version of the paper Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the MSF field team in Masisi and the staff from Masisi district hospital for their excellent work and dedication to their patients...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo y học: "Patterns of sexual violence in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: reports from survivors presenting to Panzi Hospital in 2006" doc
... atrocities, including the the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and local Congolese militias The United Nations (UN) ... who have the opportunity to become breadwinners for their families, the opportunity to become leaders within their professions and through their success, the opportunity to advance the overall ... background for the discussion and critiqued the manuscript RL performed most of the analysis and reviewed the manuscript MV helped design the study, guided analysis and helped prepare the manuscript...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20