community s preferences for biodiversity conservation

... biodiversity and ecosystem services, social aspects including biodiversity poverty linkages, factors causing biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystems are the main issues addressed in the ... certification in the case of sustainably produced forest products McNeely discusses some of the markets for forest ecosystem services, identifies relevant sources of information, and highlights some of the ... the risks, in particular, to coral reefs and to forest ecosystems, and has drawn attention to the serious impacts of loss of biodiversity of these systems on people s livelihoods Biodiversity...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 17:20

... the STM micrographs clearly show that the molecules are randomly adsorbed on the surface, some on top on the SiNWs and some in between two SiNWs This non-selective behavior suggests that no specific ... molecules, and faint lines, which correspond to the SiNWs The faintness of the SiNWs, as compared to Fig 1, is due to the presence of the molecular aggregates on top of the SiNWs which decreases the ... dimers [16–20] This process is depicted in Fig 5b and results in the formation of cova- CE N IE SC S R CE E A TT RF LE SU E Salomon, A Kahn / Surface Science 602 (2008) L79–L83 L81 Fig STM filled states...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:35

... P-values of tests for the three data sets This file consists of three spreadsheets, each lists the gene numbers and p-values of Kolmogorov Smirnov test for one data set Acknowledgements This work ... missing entries prior to clustering analysis Removing the missing gene rows may result in omitting some important genes, such as the genes related to diseases, whereas the badly estimated missing ... ‘Results’, we first introduced three cancer gene expression data sets we used, and then visually demonstrated the clustering results obtained using the WDCM for the three data sets Second, to assess...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20

... transporter expression The expression of all other proteins in the two cell populations should match as closely as possible Thus, for us, a suitable 784 system for regulated gene expression must ... doxycyclineregulated gene expression based on the simple TetR Such a vector has not been reported before Results and Discussion We have constructed plasmid pEBTet which links all elements necessary for doxycycline-inducible ... data for both pEBTet and pEBTetD show a considerable spread in fluorescence intensity; this has also been observed with other expression systems [11] It remains to be seen whether stably transfected...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:21

... predictors using the s nx tool [32] Figure 1A shows the output for human PS1 The results for the other PS sequences were essentially the same (not shown) The major insight is that HRX is probably ... extracytosolic space A possible explanation for the conflicting results is that the C-terminus could be buried in the c-secretase complex, as discussed previously Another possibility, although less likely, ... constructed for each PS sequence phobius also predicts N-terminal signal peptides Each program was used with default settings The sequences were also analyzed using phobius constrained predictions with...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... default probability scale Besides the number of risk classes this requires the systematic formulation of activities to be taken on customers who are assigned to a certain risk class A simple example ... is organized as follows: First, the credit scoring process is set in the context of risk analysis in section where the information generated by a credit scoring system and its implications for ... evaluated by backtesting the whole system (scores, classifications and interventions) on the basis of a hold- SCHUMPETER DISCUSSION PAPERS 2011-004 out sample of historical customer data This calibration...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:21

... vehicles was carried out, called CyCabs [27], to identify issues and requirements of real environments This testbed helped us to prepare a feasible study considering issues such as wireless links ... of such NEMO behavior can be classified as follows (1) Suboptimal routes are caused by packets being forced to pass by HA This leads to an increased delay which is undesirable for applications such ... the previous network measuraments As far as authors know, there are no integrated tools that perform all this tasks at once Several issues arise when the previous performance measurements are collected...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... methods on salesman The Compaq skin and nonskin database also includes manually labeled skin masks for all skin images These masks help a lot in building statistical models for skin They also serve ... density function Mixture of Gaussian (MoG) [11] models is composed as sum of some Gaussian kernels However, the classification speed of MoG is very slow as it evaluates each of these kernels for ... data For statistics-based assessments, a large amount of data is needed Here, we have used the Compaq skin and nonskin database [12, 21] It includes a sufficient amount of skin as well as nonskin...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... respectively, shots out of 20 and shots out of 42 of less than seconds It is indeed natural to select only one frame for these shots However, the results for the three videos confirm the interest of using ... Zoom Static Shot Frames Static Translation Static (a) Frames Frames Frames Translation Translation Static Zoom 1st iteration Translation Static Frames (b) 2nd iteration Frames Frames Zoom Translation ... 11 illustrates the comparison of the summaries for each shot We can note in this example that the reference summary has keyframes whereas the candidate summary has The first stage consists in determining...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... represents a hypothesis of B The MSDD combiner searches through all possible hypotheses; the hypothesis which maximizes K is declared the most likely transmitted pattern This most likely hypothesis ... second-order transmit-diversity BPSK system into an equivalent second-order receive-diversity QPSK system Assuming that c1 [k] is chosen from S1 , it follows that c2 [k] must be chosen from S2 Then, ... ST-DD sequence estimate (obtained without using selection diversity or MSDD) could yield the same performance results as those shown here; however, this is not the case The performance curves for...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... influenza viruses can infect humans and many kinds of animals including birds, pigs, horses and some marine animals [1] The viruses host eight segments in its genome The fourth and sixth segments encode ... lineages covered most of the representatives for each of the six internal genes The distribution of the main lineages of human (S1 .3, S2 .3, S3 .3, S4 .3, S5 .3 and S6 .3), swine (S1 .4, S2 .4, S3 .4, S4 .4, ... S5 .4 and S6 .4) and equine swine (S1 .5, S2 .5, S3 .5, S4 .5, S5 .5 and S6 .5) influenza viruses in isolation places and isolation time were consistent among the six internal genes except that, as for...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... influenza viruses can infect humans and many kinds of animals including birds, pigs, horses and some marine animals [1] The viruses host eight segments in its genome The fourth and sixth segments encode ... lineages covered most of the representatives for each of the six internal genes The distribution of the main lineages of human (S1 .3, S2 .3, S3 .3, S4 .3, S5 .3 and S6 .3), swine (S1 .4, S2 .4, S3 .4, S4 .4, ... S5 .4 and S6 .4) and equine swine (S1 .5, S2 .5, S3 .5, S4 .5, S5 .5 and S6 .5) influenza viruses in isolation places and isolation time were consistent among the six internal genes except that, as for...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... verbs These expressions are called semi- modal verbs or semi- auxiliary verbs (Other terms used for these expressions are „quasimodals‟ and „periphrastic modals‟.) Semi- auxiliaries are those ... correspondence is defined: ROOT EPISTEMIC obligation necessity permission probability ability possibility Sweetser s basic idea is that our reasoning processes are subject to obligations, permissions and ... Analysis Theory The test includes 25 questions Each question has one blank for students to fill out Besides, each question has its Vietnamese translation for students to refer to After the test,...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:30

... 41 Implications of the study for teaching English modals and semi-modals 41 Limitations of the study 42 Suggestions for further research 42 REFERENCES ... modals and semi- modals 38 3.4.2 The causes to Vietnamese students‟ errors 39 3.4.3 Solutions to the problems 39 PART C: CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATION 41 Conclusions ... Test result and errors made by learners 36 3.4 Application to the teaching and learning modals and semi- modals 38 3.4.1 Frequencies of Vietnamese students‟ errors in using modals...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:30

... are the most successful and progressive The use of xiii tools and techniques is also different among successful and less successful organizations Successful service organizations use less number ... CTQs varies across service types and the term KPI is interpreted as similar to CTQ There is difference in usage of STTs between successful and less successful Six Sigma service organizations In ... through surveys (small-scale and large-scale) and case studies Small-scale survey was conducted in Singapore service organizations There are 18 case studies for this study The case studies have...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:11

... designed based on water level fluctuation (tides and storm surge), normal foreshore and nearshore slope, wave climates and sand fill properties The grain size for the nourish sand is defined as ... and beach fill slope) meeting the project requirements Lessons Learned This project is significant in that for the first time in Malaysia coastal management issues have been addressed concurrently ... Tg Said headland in the south It has a total catchment area of 7.5km2, consists of four very small river catchments, namely, Sg Air Hantu, Sg Tekek, Sg Batang Sabut and Sg Tanjung Said Figure shows...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2013, 08:20

... } , G M M sys i ; n is the number of components in subsystem i ; M i is the number of possible states of subsystem i Gm is the performance of subsystem i ; qm is the corresponding Assume that ... possible states of the system; Gs is the performance of the system; qs is the corresponding probability M U j ( z ) = ∑ ql ⋅ z gl f ( g k , gl ) s =1 s system; N is the number of subsystems ... multi-state system,” Proceedings Sixth Annual Southeastern Symposium on Systems Theory, Louisiana, 1974 [11] [12] [13] 98 R E Barlow, and A S Wu, “Coherent systems with multi-state components,”...

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:38

... descriptions based on domains (and consequently word senses) In addition, we proposed a question answering system, which answers interrogative questions associated with what, by using a Web-based ... process is unsuccessful and retrieved pages inherently contain non-linguistic information (such as special characters and e-mail addresses) To resolve this problem, Fujii and Ishikawa (2000) used ... because reading a couple of descriptions, which are short paragraphs, is not laborious for human users in real-world usage As a result, at least one description was generated for 85 test terms,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... and indirect costs (drugs, consultations, investigations, transportation, lost days of work, etc.) from the onset of symptoms to when TB is suspected Although tests for TB are performed free of ... Wilcoxon test and the Kruskal and Wallis test The associations between the ordinal variables (age and wealth score) and the outcomes of interest were assessed for trends Next, since the delays differed ... was significantly associated with longer HSDs in this study The literature shows similar findings in different contexts, such as Vietnam, Nepal and South Africa [21-23] These patients may use...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... Previous reports have described highly selective substrates for aspartic proteinases, but none of the substrates described is exclusively specific for CatE or CatD [30–32] In most of the studies, additional ... decrease in activity is assigned to CatE This approach allows the specific and highly sensitive measurement of both CatE and CatD activities in biological samples Results and Discussion Expression ... figure) This peptide was selected from the CatE sequence using laser gene software (DNASTAR, Madison, WI, USA) for antigenicity and surface probability BLAST tool analysis showed that the selected...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 09:20