competition and niche differentiation in bumblebee communities

... 26 I am indebted to Che-Lin Su for invaluable discussions and help in formulating the problem in this manner 39 increases the computational burden, which at best increases computing time and at ... competitiveness, peaking with 30% marketshare at the beginning of 2006 This is up from around 10% at the beginning of 2003 and 20% at the beginning of 2009 Figure plots Intel and AMD marketshare ... that was firmly dominated by Intel Interestingly, it wasn’t just Intel’s ability to produce faster chips that led to dominance Instead, much of Intel’s increased profit came from pushing AMD out of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 07:20

... main guidelines in construing and applying IP (and unfair competition) law The first is the principle of numerus clausus, according to which IPRs are strictly defined by law in number and kind.32 ... Typically, this need is met in financial markets featuring increasingly intense competition in offerings, making equity investments more attractive In turn, such financial Specifically as concerns ... to Intellectual Property and Competition Law xv Massachussets, and North Carolina, and to the innumerable research parks that have sprung up elsewhere in which innovation and competition remain...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... wild laboratory strain Oregon-R That strain was maintained in our laboratory at 25 °C for at least 15 years by transferring a hundred flies every third week into fresh half-pint milk bottles The ... was also made between the subpopulation 025 and the wild laboratory strain Bonlez (Belgium), recently caught in the wild and maintained since months) in the usual conditions, at 25 °C Table gives ... repetitive sequences with single copy DNA may be involved in the coordinate control of sets of functionally related genes during development and differentiation Can it then in the present case not...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... j to + d do; and d being the number of individuals dying from ;, i ij + in the homogeneous and heterogeneous groups, respectively, and r = r + rl!, r and rl! being the number of individuals alive ... setting up a separate x2 contingency table for every time j, with rows corresponding to the kind of group and columns to survival, and carrying out the combined test for association according ... this reason, in the calculation of the correlation between the initial and the final densities in the vials, we estimated the initial density as the mean number of larvae in wk and Final density...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... RECOMBINATION VERSUS END JOINING IN SG3 CELL LINE 62 TABLE RELATIVE ACTIVITY OF HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION VERSUS END JOINING IN SOK CELL LINE 63 xi Chapter Introduction 1.1 Double strand breaks and ... nucleoprotein filament locates a homology 6) RAD54 promotes DNA unwinding and strands annealing Fig Protein interaction network of proteins known to involve in HR A) mitosis, B) meiosis In meiosis, ... operates in homology-dependent and –independent ways Major pathways include synthesis-dependent strand annealing (SDSA), double strand break repair (DSBR), single strand annealing (SSA) and non...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2015, 21:08

... skill e.g., dribbling The first station may involve dribbling in a straight line, the second may involve dribbling between cones and the third may be dribbling against a defender In each station, ... understanding of a health concept Cubing is a second powerful differentiation tool that provides a new twist on question asking and answering, and works well in a health and physical education setting ... pace Knowing the learning profile and interests of your students is also an essential element in planning for differentiation Learning inventories may be used to help students understand how they...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20

... participated in data analysis, interpretation and write-up GB involved in study design and critically revised the manuscript FA involved in study design, data analysis and write-up of the manuscript and ... diagnosis and treatment On the other hand, the findings from this survey indicate that pastoral communities living in both of the study areas had basic awareness about the symptoms and treatment ... should be taken into account in community-based health education pertaining to TB intervention HIV/AIDS is known to play a major role in increasing the burden of TB [5] Very few individuals we...

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... practices in this age group may include early sexual debut, having multiple sexual partners, engaging in unprotected sex, having sex with older partners and consuming alcohol and illicit drugs.5 Findings ... methods and explain their efficacy and benefits In Kilindi, males make decisions on health service utilisation and on modern FP in particular It is vital that women are involved in making these ... accurate and reliable information about HIV prevention, intending to educate and entertain as well as promoting healthy behaviour In this game, the player can race on circuits on five continents, and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 16:20

... DNA-binding domain (Gal4-BD) alone, indicating that the interactions with the different Moc proteins were specific In a similar-two hybrid screen using Moc2 as bait, Moc2-interacting proteins were ... the Moc3-interacting proteins interacted with the Gal4-BD (Table 3), again suggesting that the interactions with the different Moc proteins were specific Finally, Moc4-interacting proteins identified ... Moc-interacting proteins and here we report the isolation of Moc-interacting proteins in S pombe using the yeast two-hybrid system We then verified the relationships between the various proteins and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22

... alleged price signaling in turbine generators during the 1960's In 1963, GE announced major changes in its turbine-generator pricing policies, issuing a revised price book and eliminating price escalation ... beginning at least as early as 1950 and continuing into 1959 [U.S Senate 1961] These meetings covered prices in all eight industries in our sample Available evidence suggests that such meetings ... GE' s lead by adopting a priceprotection policy and publishing outstanding orders and quotations in that same year Citing internal company documents, Justice interpreted Westinghouse's responses...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... species In the animal husbandry, there are significant increase in the income from livestock grazing and pig rising There are almost no changes in the 317 non-farm income of local people including ... Medicinal1 - Medicinal2 Pair 13 Pair 14 Forestincome1 - Forestincome2 Agriincome1 - Agriincome2 Pair 15 Grazincome1 - Grazincome2 Pair 16 Pair 17 Pair 18 Pair 19 Osideincome1 - Osideincome2 Totalincome1 ... Binh and DakNong provinces (2005) In 2001, Decision 178/2001/QD-TTg concentrated on benefit sharing and responsibility of household and individual who got land and forest land through land allocation,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 13:47

... apolipoprotein A-I apolipoprotein A-II apolipoprotein B apolipoprotein C-I apolipoprotein C-II apolipoprotein D apolipoprotein E apolipoprotein F apolipoprotein H fatty acid binding protein 1, liver ... distinct narrow time interval of transcription initiation [25], and regulate transactivation of several endodermand hepatocyte-specific factors, including transthyretin, albumin and tyrosine aminotransferase ... 1.00 ATP-binding cassette, sub-family transcript variant ATP-binding cassette, sub-family ATP-binding cassette, sub-family transcript variant ATP-binding cassette, sub-family ATP-binding cassette,...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20

... Translational Medicine 2009, 7:6 Co-cultures were kept in an incubator at 37°C and 5% CO2 until final analysis Dystrophin Immunofluorescence (IF) and Western Blotting (WB) Immunolabelling was performed ... co-culture was maintained in growth media [36] The present results of co-culture of CD34+ and DMD myoblasts without the inductive media show that these cells can interact and express dystrophin This data ... restore the absent protein Our results show CD34+ cells are able to participate in the myotube formation, resulting in the restoration of dystrophin expression These findings represent a possible...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... Finland and Sardinia shows the common variants in GDF5 contribute to height difference [33] The GDF5 gene might be involved skeletal growth and development and GDF5 variants might play role in ... its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... (Figure 1) The expected fragment length was 104 and 230 bp in CC, 104, 230, and 344 bp in TC, and 344 bp in TT genotypes, respectively Patients and Methods Statistical analyses Subjects Analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... themselves, including using condoms, and encouraging them to test for HIV, as well as helping those already infected In this study, we investigated the geographical clustering of HIV infection using ... to provide written consent and follow study procedure; not being pregnant and with intention to maintain this status; and residing in and around the study area for a minimum of one year At all ... data were included in the study The main eligibility criteria were consistent across the trials and included: being sexually active; being HIV negative at screening at inclusion; willingness to...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... [12] Under­ tand­ s ing the relevance of THO in development and tissue differentiation as well as its putative impact in cancer and cell proliferation should provide a better understanding of its ... indicating that in these organisms the core THO complex exists as a salt-resistant stable complex independent of UAP56 and Yra1 [4,5] In yeast, THO binds to active chromatin in an RNAindependent ... Tex1/THOC3 and three additional subunits called THOC5, THOC6 and THOC The Sub2 ortholog UAP56 can be detected in low amounts in Drosophila and is absent in human cells immunodepleted of hTho2, indicating...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:21

... some competition indices for the prediction of diameter increment in planted white spruce, Can For Serv Inf Rep FMR-X-108, 1978 [3] Bartelink H.H., Effects of stand composition and thinning in mixedspecies ... determining the effect of tree size on diameter increment, and (4) determine if competitive ability and coefficients for competition indices are different across ecosites METHODS 2.1 Growth and competition ... ecosite and ecosite interactions with initial dbh and each competitor species’ index These models (one for each competition index listed in Tab I) were then compared in terms of the model’s R2 and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21

... and 10 m in the mature even-aged stand No relationship was found between CDI5 and LM indices in the plantation, as a result of thinning during the last 10 years in this stand In contrast, competition ... (251 oaks and 259 pine trees) in the stand with oak understorey, 170 pine trees in the plantation, and 130 pine trees in the even-aged stand For the variables age at breast height (1.3 m) and Current ... even-aged stands [19], and Lähde et al [13] observed higher productivity for uneven-sized stands of Scots pine in Finland O’Hara and Nagel [20] also found that uneven-aged ponderosa pine stands were...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21

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