... existing information on the use of, and threats to, the Malaysian coastal and marine resources off the Straits of Malacca and the adjacent waters of the Andaman Sea and the Indian Ocean In the process, ... National Report Malaysia NATIONAL REPORTOF MALAYSIA ON THE BAY OF BENGAL LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEM PROGRAMME By Ishak Haji Omar* INTRODUCTION 1.1 AIM OFREPORT The aim of the national report is ... Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems Chapter DETAILED ANALYSISOF MAJOR WATER-RELATED CONCERNS AND PRINCIPAL ISSUES 15 15 17 17 18 19 20 20 20 22 23 23 25 26 : ANALYSISOF SOCIO AND ECONOMIC COSTS OF 26...
... ACF of {εI (n)} and that of {φI (n)} in Star Wars IV (b) The ACF of {εP (n)} and that of {φP (n)} in The Silence of 1 the Lambs 125 63 The ACF of {A3 (ε)} and ... Troopers and (b) the base layer of the spatially scalable The Silence of the Lambs coded at different Q 118 57 The mean sizes of P and B-frames of each GOP given the size of ... gratitude and respect first go to my advisors Prof Andrew Chan and Prof Dmitri Loguinov This work would never have been done without their support and guidance I would like to thank my co-advisor Prof...
... ACF of {εI (n)} and that of {φI (n)} in Star Wars IV (b) The ACF of {εP (n)} and that of {φP (n)} in The Silence of 1 the Lambs 125 63 The ACF of {A3 (ε)} and ... Troopers and (b) the base layer of the spatially scalable The Silence of the Lambs coded at different Q 118 57 The mean sizes of P and B-frames of each GOP given the size of ... gratitude and respect first go to my advisors Prof Andrew Chan and Prof Dmitri Loguinov This work would never have been done without their support and guidance I would like to thank my co-advisor Prof...
... hyperkeratosis and the formation of hyperkeratotic warts and corns on the palms and the soles of the feet are caused by chronic arsenic ingestion Discoloration of the skin of the face, neck, and back ... Khan and Frankland 1983) Most soil profiles have an A horizon, which is primarily topsoil composed of decaying organic matter such as leaves and grass, and a B horizon, which is composed of smaller ... assessment of risk to human health, identification of potential exposure pathways, the characteristics of the affected community, the short and longterm health effects for each chemical, andanalysis of...
... the analysisof the calculated structures revealed a short distances between NH of Leu7 and the side chain carboxyl group of the Asp6 residue (< 0.28 nm), and NH of Leu7 residue and C¼O of Leu5 ... [38,39] Analysisof hydrogen bonds and dihedral angles (F, C) for the average structures generated from members of cis and trans family of cyclo128 [D -Leu5]OP showed that the residues of the cis and ... formation of intramolecular hydrogen bonds (i, i 2) between the C ¼ O of Pro2 and the NH of Leu4 to form a ring associated with a standard g turn, and (c) a hydrogen bond (i, i 3) between the C ¼ O of...
... have collated this report because of the common most basic standards of care experiences of the patients concerned and the stark contrast between the reality of the care they The report is also available ... Constitution and the felt reality of being an older person in the care of the NHS in England Reportof the Health Service Ombudsman on ten investigations into NHS care of older people Introduction end of ... process and procedure and an hospital and personal care – featured significantly apparent indifference of NHS staff to deplorable more often in complaints about the care of standards of care...
... appearance of a peak pair with retention times of 8.3 and 9.5 min, and (b) the presence and (c) the correct proportion of the three major mass transitions of CEdGA,B that were used for MS ⁄ MS detection ... thorough removal of RNA from the samples and the use of negative ionization for Fig Restriction digests of CEdG-modified and unmodified pGL3 Control vector For the introduction of CEdG adducts, ... decreasing the amount of transcripts Analysisof the amount of luciferase mRNA of transfected cells by semiquantitative RT-PCR resulted in an approximately 60% reduction of transcripts Therefore,...
... concentration LaHtot and pH consists out of two major steps, namely, (i) determination of medium related parameters (i.e., the parameters of Eqs (14) and (15)), and (ii) determination of growth and production ... medium and initial pH After calibration, prediction of the time dependent course of pH (and [LaH]) is always possible when a LaHtot profile only is at hand 4.2 Determination of growth and production ... Based on these plots, the parameters a, b and c of expression (14) and a1, b1, c1 and pH0 of expression (15) are identified Simulations of relations (14) and (15) with the estimated parameter values...
... First, Beveridge and Nelson (1981), Nelson and Ploser (1982), and Cambell and Mankiw (1987) assume the stationarity of the rst log difference of the real GDP and emphasize on the usage of ARIMA models ... Examining Committee Professor Thom Thurston Date Executive Of cer Professor Michael Grossman Professor Barry Ma Professor Jeffrey Weiss Supervisory Commettee THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Abstract ... like to thank Professor Thom Thurston and Professor Michael Grossman for their continuous support Their kindness, care and concern are unmatched Both Professors believed in me and gave me strength...
... cost of capital and the cost of debt for public firms, there is no evidence on the effect ofaudit quality of Bigaudit firms and Second-Tier audit firms on the cost of capital of their clients, ... variable and a set of control variables in order to compare the audit quality of Big -audit firms and SecondTier audit firms in the post-Sox period and to test the audit quality changes, both pre- and ... backdating of ESOs test: firms that are audited by Second-Tier audit firms and a control group of firms audited by Big -audit firms 1.4 Summary of Results Results of the first part of this study...
... inactivation of the catalytic sites not integrate Transduction of both dividing and non-dividing cells results in transcription of episomal forms of the vector and a strong expression of the gene of interest ... T-cells and Thelper cells by means of cross-presentation of soluble proteins mediated by urea adjuvants Priming and re-stimulation of CD8 + CTL requires the endogenous processing of proteins and ... of all immune cells Hence, research has been focused on the development and improvement of mucosal adjuvants and routes of vaccine delivery to elicit mucosal immune responses In the context of...
... of which are summarized below The groups were aimed at encouraging important collaborations and exchange offindingsand ideas between researchers from Page of 12 international institutions and ... understanding of the complex interactions between host and virus, especially at mucosal surfaces which are often difficult to sample in humans [13], and secondly to inform vaccine/microbicide candidate ... against viral envelope monomers and trimers, and hundreds of peptides covering the whole envelope protein, showed differences in the viral targets of IgG and IgA as well as of responses to specific...
... of which are summarized below The groups were aimed at encouraging important collaborations and exchange offindingsand ideas between researchers from Page of 12 international institutions and ... understanding of the complex interactions between host and virus, especially at mucosal surfaces which are often difficult to sample in humans [13], and secondly to inform vaccine/microbicide candidate ... against viral envelope monomers and trimers, and hundreds of peptides covering the whole envelope protein, showed differences in the viral targets of IgG and IgA as well as of responses to specific...
... following error analysisand comparison, this method is not included (13) l∈Z Sensitivity analysisand parameter selection The coefficients of c are obtained through the equation: Kc = q Page of (14) ... increases, the performance of the TEM system deteriorates quickly and is worse than that of the traditional ADC at high nonlinearity Page of time and frequency response of the three bases in reconstruction ... converter survey andanalysis IEEE J Sel Areas Commun 17, 539–550 (1999) doi:10.1109/49.761034 AA Lazar, LT Tóth, Perfect recovery and sensitivity analysisof time encoded bandlimited signals...
... Austrian Science Fund Project P17253 and supported by Grant no A100190703 of the Grant Agency of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic and by the Council of Czech Government MSM 6198959214 ... 2.48 , and for each λ ∈ χ /2, Γ , there exist multiple positive solutions of problem 1.6a - 1.6b Proof By Lemmas 2.2 iii and 2.3, χ ∈ C 0, 1/α , χ 1/α 0, and χ x > χ in a right neighbourhood of ... core of a dead core solution u of problem 1.6a - 1.6b , then max{u t : ≤ t ≤ 1} μ ρ and μ ρ ds s 0 1−ρ 2λ g v dv 2.59 Proof i Let u be a dead core solution of problem 1.6a - 1.6b for some λ λ0 and...
... this sense, acoustic analysis is a noninvasive technique which is an efficient tool for the objective support and the diagnosis of DoV, the screening of vocal and voice diseases (and particularly their ... The quality of voice and the functional limitations of the laryngectomized patients remain an important challenge for improving their quality of life On the other hand, the acoustic analysis reveals ... complexity of many current research and development problems in the field of DoV In particular, the progress in the clinical assessment and enhancement of voice quality requires the cooperation of speech...
... Tarhini and T Chahed, “On capacity of OFDMA-based IEEE802.16 WiMAX including adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) and inter-cell interference,” in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Workshop on Local and ... Communications and Networking NUMERICAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS In this Section, results of the numerical evaluation of the proposed model are presented The accuracy of the proposed model and the circular-cell ... probability of CCI, indicating the improved performance obtained by sectorization and the use of narrow beam antennas Typical values of CIR at the input of the receiver in the reverse link of a WCDMA...
... Proof By the continuation of solutions and the singularity of at the point P0 , the set (P0 ) = ∅ Taking into account the nature of the vector field and the definition of the singularity of ... (2.24) A terminal BVP with f continuous and let E0 be a continuum (i.e., compact and connected) subset of Rn and let ᐄ(E0 ) be the family of all solutions of 2.24 emanating from E0 If any solution ... ] properties and so forth and finally we can obtain sequences {ξ0n } and {ξ1n } such that limξ0n = limξ1n = ξM (3.123) By the construction of {ξin } (i = 0,1) and the definition of ξM , we conclude...
... PhD theses and the like, and special collections of thematic papers The need We believe that there is a need, from the point of view of both readers (researchers and practitioners) and authors, ... sites, or publication of programs andof data No form of dissemination is discounted, and prospective authors are invited to suggest whatever primary form of publication and support material they ... constructs of objectoriented analysisand design methods This is achieved by describing a spatio-temporal data model designed to address the complex and subtle semantics of space and time of historical...