diversity of afroalpine vegetation and ecology of treeline species in the bale mountains ethiopia and the influence of fire

Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity - Chapter 7 potx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 02:23

... strengthening in species competition In the grasslands of Los Toldos, ﬁre suppression caused an increase in the dominance of woody species; many of these species were present in burned plots, but they ... AM 96 Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity found that disturbances such as grazing and ﬁre increased both species richness and diversity In many cases, the increment in the number of species ... landscape consists of a mosaic of vegetation patches, differing in the time since the last burning event occurred SAMPLING DESIGN AND DATA ANALYSIS In November 2000, we conducted a survey in the...

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Fish species distribution in seagrass habitats of chesapeake bay are structured by abiotic and biotic factors

Ngày tải lên : 04/09/2015, 12:54

... deviance is the percentage of the deviance explained for the model, temperature and salinity are the estimated degrees of freedom of the smoothing parameter, and year (1997, 1998), zone (1, 2), and algae ... >1% of the total numbers of individuals collected in this study In the Sobocinski et al study (2013), Atlantic Spadeﬁsh increased further to 10.4% of the collection Similarly, three other species ... (Orth and Heck 1980; Weinstein and Brooks 1983), quality (presence of macroalgae; Sogard and Able 1991), and gradients of temperature and salinity We explicitly tested the null hypothesis that the...

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Species richness and ecosystem functioning of southeast asian dung beetle fauna

Ngày tải lên : 16/10/2015, 15:34

... forest fragments in Singapore, still continue to support a few species of dung beetles within the forest, but the chances of reviving or increasing the number of species and their populations ... documentation of the natural communities in Singapore, an important source of information for measuring species extinctions in the tropics (Brook et al 2003) Therefore, the dramatic loss of forests in Singapore ... on the offshore island of Pulau Ubin, Singapore and two continuous forests in the Malaysian state of Johor Deforestation over the last 200 years in Singapore has removed over 95% of its original...

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Stand biometry and leaf area distribution in an old olive grove at Andria, southern Italy" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 07/08/2014, 16:21

... marked; their area in pixels was counted and subtracted In this way the ﬁnal ratio of black and white pixels was estimated and the black area same way as in the model in 0.5 m layers and used ... depths of the canopy along the tangential view) Finally we multiplied the particular unit volume (with corresponding leaf area) by the height of the canopy above the corresponding section of the ... typically grow ﬁrst in length and only after reaching an area of about half of their maximum size (i.e., around cm2 ) they continued growing in length and width in a similar rate The al- Figure 10...

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báo cáo khoa học: " Growth characteristics and lipid distribution in two lines of chicken selected for low or high abdominal fat" docx

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 22:22

... observations), but they are to be further investigated Moreover, in addition to these phenomena implicated in the control of fattening of the immature bird, the new hormonal status of sexually maturing birds ... days of age They were killed by an intracardiac injection of Nembutal At hatching the residual yolk sac was removed The abdominal fat was dissected and weighed at 15, 28, 63, and 97 days of age and ... 15 and 28 days of age and in LL females at 15 days of age, probably because of the low number of birds (8 per line per sex) = = = as shown in Fig 1, there was a larger proportion of abdominal...

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EQUALIZING DAYLIGHT DISTRIBUTION IN BUILDINGS OPTIMIZATION OF THE INNER REFLECTOR AND BOTTOM PANEL OF a LIGHT DUCT

Ngày tải lên : 05/10/2015, 21:24

... light-duct The red line is the targeted daylight level in the room The green line shows the horizontal illuminance result from the window The blue line shows the difference between the red line and the ... 2.2 The most important components include: the collector, the reflective duct, the openings on the bottom panel of the reflective duct and the inner reflector All of these components influence the ... the findings in the experiments and the observations during the design process are investigated The limitations of the proposed method are analyzed and potential solutions are suggested The thesis...

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a framework of co opetition, freight consolidation, and collaborative freight distribution in the thailand’s newspaper

Ngày tải lên : 28/11/2015, 14:01

... copies of news in the form of pamphlets for promoting the prohibition of the consumption and trading of opium, in line with the requirements of Rama III In 1842, he invented a printing mould containing ... emerged in the form of newsletter written by hand, containing information about human interests, war, economy and weather In the late 1400’s, the first printed newspaper appeared in Germany in the ... trucks, the utilization of truck space, the vehicle routing, the drop-off point location(s), and the number of drop-off points must be determined in order to minimize delivery times and maximize...

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focuses on expressions of criticizing in American and Vietnamese e-newspapers in the light of Directness/Indirectness

Ngày tải lên : 06/04/2013, 08:43

... style They give the main points and state the criticism at the top in the headline and the lead paragraph(s) The body of the articles then adds details, statements, and comments from people involved ... together at the beginning of the sentence, but in other case, they are separated or the writer delays the appearance of the verb Thus, one of the reason people sometimes misunderstand the information ... well as the language used 4.2 4.2.1 Data analysis and findings Structure of the articles Each of the three main part of an article (the headline, the lead and the body) has its own distinctive...

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Factors influencing borrower’s behavior and decision making patterns in the success of a micro finance model

Ngày tải lên : 06/09/2013, 05:48

... debt financing On the other hand, the individual with low income and savings is more attracted towards debt financing The selection of income group and the means of income are very important The ... evaluate the level of knowledge and interest about micro financing prevailing in the lower income groups The awareness of micro financing may encourage the poor people to empower themselves and contribute ... impact in the success of any micro financing model Realizing the importance of the borrowers’ perspective for a successful and sustainable financing model, the research reviews major factors that influence...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Golgi reassembly stacking protein 55 interacts with membrane-type (MT) 1-matrix metalloprotease (MMP) and furin and plays a role in the activation of the MT1-MMP zymogen pdf

Ngày tải lên : 18/02/2014, 04:20

... increase the amount of complex containing MT1MMP and furin, and the expression of a catalytically inactive dominant negative furin construct affected the processing of pro-MT1-MMP Taken together, these ... sequence for the interaction with the PDZ proteins: Mint-3, AMPA binding protein and glutamate receptor interacting protein (GRIP) It would therefore be interesting to determine whether this motif ... the nature of the GRASP55 binding site in the MT1-MMP ICD pACT plasmids driving the expression of MT1-MMP ICDs containing single-, double- and triple-point mutations were generated (Fig 4A) and...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of chitinase-like proteins (Cg-Clp1 and Cg-Clp2) involved in immune defence of the mollusc Crassostrea gigas docx

Ngày tải lên : 19/02/2014, 00:20

... composed of the sole Glyco_18 domain, the C-terminal tail of C gigas CLPs may not noticeably contribute to the structure and the function of these proteins Interestingly, Cg-Clp1 and Cg-Clp2 C-terminal ... based on the conserved amino acid sequences of the catalytic domain of members of the GH18 family resulted in the ampliﬁcation of an expected 147 bp sequence Cloning and sequencing of this fragment ... from the oyster Crassostrea gigas [5] Interestingly, this protein, named C gigas chitinase-like protein (CgClp1) was found to be involved in the control of growth and remodelling processes in a...

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Tài liệu PLEASE GIVE NORBERT WEINER (AND OTHER CURIOUS DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WORK OF JANET ZWEIG) doc

Ngày tải lên : 19/02/2014, 10:20

... documents the pattern of shifting individual actions, roles, and responsibilities in public space In all of these works, Arendt’s insistent appeal for thinking and seeing participation in the world ... visitors to the site, individual decisions of these members of the public, and the recycling of tiles placed in the grid, to determine possible life spans of Limited Edition If not incal- Sculpture ... characteristics of life in Minnesota chronicled in the musings of Garrison Keillor on his Prairie Home Companion, as well as in city branding initiatives The evolving collection of almost 200 audio and video...

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Tài liệu Design, Lifestyles and Sustainability. Aesthetic Consumption in a World of Abundance pptx

Ngày tải lên : 19/02/2014, 17:20

... systems) Most of them have been formulated and introduced with good intentions However, they come short in understanding the underlying needs and ambitions of individuals and human interaction The human ... advantage, and instead the route to commercial success is supposed to be found in the artful creation of aesthetic offerings, of images and brands To infuse meaning into products and services; ... under-represented In the endeavour to expand the hermeneutic knowledge base of sustainability we, in this paper, take the increasing aestheticization of society as a point of departure By exploring contemporary...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Nuclear actin and actin-binding proteins in the regulation of transcription and gene expression docx

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 01:20

... that the RPEL domain of MRTF-A binds actin more strongly than the RPEL domain of myocardin, and that the RPEL motif itself is an actin-binding element RPEL1 and RPEL2 of myocardin bind actin weakly ... and perinuclear areas of the cell via its N-terminal ABD In the absence of ligand, AR is localized predominantly in the cytoplasm, and its hinge domain and the LBD are tethered to the C-terminal ... proteins These novel proteins contain four LIM domains and a C-terminal villin headpiece domain, which mediates actin-binding in several proteins, such as villin and dematin [59] Both ABLIM-2 and...

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Báo cáo khoa học: The Vps4 C-terminal helix is a critical determinant for assembly and ATPase activity and has elements conserved in other members of the meiotic clade of AAA ATPases pdf

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 05:20

... sequence in modulating the function of the SRH The C-terminal region of human VPS4B contains the b domain (b strands and 8), the ﬁnal helix of the AAA domain (a helix 10) and the C-terminal helix ... alignments of some of the proteins listed in the PFAM database that contain the Vps4 C-terminal oligomerization domain (PF09336) The sequence of the SRH of each protein is also shown The sequence of the ... co-evolution of the C-terminal helix (in particular, an FG motif at the end of the C-terminal helix) with the distinct SRH in the meiotic clade of AAA ATPases Since the conserved FG motif at the end of the...

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Information Contagion and Inter-Bank Correlation in a Theory of Systemic Risk potx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 09:20

... times Depending upon the realization of past bank profits, depositors assess the profitability of the risky asset of their bank and incorporate that information in the return they demand on their deposits ... payoff in the first period is independent of the choice of inter-bank correlation Therefore, when banks choose the level of correlation, they examine the expected payoffs in different states of the ... better to invest in the storage technology than lend to their bank In other words, there is a “run” on the surviving bank induced by an updating of the state of the economy by depositors in response...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Role of the hinge peptide and the intersubunit interface in the swapping of N-termini in dimeric bovine seminal RNase pptx

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 23:20

... [11] The kinetics of the N-terminal arms swapping in the P19A-BSRNase is comparable to that of BS-RNase (Fig 5B) Interestingly, the amount of the MxM form at the plateau as evaluated by integrating ... have investigated the effects of mutation of two paradigmatic residues involved in the dislocation of BS-RNase N-terminal arms, i.e Pro19 and Leu28, located in the hinge peptide and in the intersubunit ... (D) The percentage of the MxM form as a function of the incubation time at °C (r) and 37 °C (d) is reported for each dimeric protein intrinsic ﬂexibility of this tract of the protein Yet, in the...

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Knowledge and Skill Chains in Engineering and Manufacturing: Information Infrastructure in the Era of Global Communications docx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 10:20

... Knowledge and Skill Chains in Engineering and Manufacturing Figure The View and the Scope Model of Cooling Service On the other hands, a scope model of a service represents the viewpoints of the service ... Knowledge and Skill Chains in Engineering and Manufacturing A platform independent model of an UMI includes a model of the persons and communities interacting in society Because quite a few of these interactions ... University, in Osaka carried the theme: “Enhancing Engineering and Manufacturing Knowledge and Skill Chains in the era of Global Communications” The theme expresses both the wide scope and the technical...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Sp1 and Sp3 are involved in up-regulation of human deoxyribonuclease II transcription during differentiation of HL-60 cells pptx

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 17:21

... Sp1 and Sp3 are able to bind to the GC boxes and that binding of Sp1 forms complex C1 and binding of Sp3 forms complexes C2 and C3 PMA treatment increases Sp1 and Sp3 protein expression in HL-60 ... upstream of the DNase II promoter, are essential for both basal and PMA-mediated induction of DNase II transcription These sites bind Sp1 and Sp3, and protein levels and binding of Sp1 and Sp3 are increased ... activator, and Sp3 a weak activator, of the DNase II promoter (Fig 6) In HL-60 cells, PMA treatment also resulted in increased levels of Sp3 protein, the greatest increase being seen in the levels of the...

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ICT enabled independent living for elderly: A status-quo analysis on products and the research landscape in the field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) in EU-27 doc

Ngày tải lên : 28/03/2014, 16:20

... reported, as e.g the hanging of curtains (55%), the fixing of household devices (51%), the cleaning of windows (45%), ironing (34%) and making the bed (34%) Moreover, Institute for Innovation and Technology ... are living in the midst of an unprecedented transition: the rapid ageing of the inhabitants of the industrialised world, accompanied by a diminishing number of young people Figures in the Green ... washing the dishes, making chores and many more These activities are often linked to buildings, i.e living space The environment and the habits of a person are integral elements of “living” and...

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