earthworms as key actors in self organized soil systems

... fossil-energy infrastructure) GHG emissions have increased since the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1992 and climate change has accelerated However desirable, even major progress in displacing nonrenewable ... already sold throughout the developing world, and as in the United States sales have increased in recent years So efforts to increase sales of these products in developing countries not have to wait ... necessary infrastructure (such as for growing and processing grains) already exists The key change would be a significant reduction in livestock products Industry-led or supply-led growth has been...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20

... of  applying  wastewater  in agro‐ecosystems.  The  main  objective  of  this  paper  was  to  quantify the effects of reuse of wastewater as nutrient  sources  by:  (i)  investigating  the  ... activities  in the urban areas [4, 20]. In Nam Dinh, the soil samples  were  taken  in the  fields  where  the  DANIDA‐IWMI  project  on  wastewater  reuse  in agriculture in Vietnam was carried out [20].  ... wastewater  started  in the  1980s  as a  result  of  increasing  urbanisation.  The  sewage  mainly  comprises  domestic  water  but  also  includes  wastewater  and  discharges  from  industrial ...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

... aromatic N-heterocycles play a prominent role as classical ligands in coordination compounds [4, 5], as bridging ligands in binuclear derivatives [6–8], and as building blocks for supramolecular compounds ... Introduction The design of highly ordered supramolecular structures has gained more and more interest within the last few decades The concept of self- assembly chemistry takes a key position in ... the resulting far field needs to be as well investigated as the corresponding in uence on the spectroscopic properties, the waveguiding or the intrinsic dynamics of optical excitations in nanoaggregates...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 15:02

... low As progress in flower development occurred, resulting in gradual petal whitening and flower opening (stage 2), an increase in Ca2+ levels, in parallel with its appearance in the stigma, was ... fluorescence was observed only in of the ovules present in the ovary (Figure 6C, area marked with the dashed line) Intense labelling was also present in the area directly surrounding the loculi and in the ... strong decrease in Ca2+ content was shown in the remaining floral organs, except the calyx, which suffered a slight increase in Ca2+ concentration (Figure 2A) For pistil, this decrease was more than...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... important in driving the local fibrotic milieu in the lung The ADAM gene family encompasses the ADAM (A disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain containing protein) and ADAMTS (A disintegrin-like ... AK026737 Cyclin-dependent kinase Arylacetamide deacetylase Methionine-tRNA synthetase Mitochondrial ribosomal protein S6 Sperm protein associated with the nucleus, X-linked Connexin-36 Fibronectin Accession ... myofibroblasts inferring a role in the fibrotic process [24] Through the release of TGF-β2 IL-4 initiates the release of matrix proteins by myofibroblasts while inhibition of its receptor in bleomycin-injured...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... perhaps interactionoriented personalities with the remainder task oriented The final assessment that she arrived at was: Alice Š self- oriented Brian Š task-oriented Bob Š task-oriented Carol Š interaction-oriented ... ble Instill basic discipline into workforce activities Compensation Training Per formance management Staffing Communication Work environment Initial ©Ian Sommerville 2004 Software Engineering, ... full-time appointment Experience in hardware interfacing with C and using remote development systems All the devices used have co mplex hardware interfaces Experience of working with hardware engineers...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2012, 11:41

... Summary…………………………………………………………………30 CHAPTER III: Intonation as a cohesive device in narrative discourse……………….31 I Introduction…………………………………………………………………………31 II Intonation as a mean of cohesive device in “The Perfect Man” ... Crystal, D 1992 Introduction to Linguistics London: Penguin Georgakopoulou, A and Goutsos, D 1997 Discourse Analysis: An introduction Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Halliday, M, and Hasan, R 1976 ... Some basic functions of intonation……….……………… 19 III.3.2.2.2 Some communicative function of tones……….………… 20 CHAPTER II: Grammatical means as cohesive devices in narrative discourse…………21 I Introduction………………………………………………………………………...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:02

... regions in English When you say something you can not say without some kind of intonation, even a monotone can be classed as a kind of intonation Intonation is integral in speech III.2 Tone vs intonation ... exist for linking something with what has gone before Since this linking is achieved through relations in meaning (we are excluding from consideration the effect of formal devices such as syntactic ... with rising tone as the Dr Pitch was not sure and he wanted to ask Answering the question, Jean uses the falling tone to definitely affirm in contrast with what Dr Fitch said before The falling tone...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:33

... and conjunction function in particular become cohesive devices in narrative discourse How prosodic means in general and intonation in particular become a cohesive device in narrative discourse ... The linguists has discussed and given various concept about how intonation and grammatical means as cohesive devices in narrative discourse SCOPE OF THE STUDY AIMS OF THE STUDY CONTENTS • Introduction ... focus on the grammatical means and intonation as cohesive devices in the film “The Perfect Man” on HBO channel METHODS OF THE STUDY Major method: inductive method Minor method: analytic method Technique:...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:33

... of Huntington’s disease are duplicated in experimental animals by intrastriatal quinolinate injection [5,6] In addition, a significant elevation of quinolinate levels has been observed in low-grade ... bacterial protein [21,33] Interestingly, the same difficulty in stripping off the metallocofactor from the protein has been described for murine adenosine deaminase, a member of the amidohydrolase superfamily, ... quinolinate levels are increased in early grade Huntington’s disease Neurobiol Dis 17, 455–461 Guillemin GJ, Wang L & Brew BJ (2005) Quinolinic acid selectively induces apoptosis of human astrocytes:...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 02:20

... disease To reach in amed sites, neutrophils traverse various barriers, including the endothelium, basement membrane (intestine) ⁄ interstitium (lung) and epithelium, in response to localized in ammatory ... bacterial infection This work has led to the current paradigm that intestinal epithelial cells respond to luminal pathogens, such as Salmonella typhimurium, by releasing distinctive pro -in ammatory ... across the intestinal epithelium [1–4] More specifically, S typhimurium–intestinal epithelial cell interactions induce the epithelial release of the potent neutrophil chemokine, interleukin-8 (IL-8)...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 02:20

... anyone who has been monitoring the big “ag investment” seminars being held in posh hotels from Zurich to London to New York to Singapore over the last three years Take the Global AgInvesting Conference ... and farmland in particular.6 According to numerous surveys within the industry, pension fund managers are seeking to invest in farmland Graph 1: Making money from agriculture trading on commodity ... US$1.2 million directly invested in Black Earth Farming • US$47.5 million invested in agribusiness firms with huge int’l farmland holdings: Golden Agriresources, Indofood, IOI Corp, Olam, Sime...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 15:20

... (nonspecific binding) [37] Following this incubation the medium was aspirated and the cells were washed twice with HBSS containing 5% (v/w) bovine serum albumin followed by two washes in HBSS Cells ... maintained in medium containing 0.5 mgÆmL)1 G-418 Both cell lines were kindly provided by Dr M Krieger (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA) Binding studies Binding studies of human HDL3 to choriocarcinoma ... [46–48] Thus, in most cases, choriocarcinoma has the appearance of trophoblast, being predominantly syncytiotrophoblastic or cytotrophoblastic Some cytotrophoblastic choriocarcinomas secrete little...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 23:20

... Outcome Indicators to Data Sources Basic Tasks in Implementing a Regular Client Survey Process 11 12 16 10 Basic Tasks in Implementing Regular Trained Observer Measurements 17 1 Report Format: Outcomes ... management process, identifying specific steps and providing suggestions for examining and using the outcome information Other volumes in the guidebook series examine specific tasks in more detail For example, ... Adapted from Performance Measurement: Getting Results (Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, 1999) ➨ Setting Up EXHIBIT Sample Agendas for Working Group Meetings Meeting One Ⅵ Identify the purposes...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 11:20

... than in the control soils, but not in the case of Pb This indicates that adding biosolids to agricultural soils can increase binding sites or even act as a sink for trace metals already present in ... of biosolids as a fertilizer significantly increased TOC and Ntot in the soils The organic matter in biosolids increases the ability of soil to retain water The biosolids treatment involved application ... waste recycling in periurban and intensive agriculture in south-east Asia" in Ha Tay and Vinh Phuc provinces, carried out in a collaboration between CSIRO and NISF We would like to kindly thank...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... the influence of education and income as well as family status and nationality Possible nonlinearity in calendar age is captured by including a linear as well as a quadratic age term To incorporate ... covering multidimensional aspects of health and improving the quality of our objective health measure Furthermore, up to now all existing studies concerning cut-point and index shifts are based ... the existing literature that investigates the causes for reporting heterogeneity and cut-point as well as index shifts primarily in two ways; first, we provide improved objective health measures...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... -(CH2)3- with a terminal cationic nitrogen-containing group such as diethylamine, pyrrolidine or piperidine Structure-based drug discovery does have these few structures as starting points [42–47], ... T, Shin-ya K, Sashida G, Sumi M, Okabe S, Ohyashiki JH & Ohyashiki K (2006) Telomerase inhibition with a novel G-quadruplex-interactive agent, telomestatin: in vitro and in vivo studies in acute ... haematological cancers Notable findings include that of single-agent activity for RHSP4 in a metastatic melanoma model, as well as in a melanoma line resistant to the platinum drug DDP [56] RHPS4 FEBS...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22

... at 80 °C was measured by monitoring the decrease in A490, as in the previous assay We found that Bcp1, Bcp3 and Bcp4 were also capable of performing their peroxide reductase activity in the presence ... in removing H2O2 (A) and t-BOOH (B) Peroxidase activity was measured using the ferrithiocyanate method at 80 °C as described in the Experimental procedures in the presence of dithiothreitol as ... recycling This reducing system involves, for the first time, 2074 an enzyme of the PDO family [21], namely SSO0192, in place of a Trx, associated with a Tr in the Prx reducing cascade, emphasizing...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... attribute cuisine in a restaurant domain has values such as “French” or “Italian” A user utterance instantiating a constraint on cuisine, e.g., “I’m interested in Chinese food”, results in a set of ... eight tasks in the London restaurant domain, where a task is defined by a query instantiating a particular attribute/value combination in the domain (e.g., I’m interested in restaurants in Soho) ... allUtility,umInfo,numRests,task 63.2∗ avgUtility,umInfo,numRests,task 62.5∗ hiUtility,umInfo,numRests,task 66.9∗ hiUtility,umInfo,numRests,task,dataset 68.4∗ loUtility,umInfo,numRests,task 60.3∗...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20