ecological consequences of global scale connectivity in people resources and information

... begin constructing roads, setting up a nursery and removing any standing vegetation, including tropical rainforest, which generally brings about a dramatic loss in local biodiversity Labour is often ... largest and endangered Queen Alexander Birdwing butterfly This species is endemic to the plains in Oro Province Further expansion of oil palm in Oro Province will increase the risk of extinction of ... Fires and/ or Land Burning explicitly prohibits all persons and their businesses from causing forest fires and using fire for land clearing in their land or concessions They are obliged to extinguish...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20

... Medicine and International Health volume no pp 643±653 august 2001 L Morison et al Long-term consequences of FGC in The Gambia secondary level education (3% of Mandinkas, 6% of Fulas and 1% of ... FGC in The Gambia structured questionnaire Questionnaires were forward and back-translated into the three main local languages during interviewer training, and all women were interviewed in their ... Of the three main ethnic groups, 98% of Mandinkas, 4% of Wollofs and 32% of Fulas had signs of genital cutting The socio-demographic characteristics of cut and uncut Fulas were similar (data not...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 16:20

... developing and emerging countries, including those facing the challenges of often rapid industrial development or industrial restructuring, such as Russia Most of the Global South is located in South ... remain critical sources of drinking water for millions of people Finally, the case of Chemko Strážske and the Laborec River in Slovakia shows the severe consequences of neglecting the impacts of ... polluting the groundwater, incinerators – Bayer from 1957 in Leverkusen and BASF endangering and – in some cases – polluting the from 1960 in Ludwigshafen At the time, incineration drinking water...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... or into saving increasing assets, asset income, and resources available in old-age through assetbased mechanisms The linkages between population aging and investment, including investment in ... begins with a decline in infant and child mortality that leads to a large increase in the number of surviving children and a corresponding rise in the child share of the population The timing ... David Canning, and Günther Fink (2009) ―The Graying of Global Population and Its Macroeconomic Consequences working paper of the Department of Global Health and Population Harvard School of Public...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... a 10% random sample, and confirmed to be less than 1% (mean 58% across time points) Missing data were minimal, and handled using standard decision-rules (e.g., inserting subscale means) and dual-rater ... simply maintaining gains and the QoL for some declining during the treatment period This is consistent with a chronic disease model of EDs Thus, caution is warranted in the interpretation of individual ... version A single global QoL rating: “Please rate your overall quality of life in the last week on a scale of to 10, where is Poor and 10 is Excellent“ is included in a separate part of the questionnaire...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... effects on fate and transport of pesticides in a coastal plain soil II Leaching In: Proceedings of the International Winter Meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (Paper No ... management (Hinkle, 1983; Holland, 2002) In addition, by preserving soil and maintaining it in optimum condition crop yields are sustained thereby re- 19 ducing the need to convert remaining natural ... myosuroides in winter sown cereals (Cavan et al., 1999) Indeed in Germany, after years of integrated farming in which CT was used, the number of rare species had decreased at 90% of all sampling points...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... growth since the beginning of the st 21 century, the newly emerging countries such as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have expanded their influence and voice in the international ... wars and globalization After the Second World War in 1945, the United States and the U.S.S.R maintained high profiles in world politics However, another overlapping basic framework for maintaining ... Responses of ROK and Vietnam ROK succeeded in weathering the 1998 financial crisis and has turned the global financial crisis in 2008 into preemptive response strategies for the new global trading...

Ngày tải lên: 14/07/2014, 13:28

... interrogation of gene and protein function, including DNA microarrays for global gene-expression profiling and location of DNA-binding factors, and a comprehensive set of gene deletion strains for ... repeated over 100 random trials, in which the interactions of both networks are reassigned while maintaining the same number of interactions per protein, resulting in a distribution of random subnetwork ... dataset, a bias for a protein or gene ν was defined as the number of interactions ν is part of, minus the connectivity of ν Thus, if the connectivity of ν is k and ν is seen in k interactions, then the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21

... of larch and beech in height and diameter classes The development of larch and beech frequency in height classes in the course of 1961–2003 is given in Tables and 5, and in diameter classes in ... potential and ecological stability of mixed forest stands in uplands – III A single tree mixed stand with Douglas fir on an eutrophic site of the Křtiny Training Forest Enterprise Journal of Forest ... (management group of stands No 45) In research plots (area of each of them 0.25 ha, a series of partial plots 50 × 50 m), low thinning and crown thinning measures are compared in 5-year periods...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... carrying groceries; climbing several flights of stairs; climbing one flight of stairs; bending, kneeling or stooping; walking more than a mile; walking several blocks; walking one block; and bathing ... coefficients of correlation between each of the RFTs, including the new global physical function scale, and the criterion variables of joint tenderness, swelling, and deformity; overall pain; the MHAQ and ... criteria included key RA impairments such as the amount of pain and the number of tender, swollen, and deformed joints; and measures of physical disability, including the MHAQ, SF36PF, and Steinbrocker...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... conducted in hospital settings [12] The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and types of patient safety incidents occurring in general practice in the Netherlands Page of Table ... result of less testing in the primary setting and less ‘over-testing’ of the patient could occur in the primary care setting, compared to the hospital setting The most serious patient safety incidents ... was working in one of the included practices Patient characteristics Definitions Many definitions of ‘patient safety’ and ‘patient safety incidents’ have been published, but these definitions...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... National Land Survey of Sweden [11,12] An official grouping of Swedish municipalities into nine groups according to number of inhabitants and infrastructure was used, in order to form subgroups of similar ... used in analysing AMI-incidence vs statin utilisation In order to minimise the effect of unusual events and small populations, a multivariate analyses of statin utilisation vs incidence and mortality, ... Division of Community Medicine, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden 2Vikbolandet Health Care Centre, Department of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:21

... for the treatment of severe sepsis and vasopressors (>5 μg/kg/minute of dopamine; any dose of epinephrine, norepinephrine, phenylephrine, vasopressin or milrinone) at any time in the ICU Data collection ... Lilly and Co.), Mr Ramone Gaslonde (Inventiv Clinical) and Dr Yingchun Luo (Inventiv Clinical), and the efforts and input of the PROGRESS Advisory Board References Schein RM, Sprung CL: The use of ... slightly in the last year of enrollment When considering how evolving practice and the introduction of the first set of Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines in March 2004 [9] may have influenced...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... parameters and to establish significance of contrasts: robust linear modeling; a bootstrap-t using the Q statistic of Davison and Hinkley [43]; and a bootstrap-t using trimmed means and winsorized ... different robust and nonparametric approaches: robust linear modeling, bootstrap-t using the Q statistic of Davison and Hinkley [43], and a bootstrap-t using trimmed means and winsorized variances ... Figure 3b) This is in contrast to the lack of correlation with fold-induction upon infection [6,7] and illustrates the potential importance of determining mRNA abundances on a global scale The correlation...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... Structure and conservation of Sri Lankan land-snail assemblages in fragmented lowland rainforest and village home gardens J Appl Ecol 45:1019–1028 Suominen O (1999) Impact of cervid browsing and grazing ... Land mollusc monitoring scheme A handbook for field and laboratory methods Finnish Environmental Institute Nordic Council of Ministers, Helsinki ´ Walden HW (1981) Communities and diversity of ... well We thus combined searches of snails in and above the litter and obtained good general results, both in terms of the number of species and the homogeneity of the community It should be stressed...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2014, 20:14

... continues to grow in popularity and make its mark as a prime mover in cutting costs and generating efficiency by buying in best practice and economies of scale Outsourcing has become a main stream ... infrastructure in place and easy access to global shipping and sourcing of materials and supplies, the prospects of the Vietnamese furniture industry look promising Global Home is one of the hundreds ... definitions about the suppliers such as defining the suppliers in the industry, analyzing the supplier’s bargaining power, selecting the emergin technologies and substitute products forecasting...

Ngày tải lên: 24/11/2014, 01:04

... rapidly changing land cover within the watershed, determining the method to predict runoff from rainfall inputs at larger scales is the second stage of this research Calculating runoff from rainfall ... because they depend on the 16 scale of the basin, rainfall variability of the area, and the mechanisms involved in generation of runoff and streamflow Because rainfall-runoff correlations depend on ... forests include: (1) habitat and homes for many life forms, including local and indigenous people; (2) sources of timber and pharmaceutical products; (3) carbon sinks; and, most importantly, (4) maintenance...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:50

... “Mining and Washing of Coal”, “Production and supply of Electricity and heat”, “Processing of Petroleum, Coking and Nuclear Fuel” The values of upstreamness for these industries range between and ... activities in generating profits in the Chinese economy? According to the IO tables, total profits (capital income) of the Chinese economy were about trillion RMB in 2007 and 9.7 trillion RMB in 2010 In ... sectors include “Mining and Washing of Coal” (SOEs’ share in total sector’s VAX = 39.98%), “Extraction of Petroleum and Natural Gas” (49.56%), “Mining of Non-Ferrous Metal Ores” (32.50), “Processing...

Ngày tải lên: 25/08/2016, 08:19

... They also argued that the consequences of a fall, i.e feeling insecure and frightened of walking, may lead to the development of a feeling of dizziness or that dizziness and falls are caused by ... predictors in people with falls and dizziness respectively, in both those under and above 80 years of age, indicating that these conditions may be persistent and difficult to treat The prevalence of falls ... the initial phase of a functional decline where the older person is in transition from being independent to being dependent This emphasizes the need to detect older people in this phase and initiate...

Ngày tải lên: 25/08/2016, 22:54

... amounts of public money have been invested in poorer regions in the past, for instance by subsidising inward investment Lasting weak rates of growth, persisting high unemployment rates, a shrinking ... fact that internet-banking is still gaining in importance, regional banks remain the key player in SMEs loan-financing The credit loan experts of the four saving banks pointed out, that savings banks ... the East of Germany The higher banking-profit realized in these regions derive indirectly from the incentives of these banks in establishing lending relationships Following modern banking theory,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20