ecological effects of eutrophication in standing waters

... general, the intra-examiner ICCs (seven out of eleven were greater than 0.75) were higher than the inter-examiner ICCs. Only four of the inter-examiner ICCs were in the lower portion of the good ... degrees of freedom (DoF). In fact for 11 out of 15 variables (a total of 44 Intra- and Inter-examiner ICCs), 14 (32%) were in the good range (0.50 < ICC < 0.75) and 30 (68%) were in the ... (MADBO) were calculated as: Intraclass correlation coefficients Our methodology provided three sets of intra-examiner data and three sets of inter-examiner data. Inter- and intra- class correlation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... Gulf War Annals of Internal Medicine 125(5):398-405 IOM (Institute of Medicine) 1995 Health Consequences... of Service During the Persian Gulf War: Initial Findings and Recommendations ... are not included in tables COMPLEXITIES IN RESOLVING GULF WAR AND HEALTH ISSUES Investigations of the health effects of past wars have often focused on narrowly defined hazards ... use of such weapons in the gulf could result in the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans Therefore, in addition to the standard vaccinations before... Many of the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 01:20

... received or paid in a fixed or determinable number of units of currency. Net investment in a foreign operation is the amount of the reporting entity’s interest in the net assets of that operation. ... recognised in profit or loss in the separate financial statements of the reporting entity or the individual financial statements of the foreign operation, EC staff consolidated version as of 18 ... have investments in associates or joint ventures. They may also have branches. It is necessary for the results and financial position of each individual entity included in the reporting entity...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

... ferricyto- chrome c inhibited the MDA formation in the presence of urate suggesting the involvement of O ÁÀ 2 . In support of the involvement of O ÁÀ 2 , we observed the reduction of ferricytochrome ... mechanism, independ- ent of O ÁÀ 2 , might be involved in the pro-oxidant action of urate. According to the data obtained in the presence of neocuproine, it may be suggested that this mechanism involves ... partic- ularly during phases of rapidly increasing or decreasing changes in the monitored concentrations. This is due to slight shifts between the onsets of the increasing or decreasing phases, because...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 08:20

... Dry Interior 15 Fuel Consumption and Fire Intensity 15 Ecological Effects of Burning Season in Forested Ecosystems 15 Trees 18 Understory Vegetaton 20 Soils 21 Wildlife 23 Ecological Effects of ... times of reduced mobility, such as during nesting or breeding season. The influence of fire season can also be indirect, through differences in habitat created, or competitive release of some ... exerts a stronger influence on the ecosystem than variation in fire timing. Given the potential importance of fire intensity to fire effects, a useful means of evaluating the outcome of pre- scribed...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:37

... element binding protein that promotes the degradation of a number of inflammatory mediators including TNF-a Nicotine-activated STAT3 signaling induces the expres- sion of TTP in macrophages and, in ... exploited to suppress inflammation in obesity and gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction. This article will discuss recent advances in understanding the anti-inflammatory effects of nicotine in obesity and ... a keyroleinnicotine-induced anti-inflammatory effect through destabilization of TNF-a transcripts. Since an excess of TNF-a is involved in many inflammatory dis- eases, the inhibition of TNF-a...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... element binding protein that promotes the degradation of a number of inflammatory mediators including TNF-a Nicotine-activated STAT3 signaling induces the expres- sion of TTP in macrophages and, in ... exploited to suppress inflammation in obesity and gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction. This article will discuss recent advances in understanding the anti-inflammatory effects of nicotine in obesity and ... a keyroleinnicotine-induced anti-inflammatory effect through destabilization of TNF-a transcripts. Since an excess of TNF-a is involved in many inflammatory dis- eases, the inhibition of TNF-a...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... Original article The influence of seed age on germinative response to the effects of fire in Pinus pinaster, Pinus radiata and Eucalyptus globulus Otilia ... all of the groups of seeds collected in the 4 years mentioned. All of the treatments consisted of six replicates of 30 seeds each, using the methodology of previous studies [36, 37, 38]. Placing ... ence of two days. In none of the treatments are differ- ences in average germination time greater than two days. 3.3. Temporal distribution of germination The temporal distribution of germination...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... still remain today in the Portu- guese life. In 1249 A.D., the Portuguese King, Alfonso III finally conquered the kingdom of the Algarve, ending an era of over six centuries of Arab domination ... ongoing loss and degradation of habitat [51]. There is still also a currently paucity of biological and ecological data regarding both species in terms of their presence in Portugal [42], since ... tural. In this study, TEK-deriv ed bio -ecological informa- tion led to the report of nine new populations of H. turcicus, one of those already proven right [55]. This information is essenti al in...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... pharmaceutical sector in India is making use of 280 medicinal plant species, of which 175 are found in the IHR [1]. The northern part of India harbors a great diversity of medicinal plants because of the majestic ... anthelmintica was dominant and Imperata cylindrica least dominant. The consensus survey indicated that the inhabitants have a high level of agreement regarding the usages of single plant. The index ... value index from all sites of each region were used to interpret the final data. Ethnomedicinal inventory Informationonplantswithethnomedicinaluseswas collected from informants living in villages...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... by inhibitors of the Rho and Rho-kinase Conclusions: Lipophilic statins exert direct effects on distal human PASMCs and are likely to involve inhibition of Rho GTPase signalling These findings ... of smooth muscle cells in vascular lesions [9,17] The addition of simvastatin to sildenafil also reversed hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension and remodelling[16] In keeping with findings in ... reductase inhibitors in experimental models of PH [20,21], raising questions about whether statins as a class of drugs are capable of inducing similar responses in the pulmonary vasculature of humans...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... their increased pro-inflammatory effects by modulating intracellular calcium signalling in macrophages leading to expression of proinflammatory cytokines An additional consideration is the effects ... cortical staining In accord with the role of calcium and ROS in the induction of IL-1 expression, both of these factors appeared to play an important role in modulating the F-actin cytoskeleton ... using the image software The staining intensity of each cell was then measured using the analysis software Statistical Analysis Data from all of the experiments were analysed using analysis of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... Pyridine Cyclohexane Pyrimidine N N 1,3,5-triazine H N Piperidine H N H N N N N Indole 1H-indazole N N Benzimidazole N Purine N N N Napthalene Fig (continued) Quinoline Isoquinoline N Quinazoline ... cysteine is introduced into a protein and used to capture fragments that bind in the vicinity, thus providing some information on the binding site It is also possible to measure fragments binding ... Gibbs free energy changes for the binding to a protein of a molecule, A–B, and of its component parts, A and B, in terms of the “intrinsic binding energies” of A and B, DGAi and DGBi, and a “connection...

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2014, 23:54

... borrowing.2 A summary of the recent use of macroprudential measures in Latin America is reported in Table Despite their increasing use, the effectiveness of macroprudential policies in leaning against ... interest rates These findings, more generally support the use of RRs as a policy instrument in an inflation-targeting regime in terms of their effectiveness in reinforcing monetary policy transmission ... tightening of either instrument leads to a decline of domestic credit, but their effects on macroeconomic aggregates differ They also find that the tightening of RRs induces a depreciation of the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:21

... • Lending booms coincide with a decline in inflation in most of the countries Inflation at the start of the lending boom is much higher in the crisis countries and declines sharply during the ... usually a lagging indicator of banking system problems, and there have been some indications of a decline in capital adequacy and some increase in credit risks in many of the countries in the group ... supervisors of foreign banks - -Increasing supervisory Increasing supervisory coordination ofof banks coordination banks and nonbank financial and nonbank financial institutions institutions...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... deflate financial stocks than past studies [e.g., King and Levine 1993a,b] Finally, we check our results using the King and Levine (1993a,b) and Levine and Zervos (1998) measures of financial intermediation ... claims of one group of intermediaries on another PRIVATE CREDIT is also a broader measure of banking sector development than that used by Levine and Zervos (1998) since it includes all financial institutions, ... exogenous “endowment.” In terms of the links between legal origin and financial intermediary development, a growing body of evidence suggests that legal origin helps to shape financial development...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 11:20

... life and making a living Quinn, for teaching me the meaning of love Fritz and Lucy, for teaching me the meaning of life My sincere apologies to anyone I might have left out When foolhardiness would ... taking in one of the more bizarre sights in its open-ocean life and inducing a whimper in an already edgy Hulse As it dove, a wave lurched in an azure lump about the size of an Olympic swimming ... immediately in its wake, and another “All the things you’re used to doing: taking in a lineup from the beach, measuring how far you’ve paddled according to the beach, duck diving, sitting on the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 05:20

... slipped to ninth in the share of students enrolling in college.‡39 In short, the new global economy increasingly relies on information and innovation, both of which are highly knowledge intensive ... result of including the savings from reducing the victim cost of crime When only including the direct cost savings from reductions in criminal activity, the returns from Perry Preschool are more in ... rose rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s before leveling off in the 1990s, have given rise to an increasing number of single-parent families Today, 28 percent of children reside in single-parent families,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

... minutes remaining in the preopening window have an initial average return of almost 45 percent In Table II, the five-minute preopening period is divided into ten 30second intervals The interval ... entering the first quote in the five-minute preopening window These preopening quotes are not binding We find that this first quote is very informative and can explain a large proportion of initial ... Dollar proceeds of the offering in millions ~SIZE!, time of day in seconds after midnight when trading starts ~CLOCK!, the number of quote entries in the five-minute preopening window ~PQUOTES!,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2014, 16:09

... and borrowing rate and increases equilibrium borrowing in the country Greater competition in the banking system is helpful in improving financial intermediation and efficiency Financial intermediation ... increases as the shift in the supply curve decreases the cost of borrowing The increase in financial The number of banks operating in the CEE countries and the share of foreign owned assets increased ... market funding lost its restrictiveness for sustaining the financial needs of foreign owned banks In terms of profitability, the entrance of foreign banks increased the amount of competition in the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:21