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... MAweb.org) Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Biodiversity Synthesis Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Desertification Synthesis Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Human ... Trade-offs among constituents of human well being. Responses are often directed at improving the material well-being constit- uent of human well-being to the neglect of other constituents of human ... Synthesis Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Wetlands and Water Synthesis Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Opportunities and Challenges for Business and Industry No copyright claim is made in the...

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... industry today. n Support the development of FTC guidelines on the use of slotting and other promotional fees. Retail Consolidation and Produce Buying Practices 7 Economic Theories of Slotting and Other Fees M any ... that these fees are necessary to help share the risk of the potential failure of a product, to pay for the cost of re-shelving, or simply to share the cost of pro- motion, the imposition of such ... be clear as to the source of the fees—whether they are offered by suppliers or de- manded by retailers—because this is often of some question and is critical to whether the effects are likely to...

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... while in other cases the service was included but the information and data available did not allow an assessment of the pattern of human use of the service or the status of the service. † ס The categories ... increase or decrease the risk of a particular infectious disease, depending on the type of land use, the characteristics of the cycle of disease, and the characteris- tics of the human populations. ... transformed and managed by humans for the purpose of providing food and fiber, often at the expense of other ecosystem services. More land was con- verted to cropland in the 30 years after 1950 than in the...

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... uncontrollable) with human demands for ecosystem services. The scenarios link these demands, in turn, to the futures of the services themselves and the aspects of human welfare that depend on them. The scenario ... is one of the most innovative aspects of the MA, and this volume presents a synthesis of perspectives from multiple scales on ecosystems, the services they provide, and the consequences of change ... and resources to maintain. Unequal access to ecosystem services has often elevated the well-being of small segments of the population at the expense of others. Sometimes the consequences of the...

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... MAweb.org) Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Biodiversity Synthesis Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Desertification Synthesis Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Human ... provided by the biosphere and its ecosystems. Further, the biosphere is itself the product of life on Earth. The composition of the atmosphere and soil, the cycling of elements through air and waterways, ... Synthesis Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Wetlands and Water Synthesis Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Opportunities and Challenges for Business and Industry No copyright claim is made in the...

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... change the frequency and magnitude of floods, although the nature of this impact depends on the char- acteristics of the local ecosystem and the type of land cover change. The degradation of ecosystem ... specific ecosystems and regions. Under the aegis of the MA, the first systematic examination of the status and trends in terrestrial and coastal land cover was carried out using global and regional ... (Mexico)—for the support they provided to the process. The Scenarios Working Group was established as a joint project of the MA and the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Envi- ronment, and we...

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... product of life on Earth. The composition of the atmosphere and soil, the cycling of ele- ments through air and waterways, and many other ecological assets are all the result of living processes and ... Convention on Wetlands plan to use the findings of the MA, which will also help meet the needs of others in gov- ernment, the private sector, and civil society. The MA should help to achieve the United ... Government of India, the Tropical Resources Ecology Program (TREP) of the University of Zimbabwe, the Department of Environ- ment and Natural Resources of the Philippines, the Coast Information Team of British...

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... a result of the lost Ca 2+ ⁄ CaM-binding site of the IQ domain, but the missing PH1- and coiled-coil domains may also change the subcellular localization of this version of Ras- GRF1. These domains ... Foundation for the Promotion of Science, The Blix Family Foundation and grants from the University of Oslo and the National Cancer Institute of the USA (R01-CA81150). The experiments were performed in ... Ca 2+ independent. Considering all the different pathways reported for the activation of Ras and ERK1 ⁄ 2 downstream of GPCRs, Ras-GRF1 could be one of possibly several GEFs involved in the activation of Ras and subse- quently...

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... MAweb.org) Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Biodiversity Synthesis Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Desertification Synthesis Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Human ... provided by the biosphere and its ecosystems. Further, the biosphere is itself the product of life on Earth. The composition of the atmosphere and soil, the cycling of elements through air and waterways, ... Synthesis Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Wetlands and Water Synthesis Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Opportunities and Challenges for Business and Industry No copyright claim is made in the...

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... comparison of the effects of rough andsmoothLPSsofE. coli, both in the presence and absence of EDTA (Fig. 1). The rate of oxidation was increased in the presence of the LPSs of both the smooth and rough ... measure of the rate of oxidation of oxyHb. RESULTS The effect of pH on the auto-oxidation of cross-linked Hb was studied. The rate of decrease of the concentration of oxyHb increased as the pH ... of oxidation in the presence of EDTA. A comparison of rough and smooth LPSs of E. coli and S. minnesota in the presence of EDTA revealed that both in the presence and absence of EDTA, the oxidation of cross- linked...

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... however, they must be released before the subsequent meeting of the committee. In recent years, both the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England have shortened the lag in releasing their minutes, ... estimates the determinants of expected inflation (ʌ e ) in the period prior to the announcement of an inflation target, and then uses the estimated model to predict ʌ e under the IT regime. The ... curve and appears to be the dominant factor at the long end. Similarly, Brand et al. (2006) find that the effects of the ECB’s communications are particularly sizable at the long end of the yield...

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... this action. The ankle, the knee, and the hip lie in nearly the same line, and thus the weight of the body rests directly on the keystone of the arch of the foot. So perfectly do these muscles ... in the adult it consists of only three. While, however, the number of the bones is uncertain, their relative length is so exact that the length of the entire skeleton, and thence the height of ... clasp the arm just below the elbow, and then open and shut the fingers, you can feel the and power of resisting shocks. THE HAND The _metacarpal_ (_meta_, beyond; _karpos_, wrist), or bones of...

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... of the heme, and to the dynamics of structural changes in the protein. Hence, the analysis of the GR parameters can give a deep insight into modulation of the ligand bind- ing properties of the ... experiment. The approach is based on determination of the bimolecular association rate constant of O 2 rebinding and the quantum yield of BR, c. The latter value is defined as the ratio of the number of ... by Imai and Yonetani [23] by determination of the hemoglobin affinity for the fourth ligand molecule. The purpose of this study was twofold. First, the mutual effects of pH and NaCl on the bimolecular association...

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... characterized in the case of schisto- somes as well as the CHO cells used for the expression of the C. elegans GalNAc T [23]. The occurrence of LDN(F) repeats parallels the poly(LacNAc) and poly(Lewis ... lability of the Hex- NAc-Hex linkage. Although the fragment ion spectrum of the sodiated species likewise exhibited HexNAc 3 and HexNAc 4 ions (m ⁄ z 632 and 835), the intensity ratios were the reversed. ... including the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni [2]. Glycans with LDN and LDNF {GalNAc(b1–4)[Fuc(a1–3)]GlcNAc(b1-} expressed by S. mansoni are targets of the humoral immune responses of the host...

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... be the reference); 2, docked into the active site of the human DPP-IV; 3, docked into the active site of the crystalline structure of PepX from L. lactis ;and4 , docked into the active site of the ... DPP-IV). Another potential bond can be proposed between the OH atom of Tyr380 and the car- bonyl group of the ligand. Finally, the valine side chain of the ligand, pointing towards the active ... 2). The interactions of the bound ligand with the resi- dues of the specificity site (Fig. 4A) reveal good stack- ing between the pyrrolidine ring of the drug and the side chain of Tyr380 (Pos1 subsite),...

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