... 32.8% and practice was 199.5% Table 3.27 Effectof intervention with hygienic prevention conditions for reproductive tract infections Efficiency index (%) Effectof disease prevention Intervention ... hygiene conditions, working conditions and living standards, ability for health services approach and knowledge, attitude and practices on RTIs prevention Thai Nguyen is mountainous and midland province, ... of College of Medicine and Pharmacy - TNU INTRODUCTION Reproductive tract infections (RTIs) is one of the most common disease ofreproductive age women This disease imposes negative impacts on...
... overall effects of injection timing on combustion, engine performance and emissions are discussed in this section 3.1 Effecton brake thermal efficiency The effectof injection timing on engine ... depends on the combustion properties of the fuel Figure Effectof injection timing on brake thermal efficiency 3.2 Effecton brake specific fuel consumption The brake specific fuel consumption is ... combustion in the cycle leading to lower exhaust temperature Figure Effectof injection timing on exhaust temperature 3.4 Effecton power and mean effective pressure The effectof injection timing on...
... concept of economic value Economic valuation of ecosystem goods and services is based on the concept of willingness to pay, which is a fundamental concept of welfare economics and is built on ... arable land Maintenance of natural productive soils Maintenance of soil vitality and ecosystem productivity Land and landscape conservation Flood protection Storm protection Protection of human ... maintenance of favourable climate and weather conditions It is based on complex interactions of regional and global circulation patterns with local topography, vegetation, and hydrological configuration...
... positive controls The subcellular distribution of PLD and the consequences of priming and activation were determined using immunoprecipitation and Western blot analysis of neutrophil cytosol and membrane ... Results Effectof TNFa priming on O2 À generation, MPO release, and PLD activation Before investigating the effectof TNFa priming on PLD activity, we wished to confirm that our experimental system ... first of stimulation Effectof PI3-kinase and ARF inhibitors on O2 À and PLD activation Selective pharmacological inhibitors were used to assess the role of PI3-kinase and ARF proteins on the...
... reproductivesystem In general, the system in males and females consists of a gonad (testis and ovary) located in the coelom in the posterior part of the body, one or two separate gonoducts and ... comparison ofreproductive systems as well as reproductive strategies The purpose of this paper is to describe the main types ofreproductivesystem structure, developmentandfunction in all ... place in maleand female reproductive systems These include appearance, differentiation and growth of gonad and accessory glands At this time oogenesis and spermatogenesis take place in the gonads...
... provision of nonmarket forest goods and services; and • Task 5: Conclusions and recommendations for developmentand application of mechanisms compensating for provision of non-market forest goods and ... protection, (ii) watershed protection (grouping water regulation and purification and soil protection), (iii) carbon storage and sequestration, and (iv) recreation and tourism In addition, values of ... on the Developmentand Marketing of Non-Market Forest Products and Services 4.2 Estimation of economic values of non-market forest goods and services This section reviews the available data on...
... Schatten, G (1997) Depletion of glutathione during bovine oocyte maturation reversibly blocks the decondensation of the male pronucleus and pronuclear apposition during fertilization Biol Reprod 56, ... intensity of the bands for the protein and the mRNA were faint Effects of inhibitors of cGCS and GR on primary cultured testicular cells To investigate the contribution of de novo synthesis and the ... abundant expression of GR in cooperation with glutathione S-transferase could facilitate the detoxification functionof aldose reductase by catalyzing the formation of glutathione conjugates The...
... techniques, as the frequencies and band intensities of vibrational transitions represent a unique fingerprint of the specific conformation of a molecule SERR and SEIRA spectroscopy of cytochrome c [10] Both ... description of electric field effects on protein structure, dynamics, andfunction Information provided by surfaceenhanced vibrational spectroscopy Redox proteins immobilized on SAM-coated Ag and Au ... monitoring equilibria and dynamics of the spin, coordination and ligation configuration of cytochrome c [10,27] Third, when excitation lines close to the weak Q-transition of the haem are used,...
... information on the state -of the-art in field of valuation ofand compensation for non-market forest goods and services Forest goods and services Forests provide numerous goods and services that contribute ... energy production, tourism, environmental protection and nature conservation Provision of seed-money could support the developmentof new market opportunities Only small shares of forestry funds ... non-market goods and services, biodiversity protection, recreation and tourism, carbon sequestration, and watershed services (water regulation and purification, and soil protection) are especially...
... psychopathology correspond to improvements in quality of life and, conversely, to investigate the effectof a deterioration or persistence of mental problems in terms of their impact on burden of disease ... points on the KIDSCREEN School Environment dimension (between 0.5 and standard deviation) SDQ category of 'worsened' most strongly influenced the dimensions of psychological well-being, moods and ... impact of changes in mental health on HRQOL in a longitudinal design and it provides some indication of directionality Future studies should consider more, and more frequent study contacts One further...
... consequently on the level of expression of the NP protein, which might be in relation with the important functions of this protein in the regulation of transcription and replication and in the ... absence of a non conserved NC region between the stop codon and the polyU stretch might have an effecton the level of transcription/replication of the type C virus Table 3: Sequences of the 5' ... complex and the 3' and 5' ends of the vRNA and its consequences on transcription and replication, we extended our study to reporter vRNA templates harboring the complete 3' and 5' NC regions of the...
... Division of Intramural Research of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, USA We also acknowledge support from the Career Development ... the late detection of viral failure and to minimize unnecessary switching of patients to second-line ART The regression-based analysis identified a history of ART interruption of more than two ... the standard of care in many RLS [17] Methods Study design This was a cross-sectional study of 496 Ugandans established on NNRTI-based ART We evaluated combinations of adherence, clinical and laboratory...
... number ofmale circumcisions Y = number of HIV infections, and t = 2008–2015 and 2016–2025 Between 2008 and 2015, 27.3 male circumcisions are required in order to avert one HIV infection Because of ... J: Costing Male Circumcision in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia: Implications for the Cost-Effectiveness ofMale Circumcision as a Cost-Effective Intervention for HIV Prevention Washington DC; USAID ... Results and discussion Scenario 1: national strategy scenario Scenario presents the impact of increasing the prevalence ofmale circumcision to 80% of HIV-negative adult males and neonates by...
... decisions throughout the process ofdevelopmentand finalisation of the questionnaire They gave their approval at each of the milestones of the developmentand finalisation process The questionnaire ... interpretations and opinions of the relevance of each question Subjects were also asked to provide suggestions on how to reword the instructions, questions and response options Finalisation, scoring and ... version and were questioned regarding their general impressions of the questionnaire; its comprehensiveness; the clarity of the instructions, items and response choices; and their interpretations...
... Organisation as " an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systemof which they live with the relation to their goals, expectations, standards and ... department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the University Medical Center Groningen The group consisted of 95 patients consecutively consulting the TMD/Orofacial Pain section for their orofacial pain ... perceptions, vitality (VT, measuring energy/fatigue), social functioning (SF), role limitations due to personal or emotional problems (RE measuring the effectof the emotions on work and daily...
... the groups of soil organic matter of those elevations (Table 1) The partial influence of elevation and associated vegetation type and the effectof moistureelevation interaction on C0 and C0k indicated ... 42 Days of incubation Days of incubation Fig The effectof soil moisture on rates of soil C mineralization by elevation and soil moisture level on Changbai Mountain in NE China Elevation (m): ... respiration of forest ecosystems in Japan and global implications Ecological Research, 21: 828–839 Liu S.H., Fang J.Y (1997): Effect factors of soil respiration and the temperature’s effects on soil...
... Persistence of live roots on snags and stumps 33 Figure Relationship between the percentage of living roots on snags and the circumference of the phloem connection of the graft connecting the snag to ... survivorship of roots relative to the position of the graft, the radial positions of all live and dead coarse roots (> cm diameter), on each snag were recorded relative to the position of the graft ... tree age and tree ring widths were measured and recorded on the leave trees, control trees and the stumps of trees removed during the manual thinning treatment The position of all living and dead...
... information for understanding the effects of the treeshelters upon the seedlings in the trial environment The reduction of radiation inside the shelter could make the plants grow higher and to ... silt-clay-sand texture with great retention capacity [45] This zone is found near the most southern and dry populations of J thurifera on the Iberian Peninsula [31] (Fig 1B), formations of great ... Distribution of J thurifera on the Iberian Peninsula ([22], modified), and localization of the study area 2.2 Laboratory analysis of plant quality The laboratory analysis was carried out on a set of...
... about the relationship between chemical properties of mineral soil, organic layer, and decayed woody debris on the one hand and the developmentand nutrition of Norway spruce seedlings on the other ... elemental concentration and stocks of K were of minor relevance for the K nutrition Calcium and Mg in seedlings followed well high total soil stocks and high extractable concentrations and stocks of ... seedling contents of N, P, K, Mn, Cu, and Zn, but with high amounts of Ca, Mg, and Fe DISCUSSION The biomass developmentand nutrition of seedlings in their first growing season was strongly related...
... weed competition and mobility of fertilizer It is also commonplace in silviculture for trees to exhibit a different pattern of edge growth and conformation (lack of straightness of timber, poor ... Cesalpiniaceae forest and a semi-deciduous forest of Sterculiaceae and Ulmaceae (Letouzey, 1968) The climate exhibits seasons, namely rainy and dry (with one long and one short of each type) The ... root-mean-square deviation and fit index (analogous to the coefficient of determination) Although none of the functions unequivocally improve on others, the above model could be recommended if only for simplicity...