environmental factors affecting metal toxicity and uptake

... fixed effects including age and herd-year-season of calving (natural trimester); s is as vector of random sire effects and e is a vector of random residuals, and X and Z are incidence matrices ... the hot and humid summer and a lower reproductive performance, and the relationship between the winter and the less humid period from January to April and the best results for CSi, CRi and SGi ... Buxadera and Guerra (1981) and Men6ndez Buxadera et al (1989) According to the results previously mentioned, it could be concluded, regardless of the stressing environmental factors affecting...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... characteristics and milk production, and parameters for adaptability to machine milking be investigated The purposes of this investigation were to examine environmental and genetic factors affecting ... by both RANTHAM et genetic and environmental factors Moreover, G al (1974) reported negative phenotypic and genetic correlations between desirable » udder conformation and milk URNSIDE OMASZEWSKI ... (soft, meaty and mediocre) and milking ease (easy, mediocre and hard to milk) Quantitative traits were udder circumference (recorded before and after milking), udder depth, teat length and teat diameter...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... of these factors This study set out to explore the perceptions of mid-level providers regarding the factors affecting their performance and retention within the Malawian health system and addressed ... management and supervision; training and career progression; incentives http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/7/1/14 and retention factors; resource constraints; motivation; and status ... What factors affect the quality of their working environment? • What structures and systems exist for MLP support and supervision? • What possibilities MLPs feel are available for training and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... and using drugsparticularly injecting heroin 1.5 Factors affecting the risk of HIV infection and STIs Those factors can be classified into categories: individual factor, socio -environmental factors ... have not understood correctly and sufficiently about ways of tranmission and risk -factors of HIV and STIs 4.2.3 Sexual behavior and drug use Having sex with both male and female partners Male homosexual ... at three body parts throat, anal and penis 4.4 Some risk factors of HIV infection and STIs 4.4.1 Factors related to anal sex without condom for the last time Factors such as living in neighboring...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 11:36

... 1B), with measurement of femoral and tibial angles, alpha and beta angles, and medial and lateral joint spaces as described by Villers and Cartier [7] Patients were additionally evaluated for ... patellofemoral joint and the lateral compartment, to evaluate the patella for the presence of osteophytes, and to confirm that the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments (ACL and PCL) were intact ... matched-pair signed-rank tests and chi-squared tests were used to compare continuous and categorical variables, respectively, before and after the operations Seven factors were evaluated for association...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... 125- and 20- bp bands (lanes 1, 2, 3, 6, and 9) and CYP3A5*1/*3 genotype gives 168-, 148-, 125- and 20- bp (lanes 4, 5, and 10) CYP3A5*3/*3 genotype is not seen in this picture The 20- bp band ... and fixed effects exist, the effects of between- and within-subjects factors as well as the interaction between factors and covariates and its effects are analyzed The difference between LR and ... CYP3A5*1/*1 genotype gives 148-, 125- and 20- bp bands, CYP3A5*3/*3 genotype gives 168- and 125-bp bands and CYP3A5*1/*3 genotype gives 168-, 148-, 125- and 20- bp [19] Statistical analysis Tacrolimus...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:32

... pathophysiology of osteoporosis and the local and global environment in which the bone operates The local environment includes muscle and connective tissue attachments and the adjacent intervertebral ... lowest BMD, lowest trabecular number and greatest trabecular separation Generally vertebrae are less dense anteriorly and superiorly and more dense posteriorly and inferiorly with heterogeneity ... dysfunction, adaptation and enhancement J Spinal Disord 1992 5:383-389 Parfitt AM Bone remodelling: Relationship to the amount and structure of bone, and the pathogenesis and prevention of fracture...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:49

... extensive and appropriate prediction of copper toxicity and copper accumulation in organisms REFERENCES Ashton N W and Cove D J (1977) The isolation and preliminary characterization of Auxotrophic and ... transferred into the medium and then cultured All incubations including toxicity test were performed at 25.0 ± 1.0ºC under continuous light and aseptic condition Toxicity test The toxicity tests were ... BL leads to more appropriate prediction of heavy metal toxicity and accumulation in organisms CONCLUSIONS Two BLMs predicting copper toxicity and copper accumulation in F hygrometrica were developed...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... Chapter 4: Findings and Discussion This chapter is entitled “Findings and discussions” which analyzes the results of the questionnaires and gives the assessment on the factors affecting students’ ... should use stress and rhythmic patterns, and intonation patterns of the language clearly enough so that people can understand what is said Rhythm, stress and intonation are important factors to express ... spelling, semantics and sentence formation It focuses on the knowledge and skill needed to understand and express the utterances’ meaning Grammatical competence is the ability to recognize and produce...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 21:45

... followed by Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal The Free State and North West have fewer learners per school compared with Gauteng, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal Factors affecting teaching and learning Figure ... Limpopo the figure stands at 27 per cent The richer provinces, such as the Western Cape and Gauteng, have low 13 Factors affecting teaching and learning percentages – per cent and per cent respectively ... Cape Factors affecting teaching and learning than per cent In 2001 the City of Cape Town had 31.3, whereas Boland had 29.1 Similarly, in 2002 the City of Cape Town had 42.9 compared with Boland...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 00:20

... Health and Human Services U.S Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine Environmental Medicine and ... 71 Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Case Studies in Environmental Medicine (CSEM) • • Lead Toxicity Wine and homemade alcohol that was distilled and/ or stored in leaded containers ... cosmetics, jewelry Outdoor air and dust Outdoor and indoor air and dust Soil Prior to the 1970s, lead was widely used in paint and gasoline Lead paint is a primary source of environmental exposure to...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... addition to demographic factors like age and gender the demand for health and elderly care is affected by dependency, social and housing conditions of the elderly Fiscal and resource constraints ... labelled as MADL1, MADL2 and FADL1AGE, FADL2AGE and MADL1AGE, MADL2AGE, where F and M are shortcuts for female and male respectively, ADL1 and ADL2 shortcuts for instrumental and personal disabilities ... ordered logit models the impacts of age, dependency and other factors on probabilities to use home and community care for the elderly With these models and the age profile of the institutional care,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... skills and personal qualities of audit partners and staff; the effectiveness of the audit process; the reliability and usefulness of audit reporting; and factors outside the control of auditors affecting ... Ethical Standards 1-5 London: Auditing Practices Board APB (2004b) International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland) London: Auditing Practices Board APB (2004c) ISA (UK and Ireland) 260 Communication ... firm size; and, lastly, International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) and audit inspection In addition to the activities of the audit committee, risk factors for the auditor (both economic and certain...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... three factors namely, the vocal tract response, pitch period contour, and g l o t t a l pulse shape contributed s i g n i f i c a n t l y to the unnatural q u a l i t y Each of these factors ... B.S Atal and S.L Hanauer, J Acoust Soc Amer., vol 50, pp 637-655, 1971 J.D Markel and A.H Gray, Linear Prediction of Speech, Sprtnger-Verlag, 19/6 J.L Flanagan, Speech Analysts, Synthesis and Perception, ... Seneff, IEEE Trans Acoust., Speech and Signal Processing, vol ASSP-30, no 4, pp 566-577, August 1982 R.H Cotton and J.A Estrie, Elements of Voice Quality in Speech and Language, N.J Lass (Ed.), Academic...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 19:21

... 2 SEC NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES; AWARDS FOR DEVELOP- MENT PLINARY RESEARCH CENTERS REGARDING WOMEN’S HEALTH AND DISEASE PREVEN- TION AND OPERATION OF MULTIDISCI- Subpart ... of 20 the Office of Research on Women’s Health and with the 21 advisory council for the Institute 22 ‘‘(b) RESEARCH, TRAINING, AND INFORMATION AND 23 EDUCATION.— 24 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each center ... subsection— •HR 183 IH ‘‘(A) conduct basic and clinical research; ‘‘(B) develop protocols for training physi- cians, scientists, nurses, and other health and allied health professionals; ‘‘(C) conduct...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... dietary factors in the UK in 2010: IV Salt DM Parkin 16 The fraction of cancer attributable to lifestyle and environmental factors in the UK in 2010: Summary and conclusions DM Parkin, L Boyd and ... cancer attributable to lifestyle and environmental factors in the UK in 2010 R Peto S38 S57 S1 Cancers attributable to overweight and obesity in the UK in 2010 DM Parkin and L Boyd S49 CONTENTS Copyright ... Oncological Association Aims and Scope Cancer is a complex problem The international effort to understand and control it involves clinicians trained in many branches of medicine and scientists from almost...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... investigate delays in the diagnosis and treatment of hospitalized patients with smearpositive pulmonary tuberculosis and to identify the factors affecting these delays MATERIAL AND METHODS Güneylioglu D ... total delay DISCUSSION We analyzed delays in the diagnosis and treatment of inpatients with smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis and factors affecting these delays The present study indicated that ... Süreyyapal Center for Chest Disease and Thoracic Surgery, ba consisting of 1600 beds We reviewed the clinic records of all patients hospitalized between June and August 2001 and identified 204 newly diagnosed...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... followed by Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal The Free State and North West have fewer learners per school compared with Gauteng, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal Factors affecting teaching and learning Figure ... Limpopo the figure stands at 27 per cent The richer provinces, such as the Western Cape and Gauteng, have low 13 Factors affecting teaching and learning percentages – per cent and per cent respectively ... Cape Factors affecting teaching and learning than per cent In 2001 the City of Cape Town had 31.3, whereas Boland had 29.1 Similarly, in 2002 the City of Cape Town had 42.9 compared with Boland...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... Talay F et al Risk Factors Affecting the Development of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in Household Contacts of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis (such as uncle, grandfather, cousin) The ... VOLUME • ISSUE 35 Risk Factors Affecting the Development of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in Household Contacts of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis Talay F et al Table Factors associated ... contacts to be infected and become ill APRIL 2008 • VOLUME • ISSUE TURKISH RESPIRATORY JOURNAL Talay F et al Risk Factors Affecting the Development of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in Household...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... nutrient u u uptake and accumulation, as heavy metals provoke damages in the plasma mem´ brane of exposed cells (Hernandez and Cooke 1997), affecting water uptake and ´ solute permeability (Hernandez ... in this field, mainly on the uptake and transport of heavy metals in plants, mechanisms of toxicity, perception of metals and the regulation of cell responses under metal stress Another key feature ... heavy metals that bind with soil particles into soil solution and followed by uptake by plants However, this mechanism does not draw a sharp line between toxic and essential metals for uptake and...

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2014, 17:23