... biodegradation rate constant database previously compiled (Aronson and Howard, 1997), the aerobic biodegradation rate constant database includes rate constant information from soil, surface water, and ... 3-7 ug/day 48 Holm,PE et al (1992) Anid,PJ et al (1993) Alvarez,PJJ et al (1998) Alvarez,PJJ et al (1998) Alvarez,PJJ et al (1998) Benzene Swan Coastal Plain, Australia Uncontaminated Aquifer ... location and can provide an “absolute mass balance” on a particular contaminant In addition, the formation and measurement of metabolites can definitively show the biodegradation of the contaminant...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:20
... and analyze spend analysis data that can lead to improved PSM practices -7- What Is aaSpend Analysis? What Is Spend Analysis? An in-depth analysis of purchases An in-depth analysis of purchases ... data, as well as Kathryn Ekberg, SAF/AQCP, who answered many of our early questions about the data We also thank RAND colleagues Donna Fossum and Larry Painter, who gave us useful guidance about ... International Corporation (SAIC) **Purchase orders against Airlines; purchase rather than individual contracts **Purchase orders against a master contract rather than individual contracts DB-434-AF-18...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20
A critical analysis of environmental governance in urban china a case study of nanjing
... ‘rural’ and ‘sparsely populated’ are irrelevant to the meaning of ‘urban’ Further, in light of ‘urban’ as a spatial scale, ‘urban’ does not refer to an international arena, a nation state, a vast ... that is 30 relevant to the state of that being at a particular place and time” Upon realization that the separation between nature and society as well as social and cultural aspects are central ... governance within the domain of environment (aka environmental governance) are indeed central to this research Urban Governance Urban is an adjective related to a particular type of human habitation:...
Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 12:31
Báo cáo y học: "Genetic polymorphism of p53, but not GSTP1, is association with susceptibility to esophageal cancer risk – A Meta-Analysis"
... Asian Morita S[29] 1998 Japan Asian van Lieshout EM[30] 1999 The Netherlands Caucasian Tan W&[31] 2000 China Asian Lee JM[22] 2000 China(Taiwan) Asian Casson AG[21] 2003 Canada Caucasian Roth MJ[32] ... MJ[32] 2004 China Asian Casson AG[20] 2006 Canada Caucasian Cai L[25] 2006 China Asian Murphy SJ[33] 2007 Irish Caucasian Canova C[19] 2009 European Caucasian SNP site Sample size HWE MAF Genotypic ... diagnosis of publication bias (Linear regression analysis, ref.[34] All analysis was done by using the Statistical Analysis System software (v.9.1.3, SAS Institute, Cary, NC) and Review Manage...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40
Báo cáo y học: "Association between regulated upon activation, normal T cells expressed and secreted (RANTES) -28C/G polymorphism and asthma risk – A Meta-Analysis"
... 2008 Hungary ( Caucasian) Japan ( Asian) China(Taiwan) ( Asian) China ( Asian) China(Taiwan) ( Asian) United States ( African-American) Tunisia ( African) Spain (Caucasian) Korea ( Asian) MAF Power ... Table and Figure 1) We further performed stratified analysis according to asthma type (atopic asthma and non-atopic asthma), age (children and adult) and ethnicity (Asian and Caucasian and African ... diagnosis of publication bias (Linear regression analysis, ref [21]) All analysis was done by using the Statistical Analysis System software (v.9.1.3, SAS Institute, Cary, NC) and Review Manage...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39
Báo cáo y học: "Genetic polymorphisms in the nucleotide excision repair pathway and lung cancer risk: A meta-analysis"
... activated carcinogens can bind to DNA and form DNA adducts that are capable of inducing mutations and initiating carcinogenesis The capacity to repair DNA damage induced by activated carcinogens 61 appears ... Tanaka K, Miura N, Satokata I, et al Analysis of a human DNA excision repair gene involved in group A xeroderma pigmentosum and containing a zinc-finger domain Nature 1990; 348: 73-6 65 Sarasin ... statistical significance in any analysis In comparison of the T/C genotype with the T/T genotype, the Begg's test was statistically significant in an overall analysis (P = 0.086) and a subgroup analysis...
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 14:59
Báo cáo y học: "A comparative analysis of antibody repertoire against Staphylococcus aureus antigens in Patients with Deep-Seated versus Superficial staphylococcal Infections"
... Tables and Figures Table IgG antibody levels against PG and TA in sera from healthy individuals and patients with deep-seated and superficial staphylococcal infections S aureus cell wall Healthy ... 1979;1(8118):731 Ayyagari A, Pal N Antiribitol-teichoic acid antibody (ARTA) in diagnosis of deep seated Staphylococcus aureus infections Indian J Pathol Microbiol 1991, 34(3):176-180 Colque-Navarro P, Palma ... these antigens were not shared by other Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria tested 3.5 Anti-staphylococcal antibodies react with PG and TA We observed that levels of anti-staphylococcal IgG antibodies...
Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:08
Negative questions in English and Vietnamese - A contrastive analysis
... statement I am awake You are awake She is awake We are awake Affirmative statement with tag question I am awake, am I not? You are awake, aren't you? She is awake, isn't she? We are awake, aren't we? ... ambiguity is also made by an operator in a negative, here, operator is not a normal auxiliary expressing grammatical function, but a modal auxiliary With a negative modal auxiliary, verb phrase falls ... words that are used in negative questions are also considered However, the pragmatic and semantic features have been initially investigated; a deeper approach to the pragmatic and semantic feature...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:36
The yield gap of global grain production-A spatial analysis
... remains, however, challenging with limited data availability as a major obstacle For this reason we used non-urban population data as proxy for agricultural population and hence labor availability ... possible adaptation strategies A negative aspect often associated with intensification is environmental damage Many studies have shown that agricultural intensification may lead to air and water pollution, ... Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, and Swaziland c Includes Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia, Burma, Laos, and Malaysia a yield variation This example underpins the necessity...
Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2012, 15:22
A Contrastive Analysis between the Verb ‘Run’ in English and the Verb ‘Chạy’ in Vietnamese
... contrastive, not comparative) two values typologies (a CA is always concerned with a pair of languages), and founded on the assumption that languages can be compared.” CA describes similarities and ... singular form (of a noun of a particular class), and ‘teachers’ is plural form (of a noun of a particular class); and the difference between singular forms and plural form is semantically relevant: ... • What are the grammatical and semantic features of each verb and how are they similar and different in terms of these features? • What are their synonyms and idioms? • What are the implications...
Ngày tải lên: 06/04/2013, 08:43
A new approach to semantic and syntactic functions of English adjectives – A contrastive analysis with their Vietnamese equivalents
... implications 2.2.2 Gradable and non- gradable adjectives According to L G Alexander (1988, 108) adjectives can be also divided into gradable and non- gradable Gradable adjectives mean a large class ... should be washed everyday Nguyễn Thị Nga K 1 1A 19 Graduation paper 2.2.5 Exclamatory adjective sentence An adjective as head of an adjective phrase or as its sole realization can be an exclamation: ... features of contrastive analysis in learning a foreign language which has particular effect on analyzing a language and its equivalents in other languages and then the author would like to make...
Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 14:46
ENTRY STRATEGY INTO VIETNAMESE ENVIRONMENTAL MARKET A CASE STUDY OF ALTECH ENVIRONMENT PTE LTD
... dishwater, as well as a variety of chemicals if it comes from an industrial or commercial area It also carried microorganisms that may cause disease and organic material that can damage lakes and streams ... Vietnam normalized diplomatic relations with the United States, became a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and, thereby, of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), and signed ... environment and its natural resources 3.2.3 Environmental management in Vietnam Environmental protection and management is high on the political agenda of Vietnam National strategies and plans have been...
Ngày tải lên: 22/04/2013, 14:21
A CFD analysis on the effect of ambient conditions on the hygro-thermal stresses distribution in a planar ambient airbreathing PEM fuel cell
... hydration and avoidance of water flooding in the cathode catalyst layer and/or gas diffusion layer [2] Water management is related with air supply to the cathode and is one of the crucial factors in an ... computational fluid dynamics model of a planar air-breathing PEM fuel cell has been developed and used to investigate the cell at varying ambient temperature and relative humidity Detailed analyses ... mechanical, thermal, and electrical contact between the central parts of the gas diffusion backing and Membrane-Electrode-Assembly (MEA) 2.2 Model equations 2.2.1 Air and fuel gas flow In natural...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58
A CFD analysis of transport phenomena and electrochemical reactions in a tubular-shaped PEM fuel cell
... would be proprietary in nature and very limited data are available in the open literature There are several reasons that make the tubular design more advantageous than the planar one for medium ... molar oxygen fraction at the catalyst layer At a tubular shape, the oxygen mole fraction variation is low enough not to cause diffusive limitations, whereas at a planar shape the concentration ... place It can be seen that for a planar shape, a high fraction of the current is generated at the catalyst layer that lies beneath the air inlet area, leading to under-utilization of the catalyst...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58
A contrastive analysis of metaphorical lexis and collocation in english and vietnamese economics discourse
... as a failure to activate suitable metaphors at the conceptual level a failure to assimilate the new to the already existing Many of todays standard meaning of words and expressions began as ... neuropsychological standpoint, metaphor has been seen as playing an essential role in memory organisation (Rohrer, 199 5a) , and it has also been argued that there is no real boundary between normal and metaphorical ... inadequate models In the study, we will accept the data analysis approach proposed by Selinger and Shohamy (2000), that is data obtained from descriptive researchs are generally analysed with the aid...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 12:58
A contrastive analysis of passive voice between english and vietnamese
... specific grammatical characteristics These are two reasons why this paper has the title of A contrastive analysis of passive voice between English and Vietnamese There are several studies of the passive ... Vietnamese The comprehensive research here means the approach from all three related aspects: syntax, semantics, and pragmatics In addition, as the title of thesis has implied, contrastive analysis ... oppositions are characterizable in terms of certain syntactic and semantic features As a point of departure, the active passive opposition is characterized at the sentence- level as a system of correlation...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 12:58
A comparative analysis of institutions, national policies, and cooperative responses to floods in Asia
... in all IFA activities Invaluable organisation and administration support was provided by Phimphakan Lebel, Drinya Totrakool from USER, Thailand and Sergei Barkov, Marya Schaskolskaya, Galina Zukova ... Social and Environmental Research, Chiang Mai University, Thailand supaporn@sea-user.org KUNAPHINUM Atiwan, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Thailand atiwan@adpc.net LE Nguyen Van, Dyke Management, ... Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Iran, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Pakistan; floods are at the top of disaster reduction agenda in the Asian Russia as well 3.1.2 Who and what should be at...
Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2013, 10:15
a discourse analysis of opening and closing speeches by masters of ceremonyon reality television showsin american english versus vietnames
... Informal Language in AOSs and VOSs Based on the data, a large number of vocabularies used in AOSs are informal contractions and slangs Contraction is defined by Oxford Advanced Learner Dictionary ... social and psychological factors that influence communication” Hoa (2000) stated that “discourse analysis as a study of how and for 10 what purposes language is used in a certain context and ... from Latin That is why formal spoken language has many features very similar to written texts, particularly absence of vernacular vocabulary and slang, as well as the employment of rhetorical devices...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 12:41
A discourse analysis of economic export contracts in english and vietnamese
... fruitful data analysis, at first, asks for a good management of qualitative and quantiative data because there is a fact that data not only prove 29 theories, they are able to generate and supplyment ... theory as well Below are the main procedures for data analysis: - The data analysis was based on the quantitative and the qualitative data to point out the main layout, lexical choice and syntax ... Company (VINACAFE) locates on Km7, 27th National Way, Hoa Thang Ward Buon Ma Thuot City, Daklak province, Vietnam - Rothfos Corporation at 10 Bank St, White Plains, NY 10606, USA - ARMAJARO Trading...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:26