... and increased incidence of chronic bronchitis in women and acute respiratory infections in children In addition, evidence is now emerging of links with a number of other conditions, including ... capacity of the lung, resulting in increased residence time of inhaled particles, including microorganisms In situ detoxification, the main mechanism of defense in the deepest non-ciliated portions of ... to develop ways of determining pollution exposure, a measure combining the number of people, the level of pollution, and the amount of time spent breathing it, as an indicator of where the health...
... credit assessment institutions, but also other credit quality assessment sources, including the in- house credit assessmentsystemsof national central banks, the internal ratings-based systemsof ... early warning system that could identify problems of calibration in a rating For an exposition of discriminatory power measures in the context of the assessmentof performance of a rating source ... rating of “A”, as issued by the major international rating agencies In its assessmentof the credit quality of collateral, the ECB has always taken into account, inter alia, available ratings...
... purposes, including drinking water supply, washing, bathing, transportation, fishing, and, in recent years, gold mining Although, importantly, gold mining contributes 19.4% to 29.1% of the annual ... Control of Drinking Water (Appendix I: Drinking Water Quality Conditions) Health Ministry of Indonesia (in Indonesian) Regine, MB., Gilles, D., Yannick, D., Alain, B 2006 Mercury distribution in fish ... Sampling Points Main river Tributary Bar columns indicated averages of mercury concentrations; Lines indicated minimum and maximum of mercury concentrations Figure Total mercury concentrations in...
... been joined over the past decade by a small, but growing number of academics interested inveterinary medicine Unfortunately, their writings tend to link the beginning of ‘modern’ animal medicine ... Animals and Medicine at the Time of the Founding of the Royal Veterinary College’ in A.R Mitchell (ed.), History of the Healing Professions, (London, 1993), p.19 E Cotchin, The Royal Veterinary College: ... the advent of ‘professional’ veterinary training.9 The title From Farriery to Veterinary Medicine 1785–1795, for example, suggests that the foundation of the London Veterinary College in 1791 was...
... databases Then we introduce the notion of object orientation in database systems, which is applied to characterize the engineering database systems investigated in the remainder of this section ... ui in (u,, , us] Ui:= ui * T; 2.3 Scaling An important concept in viewing geometric objects on a computer display is varying the size in form of scaling (or stretching) Vertices (as endpoints ... model of the robot and its surrounding workspace in order to simulate the assembly operation Figure is a schematic rendering of an off-line integrated robotics programming system according to...
... appearing in the inset of the figure The b-curve, showing the lowest in nitesimal control coefficient in the reference state, results in greater increases in flux for moderate or high values of ri increase ... allosteric interaction is eliminated in such a way that the starting values of the concentrations and fluxes remain unaltered In Fig 6, we represent the effect of eliminating the feedback inhibition of ... determined from data obtained by changing the concentration of the linking intermediate and measuring the corresponding rates of the modules (i.e from module rates versus S data) Changes in the intermediate...
... below The background information and rationale behind these findings are detailed in the full report The original statement of task for Task included ''and the rationale for using methyl salicylate ... small size of the Natick sampler enables testing under the suit without incurring a number of disadvantages (outlined in Chapter 4) that would be incurred with active sampler pumps either inside ... the original paper book, not from the original typesetting files Page breaks are true to the original; line lengths, word breaks, heading styles, and other typesetting-specific formatting, however,...
... three-year site assessment Working on these state farms Introduction the smallholders received training in planting, maintaining and tapping the trees, which they could adopt later when planting rubber ... and income diversification of the farmers are mainly unknown Historically, heavy governmental promotion of rubber already occurred in the Chinese province Yunnan bordering with Laos Beginning in ... • Village points: Village points were collected in 2005 in a GPS survey of the NSC during the population census • Provincial capitals: The layer indicating the provincial capitals of Laos is provided...
... the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), of which Cambodia is a signatory, ensures “the rights to protection of health and safety in working conditions, including the ... comprehensive training in dealing with difficult/intoxicated customers is provided to all beer promoters prior to them starting work A comprehensive sales training package combining safe selling skills, ... appears to play an influential role in the dissemination of STI information with 25% of respondents citing radio, television, newspaper and magazines as their key sources of STI information Do you...
... represents a first step in the complex task of assessing the quality of intelligence reports In this paper we focused on coverage perhaps the most important aspect in determining which single report to ... access to the information sources used by the analysts This limitation is inherent to the domain, and will necessarily impact the assessmentof coverage, since we have no means of determining whether ... rank This simple baseline is surprisingly effective, outperforming the worst human judge in seven out of eight scenarios, and doing better than the average individual in two of them System Performance...
... system or task-specific Training and education Method of training Amount of training The closed-loop methodology of planning, measuring, executing, assessing, and adjusting is central to the TO-BE ... shortfalls in organizational structure, information systems and tools, and training and education A node is a point of intersection, within a larger infrastructure, at which the integration of processes ... creates an internal demand for using available technology in a more TO-BE manner, resulting in gains in quality and timeliness of information Case Study Findings During both TF04 and AC04, almost...
... points following infection with varying MOIs Analysis of recombinant protein production in these samples will indicate how much virus is needed to obtain maximal yield after a given time of infection ... as neomycin or hygromycin, positive transfectants can be selected in media containing the corresponding antibiotic Induction of gene amplification using glutamine synthetase22 or dihydrofolate ... constructs in cell lines or transgenic mice offers the advantage of determining the function of regulatory elements after integration into the genome and assimilation into chromatin i p j Laybourn...
... distinct initial points are shifted in time t into distinct points for For a given parameter value k ∈ K and an initial state x ∈ X, the ω-limit set ω(x, k) is the set of all limit points of f ... each point “a bundle” of ε-motions, {ϕ(t)}, t ≥ going out from this point (ϕ(0) = x) under given value of parameter k The totality of all ω-limit points of these ε-motions (of limit points of all ... of continuity of the dependencies ω(x, k), ω(k), Ω(x, k), Ω(k) Let us introduce convergences in spaces of sets and investigate the mappings continuous with respect to them One notion of continuity,...
... evaluation of instruments includes item selection and multitrait scaling, internal consistency of items that combine into a dimension [17], as well as confirmation of convergent and/or discriminant ... 1) assessmentof the responsiveness to treatment of selected RDQ scales; 2) assessmentof the concordance between RDQand physician-generated ratings of disease severity; and 3) assessmentof ... translated into Norwegian and Swedish according to international principles [10] The translators met with members of the RDQ survey team to maintain content and clarity of the questionnaire As part of...
... assessmentofveterinarymedicinesin the terrestrial environment 3) Effects assessmentofveterinarymedicinesin the terrestrial environment 4) Exposureassessmentofveterinarymedicinesin the aquatic ... state of the art in evaluating the impacts of human medicines on nontarget species in aquatic ecosystems (Williams 2006) Medicines used in both veterinary and human medicine have been a focus of ... Studies into the Entry, Fate, and Transport ofVeterinaryMedicinesin Aquatic Systems 62 4.3.1 Aquatic Exposure to VeterinaryMedicines Used to Treat Livestock 62 4.3.1.1 Leaching...
... Amoxicillin, ampicillin, penicillin G, benzylpenicillin Dihydrostreptomycin, neomycin, apramycin Tylosin, spiramycin, erythromycin, lincomycin Enrofloxacin Trimethoprim Tiamulin Ivermectin, doramectin, ... 8 VeterinaryMedicinesin the Environment veterinarymedicines However, taken together these data sets are likely to reflect the general picture of usage ofveterinarymedicinesin Europe, ... nonprescribed veterinarymedicines will be unused and unwanted by the end user The principal end users ofveterinarymedicines are veterinarians, livestock producers, and domestic users Disposal of veterinary...
... ASSESSMENT (ERA) OFVETERINARYMEDICINES Over the last decades, the environmental safety of medicinal products has gained increasing prominence not only in the scientific community but also in ... divided by an assessment for veterinarymedicines used into the so-called aquatic and terrestrial branches In the aquatic branch, any veterinary medicine intended for use in open systems is directed ... disposal for unused veterinarymedicines reads, “Unused medicines should be disposed ofin accordance with national requirements.” The storage and handling ofveterinarymedicinesin manure from treated...
... (SETAC) ExposureAssessmentofVeterinaryMedicinesin Aquatic Systems 4.3.1.3 65 Predicting Exposure Guidelines are available on how to assess exposure to livestock medicinesin aquatic systems (International ... 359-696 ExposureAssessmentofVeterinaryMedicinesin Aquatic Systems TABLE 4.3 Input data on chemical and physical parameters ofveterinarymedicines used in modeling exercises (continued on ... efficacy in reducing aquatic exposures to veterinarymedicines Overall, the development ofexposureassessment methods for veterinarymedicines is an ongoing process that will require continuous refinement...
... affecting the bioavailability and trophic transfer ofveterinarymedicinesin aquatic systems 5) Studies to examine influences of enantiomer-specific fate and effects of racemic veterinarymedicines ... classes ofveterinarymedicines can concentrate in aquatic sediments (see Chapter 4) This clearly is an important observation in terms of ascertaining the overall fate and transport ofveterinarymedicines ... 98 VeterinaryMedicinesin the Environment The chapter includes a critical evaluation of the state ofveterinary medicine aquatic hazard assessment, and a characterization of available information...