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... tree during 1996 and 1997 Few fir and spruce trees were harvested in autumn 1994 and 1995 Only 137Cs and 40K activities were measured in tree rings as well as separately in needles and in the wooden ... Radionuclide activity and selected element concentrations in honey were determined by gamma-ray spectrometry and the XRF method A standard sample of 300 pollen grains was used for pollen and honey type ... Francis Honey and environmental monitoring in Croatia 163 species, sorption and desorption processes in soil, mineral soil composition, grain size and soil types, lateral cesium migration, and so on...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... Commodity Agreements and Environmental Conservation… WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism and Environmental Conservation Global Environmental Issues ……….…………………………………… Issues and Problems related ... Conservation……… World Summit for Environment ……………….………………………… ODA and Environmental Issues ………………………………………… Trade and ODA …………………………………….…………………… ODA and Environmental Issues …………………….…………………… Problem of ... Trade Debate and Its Implication to Vietnam ………………… Vietnam’s New Membership of WTO …………………………………… 137 3.1.2 3.1.3 3.1.4 3.2 New Politics of Trade and Vietnam ……………………………………… CDM and Vietnam...

Ngày tải lên: 20/04/2014, 20:22

... equation, C stands for Consumption, E stands for Environmental Resources, S stands for Sustainable Level, and OS stands for Original Sustainability - 22 - 1.2 Theories of collective actions and International ... lower and exploited more than private goods Figure 1.2: Supply-Demand Relation for CPRs - 17 - These supply and demand relations can also be illustrated as shown in Figure 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6, ... Cost and Average Revenue Relation (Public Goods) 21 Figure 1.7 Natural Resource Budget Line and Sustainable Level 23 Box 1.1 International Agreement and Game Theory 29 Figure 1.8 Contribution and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2015, 13:26

... studies on gender and leadership style compared the leadership styles of women and men and concluded that some differences existed Eagly and Johnson (1990) found that male and female leaders ... goals and missions of the organisation, and according to Mandell and Pherwani (2003), this awareness enables followers to look beyond their own interests, which subsequently benefits the group and ... cooperation, lower levels of control, collaboration, and collective problem solving and decision-making A recent empirical study of managers by Mandell and Pherwani (2003) confirms this summation, as...

Ngày tải lên: 08/10/2013, 15:56

... Stimulating domestic demand and combating deflation by implementing a sound monetary policy; (7) Expanding the scope of financial service and initiating consumer credit market; and (8) The emergence ... Finance and Banking and China Statistical Year Book V An Outlook of Institutional Reforms in the Coming Years In light of the opportunities and challenges posed by China’s accession to WTO and the ... will be expanded, with its decision-making mechanism improved and direction and intensity rationally decided and timely adjusted In terms of operations, we will increase trading frequency and introduce...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 07:15

... in the United States and included increases in the number of TB cases among adults and children and outbreaks of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) involving patients, HCWs, and correctional-facility ... approximately 300 cases of MDR-TB and included transmission of M tuberculosis to patients, HCWs, and correctional-facility inmates and employees in Florida, New Jersey, and New York (18–23 ) These ... protective efficacy and side effects associated with BCG vaccination, considerations and recommendations for the use of BCG vaccine in selected persons, and implementation and surveillance of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... actions affect community banks and their customers In the area of supervision and regulation, the Federal Reserve has a legal mandate to supervise state member banks and bank holding companies This ... small banks by large banks reduces small business lending include Berger and others 2001, Jayaratne and Wolken, and Strahan and Weston 4This classification was made in 1994 based on income data ... Issues in Economics and Finance, August Strahan, Philip, and James Weston 1998 “Small Business Lending and the Changing Structure of the Banking Industry,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... (EDN) and eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) They are RNases with a high sequence identity (66%), a very high content of basic residues and high isoelectric points (pI ¼ 11.9 and 10.4, for EDN and ... Electrostatic interactions and antitumor RNases Fig Correlation between antitumor activity on HL-60 cells (n) and ML-2 cells (h) and the highest negative EIE values for BS-RNase (BS) and RNase A noncovalent ... the two A and B monomers of the dimeric RNase The black circle between the monomers indicates the mass center of the dimer Electrostatic interactions and antitumor RNases r ¼ 180° and i ¼ 90°...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

... half-lives of 22 and 23 h for wild type GAT1 in the absence and presence of dMM, respectively, and of 12 and 5.5 h for the DDN and DDQ mutants, respectively GABA values of NNN treated with dMM, and of ... cells and measurement of GABA-uptake by GFP-tagged GAT1 wild type and mutants in transfected CHO cells (A) Cell surface and intracellular expression of GFP-tagged GAT1 wild type (NNN) and mutants ... many of the physicochemical and biological properties of the proteins, such as protein folding, stability, targeting, dynamics and ligand binding, as well as cell-matrix and cell–cell interactions...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... system, and completely defined over our model of study in a mathematical sense This has been discussed in detail elsewhere in Gigley (1982b; 1983a; 1983b), and Gigley and Duffy (1982) and w i ... McClelland and Rumelhart (1981), and in the connectionist theories applied to visual processing and language parsing (Ballard, 1982; Cottrell, 1983; Feldman, 1982; Small, Cottrell, and Shastri, ... European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, H Trappl (ed.), North-H-oTland, 1982 Gigley, H.M., HOPE AI and the Dynamic Process of Language Behavior Cognition and Brain Theory, 6, l , 1983...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... Qian (1994), Dewatripont and Maskin (1995), Earle and alii (1996), Earle and alii (1997), Berglửf and Roland (1998), Bai and Wang (1998) For an analysis of the shortcomings and measurement errors ... as those which have a positive ex ante demand; on the other hand, those who not demand credit not receive any, and were generally not indebted beforehand In other words, credit distribution appears ... positive demand for credit are, strongly, those which had the worst recent performances in terms of output trend, level of order-books and inventory, identification of financial constraints, and negative...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... companies and to banking regulation and supervision Their importance in the microfinance field is based upon their infrastructure and expertise in disbursing credits and securely collecting and managing ... disclosure of full costs, fees and terms of the products and services, and supply clients with accurate, comparable and transparent information about the cost of loans and the remuneration of savings ... comparable and understandable information should be provided As for the level of the rate, any measures aimed at reducing the costs for the providers in order to expand outreach and give opportunities...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... symbolism of reason, rite, and art (3rd ed.) Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA Bolivar, V.J., Cohen, A.J., and Fentress, J.C (1994) Semantic and formal congruency in music and motion pictures: ... musical and visual accent structure alignment in film and animation Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles Brown, R (1988) Film and classical music In Film and the ... (1979) and Olivier's Hamlet (1948) the music serves at times to make small and/ or artificial spaces seem more grand and to enhance the sense of realism In addition, music can establish a narrative’s...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20

... 5.4, 6.3 and 6.6 citrate/phosphate buffer, pH 7.2 sodium phosphate buffer, pH 8.0, 8.3 and 9.0 bicine/HCl buffer and pH 9.0, 9.5 and 10.0 ethanolamine/ HCl buffer [36] Structural analysis and electrostatics ... moves into the ÔupÕ position and interacts with the substrate and Glu144 This rotation of Asp142 is accompanied by removal of a water molecule and adjustments of Tyr10 and Ser93 that seem to compensate ... study are shown in Fig Asp140, Asp142, Glu144 and Asp215 were mutated individually to asparagine and alanine, Tyr10 and Tyr214 were replaced by Phe, and Ser93 was replaced by alanine All clones...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20

... Carbonell, and J Callan 2000 Creating and evaluating multi-document sentence extract summaries In CIKM 2000 D Harman 2002 Overview of the TREC 2002 novelty track In TREC 2002 W Hildebrandt, B Katz, and ... which resulted in an understanding of a “relationship” as the ability for one object to influence another Objects in these questions can 524 two types (“vital” and “okay”), and this distinction plays ... rapidly, consistently, and automatically assessed However, the recent introduction of P OURPRE, an automatic evaluation metric for the nugget-based evaluation methodology (Lin and Demner-Fushman,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... Grogger and Eide (1993); Blackburn and Neumark (1993, 1995); Murnane, Willett, and Levy (1995); Neal and Johnson (1996); Mulligan (1999); Murnane, Willett, Duhaldeborde, and Tyler (2000); Altonji and ... United States McIntosh and Vignoles (2001) study wages in the United Kingdom and find strong returns to both numeracy and literacy.13 Finnie and Meng (2002) and Green and Riddell (2003) investigate ... knowledge and skills needed to understand and use information from texts including editorials, news stories, poems, and fiction; Document Literacy – the knowledge and skills required to locate and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... McNeely and Scherr (2001) note that under some circumstances, increasing production on more productive lands—such as irrigated areas—can ease the pressure to use more marginal lands for cropland and ... the relationships among water availability and demand, food supply and demand, international food prices, and trade at regional and global levels Globally, 69 percent of all cereal area is rainfed, ... Revolution (1966-75) Three quarters of the more recent adoption took place on rainfed land, and adoption rates for improved varieties of maize and wheat in rainfed environments are approaching...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20

... Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and Northern Africa) and countries (Egypt, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Romania, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Vietnam) Glossary ... Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and Northern Africa) and countries (Egypt, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Romania, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Vietnam) Glossary ... Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and Northern Africa) and countries (Egypt, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Romania, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Vietnam) Glossary...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... hand, and bank and entrepreneurial net worth, on the other The monetary tightening also generates more standard effects on the economy The increase in the nominal rate discourages consumption and ... 2004 R P Kishan and T Opiela Bank size, bank capital, and the bank lending channel Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 32:121–141, 2000 R P Kishan and T Opiela Bank capital and loan asymmetry ... zt = ρz log zt−1 + εzt , (5) where ρz ∈ (−1, 1), and εzt is i.i.d with mean and standard deviation σz Minimizing production costs for a given demand solves the problem {kjt ,hjt ,he ,hb } jt jt...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... cocrystallization and soaking methods, respectively, and determined their tertiary structures We collected X-ray diffraction data for the AD2 E526A and D524A mutants and refined them to ˚ resolutions of 1.80 and ... Bank code 2HVM and 1LLO) (B), ScCTS1 (Protein Data Bank code 2UY2 and 2UY4) (C), SmChiB (Protein Data Bank code 1E15 and 1E6N) (D), CcCTS1 (Protein Data Bank code 1D2K and 1LL4) (E) and BcChiA1 ... diagram is the superimposition of ligand (substrate or inhibitor)-free and ligand-bound structures In (F), only the ligand-free structure is shown because no ligand-bound structure is available The...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 11:20