for accurate response to major incidents and disasters

... Variability among the lines was specific to esters and ketones, while the responses of the lines to these odorants were negatively correlated with their response to lactic acid Such odorant specific ... ethanol and larval responses to this chemical Studies with ADH null strains also indicate an association between ADH , PENCE activity and both larval response to ethanol (PARSONS & S 1981) and oviposition ... by FuYmvtn (1978) in the case of esters and ketones There is no correlation between olfactory responses to ethanol and the metabolirelated acetic acid and acetaldehyde, suggesting that ethanol...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... profits and to have access to a broader range of skills The use of contract consultants is increasing, even clients and investors are much less sensitive to the use of contractors today and the ... wouldn’t have to be a world class sales person to attract many customers Now try selling $5 bills for $10 and see how good your sales skills need to be to sell just one! YOUR proposition needs to be ... path to success? Tip 17 Read the latest industry reports; go to Top-Consultant.com and find out where recruitment demand is; your research on what clients need NOW to help them survive and engineer...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 16:20

... the school and the community and also making them understand the various First Aid and Search and Rescue techniques and also on the role of government, NGOs and others in managing disasters Those ... of the land mass is susceptible to seismic hazard; per cent of the total geographical area is prone to floods; per cent of the total landmass is prone to cyclones; 70 per cent of the total cultivable ... to be designed and constructed as per the building by laws to withstand ground shaking Architectural and engineering inputs need to be put together to improve building design and construction...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22

... profits and to have access to a broader range of skills The use of contract consultants is increasing, even clients and investors are much less sensitive to the use of contractors today and the ... wouldn’t have to be a world class sales person to attract many customers Now try selling $5 bills for $10 and see how good your sales skills need to be to sell just one! YOUR proposition needs to be ... path to success? Tip 17 Read the latest industry reports; go to Top-Consultant.com and find out where recruitment demand is; your research on what clients need NOW to help them survive and engineer...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20

... tolerance in conifers normally is initiated in late summer and fall during acclimation to seasonal changes in photoperiod and temperature [41] Freezing tolerance in western redcedar [9, 45] and ... ecophysiological response of western redcedar and yellow-cedar during the fall, winter and early spring period This study determined the shoot growth pattern, plus photosynthetic and freezing tolerance ... while photosynthesis, shoot growth and freezing tolerance were monitored throughout winter and spring on the low elevation site Within this experimental population, rooted cuttings were randomly...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... nitrate are able to release carboxylates and protons in response to phosphorus deprivation [4, 11, 12, 21, 22] whereas others are not [21] Such variability can also exist in ectomycorrhizal fungi ... growth and the capacities of ectomycorrhizal fungi to release protons and carboxylic anions Nevertheless, such information will be of great importance in determining the potential role of ectomycorrhizal ... mobilization and subsequent P nutrition of the ectomycorrhizal host-plant in soil conditions The objective of this work was therefore to quantify the release of oxalate and/ or protons by six ectomycorrhizal...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... the land is even often at stake: the understorey is invaded by a dense cover of few ’social’ herbaceous species and the forest slowly turns into a heathland compétition / drainage / (Aussenac and ... broad-leaved species, and results are more contrasting, from clear positive effects (Belgrand and Lévy, 1985) to the absence of effect (Kollist, 1975) and even negative effects in young stands (Holstener-Jørgensen ... related to field conditions and to the structure of the stands, it was not possible to obtain a sample which was balanced for all the combinations of the treatments This was also due to the fact...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... [20,21], and the major effect of IL-18 is to increase the IFN-γ-dominant T-cell response induced by IL-12 [21] T cells and NK cells are the major source of IFN-γ in PBMC cultures, and IL-12 and IL-18 ... presence of IL-12 as a contributory factor in inducing the IFN-γ-dominant T-cell cytokine response in joints of patients with longstanding RA [13] IL-18 is a proinflammatory cytokine that plays an important ... classified the patients into two groups according to their age and compared the IFN-γ production by their PBMCs in response to IL-12 and IL-18 The mean age, disease duration, and C-reactive-protein...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... patients Tetanus toxoid vaccine and the 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine were used to assess the impact of abatacept on a memory response to a T-celldependent protein antigen and to a less T-cell-dependent ... baseline) to both tetanus toxoid and 23-valent pneumococcal vaccines 10 Competing interests 12 LT, GV, RR and MC are employees of Bristol-Myers Squibb (Princeton, NJ, USA) and own stock options FL is ... subjects at 14 and 28 days after vaccination ranged from 22% to 69% and from 24% to 68%, respectively Similarly, the decrease in antibody response for subjects in Group D determined at 14 and 28 days...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... Rasid MM, Suliman A, Tohru T, Hitoshi K, Yasutomo T: Effects of 5-aminolevulinic acid to recover salt damage on cotton, tomato, and wheat seedlings in Saudi Arabia J Arid Land Stud 2004, 14:105-113 ... mannitol, ABA and methyl viologen (MV), by extracting total RNA from these plants and performing quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) Compared to untreated plants, 150 mM NaCl, 250 mM mannitol, ... fused to the uidA reporter gene (AtTSPO437::GUS), and transformed into plants, allowing in vivo analysis of AtTSPO transcriptional response to stress conditions AtTSPO-437::GUS was found to be...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... E: Pro-inflammatory cytokines and treatment response to escitalopram in major depressive disorder Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2008, 32(2):445-450 Carrizo E, Fernandez V, Quintero ... exploration and discussion First, the patient’s depression symptoms were timely and closely related to physical symptoms such as pain from the arthritis Secondly, the combination of selective serotonin ... healthy subjects [7] and both disorders are closely related [8] Depression and arthritis may be further linked through common inflammatory pathways, in which cytokines seem to play a major role [8]...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... three years to increase the health workforce training capacity in some lowincome countries; then three to six years are needed to train more nurses and physicians; and, then five to ten years ... true for 'health systems strengthening': to hire a physician and two nurses per thousand people on a US$10 per person per year budget is quite a challenge, and the long-term commitment is required ... 'developed', because they are too poor to finance primary health care with domestic resources alone, was usually not considered The fight for universal access to AIDS treatment and prevention changed...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... combination of detoxification treatment, physical exercise, and manual labor [7,19-22] At the third level, drug users who relapse after receiving compulsory detoxification are mandated to to years of ... main purpose of the compulsory and voluntary detoxification is to reduce demands for drug use, drug related crimes, and injection drug use, which are designed to eventually reduce HIV transmission ... Sahai H, Marrero CA, Matos DT, et al: Effects of combined counseling and case management to reduce HIV risk behaviors among Hispanic drug injectors in Puerto Rico: A randomized controlled study...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... PToand Prf-mediated host defense responses to infection by Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato Plant J 2002, 32:299-316 Singh KB, Foley RC, Onate-Sanchez L: Transcription factors in plant defense and ... syringae pv tomato and Peronospora parasitica Funct Plant Biol 2003, 30(4):461-469 Thaler JS, Bostock RM: Interactions between abscisic-acidmediated responses and plant resistance to pathogens and insects ... TFs in mediating the responses of canola to S sclerotiorum and phytohormones (Figure 5) Both S sclerotiorum and JA/ET can induce BnWRKY28, 33, and 75 at 24 h post inoculation and possibly activate...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:20

... macrophages via RAGE and/ or Toll-like receptors (TLRs) Together, these processes synergize to stimulate hyperinflammatory responses that ultimately cause severe injury to the host IL-2, interleukin-2 As ... activate nuclear factor-kappa B and upregulate innate immune molecules such as CC-chemokine ligand CCL2 [5] Infected macrophages then release microbial products and engage Toll-like receptors (TLRs) ... activate signaling systems that stimulate hyperinflammatory responses (Figure 1) In conclusion, in polymicrobial sepsis and in response to L monocytogenes, genetic deletion of RAGE is remarkably protective...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... candidate comparator genes in relation to known standards Each gene shown was tested by qRT-PCR on 100 ng RNA from the conditions shown A 10 pM DNA comparator from the cognate gene was used to ... (except Asp f and -23), ranging from ~1.1 to ~3 fold Only Asp f 4, -5 and -10 were induced more than 3-fold, compared to AMM + 1% glucose (Figure 2B) Allergen gene expression in response to complex ... MOI - 1:200 and 1:2000 spores/macrophage The MOI used were chosen to give conditions where both fungus and macrophage were able to grow and remain viable for Fraczek et al Clinical and Molecular...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... cell survival and death in response to ER stress, and other stress conditions 11 Role of CHOP in apoptosis induced by ER stress CHOP is suggested to contribute to enhanced apoptosis by several ... expression changes in response to the different stress conditions Increased CHOP levels due to the absence of inhibitory uORF sensitized the cells to stress-induced apoptosis when compared to the v cells ... confers resistance to apoptosis in response to UV irradiation through activation of NF-κB and induced expression of its target genes (43) ATF4 is differentially regulated in response to various stresses...

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Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2014, 07:22

... transverse shear strains (and hence stresses) and vanishing of transverse shear stresses at the top and bottom of a plate Thus, there is no need to use shear correction factors in a third order shear ... computed stresses and stress resultants, computational efficiency, and ability to handle complex problems such as laminated composite plates with free edges, highly skewed geometry, and cutouts 99 Enhanced ... shell element (Liu and Surana, 1993) and quadrilateral element (Liu and Surana, 1995), bending and buckling problems of composite and functionally graded ceramic metal plates and shells (using...

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