growth of global protected areas over time a

... Hiraoka, A Izadi-Najafabadi, T Yamada, D.N Futaba, S Yasuda, O Tanaike, H Hatori, M Yumura, S Iijima, K Hata, Adv Funct Mater 20, 422 (2010) K Hata, D.N Futaba, K Mizuno, T Namai, M Yumura, S ... protection of Ar and H2 Characterization Experimental Preparation of Catalyst Film by ALD Method Silicon wafer (with 700 nm SiO2 layer) coated with 10-nmthick Al2O3 by e-beam evaporation and quartz ... that the Fe catalyst film was coated onto all the surfaces of the substrate Thus, uniform catalyst films on all surfaces of substrate can be deposited by ALD, which provides a facile way to prepare...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... Gravel R, Béland Y: The Canadian Community Health Survey: Mental Health and Wellbeing Can J Psychiatry 2005, 50:573-579 American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ... MDE and be lower than lifetime prevalence was not confirmed by the analysis The accumulation of cases over this relatively brief interval of time substantially exceeded accepted values for lifetime ... emphasis should perhaps be reversed so that the instruments can obtain a valid and detailed assessment of current mental health status and then assess past history using a smaller number of items...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... Organization for Standardization, 2008 [2] ASHRAE Handbook of Fundamentals, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and AirConditioning Engineers, Atlanta, USA, 2009 [3] Papakostas K.T Estimation ... Data from Monthly-Average Temperatures ASHRAE J 1983, 25(6), 60-5 Papakostas K., Bentoulis A. , Bakas V., Kyriakis N Estimation of ambient temperature bin data from monthly average temperatures and ... differences are discussed Temperature data analysis 2.1 Air temperature Average temperature is a prime climate indicator and the basis for calculations of heating and cooling energy demand [1] or...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... the boundaries known and demarcated? Integration of the MPA in a larger coastal management plan – Is the MPA part of a larger coastal management plan? a The MPA is part of a network of MPAs which ... MANUAL PARA LA EVALUACIÓN DE LA EFICIENCIA DE MANEJO DEL PARQUE NACIONAL GALÁPAGOS – SPNG 119 27 MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT WITH RELEVANT INDICATORS OF PROTECTED AREAS OF THE GUIANAS (MARIPA-G) ... and Watamu Marine National Parks and Reserves, and Kiunga Marine National Reserve), Tanzania (Mafia Island and Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Parks) and Seychelles (Cousin Island Special Reserve)...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20

... defines a protected area as an area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed ... Summary of relative advantages and disadvantages of in situ and ex situ strategies (Adapted from Maxted et al., 1997.) Strategy Advantages Disadvantages Ex situ Greater diversity of target taxa ... i.e transboundary management, collaborative management (various forms of pluralist influence) or joint management (pluralist management board); Private protected areas – Protected areas managed...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 16:20

... mat was placed in the middle of the course to measure spatial and temporal gait parameters Participants walked over the mat on each pass of the 30 m course Gait speed and temporal symmetry ratio ... final manuscript Acknowledgements We thank C Arasaratnam, H Cheung and B Lakhani for their assistance with data collection This research was supported by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario ... for categorical variables and Wilcoxon-Mann-Witney test for non-parametric variables Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05 Values expressed are mean ± standard deviation Results Clinical...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... data ASB and YPS performed the synthesis of CNTs IK and AP analyzed the data and wrote the article BKT and MS carried out the TEM and Raman measurements All authors read and approved the final ... Shaman†1,2, Ivan Komissarov1, Alena L Prudnikava*1, Beng Kang Tay3, and Maziar Shakerzadeh3 Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, P Brovki 6, Minsk 220013, Republic of ... technological approach does not contain any additional calcinations or reduction step after the catalyst preparation Besides, catalyst preparation process is consuming a lot less time; the elimination of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... System diagram Rate, ri acceptable delay in transmission of the frame The transmission delay τ is defined as the amount of time it takes to transmit T coding units over a channel with a certain bandwidth ... streams Each tile stream is comprised of a tile header and a stream of packets The stream of packets is a packetized version of the compressed data [15] Finally, the bitstream is concluded with a ... 2.3, the time- varying nature of the channels was modeled using a first-order AR process The value of the parameter in (4) was a = 0.5 The nature of the channel by way of the channel characteristic...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... (gold salts, antimalarial, methotrexate (MTX), LEF, sulfasalazine cyclosporine A, aTNF and others), the following covariates were also analyzed: age at disease onset, age at baseline, gender, years ... collection of data All of the authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript Additional file An image file containing a graph of reasons for discontinuation during follow-up among therapies ... weighted estimating equations models The baseline DAS28-3 was associated with a significant progression of DAS28-3 and Larsen score (Table 2) In addition, extra-articular RA was also associated with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... relevant To create an appropriate sample, defining features of the CPG (e.g., topic, modality of care, disease site) are matched with professional characteristics of clinicians held in a comprehensive ... characteristics and clinician beliefs and attitudes are associated with these trends Methods Context The Cancer Care Ontario Program in Evidence-based Care (PEBC) in Ontario, Canada, a provincial CPG cancer ... perceptions of the acceptability and suitability of the recommendations, belief that they would yield more benefits than harms, and anticipated acceptance of recommendations by patients and colleagues...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... relevant To create an appropriate sample, defining features of the CPG (e.g., topic, modality of care, disease site) are matched with professional characteristics of clinicians held in a comprehensive ... characteristics and clinician beliefs and attitudes are associated with these trends Methods Context The Cancer Care Ontario Program in Evidence-based Care (PEBC) in Ontario, Canada, a provincial CPG cancer ... perceptions of the acceptability and suitability of the recommendations, belief that they would yield more benefits than harms, and anticipated acceptance of recommendations by patients and colleagues...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... duration at the time of each visit were reported in years Disease dura- Page of tion was calculated from the date of physician diagnosis of SLE to the date of each visit Disease activity at each ... measurements of these variables in 1,260 patients with SLE, followed up on average for 9.3 years In total, a large dataset of 26,267 individual data points was used in analysis of variability and correlates ... that better capture cumulative exposure to these risk factors over time Abbreviations ACR: American College of Rheumatology; ANOVA: analysis of variance; BP: blood pressure; CAD: coronary artery...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:22

... Critical Care Vol No Viallon et al start of treatment, when available, although cytochemical CSF parameters appear to be little modified by appropriate antibiotic treatment [16] A marker that can ... basis of in vitro bacterial sensitivity to antibiotics, bacteriological analysis of CSF samples drawn 48–72 hours after treatment initiation, and clinical course The nature and duration of antibiotic ... antibiotic treatment, and any modifications to this, were recorded Mortality and sequelae were assessed at 30 days Statistical analysis Results are expressed as mean ± standard deviation or as median (interquartile...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... Domitớlia Faria, Ana Paula Fonseca, Paula Proen a, Telo Faria, Fausto Roxo, Gra a Amaro, Ricardo Abreu, Isabel Neves, Rui Sarmento e Castro, Josefina Mendez, Teresa Cabral, Antúnio Silva Gra a, Leon ... Lampreia, Antúnio Dinis, Ana Mineiro, Isabel Batista, Josộ Vera, Ana Galiano, Luớs Tavares, Sofia Pinheiro, Maria Joóo guas, Jỳlio Botas, Josộ Poỗas, Ana Paula Brito, Carlos Santos, Domitớlia ... didanosine, lamivudine, stavudine, abacavir, emtricitabine, tenofovir, nevirapine, delavirdine, efavirenz, saquinavir, indinavir, nelfinavir, amprenavir, lopinavir (boosted-), atazanavir and atazanavir...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 06:20

... The main drainage of the hand is along the palmar surface leading through larger vessels towards the basilica vein The lymphatic vessels draining the antero – lateral aspect of the arm drain across ... to adequately stage the spread of any metastatic spread and also for the treatment of invasive breast carcinoma This can be carried out by sentinel node biopsy (SNB) or axillary node clearance ... MCP – metacarpal phalangeal MLD – manual lymphatic drainage NHS – National Health Service NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence NLN – National Lymphedema Network RCT – randomised...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 21:42

... Maruyama, T Shiraiwa, N Fujita, Y Kawamura, S Naritsuka, M Kusunoki, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 45 (2006) 7231–7233 [75] T Maruyama, H Bang, Y Kawamura, N Fujita, K Tanioku, T Shiraiwa, ... et al [105] demonstrated a rational approach to Fig SEM image of (a) carbon nanobumps initially formed on the surface of the acid-treated flake graphite, TEM images of (b) a typical nanobumps and ... silicate, CaSiO3 was shown to have the ability to catalyze CNT growth on a pyrolytic graphite paper tape [92] The authors proposed that the role of silicate is similar to that of a transition metal and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/10/2015, 23:11

... Chicago, IL, USA), separately for western and Chinese medicine Our data analysis Analysis of THS data were conducted without imputation of missing data We focused our multivariate data analysis ... medicine’: an analysis of pharmacist consultations in primary care Fam Pract 2000, 17(6):480-3 Hassell K, Rogers A, Noyce P: Community pharmacy as a primary health and self-care resource: a framework ... medical professionals is a dominant factor in defining, controlling and scoping the work of the allied health professionals [21,22] as extending pharmacists’ role in primary care may affect the autonomy...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... Staphylococcus aureus as a delegate of gram positive cocci, Serratia marcescens as a delegate of gram negative rods, Bacillus cereus as a delegate of gram positive rods, and Candida albicans as ... standard strain ATCC13880 and clinical isolates (N4, N5) of Serratia marcescens, the standard strain ATCC11778 and clinical isolates (H1, H2, H3) of Bacillus cereus, and the standard strain ATCC10231 ... Inc.), and were used as the base solutions (AT1V and AT2V) The compositions of AT1V and AT2V are also shown in Table The pH value and OPR of AT1V are 5.5 and approximately 5, and those of AT2V are...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39

... geographical area and followed up to the age of and 10 years The study includes medical record examination and a ‘spectral analysis’ in remaining and non-remaining cases at the age of ten of asthma ... the expanding diagnostic arsenal and, not the least, a new range of pharmaceuticals are notable, leaving us with a set of established diagnosis as the dependant data of the study However, according ... in an Asthma diagnosis reassessment by parental questionnaire at the age of 349 ten of the children earlier having been identified with a hospital or primary health care diagnosis of asthma at...

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