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... University College London Press McCabe, JT 2002 Conservation with a human face? Lessons from 40 years of combining conservation and development in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania In ... dealings of tourism income and conservation expenditure for Serengeti and Ngorongoro Sinclair’s peroration in chapter 16 considers the roles of fortress and community conservation and of protected areas, ... implications of human population growth and of anti-poaching enforcement on the one hand, and on the other, of wildlife management areas [WMAs] intended to foster a flow of economic benefits from conservation...

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... vacancies or confined within quantum dots in nanocrystals region On the other hand, the excited electrons can transfer from the valance band to the new levels that exist upper of the conduction band introduced ... comprising titania and alumina, and its realization within the present films is notable consideration that no attempts were made to control the size of the nanocrystals Conclusions Fig Optical Raman ... distance between the substrate and the target was about cm The silicon substrates were ultrasonically cleaned by acetone and de-ionized water Afterward the silicon substrates were immersed in...

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... urbanization and greening policies 61 5.2.2 Concentric and directional landscape analyses and change intensity 62 5.2.3 Interpretation of landscape indices 63 CHAPTER SIX: THERMAL ENVIRONMENTAL ... study, comprising the concentric and directional landscape metric analysis and change intensity analysis, derivation of LST and its relationship with land use change, and the measurement of urban ... system largely conformed to the Anderson classification standard (Jensen, 2005) and the Chinese land use system (Chinese Current Land Use Classification, 2007) For thermal environment change analysis,...

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... and their functional implications 3089 Risk-associated BRCA1 mutations and their functional implications spontaneous recombination or ‘hyper-recombination’, they showed that transfection of MCF7 ... compilation ª 2010 FEBS 3095 Risk-associated BRCA1 mutations and their functional implications Hamilton TC (1996) Microscopic benign and invasive malignant neoplasms and a cancer-prone phenotype ... mutations may also share common functions and respond to similar therapeutic strategies Furthermore, targeting functions of BRCA1 mutants that probably contribute to premalignancy, cancer initiation...

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... Dollarization also has both advantages and disadvantages impacts on Vietnam’s economy My graduation project aims to discover how dollarization impacts on Vietnam’s accounting system and economy, ... Limitation CHAPTER 37 FINDING AND ANALYSIS 4.1 The Impacts of Dollarization on Accounting System and Economy of Vietnam 4.1.1 The Impacts of Dollarization on Accounting System 38-42 4.1.2 The Impacts ... assumption only as far as the local hyperinflationary currency is concerned as implemented under HCA on the existing real value of all non-monetary items (variable and constant real value non-monetary...

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... scavengers used that only the generation of 1O2 is responsible for the photooxidation effects The role of active oxygen scavengers in the protection of the structure and function of the photosystems ... fractions illuminated with strong light at °C for different time duration All experimental conditions are given in Experimental procedures particles during strong illumination The reactioncenter ... perturbations involved altered pigment–protein and protein–protein interaction, contributing to the observed decreased efficiency of energy migration and capture, and leading to Chl degradation Experimental...

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... DICK IMMIGRATION: ECONOMIC IMPACT ON AMERICAN WORKERS AND THEIR WAGES Monday, August 14, 2006 U.S House of Representatives Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Committee on Education and the Workforce ... statement on the issue at hand, which is the issue of illegal immigration and its economic impact on American workers and their wages The economy of every nation is greatly affected by human capital ... Subcommittee on Workforce Protections will now come to order We are meeting today to hear testimony on Immigration: Economic Impact on American Workers and their Wages Without objection, the record...

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... the functional values of x and at least one of the functional values of x is strictly better than the functional value of x [4] The Pareto optimal set consists of all non-dominat‐ ed solutions ... are randomly selected and their contents are exchanged The mutation operator acts in the production center array as shown in Figure 8(d), where a gene (position i) is randomly selected and replaced ... move and m+1 ' consider M m+1 as the current solution (and come back to N1 in the next iteration) Other‐ wise, since none of the neighborhoods contain a solution better that the current one,...

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... of this analysis, one can conclude that ammonia molecules are placed in the on- top position on graphene/Ni(111) with the lone-pair toward carbon atoms and N-H bonds along C-C bond of the graphene ... are T, on- top; B, on- bond; and C, center and are marked by the corresponding capital letters in Figure There are up to 42 and 16 possible configurations of H2O and NH3, respectively, on top of ... results demonstrate the controllable way of the graphene functionalization by water and ammonia The corresponding adsorbate-induced states in the region of the unoccupied valence band states...

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... Bohner and A Peterson, Dynamic Equations on Time Scales: An Introduction with Applications, An introduction with application, Birkh¨ auser, Boston, Mass, USA, 2001 a M Bohner and A Peterson, Advances ... the National Natural Science Foundation of China 10771118 , the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province ZR2009AM011 , and the Science Foundation of the Education Department of Shandong Province, ... Journal of Inequalities and Applications 11 where C is a constant, F : Tk × R × R → R is a continuous function, and U : Tk × R → R, H : Tk × R → R are also continuous functions Example 4.1 Assume...

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... fg and the composition of functions g ◦ f are nonnegative nondecreasing functions on 0, ∞ So we need to prove that these functions satisfy 2.2 Let a > 0, then from 2.2 , there exists a constant ... 2.3 Let f be a nontrivial function in H Then for each t > 0, f t > Proposition 2.5 H is a convex cone which is stable by product and composition of functions Proof Let f, g ∈ H and λ ≥ First, ... function fα t : t/ t α belongs to the set F For λ > and ≤ α ≤ 1, the function fα,λ t : t1−α log λtα belongs to the set F The function f t : arctan t belongs to the set F Indeed, the function f...

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... measure, Hausdorff dimension, packing measure, packing dimension, Minkowski contents, box dimensions, and modified box dimensions Let U be a nonempty subset of Rn As usual, one may define the diameter ... helpful comments and a careful reading of the manuscript D.-C Chang and Y Xu 17 References [1] K Falconer, Fractal Geometry: Mathematical Foundations and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, ... meausre μ on Rn Haase [8] studies the dimension of product measures in terms of dim and Dim, here we discuss the case in terms of δ and Dim In this section, we will restrict discussion to R2...

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... may be responsible for the death This sense of guilt and selfcondemnation can result in depression and other PTSD symptoms and can affect professional identity and nursing skills and duties [6] ... envelopes and distributed to each respondent individually The respondents themselves sealed their responses in the envelopes before submission Consent to the survey was assumed on the part of respondents ... perception of suicide’, ‘Patient suicide’, ‘Current on- site support systems’, and ‘About yourself’ Each section has roughly ten subsections In addition, each subsection contains roughly ten questions...

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... persons with other chronic conditions This study has limitations and strengths First, to minimize attrition and control for the effects of increased attention, participants randomized to the FME ... Health: A Report of the Surgeon General Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Atlanta 1996 12 Fontaine KR, Haaz S: Effects ... attention and social support Moreover, by providing a minimal intervention, as opposed to a standard care control, we anticipated enhancing retention The final session of FME presented information on...

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... competent at that time, and provisory consent was requested among the relatives and confirmed by the patient once his/her condition had recovered Intervention Intervention consisted of delivering ... analysis, and manuscript preparation J-PR contributed to the conception and design of the study, clinical investigation, interpretation of data, data analysis, and manuscript preparation CP contributed ... citation purposes) Critical Care Vol 12 No Berger et al Authors' contributions MMB contributed to the conception and design of the study, clinical investigation, data collection, data analysis, and...

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... nanoring colloid based on the vortex domain structure was developed by micromagnetic simulation and subsequently experimental demonstration Compared with the conventional ferrofluid containing superparamagnetic ... (104-106 Hz, midfrequency band), region III (106-108 Hz, high frequency band), region IV (108-1010 Hz, microwave frequency band) and region V (>1010 Hz, extremely high frequency band) Note that the eddy ... theory, based on the well known Landau-Lifshitz equation, has been found experimentally and theoretically to yield an accurate description of the time evolution of spin configuration With the help...

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... group 1.1 Applications of Carlsson’s Construction 1.1 Applications of Carlsson’s Construction There are several applications of Carlsson’s construction Firstly, Carlsson’s construction is a simplicial ... character On one hand, we provide a deep conceptual explanation of Carlsson’s construction and its geometric realization On the other hand, we compute in detail the mod homology of Carlsson’s construction ... Carlsson’s construction on the 3-sphere acting on itself by conjugation Example 7.1.2 Let S act on itself with the conjugation action The cohomology of the nerve of its Carlsson construction with...

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... deforestation, intervention by the scientific community, shifting public opinion towards forest 10 conservation, and obligations to international conventions The concepts of biodiversity 11 conservation ... international aid to assist performing its obligations under treaties and conventions such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), the Convention on Wetlands of ... knowledge and implement conservation measures (Loreau et al., 2001) Frequent changes in wildlife and forestry regulations, designation of protected areas, and joining international conventions on conservation...

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... 2.2.1.3 Nogo-C constructs 39 iii 2.2.1.4 Reticulon and constructs (RTN1 and 2) 2.2.1.5 Reticulon constructs (RTN3) 2.3 40 2.2.1.6 Caspr and Caspr constructs 2.2.2 39 41 Molecular cloning procedure ... in the paranodal region, and that it interacts with the neuronal axonglial junction protein Caspr Nogo-A’s interaction with Caspr implied a function at the axon-glial junction, but comparative ... to contain the wound site and confine inflammation and cellular degeneration (Faulkner et al., 2004), also inevitably act as a mechanical barrier that prevents axonal growth and reconnection (Ramón,...

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... atropine and pirenzepine on BrdU incorporation was compared with non-treated controls and found to inhibit DNA synthesis of SF from non-myopic control and myopic eyes 42 Atropine caused reduction ... refraction (Fischer et al, 1999) Local application of the dopamine agonist, apomorphin blocked the axial elongation that ordinarily follows visual deprivation in chick and in rhesus monkey (Stone ... generated by alternative splicing and removal of the entire second coding exon is only 60 amino acids long (6.7 Kd) elicits only minimal fibroblast proliferation and antagonises the effect of full length...

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