... livelihood of the people;, and management strategies for the exploitation, development and conservation of the wetland. The multi-level action plan for the conservation of forest wetlands in the MD ... Wetland Bureau, the World Conservation Union, among others on the classification of forest wetlands, the inventory and mapping of wetlands, the mapping, and detailed description of the wetland ’s ... step in the formulation of sustainable strategies in wetland conservation. The inventories provide information on the type and the location of wetland, the economic and ecological value of the...
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THE LAW AND POLICY OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES docx
... iterations since then. The other lawyer present at the Missouri Botanical Gardens conference, Jim Salzman of Duke University School of Law, was of like mind about the importance of getting law on board, ... again, the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Even when we have a catalogue of the activities of most of the partici- pating species, we are far from understanding the effect of changes in the ... characteristic” of ecosystems, and that the order of stability of all of the chemical elements is of course immensely higher than that of an ecosys- tem, which consists of components that are themselves...
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STUDIES ON THE ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION OF BUTTERFLIES IN EUROPE: Vol. 1: General Concepts and Case Studies pptx
... coastal area of the Baltic Sea and all the rest (91; 78%) on the riparian areas of the rivers. The dominating land cover type was meadow with riparian strips of bushes and trees close to the riverbank. ... sites. The presence of the burnet depended mainly on the presence of nectar plants and of nutri- ent-poor dry grasslands in close proximity, while that of the nymphalid depended on larger areas of ... activities, the biology of butterflies is already better understood than that of any other taxon of non-pest insects. From Wallace and Bates in the 19 th century to the ecological geneticists of the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Kininogen-derived peptides for investigating the putative vasoactive properties of human cathepsins K and L docx
... suggests that cathepsin K is a new member of the kininase family. Both the kininogenase activity of cathepsin L and/or the kininase activity of cathepsin K may be favored by the generation of an acidic ... components, which reduces the pH of the pericellular environment of macrophages [20]. This raises the question of the dual behaviour of kininogens complexed with CP. While concentrations of cystatins C, ... by hydrolysis of the Gly-Phe bond (data not shown), but not via the initial production of kinin and the subsequent release of a truncated fragment. These data suggest that human cathepsin K proteolytically...
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market efficiency and market anomalies three essays investigating the opinions and behavior of finance professors both as researchers and as investors
... depending on the complexity of the model (the more complex the model, the better the fit), the size of the sample (the larger the sample, the poorer the fit), and violations of the multi-variate ... related to the number of publications that an author has at the time of the publication of the anomaly and the number of years the author has been in the field. Moreover, the profitability of an ... whether the overall fit of the model is adequate and whether the latent variables are reliably reflected by the observed variables selected to manifest them in the model. The χ 2 from the...
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Báo cáo y học: "In silico evidence for the species-specific conservation of mosquito retroposons: implications as a molecular biomarker" ppt
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific docx
... July 13, the position of the shadow of the satellite is for 8 h 40 m ; July 16, planet unsteady. 93 Colors of the Equatorial Belts. North of the narrow, light rift in the northern part of the north ... regulate the proceedings of the meetings, and to have a general supervision of the affairs of the Society. ARTICLE V. The Secretaries shall keep and have the custody of the records; they shall have the ... they shall have the custody of all other prope rty of the Society, excepting the money thereof; they shall give timely notice 3 Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors, held July 27,...
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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 8: Grover Cleveland, First Term. pptx
... exclusion of Chinese A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 68 Thursday, the 3d of September, being the anniversary of the signing of the treaty of peace at Paris by which the ... Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 12 A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the ... the date of the exchange of ratifications of the same the provisions of Article VIII of the convention of July 29, 1882, between the United States and Mexico, in regard to the resurvey of the boundary...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "The detection and representation of ambiguities of intension and description" pptx
... in the following order: the intensionality of the descrip- tor, the time of reference of the descriptor, and the agents of the descriptor. We must establish the "level" of each ... application of the descrip- tor. The following example shows the representations of the first four readings of (8) (i.e., those with the description applied at the time of the utterance), ... assumption is that since the filler of the role Queen of England is not likely to change within the time of the conversation and the speaker, the hearer, and Nadia are all aware of who fills that...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Introducing the Cancer Microenvironment Section of Journal of Translational Medicine" pot
... espe- cially interested in the publication of discoveries in four areas: 1) Clinical models that allow the characterization of the molecular profile of non-cancer cells in the TME and of their soluble products, ... and outcome of therapy. 4) Laboratory studies of new drugs and biological agents that can target the TME and exert beneficial influ- ences on cancer patients. The focus of this new section of the JTM ... announce the new section of the Journal of Translational Medicine devoted to promoting the field of Cancer Microenviron- ment. A new forum on diagnostic and therapeutic implications of molecular...
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báo cáo hóa học: " A predictive model of Health Related Quality of life of parents of chronically ill children: the importance of care-dependency of their child and their support system" docx
... its family should be the focus of the professional. Also, profession- als should be made aware of the consequences of care for parents during their training. Furthermore, they should be trained ... of the study and asking their participation. Parents decided themselves whether the mother or the father completed the questionnaire. The letter was accom- panied by the questionnaire, an informed ... imputed based on the guidelines of the TAAQOL. In calculation of the scale scores one missing combined-item score was allowed for, the missing score is replaced by the mean value of the non-missing...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Negative impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on the health-related quality of life of patients. Results of the EPIDEPOC study" docx
... volume of sputum or any combination of these symptoms, of acute onset, and requiring a change in the regular medication of the patient [18]. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Foundation ... version of the SF-36 health questionnaire that contains 12 items [9]. These 12 items explain more than 90% of the variance of the phys- ical and mental component scores of the SF-36. From them two ... worsening in their health-related quality of life (HRQoL). However, it has been confirmed that the evalu- ation alone of the severity of COPD, measured by the degree of reduction of the forced...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Impact of recent life events on the health related quality of life of adolescents and youths: the role of gender and life events typologies in a follow-up study" potx
... according to the amount of stress suffered. We calculated both the number of LEs and the Life Change Unit (LCU) score, a summary of the amount of stress inherent to the event and the time elapsed ... impact to be part of a risk group. In addition, the combination of these two LEs seems to be usual. In fact,notonlytheLCUssumscoredeterminetheeffect, it’s the undesirab ility of thes e LEs what ... measures of LEs in order to take into account also their effect in previous HRQoL. Conclusions The experience of LEs did impact the HRQoL of adoles- cents and youths in this sample, although the effect...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Daily physical activity and its contribution to the health-related quality of life of ambulatory individuals with chronic stroke" pot
... in the amount of PA using the PASIPD, after controlling for motor impairment. The dependent variable for the third and fourth regression models was the Mental Composite Score of the HRQL. The ... Mental Composite scores of the SF-36 of our community-dwelling sample with mild motor impairment were lower than the norms. The scores of the SF-36 are also comparable to scores of individuals with ... plots of the correlations between PA as assessed by the PASIPD (left) and the Accelerometer (right) to the Physical Composite Score of the SF-36. Table 3 Linear regression models for determining the...
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