lakes amp 8212 seasonal dynamics and the impact of climate variability

... zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK and the US) residential ... also for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected We therefore specify the VAR models in the level of the variables Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating ... Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US The sample starts in 1986 in order to avoid the more turbulent, higher inflation period that ended in the first half of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40

... one of these studies collected data on the number of poultry kept by the sampled households in the study year and, in the case of Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana, on the number of poultry sold and the ... available on the costs of culling, diagnostic testing of samples, cleaning and disinfection, and other administrative costs (Obi, Oparinde, and Maina 2008) Regarding the impacts of HPAI on the poultry ... income and wealth According to this method of matching, the two groups—which include the treatment group of households representing the result of the HPAI-induced supply -and- demand shocks and the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20

... numbers of HIV-positive individuals being enrolled onto HAART and increasing survival among these patients, there is a growing need to understand the impact of HAART use on the quality of lives of ... Africa, there is an ongoing debate about whether or not the side-effect profile of HAART may adversely affect the HRQoL of HIVpositive individuals More data about the impact of HAART and HAARTrelated ... association In the developed world, symptoms have been shown to impact negatively on both physical and mental HRQoL [10,31] However, the nature of the symptoms and whether they were attributed to the disease...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... satisfaction and the impact of stroke The results of the impact of stroke in everyday life and the association with the dyads combined life satisfaction are presented in Table These results show that the ... perceived life satisfaction of the dyads, the perceived level of impact of the stroke in everyday life for the persons with stroke and the perceived level of burden of care for the caregiver Life Satisfaction ... contributed to the design of the study, data analysis and to the revision of the manuscript KT was responsible for initiating and planning the study, contributed to the design of the study and was instrumental...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... either In this work, the individual and combined effects of climate and disturbances on the radial growth of these species were analyzed in a forest of the Cantabrian lowlands, Northern Spain The ... Europe The results reveal the importance of summer precipitation and temperature on the radial growth of European beech and pedunculate oak July is the driest month and one of the warmest in the ... releases The number and density of releases, the mean and maximum PGC values, and the change in percentage of suppressions of the different periods are showed The change in mean percentage of suppressions...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... recent years there was a lack of good evidence on the strength and nature of the association between TB and DM At present recognition of the association between diabetes and TB is low The link goes ... risk of IR due to the pro-inflammatory process of HIV, the direct effects of ARTs and also, indirect effects as consequences of ART (for example body fat distribution changes) The pathogenesis of ... risk of the adverse combination of TB and diabetes The potential importance of the relationships in international migrants, moving from Africa to richer parts of the world, is poorly researched and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... when we standardize the quoted spreads and depths by the beginning of the year price and the average daily volume rather than their respective averages 21 The accuracy of the DJNS time stamp relative ... statistics and the research design controls for the composition of firms and the time of day of the announcements The univariate approach provides an intraday profile of the variables of interest ... decreases after the announcement However, these studies exclude the day before and the day of the announcement, because of concerns over the accuracy of the announcement date.15 Yet these are the periods...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 18:45

... terms, there were, simultaneously, other strategic interests being pursued by both the Singaporeans and Indonesians under the cover of the moral argument This two-pronged pursuit of moral ideals and ... Singapore-Indonesia relations in the years 1965 to 1973 in the form of enduring lessons learnt about the other from the experience of the Confrontation years ii List of Abbreviations ABRI: Angkatan ... strategic interests was played out in the political, military, economic and diplomatic fronts of Confrontation, which also reflects the move towards the closure of the conflict In addition, Singapore’s...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:50

... by the objectives and ambitions of the Malayan, Indonesian and Singaporean leadership One such pitfall was the pressing concerns of the Indonesians on the question of whether the people of the ... territories of ‗Nusantara‘ or pre-historical Indonesia, which consisted of the eight groups of islands of the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the Southeastern Islands, the islands of Sulawesi, the ... on the re-organisation of the International Relations of Southeast Asia This is presented through the explanation of why Malaysia fell apart with the secession of Singapore and the impact of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:50

... political and military fronts of Confrontation, 1963-1965: Creating a new Southeast Asia 135 5.1 The systemic imperatives of the political theatre of Confrontation 140 5.2 The avoidance of war on the ... Malaysia plan and the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) 60 Conclusions 68 Chapter 3: The proximate “causes” of Confrontation, 1962-1963: On the concept of Malaysia 72 3.1 The question of the North ... revolution, and the search for a post-colonial identity 45 2.3 Singapore and Confrontation as the continuation of the confrontation over West Irian 51 2.4 The fear of communism, the Tunku’s Greater...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:54

... part of the Miocene and all the Pliocene At the end of this latter period, circa 1.8-2 million years ago, with the withdrawal of the sea and the filling up of the great Po depression the shape of ... km) in the Channel of Sicily In the Adriatic, besides the various low and sandy islands of the Po delta and Venetian lagoon, there emerges the Tremiti archipelago (3 sq km) to the north of the Gargano ... exceptions of the bulge of the Po delta and of the two rocky promontories of the Conero and Gargano The Ionian and Tyrrhenian shores are very different, their extensive sandy curves, corresponding to the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:04

... data and non-linear trend analysis, to examine the trend, the slope of the trend and the abrupt change point in the time series The 24 relationship between the change of rainfall and the change of ... the influences of different types of human activities from climate change, considering the overlapping of the influence and the lag effect of the driving forces 1.1.2 Mathematical modelling of ... evaluation The fourth stage focuses on the implementation of the ANNs established to estimate the impact of climate and human activity on water and sediment Conclusion of the research is made in the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:05

... dataset is the analysis of the causes of declines in the majority of North American grassland birds (Peterjohn & Sauer, 1999) Other examples have involved tracking direct and indirect effects of pathogens ... richness of the 384 study species The vast majority of the distributions of these species fall within North America The box surrounding North America indicates the initial selection of latitudes and ... affected by climate change over recent decades and relate changing abundances to climate An Indicator of the Impact of Climate Change on Populations of Bird Species in the USA 3.1 Introduction Climate...

Ngày tải lên: 26/09/2015, 12:50

... policies the utilisation of many of the restricted antibiotics was decreased and the trend of resistance rates became downwards after implementation of NARP The amount of money saved increased further ... restricted for the first three days of therapy by NARP, the consumption of these quinolones was unsurprisingly high Besides that the use of oral quinolones for maintenance may contribute to the significant ... specialists just for the first 72 h of treatment but further utilization required IDS approval In this multicenter study we aimed to assess the impact of the antibiotic restriction policy on the antibiotic...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00

... upgrading in the relevant sectors (Kumar, 1998) In the case of Thailand, this is relevant in the electronics and automobile sectors, two of the most important recipients of FDI The influx of new foreign ... programs of trade and investment liberalization and domestic economic reforms While Thailand was one of the most open economies, the crisis has greatly extended the role and impact of FDI in ... In the period of the crisis, the importance of FDI as a potential source of net capital inflows has been emphasized At the same time, however, it is important to point out that the impact of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 23:15

... et al, in their study, have evaluated the link between the timing of conception with risk of preeclampsia [13] They found the highest risk of preeclampsia in conceptions occurring in the summer ... different frequency of preeclampsia in the dry and wet seasons that occur in Zimbabwe [12] All these studies have assessed if there was a seasonal variation in the incidence of preeclampsia Interestingly ... daily rainfall and morning barometric pressure) were acquired from the Regional Meteorological Centre, Mumbai for the study period The incidence of preeclampsia and eclampsia and the meteorological...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... example, evaluated the causes of the Great Depression and found that the collapse of the financial system - more specifically, the failure of roughly half the banks in the US between 1930 and ... capital and credit supply: Measuring the impact of prudential standards One notable study that addresses the problem of a lack of heterogeneity of capital requirements and assesses the impact ... (7) The terms on the left-hand side represent the marginal profit arising from a change in the loan rate The right-hand side is the expected capital adjustment cost multiplied by the impact of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... Understanding the surprise component of these announcements is important in order to understand how much of their effect on the day of the announcement was already priced in In the case of the U.S ... in the case of Federal Reserve announcements, with the effect on the S&P 500 significant at 5percent, and in four of six markets in the case of Bank of England announcements, though none of these ... identify “news” about their recent programs of asset purchases We concentrate on the programs of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England These central banks both rapidly brought their policy rates...

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Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

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