... Poisoning the Well: How the EPA is Ignoring Atrazine Contamination in Surface and Drinking Water in the Central United States An Atrazine Primer Atrazine is a selective herbicide ... chemicals Poisoning the Well: How the EPA is Ignoring Atrazine Contamination in Surface and Drinking Water in the Central United States Recommendations for Protecting Human Health and the Environment ... atrazine as well as the presence of atrazine in drinking water Under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), the EPA has determined that no more than parts per billion (ppb) of atrazine (as a running...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20
... perspectives in archaeology enrich knowledge about the lives of people in the past and their interactions with people in other gender groups in their communities The early gender studies in archaeology ... gender differences during the life cycle of Siouan-speaking peoples who occupied northwestern North Carolina and southern Virginia during the late prehistoric period She examines the distribution ... are subdivided into those activities relating to acquiring and processing food; making and repairing tools, clothing, and buildings; and maintaining social relations For each step in an activity,...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:10
English in the Southern United States phần 10 doc
... “Investigating variation and change in written documents,” in Chambers, Trudgill, and Schilling-Estes (eds.), 67–96 forthcoming The English dialect heritage of the Southern United States, ” in ... ‘R,’” Southern Speech Journal 9: 102–6 Phliponneau, Catherine (ed.) 1995 Sociolinguistic Studies and Language Planning: Proceedings of the XVIth Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic ... article: the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States, ” American Speech 68: 263–318 1993b The Southern accent – alive and well,” Southern Cultures, inaugural issue: 47–64 1993c The verb be in American...
Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21
English in the Southern United States phần 9 docx
... southern-sounding speech King may well sound southern in other contexts too, for other reasons, including ones such as those discussed above These examples illustrate just four points on a continuum ... $70,000 a year,” in her words In selling mailing lists over the telephone, she finds the strategy of switching into a southern-sounding way of talking and interacting to be particularly useful ... southern style in her bid to “sound southern.” The resources of southernness are available to these women because of where they are from: they have heard people sounding like Southerners all their...
Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21
English in the Southern United States phần 8 ppt
... about them, by outsiders and insiders This idea structures much discourse about Southerners, whether the Southerners in question are from the coastal or the mountain South and whether they are ... of the specific linguistic features which have been observed in the speech of some Southerners (and in literary and other representations of southern speech) Then I talk about some of the things ... “playback” phase in which she asked Southerners to comment on the meanings of these address terms while watching clips of the film Like Ching, she found that the core meaning was the expression...
Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21
English in the Southern United States phần 7 docx
... up in the pronunciation of the state name, with northern Louisiana favoring four syllables beginning [luz-] and southern Louisiana favoring five syllables beginning [luiz-] The people of southern ... declining since the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the oldest cohort of LAGS informants was born The use of preterit come and plural verbal -s seems to have begun to decline in the ... fronting of /u/ in the vowel system of the Virginian, none of these systems show evidence of the Southern Shift In all three vowel systems, /e/ remains to the front of /ε/, both /o/ and /u/ remain...
Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21
English in the Southern United States phần 6 pdf
... shifting in the South, both the ordering of the changes and whether chain shifting is the mechanism taking place at all here What she found was that while the back movements were in place, the ... large-scale immigration of Northerners to Atlanta and Dallas may be in uencing the speech there, so they may no longer Vowel shifting in the southern states 129 share the features of their nearby core areas ... behind (ey) for the one born in 1957 So here, the two young women are leading the two young men, especially in regard to the fronting of (ow) What about the local upper class? Do they share in these...
Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21
English in the Southern United States phần 5 potx
... Vowel shifting in the southern states Introduction In 1972 it was first realized that there was a general shift in the vowels of not only the southern states, but all the southern varieties ... task There is still much to The phonology of English in the South 125 know about the phonology of English in the southern United States and many ways of looking at the many ways of sounding southern ... evidence of interest in the southern second-person pronoun has appeared on the internet There was a flurry of mail on the American Dialect Society mailing list in 1995 and again in 1999–2000 There were...
Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21
English in the Southern United States phần 4 pot
... adopted later In the case of language, speakers are very accommodating Dispersing individuals in a metapopulation find it easier to accommodate the locals in adopting their speech habits than to maintain ... of the kinds of race relations during the (early) colonial days, if not all the way to the late nineteenth century According to the founder principle, adapted here from population genetics, the ... perspective, some of the newcomers, who come by installments, interbreed with the locals Their offspring, who inherit the founder traits, increase the number of their transmitters to offspring of some...
Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21
English in the Southern United States phần 3 docx
... of the Jim Crow laws in the hinterland of the Southeast in the late nineteenth century History suggests that, although discrimination was in place since the first English–African encounters in ... certain minority variants which entered the southern United States with the first Early Modern English speakers remained in use as variants in southern idiolects for many generations, and then in the ... the above version of the Divergence Hypothesis, I capitalize here on the evidence provided by the socioeconomic history of the United States Linguistic evidence is rather indirect, lying in the...
Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21
English in the Southern United States phần 2 doc
... so in these letters they describe the business of running the plantation and the routine events like planting, the state of the crops, the weather, diseases among slaves, and so on What is interesting ... Texas In contrast, north of the “fall line,” the line where the flat bottomlands start to rise to the interior hills and mountains, the Piedmont and mountain area of the interior is known as the ... plural indicative be in the Court Minute Books in entries for the years 1575–7 (interestingly, the same point in time when verbal -s makes its first appearance in this archive, although it was in...
Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21
English in the Southern United States phần 1 pps
... that the South is the most distinct speech region in the United States, ” points to the difficulty in identifying a set of phonological features that delimit southern speech, even with the salience ... the interdisciplinary intersection of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and critical theory and is the author of five books including Qualitative Methods in Sociolinguistics (2000), The Linguistic ... English in the Southern United States The English of the southern United States is possibly the most studied regional variety of any language because of its rich internal diversity, its distinctiveness...
Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:21
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp:" Vegetation control and fertilization in midrotation Pinus taeda stands in the southeastern United States" pot
... damage to the crop pines Consequently, these three sites were not included in the analyses involving the VC treatment; however, these sites were used for analyses involving only the examination ... applied in the spring of the year installed The combined VC and fertilization treatment was the same used for the individual treatments but applied together Height and diameter of planted pines ... However, the combined treatment (VC and fertilization applied together) was greater than the response to either single treatment at four of the five sites in year two and both sites in year four The...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Distribution, historical development and ecophysiological attributes of oak species in the eastern United States " pdf
... intense deer browsing are acting in concert to prevent adequate oak canopy recruitment CONCLUSION The rise in oak dominance in the eastern United States at the beginning of the Holocene epoch ... hills originating from ancient shorelines in portions of the Carolinas, Georgia, western Florida and southern Alabama and Mississippi Dominant species on the more xeric sites include Pinus elliotii, ... logging and fire during this century promoted Acer and Prunus invasion into the Quercus understories While logging and other disturbances promoted oak during the 19th century, logging in the...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21
Báo cáo y học: "No evidence of XMRV in prostate cancer cohorts in the Midwestern United States" potx
... retroelements (IAPs) Together with our data, these findings highlight the difficulty of avoiding DNA contamination in clinical samples and the risk of testing contaminated samples as XMRV-positive ... sequences In order to establish consistency and to minimize the risk of contamination during the procedure, three individuals independently performed the nested PCR experiments using independently ... designed the experiments, analyzed the data and wrote the paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20
Assessment of weed management practices and problem weeds in the midsouth united states—soybean a consultants perspective
... the fourth section and are listed in Table State and collective problematic ranking for each weed species was calculated by assigning points, points, and point to the first, second, and third most-problematic ... Standard errors of the mean for each weed species is provided in parentheses b Importance points were calculated based on the point value assigned to each weed by consultants The rating scale was ... because of the adoption of RR soybean; however, from 2002 to 2006, there was 2.6-fold increase in the overall use of preplant 2,4-D in the United States, which can be attributed to the evolution...
Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2015, 08:07
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: A point mutation in the ATP synthase of Rhodobacter capsulatus results in differential contributions of DpH and Du in driving the ATP synthesis reaction pptx
... mutant, indicating the ratios of the ATP synthesis rates, are plotted for the experiments in the absence (dashed line) or in the presence (continuous line) of valinomycin As no ATP synthesis could ... This results in an exchange between the incoming DNA and the corresponding chromosomal DNA which is lost in the process In this work, the GTA exchange donor was the J1 strain carrying the pFo39 ... differences the ÔacidicÕ solution contained 20 mM Tricine instead of succinic acid Assuming complete equilibration of the K+ during the h preincubation (see above), the value of the K+/valinomycin diffusion...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 03:20
The State of the Population in the Western Cape Province potx
... remarkable coincidence with an imaginary line known during the apartheid era as the ‘Eiselen line’, or the Western Cape substitution line The line indicated an area to the west of this imagined line as ... warming, posing acute demands on the planning framework 25 We begin by examining the interrelationship between planning, population and politics and by defining the types of planning in which the ... legacy of apartheid planning in the Western Cape The Western Cape is one of nine provinces in South Africa and is situated on the south -western tip of the African continent As the original site of...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Deviation of the neurosporaxanthin pathway towards b-carotene biosynthesis in Fusarium fujikuroi by a point mutation in the phytoene desaturase gene ppt
... transition in the SF73 carB allele, resulting in a Trp449 fi Stop mutation The predicted truncated protein lacks the C-terminal 121 4588 amino acids, which include the putative carotene-binding domain ... Interestingly, the SF73 desaturase represents a truncated CarB lacking the C-terminus, which includes the presumed substrate-binding domain Hence, participation of other protein segments in carotene binding ... Physical map of the pB21H integration at the homologous carB sequence by a single recombination event in the genome of strain SF1 The mutation in the carB36 allele is indicated by a star The carB probe,...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20