... table formats Shapefile attribute tables use the dBase format, ArcInfo Workstation uses the INFO format, and geodatabase tables use the Microsoft Access format ArcGIS can also read several text formats, ... tgr39000sf1trt.dbf is in dBase format for the whole state of Ohio, where SF1 stands for Summary File (i.e., the 100% count census data based on the short form).5 Extracting attribute data for Cuyahoga County6: ... data in ASCII format in ArcGIS Both tasks are important for advanced analysts who use GIS along with other software (e.g., SAS) or write programs for more complex computational tasks For basic tasks...
... as a platform to perform the data linkage, transfer and spatial display Population data in total, by gender and age groups (i.e., ≤24-years for youth and adolescents, 25 to 44-years for young ... rates by gender for each LGA were calculated by a direct method The data on the population structure by age and gender at a LGA level in Queensland were obtained from ABS The equation for calculating ... ≤24-years for youth and adolescents, 25 to 44-years for young adults, 45 to 64-years for middle-aged adults, and ≥65-years for elderly) at a LGA level, were also collected from CDATA Data analysis A series...
... the minimization of the target criteria metrics such as MSE for the phase estimation or BER for data decoding We have therefore performed several numerical simulations to inspect the behavior ... especially for small error rates The threshold of the detectable error rate is about Pbe ≈ 10−6 for the uncoded QPSK model and Pbe ≈ · 10−5 for the BICM model 4.6.1 Simulation Results for the Uncoded ... analysis offer important information for the approximation purposes as it was discussed in Section 3.2 The eigenvalues resulting from the characteristic equation are shown in Figure for the MSK modulation...
... activity during periods when nurses are more likely to be tending to the patient It is likely, therefore, that a substantial proportion of these patients would have been ill for some time before ... with the peak time of activity occurring between 20:00 and 20:30 These findings have important implications for the frequency and method of patient monitoring, as well as for allocation of critical ... provide useful information to guide appropriate resource allocation for the provision of the MET service Key messages • • The peak time of MET activation is at 20:00, just before nursing handover...
... obsession with dieting will increase the need for supplementation This is also true for the ten-fold increase in the number of bariatric surgeries performed in the U.S to combat the adverse effects ... BMD for women over 40 years of age, derived from data showing that after midlife there is an age-related yearly loss in both sexes of 1% [42] and an accelerated loss of up to 2% for 14 years for ... described below Physical Activity To increase physical activity levels, subjects were asked to wear a pedometer during their waking hours and to record and track their daily activity levels using...
... facilities in New Towns can serve for surrounding residential areas A significant land use ratio in this New Town is for multistory apartments, the rest is for villas, street houses, public buildings, ... the spaces for social services (kindergartens, schools, social services for the neighborhood) - The neighborhood unit: it means try to project the spatial layout of the neighborhood for the growth ... plan for 2030 with a vision toward 2050 and location of Linh Dam project (the red point) Westward expansion has been draft by the Vietnamese Institute of Urban and Rural Planning and will form...
... this committee for your extraordinary commitment to the project and for the wonderful opportunity to work with you on this important task for the medical and nutrition community and for the Medicare ... it will prevent self-referral for conditions for which evidence of efficacy is not available For these reasons it is recommended to Congress that reimbursement for nutrition therapy be based ... self-management skills for some conditions The self-management effort has moved to center stage with the development of formal self-management programs in several settings, particularly for diabetes With...
... presence of Mn2+ the krel for the P1 ⁄ P8 enzyme was over two-fold higher than the krel for the P1 enzyme and 6.5-fold higher than that for the unmodified reference (Table 1, Fig 3) For the P1 ⁄ P8 PS ... observed in our studies for PS deoxyribozymes were much stronger than those observed for hammerhead constructs, except for the krel value determined in the presence of Mg2+ for the RP-PS isomer ... oxygen of the carbonyl group at G6 for the catalytic activity of deoxyribozyme 10–23 Results and Discussion The influence of PS modification on the catalytic activity of deoxyribozyme 10–23 The...
... Biochem 270) Fig Structure proposed for the fully extended Hep3-glycoform (HexNAc1Hex4) of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) strain 981 Fig Structure proposed for a Hep4-glycoform (Hex5) of ... assigned structure was confirmed by MS3 experiments on selected product ions (data not shown) The structures of the other Hep3-glycoforms were obtained in an analogous manner (data not shown) and for ... obtained for the Hep3and Hep4-glycoforms are presented in Tables and 6, respectively, and are consistent with each D-sugar residue being present in the pyranosyl ring form Further evidence for this...
... mix was heated at 68 °C for and chilled on ice before adding the M-MLV (600 U), then incubated h at 37 °C and finally the reverse transcriptase was inactivated at 95 °C forFor the 3¢ RACE, reverse ... The cultures were then inverted to form a Ôhanging columnÕ and were maintained for 2–4 weeks at 22 °C in humid atmosphere Antennal cells were grown in culture for 2–3 weeks prior to harvesting ... searches were performed with the BLAST program (NCBI) and sequence alignment with the CLUSTALW (NPS @IBCP) staining, specimens were washed in NaCl/Pi and fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde for 20 min, then...
... involve the building of infrastructure, for example roads, houses, schools, hospitals and shopping malls ‘Soft services’ are provided once the infrastructure is in place For example, the provision ... targets for the next decade, which include: average of 4.5% or higher, and between 2010 and 2014 to an average of at least 6% of GDP; for all by 2008, sanitation for all by 2010, electricity for ... their ability and hard work, for submitting chapters on time and for their patience with my endless demands I feel honoured to have worked with this group, and thank them for trusting me with their...
... nanoparticles, particularly for plasmonic structures, but can possibly be extended to fluorescent quantum structures This method provides a wide range for optimization for applications such as light ... this procedure for each wavelength produces intensity values as a function of wavelength and polarization angle I(l,q), which we show color-coded in (d) The same analysis is possible for all particles ... reveals that the high polarization anisotropy found for even moderately elongated spheres ‘‘highlights’’ the strong influence of polarization even for nominally round particles The possibility to...
... involved A critical review for temperate and boreal forests Forest Ecology and Management, 254: 1–15 Bélanger N., Paré D., Courchense F., 2004 Regression equations for estimating throughfall ... Ecosystems”) In the Czech Republic the forests in the border mountains and the forests at the highlands might be still endangered by the consequence of former soil acidification in spite of the ... spruce-beech stand Forest Ecology and Management, 255: 605–618 Bibnler R., Zech W., 1997 Atmospheric deposition and impact of forest thinning on the throughfall of mountain forest ecosystems in...
... grant No C97B04 The authors are also grateful to Forestal Mininco S.A for its technical support in the field, for providing the database, and for allowing publishing of the results of this study ... increase of wood heterogeneity The forest managers and the wood processors have to face this challenge The forest managers may have to accept lower prices for harvested timber The wood processors ... treatment was performed before the wood sample collection The number of surviving trees per family was variable 2.2 Wood samples collection Between one and two trees per plot were chosen for this study...
... energy for loading/unloading of the sucrose [27] or for the provision of UDP-glucose for callose synthesis in the sieve plates [14] In common oak, the leaves of the first flush are source organs for ... kinetic formation of NADH was measured at 340 nm 2.5 Sucrose and reducing sugars (glucose + fructose) contents The supernatant previously obtained was boiled for and centrifuged at 12 000 g for Sucrose ... aspecific linkage, slides were incubated for 20 with an unconjugated anti-rabbit antiserum raised in goat diluted 1/50 in TBS (Sigma) before incubation for h at room temperature with the primary...
... Bartelink H.H., Modelling mixed forest growth: a review of models for forest manage For Ecol Manage 150 (2002) 141– 188 [32] Prodan M., Forest biometrics, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1968 [33] Reineke L.H., ... study mostly for comparison purposes Let us consider, for example, an initial stand, in a 24 m site quality class, at an index age of 50 years, with 10 cm for dg and 2500 for N and, for the different ... verified: z’i ≥ z”i for all i variables (4) z’i > z”i at least for one i variable (5) where i is N and/or dg The 25 upper boundary plots were used for developing the selfthinning line For the development...
... the evaluation of some genetic parameters, for the seeding, growth and tree form of the most important forest species of Portugal, now complemented for wood quality through density In this context, ... Talbert et al [38] for P taeda and Yanchuk and Kiss [45] for Picea engelmannii Only Vargas-Hernandez and Adams [41] and Zhang and Morgenstern [48] estimated an h2i = 0.60 value for RD for Pseudotsuga ... Implications for tree breeding, Can J Forest Res 21 (1991) 1801–1807 [41] Vargas-Hernandez J., Adams W.T., Age-age correlations and early selection for wood density in young coastal Douglas-fir, Forest...
... as follows: C for top log position in 11-year-old trees, C for butt log position in 11-year-old trees (inner rings), C for butt log position in 11-year-old trees (outer rings), C for top log position ... considering the height effect: E +49.8 % for 57 = hardness while E +25.2 % for the energy 57 = release rate, but E % for hardness 12 = +13.9 while Ez = -10.3 % for the energy release 12 = = rate Regressions ... log position in 20-year-old trees, C for butt log position in 20-year-old trees (inner rings), C butt log position for in 20-year-old trees (medium rings), C for butt log position in 20-year-old...