legal context of environmental risk assessment

... numbers of reproductive cycles in the lifetime of each fish, and decreasing the survival of the offspring at early stages of their life cycle (p 68) However, he then softened his statement, insofar ... MODIFICATION OF IMMUNE RESPONSES Although suppression of immune responses is often cited as one of the important effects on fish of exposure to pollutants, there are some aspects of internal resistance ... affected One of the fascinating aspects of this scientific detective story is the extreme sensitivity of the Pacific oyster to almost inconceivably minute concentrations of the specific environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... slaughter of poultry: The case against the use of electrical stunning devices Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 7:221-36 Burgos D 2003 [Letter on behalf of American Autoflow, Inc., ... of poultry: Implications for potential pain in pre-slaughter shackling Animal Welfare 9:227-36 Gerlis LM 1986 An up-to-date assessment of the Jewish method of slaughter In: UFAW Proceedings of ... Veterinary Record 108:98 Katme AM 1986 An up-to-date assessment of the Moslem method of slaughter In: UFAW Proceedings of the Humane Slaughter of Animals for Food Symposium; 1986; Potters Bar, Hertfordshire,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 08:20

... terms of merging of two broad approaches One of these is concerned with a view of language in use, and includes categories of function, context and language skill The other is a version of a 22 ... professional growth How can teachers move beyond the level of automatic or routinised responses to classroom situations and achieve a higher level of awareness of how they teach, of the kinds of ... up a list of phonological problems… of high priority structures and of the vocabulary which our students will need to learn In addition, we will need a syllabus of skills…” This kind of multi-syllabus...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:25

... program-based assessments “reflect the approach of the program and the content of the curriculum” (p 182) Such procedures may include formal tests or more informal types of assessment, which are often ... tests of grammatical knowledge” (Savignon, 1991, p 264) Being communicatively competent “requires an understanding of sociocultural contexts of language use” (p 267) There are various models of ... sensitivity to and conscious awareness of the nature of language and its role in human life” (Donmall, 1985) It consists of “an understanding of the human faculty of language and its role in thinking,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20

... enabling combination of query terms Whereas the original document contains 5161 paragraphs, the number of these that were tagged with the Legal matters” code is 27, or percent of the overall document ... percent) The conjunction of both queries yields a common intersection of only paragraphs, thus precisely targeting 07 percent of the overall document Under the hood, Maytag consists of both an on-line ... an off-line one The online part is a web-based GUI that is connected to a relational database via CGI scripts (html, JavaScript, and Python) The off-line part of the system hosts the bulk of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20

... downstream of changes in transcript or protein levels give a good picture of the overall integrated response of an organism [14,15] The free amino acid (FAA) pool, which is at the centre of metabolic ... trigger the initiation of a metabolic response involving synthesis of protective compounds such as FAAs, polyols or HSPs The simultaneous measurement of a large number of metabolites, relevant ... represented 35% of the total FAA pool in beetles exposed at a constant temperature of °C, 50% of the total FAA pool at alternating temperature (20 °CF0°, °CF20°) (Fig 1A) and >50% of the total FAA...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:20

... after the divergence of amphibia from mammals as a single copy of the CRBP gene is found in Xenopus [17] An alternative explaination, however, is that one of the duplicated copies of the CRBP gene ... important mediators of normal vertebrate development [4,8,9] As zebrafish is promoted as a model experimental system for study of vertebrate development, an understanding of the function of CRBPs in vitamin ... (Table 1) This suggests a translocation/rearrangement of this region of the mouse genome after the divergence of fishes and mammals The conservation of amino-acid sequence among all CRBPIIs and the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... T (2003) Cloning of a proopiomelanocortin cDNA from the pituitary gland of the sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and assessment of mRNA expression in different tissues by means of real-time PCR ... Transfection of SacMC3R gave rise to specific binding of the radioligand while transfection of SacMC5R did not, despite repeated attempts SacMC5R has an alternative ATG start coding upstream of the ... agarose gels from all of the different tissues The sequence of the PCR product was determined and confirmed to be a dogfish b-actin The results of the We describe the cloning of two MCRs in spiny...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 15:20

... was brought by EMS with a history of fever The patient gives a history of fever on and off associated with chills for the last month He does give a history of decubitus ulcer on the back but ... short-lived, such as cancer, leukemia vs palpitations We represent MEs of any type of in terms of their time duration The idea of time duration based representation for MEs is in the same spirit ... Given the ranking of all starts and stops, we can now compose every one of Allen’s temporal relations (Allen, 1981) If it is clear from context that only the start or stop of a ME can be determined,...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20

... presence of a clearly clustered population of MULTIMER-positive CD8+ cells as assessed by an visual inspection of the dot plots during an independent central assessment and (iii) a reported value of ... any of the four donors were similar (Table 2) Introduction of a DUMP channel decreases the amount of non-specific events observed in the CD8-positive cell fraction The main aim of this proficiency ... binding of MULTIMER to lymphocytes (non-specific signal) To address the question of whether the reduction of MULTIMER+ CD8+ events was due to loss of true specific signal or reduction of non-specific...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... evaluation of post mortem brain tissue suggests that it is very unlikely that activation of microglia or astrocytes cause neuronal expression of COX-2 and ppRb in AD Although the involvement of activated ... initial upregulation of these factors seems unlikely, we cannot exclude the involvement of glia in the regulation of COX-2 or cell cycle protein expression in neurons at later stages of pathology COX-2 ... phosphorylation of pRb [23,24], which is followed by neuronal cell death In this perspective, the current emerging data on the early role of oligomeric and protofibrilic forms of Aβ in AD is very...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... presence of a clearly clustered population of MULTIMER-positive CD8+ cells as assessed by an visual inspection of the dot plots during an independent central assessment and (iii) a reported value of ... any of the four donors were similar (Table 2) Introduction of a DUMP channel decreases the amount of non-specific events observed in the CD8-positive cell fraction The main aim of this proficiency ... binding of MULTIMER to lymphocytes (non-specific signal) To address the question of whether the reduction of MULTIMER+ CD8+ events was due to loss of true specific signal or reduction of non-specific...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... farm of Cuu Long Rice Research Institute Three dosages of waste at the rate of 1, and tonnesha were applied in combination with 113 and 213 dosages of inorganic fertilisers The 100 % rate' of inorganic ... confirmation by tracking the fate of all forms of N in the solutions Signed for the Australian Institution by a duly authorised officer in the presence of witness Signature of Witness Insert Name and ... to environmental impacts Hence, there are lessons to be learnt from other forms of aquaculture, in particular the need to address environmental issues that can impact on the sustainability of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... use of experiment (6 months old) The animal facilities were maintained under controlled conditions with temperature of 21 ± 2oC, relative humidity of 50 ± 10% and artificial illumination of a ... to a pH of 7.35 ± 0.5 in a 5% CO2 incubator at 37oC For sperm motility assessment, the medium was modified with the addition of 0.4% bovine serum albumin (BSA) and equilibrated to a pH of 7.35 ... (MAD: time-average of absolute values of the instantaneous turning angle of the sperm head along its curvilinear trajectory), lateral head displacement (ALH: displacement of the centroid from...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:20

... mice to ameliorate the autoimmune process On the basis of the previous finding of a differential impact of Th1 and Th2 cells on the function of bone marrow-derived DCs (BMDCs), transcriptional changes ... family of homologous proteins, of which several different types, each encoded in a different but homologous cp32 plasmid, exist on a single species of B burgdorferi [7] A second example of microbe-induced ... phenotypes of interest, as well as collected genotypes The database application also offers comprehensive sorting and formatting of data to prepare for statistical analysis by stand-alone software...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... able to stay off HAART for 50.4% of the period of the study TIs are an important part of the clinical management of HIV infected subjects because of the potential cost saving, reversion of drug-resistant ... response were detected Patients were able stay off HAART for 50.4% of the time over 36 months of follow up No correlation between the percentage of days off HAART and the immune responses generated ... 2000 in this proof of concept trial The research conformed with all ethical guidelines of the authors' institutions and with human experimentation guidelines of the US Department of Health and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... unusually high accumulation of linear carotenes instead of cyclic and oxygenated carotenoids The mutant also exhibited reduced synthesis of ABA However, the specific alteration of the carotenoid biosynthesis ... associated with altered expression of carotenoid biosynthetic genes and different sensitivity to the exogenous application of ethylene [19] Page of 14 As part of a mutagenic approach to citrus ... amount of carotenoids in November, but no significant statistical differences were observed with respect to the parental in January The profile of individual carotenoids obtained in the flavedo of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... mellitus (64%), resolution of gastroesophageal reflux disease (89%), and improvements in the quality of life of patients [14] Page of 3 Conclusion We report the successful use of LAGB in a morbidly ... advantages of LAGB include the minimal invasiveness of the procedure, reduced post-operative pain, and low rates of associated morbidity and mortality [10] Other reported benefits of LAGB are ... 1Department of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Launceston General Hospital, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 2Department of Surgery, Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 3School of Human...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... in drafting of the manuscript; KB, OH and SD all participated in the drafting of the manuscript and PA participated in the initiation of the data collection, analysis and drafting of the manuscript ... pressure, we analysed data on the sales of oseltamivir in Norway for the years 2002–07 Methods We used two different sources of information on sale figures of oseltamivir (Tamiflu®) Firstly, we ... actual usage in this period This is supported by the lack of relationship between increased influenza activity[9] and the highest peaks of sales of oseltamivir in 2005 and 2006 In 2005 there was an...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... in drafting of the manuscript; KB, OH and SD all participated in the drafting of the manuscript and PA participated in the initiation of the data collection, analysis and drafting of the manuscript ... pressure, we analysed data on the sales of oseltamivir in Norway for the years 2002–07 Methods We used two different sources of information on sale figures of oseltamivir (Tamiflu®) Firstly, we ... actual usage in this period This is supported by the lack of relationship between increased influenza activity[9] and the highest peaks of sales of oseltamivir in 2005 and 2006 In 2005 there was an...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21