SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE FUTURE
... important cause ♣ ♣ ☼ ☼ ☼ Source: W Lorson, ed., The Global Ecology handbook, 1990 ♣: Moderately important cause ☼: Less important but insignificant cause ►: Unimportant or insignificant cause 4 It ... 2 Table 5.1: Global problem impacts and problem causes Problem causes Problem Impacts Unmet basic human needs for safe water, food, shelter, health care, education, employment, etc Species depletion ... important cause of three problem impacts and a moderately important cause for the five other problem impacts It is very difficult to meet the basic human needs for food, safe water, shelter, health...
Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2013, 09:20
... poet, on an interplay between subject and object Everything in mental life depends upon this faculty We observe, ponder, feel, because a kindred vibration in the object sets our own fibres in motion ... imagination, 'Love was the cause of my distemper, and love has healed it; as a summer's day, grown black with clouds, relieves all animals from the heat which itself had caused.' 'Should you be removed ... heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches 'He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth 'And...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20
... support services and microcredit providers could be strengthened By way of example, this could be done through the development of new capacity building instruments that improve business support services ... microfinance and start-up support services at the national level Furthermore, the scope of European instruments related to microcredit could be widened to other financial services, such as micro-savings, ... that micro-lending is a good tool but must not be favoured to the detriment of SME lending, because SMEs are the backbone of the economy in Europe After the end of her presentation, the audience...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20
Economic Development and the Escape from High Mortality pdf
... public health improvements in health advances: the twentiethcentury United States Demography, 42, 1–22 Dercon, S., & Krishnan, P (2000) In sickness and in health: risk sharing within households ... sub-Saharan Africa The cause-of-death labels vary over time according to the version of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) used; so, for comparability, ... Fogel, 1992) have shown that death rates declined in England and Wales because of reductions in normal mortality and not because of the eradication of famines or mortality crises 11 Since most crises...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20
Sustainable Urban Development and the Chinese Eco-City pptx
... land use is especially critical in the eastern coastal region Despite these shortages, China’s land use mode is often crude, with low land use efficiency For example, the increase in land use ... Local governments procure large numbers of services and products and can influence markets for goods and services such as environmental, economic and social services (Roseland 2005, 191-193) In China ... is urban land use structure and layout The main indicators are insufficient land for public service facilities, infrastructure and ecological environment, whereas industrial land use in cities...
Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 11:20
mastering xpages [electronic resource] a step-by-step guide to xpages application development and the xsp language
... successful authentication, a user session object is instantiated and associated with that user This user session object is used to store temporary data created during that user’s usage of the application ... undefined value means that the server time zone is used xsp.user.timezone.roundtrip Boolean property indicating that the user time zone is not used in the initial display of any XPages in the application, ... application session whenever a user initially requests an application Thereafter, subsequent requests from any user, regardless of how many, cause that application to use the initial application...
Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 00:46
philips sarah d. women's social activism in the new ukraine. development and the politics of differentiation. bloomington, 2008
... humanitarian aid, health care assistance, and health trips to Chernobyl children The NGO For Life served Kyiv’s population of elderly retired women, and an NGO called Equus focused on the rehabilitation ... for bread money”] Bureaucrats are notorious for their abuse of the elderly.” Her characterization indicates that the elderly are abused because they draw on an ideology of entitlement, one that ... individuals in health crisis such as the critically ill and the chronically disabled, and often works for marginalized categories of citizens through mutual aid associations such as Our House Individualized...
Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 17:40
báo cáo khoa học: " The development and geometry of shape change in Arabidopsis thaliana cotyledon pavement cells" doc
... Because of its importance during organ expansion, we focused our analyses on the growth phase that occurs in the absence of frequent lobe initiation As expected for cells that use a diffuse growth ... affected the growth, because the average growth rates of the cells imaged during time lapse (Table 3) were very similar to rates calculated from the mean values of developmentally staged cells (Table ... Z-projections of confocal images from two point time-lapse imaging were used to obtain the cell outline The three-way cell wall junctions were used as fiduciary marks to follow perimeter segments Cell segments...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21
carroll - delusions of development; the world bank and the post-washington consensus in southeast asia (2010)
... Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Service MWSS-RO Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Service Regulatory Office NEDA National Economic Development Authority NGO Non-governmental Organisation NIE New Institutional ... focus upon a range of different examples of the Bank’s work: the use of technical assistance in a privatisation project, the use of participation and partnership in a Country Assistance Strategy, ... Stiglitz and conflating his ideas with the PWC have been detrimental to analyses of the actually existing PWC or the PWC in practice This is because the PWC in practice constitutes more than Stiglitz’s...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 12:59
Executive summary Proceeding of the international conference "sustainable development and ethnic minority poverty reduction in mountainous regions"
... the need for promotion and combination of useful, adaptable measures of traditional health care with the modern health care services, to improve the health of ethnic minority people, especially ... affected [EMWG, 2014] Health Care for Mothers and Children: The studies indicate that the ethnic minorities apply traditional methods of health care, in which measures of traditional health care for ... Makers Education and Health Care Health Care for Ethnic Minority Mothers and Children Lessons Learned in Reducing Poverty among Ethnic Minorities through Education and Health Care Implications...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2015, 09:36
Identities on hyperbolic surfaces, group actions and the markoff hurwitz equations
... second part, we prove a new identity by following the methods used by Bowditch in [7, 9] and Tan et al in [44] Let Γ be the fundamental group of a hyperbolic torus T with one cusp or a geodesic ... discussion to the most commonly used models called the Poincar´ Hyperbolic e plane models: the upper half-plane model and the unit disk model These two models can be used interchangeably The upper ... L(sech2 (pi /2)) + f (P ) = 4π −8 i=1 i=j (3.10) By the identities of the fundamental hyperbolic trigonometry, we can use the boundary lengths of P to reformulate µ(H(Mi )) and µ(H(Bi )) For µ(H(Mi...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:09
Development of sphingosine kinase (SPHK) inhibitors and the role of sphingolipids in adult stem cell proliferation and differentiation 2
... and SPHK2 Activity in vitro Transfected CHO cell lysates were used in the validation The most widely used SPHK inhibitor – DMS – was used as a control when compounds were tested in both SPHK1 and ... radio-labeled ATP (2μCi/sample), for optimizing the amount of DAG that should be used The radio-labeled ATP (2μCi/sample) used was a mixture of 10mCi/ml radio-labeled ATP and 5mM non-radio-labeled ... Protein Quantification by Bradford Assay Bradford assay was used to quantify proteins in cell lysates It is a rapid and accurate method commonly used to determine the total protein concentration of...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:06
Development of sphingosine kinase (SPHK) inhibitors and the role of sphingolipids in adult stem cell proliferation and differentiation 3
... Red S Staining Alizarin Red S staining is widely used to evaluate the calcium-rich deposits generated by cells In this study, the staining was used to detect the mineralization in human MSCs during ... 3.1.3.2 Oil Red O Staining Oil red O staining is commonly used to identify the exogenous or endogenous lipid deposits In the present study, it was used to detect the adipogenic differentiation of the ... liposuction Then, a modified cell isolation protocol, based on Zuk et al.’s (2001) method, was used to process the adipose tissues Briefly, the tissues were first washed three times with phosphate...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:06
Development of sphingosine kinase (SPHK) inhibitors and the role of sphingolipids in adult stem cell proliferation and differentiation 4
... (Thr202/Tyr204) mouse monoclonal antibody (Cell Signaling, #9106S), and phosphor-IκB-α mouse monoclonal antibody (Cell Signaling, # SC-8404) were used The anti-mouse IgG HRP (Sigma, A4416) was used for ... Alpha-tublin (primary antibody: Alpha tublin mouse monoclonal antibody (Santa Cruz, #8035); secondary antibody: anti-mouse IgG HRP (Sigma, A4416)) was used for equal loading control 4.1.6 Statistical ... described, were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich, Singapore (Some methods used in this chapter are the same with those being used in Chapter 3, which have been addressed in Section 3.1 Materials...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:06
Development of sphingosine kinase (SPHK) inhibitors and the role of sphingolipids in adult stem cell proliferation and differentiation 5
... Work being one of the most potent and specific SPHK1 inhibitors (chapter 2), DMS was continuously used as a reference inhibitor It is interesting to note that CP6 and DMS affected the osteogenic ... which may simulate a more in vivo environment By optimizing the concentrations of SPHK inhibitor(s) used, we could possible develop a new strategy controlling human MSCs osteogenic and adipogenic ... but the adipose tissue increases (Jaiswal et al., 2000) It also suggests the potential for the use of SPHK inhibitors in preconditioning stem cells before transplanting them into the body, by...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:06
Development of sphingosine kinase (SPHK) inhibitors and the role of sphingolipids in adult stem cell proliferation and differentiation 6
... 1016-22 Cowan, C M., Y Y Shi, et al (2004) "Adipose-derived adult stromal cells heal criticalsize mouse calvarial defects." Nat Biotechnol 22(5): 560-7 Crews, C M., A Alessandrini, et al (1992) "The ... synthesis of N,N-dimethyl-sphingosine: demonstration of the sphingosine: N-methyltransferase in mouse brain." Biochem Biophys Res Commun 164(3): 1411-6 Igarashi, Y., S Hakomori, et al (1989) "Effect ... adenoassociated virus 2-transduced murine mesenchymal stem cells and development of an immunocompetent mouse model for ex vivo osteoporosis gene therapy." Hum Gene Ther 15(12): 1197-206 Kundu, A K and...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:06
Development of sphingosine kinase (SPHK) inhibitors and the role of sphingolipids in adult stem cell proliferation and differentiation
... capability The human BM-MSCs used in this study were commercially obtained and had a homogeneous cell population However, the human AD-MSCs used in this study were obtained from healthy donors and had ... investigations, the most commonly used SPHK inhibitor, DMS, was used as a positive control The compounds developed and evaluated as SPHK inhibitors in this study, could potentially be used as laboratory reagents ... reactions by different species Using human serum could overcome some of the potential problems caused by the use of animal serum; however, human serum is not easily obtainable in the quantities required...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:06