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... carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and other greenhouse gases • carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere and causes the temperature of the earth to rise. • This leads to disruption of the ... Burning the timber increases the level of carbon dioxide in the air 2. Less trees means less carbon dioxide absorbed for photosynthesis 3. Soil is eroded as it is exposed to the wind and rain 4. ... The Influence of Human Activity on the Environment Develop alternative energy sources • Conserve our rapidly diminishing fossil fuel reserves...

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... This leads to disruption of the weather patterns eg drought, floods • Some weeds may thrive on the extra carbon dioxide while other plants are killed Biological Control of Pests • This means ... from the water • This means the fish suffocate and die • This process is called Eutrophication • Raw sewage pumped into rivers has the same effect The Influence of Human Activity on the Environment Benefits ... cars and power stations produces carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and other greenhouse gases • carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere and causes the temperature of the earth to rise. •...

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... 12B. The effect of the presence of the adenylates on the ability of POR-PChlide 640 to undergo photoconversion was checked by comparing the efficiency of photoconversion of PLB samples containing ... during the course of prepar- ation cannot be excluded, but that still leaves unanswered the question of how the addition of micromolar concentra- tions of NADPH suffice to drive the conversion of ... disaggregation, removes these constraints destabilizing the cubic phase, resulting in the relaxation of the membrane into the planar configuration characteris- tic of the prothylakoid region of the etioplast...

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... substitutions imposed on the backbone conformation of WT* shows that the pattern of P37 P38 P19 W45 Fig. 1. Ribbon structure modelled on the X-ray structure of human ubiquitin [32]. The position and ... solution of native protein was unfolded by a 1 : 10 dilution to yield final concentrations of GdmCl near or above the midpoint of the equilibrium unfolding transition (concentrations of GdmCl in the range ... that the reduction in stability of these mutants is largely manifested in perturbations to the unfolding rates with the degree of compactness of the TSE (a D ) and linearity of the chevron plots...

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... Based on Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) data i The Effects of Land Use on the Mobility of Elderly and Disabled and Their Homecare Workers, and the Effects of Care on Client ... providers, and the extent of care consumers received. The six interrelated hypotheses predicted that, given the income constraints of both populations and the disability constraints of the consumer ... 40 In terms of language, about 5% of consumer and provider respondents used the Spanish version of the survey, while 7.4% of Contra Costa IHSS consumers consider Spanish to be their primary...

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... assayed by varying the concen- tration of Tm in the presence of constant concentration of F-actin and myosin S1. In this condition, Tm inh ibits the ATPase activity as its concentration increases [33]. ... stability of the protein as a whole, rather than on the position of the mutation in the polypeptide chain, as demonstrated by the biophysical assays. Our studies h ave provided additional contributions ... f the mutant Tms. The mutations d id not affect the structure of the protein as there was no significant alteration in the f unction or in the amount of th e s econdary s tructure. However, the...

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... lattice constant and volume of unit cell increase with Zn content in the samples due to larger ionic radius of Zn 2+ ion (0.82 Å) substituted for Ni 2+ ion (0.78 Å). The X-ray density, the real ... Exchange interactions between magnetic ions through oxygen ion are superexchange interaction with antiferromagnetic nature. These interactions depend on bond distance and bond length. Normally ... each other below the freezing temperature T f indicating the onset of blocking of clusters. The sample settles into the frozen state below temperature T f . This behavior is attributed to the...

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... when ammonium salts were used as the nitrogen source, the pH decreased during the mycelium growth as the result of assimilation of the ammonium ion and the attendant effects of acids anions in the ... corre- sponding to a higher dry mycelium concentration. The formation of pellets is largely determined by the extent of agitation and aeration. The effect of aeration on the growth of mushroom ... mycelia. 3.3 Effect of surface aeration The effects of the surface aeration were investigated by varying the volume of ¯ask so that the ratio of the surface area of the liquid exposed to air to the liquid...

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... Hausdorff drafted the manuscript. All authors helped with the inter- pretation of the results, reviewed the manuscript and par- ticipated in the editing of the final version of the manuscript. Acknowledgements We ... effects of blurring vision in the elderly. Invest Oph- thalmol Vis Sci 2004, 45:2122-2128. 11. Perry SD, Santos LC, Patla AE: Contribution of vision and cuta- neous sensation to the control of ... examined the effect of lighting changes on the gait of older adults with a HLGD and compared their response to that of healthy elderly controls. More specifi- cally, we hypothesized that the response...

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... enables the determination of whether or not the substance is responsible for lung injury. The decay constant indicates the degree of cytotox- icity: the greater this value, the smaller the cytotoxicity. Aizawa ... with L > 20 μm. The arithmetic mean (SD) of the weight concentration was 100.0 (29.9) mg/m 3 . In the pathological evaluation, the arithmetic mean (SD) of the fiber concentration was 390.7 (170.4) ... Chi- yotani K: Magnetometric evaluation of the effects of gallium arsenide on the clearance and relaxation of iron particles. Ind Health 1993, 31:143-153. Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology...

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... [30]. The HW-PLDenablesthesynthesisofoxideNWswhile controlling the doping concentration feature. The dop- ing could be controlled by adjusting the target co mposi- tion since it guarantees the ... Nanoelectronics, School of Engineering, University of Science and Technology, 52 Eoeun dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea Full list of author information is available at the end of the ... NWs with low E a of 5.18 meV have a good condition for mak- ing Ag-doped ZnO NWs. These results demonstrate that the E a of SZ O NWs is very sensitive depending on the concentration of Ag elements. Acknowledgements This...

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... ions substituting the Ti ions (at the B site). Therefore, substitution of the Ni ions at the B site may result in breaking the long-range ordering, resulting in a reduction of the ferroelectric ... transition of the samples. From Figure 4, the increase of loss tangent with NiO content implies a higher electrical conductivity of the composites. However, the highest loss tangent in the present ... Authors' contributions PJ carried out the experiments, analysis, and writing of the manuscript. SE, KP, and TT participated in the conception and design of the study. DPC and GR revised the manuscript...

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... hydrocarbon in the vulcanisate, whilst a and b are constants. The higher the Q f /Q g values, the lower the extent of the interaction between the filler and the matrix. 2.5 Measurement of Tensile ... amounts of organoclay. The improvements of the thermal stabilities of a polymer by hybridising organoclay was due to the layered silicates of organoclay that make the path longer for the thermally ... ENR 50 will reduce the formation of intermolecular sulphide links. This will increase the efficiency of the vulcanisation process of ENR, which results in the higher values of the minimum and...

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... mouths were opened on the top of the layer, while the tubes were closed by the presence of a layer of titania on the bottom of the structure. Here in, we discuss the influence of different electrolyte ... open on the top [Fig. (6b)] of the layer, while the tubes were closed by the presence of a layer of titania on the bottom of the structure [Fig. (6c)]. Figure 6: FESEM micrograph of (a) ... nanotubes are of interest due to their one- dimensional (1D) nature, ease of handling and simple preparation. Not only can the band gap of the material be altered due to the quantum confinement...

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