patterns and processes the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem function

... community patterns and ecosystem processes 33.2 SPECIES DIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION Although biologists have hypothesized about the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem function for ... stressors on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function 33.4.3 THE INFLUENCE OF SCALE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES Most research supporting the relationship ... understand the mechanisms responsible for the relationship between species diversity, functional diversity, and ecosystem function Because most studies have focused on the relationship between diversity...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/11/2014, 09:58

... a function F (the so-called structure function [5]) and vector (X1 , Xn , W1 , Wp ) where n is the number of components of the models (and leaves of the DFT) and p is the number of PAND ... the three new gates: SEQ, SPARE and FDEP For the structure function, SPARE and SEQ gates are similar to an AND gate They only differ by the rates of the transition which are state dependent The ... Now, we change the initial step of the simulation When we draw the random number, we check if un < S In that case we trigger the event in the subtree and we compute the value of the PAND gate If...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 09:09

... grow quickly and others not That is, the variation in the dependent variables comes from both the time series and the cross-sections, and some pooling of data is necessary to address the questions ... data, and note significant deviations between the PWT 6.0 and PWT 5.6 results The PWT 6.0 data contain more observations than the PWT 5.6 data, but when matched with the data for other variables the ... and liberalization, on the one hand, and growth and growth volatility, on the other, were tradeoffs in democracies We explore briefly both lines of inquiry as a guide to further research 13 The...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 08:50

... importance, the exact nature of the relationship between credit and interest rate risk is not quite clear For example, consider the relationship between default and interest rate If the economy ... slow the economy Therefore, we may conjecture that the relationship between default risk and interest rates is sensitive to some measure of where the economy is in the business cycle and/ or other ... literature studies the relationship between credit spreads and interest rate The papers addressing the relationship between default and interest rates are relatively scarce and results can be...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 11:21

... three-digit random numbers and served under identical conditions to the trained descriptive testing Consumers ranked the three cheeses in their order of preference, and then evaluated them using ... compared with the other cheeses (7- and 12-month) The 12-month-ripened cheese had the lowest mean score of liking of 5.75, which is categorized as between “like slightly” and “neither like nor ... AGED 7, AND 12 MONTHS acid, diacetyl and methional In the aroma attribute terms used in the descriptive analysis, these can be described as “free fatty acid,” “buttery” and “sulfur” aromas The principal...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2013, 21:06

... On the other hand, Ballmer has reduced a level of management to manage more easily and efficiently Microsoft structure is less flat therefore, the span of control is narrower and the gap between ... just about technology It’s also about improving the way the company handles relationships with customers and others in the technology industry” Further, specific manifestations of culture are people ... work well, entrepreneurial style and spirit, good judgment and consensus building skills…etc The relationship between an organization’s structure and culture and the effects on business performance:...

Ngày tải lên: 12/04/2013, 21:50

... performance and thus stock price decreases is not conducive to stockholder theory and implies that in agency theory there is a conflict of interest between the CEO and the shareholders they represent Other ... in the null and alternative forms Statistical analysis allows the researcher to either accept or reject the null hypotheses The null and alternative hypotheses for this study are: H01 (null) There ... stockholder theory and agency theory as the foundation for its approach and consequently is limited by the theory itself According to Veliyath and Bishop (1995), agency theory predicts that there is...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2013, 11:44

... companies rather than bonds The paper has two objectives The first is to examine the relationship between credit default swap spreads and bond yields The second is to examine the relationship between ... less than the swap rate The second part of the paper looks at the relationship between credit default swap spreads and credit ratings Some previous research has looked at the relationship between ... is between the Treasury rate and the swap rate 16 C The Benchmark Risk-Free Rate To investigate the benchmark risk-free rate further we examined the statistics of r − rT and r − rS where r is the...

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... Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and ... the United Kingdom and the United States The Commission of the European Communities takes part in the work of the OECD ©OECD 2009 MEASURING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ICT AND THE ENVIRONMENT - FOREWORD ... MEASURING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ICT AND THE ENVIRONMENT - Summary While the links between ICT and environmental outcomes are becoming clearer, there is no separate statistical field that links the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20

... reason, the research focuses on understanding the value of the corporate culture, in particular, understanding the relationship between the corporate culture and the innovation of management accounting ... company Therefore, this research aims to: i Systematize the basic issues of corporate culture and the management accounting innovation ii Understand what is the relationship between the corporate ... receive the enthusiastic supports from all managers, chief accountant and other accounting staff who are involved in the survey conducted in this thesis Although the relationship between me and those...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... wellknown and more reliable Therefore, the company guarantees shareholders’ profit from their investment From these benefits, it can be said that there is a relationship between CSR and sustainability ... managers and staffs volunteer activities in local community, it helps closer the relationship between company and people in the community, between people and people By any action company takes, the ... to figure out the relationship between CSR implementation and the development of five selected company in Ha Noi from the viewpoint of 20 managers and employees of these companies Between two research...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... the only protein with which one can biochemically assay both DNA endonuclease and RNA maturase activities in vitro This investigation provides the first step in the study of the relationship between ... lost in about 45 The substitution of either Na+ for K+ or acetate for Cl– ions, as well as the inclusion of 0.1 mgÆmL)1 BSA did not increase the stability of the protein and slowed the reaction rate ... slow release of the cleavage products from the protein The amplitudes of the initial burst (2.78 and 2.83 nM) gave a ratio of DNA/protein of 0.94 : As will be discussed further, these data indicate...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... with the differences discussed in the text 27 The 17 in the sample of movers The key is that Plantinga and Bernell study nlsy79 respondents between 1996 and 2000, rather than between 1988 and ... particular First, the physical characteristics of the built environment, such as the separation between residences and the ease with which one can walk between them, and second, the neighborhood ... the extant literature, mixed-use records only nearby retail shops and churches and not other establishments.14 The combination of these three data sets allows us to examine the relationship between...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 11:20

... banks to their customers, therefore they have effects on the behaviour of borrowers and consequently on the real economy On the other hand, prices set by banks influence their profitability and soundness ... parentheses Daggers ‡ and † denote significance at the 5% and 10% levels, respectively For the LR tests we report the degrees of freedom of the chi-square statistics in parentheses and the corresponding ... in the deterministic components for the assessment of the cointegration properties of the systems The estimated long-run cointegration relationships between bank and interbank rates assumes the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... a campus but the goal was the same The network allowed users to share resources and the Internet brought together these small networks and interconnected them 20 The Internet 87 The Internet ... focus, to examine the relationship between the level of Internet infrastructure and the development of local content and culture The three entities are the Internet Society (ISOC), the Organisation ... inhabitants MONACO ICELAND CAYMAN ISLANDS ISLE OF MAN BERMUDA GREENLAND NETHERLANDS ANTILLES BAHAMAS FAROE ISLANDS ANDORRA GEORGIA ARUBA UNITED KINGDOM MALDIVES NEW ZEALAND IRELAND ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA SAN...

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Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20

... Comparison of the Cel7A unfolding with and without the substrate either at pH 8.0 (Fig 3A and B), or pH (Fig 3C and D) shows interestingly that the unfolding of the protein and the release of the substrate ... aho and R Suihkonen for construction of the Cel7A mutant, and for the purification of the wild-type and the mutant protein K Rautajoki is thanked for the help with the fluorescence measurements The ... temperature, i.e the thermostability of an enzyme, as a function of pH has a bell shape [12] The activity profile of an enzyme is also pH dependent, and, depending on the enzyme, the pH stability and activity...

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