... negative media coverage of these issues increases It should also be taken into consideration that the media is always looking for a good story so the projections by the media can often be exaggerated ... have a great deal of influence over the decisions made by politicians, therefore there is never an easy answer With so many conflicting opinions the goal of politicians is often to come to a ... The debate over the ethics of horizontal integration is bound to continue for years to come, unless strict legislation is enforced The subjective evaluation of this issue permitted by current...
... by dry weight determination for 10 days (Yonni et al., 2004) 2.3 Evaluation of the role of chitosan in protection of soybean from SDS development The use of chitosan as a natural antifungal agent ... the hydrolysis of chitin solution as previously described (Shimosaka et al., 1993) One unit of chitinase enzyme was deWned as the amount of enzyme catalyzing the turnover of mol of GlcNAc per ... The surface of soybean leaf was sprayed with mg/ml of benomyl as chemical antifungal agent for T3 Soybean leaves of other treatments including T2, T4, T5 and T6 were sprayed with 100 l of chitosan...
... 2Σxiyi/(Σxa2 + Σya2) where: xiyi – percentage amount of number of species common for both microhabitats, xa, ya – percentage amount of particular species, i – total number of species; domination rate ... pairs of experimental plots, number of specimens, domination and occurrence rate are shown in Tables 238 Sum 305 – 100.00 to Average number of Mesostigmata mites is 4,409 per m2, and average number ... The first reaction of Mesostigmata mites, only a few years after starting of forest conversion was increasing number of species in the plots (Table 6) On 239 Table Number of Mesostigmata mites...
... average SST The PDI has been multiplied by a factor of 8.3 £ 102 13 and the HadISST (with a constant offset) is averaged over a box bounded in latitude by 58 N and 158 N, and in longitude by 1308 ... doubling of power dissipation over the period of record should be a matter of some concern, as it is a measure of the destructive potential of tropical cyclones Moreover, if upper ocean mixing by tropical ... Atlantic, compared to annually averaged SST The PDI has been multiplied by a factor of 5.8 £ 102 13 and the HadISST (with a constant offset) is averaged between 308 S and 308 N Both quantities have been...
... analysis of female farmers reported a RR of 1.38; 95% CI 1.27 to 1.43 The sub group of thirteen cohort studies had a pooled RR of 1.13; 95% CI 1.09 to 1.17 However, they did not include an analysis of ... level of education (OR 1.28; 95% CI 1.02 to 1.62) None of this two models have presence of heterogeneity There is consistent evidence from studies in many different countries over nearly thirty years ... but it is very consistent over many years in several different countries However, the presence of heterogeneity was significant in most of the models The main source of heterogeneity seems to...
... financial audits of all state departments, institutions, and agencies of state government and to conduct special audits of any department, institution, or agency upon the request of the Governor or ... DEPARTMENT, STATE OF COLORADO DESCRIPTION OF THE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT (CONTINUED) YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2003 AND 2002 LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT AGENCY DESCRIPTIONS (CONTINUED): Office of the State Auditor: ... operation of the Office of Legislative Legal Services Within the Office of Legislative Legal Services is the Revisor of Statutes The Revisor and his staff prepare various legal publications The Office...
... LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT, STATE OF COLORADO MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2003 AND 2002 OVERVIEW OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS: This discussion and analysis of the Legislative Department’s ... component of financial reporting under governmental accounting standards and was prepared by the Department’s management It is intended to provide an overview of the financial activities for Fiscal Years ... June 30, 2003 However, this was largely offset by a decrease in outstanding liabilities related to contract services for the Office of the State Auditor at June 30, 2003 compared to June 30, 2002...
... revenue consists of charges in excess of $500,000 for audit services performed by the Office of the State Auditor for certain non state-appropriated activities of the State, the sale of bill copies ... law to pay for audit costs, the Office of the State Auditor acts as agent and offsets the amounts paid to the private firms by the amounts reimbursed by the auditee agency or authority The amounts ... expenditure by the Department The Department appropriations also specified that $500,000 of audit revenue was available for expenditure by the Office of the State Auditor Receipts in excess of that...
... vest after five yearsof service and most are eligible for retirement benefits at age 50 with 30yearsof service, age 60 with 20 yearsof service, or at age 65 with yearsof service Members are ... minimum ofyearsof service credit, and their age plus yearsof service equals 80 or more Monthly benefits are calculated as a percentageof highest average salary (HAS) HAS is one-twelfth of the ... Commission, employees of the Governor’s Office not covered by the State Personnel System, and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives Participation in the plan by eligible employees...
... LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT, STATE OF COLORADO DISTRIBUTION PAGE YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2003 AND 2002 The electronic version of this report is available on the Web site of the Office of the State Auditor www.state.co.us/auditor ... information and use of the members of the Legislative Audit Committee of the State of Colorado and management of the Department and is not intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than ... Management has the responsibility for selection and use of appropriate accounting policies In accordance with the terms of our engagement letter, we advise management about the appropriateness of...
... description of the offences committed The offences were classified into violent offences (all offences involving interpersonal aggression and threats, robbery, arson), sexual offences (offences ... years; SD 5.9, range 14-46 years, vs 25.7 years, SD 6.8, range 16-37 years, p < 0.01) None of the offenders was sentenced to mandatory care Crime rates Of the total sample of 541 persons, 131 (24%) ... and overlap of the various crimes committed in the convicted group, n = 131 ª : sexual offences, of these sexual offences only ( )* = in combination with “other crimes” (Ex: 10 (2)*= of ten offences...
... the common symptoms of dengue and symptoms indicative of plasma leakage (Table 1) Case recovered while Case died Both cases had thrombocytopenia, however the counts normalized by day (post hospitalisation) ... physical examinations The case history forms of the patients were filled from the time of admission Neither of the patients had any recorded history of dengue infection in the past Both cases presented ... http://www.virologyj.com/content/8/1/46 Page of amplicon The first DENV-4 case, Case 1, occurred at the end of the seasonal outbreak period in November 2009 The second case, Case was in the early phase of the season in...
... preparation was poor The invagination of diverticulum has an advantage over diverticulectomy in that it minimizes bowel leakage [15] Moreover, invagination of diverticulum can be easily performed ... The size of ovary cyst was 2.0 × 1.8 cm (arrow) Fig Spontaneous diverticular bleeding of the sigmoid colon (arrow) 468 Discussion The prevalence of diverticulum in patients aged 65 years or more ... invaginate the diverticulum instead of using diverticulectomy We reported a case of colonic diverticulum that was successfully treated by laparoscopic suture and invagination of the diverticulum Our case...
... application of a crude specimen without any prior deproteinization process “Internal surface reversed phase column” is one of the columns of this type In this section, a method of LC/MS analysis of triazolam ... > Table 4.2 The quantitatione of the drugs was made by selected ion monitoring (SIM) Excellent quantitativeness could be confirmed in the range of 10–1,000 ng/mL of diazepam, fludiazepam, flurazepam, ... 242 (91), 244 (30) , 270 (20),165 (15) 274 (100), 301 (96), 302 (92), 109 (43), 283 (37) 283 (100), 256 (94), 284 (88), 221 (36), 110 (31) 242 (100), 270 (69), 103 (34), 89 (33), 76 (30) 282 (100),...
... kind of a hard lot, least everybody says so, and I don't see nothing agin it and sometimes I can't sleep much, on account of thinking about it and sort of trying to strike out a new way of ... leave it off He never does Puts it somewhere on every creature that comes from his hands." Early in the forenoon parties of jaded men began to straggle into the village, but the strongest of the ... doing That was the way of it last night I couldn't sleep, and so I come along up-street 'bout midnight, a-turning it all over, and when I got to that old shackly brick store by the Temperance Tavern,...
... ashamed of yourself to stand by and hear it saddled on to a lot of poor niggers, and you never say a word for 'em It makes me feel ridiculous to think I was soft enough to BELIEVE that rubbage Cuss ... me." "Dry up! I don't want to hear no more out of you!" says the duke "And NOW you see what you GOT by it They've got all their own money back, and all of OURN but a shekel or two BESIDES G'long ... hid that money in that coffin?" "YES, sir! I know you DO know, because you done it yourself!" "It's a lie!" and the duke went for him The king sings out: "Take y'r hands off! leggo my throat!...
... definition of ST reflects the intrinsic substitution u → α of elements of R Lemma 3.1 Let a be an arbitrary element of S Then aα ∈ ST for almost all α Proof Since pu is a separable prime ideal of R, ... bases of Fα and Gα, the homomorphism φα : Fα → Gα given by the matrix Aα is called the specialization of φ with respect to α The definition of φα does not depend on the choice of the bases of F, ... = depthL by Lemma 3.4 Proposition 3.9 Let L be a S -module of finite length Then LT is a ST -module of finite length for almost all α Moreover, ℓ(LT ) = sℓ(L) Proof Since ℓ(Lα) = ℓ(L) by [2, Proposition...
... aorta [30] Thus, the role of L-PGDS in adipogenesis and diabetes-related phenotypes is not clear Moreover, because of the dual functions of L-PGDS, whether PGD2 regulates the differentiation of adipocytes ... were increased in TG mice by the HF diet mRNA expression of adipogenic genes in WAT of TG mice We measured the amounts of PGD2 in WAT after weeks of the HF diet WAT of TG (S55) mice contained ... weight of TG mice was larger than that of WT mice (Fig 2C); this was accompanied by upregulation of the expression of adipogenic genes in WAT (Fig 3B), suggesting pronounced differentiation of adipocytes...