petroleum hydrocarbon biodegradability in soil implications for bioremediation

... that it has no intention of infringing on Chinese sovereignty and territorial integrity, or interfering in China's internal affairs, or pursuing a policy of "two Chinas" or "one China, one Taiwan." ... sign of interest in this region is its effort to convene Washington Conference to share interest in the region in 1921 This strategy was continued to be reflected in Containment Doctrine of President ... principal, in which maintained “one China; the core element of policy was unification nation; co-existing and developing two system stipulated by China Constitution in allowing special administration...

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... interesting success in applying commercial principles to microfinance and innovating in commercial- informal financial linkages; and a challenge to the supervisory authorities in applying the ... ratio for deposit-taking NBFIs and 10:1 gearing ratio for non-deposit-taking NBFIs); define individual and group-based loans for microfinance and small business, with single-borrower limits for individual ... rose from 13.8% in 1999 to 40.5% in 2000 before falling to 21.3% in 2001, with 91-day Treasury Bill (T-bill) rates reaching 42% in 2001 before declining to 22% in 2002 Ghana’s financial structure...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... candidates for protein engineering It is possible to ‘transplant’ the antigen-binding property from a ‘donor’ to an ‘acceptor’ antibody by exchanging either fragments or antigen-binding regions In this ... specific for the type of interface The remaining five positions (L41–L44 and L36) are instead located at the interface between the two chains, and the difference in the amino acids occupying them ... Lesk AM (2002) Introduction to Bioinformatics Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York 2866 36 Pintar A, Carugo O & Pongor S (2003) DPX: for the analysis of the protein core Bioinformatics 19,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 22:20

... outbreak in northern India in 2003 and its continued dominance again in 2004 indicates the resurgence of dengue-3 in a dominant form The emergence of a newer dengue serotype after an interval ... reaction was- initial denaturation at 95°C for min., followed by 35 cycles of denaturation at 95°C for min, annealing at 54°C for min, extension at 72°C for and final extension at 72°C for 10 The ... PHIL-56 (H-87) PHIL- 57 INDI-03 (DEL 12) INDI-03 (GWL 25) INDI-03 (GWL 60) INDI-04 (DEL 61) INDI-04 (DEL 75) INDI-04 (DEL 135) INDI-04 (DEL 139) INDI-04 (DEL 170) INDI-04 (DEL 171) INDI-84 SRIL-84 SRIL-98...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... II, whether in monolayer or alginate cultures (Figure 4b) Staining for F-actin was used as an indicator of protein production Hence, F-actin positivity was seen to similar extents in control and ... UK); this staining was negative The presence of filamentous actin (F-actin) was assessed using fluorescently tagged phalloidin (FITC-phalloidin; Molecular Probes Inc., now part of Invitrogen Corporation, ... following Additional files are available online: Additional file 'Live/dead' staining of intervertebral disc (IVD) cells in alginate cultures A representative image is shown of IVD cells in alginate...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... in sixwell plates At time points between and 48 hours (approximately 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 24, 32, and 48 hours), cultures were fixed in methanol for minutes, before staining with Jenner-Giemsa stain ... removing potential matrix-degrading enzymes, phagocytosis can trigger the release of antiinflammatory cytokines such as transforming growth factorbeta whilst inhibiting the production of proinflammatory ... line (derived from murine macrophages, kindly donated by Robin May, University of Birmingham, UK) was maintained in DMEM/F-12 supplemented with Page of (page number not for citation purposes)...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... producing saponins, which lather in water and are used for washing In the Pobè region (South-East Benin), it is rather the whole immature fruits that are cut in small pieces and plunged into water ... fruit yield and destroy seedlings and saplings Rapid growth of seedlings and saplings and increasing fruit production Cutting back certain branches Fire protection Mulching/ organic fertilization ... of traditional agroforestry systems in Benin Recently, ackee has emerged as high-priority species for domestication in Benin after a national survey and ranking of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs)...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... also considered treatment variables assessed during hospital stay In principal, we were interested in finding implications for future financing of inpatient psychiatry Methods Catchment area and ... admission had a minor influence on the length of stay as well, which is in line with previous findings taking several hospitals in a whole catchment area into account while controlling for the factor ... missing values as follows: 189/141 missings concerning marital status, 503/565 missings concerning living situation, 89/184 missings concerning employment status, 127/202 missings concerning...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... behaviors include sharing needle equipment, not cleaning needle equipment before injecting, reusing water, backloading, doesn't clean skin prior injecting, sharing cooker and cotton and reusing needles ... cocaine, heroin, speedball and/or tranquilizers *Risky behaviors include sharing needle equipment, not cleaning needle equipment before injecting, reusing water, backloading, doesn't clean skin ... participants who injected drugs in prison and incurred in behaviors that increase risk for contagion with blood-borne pathogens (such as sharing and/or not cleaning injection equipment, reusing water,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... Vanpelt CS, Geng YJ, Deng JM, Behringer RR, de Crombrugghe B: Postnatal induction of transforming growth factor beta signaling in fibroblasts of mice recapitulates clinical, histologic, and biochemical ... resulted in increased vascular stiffness The contractility of isolated aortic rings upon incubation with KCl, α-adrenoreceptor agonists or thromboxane analogues was reduced in TβRIIΔk-fib mice Surprisingly, ... the kinase-deficient TβRIIΔk construct in fibroblasts activates TGFβ signaling in other cell types such as vSMCs are poorly understood Thus, confirmation of the altered phenotype of vSMCs in other...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:21

... important in characterizing the quality of petroleum fractions as gasoline blending components and as feeds to catalytic reforming processes This information is also important in characterizing petroleum ... Supporting data regarding the precision obtained from a round robin test for oxygenate containing samples in Table have been filed at ASTM International Headquarters and may be obtained by requesting ... approximately 350 mm into the analyzer section, make a set of readings by quickly marking the boundary of each hydrocarbon zone observed in ultraviolet light in the following sequence (Warning—Direct exposure...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2014, 17:17

... prevention; inadequate teaching materials and training; a scattershot approach to providing specific information that undermines comprehensive student understanding; and a tendency to delay introduction ... “examinable” and others not test students on their achievements in learning the subject matter (Senderowitz, 2000) Training teachers Teacher training is a challenge everywhere, including in developed ... yet having sex These objectives include • • • • • • • Reduced sexual activity (including postponing age at first intercourse and promoting abstinence); Reduced number of sexual partners; Increased...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 14:20

... Strategic Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP) in 1960 The SIOP was intended to bring some order to the targeting process and integrate the burgeoning nuclear forces of the different services into a single, ... provided China with detailed information on all U.S nuclear weapon designs • the U.S bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during NATO’s operations in Kosovo, and the Chinese insistence—apparently ... ready to launch within a few minutes—to minimize the effect of a surprise attack Summary • xv U.S weapons were pretargeted and integrated into a single massive plan—the Single Integrated Operational...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 11:20

... motivation for this initiative is that Germany's role in international finance was lagging far behind its importance in trade and industry In particular Frankfurt was seen as relatively weak as an international ... seen in table 5, households in Germany in fact increased the allocation of their savings into stocks and mutual funds (including stock funds) in the late 1990s, reaching a high of a combined ... legislation introducing major reforms into the pension system The new forms of savings for retirement based on these reforms are commonly known as the "Riester Rente", named after the Minister for Labor...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... comparable to that obtained for other serpins, including a1-antitrypsin and a1-antichymotrypsin [19,20] In comparison, the spectrum of Ser52Arg neuroserpin shows an increase in both b-sheet and ... neuronal serpin involved in a conformational disease FEBS Lett 25171, 1–5 16 Im, H., Woo, M.-S., Hwang, K.Y & M.-H (2002) Interactions causing the kinetic trap in serpin protein folding J Biol ... neuroserpin, which is unusual for a serpin that spontaneously forms polymers in vitro and in vivo [19] The polymers of mutant neuroserpin that form in FENIB are analogous to polymers that form with...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... source of problems in joint problem solving dialogues, as R&S did not include them in their annotation scheme For CRs in information seeking these features need to be added to explain quite frequent ... likely in the Communicator Corpus • Most CRs are partial in form • Most of the CRs point out one specific element (with only a minority being independent as shown in Table 5) Therefore, in task-oriented ... basis for generating more natural sounding CRs, which indicate a specific problem with understanding In current work, we are studying data collected in a wizard-of-oz study in a multi-modal setting,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22

... TATA-binding-protein-associated factors and initiator-binding proteins Mol Cell Biol 17, 2973–2984 32 Weis, L & Reinberg, D (1992) Transcription by RNA polymerase II: initiator-directed formation ... observed in PEC-A This indicates that the response of a1,3GalT to TNFa stimulation in PEC-A is different from that in primary cells The same holds for E-selectin expression (about 300-fold increase in ... of this region, 12 putative Sp1 binding sites are present In addition, the promoter B region contains numerous putative transcription factor binding sites including GATA-boxes, Oct-1, ets-1, AP-1,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20

... kind of longitudinal empirical study to be carried out In the following section, we will first discuss a preliminary study along this line, and then in Section 4, we will further discuss the implications ... practical concerns in Chinese POS tagging First, we want to obtain information on the distribution of word uses It may defeat the purpose of corpus tagging if every word is tagged independent of ... such as using l+noml to indicate a nominalised usage of a verb For the current study, we reckon that the categorial fluidity information should be captured as early as the tagging begins So we...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20

... having midpoints of 62.5 or 67.5 cm (Fig 4), indicating that in the intermediate length range the values of ml for male and female combined are consistently greater than values for female only For ... was inside or outside safe biological limits In (22.7%) of the 22 years, stock status was inside safe biological limits according to the change point for SSB, whereas using the change point for ... partly determined by the intensity and duration of fishing mortality, because stocks dominated by smaller-sized individuals often result from sustained high fishing mortality For example, in 1987...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 16:20

... Guidelines for Accurately Determining Volatile Organic Compound Concentration in Soil and Solid Matrices 1.0 SUMMARY These guidelines address methods for: (1) handling of samples as intact soil ... concentrations in soil and other solid matrices include the following: Samples should be handled as intact soil cores until being transferred into methanol or into the container that will be used for analysis ... certain sample types still reference method 5030 for analysis) 4.0 SCOPE Region intends to follow the procedures set forth in these guidelines when it is determining VOC concentrations in soil...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20