... depletion 2.1 Land ownership and accessibility to groundwater The distribution of land ownership and the extent of land subdivision and fragmentation affect the development and use of groundwater ... water along with land and not only land Thus, there is a complete shift of power relation from the hands of ‘landlords’ to ‘waterlords’ The control and access over groundwater offers scope for ... small fragment of land and very often he is a late initiator of the tube-well technology and the neighbouring plots already have deep tube-wells 2.3 Nature of ownership of wells and access to...
... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6874/7/18 Andrew RD: Seizure and acute osmotic change: clinical and neurophysiological aspects J Neurol Sci 1991, 101(1):7-18 Pasantes-Morales H, Tuz K: Volume changes in neurons: hyperexcitability and ... the incidence of preeclampsia based on the timing of delivery In our study, we intend to establish if any such association exists in the distinct climate of the tropical coastal city of Mumbai, ... daily rainfall and morning barometric pressure) were acquired from the Regional Meteorological Centre, Mumbai for the study period The incidence of preeclampsia and eclampsia and the meteorological...
... Phospho-CP29 and state transitions A B Fig Protein composition and phosphorylation of thylakoids and LHCI–PSI obtained from State and State C reinhardtii cells (A) Protein profiles of thylakoids (Thy) and ... and state transitions J Kargul et al spectra for the presence of N- and C-terminal fragments that contain phosphate and show neutral loss of phosphoric acid allowed unambiguous localization of ... dissociation of the corresponding peptide ions and examination of the resultant spectra for the presence of the signals produced by ‘neutral loss’ of phosphoric acid, which are characteristic of phosphorylated...
... the islands of Lolland and Bornholm are included in Zealand, and Jutland is the only part of the country belonging to mainland Europe), and we also observe a crude indicator of the degree of urbanization, ... that also directly affect the morbidity and Surveys and meta-studies of the epidemiological and medical evidence of associations of birth weight indicators and CVD later in life have been published ... utero and shortly after birth on the one hand, and later lifestyle on the other hand, lead to long-run effects on CVD outcomes (see e.g Mogren et al., 2001, and Holemans, Caluwaerts and Andr´...
... separate rooms who noted the causes, and the number and dates of falls two years before the beginning of the study as well as the subject’s current medication andphysical activities A fall was defined ... end of the walkway and was aligned along the axis of progression to obtain an anterior view of the subject The four other cameras were located m from, and in alignment with, the four corners of ... fallers and non-fallers The medications taken by the subjects are presented in Table The practice ofphysical activities of subjects is shown in Table Most of the subjects performed several physical...
... Because of freedom of LM and CrCa rotation of both ends about the sphere joints, there were no external constraints on proximal relative to distal end of radius: LM and CrCa translation; and LM and ... machine's ram position and applied load at sampling rates of 50 Hz axial, and 100 Hz torsion and bending NDI Toolbench software was used to determine the 3D position of the proximal end of the test segment ... components of relative 3D motion between ends of the test specimen, other than in the direction of loading, and/ or not apply a uniform component of load over the instrumented length of the specimen...
... parameters and some additional conditions imposed on the mappings in a Hilbert space Recently, O’Hara et al [13] generalized the result of Shimizu and Takahashi [18] and also complemented a result of ... of E A mapping Q of C into C is said to be a retraction if Q2 = Q If a mapping Q of C into itself is a retraction, then Qz = z for every z ∈ R(Q), where R(Q) is range of Q Let D be a subset of ... (1.2), (1.3), and (1.8) Then the iterative sequence {xn } defined by (1.1) converges strongly to QF a, where Q is a sunny nonexpansive retraction of C onto F Proof As in the proof of [1, Theorem...
... rest and no recharge between them, and when a potential step of 1.750 V was applied The results for one type of expander Žexpander B are presented in Fig 1, and Table summarizes the utilization of ... the presence of the expander Conclusions The proposed electrochemical method, which consists of applying a combination of potential-step and potentialsweep techniques, offers a rapid and simple ... significantly the understanding of the physical process which takes place during discharge of a negative plate and, thereby, permits adequate selection of the best additive Meanwhile, Hall and Wright w13x...
... rest and no recharge between them, and when a potential step of 1.750 V was applied The results for one type of expander Žexpander B are presented in Fig 1, and Table summarizes the utilization of ... the presence of the expander Conclusions The proposed electrochemical method, which consists of applying a combination of potential-step and potentialsweep techniques, offers a rapid and simple ... significantly the understanding of the physical process which takes place during discharge of a negative plate and, thereby, permits adequate selection of the best additive Meanwhile, Hall and Wright w13x...
... with the use of seed trees based on the comparison of three variants of the regeneration of a mixed oak-beech stand (1st irregular shelterwood – gaps of a diameter of 23 m, mean value of relative ... thousand and every other year by 10 thousand Effects of the degree of light intensity are not quite significant in that case The significantly lowest number of seedlings at the beginning and at ... degrees 1, and as compared to degrees and These differences steadily increased and so, in 2009, the diameter was smaller at degrees and as compared to degrees 3, andand in 2010, the values of diameters...
... stands at the Duparquet Lake Research Station (48º 30' N, 79º 20' W) originated from a 1923 fire and were characterised by mature stands of aspen, Jack pine, and spruce One of the spruce stands ... The Quebec stands were all located on clay soils Forest stands on Vancouver Island were located in a 89year-old Douglas-fir stand and a 45-year-old red alder stand The Douglas-fir stand was located ... when compared to the aspen and jack pine stands On Vancouver Island, overcast and clear sky RLRsensor were generally higher in Douglas fir stands between 90° and 70º, and lower below those elevations...
... via root systems and a variety of studies have shown gross changes in allocation of biomass between roots and shoots, and how the growth, size, spread and architecture etc., of tree root systems ... lengths of tap-root and total root system, and proportions were analysed using REML The relationships between the number of first order lateral roots, length of lateral roots and taproot length, and ... The influence of genotype and environment on dry matter distribution in plants, in: Huxley P.A (Ed.), Plant research and agroforestry, International Council for Research in Agroforestry, Nairobi,...
... Burrows N., Ward B., Robinson A., Aspectsof fire behaviour and fire suppression in a Pinus pinaster plantation, Dept of Conserv and Land Manage of West Aust., Landnote 2/88, Perth, 1988, p [17] ... plot) of the minimum tip diameter of the remaining branches and stems with a calliper [43] Rate of fire spread, the estimated fuel consumption, and a standard low heat of combustion value of 18 ... amount of energy delivered to the soil and the resulting effects on its physical, chemicaland biological properties [37] So, and even though plots U and RX13 have both experienced a stand-replacement...
... (1990) Sensing of soil water status and the regulation ofplant growth and development Plant Cell Environ 13, 709719 Farquhar GD (1978) Feedforward responses to humidity Aust J Plant Physiol 5, ... a period of drought for firs originating from dry areas ern Italy nances What is the contribution of these results to the understanding of the ecology of silver fir? Water relations of fir are ... and transpiration of fir twigs in contrasting habitats; - to understand interrelations between these variables and their interactions with microclimatic and edaphic factors; and - - to search...
... transcription of thousands of genes Thus, the elucidation of such programs in terms of the regulatory interactions involved is pivotal for the understanding of how organisms have evolved and what ... still have little understanding of how this highly tuned process is achieved for most organisms, and the surface of the problem is only just being scratched for a handful of model organisms, such ... Figure motifs of three (a) and four (b) genes found in the transcriptional network of A thaliana Network Network motifs of three (a) and four (b) genes found in the transcriptional network of A thaliana...
... 1,364 mL (713 mL) of autologous blood was taken from the patients, and 1,459 mL (605 mL) of HAES 6% and 1,311 mL (742 mL) of crystalloid fluid were substituted as a local standard to account ... parameters of right and left heart preload The lack of a correlation of filling pressures as a volume parameter in our study has also been described in other studies and has several reasons: CVP and ... increasing PEEP and rising CVP (r = 0.88) Furthermore, PCWP depends on the function of the mitral valve and the contractility of the left ventricle The therapeutic application of vasodilators and vasopressors...
... refinement process Sensitivities and specificities of iFF708 and iLL672 models before and after Sensitivities and specificities of iFF708 and iLL672 models before and after the model-directed experimental ... media, and anaerobic growth (Table 1; Materials and methods) Briefly, the growth of each mutant (assayed using empirically determined parameters of spot size and intensity (Materials and methods and ... considered linked and candidates for further analysis products of meiosis following mating and sporulation [36] The availability of this selection replaces the labor-intensive step of conventional...
... countries and 36 sustainable and institutional buildings were undertaken [7] Links were established with electric consumption and the perceptions of the indoor comfort and building design and building ... Niger, the northern part of Benin, Togo and Nigeria in West Africa are located in the bands between 15⁰ and 35⁰ north and south around the earth where the greatest amount of solar energy is received ... one observed in various cities of Nigeria [12] and elsewhere [13-15] Table reports on the daytime temperatures of the inner wall of various roof materials All the roof materials have their maximum...
... Results and discussion 56 Determination of sanitizer treatment time 56 Effect of biofilm age on resistance of biofilm 58 Effect of attachment surface on resistance of biofilm ... energy and product loss (Kumar and Anand, 1998; Pousen, 1999) The formation of biofilm is a complex phenomenon influenced by several factors including the chemicalandphysical properties of the ... conditions and the species Understanding the effect of temperature and pH on biofilm formation is essential to prevent their formation, and can reduce the risk of ineffective sanitation and microbial...
... 6.5), and resuspended in 50 mM MOPS buffer The reaction mixture containing 870 μL of sludge, 120 μL of 50 mM CTC, and 10 μL of the substrate mixture (0.05% for peptone and yeast extract and mM ... 5, and For measurement of the nitrification rate, NH4Cl was used as the substrate For measurement of the denitrification rate, NaNO3 and methanol were used as substrates, and the weight ratio of ... nitrification and denitrification rates were measured at pH 3, 5, and (Figs and 8) In the case of the S-2 sludge, both nitrification and denitrification activities were highest at pH and were not...