population environment and women s issues

... (1999) Photosynthesis under stress: stress signals and adaptive response of chloroplasts, In: Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress, Pessarakli, M (ed), pp 315-336, Marcel Dekker Inc., ISBN 0-8247-1948-4,New ... stresses which causes enormous loss in production of crops, more so because water stress is usually accompanied by other stresses like salinity, high temperature and nutrient deficiencies In ... cells In this chapter, we mainly discuss about soil salinity, its effects on plants and tolerance mechanisms which permit the plants to withstand stress, with particular emphasis on ion homeostasis,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 08:20

... relationship between waterstress intensity and light-induced disorders in PS II activity still has to be clearly assessed Chlorophyll a fluorescence may be used to estimate quantum efficiencies of PS ... all species but were not mediated by leaf-tissue dehydration The relationships between water stress, high light and species responses need further analysis to elucidate such differential responses ... 15-44 Schulze ED, Hall AE (1982) Stomatal responses, water loss and CO assimilation rates of plants in contrasting environments In: Physiological Plant Ecology II Water Relations and Carbon Assimilation...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... hypersensitivity is associated with osmotic stress hypersensitivity [36,37] In other mutants such as the tos mutant, ABA insensitivity is associated with osmotic stress hypersensitivity [38] These ... modulates gene expression in both plant defense and stress responses Methods Materials and Growth Conditions The Arabidopsis knockout mutants and overexpression lines for WRKY18, WRKY40 and WRKY60 ... plant hormones such as ethylene, auxin and jasmonic acid The relationship between ABA signaling and salt and osmotic stress tolerance is also very complex In some mutants such as tomato tss2 mutant,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... furthering discussion of this issue Such a study would be necessary to obtain reliable estimates of effect size by lag Our study is the first report to obtain such stable estimates of effect size by ... harvesting These results have now been shown in five studies using three different methodologies and in 13 of 14 cities, suggesting that the finding is robust These findings are also consistent ... in risk associated with longer time scales is consistent with the report of higher risk estimates in cohort studies38,39 than in previous timeseries studies, given that the cohort studies incorporate...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... trained: universities, nurse training colleges and two-year bridging courses The bridging courses enable enrolled nurses and nursing auxiliaries to train and register as professional nurses In 2006, ... professionals to provide comprehensive HIV/AIDS, STI and tuberculosis (TB) treatment, care and support Establish strong links between health facilities and community-based support programmes Improve ... esti- Table 1: South African National Department of Health Comprehensive Plan: planned number of patients on ARVs and associated costs and total costs Year New cases starting ARVsa Total cases...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... questions are classified into sub-types basing on the features of questions and responses He asserts that the speaker mainly makes questions because of unobvious things This also decides the responses ... meaning of the question and some special responses: misunderstandings or evasive responses Classification of questions and responses in Tsui s model Tsui (1994) argues that it is the communicative ... responses We randomly choose 117 samples of English responses and 117 samples of Vietnamese responses, of which 68.3% in English and 49% in Vietnamese are direct replies Based on the samples...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54

... comments by someone 's press officer can be called secondary sources Secondary sources are not usually as reliable as primary sources News-writers have to assess the reliability of secondary sources ... syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects A wide range of linguistic devices was studied on different structures of verbs, adverbs, adjectives and nouns in the two languages However, issues about ... those in Vietnamese to find out similarities and differences of attributive expressions in English and Vietnamese newspapers Next, we analyzed and discussed the results of the research to find...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:24

... the siRNAs (Figs 3–5 and supplementary Tables S1 S1 2) For several mRNAs, we found small stretches of sequence identity with the 3¢-end of siRNA sense sequences (5¢-end of antisense sequences) ... siRNA passenger strands, but no perfect seed match was found in these conditions (data not shown) Discussion It is now well established that off-target silencing is a fundamental feature of siRNAs ... Vankoningsloo et al Fig 10 Sequence alignments between siRNA sense strands and mRNAs downregulated by these siRNAs after 24 h of transfection Identical nucleotides in mRNA and siRNA sequences are...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... Bottcher and S Pollmann ¨ Fig Schematic representation of stress-induced processes mediated by reactive electrophilic species, such as phytoprostanes and OPDA, and jasmonic acid as well as by its bioactive ... identified genes encode for proteins involved in stress responses, for example, heat shock proteins, glutathione S- transferases (GSTs) or polypeptides related to signal transduction, such as transcription ... responses in plants C Bottcher and S Pollmann ¨ stimuli into internal signals, and as a consequence, an appropriate adjustment of gene expression via specific signal-transduction cascades in answer...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 02:20

... AIDS ALP AMS ART ARV CDC CEO DBS GRI HIV ILO KABP LSSA M&E PEP PLWA PLWHA SABCOHA SARS SAS SASSETA SIRA SMMEs SPSS STD STI TTT UCT UNAIDS USA VCT WHO Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome AIDS Law Project ... communities and South African society An allencompassing strategy that combines human resources, economic and medical aspects is needed; it should include aspects such as absenteeism, sick and special ... HIV/AIDS South African Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS South African Revenue Services Statistical Analysis Systems Safety and Security Sector Education and Training Authority Security Industry Regulatory...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... uses rational decision-making processes Second, to use the decision level of analysis, it is not necessary to assume that employees consistently use specific processes across time or decisions, ... more extensive discussion of decision-making, see Section 2.5 of this dissertation For a more extensive discussion of assumptions in prior studies and assumptions made in this study, see Section ... Active Resistance to Change .226 Regression Results of Passive Resistance to Change 227 Regression Results of Passive Resistance to Change 228 Regression Results of Passive Resistance...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... processes [1] Given the widespread use of conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) and other estrogens for menopausal symptoms, the issue of overall health benefits and risks associated with CEE has been ... discrepancies It is possible that different species are measured by ELISA versus IPAS (that is, different isoforms) Since the epitopes of the antibodies used in ELISAs are often not specified or ... intervals for ELISA and IPAS data For comparison of discovery and validation findings we also report Pearson s correlation coefficients for log-ratios Results Proteomic analysis of sera from study subjects...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 14:20

... eects, we focussed the present review on tree and stand water relations, as primary targets of water shortage This review aims at synthesizing the key processes enabling forest trees and stands ... Belrose V., S cheresse et canicule de lộtộ 2003: observations en 2004 des consộquences sur les peuplements forestiers adultes Rộsultats dộtaill s pour les essences feuillues, Dộpartement de la Santộ ... process Only site predisposition or concomitant biotic invasions may turn the process into irreversible situations for some trees The following section discusses this point Besides plant growth and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... gs , and WUEi of the glasshouse and field populations began to converge Nevertheless, we found that WUEi increased in both the glasshouse and field site in response to water stress The lack of site ... intervals for well-watered ( ) and water-stressed (•) American chestnut seedlings under glasshouse conditions Each value is a mean ± SE (n = 10) glasshouse population caused solar noon leaf wilt and ... glasshouse under full sun and well-watered conditions at the Clemson University Biosystems Research Complex (Clemson, SC, USA) (Fig 1) The glasshouse experiment consisted of a total of 20 randomly...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... parameters were examined using Wilcoxon s test and chi-squared test, respectively Multivariate stepwise logistic regression analysis was A C B D Immunohistochemical study of human samples The distribution ... analyses were performed with JMP8.0 software, and p-values less than 0.05 were considered to be statistically significant Results The number and distribution of T cells in biopsy samples before ... distributed in the whole tissue sections, while many cells clustered in specific fields in some cases When the numbers were counted in each case, the densities of CD4(+) and CD8 (+) T cells showed...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... psychiatrists from clinical interviews, medical chart review, and consultation with patients’ psychiatrists All patients with schizophrenia were in remission as assessed by Scale for the Assessment ... across studies and tasks: for instance, while prefrontal deficits were prominent in both VBM-based and fMRI-based classification studies, abnormalities in posterior regions such as precuneus and ... Positive Symptoms [19] (SAPS) and the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms [20] (SANS) All patients with bipolar disorder were of Type I bipolar disorder, in an euthymic state, as assessed...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... polymerase and the (M)edium segment encodes two glycoproteins (GN and GC), a 78 kDa protein as well as a non-structural protein (NSm) The (S) mall segment encodes a non-structural protein (NSs) and ... infection in horses and a vaccine for use in salmon against the hematopoietic necrosis virus [35] The DNA vaccine technology is especially suitable against pathogens such as RVFV, since the need ... inactivated virus vaccines are safe, but less immunogenic and require annual booster vaccinations [11] Previously, two vaccine candidates have been proposed and tested for their safety and efficacy...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... the probabilities needed in the sampling process, q is the same as π, and as a result all samples are accepted 2.4 Simulation study Three hypothetical pedigrees were used to assess the performance ... genetic standard deviations For some parents these absolute errors were as high as 0.39 genetic standard deviations Figure also shows that the variability of the maximum absolute errors for iterative ... because some of the absolute errors were as large as 3.2 genetic standard deviations 3.4 Implementation of ESIP The results presented so far for ESIP were obtained by only using the Elston-Stewart...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... across the sea • Six silent snakes slithering slowly southward • Six silly sisters seil silk to six sickly seniors • Six slippery seals slipping silently ashore • Sammy Smellie smelt a smell of small-coal: ... twisters - The letter s • Seven slick, slimy snakes sliding slowly southward • Seventeen slimy slugs in satin sunbonnets sat singing short, sad songs • Seventy-seven sea serpents swam hissing ... lunch • Mrs Chip is very old, and when she settles down to stitch Unless she uses spectacles - she cannot see which stitch is which Tongue twisters - The letter „j“ • Jean, Joan, George and Gerald...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2015, 10:05