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THE FATE OF BIODIVERSITY IN MODIFIED TROPICAL FORESTS
... Closed forests Closed forests Intact Woodlands Nonforest Deforested Open forests Nonforest Deforested Closed forests Nonforest Deforested Open forests Woodlands Partially deforested Closed forests ... number of species on an island is assumed to follow a power-law model (Arrhenius 1921) S = cA z (1) whereby S0 is the initial number of species on an island before isolation, a is the area of the island, ... that, before isolation, the largest island (56 ha) had 15.5 species and the smallest island (0.3 ha) had 1.2 species For all islands, the mean time to extinction of half of the resident species...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Stereotactic body radiation therapy for melanoma and renal cell carcinoma: impact of single fraction equivalent dose on local control" ppt
... understand the potential benefits of SBRT for these histologies, we undertook a review of our institutional experience at the University of Colorado involving the use of SBRT for RCC and melanoma The ... further analysis of the nature of the lingering metabolic activity is beyond the scope of the present study The present study results are the first to support independently the observations of ... Finally, we reviewed the clinical observations typically seen in terms of metabolic imaging following SBRT for RCC and melanoma and the overall survival of this population of patients, with the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Ipsilateral irradiation for well lateralized carcinomas of the oral cavity and oropharynx: results on tumor control and xerostomia" pot
... designed the study and drafted the manuscript MM participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis ML treated some of the patients included in the study and participated ... irradiation is not recommended where the risk of subclinical disease is less than 20%, because of the morbidity of radiotherapy The results of the present study demonstrate that the failure rate in the ... between 2000 and 2007 The guidelines for inclusion in the unilateral protocol were as follows: histologically confirmed squamous cell carcinoma; location of the lesion in the tonsillar region...
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giudelines on small bowel enteroscopy and capsule endoscopy in adults 2008
... while the enteroscope is advanced The overtube balloon is deflated whilst the enteroscope balloon is inflated, and the overtube is advanced along the distal end of the enteroscope This is described ... aid of another orally passed endoscope.6 It is then propelled through the small bowel by peristalsis The main disadvantages are the lack of tip deflection, biopsy channel and length of time (from ... impair visualisation of the mucosa, and secondly the rate of gastric emptying and small bowel transit which could lead to the exhaustion of the capsule batteries before the capsule reaches the ileo-caecal...
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a study on backfire control and performance improvement by changing the valve timings in a hydrogen-fueled engine with external injection
... control and the enhancement of engine performance Also the purposes and objectives of research are shown The methods and contents and of research are covered Chapter 2: to relate the development of ... displacement of the timing gear Angle is defined as the setting angle Angle and are the phasing angle of the camshaft gear and the phasing angle of the timing gear, respectively D1 and D2 are the ... camshafts and the displacement X of the timing gears This relation is shown in Fig 2-5 It is clearly from the figure that the phasing angle of camshaft is varied linearly with respect to the displacement...
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focuses on expressions of criticizing in American and Vietnamese e-newspapers in the light of Directness/Indirectness
... the subject and the main verb In this case, subject and main verb are together at the beginning of the sentence, but in other case, they are separated or the writer delays the appearance of the ... neutral Additionally, they tend to think of themselves before taking notice of others’ reactions because of their individualism For this reason, the American are not resistant to express their critical ... analysis and findings Structure of the articles Each of the three main part of an article (the headline, the lead and the body) has its own distinctive style and content 16 4.2.1.1 The headline The...
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Interruption in age based and gender based conversationsstudy on types, outcomes and functions = nghiên cứu về thể loại, tác động và chức năng của sự ngắt lời trong đàm thoại trên cơ sở về tuổi và giới
... set of interacting processes, in which the sender is the one who is sending the message out; the channel is the way the message is being sent; and the receiver is supposed to receive and use the ... outlined his theory of speech acts and the concept of performative language, in which to say something is to something Austin offered an analysis of the concept of speech acts, which distinguishes ... hypothesized that the changing of speaker and listener depends on a series of visual and auditory cues which are displayed by the speaker at the end of a speaking turn The cues, which may be displayed...
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Tài liệu University Oars Being a Critical Enquiry Into the After Health of the Men Who Rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat-Race, from the Year 1829 to 1869, Based on the Personal Experience of the Rowers Themselves pdf
... champions of the Oar My statistics are I believe calculated to dispel all such gloomy forebodings, and to show that the hardy disciples of the Isis and the Cam may fairly dispute the palm of health and ... race ought to live till the age of 60; and if all the members of the Oxford 1829 crew had lived till the 10th of June, 1869, the 40th anniversary of the race, and then died, their lives would have ... whom is no tendency to hereditary disease, who are accustomed to take proper care of themselves, and at the same time are carefully prepared for their labours, whether such men, fulfilling their...
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Tài liệu REPORT BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL ON THE UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: INTERNATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION SCHEME AND UNESCO’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECADE doc
... ICTs are accessible to learners, they can serve to provide spaces for global dialogue The Small Islands Voice (www.smallislandsvoice.org), for example, links the general public and youth of island ... set the stage for understanding the IIS, three areas require brief discussion These are sustainability issues that need to be included in educational activities, the role of values in ESD, and the ... in the history of two distinct areas of interest of the United Nations – education and sustainable development The primary goal for the DESD is laid out in the UNGA resolution 59/237 in which the...
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Tài liệu DEVELOPMENT OF STANDARDS OF AOX FOR SMALL SCALE PULP AND PAPER MILLS pdf
... writing and printing paper The -8- findings of the study will increase an awareness in the pulp & paper industry on the status of technology and the level of AOX in their mill effluents so that the ... number of unbleached pulp Bleaching of pulp using mill conditions Analysis of bleach effluents generated Analysis of samples The selected pulp and paper mills were visited for indepth study The ... pulp & the pulp should be bleached by oxidative bleaching process to reduce the discharge of AOX (v) The mills should expand the capacity of the existing pulp mill appropriately for installing...
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Báo cáo " On equations of motion, boundary conditions and conserved energy-momentum of the rigid string " doc
... boundary of the rectangle Ω The advantage of the form of the variation δS is that it involves the least possible number of derivatives of the variations δxµ The remaining derivatives of δx in formula ... integrations The Z-terms in formula (9) for δS can be regarded as a contribution from the corner points of the rectangle R For the closed string they cancel each other However, for the open string they ... coincidence of the following two mathematical obstacles: the presence of the high derivatives in the Lagrangian , and the fact that the field xµ (τ, σ) is defined on the finite strip σ π , and −∞...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Identification of small scale biochemical networks based on general type system perturbations pdf
... interaction topology of the network as not all intermediates can be measured That is, we assume that only the measured components are part of the network to be modelled This is a common assumption often ... a highly relevant topic, but outside the scope of this paper The outline of the paper is as follows We first present the problem formulation and briefly outline the method used for network identification ... is out of the scope of this paper and a topic for future work Instead we will, in the experiments below, consistently perform four experiments (In each experiment the transcription rate of a different...
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NATURAL RESOURCE ABUNDANCE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH docx
... 1970 and 1980, for the first regression, and 1980 and 1989 for the second, and INV is average investment for either the 1970s or 1980s Since the rule of law variable is measured only as of 1982, ... resource intensity is PXI70, the share of primary exports in total exports in 1970 (rather than the share of primary exports in GDP, which is SXP) Our fourth measure is the log of land area per person ... selected for this list if they were ranked in the top 23 in terms of value of production in 1973 In 1973, the value of total world production of these 23 minerals was $156,276 million dollars The...
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Small functional equations and how to solve them (PBM)
... line] are taken, the ratio of the distance between the first and the second to the distance between the second and the third is as the ratio of the excess in intensity of the first point over that of ... y-axis Thus the areas of the two regions must be the same The area of the shaded region with base from y to x y is f (x y)−f (y) This follows immediately from the fact that the region under the ... x will be found to satisfy the equation The proof of this fact is beyond the scope of this discussion here However, the basic idea is √ not too difficult Consider all real numbers x of the form...
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Investigation of au and in as solvents for the growth of silicon nanowires on si(1 1 1)
... differences of solubilities of surface atoms in gold and indium and on the different surface energies of the bare and oxidized substrate as well as on the surface tension of the liquid metal alloys ... significantly different and thus that indium does not enhance the decomposition of an oxide layer If this is actually the case, the indium distribution will then depend on whether a desorption step ... tend to wet the substrate This could explain the formation of smaller droplets in the case of gold than in the case of indium on a bare silicon surface, i.e after desorption step for indium Without...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "ON THE INTONATION OF MONO- AND DI-SYLLABIC WORDS WITHIN THE DISCOURSE FRAMEWORK OF CONVERSATIONAL GAMES ON THE INTONATION OF MONO- AND DI-SYLLABIC WORDS WITHIN THE DISCOURSE FRAMEWORK OF CONVERSATIONAL GAMES " pot
... on it and has to tell another person how to draw the path onto a similar map Neither participant can see the other's map The nature of the map task is such that from the conversations the speaker's ... non-linguistic goals It is through the framework of games and their components, conversational moves, that the intonation of mono- and di-syllabic words can be compared with their discourse function, ... turn and letting the other person continue; 86% of level contour serves to continue an instruction; 88% of falling contour marks the end of a subtask But her categorization of discourse is still...
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Quality of Life and Technology Assessment: Monograph of the Council on Health Care Technology potx
... overall satisfaction with life Scoring is similar to that in the IPA Index of Well-Being The Index of Well-Being consists of a combination of responses to the IPA and IOLS It is weighted toward the ... in the editing The council and the Methods Panel greatly appreciate the willingness of the authors to produce their chapters promptly and their help throughout the editing of the monograph The ... implications The sum of these varied interests is the field of health care technology assessment The Council on Health Care Technology was created to promote the development and application of technology...
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COMMUNITY BANKS AND CREDIT UNIONS : Impact of the Dodd- Frank Act Depends Largely on Future Rule Makings docx
... the U.S financial system and broader economy faced the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression The crisis threatened the stability of the financial system and contributed to the ... transferred to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for savings associations and to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) for savings and loan holding ... Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and NCUA, and the Small Business Administration (SBA); officials from two...
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Small Business Handbook - Small Business Safety and Health Management Series pdf
... cylinder is empty and rated load each hoist J Is thevisible to theofoperator? legibly marked and stops J Aretrolley provided at the safe limits of travel for hoists? plainly J Are the controls of hoiststravel ... should bend their knees and use the large muscles of the legs instead of the smaller muscles of the back Back injuries are the most frequent and often the most persistent and painful type of workplace ... /index.html, call the OSHA Area Office nearest you, or (800) 321-OSHA to obtain this information If you are subject to state enforcement, the OSHA Area Office will refer you to your state office which...
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Social Accounting: A Practical Guide for Small Community Organisations and Enterprises pot
... while they are standing in the queue waiting to pay for their box of produce The survey form also tells people why the information is being collected, and what will be done with it (including the ... in the garden How: • Before the event, give the person who is organising it a bunch of feedback forms, and a box for the completed forms; and show them where to put the box when the event is ... things are going from the range of people involved in your organisation or enterprise • You will be able to identify the areas where things are working well and not so well and you can use this information...
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