... also growing Abuse of Non-Profit Status “Non-profit” credit counseling agencies are increasingly performing like profit-making enterprises Nearly every agency in the industry has non-profit, tax-exempt ... annual or monthly basis, as well as fees incurred for exceeding a credit line 53 Report by NCLC and CFA 21 Credit Counseling in Crisis By comparison, creditor policies on reducing interest rates ... job of portraying themselves as “good guys” that state and federal policymakers are increasingly considering and requiring credit counseling as a condition of filing for bankruptcy or taking...
... wheel-running tapered off below the target rate They compared LL to LDfb at 0.1, and 100 lux oflight They found that circadian period under LDfb obeyed Aschoff's rule, and feedback lighting increased ... period increase in DBA/2 and C57BL/6 strains of mice was indistinguishable Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions JRH conceived of ... activity of the mice was monitored with passive infrared detectors (Ademco, Syosset, NY) mounted over each cage The passive infrared (ir) proximity sensor works by emitting pulses of ir light, ...
... dried It was capable of efficient phosphorus removal at a dose of 100-200 mg/1 Couillard has investigated the properties of a red mud as a coagulant and the physiological effects of its use as well ... out when the initial PO43 concentration was varied from 20 to 240 mg/1 The results are shown in Fig The extent of PO removal decreased with an increase of the initial concentration of the model ... dose of 20 g/1 activated mud was used (Fig 4) The importance of the preliminary acid treatment of the red mud was established by parallel experiments using both raw and activated red mud In Fig...
... runs, which was filtered out using an aspirator, washed with liter of deionized water, and reused in the subsequent run This procedure was repeated during consecutive runs As shown in Figure 3(a), ... pump (Cole-Parmer Instrument Co.) was continuously recirculating the suspension to a batch vessel and the solar reactor by silicon pipes Solar light intensity was measured using a Radiometer (VLX-3W ... initially carried out by injecting a sampling of TCE into the slurry of TiO2 to given a final solution of 50 ppm TCE The run in the dark condition (TiO2 alone) showed about 20% of TCE degradation after...
... Layer>Create Clipping Mask sau bạn chọn công cụ Brush, mã màu brush #f22625, tô lên người cậu bé,Chuyển chế độ hòa trộn Layer Multiply Step Select the Eraser Tool (E) and delete some parts of the red layer ... giá trị 1.5 px ngon, chuyển chế độ hòa trộn Multiply Step 11 (Light Painting) Tạo Foder mới, đặt tên foder Light, sau bạn kéo logo Beijing 2008 \(chúng dek có logo viết chữ mà chún thích vào ^_^!|!),nếu ... Eraser Tool (E) and delete some parts of the red layer The idea is just make the highlights more red Dùng công cụ Eraser Tool (E), xóa số vùng layer tep Tạo layer mới, tạo vùng lựa chọn bao quan...
... use it was really intended for, and finding that the beams were much too long to support the canvas roof, instead of considering some means of raising the roof or lowering the beams into the ... voice asserts that a man has as much chance of doing what the R.E wants, as a gnat has of fighting a aeroplane The sergeant numbers them off There is of course one missing; but the officer, being ... accordingly Drinking water was issued at stated intervals, in the presence of an officer and that was another occasion on which there were no absentees Some way east of the camp ran a line of barbed...
... clay of lagoonal facies in the central part passing into silty clay of flood plain, oxbow, coastal swamp and peat facies in the direction from the plain to the modern coastline. ... Hai Hung Formation in the upper sequence and the fine sediments of deltaic and marine facies of Vinh Phuc Formation in the lower sequence. The sediment of Vinh Phuc Formation was weathered (Fig. ... fluctuates in a wide range from 2‐4 m up to 36 m, with thickness increasing towards the center of plain. It is composed of sand, silt, clay of alluvial facies of Thai Binh Formation ...
... self-assembling QDs technique, described, e.g., in the US Patent #6541788 entitled as ‘‘Mid infrared and near infrared light upconverter using self-assembled quantum dots’’ as well as by usage of MBE, ... imaging object location and remote sensing as well as infrared imaging of astronomical objects Mentioned optimized quantum structures can be formed by direct epitaxial deposition using a self-assembling ... respectively, R0 is the intersection point of the circles and X-axes The motion of the charged particle in the plane of cross section is localized in the dashed area as it is shown in Fig 1b In the strong...
... of hole increases, which in turn reduces the forbidden gap width [9] The inverse character of the behavior of the AE is illustrated in Fig Presence of the magnetic field increases the energy of ... absorption is observed When the light frequency is increasing, the second slightly notable maximum is traced Further increase of the incident light frequency results in decrease of the absorption coefficient ... different: increase of the magnetic field intensity increases the particle energy, while increase of the electrical field intensity reduces the particle energy The first phenomenon is explained by...
... density ofred deer was determined in both hunting districts using the CPM method compared to values determined by the FSC method We assume that it can be caused by a number of factors affecting the ... length was 50–720 m at places allowing the easy counting of faecal pellet groups (FPG) The group of faecal pellets with more than cylindrical pellets was regarded as an FPG Groups of pellets lying ... and Černý potok hunting districts in 2007–2008 A significant difference in the values of the estimate ofred deer mean density using FSC and CPM methods was determined in all cases Generally, it...
... growing season) In contrast, a substantial increase of about 3% in DMA1+A2 for a decrease of about 6% in the level oflight intercepted by its vegetation was found when the same scenario was applied ... following growing seasons (Fig 3) 4.2 Botanical determinants of foliage clumpiness and light harvesting Studies linking botanical parameters to spatial distribution of leaf area and/or light interception ... than in µ was the determinant factor driving light interception during a large fraction of the growing season This is in agreement with the observations by Niinemets et al [17] suggesting that...
... reported in the Municipality of Antônio Dias, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil in 1978 and in 1990 associated with Glena sp in 400 hectares of E urophylla [19, 21] Number of individuals of S caberata was ... was lower than other species which showed 86% of individuals collected This indicates an adequate biological balance in eucalyptus plantations in this area with predominance of individuals of ... collected in a Eucalyptus grandis plantation in the Municipality of Nova Era, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil from August 1991 to July 1996 Discontinued lines indicated that collections were not made in...
... quenching with increasing actinic light The slope of this relationship gives a relative value of the ‘quenching shift rate’ [44] As growth irradiance declined, the ‘quenching shift rate’ increased ... differences inlight intensity Increase in biomass with light intensity together with the highest biomass observed under FL suggest that Quercus alba seedlings must have a light saturation point > ... With increasing light intensity, photosynthesis rate increased from HS to MS to LS to FL and thus more biomass was produced by the same amount of leaf area The rapid rise in LAR with decreasing light...
... investment in branches in low light However, in our study, there was an increase in the fractional investment in needles with increasing Qint in the fertile site, and no effect of Qint in the other ... generally increases with increasing light availability in the canopy [74], possibly because of the positive scaling of Rb with irradiance The dependence of Rb on Qint in P sylvestris in the fertile ... generally decreased with increasing needle age, possibly indicating that needles became less plastic with advancing age Despite this, the interaction term, age X Qint, was insignificant in all relationships...
... number of repeated measurements at the same place and at the same hour on different days; Pts = number of sampling points; Meas.: number of measures = (number of sampling points) × (number of repetitions) ... have examined in some way the influence oflight availability [49] Indeed, differential responses among tropical tree species in the light requirements of seedlings have been proposed as a potential ... from understorey, and hemispherical photographs distinguished the former logging track from understorey As expected, the PAI was lowest in the recent gap and increased till understorey, whereas...
... at least not in the case of intense radiation, since a linear increase in photosynthetic response in relation to available light is assumed to exist (Larcher, 1994) in plant stands in contrast ... sampled in this investigation Figure shows that the determination of relative variations in photoconductivity is suitable also for describing the increase in relative illuminance with decreasing ... of illumination time t and to the square of the third root of incident light intensity I: Under certain preconditions the variations in photoconductivity permit conclusions as to the amount of...
... S amara was the -1 most affected by increasing shade: 149% increase in specific leaf area when going from full sunlight to shadiest tunnel It was There was also a regular decrease in leaf area ... variations inlight conditions The right side of figure shows that for most species there was a quasi-linear decrease in individual leaf area in relation to the logarithm of relative light intensity ... differed depending on the species, trated in table V which shows the as illus- plasticity area in response to light en- S amara was the most plastic species It followed in decreasing order of leaf...
... are capable of attracting specific B lymphocytes into the glands [22,23] H & E staining of the parotid tissue revealed lymphoid follicles as well as diffuse plasma cell infiltration of the organ ... against replacement mutations in the FRs that might cause structural constrains of the immunoglobulin molecule The frequency of silent mutations was found to be increased in the productive light ... using the V BASE Sequence Directory [13] to identify the underlying germline gene Statistical analysis Nonproductive as well as productive VL chain rearrangements of peripheral blood B cells of...