reconsidering the relationships between urbanization poverty and the environment

... cavitation The VCs of the six species of Maple are grouped together in Figure It is possible to differentiate, according to their The combined results of the specific conductivities and the vulnerability ... 27, 32] During their development, the different tree com- 85 ponents acclimate to the prevailing environmental conditions, and therefore develop structures that acclimate them to environmental ... individual trees in the mountain stand were compared with a tree of the wet site (closed symbols) The linear relation between Kmax and the stem diameter is given by the regression coefficient R2 Analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22

... discharged from the ICU to ward, but not to their homes To increase the collaboration between intensivists and GPs, the present study aimed at assessing the opinions of GPs about their relationships ... city, and distance between their office and the nearest university hospital ICU In addition, information concerning the number of patients per year, the way medical information related to the patient ... during the patient ICU stay (frequency and the aim of these meetings) The frequency of reception of an ICU report was estimated GPs' wishes Materials and methods The present study was approved by the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... without which the thesis will fall Dr Chai gives life to the thesis, is always full of ideas, and at the same time extremely caring and understanding But most importantly, their trust and patience ... Burt (1997) The theories of network ties is important in the studies of knowledge sharing because the identities and interpersonal relationships between the knowledge contributor and recipients ... knowledge because the relationships between the source and the recipients are less arduous and more intimate (Szulanski 1996) Complex knowledge is usually more tacit in nature, and therefore requires...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:02

... higher the levels of R&D efforts and training within a firm are, the more the firm will be able to create and exploit - 14 - Chapter Literature Review novelty”(pp.31), and on the other hand the ... for biotechnology startups, the larger the alliance network size, and the more ‘efficient’ the network, the higher the performance They reasoned that the larger size and more efficient network ... organizational structures and compensation policies (the more similarity, the more fluent the transfer process); and 3), proportion of the shared problem set (the larger, the easier the learning) This...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 21:04

... mirrored in the corresponding pH-rate proles The pKa values of the cofactor phosphate in unliganded EcMalP and the EcMalParsenate complex are 5.6 [26] and 6.7 [27], respectively The pKa of the 5Â-phosphate ... potassium phosphate between < 0.05 and 80 mM PLP at a concentration of between 0.0 and 100 lM was added to reconstitute the holo-enzyme The reaction was carried out at 30 C and typically, the time ể FEBS ... dimer formation and appearance of thermostabilization by phosphate has been examined The role of the cofactor 5Â-phosphate group in the induction of stability and stabilization of the CcStP dimer...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... 2004 in the surroundings of Jena) The range of photosynthetically active radiation (400–700 nm) and the absorption maxima of PSII and PSI (680 and 700 nm) are marked along the top of the figure ... between state transitions and the LTR The Chl fluorescence parameter FS ⁄ FM [the ratio between steady state fluorescence and maximum fluorescence using the equation (FS ⁄ FM=(Ft ) Fo¢) ⁄ FM)] and ... system (Fig 3) The interplay between the kinases and their substrates integrates these varying redox signals and initiates appropriate molecular acclimation responses in the short-term and long-term...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... group, the speed was medium, and the torque was the lowest (Table 1) In contrast, the results for LRSA-F/D showed negative γARV-MPF and LRSA The speed was the lowest, and the torque was medium In the ... recorded the ECG, and measured the blood pressure using the tonometry method, the respiration using strain sensors around the chest and abdomen for use as ANA-related biosignals, and the eye movement ... 2500 ANSI lumens, and the illumination in the room was 10 lx The distance between the subject and screen was about meters, resulting in horizontal and vertical view angles of 22 and 17 deg, respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... (DifPDattrac and RPDattrac) (see Table 4) Both parameters, i.e the difference and the proportion, can be considered to be suitable to assess relationships between the tree species dominance and the intensity ... on one plot, and on the contrary, as small on the other plot To assess the effect of the species proportion on damage we would have to have plots roughly of the same PDall Since the rate of damage ... Nevertheless, a question of the relationship between the intensity of damage and the woody species dominance in advance regeneration was one of problems of our enormous interest Therefore, on the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... branches have been naturally or artificially pruned The older the tree, the longer the time elapsed between branch death and the moment of study, and so the number of branches that have been pruned ... technique The fitting procedure was iterative: (i) Finding the best equation for modelling the relationships between branch diameter and branch height within the tree (the tree model) (ii) Fitting the ... an example of the predictions, obtained for one tree of stand 34 A comparison between Figures and revealed the improvement made by adding the random parameters (here the whorl and tree effects,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22

... applied to the hallux, head of the fifth metatarsal and navicular for the forefoot segment The rearfoot and shank consisted of medial, lateral and posterior calcaneal markers and medial and lateral ... M, Rezasoltani A, Kalantari KK: The relationship between the height of the medial longitudinal arch (MLA) and the ankle and knee injuries in professional runners The Foot 2008, 18(2):84-90 Redmond ... Due to the limited number of studies investigating the use of the FPI as a predictor of dynamic function the results are inconclusive The purpose of this study was to determine and compare the strength...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... relation to the frontal lobe [28] This might be a possible mechanism behind the correlation between the PERM Schizoid and the SHSSC Posthypnotic amnesia in our patients On the other hand, patients ... study, and FW, WC, HW and WW drafted the manuscript FW and WC contributed equally to the paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they ... JH, and PX conducted the hypnotic susceptibility tests on participants, WH, HC, JZ, and WY collected the inventory data in students, WW and LC participated in the design and coordination of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... traits, with 32, 25 and 23 rams from the lean line in the yr and 34, 17 and 20 rams from the fat line On average, there were sire families each year in both selection lines and the rams were progeny ... where MSE and MSS were the residual and between- sire mean squares, respectively, from the analysis of variance of transformed data, with fixed effects included in the model; N and s were the total ... biased by the effects of dam age and birth type, so they were included in the model to remove their effects on the measured traits The positive correlation for liveweight with CREA, UREA and IGF,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... alcR and aldA expression not exceed their basal, noninduced levels (results not shown) These data thus show that there is no correlation between the inducing capabilities of a ketone and the structurally ... resolved directly in the gel as described in Materials and methods The zymograms are presented as the negatives (B) Northern analysis of the induction of aldA and alcR in the presence of ethanol ... have therefore investigated whether or not the esters and lactones (intramolecular esters) corresponding to the above ketones induce the alc genes Transcript analyses show that whereas the ester...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... Respondents, for their patience and cooperation in answering the questionnaire and for other data given; MY FAMILY and FRIENDS, for the love and support in one way or the other; and TO ALL who ... in the Northern Key Economic Region of Vietnam, next to Thai Nguyen province and Tuyen Quang to the North, and to Phu Tho province to the West, and to Hanoi capital to the East and the South The ... partnership between Enterprises and Colleges, the models, methods and levels of cooperation between Colleges and Enterprises, the factors that affect the cooperation between Colleges and Enterprises and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/05/2014, 14:46

... as the elderly may continue to work but reduce their hours as they age rather than abandon work altogether Figures, and show the weekly hours of work for men and women and additionally shows the ... need and poverty, and it is to these that we now turn 28 5 .Poverty Table 18 shows the difference in poverty incidence and depth of poverty for households headed by an elderly person aged 60 and ... either side of the poverty line This approach avoids reliance on a single line and thus the some of the dangers of estimating incidence of poverty at the margins of the line due to rounding and...

Ngày tải lên: 27/05/2014, 07:47

... , (1.12) where the symbol En is interpreted to mean that En must be replaced by En when we expand the one on the left These numbers are classical and important in mathematics and in various places ... q-deformed fermionic certain and annihilation operators and the literature given therein [6–18] The expression for the Iq (g) remains the same, so it is tempting to consider the limit q → −1 That is, ... follows Definition 2.8 For s ∈ C Then ∞ lw (s,χ | z) = (−1)n χ(n)wn (n + z)s n =0 (2.16) The relation between lw (−k,χ | z) and Ek,χ,w (z) is given by the following theorem Theorem 2.9 For k ∈ N, one...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 18:20

... but there are things we just cant disagree on: Guys are moer low maintenance, transparent and they carry with them very little drama We, on the other hand, can be finicky, passive aggressive and ... “ unless one of these things is at play” Once one of these is activated, then the male/female friendship can absolutely exist in perpetuity And here goes: 1- You’re taken If either of you are ... come by And however you may see this post, please, always give a thought or two about their feelings Peel the layers, strip it all down to the very basic qualities of the friendship, and you’ll...

Ngày tải lên: 26/07/2014, 13:01

... groundwater The groundwater level strongly modifies the root system parameters and consequently, there arises a question how it influences the relationships between the aboveground and the belowground ... correlation between the root plate width and the dbh than between the root plate depth and the dbh His results partially correspond to our results because we have not found out any correlation between the ... only a weak and statistically insignificant correlation between the CL and the root plate width Konôpka (2002) came to equivocal results concerning the correlation between the Cpi and the root plate...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:22

... especially in the earlywood The calculated apparent densities of (tracheids, rays and canals) walls vary between 880 in the EW and 1140 kg/m³ in the LW and the apparent densities of the tracheids ... the cell walls thickness of the S2 (the richest in cellulose) and S1 layers, are strongly and weakly thicker than in the EW, respectively while the S3 layer and the primary wall have almost the ... count the total number of tracheids and (ii) to measure the cell wall thickness Based on these figures, with the support of one simple geometric model and by the mean of the expected value for the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22

... of the two halfues boards and of the four standard samples There is no relationship between the top and bottom samples, nor between the trunk MOE and the bottom samples 3.4 Relationships between ... relationship between MOE and the pol parameters The part of the ring most involved in these relationships is, for the trunk MOE, the transition zone between early and latewood and the first part of the ... relationship between the MOE and the parameters of the polynomials calculated The results are shown in table VII This table also gives the results of the regression analysis between the MOE and the density...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21