... dis- charge can contain a wide range of contaminants and originate from a myriad of sources. Some of the biggest generators of toxic industrial waste include mining, pulp mills, tanneries, sugar ... from mining operations can contain silt and rock particles and sur- factants. Depending on the type of ore deposit being mined, tailings can also contain heavy metals like copper, lead, zinc, ... examples of persistent environmental damage caused by the discharge of toxic mine waste. In Papua New Guinea for ex- ample, companies discharge millions of tons of contaminated mine waste into...
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THE FUNDAMENTAL ROLE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYIN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT pptx
... Organizations involved in combating HIV/AIDS in developing countries. Earmarks and initiatives will undoubtedly continue to play an important role in determining the priorities for USAID and, indeed, in ... president of the National Academy of Engineering. The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions ... major programs but invests little in developing human resources trained in important S&T fields. In addressing the role of USAID in capitalizing on the S&T strengths of U.S. and other...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20
The Role of Education Quality in Economic Growth* pdf
... This work, following the innovative analyses of human capital by Jacob Mincer (1970, 1974), considers how investing in differing amounts of schooling affects individual earnings. Over the past ... school in Ghana or Peru would gain the same amount of knowledge in any year of schooling as the average student in a school in Finland or Korea? Still, using the quantitative measure of years of ... and Patrinos (2004)), which are frequently interpreted as indicating diminishing marginal returns to schooling. There are some reasons for caution in interpreting the precise magnitude of estimates....
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Investigating the Role of Metacognitive Knowledge in English Writing ppt
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Báo cáo khoa học: Mechanisms of obesity and related pathologies: Role of apolipoprotein E in the development of obesity potx
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Assessing the Role of Discourse References in Entailment Inference" pptx
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báo cáo hóa học: " On the potential role of glutamate transport in mental fatigue" ppt
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The important role of newspaper andmagazines in our lives ppt
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Báo cáo y học: " Role of clinical bioinformatics in the development network-based Biomarkers" docx
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The Role of Small and Large Businesses in Economic Development doc
... enhancements in personal computing since then have come from large firms as well, including the hard drive (IBM PC/XT), although enhancements in personal computing, software, and their marketing continue ... growth from the second quarter of 2000 into job classes using beginning size of firm, mean size of firm over the period, and end size of firm. If the beginning size of the firm is used to classify firms, ... gr eatest weight in the net economic impact. E xperience suggests that because of these typically large indir ect effects The Role of Small and Large Businesses in Economic Development By Kelly...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20
Master of Arts in Responsible Management and Sustainable Economic Development pptx
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Role of Kupffer cells in pathogenesis of sepsis-induced drug metabolizing dysfunction pptx
... shown that interactions between KCs and endotoxin comprise the initiating event lead- ing to hepatotoxicity in liver injury, including endotox- emia and ischemia ⁄ reperfusion injury [14]. In our studies, ... signaling is independent of Toll-interleukin 1 receptor domain-containing adaptor protein. Drug Metab Dispos 36, 95–101. 10 Ghose R, Guo T & Haque N (2009) Regulation of gene expression of hepatic ... USA). Binding of all of the anti- bodies was detected using an ECL detection system (iNtRON Biotechnology, Seoul, Korea) in accordance with the manu- facturer’s instructions. The intensity of the...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 18:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: A role of miR-27 in the regulation of adipogenesis ppt
... or without hematoxylin staining. In hypoxia experiments, 3T3-L1 cells were maintained in a hypoxia chamber (Invivo 400; Ruskinn Inc., Cincinnati, OH, USA) constantly maintained at 1% O 2 . Culture medium ... cultured in DMEM containing 10% fetal bovine serum. OP9 cells were grown in aMEM containing 20% fetal bovine serum. C2C12 cells were maintained in DMEM containing 10% fetal bovine serum. Adipogenic ... serum and IDM (10 lgÆmL )1 insulin, 1 lm dexamethasone, and 0.5 mm IDM). Cells were then maintained in DMEM con- taining 10% fetal bovine serum and 1 lgÆmL )1 insulin. The medium was replaced...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Emerging pathways in genetic Parkinson’s disease: Potential role of ceramide metabolism in Lewy body disease pptx
... calcium-independent phospholipase A 2 participates in ER stress-induced INS-1 insulinoma cell apoptosis by promoting cera- mide generation via hydrolysis of sphingomyelins by neutral sphingomyelinase. ... leading to the accumulation of sphingomyelin [27]. Because one of the pathways for ceramide recycling is the sphingomyelin pathway, it is conceivable that in addition to the accumulation of Fig. ... should have a key role in our under- standing of the mechanisms of the disease. We propose that pathology data will, in most cases, be more insightful than clinical data in defining the disease. This...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 14:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Role of ceramide kinase in peroxisome proliferatoractivated receptor beta-induced cell survival of mouse keratinocytes ppt
... role in skin wound healing. After a skin injury, PPARb expression is rap- idly elevated in the epidermis at the wound edges; dele- tion of a single PPARb allele results in delayed wound healing ... cultured human keratinocytes [14]. In this study, we examined the interaction between CerK and PPARb, and its role in regulating keratino- cyte survival. We report that in a mouse keratinocyte cell line upregulation ... important role in keratinocyte sur- vival during skin wound healing, and PPARb expres- sion is elevated at injury sites [10,15]. We investigated whether skin barrier disruption by tape-stripping would...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 18:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The role of N-glycosylation in the stability, trafficking and GABA-uptake of GABA-transporter 1 Terminal N-glycans facilitate efficient GABA-uptake activity of the GABA transporter pptx
... substrate binding process. This provides strong evidence that N-glycans, in particular their terminal structures, are involved in regulating the GABA translocation of GAT1, but not in binding of GAT1 ... that N-linked oligosaccharide side-chains are important for the GABA transport activity. 1-Deoxymannojirimycin inhibits the GABA-uptake of GAT1 In order to gain further insight into the role of the terminal ... folding of newly synthesized proteins in the ER. If N-glycosylation is inhibited, some glycoproteins fail to fold or assemble efficiently, resulting in a prolonged retention in the ER and an increased...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu ON THE MECHANICS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT* pptx
... rate of time preference. This fact, which with one kind of capital defines the long-run stock of that capital, in the two -capital model of section 4 defines a curve in the 'physical capital- human ... time, in levels and rates of growth of per capita income. This may seem too narrow a definition, and perhaps it is, but thinking about income patterns will neces- sarily involve us in thinking ... There is surely no strain in thinking that a model stressing the effects of learning-by-doing is likely to shed light on these events. A successful theory of economic development clearly needs, in the first place,...
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