seabird demography and its relationship with the marine environment

... satisfies the hypothesis of theorem (2.3) then the solution of Eq.(12) in the case µ = is asymptotic equivalence to the solution of Eq.(12) in the case µ = Ackowledgments This paper is based on the ... we can show that the null solution x(t) ≡ of Eq.(4) is uniformly stable ii) By assumption (ii) of the theorem there exist the positive constants C and λ δ= Ce−λt , T (t) ∀t > By the similar argument ... [12]), we can get the following result: Theorem 2.1 Suppose (T (t))t≥0 is C0 - semigroup with the generator (A, D(A)) The following assertions are true: (1) If T (t) M, ∀t ≥ 0, then the null solution...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... calculate the overall means and standard deviations (sd) for the sapwood and the outer and the inner heartwood The coefficients of variation (CV%) were used to describe the variation among the trees ... puteana, and concluded that the mass loss in the periphery part of the heartwood was lower than that in the centre of the heartwood The other marked difference between the outer and the inner ... in the average mass loss and in the average concentration of heartwood phenolics between the sapwood and the outer and inner heartwood, as well as by the dependence between the mass loss and the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... decomposition, and other processes, its correlation with influencing factors was found to be higher than other water quality parameters On the other hand, the coefficients of determination of COD, TP and ... TP and TN might have influenced their correlation with the influencing factors This indicated that the unit loads referred for COD, TP and TN (Table 3) also influenced their relationship with the ... in the results and discussion section As there was no animal husbandry within the study area, its pollution loads were not taken into account River Flow Survey Water of the Hadano basin, on its...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17

... varies with atrial contraction and instantaneous atrial volume) The pressure of the point at the bottom right corner of the loop is the pressure in the ventricle at the end of the cardiac cycle and ... indication of the "stiffness" of the chamber It has units of mmHg/ml The higher the elastance the stiffer the wall of the chamber ESPVR: End-Systolic Pressure-Volume Relationship - The relationship ... rises and falls during each beat and this underlies the cyclic rise and fall of muscle force The greater the peak calcium the greater the number of potential actin-myosin bonds, the greater the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20

... pI values of the major bands in e and f, while the numbers at the left are the pI values of standard proteins The arrow at the right represents the pI value of 6.84 calculated for the unmodified ... with silver reagent The pI values assigned to bands in columns e and f were determined from both IEF standards (Std) and buffer control gel run in parallel The numbers at the right represent the ... each lane The migration position of CL and CLAP, the catalytic and noncatalytic subunits, respectively, of the protease are shown on the right, while protein standards are shown on the left (B)...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... design and contributed to the scientific content of the manuscript and its revision MR: participated in the study design and planning, interpreted the toxicological data and contributed to the scientific ... Christine Kohler and Dr Nancy Hopf (Institute for Work and Health) for their help in the metal/creatinine analysis, and comments on the manuscript The medical team of the Institute for Work and Health ... performed the PM measurements and characterization, evaluated and interpreted the data and participated in the writing of the manuscript AS: organized the field campaign, was responsible for the field...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... sign and symptoms were noted All events were measured with reference to day of the first symptoms Serum and stool samples were collected, coded and stored at -80°C till processing The stool and ... months there were 60 patients met the inclusion criterion and were enrolled for the final analysis rest were excluded from the study because of lack of desired follow up The mean age of the patients ... week and fecal shedding of HEV RNA 70% at the time of diagnosis and 20% at 4th week and in 5th week all the samples were negative Table shows the positivity of IgM anti HEV, serum HEV RNA and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... recombination rates and jungles and deserts in its genome It has, however, to be remarked that if the results depend on the window width and on its relationship to the average size of the physical region ... the grandfathers to get the allelic phase [3] Markers The markers were cloned at the laboratory [48], or prepared from sequences in GenBank [49], from the first reads of the genome [50] and then ... both); the genetic length of the map: Haldane and Kosambi functions of distance calculated on the combined map (B + V) (the Kosambi function is used for the calculation of the ratios in the other...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... stabilization and its accumulation in the nucleus (Appella and Anderson, 2001; Bode and Dong, 2004) Most of the genes targeted by p53 are associated with the regulation of cell cycle arrest, apoptosis and/ or ... (Momand et al., 1992; Momand et al., 2000) Interactions between p53 family members (p63 and p73) and their isoforms have added complexicity to the p53 pathway There is evidence to suggest that the ... overlap with ACF1 (Collins et al., 2002) The dynamics of chromatin structure will influence the processes of transcription, replication and DNA repair, and therefore, the existence of the chromatin...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 12:20

... NULL and IPsec November 1998 [ESP] specifies the use of an optional encryption algorithm to provide confidentiality and the use of an optional authentication algorithm to provide authentication and ... computing authentication data which covers the data portion of a packet as well as the immutable in transit portions of the IP header ESP_NULL does not include the IP header in calculating the authentication ... ESP can then be used to provide authentication and integrity without confidentiality Unlike AH these services are not applied to any Glenn & Kent Standards Track [Page 3] RFC 2410 NULL and IPsec...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 16:20

... internal b-sheet of the b-sandwich domain The last four amino acids of the native sequence at the C-terminus and the His-tag protrude from the b-sandwich domain and interact with the Nterminal b-propeller ... resembles the shape of a fishtrap The active site is located at the bottom of the axial funnel created by the interblade loops and the loops between b-strand 2–3 of each blade The second funnel on the ... bacterial and yeast enzymes, respectively The longest one forms a two -and- a-half-turn helix interacting with the surface of the sandwich domain The active site pocket is narrowest and deepest in the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 00:21

... deposits nonetheless exposed U.S taxpayers to the risk of loss—while the profits made possible by deregulation and forbearance would accrue to the owners and managers of the savings and loans The ... Eighties—Lessons for the Future Chapter The Savings and Loan Crisis and Its Relationship to Banking singularly ill-prepared to deal with the S&L crisis.”13 The primary problem was the lack of real ... should be noted that the Reagan administration was more directly involved with the regulation of S&Ls than with the regulation of the banking industry In other words, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... individuals with chronic stroke living in the community and 2) to assess the relationship between the functional ability (motor impairments of lower extremity, balance and walking distance) of these ... of the listed activities for the maximum amount of days and hours) The PASIPD has been found to be reliable and valid when used with individuals with disabilities (including 13 individuals with ... The dependent variable for the third and fourth regression models was the Mental Composite Score of the HRQL The data were analyzed using SPSS (Windows version 15.0) Results The mean age of the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... electrons in the valence band (VB) can be excited to the conduction band (CB) to form the photo-generated electrons in the CB and the same amount of holes in the VB The holes in the VB are prone ... solution and 60 mg ZnO nanowires The UV lamp (6 W) was placed in the center of the tube and surrounded by the reactor Prior to irradiation, the solution was sonicated for 30 and then stirred in the ... which is quite different from the nanowires grown in the air atmosphere by comparing with Fig 2a, b On the other hand, the oxygen content can also affects the shape of the nanowires In our experiments,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... spruce with growth and climate 159 Figure Variation of foliation and growth variables Boxes represent values between the lower and the upper quartile including the median, while the whiskers show the ... chronologies 158 C Sander and D Eckstein CORRELATION AND RESPONSE FUNCTION ANALYSIS The time series of the different foliation and growth variables were compared with each other by correlation ... more and more by proventive shoots, competition for water and nutrients lowers the supply of regularly formed shoots and therefore results in a lower number of needle primordia On the other hand,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... dependent and is therefore a good choice for testing the direct and indirect effects of APC on the lung microvasculature Mice were given acid intratracheally and were then treated with murine APC In the ... antiapoptosis and SIP-mediated endothelial protection APC remains an important therapy for patients with severe sepsis with major organ dysfunction, and the mechanism of its benefit in these patients ... biologically plausible because this is the site of protein C activation, the endothelium contains the receptor for APC (EPCR), and the endothelium contains the PARs, which may also mediate APC...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... The main clinical endpoint was the appropriateness of the antibiotic therapy given within the first 24 hours following the onset of sepsis (that is, first-line empirical antibiotic therapy) The ... approved the study Every patient with either bacteremia, community-acquired pneumonia or VAP, as defined below, on admission to or during the stay in the ICU was therefore eligible for the study if the ... characteristics for 180 patients with bacterial sepsis, and description of the episodes according to the appropriateness of the first-line empirical antibiotic therapy and the outcome D1, day sepsis...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... shock and the other three were suffering from severe sepsis There was no significant difference among the groups, except for SOFA scores at ICU admission and the duration of the stay in the ICU; ... excluded from the study At admission, the patient’s age, sex, height and weight were recorded Also, data were collected in the second, third and fourth days of ICU stay, then weekly, and on the day ... prepared the manuscript, the statistical analysis and the patients’ follow up YMA helped in the statistical analysis and patients’ follow up GAS prepared the lab results Competing interests The authors...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... Medical Practice and its Research in the West” It begins with the history of medical ethics in the West, i.e., the Hippocratic Oath and the Bible Then, the history of the understanding of truth-telling ... 16th and early 17th centuries, plague was the problem in the Netherlands and in England Thus, physicians in these countries were struggling with whether or not to disclose the plague to the patient ... Alvarez) and (2) withholding the truth (Seelig, Welch, and Lund), there stands the position of L Henderson and B Meyer as the main physicians advocating that the feelings, emotions, and/ or needs of the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 16:53