seed bank dynamics in a semi arid shrub steppe

... inputs change seasonally with variations in prevailing winds and are highest in Table waters downwind of arid regions such as North Africa and Central Asia Areas far removed from these eolian sources, ... proles in sea water (see above) in the mid 1980s was accompanied by data demonstrating elevated Pd concentrations in contaminated sediments from Japan Release from autocatalysts was suggested as a ... PGEs in extraterrestrial material relative to the average upper crustal material (Table 1) make the PGEs valuable indicators of the presence of particulate extraterrestrial material in marine...

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... (Dakopatts Inc., Mississauga, Canada) for hours at room temperature After three additional rinses in TPBS, antibody-binding sites were revealed by a 15 incubation in 0.2% diaminobenzidine in TPBS ... Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg 1988 15 Hawkins, R A. , DeJosepf, M R and Hawkins, P A Regional brain glutamate transport in rats at normal and raised concentrations of circulating glutamate Cell Tissue ... rabbit polyclonal anti-calbindin-D (anti-CaBP, Sigma Inc., St Louis MO) They were then washed three times for in 0.1 M TPBS, and incubated in : 100 peroxidaseconjugated anti-rabbit IgG (Dakopatts...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 17:22

... Testing (EUCAST); and mean pharmacokinetic parameters in healthy volunteers Abbreviations APACHE: acute physiology and health evaluation; AUC: area under the curve; CL: total clearance; Cmax: peak ... β-lactam concentrations as no clinical or biological variable can predict β-lactam concentrations in this population Page of Additional material Additional file Three tables showing usual daily ... spectrum beta-lactamase Gram-negative bacteria In all study patients, demographics, pre-existing chronic diseases, admission diagnosis and biological data were collected in institutional databases The...

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... efforts in learning and teaching oral communication skills On the part of the second-year majors, for example, in order to be effective learners of English in general and effective speakers in particular, ... Besides, the data from the study confirm the fact that the infrequent and inadequate feedback and assessment from teacher(s) and the institution’s lack of conductive facilities also contributed ... Declaration I declare that this thesis is my own work and has not been submitted in any form for another degree or diploma at any university or other institution of tertiary education Information...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:02

... communicating to achieve a particular end This may involve expressing wishes, ideas or opinions, negotiating or solving problems, or establishing and maintaining social relationships To reach these ... as follows: Bygate begins by pointing out the fact that in order to speak a language, it is necessary for learners to know a certain amount of grammar and vocabulary and how to assemble sentences ... the ability to speak to an audience While making a presentation may seem to be a more limited activity than other tasks, such as role play, information-gap activity, it can in fact involve all...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:43

... from the Caribbean, Pakistan and Bangladesh have lower education and occupational qualifications than whites, on average, those from India, Africa and China have higher average qualifications (Modood ... Asia (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh), Africa and the Caribbean At the time of the 2001 Census, Indians were the largest minority group, followed by Pakistanis, Black Caribbeans, Black Africans ... health is an area in which immigrants may have an advantage over the native-born population, at least in certain domains Research on birth outcomes in the United States, for example, indicates...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... significant change during urea treatment of the D11N mutant, suggesting that, even in the denatured state, the characteristics of a large particle are retained Apparently, the subunits remain aggregated ... (v/v) in LB medium and cultured at 37 °C for h in a rotary shaker Several phage dilutions, made in a standard buffer, were plated in LB semisolid medium containing E coli The plates were incubated ... virus apparently more stable? The X-ray structure of MS2 shows that Asp11 participates in both intra- and interchain interactions It appears to form a salt bridge to Lys113 on the alpha-helix...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... (O43187), Arabidopsis thaliana (AAC33503), Oryza sativa (AAC78101), Chlamydia pneumoniae (AAD19056), Chlamydia trachomatis (O84777), Mycoplasma pneumoniae (P75250), Mycoplasma genitalium (P47593), Bacillus ... above Anti-(mouse rAsPPase) IgG were evaluated for AsPPase-neutralizing activity Recombinant AsPPase proteins or A suum L3 extracts were preincubated in the standard reaction mixture containing ... Shimotsuma, Japan Adult A lumbricoides and T canis were obtained from patients after treatment with piperazine in Bac Gian, Vietnam and, from an infected dog in Miyazaki, Japan, respectively Unembryonated...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20

... sympathy with human joys and griefs was taken for granted, and she played a part of her own in drama In the _Mahõbhõrata_, when Damajanti is wandering in search of her lost Nala and sees the great ... declining to its fall In Gaul, as in Spain and Italy, the shadows of coming night were broadening over literary activity, thought, and feeling It is a characteristic fact in Roman literature, that ... Hindoo character, and the drama and historical plays came in, generalities gave way to definite localizing, and in the Epics ornate descriptions of actual landscape took independent place Nature's...

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... provocative stance, both against the prevailing realist aesthetics of the Nuevo Cine Español and against local initiatives to create a Catalan National Cinema, the Barcelona School managed to win ... peripheral nationalisms of Galicia, Catalonia and the Basque Country have taken the interpretation into their own hands by proposing a normalization of the use of Galician, Catalonian and Euskera in ... time, has gained prominence in Spain.12 11 Tuñón de Lara and Biescas, Espa a bajo la dictadura fascista, 516 The associations and forums related to memory and the civil war seek to call attention...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... mismatch in PNAÆDNA and DNA duplexes T Rathinavelan and N Yathindra Fig Interaction of water (orange) with A2 4 .C7 mismatch in PDwt (A L) and DDwt (M–T) during the dynamics Variation in hydration ... A .C mismatch in PNAÆDNA and DNA duplexes T Rathinavelan and N Yathindra Fig Interaction between the A2 4 (blue) and C7 mismatch bases in PDwt (A D) and variation of N6 (A2 4) .N3(C7) and N6 (A2 4) ... different atoms of PNA chain Fig S3 Partial charges for the bases in: (A D) PNA and as given in Parm99.dat forcefield for a DNA chain (E–H) The following supplementary material is available online:...

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Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 12:20

... naming and saving) provided as a percentage of the capture operators total salary costs on a daily basis • Cataloging/Metadata (required for digitization and/or created at capture stage) as a ... Dept Metadata Library Cataloging Finding Aids Imaging / Publications Dept Collection Management Finding Aids Text Encoding Literature / Language / Computing Science Depts / Information Management ... the accurate assessment of the required human resources, and producing a map of available and unavailable skills is a valuable starting point Institutions vary in their areas of expertise and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... adopted in Lao PDR and Thailand, although it is widely cultured in China and in the South of Thailand Its general acceptance in central Thailand, including the Bangkok area, indicates that tastes ... reduction in flooded area associated with the poldering of certain areas Drastic changes in the nature of floodplain habitats together with the loss of floodplain area may result in the disappearance ... native assemblages In Islands east of the Wallace Line (for instance, Australia and Papua New Guinea) the impoverished endemic faunas have been readily invaded by introductions The establishment rate...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 08:48

... OMAN BAHRAIN QATAR U .A. E KUWAIT IRAQ Notes: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as defined in this report includes Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, CENTRAL AFRICAN Kuwait, ... Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen Source: International Labour Organization, Global Employment Trends: January ... are marrying later and some may not marry at all Changing marriage patterns reflect broader social and economic changes taking place throughout the region More people are living in urban areas...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... was apparent in Canada during the SARs outbreak and is alluded to in Chapter by Bunja and McCaskell Constant cross-contamination for surface removable transmission was a problem, as well as a ... Marando 11 Changing Bureaucracies: Understanding the Organization before Selecting the Approach, William A Medina 12 Handbook on Public Budgeting and Financial Management, edited by Jack Rabin and ... William B Eddy 22 Politics and Administration: Woodrow Wilson and American Public Administration, edited by Jack Rabin and James S Bowman 23 Making and Managing Policy: Formulation, Analysis, Evaluation,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 05:20

... Rocha da Farias, Francisco Rodríguez-Fernández, Gerald Dwyer, Richard Braun, Dante Amengual, Stefano Puddu, and seminar participants at CNMV; VI Seminar on Risk, Financial Stability, and Banking ... funding constraints, we use the spread between financial commercial paper and T-bill rates as a common proxy for the funding constraints faced by financial intermediaries, as in Acharya et al ... CDS market is playing a major role in Italy, Ireland, Spain, Greece, and Portugal Palladini and Portes (2011) use data on six euro-area countries (Austria, Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Italy, and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... Iqbal, Omer Karasapan, Auguste Kouame, Anjali Kumar (who prepared a background paper on access to finance, jointly with Mukta Joshi, Ergys Islamaj, and Vidhi Chhaochharia), Nadir Mohammed, Sahar ... 5000 China Korea, Rep 4000 South Africa Czech Republic Malaysia United Arab Emirates Hungary 3000 Thailand Turkey Poland Mexico India Brazil Indonesia Argentina Slovak Republic Bulgaria Romania 2000 ... Iya Bouguermouh, Samra Chaibani, Donia Jemail, Hafidha Sahraoui, and Amira Fouad Zaky provided support to the consultations in Cairo, Algiers, Sana a, Rabat, and Tunis, respectively The summary...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... of waste containing lead in refuse incineration plants ● Annual Mean Values at 16 Stations of the National Air Surveillance Network (from literature) ＊ Mean Value at Refuse Incineration Plants ... refuse incineration, implying that almost of the total amount of Cd in the atmosphere originates from refuse incineration as in the case of Pb Dust from Other Sources Lead Concentration Lead Concentration ... Concentration and Lead Isotope Ratios in Atmosphere literature) ▲ △ Mean Ratios of Fly Ashes from Refuse Incineration (n = 7, measured) While the lead concentration in the atmosphere substantially...

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