... motion irreversible melting of the Greenland ice sheet, resulting in 23 feet of sea level rise over a matter of centuries, inundating the world’s coastal cities and wasting trillions of dollars ... articulating and executing climate change policy ABN AMRO’s former Managing Board Chairman Rijkman Groenink has publicly advocated for a complete regulatory framework to address climate change, stating: ... clients by adopting formal emissions accounting and management systems Many banks are altering their energy procurement policies in favor of renewable energy sources and integrating green building...
... issue It was reported that a donors meeting in June, donors called for the UN to play a clearer role in co-ordinating thematic areas which were crosscutting, specifically in the areas of Climate ... Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change and Land Degradation through IFAD's COSOP for Viet Nam Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change and Land Degradation through IFAD's COSOP for Viet Nam Mitigating ... implement the cooperation mechanism between Vietnam and international donors in implementing the NTP; - Continue to expand bilateral and multilateral cooperation between Vietnam and other countries/international...
... also introduce a new focus on predicting the food security impacts of climate fluctuations, integrating work on seasonal climate prediction, crop and rangeland forecasting, forecasting price response to production shocks, and disaggregated estimation of impacts on consumption and food ... threat early warning); IRI‐Columbia U. (seasonal forecasting, crop forecasting, meteorological data reconstruction); U. Reading, Princeton U. (meteorological data reconstruction) 2013 Milestones : OUTPUT MILESTONES PARTICIPATING CENTERS/PARTNERS ... institutions; Crop/rangeland forecasting tools developed; Institutions in 4 (Senegal), Asia Risk Center, monitoring and predicting countries engaged to develop and test crop forecasting tools tailored to priority ...
... emission of GHGs, mainly by promoting clean energy development; and adapting to increasing climate variability and extreme weather events At subsequent summit meetings at St Petersburg (in July ... For the continent’s infrastructure facilities to be more resilient to climate change, it is necessary to adapt them 11 to new climatic conditions by designing, constructing, operating and maintaining ... that all sub-regions of the continent will experience a temperature rise very likely larger than the global mean annual warming At the same time, most parts of the continent are expected to experience...
... exchange updated information on natural disasters, participate in formulating prevention plans to reduce natural disaster or coordinating closely with other agencies to respond effectively when disasters ... / VNU Journal of Science, Earth Sciences 27 (2011) 119-126 concentration of DO in the river continuously declines partly due to the impact of salinity which decrease dissolved oxygen in water ... factors have not been considered Rainfall and temperature are the two main climatic factors affecting aquaculture Fishermen often cultivate for months during the dry season Recently, an anomalous...
... in the industry g Four of the class room meeting will be held at the computer lab as given in the class schedule Some of the time during these meetings will be devoted to helping the students ... Building a stock selection model using credit risk measures h How endowment funds are managed i Evaluating the performance of investment strategies Learning and Teaching activities 3.1 Approach to Learning ... students are encouraged to ask questions as the lecture proceeds This is a natural way to provide continuous feedback in the learning process There are two assignments First assignment will be on “Credit...
... treatment of a patient presenting with chest pain to the ED Once a definitive diagnosis can be made, prompt steps can be taken to limit the myocardial necrosis, including instituting reperfusion therapy ... especially to assess its performance and practicality to detect AMI in patients presenting with chest pain in the ED setting General objectives The diagnostic indices and clinical utility of qualitative ... remaining blood samples were tested for other routine blood investigations, including full blood count (FBC), renal profile (RP), and cardiac enzymes (creatine kinase) Presence of H-FABP in the circulation...
... inward, and let ∂V be the vector field on the boundary ∂M obtained by first restricting V to the boundary and then projecting V |∂M to its component field tangent to the boundary Then ∂ V = ∂V |∂ M ... Now (1.1) was rediscovered by Gottlieb [10] and Pugh [17] Gottlieb further found further interesting applications in [9, 11, 12] Throughout this paper, we will call formula (1.1) the Morse formula ... ,t j ) = x j Since I is compact, a subsequence of {t j } converges to a point t ∈ I By the continuity of H, we have H(x,t) = x On the other hand, we know that H(x,t) = x for all x ∈ Bd(V );...
... continuous support and assistance during the creation of this book Especial thanks are due to Ms Ana Pantar for inviting us to lead this exciting project, and to Ms Iva Lipovic for coordinating ... Rocky Mountains, reflecting the seasonal march of upper-level winds interacting with the orography The spring-fall oscillation and the semiannual cycle both reveal an oscillating dipole between ... the A2 global emission scenario, fertility patterns across regions converge very slowly resulting in continuously increasing world population Economic development is primarily regionally oriented,...
... combinatorics 15 (2008), #R61 11 4.3 The Alternating Subgroup of Bn + Let Bn be the alternating subgroup of the Coxeter group of type B; namely, the subgroup consisting all elements in Bn of even length ... sequence b is a perfect Mahonian basis for Bn (with respect to the Coxeter generating set S) Namely, the resulting flag major index fmaj (Bn ,b) is equidistributed with the length function (Bn ... sequence d is a perfect Mahonian basis for Dn (with respect to the Coxeter generating set S ) Namely, the resulting flag major index fmaj(Dn ,d) is equidistributed with the length function (Dn...
... where mi = maj(σ (i) ) − maj(σ (i+1) ), and σ (i) is the permutation that is obtained from σ by deleting all components less than i The inverse statistics Imajcode, Iinvcode : Sn → En are defined by ... permutations, |{σ ∈ Sn | inv(σ) = k}| = |{σ ∈ Sn | maj(σ) = k}|, ∀k Foata [2] reproved this by constructing an explicit bijection φ : C → C, where C is the set of multiset permutations, such that maj ... r[max, v](σ) = A, invcode(σ −1 ) = α}| Let us formulate the results of our paper in terms of generating functions Theorem 1.1 The triple statistics (desi, r[max, i], Imajcode) and (desi, r[max, i],...
... severity of end splitting The maximum depth of shakes was estimated by the penetration of a flat graduated rule Using one particular example, figure 3b shows that the form of end splitting was usually ... say that the individual variability of end splitting can be explained, to some extent, by significantly in our sample Differences appear when plotting K against specific IC gravity, because specific ... large end splits, while trees No 88, 100 and 39 did not exhibit severe end splitting For trees No 67 and 90 end splitting is clearly related to high growth stresses in the stem In the case of tree...
... and inefficacy that could lead to infliximab discontinuation If side effects were severe (S), infliximab was stopped; thus nine patients discontinued infliximab treatment before the end of the ... period Competing interests None declared Acknowledgements We thank MC Letroublon and all the biological technicians of the laboratory for their technical assistance References Bathon JM, Martin RW, ... significance of antineutrophil cytoplasmic and anticardiolipin antibodies in community cases of patients with rheumatoid arthritis Rheumatology (Oxford) 2000, 39:481-489 Bonnet C, Vergne P, Bertin P, Treves...
... activating a cascade of reactions involving complement [22] and Fcγ receptors [23] Neutrophils and macrophages are the major mediators of this inflammation [12] CAIA is also capable of initiating ... oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) [48] and share pathogenesis with EDM2 [49], suggesting that COMP and CIX are interacting in the large polymeric network of cartilage Deficiency of CIX might therefore ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/8/4/R102 Competing interests Table Anti-type II collagen antibody staining on neonatal cartilage The authors declare that they have no competing interests Strain n Area fractiona...
... most powerful tool for evaluating articular cartilage [14-16] White and colleagues [16] reported that qualitative and quantitative T2 mapping was useful for differentiating hyaline cartilage from ... arthroscopic use are presently being developed 10 11 13 14 15 Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests 16 Authors' contributions KH conceived the study, participated ... Koreans: statistical evaluation of affecting factors Skin Res Technol 2006, 12:170-177 32 Findlay GH: Blue skin Br J Dermatol 1970, 83:127-134 33 Schaefer D, Martin I, Jundt G, Siedel J, Heberer M,...
... Amy chez Drosophila subobscura La variabilité phénoF typique de l’activité amylasique dans l’intestin moyen de Drosophila subobscura a été analysée dans des lignées homozygotes pour l’allèle Amyou ... of the specific activity of a-amylase was carried out according to the method described by Noelting and Bernfeld [11] Midgut dissection and aamylase activity pattern were performed according ... gene-enzyme systems in Drosophila (see [9]) The analysis of the enzyme activity represents a model for distinguishing between the effects of the structural and regulatory genes involved in the control of...
... and bioinformatics Microarrays have had to be specifically designed to distinguish between homoeologs and orthologs Interesting patterns have been reported, but typically for a few genes [14,27-29] ... to F1As (one-sided paired ttest, P < 2e-17), suggesting a preferential retention of homoeologs derived from the Aa parent (Figure 4) Supporting this, more genes were called Aa-like (614) than ... manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Received: 31 July 2010 Revised: November 2010 Accepted:...
... particular, miR-30a and miR-30d are encoded by genes located on distinct chromosomes, suggesting coordinated regulation of distinct genomic regions Factors that are responsible for this coordinated ... Z, Zhang Y, Peng C, Yang BB: MicroRNA miR-378 regulates nephronectin expression modulating osteoblast differentiation by targeting GalNT-7 PLoS One 2009, 4:e7535 Gerin I, Bommer GT, McCoin CS, ... Other small RNA species, such as piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) and small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs), were also identified but with a lower abundance Interestingly, 36.5 to 42.6% of mapped reads corresponded...
... 2, AHV-1 gC can be detected in all analyzed tissues at hour postinoculation gC copies of all tissues reached a peak at hour postinoculation in gC DNA vaccine-inoculated ducks, Zou et al Virology ... peak at hours postinoculation in AHV-1 Cha strain-infected ducks The concentration of nucleic acid in DNA vaccine-inoculated ducks maintained 107 copies/g level at weeks postinoculation The copies ... gC can be detected in all analyzed tissues at hour postinoculation, and the concentration of gC maintained 107 copies/g level at weeks postinoculation The copies of gC in the liver, spleen and...
... Muller-Fleckenstein I, Fleckenstein B, McGuire K, Dokhelar MC, Sodroski JG, Haseltine WA: Transformation to continuous growth of primary human T Page 11 of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) ... Artificially recruited TATA-binding protein fails to remodel chromatin and does not activate three promoters that require chromatin remodeling Mol Cell Biol 2000, 20:5847-5857 Jin DY, Chae HZ, ... http://www.retrovirology.com/content/1/1/18 the Tax mutant activity profiles for the 21-bp repeats and SRE suggesting that overlapping surfaces may be utilized Amongst bZIP factors, CREB is specifically preferred...