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... tree during 1996 and 1997 Few fir and spruce trees were harvested in autumn 1994 and 1995 Only 137Cs and 40K activities were measured in tree rings as well as separately in needles and in the wooden ... Radionuclide activity and selected element concentrations in honey were determined by gamma-ray spectrometry and the XRF method A standard sample of 300 pollen grains was used for pollen and honey type ... et al ˇ´ Coniferous tree sampling and analysis The youngest segments of fir and spruce branches (including accompanying bark and needles) were taken as composites up to m above the ground At each...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... Agreements and Environmental Conservation… WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism and Environmental Conservation Global Environmental Issues ……….…………………………………… Issues and Problems related to Global Environmental ... management of the global environmental assets The mechanisms and arrangements adopted by a number of international agreements must be studied carefully in order to understand the effectiveness and impact ... in the global community ITTO is an 21 international agreement organization and it holds majority of tropical timber producers and consumers in the world Therefore, its decisions could influence...

Ngày tải lên: 20/04/2014, 20:22

... equation, C stands for Consumption, E stands for Environmental Resources, S stands for Sustainable Level, and OS stands for Original Sustainability - 22 - 1.2 Theories of collective actions and International ... lower and exploited more than private goods Figure 1.2: Supply-Demand Relation for CPRs - 17 - These supply and demand relations can also be illustrated as shown in Figure 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6, ... Agreements and Environmental Conservation… WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism and Environmental Conservation Global Environmental Issues ……….…………………………………… Issues and Problems related to Global Environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2015, 13:26

... styles of women and men and concluded that some differences existed Eagly and Johnson (1990) found that male and female leaders performed similarly in both interpersonally oriented and task-oriented ... goals and missions of the organisation, and according to Mandell and Pherwani (2003), this awareness enables followers to look beyond their own interests, which subsequently benefits the group and ... approaches and their biases’’, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol 9, pp 267-74 Fielden, S.L and Davidson, M.J (1999), ‘‘Stress and unemployment: a comparative review and research model of female and male...

Ngày tải lên: 08/10/2013, 15:56

... market basis, their roles as signals to the supply of and demand for fund are not fully effective, and sometimes have negative influence on pricing and risk management of commercial banks E Policy ... Stimulating domestic demand and combating deflation by implementing a sound monetary policy; (7) Expanding the scope of financial service and initiating consumer credit market; and (8) The emergence ... will be expanded, with its decision-making mechanism improved and direction and intensity rationally decided and timely adjusted In terms of operations, we will increase trading frequency and introduce...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 07:15

... in the United States and included increases in the number of TB cases among adults and children and outbreaks of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) involving patients, HCWs, and correctional-facility ... approximately 300 cases of MDR-TB and included transmission of M tuberculosis to patients, HCWs, and correctional-facility inmates and employees in Florida, New Jersey, and New York (18–23 ) These ... protective efficacy and side effects associated with BCG vaccination, considerations and recommendations for the use of BCG vaccine in selected persons, and implementation and surveillance of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... actions affect community banks and their customers In the area of supervision and regulation, the Federal Reserve has a legal mandate to supervise state member banks and bank holding companies This ... small banks by large banks reduces small business lending include Berger and others 2001, Jayaratne and Wolken, and Strahan and Weston 4This classification was made in 1994 based on income data ... Issues in Economics and Finance, August Strahan, Philip, and James Weston 1998 “Small Business Lending and the Changing Structure of the Banking Industry,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... (EDN) and eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) They are RNases with a high sequence identity (66%), a very high content of basic residues and high isoelectric points (pI ¼ 11.9 and 10.4, for EDN and ... Electrostatic interactions and antitumor RNases Fig Correlation between antitumor activity on HL-60 cells (n) and ML-2 cells (h) and the highest negative EIE values for BS-RNase (BS) and RNase A noncovalent ... the two A and B monomers of the dimeric RNase The black circle between the monomers indicates the mass center of the dimer Electrostatic interactions and antitumor RNases r ¼ 180° and i ¼ 90°...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

... half-lives of 22 and 23 h for wild type GAT1 in the absence and presence of dMM, respectively, and of 12 and 5.5 h for the DDN and DDQ mutants, respectively GABA values of NNN treated with dMM, and of ... many of the physicochemical and biological properties of the proteins, such as protein folding, stability, targeting, dynamics and ligand binding, as well as cell-matrix and cell–cell interactions ... cells and measurement of GABA-uptake by GFP-tagged GAT1 wild type and mutants in transfected CHO cells (A) Cell surface and intracellular expression of GFP-tagged GAT1 wild type (NNN) and mutants...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... system, and completely defined over our model of study in a mathematical sense This has been discussed in detail elsewhere in Gigley (1982b; 1983a; 1983b), and Gigley and Duffy (1982) and w i ... McClelland and Rumelhart (1981), and in the connectionist theories applied to visual processing and language parsing (Ballard, 1982; Cottrell, 1983; Feldman, 1982; Small, Cottrell, and Shastri, ... European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, H Trappl (ed.), North-H-oTland, 1982 Gigley, H.M., HOPE AI and the Dynamic Process of Language Behavior Cognition and Brain Theory, 6, l , 1983...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... Qian (1994), Dewatripont and Maskin (1995), Earle and alii (1996), Earle and alii (1997), Berglửf and Roland (1998), Bai and Wang (1998) For an analysis of the shortcomings and measurement errors ... as those which have a positive ex ante demand; on the other hand, those who not demand credit not receive any, and were generally not indebted beforehand In other words, credit distribution appears ... confirms one of the most standard hypothesis on the microeconomy of transition: the adjustment and growth of enterprises require that they meet a growing demand for their goods and adjust to hard financial...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... companies and to banking regulation and supervision Their importance in the microfinance field is based upon their infrastructure and expertise in disbursing credits and securely collecting and managing ... sophistication, and activities and adapt to national and regional circumstances with the objective to reach institutional sustainability for the benefit of clients, create aggregated value and provide ... disclosure of full costs, fees and terms of the products and services, and supply clients with accurate, comparable and transparent information about the cost of loans and the remuneration of savings...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... symbolism of reason, rite, and art (3rd ed.) Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA Bolivar, V.J., Cohen, A.J., and Fentress, J.C (1994) Semantic and formal congruency in music and motion pictures: ... seen) and inaudibility (film music is not meant to be consciously heard) M usic is intended as a signifier of emotion Music provides referential and narrative cues Music provides rhythmic and formal ... (1979) and Olivier's Hamlet (1948) the music serves at times to make small and/ or artificial spaces seem more grand and to enhance the sense of realism In addition, music can establish a narrative’s...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20

... 5.4, 6.3 and 6.6 citrate/phosphate buffer, pH 7.2 sodium phosphate buffer, pH 8.0, 8.3 and 9.0 bicine/HCl buffer and pH 9.0, 9.5 and 10.0 ethanolamine/ HCl buffer [36] Structural analysis and electrostatics ... moves into the ÔupÕ position and interacts with the substrate and Glu144 This rotation of Asp142 is accompanied by removal of a water molecule and adjustments of Tyr10 and Ser93 that seem to compensate ... study are shown in Fig Asp140, Asp142, Glu144 and Asp215 were mutated individually to asparagine and alanine, Tyr10 and Tyr214 were replaced by Phe, and Ser93 was replaced by alanine All clones...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20

... Carbonell, and J Callan 2000 Creating and evaluating multi-document sentence extract summaries In CIKM 2000 D Harman 2002 Overview of the TREC 2002 novelty track In TREC 2002 W Hildebrandt, B Katz, and ... (from the IR engine) and its rank in the result set For sentence-based features, we experimented with the following: Note that precision and recall values are bounded between zero and one, while the ... score, document score, and sentence length Surprisingly, adding • Passage match score, which sums the idf values of unique terms that appear in both the candidate sentence (S) and the question (Q):...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... Grogger and Eide (1993); Blackburn and Neumark (1993, 1995); Murnane, Willett, and Levy (1995); Neal and Johnson (1996); Mulligan (1999); Murnane, Willett, Duhaldeborde, and Tyler (2000); Altonji and ... United States McIntosh and Vignoles (2001) study wages in the United Kingdom and find strong returns to both numeracy and literacy.13 Finnie and Meng (2002) and Green and Riddell (2003) investigate ... knowledge and skills needed to understand and use information from texts including editorials, news stories, poems, and fiction; Document Literacy – the knowledge and skills required to locate and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... supply and food security, primarily on a global scale This model simulates the relationships among water availability and demand, food supply and demand, international food prices, and trade at regional ... McNeely and Scherr (2001) note that under some circumstances, increasing production on more productive lands—such as irrigated areas—can ease the pressure to use more marginal lands for cropland and ... techniques, and as noted by Reij, Mulder and Bege mann (1988), the distinction between water harvesting and in situ water conservation can be vague and hard to define Many factors influence the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20

... Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and Northern Africa) and countries (Egypt, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Romania, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Vietnam) Glossary ... Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and Northern Africa) and countries (Egypt, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Romania, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Vietnam) Glossary ... Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and Northern Africa) and countries (Egypt, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Romania, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Vietnam) Glossary...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... hand, and bank and entrepreneurial net worth, on the other The monetary tightening also generates more standard effects on the economy The increase in the nominal rate discourages consumption and ... 2004 R P Kishan and T Opiela Bank size, bank capital, and the bank lending channel Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 32:121–141, 2000 R P Kishan and T Opiela Bank capital and loan asymmetry ... et al (2000) and Christiano et al (2005) 2.6 Entrepreneurs and Bankers There exists a continuum of risk neutral entrepreneurs and bankers, whose population masses are fixed at η e and η b , respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... cocrystallization and soaking methods, respectively, and determined their tertiary structures We collected X-ray diffraction data for the AD2 E526A and D524A mutants and refined them to ˚ resolutions of 1.80 and ... diagram is the superimposition of ligand (substrate or inhibitor)-free and ligand-bound structures In (F), only the ligand-free structure is shown because no ligand-bound structure is available The ... The side-chains of three DXDXE acidic residues in ligandfree and ligand-bound forms are shown as yellow and cyan carbon atoms, respectively Ligand structures are shown as green carbon atoms Hydrogen...

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