size life histories and population dynamics

... http://www.virologyj.com/content/7/1/329 tested (constant population size, exponential population growth, expansion population growth, logistic population growth and Bayesian Skyline) Statistical uncertainty ... countries, specifically in Central America and the Caribbean Islands, and then the epidemic spread northwards to Mexico and southern United States and southwards into South America Therefore, ... 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008), the rest of the strains having been isolated in several different geographic locations of Venezuela (Miranda, Monagas, Guarico, Lara and Cojedes States, and the Distrito...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:20

... on population dynamics of Botrytis cinerea 61 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 3-13 Effect of thiophanate-methyl application and incubating temperatures of 21°C or 6°C on population dynamics ... Botrytis cinerea under favourable and unfavourable development conditions 116 Table 7-19 Effect of incubating temperature and fungicide application on population dynamics of benzimidazole-resistant ... culturing sensitive and resistant B cinerea strains and testing them for a variety of fitness parameters including conidial production and aggressiveness on plants (PRINGLE and TAYLOR, 2002) Several...

Ngày tải lên: 19/11/2015, 15:46

... (S) Population education enables students to: • explain the relationships between population and environment, population and resources, population and economic development, and population and ... administrators, staff, and school-based service workers 1.4 WHAT IS MEANT BY FAMILY LIFE, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, AND POPULATION EDUCATION? Family life, reproductive health, and population education ... advocate for family life, reproductive health, and population issues must convince school policy- and decision-makers and communities that school-based efforts are appropriate and doable and that these...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... conditions in early life may have less access to (and use of) dental services and a variety of oral hygiene items, and may be more likely to develop harmful oral health behaviours later in life [15] These ... socioeconomic,Performance and dental status and Conceptual framework demographic(OIDP) Conceptual framework of the relationship between life course socioeconomic, demographic and dental status and Oral Impacts ... employment status at child early life, beyond the dental status during the life and OIDP was found Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:95 http://www.hqlo.com/content/7/1/95...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Paavolainen P: Quality of life and functional ability in hip and knee replacements: a prospective study Qual Life Res 1996, 1:56-64 Brownlow HC, Benjamin S, Andrew JG, Kay P: Disability and mental health ... determine a) the differences in the 15D score and dimensions between patients and population controls, and b) the differences between the baseline and admission measurements within the patient ... (including patients and population controls) were from capital area A total of 75 (28%) participants were from other urban area and 48 (18%) from rural area A comparison between patients and population...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... to health care services and its impact on Quality of Life of immigrants Material and Methods: This cross-sectional population- based study was conducted between March and August 2010 with Turkish ... Cyprus and Turkey and have different immigration patterns The Turkish Cypriots were the first to arrive in England and can be traced to the 1920s Increased numbers arrived in the 1940s and late ... cultural and financial characteristics (9 items), migration patterns and issues of migration (7 items), work life (7 items), objective health status and access to health services (14 items) and health...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... branches are related to the size and height of branches, the competitive status of individuals, and the size and growth of individuals MATERIALS AND METHODS 2.1 Study site and data collection At the ... Maillette L., Structural dynamics of silver birch I The fates of buds, J Appl Ecol 19 (1982) 203-218 [28] McGraw J.B., Effects of age and size on life histories and population growth of Rhododendron ... spatial distribution and sizes of neighbouring individuals (i.e competitive status of the target individual) must be considered to better understand the module population dynamics within individuals...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22

... centered specifically on the dynamics of infections at cellular [1,15] and population levels [2] that have profoundly advanced our understanding of disease dynamics and control While the insights ... (day-1) Simulations were based on values used in Nowak and May [1], Nowak and Bangham [3] and Wodarz and colleagues [4] Immune responsiveness (ci) and the connectivity coefficient (ωi) were varied ... connected multi-person population For a multi-person population, the number of equilibria for our basic model rises geometrically with population size While the count and stability of these equilibria...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... between shoots and the root system In soc1/ful double mutants, there is enhanced secondary growth, and Melzer et al suggest that ‘loss of SOC1 and FUL function rather than the increased life span ... mutants such as lhp1, vrn1 and vrn2 [6-8,12-14] Regardless of the mechanism of PEP1 repression, it is clear that an important difference in the monocarpic versus polycarpic life histories of Arabidopsis ... phytohormone levels and fluxes such that secondary growth is favored Given that there are typically both monocarpic and poly­ carpic species within the same plant family, and that their relationships...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 21:20

... Teo and Rajathurai, 1999) Ng and Lim (1992) concluded that the banded leaf monkeys‟ population size was not selfsustaining and other studies also commented on the dire situation faced by banded ... diet and home range size, Cristóbal-Azkarate and Arroyo-Rodríguez, 2007; population size, Cristóbal-Azkarate et al., 2005; social organization, Zunio et al., 2007) (see Arroyo-Rodríguez and Mandujano, ... species and the IUCN conservation status of banded leaf monkeys vii My study provides preliminary information on the population size, reproduction, feeding ecology, and taxonomy of the banded leaf...

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Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:25

... puzzlingly unstable and idiosyncratic But unlike these and other such networks, life is stable – it is able to withstand, or adapt to, remarkably severe external jolts and shocks; and its stability ... forgotten ancestors, and the metabolic web that supports and constitutes life Moving “forward” – spinning and weaving the threads that connect “molecules” to life – has been technically and conceptually ... us build and understand autocatalytic reactions; extend that understanding to other networks of catalytic reactions; and develop simple, and then more complex, networks of autocatalytic and catalytic...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... transformation, and the dynamics of the term structure1 Introduction For many banks, term transformation represents a substantial part of their interest income This is especially true of small and medium-sized ... exposure observations (and one observation fewer when we refer to observations of changes in the exposure) The sample is biased towards the small and medium-sized savings and cooperative banks ... are given in Section 5, and Section concludes Literature Our paper is related to two strands of the literature of the banks’ interest rate risk (See Staikouras (2003) and Staikouras (2006) for...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 06:20

... role of body size in marine and freshwater ecosystems James H Brown, Andrew P Allen and James F Gillooly Body size and suspension feeding Stuart Humphries 16 Life histories and body size 10 David ... Atkinson and Andrew G Hirst Relationship between biomass turnover and body size for stream communities Alexander D Huryn and Arthur C Benke Body size in streams: macroinvertebrate community size ... size and trophic cascades in lakes J Iwan Jones and Erik Jeppesen Body size and scale invariance: multifractals in invertebrate communities Peter E Schmid and Jenny M Schmid-Araya Body size and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... inclinations and his opportunities enabled him later to devote himself He knew the Atlantic Coast from El Mina in Africa,(6) to England and Iceland,(7) and he had visited the Levant(8 )and the islands ... the Holy Land, enlisted under the Christian standard the chivalry of Europe, and during the victorious campaign of the King, St Ferdinand, knights from France, Germany, Italy, and Flanders swelled ... Cipango, Cathay, and the Grand Khan, that the lands might be reached by sailing west, and there was doubtless little the ancients had written concerning the existence of islands and continents...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 06:20

... satisfies ds β + > and β + (s) = s if −ε ≤ s ≤ −ε/2 and β + (s) → as s → ∞ − d Similarly ϕ− : (−∞, ε] → R has the form ϕ− (s) = eβ (s) with ds β − > and − (s) = s if ε/2 ≤ s ≤ ε and β − (s) → as ... discussion we have: Theorem 2.15 Assume N ∈ N is fixed and consider AN Given C1 and C2 in MN , either C1 = C2 or C1 and C2 have one point of intersection, and the intersection index is equal to In particular, ... dealt with later on Here S is the standard sphere S = {z ∈ C2 | |z| = 1}, where z = (z1 , z2 ) = (q1 + ip1 , q2 + ip2 ) with zj ∈ C and qj , pj ∈ R Recalling the standard contact form on S , qj dpj...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... thousand "gardes du corps," troops of musketeers and light horse, "gendarmes de la garde," &c who scandalized Paris, and disgusted the army by their new epaulettes, and their sumptuous and splendid ... Napoleon, created the thousands and thousands of manufactories from whence proceeded those finished works of skill and labour which became the pride of the French, and the despair and ruin of foreign ... France, and Germany, and Italy, equally useful and majestic, and which afforded to the inhabitants of those countries means equally speedy and secure of communicating with each other, and of exchanging...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 03:21

... Theory and Numerical Analysis, North-Holland Publ Co., Amsterdam, 1984 [33] R Temam and M Ziane, Some mathematical problems in geophysical fluid dynamics, in Handbook of Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, ... three-dimensional viscous primitive equations, which model large scale ocean and atmosphere dynamics Introduction Large scale dynamics of oceans and atmosphere is governed by the primitive equations which are ... coupled to thermodynamics and salinity diffusion-transport equations, which account for the buoyancy forces and stratification effects under the Boussinesq approximation Moreover, and due to the shallowness...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:21

... each watershed and county intersection We used the LandScan Global dataset [27] which estimates population at a grid with cells approximately km by km in size We then created a population- weighted ... adjacent to metropolitan areas (codes 3,4,5,6,7,9 and 10), and non-metropolitan areas not adjacent to metropolitan areas (codes 8,11 and1 2) Data sources and variables The EPA’s Discharge Monitoring ... mortality and area weighted and toxicityweighted release the Great Plains persists across all GWR results, along with higher values along the Pacific coast and in parts of the Midwest and Northeast...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20