spionid polychaetes as environmental indicators an example from tampa bay florida

... as in the current case, we would argue that analysis of DIF represents an elegant mechanism for establishing and correcting for bias under such circumstances This bias does not necessarily manifest ... influence pass rates RUMM2020 provides both graphical interpretation of DIF, as well as an ANOVA of the residuals Thus this DIF based ANOVA analysis is subtly different from the distributional analysis ... adjustment of pass scores by ANOVA and Rasch analysis Bold numbers indicate adjusted scores Subtest Score range Pass score in original version Turkish Pass Scores (where P = primary; M = Middle and H...

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... organizational and system change was supportive of changing approaches to hospital management, and thus presented an environment in which social capital exchange was warranted and could have ... and resource exchange within networks as well as a positive association between network connections and resource exchange We tested these assumptions among a network of program participants and ... represents an intentional shift away from programs focused on technical assistance and knowledge transfer towards an endogenous process, owned and driven by those who will ultimately benefit from and...

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... Norwegian centres and Denmark The centres did however not have to state which version of the manual was used, however the manuals are quite similar Rasch analysis The Rasch model [12] was used as ... was visually inspected and statistically analysed, where a difference of more than 0,65 logits at the margins and 0,30 in the middle [29] was considered clinical relevant The Rasch analysis was ... Rasch Measurement Transactions 1992, 6(3):238 Smith RM: Fit analysis in latent trait measurement models J Appl Meas 2000, 1(2):199-218 Dorans NJ, Holland PW: DIF detection and description: MantelHaenszel...

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... composite indicators, and that quality of care can be defined in overly simplistic ways, we propose a composite-based approach to measuring As other organizations, the JRC has significant institutional ... Saisana M, Saltelli A, Tarantolo S, Hoffman A, Giovanini E: Handbook on constructing composite indicators: methodology and user guide Paris, France: OECD Publishing 2005 Rosenthal GE: Weak associations ... [15]) summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of using composite indicators, regardless of field or purpose We will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of composite indicators focusing on...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... composite indicators, and that quality of care can be defined in overly simplistic ways, we propose a composite-based approach to measuring As other organizations, the JRC has significant institutional ... Saisana M, Saltelli A, Tarantolo S, Hoffman A, Giovanini E: Handbook on constructing composite indicators: methodology and user guide Paris, France: OECD Publishing 2005 Rosenthal GE: Weak associations ... [15]) summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of using composite indicators, regardless of field or purpose We will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of composite indicators focusing on...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... Total production: 5,732,900 T (5.2% increased) – 3,110,700 T from aquaculture (6.1% increased) – 2,622,200 T from capture (4.3% increased)  6,150,000,000 USD from seafood export Research Institute ...           Pangasius Black Tiger shrimp White leg shrimp Tilapia Carps Cobia Grouper Lobster Clam … Research Institute for Aquaculture No Pangasius Source: NSO and DFish Research Institute ... NSO and DFish Research Institute for Aquaculture No Vietnam seafood exporting value 1997 - 2012 Source: NSO and DFish Research Institute for Aquaculture No Vietnam Aquaculture area Source: NSO and...

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... performance status (as measured by the World Health Organisation performance status) was not [5], whereas a study in metastatic kidney cancer patients reported that both physical functioning and ... Johnson A, Kiang DT, Perloff M, Norton L, Wood W, Holland JC, From the Cancer and Leukemia Group B: Psychosocial symptoms and disease-free and overall survival in women with stage II breast cancer J ... Norman AR, Cunningham D, Waters JS, Oates J: Multivariate prognostic factor analysis in locally advanced and metastatic esophago-gastric cancer: pooled analysis from three multicenter, randomized,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... by the value of the waste, and in the second place by their ease of extraction, handling and transport Paper, metals and plastics, sorted out as early as possible in the waste chain, therefore ... collection and the transport to the transfer stations, while CITENCO conducts the transport from the transfer stations to the landfill (secondary transport) and operates some of the transfer stations and ... examples for the integration of informal actors in the formal waste management system In the last chapter an assessment scheme for alliances in solid waste management is used to compare the examples...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2013, 18:48

... Air Pollution in Urban Areas The massive increase in emissions of air pollutants due to economic and industrial growth in the last century has made air quality an important environmental problem ... schoolchildren and adults and increase the prevalence of asthma and asthmatic symptoms [65-67] Aeroallergens and Atopic Asthma Aeroallergens have a significant impact on the development of asthma, and atopy ... significant association between daily mortality from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and particulate air pollution [15-17] It has been hypothesized that urban fine particulate matter can penetrate...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... solution and gas phase binding of the complexes was not straightforward There was a notoceable difference in the strength of the complexes formed in the aqueous and gas phase, whereas their stoichiometry ... against another enzyme, they displayed inhibitory activity that was at least one order of magnitude higher On the basis of these results, it can be assumed that compounds and inhibit two proteinases ... ˛ An example of peptide splicing Table Association constants (Ka) of SFTI-1 analogues based on the double-sequence of SFTI-1 Ch and T in parenthesis indicate that the inhibitory activity was...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20

... Offering a greater range of product and services Reducing cost and cost efficient • In a merger ,two organizations or companies join together to become a new business • In an acquisition: one ... business buys a second and generally smaller company Goals Increase in top line revenue Expand in a declining market Follow your customer Expand your customer Stabilize financials Gains • • • • ... opportunities for both Microsoft and their partners • Nokia brings proven capability and talent in critical areas • Ongoing share growth and the synergies across marketing, branding, and advertising Nokia...

Ngày tải lên: 08/05/2014, 17:42

... in the Poznan area of Poland between 1995 and 2005.5 It was shown by back-trajectory analysis that it was possible that long-range transport from southern Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech ... France: an invasive plant and its allergenic pollen Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2003;91:195–201 11 Jelks M Allergy plants 1st ed Tampa (FL): World-Wide Printing; 1987 134 Allergy, Asthma, and ... plant and animal phenophases (recurrence of annual phenomena such as plant budding) have been performed Polar areas or areas of colder climates seem to be particularly susceptible to warming, as...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... no AGF95-064), of ACPRA (Asociaci6n de de Raza Asturc6n) and Caja Asturias is greatly acknowledged REFERENCES [1] Bassam B.J., Caetano-Anollés G., Gresshoff P.M., Fast and sensitive silver staining ... long hair and an average height of 1.22 m This breed was brought by the Celtic populations who colonised Asturias in the VIII century BC, and has been used in the last centuries mainly as a military ... breeders association to better understand and manage the relationships between subpopulations As a third advantage, we have seen above that the level of heterozygotes measured in the population as...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... quality/performance measurement as an important tool for promoting and assessing quality improvement interventions Examples of work by DM-QUERI that address these different priority areas can be found ... initiatives: 1) an intensive lobbying effort to revise the existing Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) [30] and VA performance measures for diabetes eye care, and 2) an implementation ... project was a small scale multi-site study (or phase project as described in Table 1) with a quasiexperimental design However, the design was changed to a single-site pilot (or phase project as described...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... passage from F0 of ATP synthase in mitochondria Proton/deuteron passage from F0 of ATP synthase in mitochondria Protons enter the cytoplasmic half-channel and reach Asp61 on subunits c Protonated Asp61 ... activity of 4-methoxybenzoate monooxygenase from Pseudomonas putida was reported [19] An effect of nucleotide binding on H/D exchange was reported in ATP synthase from the thermophilic Bacillus PS3 ... cytoplasmic half-channel is also facilitated by a +0.14V membrane potential, which increases the proton concentration in the orifice of this channel Protons entering the cytoplasmic half-channel...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... climate change, assuming the human contribution to this change amounts to as much as two-thirds of the total with the confidence range of this assessment reaching 0.91,1 would produce an expectancy ... natural factors as a major driver of climate fluctuations in the long-term retrospective (measured in centuries rather than decades) and at least as an important agent of recent change The point ... and media as a major driver (and effect) of climate change and of global warming in particular Indeed, since the Industrial Revolution the mean surface temperature of Earth has increased by an...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:56

... changes within research institutions as well as development and humanitarian agencies and organizations (Linnerooth-Bayer et al., 2005) In such efforts, many institutions, agencies and organizations ... several important paradigm shifts 1.2 From disaster response to disaster risk reduction Since the 1970s, the disaster relief and humanitarian community has gone through several important paradigm ... renewal and transformation; and (3) and understanding ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS of change and uncertainty as inherent in social-ecological systems This statement strongly reflects the convergent aspects...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:56

... Complexity and Creativity in Organizations Berett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco, CA ´ Suarez, P., Anderson, W., Mahal, V and Lakshmanan, L., 2005 Impacts of flooding and climate change on urban transportation: ... (American Planning Association) New Orleans Planning Assessment Team, 2005 Charting the Course for Rebuilding a Great American City – an Assessment of the Planning Function in Post-Katrina New Orleans ... Pittock, A B., Rahman, A., Suarez, A and van Ypersele, J -P., 2009 Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ‘reasons for concern’...

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... various measures of activity, US landfalls and damage Hurricanes in Named storms in Landfalling basin hurricanes Damage 0.87 0.46 0.27 * 0.52 0.42 * 0.58 0.45 * * 0.71 basin Hurricanes in basin Intense ... indeed changed, based on the changes to overall basin activity, but that those changes cannot be detected at a statistically significant level As Nzerem et al (2008) argue, ‘one cannot conclude from ... the basin and for landfall Instead, what needs to be explained is why the ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS easternmost portion of the basin (i.e the two most eastern quadrants in Figure 4b) has seen an increase...

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... Owens, B F and Landsea, C W., 2003 Assessing the skill of operational Atlantic seasonal tropical cyclone forecasts Weather and Forecasting, 18 45 – 54 Pielke, R A Jr, 2005 Hurricanes and global ... data from the 2005 baseline 2006 had no hurricane landfalls, and thus no damage 2007 had one landfall, with USD500 million in damage (see Blake, 2007) 2008 had three hurricane landfalls with an ... number of hurricanes which make US landfall Hurricanes and Climate Change, J B Elsner and T H Jagger (eds) SpringerVerlag, New York, NY Karen Clark and Company, 2008 Near Term Hurricane Models: How...

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