... forest inthe Upper and the Lower U Minh areas were burned, accounting for approximately 57% (17% inthe Lower U Minh and 40% inthe Upper U Minh) ofthe total Melaleuca forest area. Inthe U Minh ... October, most ofthe MD receives between 1800 and 2200 mm of rainfall. At the end of the rainy season, due to the combination of floodwater draining from the upstream areas, the overland flood ... Fig.1: The Mekong River Basin and Land forms ofthe MD in Vietnam The main objective of this article is the presentation ofthe forest wetland inventory process, applied to both the inland...
... number of individuals isincreasing at the Northern boundary ofthe population. Results show that there is an overallincrease inthe number of Clouded Apollo in Estonia, with 73% of all sighting ... but has been increasing rapidly in territory and inthe number of individuals. Despite the fact that the Clouded Apollo is decreasing in most areas of Europe (Meglécz et al., 1999), the population ... grew about the evolutionary biology of butterflies, it provided a spring-board for their use as surrogates for other insects in other disciplines, including ecology and conservation. These developments,...
... for the dynamic nature ofthe Internet and the information that can be found on it;3. The search for information is often limited to a few Internet services, such as the WWW. Finding information ... 253.2.2.1 The Internet SoftBot 253.2.2.1 The Internet SoftBot 253.2.2.2 The Info Agent 273.2.2.2 The Info Agent 273.3 Summary 294 The Three Layer Model 314.1 Introduction 314.2 Definition ... issue for the three layer model, as they ensure that (agents in) the individual layers can easily interface with (agents in) the other ones. Organisations such as the Internet Engineering Task...
... availability of services in Bualo Narrows, which were related to the isolated location ofthe community, the lack of many required services, and the inability of existing services to meet the needs of ... provide elderly women with the minimal services needed by them to maintain their independence: ere’s a lot of things she [participant’s mother] could get help with that they don’t have here, because ... refers to the ability of individuals to pay for the direct and indirect costs of health services, including medications, independent living appliances and transportation to specialist appointments...
... ABC include the number of machine setups, the pounds of material purchased or used, the number of engineering change orders, the number of machine hours, and so on. The considering ofthe ... for their accounting system inthe context of developing country like Vietnam. After reviewing the literature, the main topic areas to cover during the interviews include: characteristics ofthe ... research‟s findings. In qualitative work, writing the research report is an extension of data analysis because writing is another way of making sense ofthe data by synthesizing and summarizing them....
... dividendby the coefficient ofthe divisor for the coefficient ofthe quotient, subtract the exponent of each letter inthe divisor from the exponent ofthe same letter in the dividend for the exponent of ... p erformed in obtaining the dividend? What then is the dividend? How are these partial products obtained?Keeping these facts in mind, we will start on the work of division, usingthese same ... man invested a certain amount in business. His gain the first yearwas three-tenths of his capital, the second year five-sixths of his originalcapital, and the third year $3600. At the end of the...
... III then investigates the successes, failures, and potential of market-basedinstruments for encouraging investment in natural capital and the consequentdelivery of ecosystem services inthe ... case studies in part III, part IV then forges an approach for the design of new law and policy for ecosystem services, working from the current base-line and taking into account the inherent limitations ... Trade-offs are inevitable, and10IntroductionRuhl-00-Intro (1-12) 4/10/07 9:59 PM Page 10 of these ecosystem benefits cares about the end result the image, the scene, the hiking trail, the...
... (1) operations at the high end ofthe range, (2) operations inthe middle ofthe range, and (3) operations at the lower end ofthe range. Within each ofthe three chapters, the cases are presented ... forward with the attacking infantry and only nine of these covered the distance to the German lines. Nevertheless, the British tanks caused panic inthe German ranks and their impressive performance ... A History ofthe Armored Fighting Vehicle, p. 13. Introduction 13Case Complex TerrainPoint inthe Range of Military Operations Type of OperationTypes of Armored Vehicles and Other Forces1st...
... "layered" domains of interest [1]. Finally, the macro file contains the meanings of modifiers, roughly inthe form in which they were acquired using the specification language discussed in the previous ... Furthermore, some modifier meanings can be derived by the system from the meanings of other modifiers, rather than separately acquired from the userã For example, if the meaning ofthe ... UTILIZATION OFTHE INFORMATION ACQUIRED DURING PREPROCESSING As shown in Figure i, the English-language processor of LDC achieves domain independence by restricting itself to (a) a domain-independent....
... considered. The results also emphasise the trans-boundary nature ofthe air pollutants considered under the CAFE Programme and the need to examine the occasional, counterintuitive small increases in ... as this underpins the health impacts quantified here. 1. In some cases there are modest increases in emission between successive scenarios, going against the trend seen in most other countries. ... mortality in terms of deaths and values it using the mean estimate ofthe VSL. The analysis presented here did not include quantification of various other impacts associated with emissions of NOx,...
... MG-132showed an additional increment inthe protein level of GM-CSF-induced MLN51 (Fig. 2E). These data indi-cate that GM-CSF not only induces the expression of MLN51, but also blocks the proteasome-mediateddegradation ... [7]. Inthe presentexperiments, we assessed the dose and time kinetics of the effects of GM-CSF on MLN51 expression in MH7Acells. MLN51 was fully induced at the protein level fol-lowing treatment ... angiogenesis in arthriticjoints [2–4]. Several cytokines and RA factors existing in the RA environment stimulate the overgrowth of FLSs, leading to the aggravation of disease. Amongstthese factors,...
... times the mass ofthe subunit determinedby SDS ⁄ PAGE, indicating that the recombinant TTRsas tetramers. Analysis of binding to retinol-bindingprotein and thyroid hormones showed that the recom-binant ... antibodiesand binding to retinol-binding protein of these recombinant TTRs weresimilar to TTRs found in nature. Analysis ofthe binding affinity to thyroidhormones of recombinant human TTR ... between the evolution ofthe primary structure of the N-terminal regions of TTR and the biologicalfunction of TTR.ResultsSynthesis of recombinant human TTR In the crocodile, TTR is only synthesized...
... alcohol in the binding pocket. In clusters 1 and 3, the ring is oriented‘inside’, towards the conserved core ofthe bindingpocket, but in cluster 2, it is oriented towards the longloop covering the ... affect their ability tomaintain catalytically favourable binding geometries.Docking of hydroquinone inthe acceptor bindingpocket of SlUGT5 resulted in a single conformationcluster (Fig. 4A) in ... cannot explain the observed preference for the b-isosalicin production determined by NMR. The maindifference between the conformation clusters lies in the position ofthe aromatic ring of salicyl...
... assumed the title of the Company ofthe Indias. The Company next acquired the privilege of farming all the taxes and the whole revenue ofthe kingdom; andpresently bought out the mint, and the right ... as theyhad, or sent it out ofthe kingdom. The Royal Bank and the Company ofthe Indias were now incorpo- The History of Banks/9 The conveniency of these notes soon spread them over the kingdom;and ... circulated, touching the certain profits of thesenew undertakings. Inthe depressed stateof every kind of business forseveral preceding years, it had been a very difficult matter to investcapital...