... emissions trading • eventeen banks are actively trading under the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, S while seven banks in this study are involved with voluntary emissions trading exchanges, ... emissions data Strategic Planning 12 13 Company participates in GHG emissions trading programs 14 Company sets absolute GHG emission reduction targets for facilities, energy use, business travel and ... participates in GHG emissions trading programs 13 Fortis has been active in the European Union Allowance (EUA) trading market since 2003 Today, Fortis trades in all existing carbon contracts and provides...
... underway for some years, including National planning processes, Public Financial Management, Public Administrative Reform, Deconcentration and Decentralisation (D&D), as well as Sector reforms ... Incandescent Lamps through Lighting Market Transformation in Viet Nam Asia Least-cost GHG Abatement Strategy (ALGAS) Hanoi Urban Transport Project (P085393) Hanoi Urban Transport Development Project GEF ... incorporated into national and provincial plans Specifically, it sets out that each line ministry and local administration should have a Climate Change Action Plan These are being put in place, though...
... Sub‐Saharan Africa, coffee and cocoa agroforestry (IITA); (v) security dryland Jatropha sites (ICRISAT); (v) pasture and coffee systems (CIAT, with IFPRI); (vi) land use change, land rehabilitation, and peatland management under oil palm ... and social‐differentiated work, particularly in our joint sites. The strategy of sharing all CCAFS baseline and other survey data with other CRP’s continues to attract them to work/choose sites in the same landscapes/watersheds. ... $150.000 to $400.000). Centers have “Center Activity Plans” and an associated budget. Theme Leaders and Regional Program Leaders also have budgets. In the Business Plan, only the 2012 Milestones are presented, with Center Activity Plans in the annex to the Business Plan. Changes made to Objectives, Outputs, Milestones ...
... RMCs as outlined in national and sub-regional development plans, poverty reduction strategies, sector strategies, and National Adaptation Plans of Action (NAPA) Operational activities will be tailored ... Increased access training activities to Selected CSPs address CRMA at the design stage; by the end of 2011 mainstream CRMA; Bank staff Increased number of training offered Four (4) CRMA training opportunities ... prevent and reverse land degradation and promote afforestation, and sustainable land use practices; • Supporting governments in designing and mainstreaming climate risk management strategies into...
... reduction in concentration of DO and the increase of BOD and COD Specially, concentration of DO reaches to the minimum of about 2.0mg/l, concentration of BOD increases by 2.0mg/l and concentration of ... research activities to find solutions for planning and making plans to adapt to climate change conditions 125 A number of activities which are important to make plan of climate change adaptation in ... sites of the river basin where population concentrate the most They are one of the reasons causing the pollution of the rivers Currently, the concentration of DO in the river around the large industrial...
... Financial Analysts Journal, May-June 1995, 80-88 W10_2 Empirical characteristics of Dynamic Trading strategies; the Case of Hedge Funds, Fung, W and Hsieh, D.A The Review of Financial Studies ... cause of failure for many students You should take the required workload into account when planning how to balance study with employment and other activities 8.2 Attendance Your regular and punctual ... 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 and Teaching in the Course This...
... research Author details School of Medical Sciences, USM, Kubang Kerian, Malaysia 2Specialist Emergency Medicine, Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Authors’ contributions NH planned the study methodology, ... 70(4):419-25 31 Ecollan P, Collet JP, Boon G, Tanguy ML, Fievet ML, Haas R, Bertho N, Siami S, Hubert JC, Coriat P, Montalescot G: Pre-hospital detection of acute myocardial infarction with ultra-rapid ... 13 February 2008 [reference USMKK/ PPP/JEPeM 199.3(10)] A short-term grant was approved by the School of Medical Sciences, USM The eligible population was the source population fulfilling the...
... formula holding for any retraction r The following two lemmas will show that the terms in (3.10) are the same no matter which retraction r is chosen Lemma 3.2 The retraction r is homotopic to ... retraction which takes the second copy onto the first Now f ◦ R : DM → M Then the Lefschetz numbers L( f ) = L( f ◦ R) since R is a retraction, which splits the homology of DM, so that the traces ... fixed point index of the map f |M given in Section For specificity, we define the retraction r: let r : M → M be the retraction from M to M given by the formula, r(m) = m for m ∈ M, r(b,t) = (b,0)...
... Protected Landscapes Amidst the Heat of Climate Change Policy 357 Paul Sinnadurai Chapter 20 Planning for Species Conservation in a Time of Climate Change 379 James E.M Watson, Molly Cross, Erika Rowland, ... its transfer within the canopy (Sellers 1985) Up to 10 sub-grids per model grid are included in CLM to represent sub-grid heterogeneity of the land surface The surface is classified into 24 land ... available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechweb.org Climate Change – Research and Technology for Adaptation and Mitigation, Edited by Juan Blanco and Houshang...
... i ≤ n − 1), (0 ≤ i ≤ n − 2), and cn−1 := (1, 0, , 0, p − 1) ¯ The integer ≤ α < r/p will be chosen later Remark 3.1 All the results below still hold if we define, more generally, cn−1 := (1, ... 1, every α will In general, we want to show that the following “False Assumption” leads to a contradiction False Assumption: For every ≤ α < r/p, gcd(r/p, (n − 1)αp − n) > the electronic journal ... + pq1 q2 q
... Moreover, the bi-statistics (r[max, v], majcode) and (r[max, v], Iinvcode) are equidistributed in a strong form (it is not necessary to sort out the majcodes and inversion codes): For any α ∈ En , ... yinvcode(σ) σ∈Sn In fact, [7] contains one more result They introduce one more code, the so called saillane code, denoted by scode, and proved that the bi-statistics (Idesi, majcode) and (Idesi, scode) ... codes We show that Theorem 1.2 cannot be improved Changing the major (inversion) code to the saillance code is not possible Changing the right-maximal records to other kinds of records is not possible...
... table I Growth strains Residual longitudinal strains were measured on standing trees at breast height level We used the single hole method (Archer, 1986) to estimate the tensile strains in the ... évidence l’impact technologique des contraintes de croissance : les arbres pour lesquels des fentes importantes ont été observées présentaient également des pics de contraintes internes Les cartographies ... ONF plantation and had been submitted to various pruning conditions over different periods One objective is to predict the probability of end splitting before felling the tree by growth strain...
... formation by cultured chondrocytes [44], strongly inhibited the self-assembly of CII in vitro [45] and caused disorganization of CII fibrils in the extracellular matrix without affecting chondrocyte morphology, ... and chondrocytes In our SIA experiments the homozygous mice developed a more severe disease, which suggests that the mediators released during stress affect chondrocytes profoundly, and chondrocytes ... documented that bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), a member of the transforming growth factor (TGF) superfamily, is involved in endochondral bone formation Recently, an antagonist to BMP was shown...
... repair regeneration, and transplantation J Bone Joint Surg Am 1997, 79:612-632 Matsusue Y, Yamamuro T, Hama H: Arthroscopic multiple osetochondral transplantation to the chondral defect in the ... cartilage defects in the knee with autologous chondrocyte transplantation N Engl J Med 1994, 331:889-895 Ochi M, Uchio Y, Kawasaki K, Wakitani S, Iwasa J: Transplantation of cartilage-like tissue made ... Autologous chondrocyte implantation for cartilage repair: monitoring its success by magnetic resonance imaging and histology Arthritis Res Ther 2003, 5:R60-73 Trattnig S, Millington SA, Szomolanyi...
... Jelisavcic for excellant technical assistance on the manuscript REFERENCES [1] Abraham I., Doane W.W., Genetic regulation of tissue-specific expression of structural genes in Drosophila melanogaster, ... Andjelkovi6 M., Milanovi6 M., Marinkovi6 D., Kekié V., Ostoji6 Z., Population genetic studies of Drosophila subobscv,ra amylase, in: 7th European Drosophila Research Conference, Culu, Finland, 1981 ... of Drosophila melanogaster in Japan IV Natural selection on the inducibility, but not on the structural genes, of the amylase loci, Genetics 108 (1984) 879-896 amylase [8] Milanovi6 M., Andjelkovic...
... co-express and co-evolve in transcript levels, as previously observed Use of At and Aa homoeologs in As transcriptome To identify homoeologous transcripts in As, we extracted RNA from leaf tissues ... allotetraploid transposable-element-like sequences Chr1 13.66 M, Chr1 14.00 M, Chr3 12.44 M, Chr3 13.36 M, and Chr5 11.06 M mainly consisted of copia-like, gypsy-like, or CACTA-like retrotransposons ... ago [44] One can generate an artificial F1 allotetraploid (F1As) in the lab by performing a cross between a tetraploid At ovule-parent and a tetraploid Aa pollen donor The resulting primary species...
... cell extracts and western blot analysis All transfections were performed with HighPerfect transfection reagent (Qiagen) For inactivation of miRNA expression, sub-confluent hMADS cells were transfected ... used at a concentration of 20 nM The day after this first transfection, hMADS cells were cotransfected with miR-30 Pre-miR™ miRNA precursor molecules (Ambion) at a final concentration of 40 nM, ... Expression levels of transcripts were evaluated using the comparative CT method (2-deltaCT) Transcript levels of POLR2A and RPL13 were used for sample normalization Results are log2-transformed fold...
... cases AHV-1 Cha strains was propagated in the allantoic cavity of 10-day-old SPF duck embryo The allantoic fluid was harvested from dead embryo Viral DNA from allantoic fluid was extracted by using ... surveillance of AHV-1 8.83 ± 0.11 Bursa of Fabricius Group 1: pcDNA3.1-gC Group 2: AHV-1 Cha strain vaccine 8.23 ± 0.15 8.86 ± 0.07 8.23 ± 0.05 8.32 ± 0.08 8.25 ± 0.16 8.68 ± 0.07 Harderian gland ... protocol The constructed pcDNA3.1-gC plasmid was transformed into Escherichia coli JM109 cells pcDNA3.1-gC plasmid was extracted by TIANprep plasmid extraction kit (Tiangen, China) according to manufacturer’s...
... p21-HTLV-CAT (lanes and 2), pCRE-HTLV-CAT (lanes and 4), pAP1-HTLV-CAT (lanes and 6), pSP1-HTLV-CAT (lanes and 8), pKB-HTLV-CAT (lanes and 10) and pSRE-HTLV-CAT (lanes 11 and 12) were transfected ... p21-HTLV-CAT (lanes and 2), pCRE-HTLV-CAT (lanes and 4), pAP1HTLV-CAT (lanes and 6), pSP1-HTLV-CAT (lanes and 8), pKB-HTLV-CAT (lanes and 10) and pSRE-HTLV-CAT (lanes 11 and 12) were transfected ... no basal activity (Fig 1B, lanes 1, 2, 11 and 12; and Fig 1C, lanes and compared to lane 1) The AP1 and Sp1 sites were moderately active (Fig 1B, lanes 5–8 and Fig 1C, lanes and 5) Hence for basal...