the abundance of deuterium a check on big bang cosmology

... sum of exchangeable + carbonate fractions acids in municipal solid waste These variations in the quantity and quality of humic substances also influenced the speciation of heavy metals Relationship ... Cu and Ni, but the plant available Pb was dramatically decreased The finding is similar to that of Garcia et al ,(1990) who extracted more plant available metals by DTPA after composting of aerobic ... exchangeable Cr in the initial mixture was about 10% of total Cr and the carbonate fraction was also about 10% total Cr, which means about 20% of total Cr in the mixture may become leachable or available...

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... Sakai, K., Kamijima, M., Shibata, E., Ohno, H and Nakajima, T (2009) Annual transition and seasonal variation of indoor air pollution levels of 2-ethyl-1hexanol in large-scale buildings in Nagoya, ... (in Japanese) IPCS (1989) Environmental Health Criteria 89 Formaldehyde, World Health Organization, Geneva Takeda, M., Saijo, Y., Yuasa, M., Kanazawa, A. , Araki, A and Kishi, R (2009) Relationship ... Environ., 11, 93–101 (in Japanese) 123) Nakamura, Y., Yakagi, M., Yoshinaga, J., Tanaka, A. , Seyama, H and Shibata, Y (2008) Element Composition of Japanese House Dust and the Source of Lead Indoor...

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... Periodically, RAND Corporation researchers publish with commercial presses These books are not available from RAND but can be requested directly from the publisher, except in cases where the rights ... requested directly from the publisher, except in cases where the rights have reverted to RAND and we have republished a new edition ...

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... examined the potential impacts of organic systems on the Canadian prairies Modeling of a hypothetical transition to organic production in Canada suggested that a total transition of Canadian canola, ... the longterm sustainability of organic grain production on the Canadian Prairies [73] Environmental Aspects of Organic Grain Production on the Canadian Prairies The influences of organic management ... research on organic grain production and evaluate the sustainability of organic grain production on the Canadian Prairies in relation to its agronomic, environmental, and socio-economic aspects Agronomic...

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... made strong progress on developing the national implementation plans required by the Convention What the Convention does: • Over time, through national action plans, information exchange amongst ... environment, but it is very good at killing and repelling the mosquitoes that spread malaria In regions where malaria still poses a major health hazard, that is a huge benefit Malaria kills at least ... accordance with World Health Organization recommendations and guidelines and only when locally safe, effective, and affordable alternatives are not available Use will be carefully regulated and monitored...

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... Y38 0A S378P AMY1 AMY2 Crystal structures of AMY1 sugar tongs mutants in complex with acarbose that connects b5 and a5 of the catalytic (b a) 8-barrel at the end of the aglycon-binding area of the ... by the mutations In comparison, the Kd of AMY2 was threefold higher than that of AMY1 (Table 2) Effects of sugar tongs mutation on adsorption to and hydrolysis of starch granules Starch granules ... of b-cyclodextrin to sugar tongs mutants measured by surface plasmon resonance analysis Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) analysis was suitable for measuring the afnity in the low millimolar range...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20

... International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the World Bank ... of Sudan Congo meter Cameroon 30 Eritrea Figure 3d Sub-Saharan Africa: GDP impacted Sudan South Africa Angola Sao Tome and Principe Somalia Madagascar meter Equatorial Guinea Tanzania Somalia ... Guinea-Bissau Guinea Senegal Liberia The Gambia Mauritania % Impact (Urban Extent) meter Togo Gabon Guinea Madagascar Benin Somalia Mozambique Sierra Leone Senegal Mauritania Guinea-Bissau The Gambia...

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... 5¢-TCAAA CTCGGATCCCTTTGCACATCACAGCAGGCA-3¢), 200 lM each of dNTPs, and 0.4 lL 50 · Advantage cDNA Polymerase Mix (Clontech, Palo Alto, CA, USA) in the buffer recommended by the manufacturer At ... and repeated three times The amount of the ST2 was normalized to the level of GAPDH A normalized ST2 value of TM12 was taken as the standard, and the final relative quantity of ST2 mRNA was expressed ... level of GAPDH The value of TM12 cells was taken as the standard, and final relative quantity of ST2 mRNA in meningioma (Mg) and glioblastoma (GB) was expressed relative to the standard All experiments...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... venting of air from the aircraft The strong current of air INTO THIN AIR Figure 1.3: Flight UAL811 was apparent to all on board After the initial outrush of air, the situation in the aircraft stabilised, ... experience the sensation of weightlessness for ve or six seconds The carriage then goes round the curved section of the track to reach the horizontal portion of the track, the brakes are applied at and ... States One of the main features of the parks are the rides which are offered and as a result of competition between parks and the need to continually change the rides, they have become larger, faster...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 15:40

... (Japan); Soren Blau (United Arab Emirates and Australia); Hallie Buckley, Kate Domett, and Nancy Tayles (New Zealand and Thailand); Marc Oxenham (Vietnam); Peng Long-Xiang (China); Nara Bazarsad ... subject In a way, the study of how disease affects human populations has always had a fascination for us The reconstruction of past human behavior does not stop at death because, as Dormandy (1999: ... Components of the deprivation indices and weightings on each component 61 Anxiety through the year of the Massa and Mussey of Africa 72 Workload distribution through the year of the Massa and Mussey, Africa...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:41

... ease of use and adaptation to many varying conditions Preference-based measures of HRQOL are particularly important because of their role in economic evaluations upon which resource allocation ... for any purpose should take care to choose measures that encapsulate the entirely of impact of a condition on health, and define health in an appropriate way for the condition under consideration[26] ... omissions and very few changed the actual meaning of the women's conversations Transcripts were coded by one author (EW) and a research assistant for the domains of health and quality of life...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... ease of use and adaptation to many varying conditions Preference-based measures of HRQOL are particularly important because of their role in economic evaluations upon which resource allocation ... for any purpose should take care to choose measures that encapsulate the entirely of impact of a condition on health, and define health in an appropriate way for the condition under consideration[26] ... omissions and very few changed the actual meaning of the women's conversations Transcripts were coded by one author (EW) and a research assistant for the domains of health and quality of life...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... which the chemical groups are attached to the outer wall of the CNTs Exohedral functionalization can be further subdivided into the covalent and non-covalent approaches In the covalent approach, ... functionalization has been achieved by attaching the functional group on the side walls, end caps, or defect sites of nanotubes with a covalent bond, whereas in the non-covalent approach, chemical ... For the second step of functionalization, a 1:1 v/v ratio of HNO3 and H2SO4 (15 mL each) was added to the dried sample Microwave treatment was given for on an on/ off basis After this, 20 mL of...

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... and unnatural motion Given the good correlation with the subjective quality scores, the NTIA General VQM was adopted both as a national standard and as an international recommendation The model ... effects of PLR variation Based on the performed analysis, an optimization of the quality assessment and of the monitoring system can be done The adoption of an objective model allows to determine the ... of an error concealment block at the receiver The analytical approximation of the residual PLR also for the 2D-FEC allows to evaluate the perceived quality as a function of the inserted redundancy...

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... to achieve a normal distribution of the data and hence to allow the use of repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) “Treatment-group” was the between-subject variable, and “time” was the ... of Tris/Mn RNA buffer and μl of Promega DNase solution was added and the sample incubated, shaking at 37°C for 30 to digest any contaminating DNA A total of μl of Stop solution was added, heated, ... Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australia Intensive Care Department, Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, New Zealand Molecular Genetics Laboratory, University of Waikato, New Zealand Intensive Care Department,...

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... hybridization at 55oC for 10 seconds, and extension at 72oC for 13 seconds The melting curve analysis was done with an initial denaturation at 95oC DNA melting was accomplished with an initial temperature ... temperature of 65oC for 10 seconds and a gradual temperature increase with a transition rate of 0.1 per seconds until reaching 95oC The melting temperature of the expected 545 bp amplicon was estimated ... µl of PSS to serve as a control The CBH response to PHA-P was evaluated by determining the thickness of the interdigital skin before injection and at 12 and 24 hours after infection with a constant-tension,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 17:22

... Cantabrian lowlands than in other locations at the Atlantic region, but less probable than in the Mediterranean region Thus, the climate at the Cantabrian lowlands could be defined as Atlantic ... Northern Patagonia, Argentina: the roles of substrate stability and climatic variation, Can J For Res 25 (1995) 1684−1696 [25] Kobayashi O., Funada R., Yasue K., Ohtani J., Evaluation of the ... plantations of eucalyptus and pine (more than 000 ha) The Caviedes forest is the largest among three remnants of the native oak and beech-oak forest, which actually occupied a total surface of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... pre-natally, and the use of both questionnaires and physical examinations for obtaining information from the participants and their parents, information bias, if present, was minimal and non-differential ... 130,000 The population is stable to the extent that the majority of participants in the cohort has not moved away and was thus available for follow up This makes the island particularly attractive ... and parents who participated in this study, and appreciate the hard work of Mrs Sharon Matthews and the David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre team in collecting the phenotype data The authors...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... indicate damage of the photosynthetic function However, we cannot tell whether the disturbances occurred during the induction period, the state I-state II transitions or the photosynthetic C0 fixation, ... indicate that photoinhibition took place at high photon flux density in low temperaturestressed leaves The increasing delay of the fluorescence decrease kinetics to reach the final steady-state ... plants Physiol Plant 67, in agreement with earlier work with intact E globulus plants The degree of correlation obtained between the percentage of tissue necrosis and either photosynthetic capacity...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... in the realm of drug policy and illustrates the extent to which dominant social narratives that portray drug users as reckless and lacking regard for the health of others have penetrated the ... discrimination within the judiciary being the main target for action Correction is a public safety rather than a public health activity, and therefore the justice system and prison life itself are not ... ignites new action that ultimately serves to prevent or at least limit the use of law and order as a tool of public health References Wodak A: Drug laws War on drugs does more harm than good BMJ...

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