the ecological and evolutionary importance of maternal effects in the sea

... model involves the demonstrated link between the frequency of onshore winds during the period of residence of the larvae of capelin in the beach gravel where they are spawned and their survival and ... abundance of herring (Clupea harengus), which influence cod LCI indirectly via their predation on capelin, which in turn are the main prey of cod Interest in the role and importance of maternal effects ... series for the timing of the spring bloom in the Bering Sea in an attempt to explain recruitment variation in walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) This indirect measure of the onset of spring primary...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:21

... diagram showing the activation of STAT-3 and Erk1/2 downstream from EGF binding to EGFR In the general model of signal transduction, the cascading chain of phosphorylation events culminating in activation ... fidelity and signal integrity The classic model for the execution of this molecular symphony is a cascade of protein:protein interactions resulting in the spread of an amplified wave of protein phosphorylation ... receptors on the presynaptic axon terminal (2), inducing receptor activation and the induction of intracellular signaling cascades (3) These signals must travel from the site of initiation to the distant...

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Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:24

... that it is the generic nature of the fusion which causes problems In particular, we hypothesize that fusing two sentences in the context of a preceding question (the natural setting in QA applications) ... either the intersection or the union condition, and within each condition they first had to produce 25 generic and then 25 question-based fusions In the latter case, participants were given the ... of a preceding question the same for both kinds of fusion? In Experiment I, below, we address these questions, by collecting and comparing four different fusions for various pairs of related...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20

... many number of factors, including the number of random restarts used (in MERT), the number of features in a model, the number of references, the language pair, the portion of the search space ... and F Och 2009 Efficient minimum error rate training and minimum Bayes-risk decoding for translation hypergraphs and lattices In Proc of ACL-IJCNLP R C Moore and C Quirk 2008 Random restarts in ... Proc of ACL S Riezler and J T Maxwell 2005 On some pitfalls in automatic evaluation and significance testing for MT In Proc of the Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Methods for Machine...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20

... Dyer, and Miles Osborne 2009 A Gibbs sampler for phrasal synchronous grammar induction In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint ... BLEU points in news domain Compared to the state -of -the- art IBM Model 4, the Bayesian Model is better in all travel domain tasks and is comparable or better in the news domain Fertility of a source ... relevant for the state -of -the- art SMT systems since: (1) Model is used in bootstrapping the parameter settings for EM training of higherorder alignment models, and (2) many state -of- theart SMT...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20

... Token Intersection The token intersection of S and T is defined as the cumulative intersecting frequency of segment types appearing in each of the strings, normalised according to the combined ... word-based indexing, and for the remainder of this paper, present only these two sets of results While we have been able to confirm the finding of Baldwin and Tanaka (2000) that characterbased indexing ... pre-processing stage, following segmentation (where applicable) All this involves is mutating the original strings into Ngrams of the desired order, while preserving the original segment order and segmentation...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 19:20

... fever in our blood We are restless and unsatisfied, ever and ever seeking for some new things We have lost the quiet, and the sheer pleasures of the old days And the sense of security has gone There ... education was the privilege of the rich Books were few and expensive As to amusements, there were no cinemas and no gramophones Life in those days must have been dull and slow So far, the answer ... picture of their lives, we must cut out many of the things which are so familiar and necessary to us today We wonder how men could ever have got on without them Take travel, for instance In the time...

Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 04:20

... the event was not received within fourfold of the expected therapeutic interval Under this definition, treatment was discontinued in 553 of 1,388 (39.8%) AEs in RA and in 123 of 329 (37.4%) in ... significant expression of TNF in the entheses and peripheral joints in all the conditions [44-47] This has led to the use of TNF antagonists in the treatment of SpA resistant to NSAIDs and the traditional ... were approved by the Spanish Medicines Agency (Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo), and the information regarding patients was gathered in the registry and handled according to current official regulations...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... the development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), an important cause of chronic illness in these infants Causes of lung injury include the repetitive expansion and collapse of the lungs, and ... decrease in CLD, and to improved long-term outcome in the very low birth weight infant We would support the transfer of patients at high risk of needing prolonged ventilation and/ or developing CLD ... strategy including both continuous tidal volume monitoring to avoid lung injury from volutrauma and protocolized weaning, HFOV infants fared significantly better than CV infants In this trial, infants...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... moving along the direction of the steepest intensity variation, the larvae reliably locate the source of the odor sensitivity Schemes like these may function to promote odor discrimination, another ... both left and right antennal lobes Hence, in the adult, integration of redundant inputs begins at a very early stage in olfactory processing Whether this unique wiring scheme enhances the spatial ... to the ‘noise’ in the system Both the detection level and the measurement resolution of the system are dependent on the input noise level (b) Neural integration can reduce uncorrelated noise The...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... use in mass-spring-mass by the interplay of the individual matched to each other and to their systems That’s why these materials When comparing the costs of acoustically optimized buildings in ... exceed the current sound insulation stan- Sound in mind and body? dards used in European countries Whether in the office or at home: By offering appropriate insulation noisy surroundings are the ... benefits and qualities that definitely pay off in the long run Lightweight walls not only offer higher thermal walls, the possibilities of influen- lightweight insulating materials cing the efficiency...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2015, 09:57

... actual bots and joins a number of botnets, all the while recording any information observed on the command and control channel This information may include the identities of all active bots In this ... the IP address of their IRC server before joining the command and control channel Our technique estimates a botnet’s DNS footprint by probing the caches of a large collection of DNS servers and ... footprints of the remaining 48% of the botnets that not publish membership data Figure presents the CCDF of DNS footprint sizes Because in this case we count domains rather than bots, the discrepancy...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... of the curve in his influential research on the importance of credit supply and transmission of financial shocks, and went from that to showing true intellectual leadership on the FOMC from the ... whopping 3.8 percentage points in the US since mid-2009, while only growing by 0.7 percent cumulatively in the UK; investment grew by 1.7% in the US and only 0.6% in the UK over the course of this ... cause in and of itself) These are in the Bank of England parlance rather chunky numbers, and are what we have to explain Reasons for the difference in investment growth – One way to explain the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20

... helps to solve the tasks displayed The focus is on the library blocks which enable SMS-Sending and SMS-Receiving Downloads Content of the downloads Download Library description on the Configuration ... 25545680 Latest modification Startup-Code and library with the actual version counter V1.2 and the append ant documentations is now adapted to STEP V11 Additional search terms wireless, m2m, without ... Example X25 (Documentation based on the Startup-Code) ConfigurationExampl e_S7-1200_SMS_DOKU_V12_e.pdf Startup-Code (Project file for STEP V11) Containing also the outdated project file based on...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 21:04

... Competition and winning are not defining traits of games—nor are they defining interests of the people who love to play them Many gamers would rather keep playing than win—thereby ending the game In high-feedback ... leverage the power of games in their communities, in their businesses, in their own lives They will be less prepared to shape the future And therefore they will miss some of the most promising opportunities ... were aware of the necessity of keeping busy: we knew the satisfaction of stacking bricks, pouring water into and out of containers and moving sand from one pit to another, untroubled by the greater...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 20:38

... rid of the lack of safety and order resulting from the above- mentioned kind of crime In other words, the city dwellers have to face their fate/destiny every minute in their life To tell the truth, ... Consequently, the so-called the pearl of the Far East’ is getting more and more polluted Water pollution is only part of the pollution facing all the dwellers of this biggest city in Vietnam The air ... than the so-called standard legal income of the majority of the city dwellers Consequently, they have to struggle hard to make their two ends meet They not usually have time to enjoy themselves In...

Ngày tải lên: 21/07/2014, 20:20

... 2'-3'-O-(4-benzoylbenzoyl)-adenosine 5'triphosphate (BzATP) at the time indicated by the arrow in (a) (a) Density plots of the rate of extracellular PS exposure in each cell population, as indicated by increased binding of ... 2'-3'-O-(4-benzoylbenzoyl)-adenosine 5'-triphosphate (BzATP) at the time indicated by the arrow in (a) (a) Density plots of the rate of CD62L shedding in each cell population, as indicated by decreased binding of antiCD62LFITC ... concentrations of ATP, resulting in secretion of IL-1β and in CD62L shedding within minutes P2X7 stimulation thus acts to promote the inflammatory response The resulting lymphoid infiltration leads...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... the transported patient and those remaining in the ICU Depending on the acuity of the remaining patients in the unit and the responsibilities of those individuals covering patient care, nurses ... to, re-attaching the patient to the inroom monitoring system, arranging the iv pumps and poles straightening iv lines, straightening and or changing sheets, and the placement of drains to suction ... patient and one of them required transportation, the care of the others was assumed by another nurse on the unit or the charge nurse, in both cases in addition to their routine responsibilities In...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... authors, is a decreased release of proinflammatory cytokines by monocytes undergoing apoptosis However, of the serum cytokines measured (intereukin-6, interleukin-8 and tumour necrosis factor-α) ... process to the advantage of patients Finally, there are a variety of technical considerations in measuring apoptosis in peripheral blood monoctyes that introduce uncertainty into the measurement ... sepsis, and this was not measured in the study Given these points, it is too soon to say with certainty that increased early monocyte apoptosis confers a survival advantage in the context of sepsis...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:24