... mgZn/kg based on the uniform distribution of these metals in the sediments of the lake The higher concentration in the northwest part of the lake is probably due to reverse flow of the polluted Pasig ... in the eastern side of Manila Bay The concentration profiles in the sea sediments show the decrease in lead and zinc concentrations in the sediments with the increase in the distance between the ... employed for the determination of total lead content before the instrumental analysis On the other hand, the concentration of dissolved fraction was determined for the filtrate samples with the same...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08
Tài liệu The Global Report of the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change Study: Consultation Draft doc
... necessarily reflect the views of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work The boundaries, ... Because of the complexity of modeling sectors at a global level, none of the sectoral models is capable of choosing the optimal timing of investments This implies that the time-paths of investments ... maintenance costs The first part of the right side of equation (2) is referred to as the delta-P component of the cost of adaptation, and the second part as the delta-Q component These components...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20
Tài liệu proceedings of the global forum of food safety regulators docx
Ngày tải lên: 23/02/2014, 15:20
Biotechnology and Empire: The Global Power of Seeds and Science
... center of knowledge for the productive management of nature.36 Problems of sugar cane cultivation in the West Indies led to the formation of the Imperial Department of Agriculture at the end of the ... regulations based on the experts’ classifying knowledge.21 Government (the project of the rulers) and mentality (the state of mind of the ruled) then fuse, as both begin to perceive the world in identical ... Foundation For accounts of the scientific and social dimensions of the Green Revolution, see Lily E Kay, The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology...
Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 21:59
Update: The Radiographic Features of Pulmonary Tuberculosis pot
... documented of two or more anti- in 34 (38%) of the 90 patients on the basis ofthe following criteria: (1) recently documented conversion of the PPD skin test coupled with a positive culture of M tuberculosis ... two, and the recognition of certain patterns that should to suspicion of pulmonary tuberculosis The pathogenof pulmonary tuberculosis is also discussed four of the patients with primary tuberculosis ... nature of tuberculosis, the morbidity and mortality of the natural course of the disease, and the excellent therapeutic results of antituberculous chemotherapy in most cases, there is good reason...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The sigma factors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: regulation of the regulators potx
... FEBS 607 The r-factors of M tuberculosis P Sachdeva et al the decreased levels of the sigA transcript might reflect a decrease in the mRNA pool relative to the total RNA of the cell [24] The sigA ... in the sigG mutant The aforementioned result is expected in view of the downregulation of sigH and the upregulation of sigD upon the deletion of sigG in M tuberculosis [90] This finding further ... replication in the lung during the short-term infection of mice [109,110], the negative regulation of their synthesis by rM negates the possibility of its role in virulence during the early course of infection...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20
The global dimension of water governance: Nine reasons for global arrangements in order to cope with local water problems potx
... change the quality of the world’s rivers Nriagu and Pacyna (1988) set out the specific impacts of the use of trace metals in the global economy on the world’s 12 / The global dimension of water ... over reviewing the political feasibility of the identified arrangements The global dimension of water governance / 11 The need for global governance in water issues 2.1 The effect of global climate ... to the Netherlands for consumption there) The water footprints of people are increasingly externalised to other parts of the world Consumers generally not pay for the negative effects of their...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20
THE GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE 2004 UPDATE docx
... sixth globally, but is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the African Region and in the low- and middle-income countries of the Region of the Americas In the South-East Asia Region, Global ... deaths globally cancers of the mouth and oropharynx are the second leading cause of cancer deaths For women, 15 cancers are ranked for each of the regions The most common cancer at the global ... account the age at death causes major shifts in the proportion of deaths occurring in each of the WHO Regions (Figure 13) Based on the distribution of the world’s 58.8 million deaths in 2004, the...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20
Breakaway: The global burden of cancer— challenges and opportunities pot
... up another 24% of the global 2009 total The remainder is comprised of the costs of transportation to and from medical providers, the costs of complementary and alternative treatments, and the value ... Breakaway: The global burden of cancer— challenges and opportunities The health and economic burden of cancer Overview A key objective of this report is an exploration of the global burden of cancer ... Breakaway: The global burden of cancer— challenges and opportunities The costs of cancer, 2009 The global economic cost of the 12.9m new cancer cases in 2009 is estimated to be US$286bn These costs...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20
THE GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE DUE TO OUTDOOR AIR POLLUTION ppt
... uncertainty of the base-case estimates was quantified by estimating the joint uncertainty in the estimates of annual mean concentration and the estimates of the relative risks The sensitivity of the ... 100,000 and capital cities The estimated distribution of the world’s urban population and that of the urban population of each of the 14 regions are shown in Figure To allow the most appropriate epidemiologic ... and other risks) (WHO, 2002) DISCUSSION The results indicate that the impact of outdoor air pollution on the burden of disease in the world’s cities is large, but an assessment of sources of uncertainty,...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo Y học: The processivity and fidelity of DNA synthesis exhibited by the reverse transcriptase of bovine leukemia virus pot
... of other RTs such as that of HIV [12] In the present study we have extended the investigation of BLV RT by an in vitro analysis of the processivity and the fidelity of DNA synthesis (namely, the ... with either lM of the correct dNTP (dTTP) or mM of each of the incorrect dNTPs Fig shows the gel analysis of the elongation products with the correct or incorrect dNTPs It is apparent that the general ... value of almost 100% of relative processivity) It is possible that these results may vary slightly depending of the sequence of the DNA copied and the conditions used in the experiments None of the...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:21
social economy of the metropolis cognitive-cultural capitalism and the global resurgence of cities jan 2009
... for the social life of cities In all of this, I lay special emphasis on the idea of the social economy of the metropolis, which is to say, a view of the urban organism as an intertwined system of ... within the major cities of the mass-production system kept them consistently in positions of economic leadership relative to the rest of the national territory Moreover, from the New Deal of the ... 1995) Dear’s account of the “postmodern urban condition” captures much of the spirit of the latter trend (Dear 2000) All of these approaches to urban theory and the urban question offer diverse insights...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:16
university of california press terror in the mind of god the global rise of religious violence jan 2000
... the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution at the close of the eighteenth century Hence the public response to the violence— the trembling that terrorism effects—is part of the meaning of the ... in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, by Mark Juergensmeyer Page iii Terror in the Mind of God The Global Rise of Religious Violence Mark Juergensmeyer Page iv University of ... raised the possibility of a "righteous rebellion." 22 Just as liberation theologians justify the use of unauthorized force for the sake of their vision of a moral order, Bray sees the legitimacy of...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:55
báo cáo hóa học:" Research Article On the Well Posedness and Refined Estimates for the Global Attractor of the TYC Mod" docx
... uniqueness of the solution to 1.1 The procedure to show existence and uniqueness of solutions to 1.2 – 1.4 follow similarly We then consider the question of sharpening the upper bounds on the Hausdorff ... the Trojan Y Chromosome model, 1.1 – 1.4 The solutions f, m, r, s of the system are bounded as follows: f ∞ ≤ K, |m|∞ ≤ K, 2.1 |s|∞ ≤ K, |r|∞ ≤ K Proof The proof relies heavily on the form of ... state a theorem about the existence of weak solution in the weighted spaces This in turn will entail making refined estimates on the dimension of the global attractor for TYC system, when the phase...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20
THE GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY ppt
... innova tions in the steel indu stry are alive and well in new and often unexpected places THE RESTRU CTURI N G OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY The 1980s also marked the en d of the tradition of the state-owned ... the centrality of innovations in the open-ended capitalist industrial system THE RESTRU CTURING OF THE STEEL INDUSTRY Rather than summarize the salient dynamics of the industry's evolution, the ... further to technological capability The waves of investment mobilized by the state adds to the global capacity Japan, like the US, is confronted with the challenges of excess capacity and the...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo toán học: "On the Asymptotic Distribution of the Bootstrap Estimate with Random Resample Size" ppsx
... then either the parent distribution belongs to the domain of attraction of the normal law or it has slowly varying tails and one of the two tails completely dominates the other The interest of considering ... ∗ (A) > 0), which completes the proof Proof of Theorem 2.1 If EX < ∞ then s2 → σ a.s Therefore, the theorem follows if we show that n ∗ the conditional distribution of YnNn converges weakly to ... ) is an estimator of θ(F ) The Efron bootstrap method approximates the sampling distribution of a standardized version √ of √ n(θ(Fn ) − θ(F )) by the resampling distribution of a corresponding...
Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 05:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Tissue distribution of bovine viral diarrhea virus antigens in persistently infected cattle Taekyun Shin* and Helen Acland1" ppt
... along the bases of the mammary gland epithelial cells (notably ductules), with some clumps of BVDV antigens in the lumen of alveoli (Fig 4) (Table 1) No immunoreaction was identified in the control ... Greiser-Wilke, I and Pohlenz, J F Organ and tissue distribution of the antigen of the cytopathogenic bovine virus diarrhea virus in the early and advanced phase of experimental mucosal disease Arch Virol ... other significant gross lesions Immunohistochemical localization of BVDV antigen Non-cytopathic BVDV was isolated from the examined tissue pools We further examined the tissue distribution of...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 14:23
Báo cáo toán học: "On the genus distribution of (p, q, n)-dipoles" pps
... replacing the edges of these dipoles with face-type [62 ] with multiple non-crossing edges Because of the awkwardness of the polygonal representation of the double torus, we return to the type of diagram ... 1, 2, Since the lengths of all the cycles of sum to n, is a partition of n, and we write n to denote this For this reason, the partitions of n index the conjugacy classes of Sn If m is ... a pair of permutations (, ) describing the vertex and edge structure of the map in such a way that the cycle-type of the product gives the face-type of the map This axiomatization for combinatorial...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:22
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "old hardiness as a factor for assessing the potential distribution of the Japanese pine sawyer Monochamus alternatus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in China" pdf
... in theory the disease is likely to extend farther and even exceed the distribution range of the beetle The beetle is one of the most important vectors of the disease in China, control of the ... for the successful winter survival of the species Accordingly, the January isotherm rather than latitude is more useful for predicting the northern limit of the beetle distribution Also, the ... and dispersal range of the beetle in China Due to the wide range of topographic conditions, the 40◦ northern latitude is not appropriate as the northern limit of the beetle’s distribution in China...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20