... livelihood ofthe people;, and management strategies for the exploitation, development and conservationofthe wetland. The multi-level action plan for theconservationof forest wetlands in the MD ... border, the inland high rainfall and the effects of high tide from the sea, yearly between 1.2 and 1.9 million hectares of land are inundated, mainly the Northern parts ofthe MD known as the ... Wetland Bureau, the World Conservation Union, among others on the classification of forest wetlands, the inventory and mapping of wetlands, the mapping, and detailed description ofthe wetland’s...
... is not to say that this kind of indirect use of ecosystem services should notbe rec-ognized, but rather to acknowledge that their value is bundled into, and thusdependent on, the value ofthe ... characteristic” of ecosystems, and thatthe order of stability of all of the chemical elements is of course immensely higher than thatof an ecosys-tem, which consists of components that are themselves ... services? (2004, 1251) The importance of this line of research goes well beyond the development of ecology as a discipline, but rather has profound policy dimensions. The trade-offs between different...
... and conservation, in numbers that dwarf the previous workers in this field.Thanks to these activities, the biology of butterflies is already better understood than that of any other taxon of non-pest insects. ... the history of life on this planet. The conference “Ecology and Conservationof Butterflies in Europe” brought together most of the leading and new butterfly biologists and conservationists of ... isincreasing at the Northern boundary ofthe population. Results show that there is an overallincrease in the number of Clouded Apollo in Estonia, with 73% of all sighting having been madeduring the last...
... Thatthe Publications ofthe Astronomical Society ofthe Pacific be regularly sent to the following Observatories, etc., and thatthe Secretaries ofthe Society be instructedto notify them of ... be remembered thatthe reading ofthe compass needle, when the sight line ofthe instrument is in the meridian, is not necessarily the magnetic declination,since the line of zeros ofthe compass ... ofthe branches are situated. We know the real shape of each branch, but we do not know whether it lies on the hither or on the farther side of the plane of projection.23 The Project Gutenberg...
... papers and documents in the various public offices ofthe United States created by laws enacted by themselves.I do not suppose that " ;the public offices ofthe United States& quot; are regulated ... controlled in their relations toeither House of Congress by the fact that they were " ;created by laws enacted by themselves." It must be that these instrumentalities were created for the benefit ... was the purpose ofthe treaty to secure.In the language of one ofthe judicial determinations ofthe Supreme Court ofthe United States to which Ihave referred The supposition should not be...
... head ofthe Church of England is a lovely lady. The assumption is that since the filler ofthe role Queen of England is not likely to change within the time ofthe conversation and the speaker, ... factors must be checked in the following order: the intensionality of the descrip- tor, the time of reference of the descriptor, and the agents of the descriptor. We must establish the "level" ... modeling the beliefs of external agents. We propose that a unified approach to the representation ofthe alternative readings of intension-related ambiguities canbe based on the notion of a...
... models that allow the characterization of the molecular profile of non-cancer cells in the TME and of their soluble products, and how these cells canbe regu-lated at different stages of cancer ... lev-els. In contrast, there is a lot to be done with respect totranslating the insights gained in the laboratory on the involvement ofthe TME in cancer pathogenesis to the clinic and the biomedical ... on the elucidation of tumor-microenvironment interac-tions, at different clinical phases, that contribute to can- cer progression and metastasis. The understanding of the constellation of cancer...
... familyshould bethe focus ofthe professional. Also, profession-als should be made aware ofthe consequences of care forparents during their training. Furthermore, they should be trained in how ... contains the direct effects ofthe back-ground characteristics on HRQoL, and the third part (3)contains the effects ofthe mediating factors on HRQoL. The total effect of a variable on HRQoL canbe ... support. When looked at the size ofthe (signif-icant) effects, dependency ofthe child, chronic illness of the parent, days on holiday, and the support system seemto bethe main factors predicting...
... with the physical component of quality of life, butnot with the mental. The same has hap-pened with other parameters such as the educational level of the patients evaluated. It is possible that ... worsening in their health-related quality of life(HRQoL). However, it has been confirmed thatthe evalu-ation alone ofthe severity of COPD, measured by the degree of reduction ofthe forced ... version ofthe SF-36health questionnaire that contains 12 items [9]. These 12items explain more than 90% ofthe variance ofthe phys-ical and mental component scores ofthe SF-36. Fromthem two...
... addition, the combination of these two LEs seems to be usual. Infact,notonlytheLCUssumscoredeterminetheeffect,it’s the undesirab ility of thes e LEs what makes respon-dents vulnerable after the ... according to the amount of stress suffered.We calculated both the number of LEs and the Life Change Unit (LCU) score, a summary ofthe amount of stressinherent to the event and the time elapsed ... totalLCU score canbe calculated for each respondent as aweighted sum of all the LCU scores (range of LCUs forone LE: 5-216). We used the Spanish version of CLES that has been found to be valid and...
... approximately 70% of all individuals post stroke [44].A limitation ofthe accelerometers is thatthe type of movements performed by the subject is not known.Thus, we cannot distinguish between walking ... stroke living in the community. Daily PA (after controlling for lower e xtre-mity impairment) explained 10-12% ofthe variance of the physical (but notthe mental) composite score of the SF-36. Overall ... models for the Mental CompositeScore ofthe SF-36 were not carried out. In addition,age and gender ofthe participants d id not correlate to the Physical or Mental Composite Scores ofthe SF-36and...
... correlations can be overestimated [66]. The problem is somewhat mitigatedby the fact that we did not measure the objectively obser-vable behavior ofthe physician, but rather the behaviorassessed ... analyses. The values ofthe VIF are generally below2 and always below 5, so there is no indication of highmulticollinearity. The baseline values explain between42.0% and 59.4% ofthe variance ofthe ... seen to be independent of whether the SF-12, the MacNewquestionnaire, or the SAQ was used.Our data also show the relevance of income for the improvement ofthe psychological quality of life....
... isunalterable.It is then ofthe greatest possibleimportance thatthe men who controlduring their lifetime, and createendowments when they are dead, shouldshare the best civilization of their age andcountry. ... wedged, there isno danger ofthe head flying off. He madesome other changes, all of them merely forhis own convenience, without a thought of going into the manufacture of hammers. The neighborhood ... precisely the bestform of every part. There is not a turn orcurve about either the handle or the headwhich has not been patiently considered,and reconsidered, and considered again,until no further...