... 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 ... and 2200 mm of rainfall. At the end
of the rainy season, due to the combination of floodwater draining fromthe upstream
areas, the overland flood water entering from Cambodia across the Vietnam ... border, the
inland high rainfall and the effects of high tide fromthe sea, yearly between 1.2 and 1.9
million hectares of land are inundated, mainly the Northern parts ofthe MD known as
the...
... disagreement about the
intendedness (at time of conception) of
recent births, with the father’s attitudes
based on the mother’s reports of his
attitude. A forthcoming report will
describe fathers’ attitudes ... wantedness ofthe pregnancy at time
of conception. The definitions of
variables used in this report, as well as
the rationale for using selected variables,
are provided in the Definition of Terms ... the percentage of
woman who used any method of
contraception at first premarital
intercourse, by the year that first
intercourse occurred. These
percentages mirror the trend in use
of the...
... and
BHAb.
The temperature dependence ofthe activities of the
BHs was tested in the range 5–56 °C; the apparent
optimum temperatures of BHLmL2 were 25–30 °C
Table 3. Masses and scores of tryptic ... determined fromthe slope ()E
a
⁄ R) of Arrhenius
plots of log V (nmol of product per minute) versus
1 ⁄ T.
Substrate specificity
The substrate specificity of BHs was determined using
the synthetic ... Investigation ofthe effect of various phytoal-
exins on the activities of BHLmL2 and BHAb indicated that cyclobrassinin
was a competitive inhibitor of both enzymes. On the basis of pH depen-
dence,...
... another
isoform ofthe long UTR class, 333 [16] (both substitutions
are nonsilent, with Glu36 ® Asp and Ser84 ® Thr
changes). It is possible that Afp-Lu1 is an allelic variant of
either of these ... freezing.
During the winter they also increase the concentration of
the cryoprotectant, glycerol, 10-fold and desiccate to 40%
of the prediapause water content [4]. Taken together,
these adaptations ... likely
that at least some ofthe 17 genes ofthe family are spaced
several kb ap art (as fo r Afp-Lu1 and 2 .7a), e ven though they
may be linked.
In both Afp-Lu1 an d Afp-Iu1, the majority of the
sequence...
... infer thatthe overall
fertility level ofthe foreign wives was substantially lower than thatof their Taiwanese
counterparts.
It is worth noting thatthe LTFR of 2.29 did not imply thatthe ... children),
we found thatthe reproductive contribution ofthe foreign wives from each of these five
source countries were less than thatof their Taiwanese counterparts.
The usefulness of LTFR as a ... measure ofthe fertility levels ofthe foreign
wives might be largely undermined by the fact thatthe cross-sectional data ofthe census
did not allow the distinction between the effect of marriage...
... the crisis while it decreased in the rest of Asia. In the case of
Mexico, the recovery of real credit took longer than in the rest ofthe region. (ii) By the end of
2009, real credit growth and ... after the
bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.
Taking into account the characteristics ofthe evolution of real credit, the variable under
analysis in the rest of this paper is defined as the change ... associated with the behaviour
of real credit. Finally, as discussed above, the quality ofthe regulatory/institutional indicator
is lower than the others because ofthe high content of subjective...
... indicative ofthe exposure of
some ofthe tryptophan residues to the aqueous envir-
onment.
A
10
Z
X
Y
X
1
0.1
0.1 0.2
Q (Å
–1
)
log I (Q)
B
D
C
Y
X
Fig. 2. Three-dimensional model of ovorubin fromthe ... calculated by
the Fourier inversion ofthe scattering intensity I(q) using
the gnom 4.5 program [16]. The low-resolution model of
ovorubin was obtained fromthe algorithm built in the
program dammin ... system in the apple snail eggs, the
role of ovorubin. Arch Biochem Biophys 422, 1–8.
12 Norden DA (1972) The inhibition of trypsin and some
other proteases by ovorubin, a protein fromthe eggs
of Pomacea...
... affinity
of RH-0345 and the other three DBHs to LdEcR-
A ⁄ LdUSP was low (Table 2). Furthermore, the binding
affinity of RH-2485 and ANS-118 was higher than that
of RH-0345. This means thatthe receptor-binding
T. ... different fromthe result of this study.
The degree of mobility shift of a band which is caused
by monomeric binding of LdEcR-A alone should be
much smaller than that by LdEcR-A ⁄ LdUSP. How-
ever, the ... [67,68].
Furthermore, it is concerned thatthe determinant of
the binding type of nuclear receptors to its response
element, namely monomer, homodimer and heterodi-
mer, is the nucleic acid sequence of the...
... thank Theo Visser who helped prepare the earlier versions of this document.
We would also like to thank the biologists ofthe Department of Fisheries, Thailand, who
collected specimens from hatcheries, ... Fisheries Programme ofthe MRC, which supported several eld trips
to collect wild specimens for preparing the illustrations.
We would like to thank the former staff ofthe Assessment of Mekong Fisheries ... mainly from Fishes ofthe Cambodian Mekong (Rainboth, 1996) and are reproduced here with the
permission ofthe FAO. All larvae illustrations in this publication were drawn by the senior author....
... 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 ... again, the whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Even when we have a catalogue ofthe activities of most ofthe partici-
pating species, we are far from understanding the effect of changes in
the ... Use of Ecosystem Services
Once the topic of ecosystem service use is opened up, further refinement
reveals the complexity ofthe subject. For example, in one ofthe earliest works
on the topic of...
... funding, where the
The Green Revolution 15
Training of Local Scientists
Local scientists were given the necessary training to breed the crops
themselves so that they would be able to advance the agricultural
revolution ... develop the technologies and to
transfer them to various parts ofthe world, and then financing the
agricultural technologies in those regions so thatthe local farmers
could afford to use them. ... bacterial genes can
be introduced into the rice genome so thatthe rice produces beta-
carotene, the precursor of vitamin A. The benefits ofthe current va-
rieties of GM crops include yield increase,...
... females. The percentage indicates the GSI of
the females. M (B) indicates the expression pattern of MIH-B in
the same tissues in males (N ¼ 5). The lower panel is the northern
blot analysis of MeMIH-B ... into the
hemolymph and transported to the ovary for oocyte
uptake. To demonstrate thatthe increase in expression
of the MeVg1 gene could also result in the appearance
of vitellogenin in the hemolymph ... vitellogenin-stimulatory factor of
shrimp. Because ofthe existence of multiple forms of
the CHH family neuropeptides, there may be a dis-
crepancy in defining the function of many cDNAs
cloned using...
... In the center there is a schematic
of the mutual relationship ofthe monomers,
in selected members ofthe family, as indi-
cated by the twist angle ofthe dimer.
TM1415 constitutes one ofthe ... the dimer orientation of all
these IMPases, we see thatthe human IMPase has the
extreme dimer twist-angle that is almost 45° off from
the dimer position in FBPases, whereas the TM1415
and MJ0109 ... 1. Schematic ofthe transformation of
TM1415 into the eukaryotic FBPase. The
transformation requires 25° rotation of the
dimers around the tetramer axis and 30°
rotation ofthe monomers in...
... cellular
distribution ofthe protein. The binding affinities are
characterized by changes in the fluorescence ofthe single
Trp chromophore that is used as a marker ofthe protein
conformation and ofthe thiol ... determined pI of
6.1 and the theoretically deduced pI value of 6.22 was
found.
A theoretical prediction ofthe secondary structural
organization of Ag-NPA-1 performed on the basis of
the amino acid ... 7B). These
observations suggest that Ag-NPA-1 is localized
mainly in cells ofthe inner hypodermis and the epithe-
lium ofthe oviduct as well as extracellularly in the
pseudocoelomic cavity of the...