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... livelihood of the people;, and management strategies for the exploitation, development and conservation of the wetland. The multi-level action plan for the conservation of forest wetlands in the MD ... and 2200 mm of rainfall. At the end of the rainy season, due to the combination of floodwater draining from the upstream areas, the overland flood water entering from Cambodia across the Vietnam ... 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 of the MD known as the...

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... 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 of the 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...

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... and BHAb. The temperature dependence of the 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 from the 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 of the 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,...

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... another isoform of the 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 of the  17 genes of the 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...

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... infer that the overall fertility level of the foreign wives was substantially lower than that of their Taiwanese counterparts. It is worth noting that the LTFR of 2.29 did not imply that the ... children), we found that the reproductive contribution of the foreign wives from each of these five source countries were less than that of their Taiwanese counterparts. The usefulness of LTFR as a ... measure of the fertility levels of the foreign wives might be largely undermined by the fact that the cross-sectional data of the census did not allow the distinction between the effect of marriage...

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... 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 of the region. (ii) By the end of 2009, real credit growth and ... after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. Taking into account the characteristics of the 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 of the regulatory/institutional indicator is lower than the others because of the high content of subjective...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... indicative of the exposure of some of the 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 from the ... calculated by the Fourier inversion of the scattering intensity I(q) using the gnom 4.5 program [16]. The low-resolution model of ovorubin was obtained from the 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 from the eggs of Pomacea...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 06:20

... 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 that the receptor-binding T. ... different from the 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 that the 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...

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... thank Theo Visser who helped prepare the earlier versions of this document. We would also like to thank the biologists of the Department of Fisheries, Thailand, who collected specimens from hatcheries, ... Fisheries Programme of the MRC, which supported several eld trips to collect wild specimens for preparing the illustrations. We would like to thank the former staff of the Assessment of Mekong Fisheries ... mainly from Fishes of the Cambodian Mekong (Rainboth, 1996) and are reproduced here with the permission of the FAO. All larvae illustrations in this publication were drawn by the senior author....

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 08:46

... characteristic” of ecosystems, and that the order of stability of all of the chemical elements is of course immensely higher than that of 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 of the activities of most of the 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 of the subject. For example, in one of the earliest works on the topic of...

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... 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 of the world, and then financing the agricultural technologies in those regions so that the local farmers could afford to use them. ... bacterial genes can be introduced into the rice genome so that the rice produces beta- carotene, the precursor of vitamin A. The benefits of the current va- rieties of GM crops include yield increase,...

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... 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 that the increase in expression of the MeVg1 gene could also result in the appearance of vitellogenin in the hemolymph ... vitellogenin-stimulatory factor of shrimp. Because of the existence of multiple forms of the CHH family neuropeptides, there may be a dis- crepancy in defining the function of many cDNAs cloned using...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20

... In the center there is a schematic of the mutual relationship of the monomers, in selected members of the family, as indi- cated by the twist angle of the dimer. TM1415 constitutes one of the ... the dimer orientation of all these IMPases, we see that the 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 of the transformation of TM1415 into the eukaryotic FBPase. The transformation requires  25° rotation of the dimers around the tetramer axis and  30° rotation of the monomers in...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:20

... cellular distribution of the protein. The binding affinities are characterized by changes in the fluorescence of the single Trp chromophore that is used as a marker of the protein conformation and of the thiol ... determined pI of 6.1 and the theoretically deduced pI value of 6.22 was found. A theoretical prediction of the 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 of the inner hypodermis and the epithe- lium of the oviduct as well as extracellularly in the pseudocoelomic cavity of the...

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