the use of microcosms mesocosms and field experiments to assess ecosystem responses to contaminants and other stressors
ECOTOXICOLOGY: A Comprehensive Treatment - Chapter 33 docx
... fundamental to understanding the complex relationship between ecosystems and the services they provide Because there will likely be variation in the sensitivity among ecosystem processes to chemical stressors, ... effects of global change and other anthropogenic stressors on the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function 33.4.3 THE INFLUENCE OF SCALE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM ... pollination, and regulation of climate and atmospheric gasses, contribute directly to human welfare The ecosystem service most familiar to ecotoxicologists is the biotic and abiotic attenuation of contaminants, ...
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In this paper, we investigate the relationship between migration and species distribution in multizone environment. We present a discrete model for migration of three competing species over three zones. We prove that the migration tactics of species leads
... F (the so-called structure function [5]) and vector (X1 , Xn , W1 , Wp ) where n is the number of components of the models (and leaves of the DFT) and p is the number of PAND gates in the ... computed at the end of the simulation of the time intervals and they are compared to the initial state we have previously used These points must be equal for the path to be consistent If they are ... iteration to fix the inconsistency of the paths built in parallel [7] and our extension to speed up the simulation of monotone systems [3, 4] Let K be the number of logical processes (LP) The time...
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Financial liberalisation and the relationship between finance and growth
... investigation, one of the indicators of the repression syndrome is highly likely to capture part of the influence of the other indicators Let us turn to a “liberalization cycle.” From the 1950s onward, ... unlike the IMF’s, is linked to the date of the liberalization Eichengreen forthcoming reviews the data and methodological differences among most of these and other studies (For discussions of the ... and liberalization, on the one hand, and growth and growth volatility, on the other, were tradeoffs in democracies We explore briefly both lines of inquiry as a guide to further research 13 The...
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The relationship between default risk and interest rates: An empirical study research insight
... definitive and comprehensive guidance on the assessment of single-obligor default risk and for the bottom-up analysis of risk and return of credit portfolios To get a better understanding of these ... find number of firms at the beginning of the period, and then use it to divide number of defaults during the period among these firms Taking the change in short rate as an example of an interest ... analysis focuses on understanding the dynamics within the context of risk management While we ultimately want to understand the relationship between credit risk, including the risk of default,...
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the relationship between cnsumer acceptability and descriptive sensory attributes in cheddar cheese
... evaluation of Cheddar cheese (Murray and Delahunty 2000; Drake et al 2001), and the majority of them had greater than 100 h of training regarding the evaluation of dairy products Food and chemical ... three-digit random numbers and served under identical conditions to the trained descriptive testing Consumers ranked the three cheeses in their order of preference, and then evaluated them using ... detector temperature To obtain the retention indexes of the different compounds, 0.5 mL of alkane standards (C11–C25) was injected into the GC with the same program conditions, and volatile compounds...
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The relationship between an organization’s structure and culture and the effects on business performance
... • Competitor of Microsoft’s software company: Mozilla – Producer of Mozilla FireFox, the software Web browsers It is time to look at one another competitor of Microsoft to evaluate and have a ... expressed and the final is group-decision On the other hand, Ballmer has reduced a level of management to manage more easily and efficiently Microsoft structure is less flat therefore, the span of control ... Because of the main mission is an openness and opportunity on the Internet rather than business, like profits or price of stock therefore authority are decentralize and opener “Developers and...
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A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CEO COMPENSATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN THE US AIRLINE INDUSTRY 2002 2006
... the strategic plans and policies established by the board of directors As the leader of the firm, the CEO has an astounding impact on the performance of the firm and many believe this to be the ... managers and the governance of corporations in the United States and legislators and regulators have been quick to respond to the latest corporate scandals Despite the debate among the academic and ... the firms’ CEO Debt -to- Asset Ratio The ratio of total debt to total assets This is an indicator of the leverage of the firm and the potential risks the company faces relative to its debt load Managerial...
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Tài liệu THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CREDIT DEFAULT SWAP SPREADS, BOND YIELDS, AND CREDIT RATING ANNOUNCEMENTS ppt
... Analysts and commentators often use ratings as descriptors of the creditworthiness of bond issuers rather than descriptors of the quality of the bonds themselves This is reasonable because it is ... corresponded to trades (that is, the bid quote equaled the offer quote) For each of the reference entities we determined the CUSIPs of all the outstanding bond issues The total number of issues ... on that date.14 The time to maturity of the bonds used in the regression had to be between and 10 years, and there had to be at least one bond with more than 5-years to maturity and one with less...
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Tài liệu Measuring the Relationship between ICT and the Environment ppt
... AND THE ENVIRONMENT Other factors affecting ICT and the environment Domestic policy and regulatory environment, global factors and relationships, and influence of other factors such as level of ... indicators linking ICT and the environment The field ICT and the environment is a new one Consequently, statistics directed to the policy questions related to the field are scarce In respect of official ... correlation between the level of education and income, and use of ICT Annex shows available statistical indicators on ICT and the environment While they address some of the above elements of the conceptual...
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the relationship between corporate culture and the use of management accounting innovations in vietnamese companies a study of techcombank
... increasing trust of its staff, customers and the society Because of this reason, the research focuses on understanding the value of the corporate culture, in particular, understanding the relationship ... study of Techcombank The objective of the research is to access the understanding of Techcombank’s managers and accountants about the influence of corporate culture on the initiations of managerial ... Another finding of the survey is the opinions of asked accountants and managers about the practice of four initiative methods of the application of managerial accounting in Techcombank The...
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the relationship between corporate social responsibility implementation and the development of five selected companies in hanoi
... shareholders, customers, society, the environment Naturally, company wants to announce these good actions to the world, then PR is used as one of useful tools PR will be used to report these actions, ... price to both the company and customers And by supplying products and services required by customers, company also commits to the efficient development of company, and carries out the promise of ... understanding of Vietnamese individual people and company on CSR concept, the CSR implementation of companies in Ha Noi and its impacts to the development of the companies And in order to collect...
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Báo cáo khoa học: In vitro analysis of the relationship between endonuclease and maturase activities in the bi-functional doc
... experimentation to test those hypotheses will need to be performed to determine the binding characteristics of the nucleic acid substrates, both alone and in the presence of one another Although the structural ... the protocol used to measure kon would capture, in a given period of time, every binding event to any region of DNA that eventually leads to cleavage if the protein were to scan the DNA for the ... pattern of tolerance compared to other homing endonucleases if they evolved to accommodate both RNA and DNA in the same binding site, as suggested previously [6,23] Therefore, to address the sequence...
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Fat City: Questioning the Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Obesity doc
... calculate the magnitude of the change in our residential-sprawl index that would be required to move an individual from the top of the bottom third of the sample, to the bottom of the top third of the ... accessory stores, furniture and home furnishings stores, drug stores and proprietary stores, liquor stores, used merchandise stores, miscellaneous shopping goods stores, retail stores not otherwise ... set of controls The third column (ols3) of tables and reports these results Before considering the impact on the coefficients of the two landscape variables we briefly comment on the effect of each...
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The Relationship Between Bank and Interbank Interest Rates during the Financial Crisis: Empirical Results for the Euro Area pptx
... are the basis of the process of defining the cost of money lent by banks to their customers, therefore they have effects on the behaviour of borrowers and consequently on the real economy On the ... high amounts On October 2008, the ECB, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of Sweden and the Swiss National Bank, with the support of the Bank of Japan, have carried ... the x-axis The analysis of the graphs allows to reconstruct the time-path of regimes and offers additional support to the usefulness of the approach adopted in this application14 Looking at the...
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LOCAL CONTENT, INTERNET DEVELOPMENT AND ACCESS PRICES potx
... attributed to the country of origin These measures focus only on the country of origin of the content and not take into account the language of the content or the author’s country of origin Examples of ... Roughly 64% of the views of content uploaded from Poland were watched domestically and the remaining 36% of views were from abroad At the other end of the spectrum, 97% of the views of content ... from one network to another The development of a commercialised Internet led to the development of IXPs in all OECD countries and in other locations around the world The key benefit of having a domestic...
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Báo cáo khoa học: The relationship between thermal stability and pH optimum studied with wild-type and mutant Trichoderma reesei cellobiohydrolase Cel7A ppt
... Comparison of the Cel7A unfolding with and without the substrate either at pH 8.0 (Fig 3A and B), or pH (Fig 3C and D) shows interestingly that the unfolding of the protein and the release of the substrate ... from the changed atoms of the mutated side chains In order to evaluate further the design of the mutations, it was of interest how the stability behaviour of the protein was changed by the mutations, ... a change in polarity of some, or all of the four tryptophans in the active site tunnel of Cel7A, when cellotetraose is bound and can thus be used to monitor the binding of the substrate Cellotetraose...
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