... Satur and several others in the Philippines, and the public hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) in November 1995 in Nigeria ... region of a world system (including the most powerful advanced industrialized nations) that dominates the system and the “periphery” refers to a region of the system consisting of weak and poor ... waste dumping, natural resource exploitation, and the consequent degradation of the means of subsistence of indigenous people The roles of the state and MNCs in suppressing the rights of communal...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20
... contribution of other factors involved in speaking 1.3 Cultural factors in the teaching and learning of speaking skills in classrooms 1.3.1 What cultural factors influence on the teaching and the learning ... part of learned behavior shared with others The concept include a group’s way of thinking, feeling, and acting, and fixed patterns for doing certain things According to Thompson (1990:132), the ... effectively However, in the thesis, the researcher wants to find out the attitudes, as well as the cultural awareness in teaching and learning spoken English of the teachers and the students of 10 th grade...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:00
Tài liệu Material Usage and Condition of Existing Bridges in the U.S pptx
... parallels that of Reference The main purpose for creating and maintaining the NBI is to monitor the condition of bridges carrying public highways Therefore, for funding and reporting purposes, the FHWA ... on the Federal-aid system Inspection standards were issued in 1971 to satisfy this mandate of Congress Most states completed their inventory of bridges on the Federal-aid system by the end of ... 20011 The National Bridge Inventory Following the tragic collapse of the Sliver Bridge in December 1967, Congress passed legislation that required each state to inspect and maintain an inventory of...
Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 20:15
Tài liệu CONSUMER PREFERENCE AND CONSUMPTION OF ORGANIC PRODUCTS IN THE EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA docx
... are marked increases in the future demand of all organic products This augurs well for the growth of the organic industry in the Eastern Cape and in South Africa in general The findings of this ... maintain its identity in the face of others, and therefore creates a feeling of "belonging" (Buruiana 2003) 17 10 Factors affecting the consumer awareness of organic products The results of the ... a long way in influencing the target market and marketing approach to drive the demand of organics The second LDF identified the person responsible for shopping and the location of the consumer...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Investigation of the kinetics and order of tyrosine phosphorylation in the T-cell receptor f chain by the protein tyrosine kinase Lck potx
... Role of electrostatic interactions in SH2 domain recognition: salt dependence of tyrosyl-phosphorylated peptide binding to the tandem SH2 domain of the Syk kinase and the single SH2 domain of the ... located on the intact protein Therefore, determination of the kinetics of phosphorylation of these peptides allows the order of phosphorylation of the six TCRf ITAM tyrosines, by the PTK Lck, ... groups of peaks at 6.85 and 7.15 p.p.m correspond to the aromatic resonances of the seven tyrosines in the protein, and the inset 2D expansion of the 1H-1H COSY shows that the seven are indistinguishable...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:20
The impacts of introductions and stocking of exotic species in the Mekong Basin and policies for their control
... The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species in the Mekong Basin and Policies for Their Control The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species in the Mekong Basin ... Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species in the Mekong Basin and Policies for Their Control xi The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species in the Mekong Basin and Policies ... 37 FISOFT/DIAS/INDEX.HTM SHOWING SPECIES INTRODUCED INTO COUNTRIES OF THE MEKONG BASIN vi The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species in the Mekong Basin and Policies for Their...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 08:48
Báo cáo khoa học: Separation and characterization of caveolae subclasses in the plasma membrane of primary adipocytes; segregation of specific proteins and functions docx
... referring to all of them as caveolae, was demonstrated by their content of both caveolin-1 and caveolin-2 The coexistence of caveolin-1 and caveolin-2 in all three caveolae subclasses is in line ... the uptake and hydrolysis of cholesteryl ester from HDL The involvement of SR-B1 in this uptake was indicated by the inhibition of the uptake by the SR-BI inhibitor BLT-1 Conclusions In conclusion, ... (Fig 2G), but increased in response to insulin in both the LD-caveolae and HD-caveolae, with the increase being particularly pronounced in the LD-caveolae (Fig 4C) The presence of the triacylglycerol-hydrolysing...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 13:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Identification and characterization of important residues in the catalytic mechanism of CMP-Neu5Ac synthetase from Neisseria meningitidis potx
... important in the literature and have roles assigned [12–18,20]: *, CTP-binding residue of the P-loop; (*), CTP-binding residue; ^, Neu5Ac-binding residue; #, Neu5Ac-binding residue forming part of the ... al [14] in the related enzyme, L-CKS, because mutation would interfere with both Neu5Ac binding as well as playing a role in the re-orientation of Mg2+ binding during the re-opening of the active ... concentrations in the presence or absence of 0.2 mm dithiothreitol Effect of Mg2+ concentration The effect of an increase in the concentration of Mg2+ was determined by measuring the rate of the reaction in...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:21
Báo cáo " Distribution of Arsenic, Copper, Lead, Zinc elements in water and soils of sulfur deposits in the North West of Hanoi " pptx
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 15:20
Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy in the United States docx
... disease of the skin Symptoms include scaly, itchy rashes and blistering, weeping, or peeling of the skin The causes of the disease are unclear There may be a problem in the skin’s ability to maintain ... How were the Guidelines developed? The Guidelines are the culmination of a 2-year effort in which the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of ... is an inflammation of the colon and small intestine Enteropathy is a disease of the intestine Epinephrine (adrenaline) is a hormone that increases heart rate, tightens the blood vessels, and opens...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20
amsterdam university press use and appreciation of mycenaean pottery in the levant cyprus and italy jan 2003
... between the coastal plain and valleys on the one hand and the uplands and Transjordan on the other.31 During the Late Bronze Age, Egyptian influence was much stronger in the coastal plain and the ... along the upper Euphrates In the south, there is a clustering of sites in the valley of the Jordan river and its branches, including sites in Transjordan Another grouping of sites leads from the ... According to Bourdieu, the essence of this system does not lie in the fact that there is a gift and a counter-gift, but in the lapse of time between the two, the size and value of each of the gifts,...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:13
Báo cáo hóa học: " Cross-Layer Design and Analysis of Downlink Communications in Cellular CDMA Systems" docx
... two parts: the uplink and the downlink In the reverse direction (uplink, i.e., from the mobile station to the base station), the key restriction is the incremental interference in the system as ... set and sends back HCM Terminate (b) Proposed soft handoff procedure Figure 6: Soft handoff algorithm and procedure 4.2 Soft handoff One of the major benefits of a CDMA system is the ability of a ... better in terms of both the system capacity and the mean normalized delay in the network The MAPQ scheme not only outperforms the STPD in these criteria, but also maintains other performances in...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20
Training and development of technical staff in the textile industry pptx
... Carding Combing Draw frames Speed frames Ring frames Winding Rotor spinning Ply-winding Doubling and twisting Warping Sizing Weaving Soft package winding of yarn for wet processing Scouring Yarn ... logical and economical it looks The above examples explain the importance of maintaining the “routine” activities The success of process lies in maintaining the systems rigidly and not in developing ... keeping, material flow, material handling, packing and storing, human productivity, team working, information gathering and maintaining records, maintaining the discipline while working relating...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Analysis of some dynamic series of forest production and trends of forest economics in the Czech Republic" ppt
... product (GNP) and forestry’s share in it, more recently the share of the industry in the value added, indicators of employment and wages, etc The share of forestry in the creation of GNP in the Czech ... results of the management of business entities in forestry are presented in Table The development of trading incomes is also illustrated in Figs and The above figures show that the average income of ... functions of forests – their hitherto development and prediction of future prospects In these intentions the paper will discuss some dynamic series of forest production and their trends including official...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22
Báo cáo sinh học: " Demographic characterization, inbreeding and maintenance of genetic diversity in the endangered " ppsx
... to the next generation, 2) standardize the family size minimizing the variance and 3) increase the generation intervals, that is, lengthen the reproductive life of the animals (o, k 2), 3.2 Inbreeding ... 16) The evolution of the average coefficient of inbreeding was observed over year of birth and summarized by the linear regression over years The probability of gene origin was calculated from the ... number of founders and the inbreeding coefficient of the hypothetical offspring of each possible populating couple In this way, those couples which would maximize this effective founder number and...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22
Báo cáo y học: " Psychiatric disorder in early adulthood and risk of premature mortality in the 1946 British Birth Cohort" pdf
... more) contained all cases of co-morbid depression and anxiety (n = 37), all cases of depression alone (n = 172), and the majority of cases of anxiety alone (n = 362) The remaining third of anxiety ... undertaken to compare the effects of psychiatric disorder on adult mortality risk, first including and then excluding this missing category We identified 22 cases of schizophrenia in the sample All ... mortality, and the inclusion of all potential confounders and mediators only led to a modest reduction in the effect Sensitivity analyses which excluded the missing category from each of the confounders...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23
báo cáo khoa học: " Bioaccumulation and toxicity of selenium compounds in the green alga Scenedesmus quadricauda" pps
... to an increase of a selenomethionine (29% of SeMet in the case of selenate and 41% of SeMet in the case of selenite) The increasing toxicity was also accompanied by an increase in thioredoxin reductase ... observed an increase in the number and volume of starch grains and electron-dense granules containing selenium [31] The present findings confirmed the diverse effect of selenite and selenate on the cells, ... 6D) The initial TR activity in both wild type and resistant strains was the same at the beginning of the cell cycle (about mU × mg-1) During the growth phase of the untreated wild type, the activity...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Genetic diversity and phylogeography of Seewis virus in the Eurasian common shrew in Finland and Hungary" ppsx
... of Eurasian common shrews and other soricine shrew species more recently trapped in these same sites in Finland would be extremely valuable, in providing insights into the evolutionary rate of ... from Finland and Hungary, respectively (Table 1) Prevalence of SWSV infection was as high as 77.8% (7 of 9) in Oulun Lääni, Finland, and as low as 6.3% (3 of 48) in Zala, Hungary Analysis of the ... Sequence similarities (%) of the partial S and L segments of SWSV mp70 and SWSV strains from Sorex araneus sampled in Finland and Hungary S segment Country District SWSV strain Finland Etelä-Suomen Lääni...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21
Báo cáo y học: " Cardiac effects of induction agents in the septic rat heart" potx
... and isolated hearts and focused on the direct cardiac effects of the applied induction agents The advantages of this method are to measure mechanical and metabolic properties in the absence of ... support YZ and WZ were responsible for writing the paper DL, BS and BG supported the editing of the manuscript and added important comments to the paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... arrest Therefore, concentrations of 10-3 M or more were not included in the present study Materials and methods Approval from the Institutional Animal Care Committee of the University of Goettingen...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20