... latitudes of 23° north and south and separate the fertile tropical zone from the subtropical and temperate zones About half ofthe about 90million-km2 fertile global land areas are forests; the rest of ... land biomass upgrowth consists ofthe annually falling leaves and needles in the forests [2], above all in the tropical rain forests They can neither be collected with reasonable effort nor used ... to 50%, and together, about 90% If only the biooil is usedfor gasification without the char, about one-third ofthe bioenergy would not be accessible for syngas generation Therefore, the pyrolysis...
... volume of PBS The homogenized egg yolk was then mixed with two volumes of chloroform and incubated for hrs at room temperature After this incubation, the supernatant was collected To compare the ... at and weeks in sera and egg yolks, respectively, after the first injection (Fig and 2) The titers ofthe vaccinated groups were three times higher than those ofthe control group Antibody profiles ... pleuropneumonia, and is one ofthe most important causes of economic loss in the industry, due to its high morbidity and mortality (8, 9) Previous studies (24, 25, 26) have reported upon theproduction of...
... rate, D is the diffusion coefficient ofthe substance, S is the surface area of RI the solid, V is the total volume ofthe medium, h is the thickness ofthe diffusion layer SC and CS is the saturation ... evaluate the effect ofthe formulation components andthe spray-drying process on the PT immunogenicity ofthe HAC1 vaccine Based on the in vitro evaluation ofthe antigen RI content (process loss and ... flurbiprofen powder due to transformation ofthe drug from a crystalline to an amorphous form andthe reduction ofthe size to the nanoscale When these NPs were orally administered to rats, the AUC of...
... page of my entire thesis as I list the names of all the people who have, in some way or the other, helped me reach the end ofthe scientific adventure that I ventured four years back First and foremost, ... The combination of these methods were aimed to address the issues of low butanol yield and high production cost of biobutanol productionThe factors affecting theproductionof gellan gum microspheres ... to the stationary phase ofthe bacterium, acids are reassimilated andused in theproductionof acetone, butanol and ethanol along with concomitant increase in the pH ofthe culture medium (Dürre,...
... relatively easy to perform One ofthe major applications of genome sequencing of plants is functional genomics In simple words, an understanding ofthe function of genes and other parts ofthe genome is ... (for the supply of natural fungicides and insecticides), nutrition (for the acquisition of natural substances usedfor flavoring and coloring foods), and cosmetics (natural fragrances and oils) The ... molecular biology and biochemistry led to rapid advances in the identification of biosynthetic genes, the elucidation of specific biosynthetic enzymes, andthe identification of end-products The complete...
... relating to the acquisition of reading andthe effectiveness of different approaches to the teaching of reading, andthe implications of this research for teaching practice The most recent of these ... children The comparison between these two groups was then used as the basis for evaluating the effectiveness ofthe SWELL program The measures usedfor this purpose included the Burt Word Test, a standardised ... body, the content ofthe report clearly reflected the views ofthe joint authors The Snow et al report was undertaken under the auspices ofthe National Research Council ofthe National Academy of...
... From the calculations derived in Appendix A, the energy demand forthe modified pulping section ofthe plant is 56 MW of electricity and 267 tonnes per day of steam The demand forthe steam in the ... the operation and performance ofthe gasifier The control system maintains the ratio of oxygen to fuel and controls the amount of carbon fed to the gasifier to achieve desired target ratios for ... in the collection of inorganic sulfur in the bottom ofthe reactor During that process a mixture of 12 sodium sulfide and sodium carbonate forms at the bottom ofthe typical recovery boiler The...
... subset thereof) to provide the initial SCL and CCL The current version of UTTER uses null lists as the initial SCL and CCL, and therefore forces the user to build these lists via the SEL and CEL ... contain the exception to the transcription rule, prohibiting the application ofthe stress rule The information from the SEL (and from the CEL at the clusterlevel) will be used to infer the next ... is then selected on the basis of values ofthe word features The process is repeated until a leaf node ofthe tree is reached The leaf node contains the value returned for that invocation of...
... the differences in outcome The expertise of health professionals may vary and also the quantity and quality ofthe educational information about the condition and PFM function The impact of these ... and other physical therapies forthe treatment of female SUI [13] and UI [1416] has been the subject of previous systematic reviews All of these reviews limited their inclusion criteria to randomized ... evidence forthe optimal period of treatment and number of treatments? We found evidence forthe efficacy of shorter treatment protocols than the 4–6 months recommended by the ICS The basis of the...
... for all t, s ≥ Existence ofthe intersection local time The aim of this section is to prove the existence ofthe intersection local time of S H and S H , for an H = and d ≥ We have obtained the ... [0,T ]4 for all T ≥ This completes the proof Regularity ofthe intersection local time The main object of this section is to prove the next theorem dudvdsdt 16 Theorem Let Hd < Then, the intersection ... completes the proof of Theorem Smoothness ofthe intersection local time In this section, we consider the smoothness ofthe intersection local time Our main object is to explain and prove the following...
... P1-P4 after the protein boosting The plasma fractions were aliquoted and frozen at -80°C, andthe PBMCs were usedforthe RNA extraction and CTL assays All the animals were housed and handled in ... responses in humans Further improvements ofthe recombinants, using the E6 and E7 transgenes deleted ofthe p53 and p105Rb cellular binding domain, might further increase the safety ofthe vaccine Recently, ... performed to find the appropriate serum dilution able to saturate alternatively one ofthe two CaSki antigens, and determine the relative contribution of each immunogen The sera ofthe E6- and...
... t for all t, s Existence ofthe intersection local time The aim of this section is to prove the existence ofthe intersection local time of SH and SH , for an H = and d We have obtained the ... s,t,u,v (1) [0,T]4 for all T This completes the proof Regularity ofthe intersection local time The main object of this section is to prove the next theorem Theorem Let Hd
... surface ofthe coils The differences in contrast ofthe two specimens (CMC-COOHs and silica coils) can also be clearly observed by the optical microscope (Figure 2) The images are a proof that the ... magnification show unambiguously the hollow nature ofthe specimens; the very thin silica walls allow the transmission ofthe electron beam The fine structure ofthe walls can be imaged at higher ... namely, the dye strongly adsorbs on the surface of silica microcoil, indicating that the surface is negatively charged, as expected from the highpH synthesis conditions On the other hand, no...
... presence of certain defects which may cause off-flavours and indicates the degree of fermentation ofthe beans which has a bearing on the flavour and quality ofthe beans The International Standards ... fermentation box Because of their beneficial effect on cocoa fermentation andthe resultant dried cocoa quality, the practices of pod storage for 7-9 days and spreading of beans in the sun for two hours, ... rises in each ofthe box sizes andthe heap fermentation This indicates the suitability of a range of box sizes and heap fermentations THE EFFECT OF POD STORAGE Pod storage is convenient for farmers...
... thank Professor Jozef Banas andthe referees forthe very helpful comments and suggestions to improve the contents and presentation of this paper The work was also supported in part by the National ... trace bounds forthe product of two matrices In symmetric case, a number of works have been proposed forthe trace of matrix products 2, 6–8, 17–20 , and 18 is the tightest among the parallel ... propose new trace bounds forthe product of two general matrices The new trace bounds improve the previous results Then, we present some trace bounds forthe solution ofthe algebraic Riccati equations,...
... function (the character ofthe irreducible Sd representation Vµ indexed by µ) and vµ is the multiplicity of Vµ in V To reveal the Sd -module structure of Nµ , we use (15) and techniques from the theory ... kernel of ab Before setting off to describe C more explicitly, we point out that the left Hopf kernel is graded: the maps ∆, id, and ab ≃ are graded, as is the map C # Λ −→ N used in the proof of Theorem ... algebra 4.1 The place-action of S on N Swapping places in Td and Nd On top ofthe permutation-action ofthe symmetric group Sx on T , we also consider the “place-action” of Sd on the degree d...
... situated on the side ofthe species in the majority represented in the neighbourhood, the sessile oak The comparison ofthe mean values ofthe groups on the first axis of DFAa by means ofthe F-test ... analysis In the second case ofthe figure, the heterozygote deficit (f) must be considered The frequency ofthe phenotype A+ is the sum ofthe frequency ofthe genotype P : +/+ All ofthe 41 ied ... means ofthe comparison ofthe RAPD marker frequencies of a subsampling of these progenies andofthe adult population Analysis ofthe morphological characters MATERIALS AND METHODS Sampling The...
... part ofthe funding The BMBF had no role in the conception ofthe study design, in the writing ofthe manuscript or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication The BMBF has no role in the ... minutes The measure of performance is the number of correct words given in minutes The RWT consists of five Page of 10 alternate forms Each ofthe alternate forms will be applied once at baseline and ... biomarkers forthe finally achieved changes of these markers and, even more important, depression severity Forthe investigation ofthe predictive value of early changes of biomarkers for final...
... II, pmol of forward and reverse primers, and µl of RNA sample The thermal profile was at 42°C forand 95°C for 10 s, followed by 45 cycles of 95°C for s, 60°C for 20 s, and 72°C for 15 s Thermal ... for transport)-0, -I, -II, and -III; these four complexes are required forthe formation and release ofthe vesicles ofthe MVB [11,17-20] Their major function in the cell is to transport cargo ... as the PSAP/AAAA mutant The levels of virus productionof mutants were also quantitatively analyzed by real-time RT-PCR targeting the pol region (Figure 1C) The progeny virus productionof the...
... were designed and RT-PCR procedures were developed forthe specific detection of PVM in various potato samples andforthe confirmation of PCR amplicons The efficacy of RT-PCR for indexing seed ... In this paper we report on the analysis ofthe coat protein (CP) gene sequence of several Canadian PVM isolates andthe comparison of PVM isolates from Canada and other countries Oligonucleotide ... bioassay, RT-PCR, RFLP and sequence analysis ofthe CP gene Data from all the tests positively identified the virus as PVM Sequence analysis of these PVM isolates and eight other known PVM strains/isolates...