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Land Use Change and Mountain Biodiversity - Chapter 7 potx
... 1991) Unfortunately, due to the lack of sound information, at present we can only hypothesize about these effects in the grasslands of Los Toldos On the other hand, the short-term effect of fire ... depend on the proximity to settlements and on the weather conditions (wind, temperature, and soil humidity) when the fire is started As a result of these management practices, the landscape consists ... biomass in the >5-year treatment (Table 7.2) The seasonal dynamics of the total live biomass, standing dead, and litter showed some similarities between the treatments Biomass assigned to the standing...
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Fish species distribution in seagrass habitats of chesapeake bay are structured by abiotic and biotic factors
... encompassed the western shore with its northern boundary at either the Rappahannock River (1997) or Great Wicomico River (1998 and 1999) and southern boundary at Back River Across these zones there ... within these seagrass beds and tested the null hypothesis of a random fish distribution throughout lower Chesapeake Bay We also compared the fish community from our collections to historical (Orth and ... included Tangier and Smith Island in the midportion of the bay (including Bloodsworth Island in 1999); Zone comprised the eastern shore from Crisfield, Maryland, to Cape Charles, Virginia; and Zone encompassed...
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Species richness and ecosystem functioning of southeast asian dung beetle fauna
... environmental variables were retained and plotted together with 14 the sample and species scores as vectors to show their influence on the biotic communities To investigate dung removal rates in ... Yat Ka and Yong Dingli, for all the encouragement and times spent in the field and laboratory I’m grateful towards my collaborator, Hans Huijbregts from the Leiden Museum of Natural History as ... Pulau Ubin and all my guides and student helpers who have been a wonderful help in the forests and the laboratory My heartfelt thanks goes to all the people in the Biodiversity group of the Department...
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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Stand biometry and leaf area distribution in an old olive grove at Andria, southern Italy" pptx
... were the diameter of the projected crown area and the crown height) representing the unbranched area at the center of the tree canopy; and Vcor which is a further correction to simulate the regularly ... projected crown area to stem circumference (both total and living) was poor, with r2 around 0.06 The range of top heights was rather narrow (3.8 to 5.5 m), with a mean of 4.9 m The top height was regularly ... typical small and large branches distributed over the canopy in two sample trees and used to verify the model and to test the validity of equations used to convert foliated volume to leaf area...
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báo cáo khoa học: " Growth characteristics and lipid distribution in two lines of chicken selected for low or high abdominal fat" docx
... weight and low mature weight led, respectively, to lean and fat lines of the shape of the growth curve ween chickens So there seems to be a correlation betand the propensity to become fat The mechanism ... of age and thereafter Total triglycerides and their linear regression with live weight are given in Table V Results are similar to those of total lipids Extraabdominal triglycerides and their ... from the linear regression between the proportion of abdominal fat and live weight We took care to put birds of the origins into both lines Fourteen to 15 sires were kept per line from FO to F7 They...
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EQUALIZING DAYLIGHT DISTRIBUTION IN BUILDINGS OPTIMIZATION OF THE INNER REFLECTOR AND BOTTOM PANEL OF a LIGHT DUCT
... delivered by the light-duct and the way it is distributed The collector design and the light-duct body are beyond the scope of this thesis The collector used in this thesis is the type collector presented ... 2.2 The most important components include: the collector, the reflective duct, the openings on the bottom panel of the reflective duct and the inner reflector All of these components influence the ... the design target On the other hand, the inner reflector has shown great potential to improve the performance of the light-duct and the light-duct with optimized inner reflector could supplement...
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a framework of co opetition, freight consolidation, and collaborative freight distribution in the thailand’s newspaper
... presents and evaluates the data set via confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and SEM This facilitates the development of the measurement models The structural model was run using AMOS to test the hypothesized ... concludes the study with summaries of the research findings from the CFA and SEM The study implications and significance of the research are acknowledged The chapter outlines the limitations of the ... assigned news carriers pick up the newspapers and deliver them to two other drop-off points The truck, finally, moves to the last drop-off point and returns to the distribution centre, carrying...
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focuses on expressions of criticizing in American and Vietnamese e-newspapers in the light of Directness/Indirectness
... which expands on the story’s main point as introduced in the headline The lead gives enough information to allow readers to make an important decision whether they want to read the story or to skip ... able to find out the subject and the main verb In this case, subject and main verb are together at the beginning of the sentence, but in other case, they are separated or the writer delays the ... newspapers to read due to their interest and their needs Furthermore, with the appliance of World Wide Web (www), people have great opportunities to know and read foreign newspapers Therefore, the number...
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Factors influencing borrower’s behavior and decision making patterns in the success of a micro finance model
... high then he/she is least attracted to debt financing On the other hand, the individual with low income and savings is more attracted towards debt financing The selection of income group and the ... questionnaire with few open ended questions to study the prevailing behavior of population The questionnaire was also translated into Urdu and Pushto languages to ensure respondents’ understanding and to ... were doing their own small businesses and require the funds for their recurring inventories to manage their working capital requirement and increase their revenues Their major concern is the time...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Golgi reassembly stacking protein 55 interacts with membrane-type (MT) 1-matrix metalloprotease (MMP) and furin and plays a role in the activation of the MT1-MMP zymogen pdf
... acids 84–172) and GRASP55 region (amino acids 173–454) were each fused to the GAL4 DNA binding domain and used together with VP16-MT1 in the M2H system MT1-MMP ICD was found to interact with full-length ... transfected with furin, GRASP55F or with both furin and GRASP55F Total cell lysates were subjected to immunoprecipitation using the MT1-MMP antibody and immunocomplexes were then probed with the furin ... surface It would be interesting to assess the role of GRASP65 with respect to MT1MMP trafficking to the cell surface MT1-MMP, similar to all the other MMPs, is synthesized as a latent zymogen (pro-MT1-MMP)...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of chitinase-like proteins (Cg-Clp1 and Cg-Clp2) involved in immune defence of the mollusc Crassostrea gigas docx
... edge and postspawning gonads Metamorphosis represents the ultimate stage of oyster development, and is characterized by the degeneration of larval tissues, such as the velum and the foot, and the ... Cg-Clp1 and Cg-Clp2 in response to either LPS or peptidoglycan stimulation might be considered as a general nonspecific response of the organism to foreign invaders On the other hand, both LPS and ... by the ‘Conseil ´ Regional de Basse-Normandie’, the ‘Agence de l’eau Seine-Normandie’ and FEDER Presage No 4474 grant (program PROMESSE) The authors are indebted to all staff of the Argenton...
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Tài liệu PLEASE GIVE NORBERT WEINER (AND OTHER CURIOUS DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WORK OF JANET ZWEIG) doc
... participants onto the opposing monitors Rather than facing each other directly, each person only sees the other’s face on the screen They figuratively and graphically talk to each other through ... interactivity and intimacy, the somatic and cerebral, are variously but simultaneously engaged Language, narrative, reading, and other linguistic and oral traditions and the changing conditions and theoretical ... conventions and lexicon: But who is the author of these random, interactive passages? Is it the artists, the computer’s vast combinatory capacity, students and faculty, or other members of the public?...
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Tài liệu Design, Lifestyles and Sustainability. Aesthetic Consumption in a World of Abundance pptx
... advantage, and instead the route to commercial success is supposed to be found in the artful creation of aesthetic offerings, of images and brands To infuse meaning into products and services; to transform ... contemporary consumption and production, and connecting them to different aspects of the design concept, we seek to draw the perspectives together in order to point at the complex interconnectedness ... exports and strengthened competitive positions on the world market In order to understand the role of design in the quest for sustainability, it is thus necessary to critically examine the role of the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Nuclear actin and actin-binding proteins in the regulation of transcription and gene expression docx
... receptors regulated by ABPs include the glucocorticoid receptor, estrogen receptor, androgen receptor (AR), thyroid receptor and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-c Among these, the AR ... localization sequence on the receptor [87] Filamin may act as a mediator between the receptor and the Hsp90, and control the release of activated receptor after ligand binding in AR cytoplasmic trafficking ... is bound to the actin cytoskeleton on the cell surface and perinuclear areas of the cell via its N-terminal ABD In the absence of ligand, AR is localized predominantly in the cytoplasm, and its...
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Báo cáo khoa học: The Vps4 C-terminal helix is a critical determinant for assembly and ATPase activity and has elements conserved in other members of the meiotic clade of AAA ATPases pdf
... assess the ability of additional mutations to reduce the ability of Vps4p–E233Q to engage with and interfere with the function of wildtype Vps4p We therefore deleted the C-terminal helix RDF and ... Furthermore the TRP sequence is positioned very close to the ATP-binding pocket in the adjacent subunit Thus the TRP sequence at the beginning of the C-terminal helix and the RDF sequence at the ... for the RDF sequence in modulating the function of the SRH The C-terminal region of human VPS4B contains the b domain (b strands and 8), the final helix of the AAA domain (a helix 10) and the...
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Information Contagion and Inter-Bank Correlation in a Theory of Systemic Risk potx
... between the loan returns of banks, the greater is the likelihood that they will survive together; in turn, the lower is their expected cost of borrowing in the future and higher are their expected ... upon the realization of past bank profits, depositors assess the profitability of the risky asset of their bank and incorporate that information in the return they demand on their deposits Depositors ... it better to invest in the storage technology than lend to their bank In other words, there is a “run” on the surviving bank induced by an updating of the state of the economy by depositors in...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Role of the hinge peptide and the intersubunit interface in the swapping of N-termini in dimeric bovine seminal RNase pptx
... exposed and make only a limited number of van der Waals interactions with the rest of the protein The only difference related to the substitution of Pro with Ala is a slight increase in the thermal ... dimer were pooled and air oxidized The amount of the MxM form in the isolated sample at this stage was 85% Aliquots were then separately incubated at °C and 37 °C, and the extent of the swapping was ... P19A-BS-RNase To isolate the MxM dimer, the equilibrium mixture, containing both forms in the usual : ratio, was reduced selectively with dithiothreitol and gel filtered The fractions containing the reduced...
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Knowledge and Skill Chains in Engineering and Manufacturing: Information Infrastructure in the Era of Global Communications docx
... Humacs and Prodchain The DIISM community has been honored to include these projects’ contributions, facilitating interchange of ideas within these projects and with others outside of the projects The ... simulators and Runtime Infrastructures based on the HLA Nakano et al propose a method and its tool to navigate the designers through the engineering process and generate the simulation model automatically ... architecture and development work for the whole duration of the project The model also introduces milestones to anchor the development process, and to assess and mitigate risks The 4+1 view model...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Sp1 and Sp3 are involved in up-regulation of human deoxyribonuclease II transcription during differentiation of HL-60 cells pptx
... digested with SacI and XmaI to remove nucleotides )1875 to )935 or )1875 to ) 250, respectively, and the remaining DNA fragments were ligated using T4 DNA ligase The fragments )149 to +72, )68 to +72, ... (lane 11), and, when anti-Sp3 IgG was used, bands C2 and C3 disappeared and bands SC3a and SC3b appeared (lane 12) Coaddition of the two antibodies resulted in the loss of bands C1, C2, and C3 (lane ... IgG, indicating they contain proteins other than Sp1 or Sp3 It is not clear whether these unknown factors interact with Sp1 or Sp3, facilitating their binding to GC-I and enhancing their transcriptional...
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ICT enabled independent living for elderly: A status-quo analysis on products and the research landscape in the field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) in EU-27 doc
... elementary AAL topics have been defined within the scope of this study to structure the collected data These topics address the demand of elderly and are used to categorise all products and research ... the one hand and northern and southern member states on the other hand There are various reasons for these differences, which would need further investigation At this stage it seems as if there ... perspective as well to guarantee a holistic approach towards the special demands and needs of these patients The main objective is to create ICT platforms and services to suit these purposes This...
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