... ballast water and hull fouling are the most important vectors International shipping, aquaculture and biodiversity are most threatened values Amount of commercial shipping and number of trading ... Within APEC little is known on the introduction of marine pests Little practical information on measures to prevent introductions Lack of knowledge in what individual countries are doing ... Conclusions, including the results of the November 2001 Workshop Management Framework - Introd uced Marine Pests Management capabilities and approaches APEC and the MRCWG have a role in liaising with...
Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 11:15
... resurgence in the incidence of TB occurred in the United States and included increases in the number of TB cases among adults and children and outbreaks of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) involving ... variable and equivocal The concern of the public health community about the resurgence and changing nature of TB in the United States prompted a re- evaluation of the role of BCG vaccination in the prevention ... prepared by increasing the amount of diluent added to the lyophilized vaccine If the indications for vaccination persist, these children should receive a full dose of the vaccine after they are...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu Cleaner Water in China? The Implications of the Amendments to China’s Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution pptx
... variety of rules and regulations Nationally, these include the Implementing Rules on the Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution36 and the Interim Measures on the Management of Water ... Cleaner Water in China? 187 improving the environment, maintaining the safety of drinking water, and promoting sustained economic and social development.”33 It “applies to pollution prevention and ... for the purpose of preventing and controlling water pollution, protecting and improving the environment, safeguarding human health, ensuring the effective use of water resources and facilitating...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu Trends in the Fees and expenses of Mutual Funds, 2010 pptx
... breakpoints are adjusted for inflation by taking the fee breakpoints available in 2010 and multiplying by the Consumer Price Index in December 2000 and dividing by the Consumer Price Index in ... ratio of funds of funds over the period (labeled in Figure 13 as “Fall in expense ratios of individual funds”) By definition, the remaining basis points must result from an increase in the market ... (Figure 7) Thus, the increase in the institutional market share helped reduce the industry-wide average expense ratio of all money market funds By contrast, the market share of institutional share...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 15:20
Tài liệu Trends in the Expenses and Fees of Mutual Funds, 2011 ppt
... ratios of equity, bond, and hybrid funds declined in 2011 owing to declines in the expense ratios of individual funds, an increase in the demand for index funds, and a continuing shift by investors ... do-it-yourself investors However, 16 much of the shift represents the change by investors toward compensating financial professionals directly instead of indirectly through mutual funds Assets and ... stemming from the current low interest rate environment In 2007 and 2008, to stimulate the economy and respond to the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve sharply reduced short-term interest...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 15:20
Tài liệu Rubber plantation performance in the Northeast and East of Thailand in relation to environmental conditions docx
... 2001) In this study, areas of Thailand are referred to as South, Central, East, Northeast and North A map of Thailand and names of provinces in these areas is in Appendix Rubber has been referred ... not regarded as a suitable area (Pratummintra 2005) 13 Figure The area of rubber plantations in Thailand in the year 2000 according to RFD 2000, and the share of the total area in different regions ... cultivation area in northeastern and northern Thailand The Department of Agriculture of Thailand has created a rubber information system (RIS), where climatic and soil profile data are stored in a regional...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu recent trends in the law and policy of bioenergy production promotion and use docx
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 05:20
Tài liệu ‘Unheard voices’: listening to Refugees and Asylum seekers in the planning and delivery of mental health service provision in London. pptx
... ONE is the INTRODUCTION This includes an outline of the CONTEXT and main themes, the motivation and purpose of the study - the why and how PART TWO is THE REASEARCH - METHODOLOGY and FINDINGS PART ... There are many problems between couples There is a lot of pressure on the couple relationship…Children become more dominant because they learn the language and the mother and the father lose their ... achievements of these services we identified as interpreting and literature: ‘At the moment we offer interpreting and literature in different languages and we have a complaints system in place but there...
Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Crystal structure of salt-tolerant glutaminase from Micrococcus luteus K-3 in the presence and absence of its product L-glutamate and its activator Tris pdf
... different conditions: in the absence of the additives (referred to as N); in the presence of Tris (referred to as T); in the presence of l-glutamate (referred to as G); and in the presence of both ... structure (residue number) are labeled Residues 36-39 in the B structure (homologous residue of 26-29 in Mglu) are disordered of the more extensive disordered regions in the C-terminal domain of the ... site residues (including Arg223 and Ser227), either directly or indirectly Similarly, the 33 ordered residues in the T structure (that are disordered in the N form) are not related to the Tris-binding...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22
Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young docx
... faculties of reason and reflection, and the power of appreciating "the necessity and propriety of things," and of bringing considerations of future, remote, and perhaps contingent good and evil to restrain ... out into the yard, but required to remain in the house in sight of his mother, the mother should not try to make the punishment more heavy by speaking again and again of his fault, and evincing ... excluded, in the manner of making the preliminary arrangements, the better A mother without any tact, or any proper understanding of the way in which the hearts and minds of young children are influenced,...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo khoa học: A single EF-hand isolated from STIM1 forms dimer in the absence and presence of Ca2+ ppt
... Removing the proposed Ca2+-coordinating residues in positions and of the EF-hand motif significantly compromised the metal-binding capability of the engineered protein, indicating that the metal binding ... between the two termini of the inserted Ca2+-binding sites in the model structure of the EF-hand of STIM1 is within ˚ 15 A Accordingly, a total of six glycine linkers is sufficient to enable the grafted ... perturb the Ca2+-binding ability of the grafted EF-hand of STIM1 (B) Modelled structure of the engineered protein with the grafted EF-hand Ca2+-binding motif (magenta) from STIM1 W32 and Y76 in the...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Intermodule cooperativity in the structure and dynamics of consecutive complement control modules in human C1r Structural biology docx
... important differences, namely a shorter ‘HVL‘ loop, and the presence of a tyrosine in strand C of CCP4 in place of an asparagine in C1r CCP2 (N379), and based on the results of the present perturbation ... neighboring domains offers a new way to understand the regulation of multidomain proteins and challenges the generally accepted view that domains are independent functional and folding units Therefore, ... exactly the reverse of the situation observed for the CCP1single and CCP2single modules and probably re ects the complex interdependence of the modules in terms of internal dynamics and may also...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20
Thuốc chống viêm ức chế lipooxygenase và cyclooxygenase dùng dự phòng và điều trị ung th- (LOX an COX - inhibitors as adjunctive therapies in the prevention and treatment of cancer) ppt
... ung th in vitro, thấy quercetin làm thoái giáng đột biến p53 - protein, làm ngừng chu kỳ tế bào giai đoạn G1 , ức chế tyrosin - kinase, ngăn chặn hoạt tính protein - ras In vitro, quercetin ức ... Curcumin có nhiều ảnh hởng đến sinh lý bệnh học tế bào ung th: in vitro, curcumin làm ngừng chu kỳ tế bào u, thúc đẩy chết theo chơng trình (apoptosis) Tuy nghiên cứu hạn chế, nhng thấy curcumin ... bào khác nhau, thấy quercetin làm tăng hiệu lực điều trị cisplatin, adriamycin, busulfan, cyclophosphamid làm tế bào ung th giảm đề kháng với gemcitabin topotecan Bromelain Là hỗn hợp protease chứa...
Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Molecular dissection of the biosynthetic relationship between phthiocerol and phthiodiolone dimycocerosates and their critical role in the virulence and permeability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis doc
... obtained for four mice, indicating that fewer than 50 bacteria of the PMM56 mutant strain were present in the spleen of these mice For the determination of the number of PMM56 bacteria present in ... acyl-containing lipids, including DIMs Analysis of the labeling (Fig 2B) confirmed that there were no traces of DIM A in the DRv2951c::km mutant, and revealed that the amounts of DIM B accumulated by the ... that seeded in lungs, and the remaining five mice were killed 21 days after infection to count the number of bacteria present in lungs and spleen Bacteria were recovered from the spleen and lungs...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo khoa học: A steady-state competition model describes the modulating effects of thrombomodulin on thrombin inhibition by plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 in the absence and presence of vitronectin ppt
... Pro37 and Gln38 are involved in the binding of TM to thrombin [27,31] These residues therefore comprise the most likely overlapping binding site for TM and PAI-1 on thrombin, as they are also of ... binding of TM by thrombin Binding of the carboxy-terminal part of the reactive center loop of PAI-1 in the small cleft formed by the 60-loop and VR1 loop can be envisioned The kinetics of the interaction ... demonstrated in this study, binding of TM does sterically hinder PAI-1 binding to thrombin (–VR1tPA) Therefore, the binding of PAI-1 to thrombin either involves a small part of the VR1 loop that...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:21
UPDATES IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF VASCULITIS pot
... also been reported [52] IL-17 induces secretion of neutro‐ phil-attracting chemokines, and release of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, TNF-α) capa‐ ble of increasing expression of PR3 on the surface ... extravasation and perivascular deposition of immune complexes The increased tissue staining during the resolution phase, on the other hand, suggests a possible function of VEGF in the resolution of vascular ... because of the widespread involvement of vessels and the fact that it affects the entire thickness of the vessel wall [1] A disorder of necrotizing vasculitis, granulomatous lesions of the entire respiratory...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 00:20
Updates in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Vasculitis Edited by Lazaros I. Sakkas and Christina Katsiari pptx
... also been reported [52] IL-17 induces secretion of neutro‐ phil-attracting chemokines, and release of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, TNF-α) capa‐ ble of increasing expression of PR3 on the surface ... extravasation and perivascular deposition of immune complexes The increased tissue staining during the resolution phase, on the other hand, suggests a possible function of VEGF in the resolution of vascular ... because of the widespread involvement of vessels and the fact that it affects the entire thickness of the vessel wall [1] A disorder of necrotizing vasculitis, granulomatous lesions of the entire respiratory...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 18:20
Updates in the Understanding and Management of Thyroid Cancer Edited by Thomas J. Fahey doc
... change in the incidence of MTC and anaplastic cancer Table shows that the increase in the incidence of PTC was the result of an increased incidence of both MPTC and papillary measuring more than ... cancer and fits with the hypothesis of an apparent increase in thyroid cancer incidence Any interpretation of reports of the incidence of papillary thyroid carcinoma must take into account the remarkably ... questions to be in mind; firstly, the increase in thyroid cancer incidence in our area has happened equally in the incidence of MPTC and in the incidence of PTC greater than cm.; secondly, there has not...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 22:20
believing by faith an essay in the epistemology and ethics of religious belief may 2007
... mainstream with the aim of ‘disambiguating’ either for or against theism Fifth, the question arises whether stepping outside the mainstream by accepting evidential ambiguity requires the defender of ... theism who are inclined to ¹ For a useful survey of the Philosophy of Religion since the mid-20th century, see The Ethics of Religious Belief: a Recent History’, in Andrew Dole and Andrew Chignell ... their rights in holding and acting on their religious beliefs; or whether, in so doing, they are expressing or honouring salient virtues; or whether holding religious beliefs is intellectually...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 05:31
báo cáo hóa học: " Managing variability in the summary and comparison of gait data" pot
... graph are the aligned curves Note particularly the alignment of the large valley at pre-swing and the peak in swing phase The right column of Figure indicates that the differences in the mean and ... breakdown points [51], meaning that only a single extreme value is required to drive the estimators to infinity Indeed, as seen in Figure 2, the presence of a small fraction of outliers can unduly inflate ... the sample median as extreme values According to this definition there were 21 outlying observations In the bottom graph, the outliers have been removed The bar graph on the right-hand side of...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20