... Antarctic.4Partlybecause ofthe contested legal status of the Antarctic, and partlybecause ofthe ambiguities ofthe 1959 Antarctic Treaty,5 the relationship between the AntarcticTreatySystemand the law ofthe sea ... effective execution of the object and purpose ofthe Convention or which affect either the application of the basic principles embodied herein’ or the rights and obligations of other parties.This ... globalism and regionalism in the law ofthe sea isat its most evident and most complex in Part XII ofthe LOS Convention. There isno doubt that the fundamental elements ofthe law ofthe marine...
... disruption of one link of the food chain can severely affect the rest ofthe system. Let us look more closely atsome ofthe gravest environmental dangers in the region andthe extent to whichthey ... Russia.But there is also an Atlantic, or western, linkage defining the focus and the resources ofthe Barents Region. With the demise ofthe Cold War andthe strategicrivalry with the former ... important are other bureaucraticentities, like the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Atomic Energy, the Ministry of Defence andthe Navy.62In general, the domestic clout ofthe Russian environ-mental...
... 2009-580, Act furthering the diffusion andprotectionof creation on the Internet. 54 “732/2009, Decree ofthe Ministry of Transport and Communications on the minimum rate of a functional ... blocking and filtering, to inadequate guarantees ofthe right to privacy andprotectionof personal data, which inhibit the dissemination of opinions and information. The Special Rapporteur is ofthe ... freedom of opinion and expression, but also a range of other human rights, and to promote the progress of society as a whole. Chapter III of the report underlines the applicability of international...
... machines" can replace " ;the brain and hand, skill and experience" ofthe specialist. The aim of this study was to verify the reliability and efficacy of one of these compact portable diode ... the suggestions of scientific literature on the advantages ofthe compactness, reliability, ease of use and affordability ofthe 980 nm Diode Lasers, we evaluated the efficacy and safety of ... Conclusions: The end results for the use ofthe 980 nm diode laser in oral and facial sur-gery appears to be justified on the grounds of efficacy and safety ofthe device, and good degree of acceptance...
... meats, etc). Indeed, the province of Parma is known also as the food valley”. The characteristics ofthe environment, the presence of woods andthe habit of consuming sausages and raw meat make ... where world famous food and wines are produced. Green is undoubtedly one ofthe dominant colours in the territory of Parma and a series of Na-ture Reserves in the province of Parma as well as ... sausages, and pork increases the inci-dence of toxoplasmosis. The Inflammatory and Autoimmune Ocular Diseases Service of Parma University Hospital is a reference Centre for the Parma area. Therefore,...
... investigationoccurs and evidence is gathered ofthe violation; (3) the evidence is evaluated and sanctions are determined for the violation; and (4) the process of giving effect to the sanction is determined. The ... bound to the rights and obligations of that latterinstrument, notwithstanding any provisions in Annex IV.31For the Antarctic, then, the Protocol strengthens the obligation and duty of its parties ... reasserts the need for the conservation of Antarctic fauna and flora and essentially updates the 1964 Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora, which apply most directly to land...
... raided the homes and offices of several personsinvolved in the preparation of a report on the waste management ofthe NorthernFleet. Theylater arrested one of them, a Russian citizen formerlywith the Northern ... radioactive waste in the Sea of Japan to irre-sponsibility on the part ofthe Navy andthe nuclear industry, the Russian Minister of Environment informed the Consultative Meeting ofthe London Convention ... IV(1) and (2), and Art. VI, respectively.18Art. VI(1).19Compare Arts. 3 and 4 ofthe 1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of MarinePollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter,...
... guess-work;they are “a stab in the dark.”So, to understand the quality of a decision we must understand the weaknesses in the inputs that have goneinto the decision making process and in the approaches ... then related to the four steps ofthe decision making process and finally to the three types of error (risk) that occur in each ofthe four steps. The paper concludes with an example of how methodical ... based on analysis of risk. The thoroughness ofthe analysis determines the “quality” ofthe decisions.High quality decisions are not the best decisions in hindsight. They are the best decisions...
... presenting the pulse of Src activity in the plane of the inactive and active fractions, si and s1. If the duration ofthe stimulus exceeds the critical value, the trajectory in the (si, ... transition from the Offstate to On state (in the bistability domain). Regardless of the slope, the active Src fractions increase during the Off to On transition, whereas the value ofthe inac-tive ... conformation, the SH2 domain binds to pYion the C-terminal tail, and the Src homology 3 (SH3) domain binds to the linkerbetween the SH2 and kinase domains at the back of the small lobe, preventing the...
... hasFig. 5. Analysis ofthe enzymatic activity of His-CoaB R206Q and A276V. The synthesis of 4¢-phosphopantothenoyl-CMP (–cysteine, upper part of the figure) andof 4¢-phosphopantothenoylcysteine (+ ... monomers with the monomer fold having featuresin common with a group of NAD-dependent enzymes onone hand and with the ribokinase fold on the other hand. The structure ofthe human PPC synthetase ... synthesized in five steps fromD-pantothenate. The Dfp flavoprotein catalyzes the synthe-sis ofthe coenzyme A precursor 4¢-phosphopantetheinefrom 4¢-phosphopantothenate and cysteine using the...
... with the reduced form ofthe enzyme. For the reduced form, the Soret band can be observed at 415 and 442 nm, and for the oxidized form at 403 and 422 nm. The b–band can be seen at 517 nm andthe ... presented and on this basis the contributions ofthe reorganization of the polypeptide backbone, of individual amino acids andof the hemes c, a and a3upon electron transfer to/from the redoxactive ... to the different environ-ment ofthe heme centers. The difference signals observed at442 nm and 603 nm can be assigned to the contributions of the hemes a and a3, with the position of the...
... I in the presence of CI. Moreprecisely, the )21 to )48 and )52 to )87 regions of the top strand and )24 to )53 and )58 to )87 regions of the bottom strand were protected by CI (Fig. 3B). The centers ... affinity of CI to the two operators, andthe mecha-nism of action of CI. In the present study, we report the purification of /11 CI to near homogeneity and, for the first time, present evidence for the ... contents in the shifted complexes 1 and 2 and in the unbound labeled O1O2 DNA were determined byscanning the intensities of all the bands shown in the autoradiogram ofthe gel shift assay (I) and plotted...
... each other and independent ofthe true variable, the correlation between responses gives an estimate ofthe "reliability ratio" (the ratio of the variance ofthe signal to the com- ... hour) andthe effective min- imum wage in the state in April 1990 (the maximum ofthe federal minimum wage and the state minimum wages as of April 1990)." The second is the ratio ofthe ... estimates of the effect ofthe minimum-wage increase on prices. The dependent variable in these models is the change in the logarithm ofthe price of a full meal at each store. The key independent...
... duplication of effort. The Commission also found a lack of clarity between the role of orthotists on the one hand and podiatrists and chiropodists on the other. The report last year by the York ... information on the numbers of users of these products because ofthe inadequacies of published data andthe wide range of products. The Department of Health has estimated that there are at least ... funded by the Department of Health and led by Assist UK, and through its monitoring ofthe BHTA Code of Practice. As part ofthe former project, Ricability has compiled its own set of standards...
... equilib-rium ofthe C domain in favor ofthe MG state. The T domain favors the interaction ofthe C domainwith the membrane, because it brings the C domainin its MG state into the vicinity ofthe bilayer, ... receptor-bindingdomain), each of these steps. The behavior ofthe T domain is marginallymodified by the presence or absence ofthe C domain, whereas that of the C domain is greatly affected by the presence ofthe T ... the Trp resi-dues ofthe C and T domains within CT during the interaction with the membrane, we measured the quenching ofthe Trp fluorescence of T, C andthe CTmutants by use of anionic LUVs containing...