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... Award and distinguished recognition fromthe U.S Attorney’s Office He has written on the topic of alcohol control for both professional and scholarly publications, and speaks on these issues to ... abolitionists, and utopians joining in a collective voice to castigate the government for collecting revenue fromthe profits of evil 1818–1862 In response tothe growing sentiment of profiting from evil ... law and various regulatory efforts, over 50 percent ofthe U.S was under prohibition The demands ofthe Anti-Saloon League were formally presented to Congress by the Committee ofOne Thousand...
... the development ofthe meaning of “land”, the history ofthe land concessions, fromthe first beginnings tothe present, rights and powers in the management and use of land, andthe process of ... appraisal ofthe costs and benefits fromthe land concessions studied Concession fees were not linked tothe suitability ofthe land or the nature ofthe project and there was no study ofthe distribution ... context ofthe management and use of forest and land resources in the midst ofthe transition process of economic development ofthe country Changes in the meaning of “land” in Laos “Land of the...
... with the mandate to develop agricultural land for the rural poor and landless FELDA accounted for 17.7% ofthe total planted area and 20.6% ofthe palm oil produced in Malaysia in 2001.132 The ... When the value of non-timber products is added tothe worth ofthe 1-hectare forests, the opportunity costs ofthe area are far beyond what oil palm can offer to landowners and many ofthe alternatives ... oil To write to local supermarkets asking, what, if any, policies they have on palm oil, whether they are enforced, and whether they can identify the source of their palm oil d) Tothe Indonesian...
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... allowed a total of 152,438 passenger trips between the offshore islands and Fujian Province, including 144,234 fromthe offshore islands tothe mainland, and 8,200 fromthe mainland tothe offshore ... between the two offshore islands andthe mainland As part of that expansion ofthe mini-three links, the Taiwanese government also expanded the list of products that the offshore islands can ... transfer of production tothe mainland As a result ofthe economic “miracle” that occurred in Taiwan fromthe 1960s tothe 1980s (with its peak in the 1970s), the standard of living in Taiwan began to...
... saw the attraction of private equity for urban networks andthe creation of fragmented small-scale local enterprises in the water sector as the solution tothe failings ofthe public sector (Segerfeldt ... loans to pay for the full cost of utility provision, andto repay loan principal and interest fromthe private gains they receive fromthe utility provision These novel approaches to water and ... be needed to deepen understanding ofthe interactions between microfinance projects and their institutional environment, andto determine whether the cases from India and Vietnam are either representative...
... CMP The side chain of R110 is a hydrogen bond donor tothe N3 atom of cytosine As the main chain carbonyl of D129, a H-bond acceptor, interacts with the terminal oxygen of S36 side chain, the ... energies ofthe original resiDG i;j due i in the native protein with the rest ofthe residues, self DDG k mutị are the changes ofthe self energies ofthe residues k that change either their ionization ... UMP increased by one order of magnitude with respect tothe wild-type enzyme, at the expense ofthe Km value The overall effect of this structural change is a twofold increase in the kcat Km ratio...
... business At the other end ofthe scale is petty theft of items such as office equipment and stationary, vehicles and fuel The perpetrators of petty theft are usually middle and lower-level officials, ... to feed Nigerians then to enrich their corrupt rulers who instantly transfer their pickings to foreign banks." The other cultural factor is a weak tradition ofthe rule of law and low level of ... belong to state television, and tend to present a positive view of officials and their activities According tothe research made by the CSDU the financial dependence of Media fromthe political...
... on the duration of life ofone s mother and father and grandmothers and grandfathers If someone’s grandmothers and grandfathers had lived 80 years, it gives him the chance to live years over the ... and people and has adapted himself tothe triumphs and disappointments of being, by necessity, the originator of others andthe generator of things and ideas - only in him the fruit ofthe seven ... difference of 25-35 years in expected life span in these two persons tothe advantage ofthe second Lukianov, a Russian scientist, sums up the results of his own and other authors’ studies ofthe factors...
... into this facility History historic highway program TE activity many of them stopped at the Clover Creek Encampment benefit fromthe investment of TE Center,” said Allen Harrison, Director ofthe ... then the city used the depot as its City Hall worked to insure that the renovations what it gives tothe community: an fromthe 1970s tothe early 1990s As time took its toll on stayed true tothe ... of developable enues, in addition tothe civic pride realized that the abandoned James River and link between the historic City Dock land and 3.3 million square feet of in revitalization of the...
... affect the daily lives of all Californians – fromthe quality of our public schools tothe roads we drive on andthe air we breathe Many ofthe decisions made as part of budget deliberations ... Department of Finance The Bottom Line The recent budget agreement addressed a $40 billion budget shortfall in the remainder of 2008-09 andthe 2009-10 fiscal years The shortfall resulted from a deterioration ... different, and even more challenging than that of 2008-09 due tothe impact ofthe recession andthe state’s cash flow problems California’s budget problems have been exacerbated by “solutions” to prior...
... underlies the operation of DNA is much simpler to understand Attached tothe backbone of a single strand ofthe DNA molecule is a sequence of ‘bases’, 12 thesocialand economic challenges of nanotechnology ... demand for these sorts of tools When the complete genome of an organism is known, andone knows the complete set of proteins present in it (the proteome), then to disentangle the complex webs of ... Obvious to anyone who compared a laboratory in almost any branch of science from 25 years ago with one today is the degree to which the computer control of instruments andthe computer acquisition of...
... ofthe source and final version In addition, the face and content validity ofthe scale were examined by the expert panel in order to assess the clarity ofthe item wording This version was then ... the teeth, mouth or jaws and their treatment can affect the well-being and daily life of children and their families For each ofthe following questions, please mark an X in the box next tothe ... the Chinese version of ECOHIS has a range of difficulty levels across the items and performance of item consistency and these results reinforce the need to analyse the existing translations of...
... programme to estimate the risk of AS associated with the PrP genotypes in the French sheep population andto compare it with the risk of CS In addition, we have used our dataset to estimate the prevalence ... risk of AS depended only on the genotype, the age andthe surveillance stream Considering that the animals tested from a given flock had the same distribution of age and surveillance stream as the ... increased the robustness of our results The maintenance ofthe polymorphism ofthe PRNP gene raises question This could be explained by an absence of selection due tothe late onset of clinical...
... stocks of these insecticides after their ban and their relatively cheaper price and wide-spectrum toxicity There could also be some weakness in the enforcement and control ofthe use of hazardous ... about the health consequencesof pesticide exposures andthe use of protection equipment during spraying is crucial The challenge is not lack of money to buy the equipment, but the feelings of discomfort ... by the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development but Mekong Delta farmers (4.5%, 19.1%, 3%, and 1%, respectively) continued to use them This may be partly due tothe availability ofthe stocks...
... Hence, further research and understanding in this sector may bring exciting new information and better understanding ofthe natural history of HBV and supplement our existing armamentarium to combat ... are the main routes of HBV transmission in high endemic region, such as Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands andthe Arctic andthe rate of HBsAg positivity ranges from 8% to 15% In the low endemic area, ... proportion of HBV carriers who were HBsAg positive in the population declined from 35% to 3% in 15 years after the introduction ofthe vaccination program in newborns andthe completion of a mass...
... [18] The 5¢ and 3¢ termini ofthe clone were obtained by anchored PCR This enabled us to clone additional sequences of 145 and 518 bp at the 5¢ and 3¢ ends, respectively Thus, the fully cloned ... to their positions The arrowheads depict the residues important for the structural core ofthe IL-10 gene The underlined amino acid residues are the signal sequences ofthe respective genes The ... isolated and its genomic structure and expression analysis investigated This work will pave theway for further investigation ofthe biological function of this gene, andthe probability ofthe presence...
... fromthe sequence ofthe extreme 5¢ end of lac1 The full-length cDNA of lac1 was cloned and sequenced as above RT-PCR for semiquantification ofthe lac1 expression levels Total RNA extracted from ... purified and characterized oneof these laccases, lac1, and cloned and sequenced the cDNA encoding the protein RT-PCR was used to study the regulation of lac1 gene expression in V volvacea when the ... electrophoresis to ensure that product abundance was evaluated in the exponential phase ofthe reaction (half ofthe maximum product) To further validate the assays, the optimized cycle number (23 and 28...
... been proposed to be involved in the prevention ofthe uptake of foreign DNA, the degradation of intestinal mucus to facilitate colonization, andthe provision of nucleotides for the cells [13] ... decomposition ofthe thermodynamic data, together with mutational and structural investigations, was used to gain an insight into halotolerant adaptation Results Protein production and thermal stability The ... showed that the orientation of these side chains was different fromthe native structure The side chain of Gln69 in VcEndA N69Q was rotated away from residue 72 and was unable to form the Asn69...