... emissions trading • eventeen banks are actively trading under the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, S while seven banks in this study are involved with voluntary emissions trading exchanges, ... participates in GHG emissions trading programs 13 Fortis has been active in the European Union Allowance (EUA) trading market since 2003 Today, Fortis trades in all existing carbon contracts and provides ... Carbon Trading Banks that engage in commodities trading and brokerage services have another huge growth opportunity presented by climate change—GHG emissions trading With the advent of cap-and-trade...
... Incandescent Lamps through Lighting Market Transformation in Viet Nam Asia Least-cost GHG Abatement Strategy (ALGAS) Hanoi Urban Transport Project (P085393) Hanoi Urban Transport Development Project GEF ... including National planning processes, Public Financial Management, Public Administrative Reform, Deconcentration and Decentralisation (D&D), as well as Sector reforms and SWAP-type approaches The country’s ... Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT), the Ministry of Construction (MOC) and the Ministry of Transport (MOT), and provinces This has resulted in a lack of...
... Assessment of transferability and equity of traditional risk management Florida, and participatory REGION SAs, EA, and WA SAs, EA, and WA SAs, EA, and WA 15 management strategies and ... Further capacity enhancement activities under Theme 4 will address gender issues. CCAFS will train partners (e.g. trainers in the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) program) in gender‐sensitive research approaches, which will in turn train ... development outcomes. Training partners (e.g. African Women in Ag Research and Development (AWARD) program trainers) in gender‐ sensitive research approaches (that will in turn train others in the CCAFS target regions) and sponsoring their participation ...
... Increased access training activities to Selected CSPs address CRMA at the design stage; by the end of 2011 mainstream CRMA; Bank staff Increased number of training offered Four (4) CRMA training opportunities ... postKyoto climate change negotiations Capacity Building 3.1 CRMA developed training 3.1 Number of task managers and RMC project staff trained in CRMA modules 3.2 Percentage change in stakeholders’ capacities ... CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT AND ADAPTATION STRATEGY RESULTS FRAMEWORK OBJECTIVES EXPECTED RESULTS IMPACT & REACH PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (MEANS OF VERIFICATION-) STRATEGIC GOAL Long-Term Impact Beneficiaries...
... reduction in concentration of DO and the increase of BOD and COD Specially, concentration of DO reaches to the minimum of about 2.0mg/l, concentration of BOD increases by 2.0mg/l and concentration of ... sites of the river basin where population concentrate the most They are one of the reasons causing the pollution of the rivers Currently, the concentration of DO in the river around the large industrial ... changes Average concentration of BOD is 17.4-30.0 mg/l and reaches the maximum of 40 mg/l; average content of COD is 14.2 mg/l and reaches the maximum of 78.2 mg/l In 2050, concentration of DO is...
... Financial Analysts Journal, May-June 1995, 80-88 W10_2 Empirical characteristics of Dynamic Trading strategies; the Case of Hedge Funds, Fung, W and Hsieh, D.A The Review of Financial Studies ... analysis of both the investment instruments available in the capital market and the objectives and constraints of the ultimate investor The purpose of this course is to acquaint the student with [FINS5541 ... credit risk measures h How endowment funds are managed i Evaluating the performance of investment strategies Learning and Teaching activities 3.1 Approach to Learning and Teaching in the Course This...
... patients who were admitted with acute chest pain did not have any diagnostic changes on initial ECG tracing Therefore, a normal ECG does not rule out the diagnosis of MI [9-11] In situation like these, ... onset Exclusion criteria Patients with a history of recent muscle injury (< days), including intramuscular injection Patients with acute or chronic skeletal muscle damage or disorders including ... patients with chest pain suggestive of myocardial infarction were triaged These cases were fast tracked, and seen by a paramedic or medical officer as soon as possible An ECG was performed mostly...
... formula holding for any retraction r The following two lemmas will show that the terms in (3.10) are the same no matter which retraction r is chosen Lemma 3.2 The retraction r is homotopic to ... retraction which takes the second copy onto the first Now f ◦ R : DM → M Then the Lefschetz numbers L( f ) = L( f ◦ R) since R is a retraction, which splits the homology of DM, so that the traces ... fixed point index of the map f |M given in Section For specificity, we define the retraction r: let r : M → M be the retraction from M to M given by the formula, r(m) = m for m ∈ M, r(b,t) = (b,0)...
... 13 Energy Technology Learning - Key to Transform into a Low - Carbon Society 223 Clas-Otto Wene Chapter 14 What is Green Urbanism? Holistic Principles to Transform Cities for Sustainability 243 ... why a strong monitoring system is needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation Zhou et al discuss how a more accurate accountability of emissions related to international trade ... slow The projected CO2 concentration may reach 850 ppm by the end of the 21st century (Nakicenovic & Swart, 2000), which is about triple of the pre-industrial concentration level (280 ppm) The...
... 1, every α will In general, we want to show that the following “False Assumption” leads to a contradiction False Assumption: For every ≤ α < r/p, gcd(r/p, (n − 1)αp − n) > the electronic journal ... + pq1 q2 q
... Moreover, the bi-statistics (r[max, v], majcode) and (r[max, v], Iinvcode) are equidistributed in a strong form (it is not necessary to sort out the majcodes and inversion codes): For any α ∈ En , ... x1 x3 x4 y1 y2 with coefficient 1, whereas the sum σ∈S5 xr[min,v](σ) yinvcode(σ−1 ) does not; a contradiction Similarly, one can check that test(3, f ) = for a test function defined by test(k, f ) ... inversion number of a sequence, Proc AMS., 19(1968), 236240 [3] D Foata, G.-N Han, Un nouvelle transormation pour les statistiques Eulermahoniennes ensemblistes, Moscow Math J., 4(2004), 131-152...
... table I Growth strains Residual longitudinal strains were measured on standing trees at breast height level We used the single hole method (Archer, 1986) to estimate the tensile strains in the ... évidence l’impact technologique des contraintes de croissance : les arbres pour lesquels des fentes importantes ont été observées présentaient également des pics de contraintes internes Les cartographies ... Résumé — Contraintes de croissance, bois de tension et défauts associés chez le peuplier 1214 Fentes d’abattage, densité du bois et rendement en fibres L’influence de contraintes internes...
... usually associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), namely antinuclear (ANA) and anti-double-stranded DNA (anti-dsDNA) autoantibodies, has also been observed after infliximab treatment in 63.8% ... patients [9,13,16-18] As yet, the occurrence of other autoantibodies has not been clearly demonstrated, such as antiphospholipid (aPL) autoantibodies and anti-β2-glycoprotein I (anti-β2GPI) autoantibodies, ... Malvern, PA, USA) In RA patients, infliximab was administered in accordance with the schedule of the ATTRACT phase III clinical trials [4] Patients were given infliximab at a dose of mg/kg at 0, 2, and...
... pathogenic in passive transfer experiments [11-15] CII-specific T cells promoted the arthritis initiated by these antibodies [16-18] A requirement for T cells in CIA was demonstrated by using anti-CD4 ... result in marginal ankylosis In contrast to CIA, SIA is T-cell independent and shows minimal proliferative synovitis, without involving large cellular infiltrates [24] Ankylosing enthesitis is ... injected intravenously [12] Each antibody (4.5 mg) was given as a cocktail on two occasions in a total volume of 400 µl On day 5, 50 µg of lipopolysaccharide per mouse was injected intraperitoneally...
... the following surgical procedure under anesthesia with ketamine (35 mg/kg intramuscularly) and xylazine (7 mg/kg intramuscularly) The rabbits were placed in the supine position and surgery was ... spectral a* and b* values (thick ± standard (n = 19) and Standard L*,reflectance curve (mean line, mean; broken lines, ± standdeviation) of Japanese white rabbit cartilage deviation) ard spectral ... Safranin-O staining IV Appearance of cartilage Translucent Normal Opaque Slightly reduced Discolored or irregular Moderate reduced Severe reduced No dye noted trap were used The X-Rite SP64 was positioned...
... represented by the number and position of the amylase activity regions in the midgut [5] Inter- and intrapopulation variability exists both for the number and position of the active regions in adult ... may indicate the possible role of non-genetic effects This could explain the existence of the intraline variability The analysis of Drosophila subobscura amylase activity shows that the individuals ... of different quantities of amylase protein, which is directly related to the regulation at the transcriptional level [6] The existence of different biochemical phenotypes in Drosophila subobscura...
... co-express and co-evolve in transcript levels, as previously observed Use of At and Aa homoeologs in As transcriptome To identify homoeologous transcripts in As, we extracted RNA from leaf tissues ... allotetraploid transposable-element-like sequences Chr1 13.66 M, Chr1 14.00 M, Chr3 12.44 M, Chr3 13.36 M, and Chr5 11.06 M mainly consisted of copia-like, gypsy-like, or CACTA-like retrotransposons ... ago [44] One can generate an artificial F1 allotetraploid (F1As) in the lab by performing a cross between a tetraploid At ovule-parent and a tetraploid Aa pollen donor The resulting primary species...
... cell extracts and western blot analysis All transfections were performed with HighPerfect transfection reagent (Qiagen) For inactivation of miRNA expression, sub-confluent hMADS cells were transfected ... used at a concentration of 20 nM The day after this first transfection, hMADS cells were cotransfected with miR-30 Pre-miR™ miRNA precursor molecules (Ambion) at a final concentration of 40 nM, ... key transcription factors, such as PPARg, C/EBPb and Krüppellike transcription factors (KLFs), have been extensively studied [4,25] Our results suggest a direct role of miRNA-mediated post-transcriptional...
... protocol The constructed pcDNA3.1-gC plasmid was transformed into Escherichia coli JM109 cells pcDNA3.1-gC plasmid was extracted by TIANprep plasmid extraction kit (Tiangen, China) according to manufacturer’s ... TaqMan™ probe (P) concentration selection criteria, which was performed according to × matrix of primers concentrations (0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 and 0.6 μmol/L) and probe concentrations (0.1, 0.2, 0.25, ... relatively low in AHV-1 Cha strain-infected ducks Discussion The accurate and prompt diagnosis of AHV-1 infection in waterfowls is a vital part of surveillance and disease control strategy Currently, the...
... subsequent to TBP recruitment [21-25] All the transcriptional assays in the present study were based on transiently transfected reporters We noted that transiently transfected and stably integrated promoters ... pSRE-HTLV-CAT (lanes 11 and 12) were transfected into HeLa cells CAT assays were performed 48 h after transfection AcCM: acetyl chloramphenicol CM: chloramphenicol (C) Basal transcriptional activities ... to 7) were transfected into HeLa cells and the relative CAT activities were compared CAT activity from pKB-HTLV-CAT-transfected HeLa cells was taken as 100% (lane 6) (D) Tax-dependent transcriptional...