... livelihood ofthe people;, and management strategies for the exploitation, development and conservationofthe wetland. The multi-level action plan for theconservationof forest wetlands in the MD ... and 2200 mm of rainfall. At the end of the rainy season, due to the combination of floodwater draining fromthe upstream areas, the overland flood water entering from Cambodia across the Vietnam ... border, the inland high rainfall and the effects of high tide fromthe sea, yearly between 1.2 and 1.9 million hectares of land are inundated, mainly the Northern parts ofthe MD known as the...
... disagreement about the intendedness (at time of conception) of recent births, with the father’s attitudes based on the mother’s reports of his attitude. A forthcoming report will describe fathers’ attitudes ... wantedness ofthe pregnancy at time of conception. The definitions of variables used in this report, as well as the rationale for using selected variables, are provided in the Definition of Terms ... the percentage of woman who used any method of contraception at first premarital intercourse, by the year that first intercourse occurred. These percentages mirror the trend in use of the...
... andBHAb. The temperature dependence ofthe activities of the BHs was tested in the range 5–56 °C; the apparentoptimum temperatures of BHLmL2 were 25–30 °CTable 3. Masses and scores of tryptic ... determined fromthe slope ()Ea⁄ R) of Arrheniusplots of log V (nmol of product per minute) versus1 ⁄ T.Substrate specificity The substrate specificity of BHs was determined using the synthetic ... Investigation ofthe effect of various phytoal-exins on the activities of BHLmL2 and BHAb indicated that cyclobrassininwas a competitive inhibitor of both enzymes. On the basis of pH depen-dence,...
... anotherisoform ofthe long UTR class, 333 [16] (both substitutionsare nonsilent, with Glu36 ® Asp and Ser84 ® Thrchanges). It is possible that Afp-Lu1 is an allelic variant of either of these ... freezing.During the winter they also increase the concentration of the cryoprotectant, glycerol, 10-fold and desiccate to 40% of the prediapause water content [4]. Taken together,these adaptations ... likely that at least some ofthe 17 genes ofthe family are spacedseveral kb ap art (as fo r Afp-Lu1 and 2 .7a), e ven though theymay be linked.In both Afp-Lu1 an d Afp-Iu1, the majority of the sequence...
... infer thatthe overall fertility level ofthe foreign wives was substantially lower than thatof their Taiwanese counterparts. It is worth noting thatthe LTFR of 2.29 did not imply thatthe ... children), we found thatthe reproductive contribution ofthe foreign wives from each of these five source countries were less than thatof their Taiwanese counterparts. The usefulness of LTFR as a ... measure ofthe fertility levels ofthe foreign wives might be largely undermined by the fact thatthe cross-sectional data ofthe census did not allow the distinction between the effect of marriage...
... the crisis while it decreased in the rest of Asia. In the case of Mexico, the recovery of real credit took longer than in the rest ofthe region. (ii) By the end of 2009, real credit growth and ... after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. Taking into account the characteristics ofthe evolution of real credit, the variable under analysis in the rest of this paper is defined as the change ... associated with the behaviour of real credit. Finally, as discussed above, the quality ofthe regulatory/institutional indicator is lower than the others because ofthe high content of subjective...
... indicative ofthe exposure of some ofthe tryptophan residues to the aqueous envir-onment.A10ZXYX10.10.1 0.2Q (Å–1)log I (Q)BDCYXFig. 2. Three-dimensional model of ovorubin fromthe ... calculated by the Fourier inversion ofthe scattering intensity I(q) using the gnom 4.5 program [16]. The low-resolution model of ovorubin was obtained fromthe algorithm built in the program dammin ... system in the apple snail eggs, the role of ovorubin. Arch Biochem Biophys 422, 1–8.12 Norden DA (1972) The inhibition of trypsin and someother proteases by ovorubin, a protein fromthe eggs of Pomacea...
... affinity of RH-0345 and the other three DBHs to LdEcR-A ⁄ LdUSP was low (Table 2). Furthermore, the bindingaffinity of RH-2485 and ANS-118 was higher than that of RH-0345. This means thatthe receptor-bindingT. ... different fromthe result of this study. The degree of mobility shift of a band which is causedby monomeric binding of LdEcR-A alone should bemuch smaller than that by LdEcR-A ⁄ LdUSP. How-ever, the ... [67,68].Furthermore, it is concerned thatthe determinant of the binding type of nuclear receptors to its responseelement, namely monomer, homodimer and heterodi-mer, is the nucleic acid sequence of the...
... thank Theo Visser who helped prepare the earlier versions of this document.We would also like to thank the biologists ofthe Department of Fisheries, Thailand, who collected specimens from hatcheries, ... Fisheries Programme ofthe MRC, which supported several eld trips to collect wild specimens for preparing the illustrations.We would like to thank the former staff ofthe Assessment of Mekong Fisheries ... mainly from Fishes ofthe Cambodian Mekong (Rainboth, 1996) and are reproduced here with the permission ofthe FAO. All larvae illustrations in this publication were drawn by the senior author....
... characteristic” of ecosystems, and thatthe order of stability of all of the chemical elements is of course immensely higher than thatof an ecosys-tem, which consists of components that are themselves ... again, the whole is more than the sum of its parts.Even when we have a catalogue ofthe activities of most ofthe partici-pating species, we are far from understanding the effect of changes in the ... Use of Ecosystem ServicesOnce the topic of ecosystem service use is opened up, further refinementreveals the complexity ofthe subject. For example, in one ofthe earliest workson the topic of...
... funding, where the The Green Revolution 15Training of Local ScientistsLocal scientists were given the necessary training to breed the cropsthemselves so that they would be able to advance the agriculturalrevolution ... develop the technologies and totransfer them to various parts ofthe world, and then financing the agricultural technologies in those regions so thatthe local farmerscould afford to use them. ... bacterial genes canbe introduced into the rice genome so thatthe rice produces beta-carotene, the precursor of vitamin A. The benefits ofthe current va-rieties of GM crops include yield increase,...
... females. The percentage indicates the GSI of the females. M (B) indicates the expression pattern of MIH-B in the same tissues in males (N ¼ 5). The lower panel is the northernblot analysis of MeMIH-B ... into the hemolymph and transported to the ovary for oocyteuptake. To demonstrate thatthe increase in expression of the MeVg1 gene could also result in the appearance of vitellogenin in the hemolymph ... vitellogenin-stimulatory factor of shrimp. Because ofthe existence of multiple forms of the CHH family neuropeptides, there may be a dis-crepancy in defining the function of many cDNAscloned using...
... In the center there is a schematic of the mutual relationship ofthe monomers,in selected members ofthe family, as indi-cated by the twist angle ofthe dimer.TM1415 constitutes one ofthe ... the dimer orientation of allthese IMPases, we see thatthe human IMPase has the extreme dimer twist-angle that is almost 45° off from the dimer position in FBPases, whereas the TM1415and MJ0109 ... 1. Schematic ofthe transformation of TM1415 into the eukaryotic FBPase. The transformation requires 25° rotation of the dimers around the tetramer axis and 30°rotation ofthe monomers in...
... cellulardistribution ofthe protein. The binding affinities arecharacterized by changes in the fluorescence ofthe singleTrp chromophore that is used as a marker ofthe proteinconformation and ofthe thiol ... determined pI of 6.1 and the theoretically deduced pI value of 6.22 wasfound.A theoretical prediction ofthe secondary structuralorganization of Ag-NPA-1 performed on the basis of the amino acid ... 7B). Theseobservations suggest that Ag-NPA-1 is localizedmainly in cells ofthe inner hypodermis and the epithe-lium ofthe oviduct as well as extracellularly in the pseudocoelomic cavity of the...