... by, amongst others, FAO, the OIE, NACA, ASEAN, SEAFDEC and the GAA have clearly defined most ofthe issues involved. With the availability of SPF and SPF/SPR stocks of P. vannamei and P. stylirostris ... 2 The designation and presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part ofthe Food and Agriculture Organization ofthe United ... Peru. From here, they were introduced to the North-western Pacific coast ofthe Americas in the USA and Hawaii, and to the Eastern Atlantic coast from Carolina and Texas in the north through...
... another student without the permission ofthe supervising professor. ■Group projects require equal contribution and participation form all members. Students will conduct themselves in a professional ... to the supervising professor, the MBA Program Office or the MBA Honor Board. Honor violations include, but are not limited to and intentional act of cheating, lying or stealing as defined by the ... property of Auburn University, the College of Business andthe MBA/MSBA Programs. This includes such items as computer, office equipment, classroom and audio-visual equipment. ■This MBA/MSBA Code of...
... the clinical and radiologicaldata. LM, FDN and SL participated in the study of macro-scopic and microscopic features ofthe lesion, in the design ofthe study and in the drafting ofthe manuscript.SL ... localization and size ofthe EGIST and toevaluate the impact ofthe molecular characterization asan outcome parameter related to the molecular targetedtherapy. In absence of these data, an ... localization and size ofthe EGIST and to evaluate the impact ofthe molecular characterization as an outcomeparameter related to the molecular targeted therapy. In absence of these data, an...
... mesocolon on the pan creas. The plan e at the inferior border ofthe body ofthe pancreas was openedwith blunt dissection, gradually exposing the posterior sur-face ofthe pancreas. The splenic ... at about the level of the umbilicus, a 10 mm-trocar in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen on the anterior axillary line, a 10 mm-trocarin the subxiphoid region, a 5 mm-trocar in the left ... axis, and weligated, by using a disposable clip applicator (U.S. SurgicalCorp., Norwalk, CT) (Figure 3). The mobilization of the pancreas started at the reflexion ofthe superior leaf of the...
... cash-for-work programs. The effectiveness of these relief and recovery programs depends on issues such as the timeliness ofthe intervention, the scale and adequacy of resources, andthe approach to ... and hasfurthered the debate on the sustainability of these growthrates in light ofthe occurrence of consecutive drought years.Water resources are often overappropriated in many parts of the ... Understanding the Natural and Social Context 3 Donald A. Wilhite and Margie Buchanan-Smith PART II Drought and Water Management: The Role ofScienceand Technology Chapter 2 The Challenge...
... patterns.One ofthe earliest identified and most powerful of theserhythms, apart from the annual cycle itself, is the ElNiño/Southern Oscillation phenomenon, often referred to asENSO. The robustness of ... to link the recur-rence of droughts with cycles observed in the movements and features of heavenly bodies. Notable among these effortswere schemes based on the phases ofthe moon and the occurrence ... (Nicholls,1984), the Indian Ocean (Drosdowsky, 1993), andthe NorthAtlantic (McHugh and Rogers, 2001).One ofthe simplest ofthe statistical prediction methodsis based on the underlying premise that the...
... describing the thermal denaturation and aggregation of F-actin. This mechanism explains some ofthe special features ofthe thermalunfolding of actin filaments, including the effects of their stabilization ... precede the irreversible thermal unfolding of F-actin. One is the dissociation of nucleotide (ADP) from the nucleotide-binding sites of actin subunits, andthe other is the fragmentation of actin ... between the twodomains in the actin molecule. The thermal stability of G-actin increases when the cleft is closed (e.g. due to the binding of various proteins to the D-loop), whereasopening of the...
... saves about 28% of the bit rate. The MPEG4 [16] performance lay between the two H.263 profiles’ values. Moreover, the properties of the new standard allow for the achievement of high-quality en-coder ... compress the test sequences andthe compressionrate in terms of compressed sequence size. These values arecompared to the reference software andthe difference in per-centage is shown in Tables 1 and ... low and high bitrates. The abil-ity to efficientlyworkatawiderangeofbitratesisacrucialfeature for the here-described system because ofthe variety of existing telemedicine applications and their...
... monocytes and other cells of the mononuclear phagocyte system [5]. The activation state of monocytes/macrophages is characterized by increasedexpression and transcription of interleukin (IL)-1β and tumor ... are not fullyknown. Therefore in this study we investigated the effects of the p38 MAPK inhibitor RWJ 67657 on the mRNAexpression and production of inflammatory cytokines and MMPs by stimulated ... at the level of transcription.p38 MAPK activity in RA is found predominantly in the syn-ovial lining layer and in endothelial cells in the synovium[10]. The lining layer consists mainly of...
... been the object ofthe exercise. My intention is togive the reader an impression and understanding of changing human relations and the long-term and far-reaching consequences thereof for human society. ... less come to them. However, the movement of these flocks would have to be restricted—most probably with the aid of dogs—in order to stop them consuming the best ofthe grain, and their numbers ... greatlymarginalised, there was another important and alternative way of life that evolvedalongside agriculture which involved neither the drudgery of tilling the land nor the harvesting of crops. While the spread...