an ever increasing problem in agriculture

... Heavy-Metal-Resistant Plants 3.3.5 Biomass Production of Sensitive and Resistant Plants 3.4 Saline Soils: An Ever- Increasing Problem in Agriculture 3.4.1 Glycophytes and Halophytes 3.4.2 Energy-Dependent Salt Exclusion ... determined by physiological amplitude) (Fig 2) Historical, physiological, and biotic filters are constantly changing and interacting Human and natural introductions or extinctions of species, chance ... herbicide atrazine binds specifically to one of the complexing protein molecules of PS II, however; when using 14 C-labeled atrazine, this binding can be quantified and used to determine the total...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2015, 15:00

... here) This is in good agreement with the findings of Kuppers et al (1986) which showed the absence of any role of leaf water status in explaining the afternoon depression of A in a range of species ... Pearcy R.W & Lange O.L (1987) Diurnal variations in leaf conductance and gas exchange in natural environments In: Stomatal Function (Zeiger E., Farquhar G.D & Cowan I.R., eds.), Stanford University ... cannot entirely be taken into account by the concurrent stomatal closure, since in the J copaia leaflets, A decreased at constant, or even slightly increasing, calculated intercellular C0 concentrations...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... liabilities, changes in individual investments in earning assets, funding from interestbearing liabilities and changes in the overall investment in earning assets, the continuous change in NIM, dNIM, ... groups For instance, in the case of C&I specialists, holding everything else constant, net interest margins would be basis points lower in the quarter following an increase in the interest rate ... important for interpreting the effect of the growth in earning assets on banks' net interest margins Without advantageous changes in interest rates or changes in the composition of assets and liabilities...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... framework on European data, including Sevillano and Simon (2004) for Germany, Larsen and McKeown (2002) for the United Kingdom and Crespo-Cuaresma et al (2003) and Mộsonnier and Renne (2004) for ... in mind that monetary policy regimes diered signicantly over time and across countries Moreover, in many euro area countries, specically in the 1960s and early 1970s, other instruments than interest ... real interest rate is lower in the euro area, and in particular in Germany, than in the US It is important to stress that all estimates of the natural real interest rate are very imprecise and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... hesperidin and 600 mg naringin After remaining seated and resting for 45 min., participants completed a second self report rating scale After 75 min., a third and final self report rating scale ... particularly in caffeine-sensitive individuals [39] The absence of changes in blood pressure, resting heart-rate and self-ratings in the four treatment groups involving p-synephrine, naringin and hesperidin ... serve as antioxidants and anti-inflammatory agents [12, 13] as well as hepatoprotectants [14] and neuroprotectants [15] However, the effects of naringin and hesperidin on metabolic rate and energy...

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... AuNPs in organic solvents The HRTEM analysis showed the nanoparticles are mostly single crystalline in nature, which is likely due to a dominant diffusion-controlled Ostwald-ripening growth mechanism ... calculated the interparticle spacing by analyzing a minimum of 150 interparticle spacings Images with a 40 nm scale bar were used for particle spacing calculations, and the edge-to-edge distances of ... dissolved in 100 mL of toluene in air, producing a colorless homogeneous solution The solution was stirred for min, and then 0.17 mL (0.5 mmol) of ODT was injected, and stirring was continued for another...

Ngày tải lên: 18/09/2013, 21:27

... = L x W x H in Pounds 139 L = Length in inches W = Width in inches H = Height in inches H U.S Export and Import L = Length in inches W = Width in inches H = Height in inches Preparing a Shipment ... *nsurance is offered through UPS Capital Insurance Agency, Inc and through UPS Capital Insurance Agency, Inc of California in California, I and UPS Capital Insurance Agency, Inc of Nevada in Nevada, ... packaging, guidelines for using your own packaging and an explanation of international documentation that must accompany your shipment are provided Determining the Rate Pages 37-149 Determine the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20

... rather than trying to tie down a point estimate interest rates tend to be increased in cyclical upswings and Our first approach to estimating the NRR involves taking observed nominal interest ... level, and the output gap with how many (and which) variables it thinks of as being in is positive In these circumstances, holding the real interest equilibrium when discussing the ‘neutral real interest ... savings rather than the simple linear relationship depicted in figure For a recent discussion of determinants of saving rates in New Zealand see Choy (2000) RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND: Bulletin...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... 11 26 1 - Data obtained from Barclays Bank, Lloyds/TSB Bank, HSBC Bank and National Westminster Bank whose rates are used to compile this series Where all the rates did not change on the same day ... CHANGES IN BANK RATE, MINIMUM LENDING RATE, MINIMUM BAND DEALING RATE, REPO RATE AND OFFICIAL BANK RATE Date effective New rate % Bank Rate 1694 Oct 6.0000 1695 Jan May 4.5000 3.0000 1699 June 4.5000 ... 11 10 Jan May July Dec 5.2500 5.5000 5.7500 5.5000 2008 2000 2007 10 Feb April Oct Nov Dec 5.2500 5.0000 4.5000 3.0000 2.0000 2009 Jan Feb Mar 1.5000 1.0000 0.5000 CHANGES IN BANK RATE, MINIMUM...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... central bank (at the lending rate) and at the interbank market (at the interbank rate), and revenues are interests earned by depositing at the deposit facility and lending to other banks The ... underbidding Although the central s bank wants to provide a certain amount of liquidity, it cannot so independently of demand If demand for main refinancing operations is lower than the central bank’s ... the standing facilities, and the demand curve is also vertical at the last day of the maintenance period Any supply shortage due to underbidding is not offset in the following main refinancing operation,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... 1995 Hassan, M.K., G.V Karels and M.O Peterson, 1994 Deposit insurance, market discipline and off-balance sheet banking risk of large U.S commercial banks, Journal of Banking and Finance 18, ... rate and exchange rate risks, Journal of Banking and Finance 16, September, 983-1004 Choi, J.J and A.M Prasad, 1995 Exchange rate sensitivity and its determinants: A firm and industry analysis of ... WHARTON FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS CENTER The Wharton Financial Institutions Center provides a multi-disciplinary research approach to the problems and opportunities facing the financial services industry...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... devices were removed and placed in individual sealed plastic bags The subjects were then instructed to shower without wetting their hair, abstain from drinking, eating, or urinating, and to ensure they ... mL.min-1 (0.41 L.h-1) in winter (Table 3) Sweat rate ranged from a minimum of 0.1 L.hr-1 to a maximum of 1.0 L.hr-1 with a narrower range in summer than winter, both the minimum and maximum individual ... higher than the active legs for both days in summer and winter as shown in Table The mean sodium concentration in the 58 arm samples on the first day of sampling in winter was 72.7 mmol.L-1, and on...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... fertility decision in Taiwan Moreover, air pollution has also increased the number of low birth weight and premature infants in Taiwan,[48] and may contribute to the increasing use of tocolytic ... care and its financing is ushering in ingenious ways of cost containment The disproportionately high c-section rates in Taiwan may also hold major lessons for the many countries contemplating ... malpractice reform, and changes in physician and hospital reimbursement,[49-53] and these strategies differ in their assumptions regarding their feasibility and the determinants of physicians’ autonomy...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... regular encoding strategies turn out to be the same However, the delay of sliding-window decoding is much less than that of backward decoding Regular encoding-/slidingwindow decoding is therefore ... the sink Decoding at the sink is performed in backward manner in N +1 steps until all {wk0,h−N }k∈{N, ,1},h∈{B, ,N+1} are decoded by the sink (1) Decoding {wN0 } In block B, the sink determines ... statistically independent of the first relay and the transmitter outputs In [8], Gupta and Kumar applied irregular encoding/successive decoding to multirelay networks in a manner similar to [4] In [9,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... three transmitting DVB-H antennas, the “imaginary transmitter” ITx, and the routes (in red) used to determine the range to synchronize the transmitting frequency of the different transmitters in the ... 1/2 Range R [m] CINRR [dB] ER [dBμV/m] Range R [m] CINRR [dB] ER [dBμV/m] Range R [m] CINRR [dB] ER [dBμV/m] Range R [m] CINRR [dB] ER [dBμV/m] Range R [m] CINRR [dB] ER [dBμV/m] Range R [m] CINRR ... modulation scheme on the range to be higher than when changing the MPE-FEC rate, while keeping an inner code rate of 1/2 The range is again higher for route North, and the CINRR and ER EURASIP Journal...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... channel is a stationary fading channel with time-varying gain The fading is assumed to be slowly varying and frequency-flat Assuming, as in [4, 23], that the transmitter receives perfect channel ... investigation and describe the problem under study in Section Optimal transmission schemes for link adaptation are derived and analyzed in Section Numerical examples and plots are presented in ... Communications and Networking Adaptive encoding and Information modulation bits Power control Zero-error return channel Frequency-flat fading channel Channel predictor Adaptive decoding and demodulation...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... while maintaining its own service In general, this requires introducing a performance measure capturing the service objectives of all users in a balanced manner and will be investigated in future ... obvious As in the joint rate and power control formulation, at a given time the relay node can only operate in the transmitting or receiving mode, and all source nodes can simultaneously transmit ... the buffer level and channel states, and then can obtain the rate and power selection solutions using only a fraction of time required for solving the original problem optimally In In this paper,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... for antenna deployment optimization and how much gain can be obtained Simulation results can be found in Section Finally, concluding remarks are given in Section SYSTEM MODEL Before proceeding ... where σs is the shadowing standard derivation in dB and λ = ln 10/10 Since these Sn,k s are i.i.d., we will not distinguish them in the following analysis and simply use S instead We note that ... Distance distributions As distances between users and antennas impact the channel directly, a key problem for the performance analysis is to investigate their characteristics Since they are random...

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