... trend ofhabitat loss for seabirds is a major threat to their survival.17.3 INTRODUCED SPECIES IN SEABIRD COLONIES Another of the most prevalent causes of species endangerment is the introduction of ... But many gull species are increasing because of human activity, such as the presence of garbage dumps (Hunt 1972) and offal from fishingoperations Often, more than one threat faces a seabird population ... byprohibiting interstate transfer of wildlife killed in violation of state laws The first major U.S wildlife statute that included protection of seabirds was the Migratory Bird Act of 1913 (Ch 145, 37 Stat
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20
... and Management of Obesity (Part 1) Harrison's Internal Medicine > Chapter 75 Evaluation and Management of Obesity Evaluation and Management of Obesity: Introduction Over 66% of U.S adults ... Classification of Weight Status and Risk of Disease BMI (kg/m 2 ) Obesity Class Disease Underweight <18.5 Healthy weight 18.5–24.9 Extreme Obesity high Source: Adapted from National Institutes of ... and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and a number of medical societies The five main steps in the evaluation of obesity are described below and include (1) focused obesity-related history, (2) physical examination
Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 01:20
International Textbook of Obesity - part 4 ppt
... components ofenergy balance instead of only focusing on its en-ergy cost.The objective of this chapter is to exer-International Textbook of Obesity.Edited by Per Bjo¨rntorp. International Textbook of Obesity.Edited ... observations, the contribution of exercise to the prevention and treatment of obesity is still perceived as trivial by many health profes-sionals.The perception of many of them was recent-ly well ... Means<SE of glycerol in the medium after incubation for 48 h of explants of adipose tissue taken from near a lymph node (or, in the case of perirenal, a knot of blood bessels) of four superficial
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 15:20
International Textbook of Obesity - part 9 ppt
... pressure Reversal of these ‘obesity associated’ metabolic abnormalities is one of the most import-ant targets in the current clinical management of obesity (2,3) The aetiology of obesity is multifactorial ... forthe Study of Obesity (6), the Institute of Medicine(7), the US National Institutes of Health (8), theScottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (9) andthe Royal College of Physicians of London ... weight loss of 10% can be reached with thesecompounds (13) Weight loss is not the only goal of International Textbook of Obesity Edited by Per Bjo¨rntorp. International Textbook of Obesity Edited
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 15:20
Tài liệu The Elements of Style ppt
... gem Seven rules of usage, eleven principles of composition, a few matters of form, and a list of words and expressions commonly misused — that was the sum and substance of Professor Strunk's ... Style rules of this sort are, of course, somewhat a matter of individual preference, and even the established rules of grammar are open to challenge Professor Strunk, although one of the most ... permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc Also copyright © 1969 by Jean Stafford; reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.) If the experiences of Walter Mitty, of Molly Bloom, of Rabbit
Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 00:15
Tài liệu Stages of writing ppt
... Printing Office disseminates official information from all three branches of the United States Federal Government • Services and information by non-profit organizations and by for-profit businesses ... L-Soft "the official catalog of LISTSERV ® lists" • Resources at your local (public) library These may require membership or registration • Newspaper, journal, magazine databases Often ... matter experts, professionals 1 Develop research strategies and a list of resources 2. Narrow your topic and its description; pull out key words and categories Develop a list of key words 50 or
Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 02:15
Tài liệu CAMPUS DESIGN: ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF EMERGING ppt
... Trang 1CAMPUS DESIGN: ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES ON CAMPUS DESIGN SESSION RST-3479 Trang 2Campus DesignA Multitude of Design Options and Challenges • Campus network ... requires 7W when the phone is ringing at maximum volume and requires 5W on or off hook • Understand the power behaviour of your PoE devices • Utilize static power configuration with caution Dynamic ... least some network resources available is assumed • Need to identify and potentially punish out of profile traffic (potential worms, DDOS, etc.) • Scavenger class is an Internet-2 Draft Specification
Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 16:16
Tài liệu Dive Into Python-Chapter 4. The Power Of Introspection ppt
... list of all the methods of a list Note that the returned list contains the names of the methods as strings, not the methods themselves d is a dictionary, so dir(d) returns a list of the names of ... return number of occurrences of value Trang 4extend L.extend(list) extend list by appending list elements index L.index(value) -> integer return index of first occurrence of value insert ... info function, as you'll see shortly At the heart of the info function is the powerful dir function dir returns a list of the attributes and methods of any object: modules, functions, strings, lists,
Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 14:15
Tài liệu Basics of MATLAB ppt
... ColourYellow, for example, consists of the combination of the full intensities of red and green, with no blue, while gray is the combination of 50%intensities of red, green, and blue You can create ... 25sec-of a curve satisfying a logical test was extracted.7 Graphics of Functions of Two Variables 7.1 Basic Plots A matlab surface is defined by the z coordinates associated with a set of (x, ... a vector x of numbers running between 0 and 2π with increment 0.1 The second line calculates the sine of this array of numbers, and calls the result y The third lineproduces a plot of y against
Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2013, 12:16
Tài liệu Financial Systems and Auditing Test of Control ppt
... Evidence of authorization of all adjustments to payables ledger Payables ledger control account 1 Evidence of review of reconciliation of purchase ledger listing 2 Evidence of authorization ... Examples of Control Test Documents Test For Purchase Order 1. Evidence of a sequence check 2. Evidence of approval 3. Adherence to control limit Goods Received Note (GRN) 1. Evidence of sequence ... grid for work done 7. Approval of purchase invoice for further processing [...]...Examples of Control Test cont Documents Test For Credit Note 1 Evidence of matching credit notes to goods
Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2013, 15:15
Tài liệu E-business Part 1 of 3 ppt
... buy as they • Combine a number of purchasing methods to give customers a wide array of options Online Shopping Malls • Wide selection of products and services • Offers greater convenience than ... 10Classification of EC by the Nature of the Transaction (cont.) • Intra-business (organizational) EC: EC category that includes all internal organizational activities that involve the exchange of goods, ... and an offline presence e-Business and e-Commerce Overview (cont.) • Virtual office • All communications are conducted via phone, voice mail, fax, e-mail and the emerging capabilities of the
Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu The Object Oriented Evolution of PHP5 ppt
... using thesoftware for the encoding of large numbers of files easyand convenient As you can see, the interface is based on the concept of a “project”—this way, you can encode entire tories of PHP ... upwith a way of doing this without interfering with therest of the semantics of PHP, and preferably, withouthaving to rewrite the whole of PHP itself Luckily, thesolution came in the form of a big ... tier The Business Logic Layer is often thought of as the "middle tier" This tier is where the vast majority of business logic is implemented I often think of this tier as being pretty fuzzy
Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 18:20
Tài liệu Steel Industry Glossary of Terms ppt
... introduction of continuous casting replacing ingot Trang 3casting - meaning reductions over time of overall price and cost levels The trend is sometimes quantified as an erosion of nominal revenue of ~1% ... based on pricing of CO2 output Ferroalloy Alloy of iron with high proportion of an element such as nickel, chromium, molybdenum, vanadium, manganese etc that used in the production of steel Finex ... in blast furnaces, typically offering substantial economic benefits through greater use of coal and proportionately less use of metallurgical coke Pickling Removal of mill scale by mechanical
Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 07:20
Tài liệu Semiconductor MaterialsS. K. Tewksbury Microelectronic Systems Research Center Dept. of Electrical ppt
... doping tions), knowledge of the density of one of the carrier types (e.g., of p) allows direct deter- condi-mination of the density of the other (e.g., n = n2 i /p) Values of ni vary considerably ... categories of semiconductor material are summarized below 2.1.1 Elemental (IV-IV) Semiconductors Elemental semiconductors consist of crystals composed of only a single atomic element from group IV of ... adjusted to lie between the bandgaps of the simple compound crystals with only one type of Group III and one type of Group V atomic element The adjustment of wavelength allows the material to
Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 15:20
Tài liệu NUCLEAR PHYSICS: EXPLORING THE HEART OF MATTER ppt
... president of the National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... small fraction of the mass of the visible matter in the universe So, the origin of 99 percent of the mass of the visible matter in the universe can be traced back to the energy of moving quarks ... constituents of all matter, namely the Standard Model (see Box 1.1) It opens new questions, the most profound of which are the determination of the average neutrino mass and the source of the mass of the
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 16:20
Tài liệu The Survival of Civilization ppt
... ground The basis of their health is the availability of the elements of theinanimate rock crust of the Earth which is the basic food supply of microorganisms and hence of all of us P 5 O U R ... the perusal of a book with a more thorough conviction of the profound knowledge, extensive reading, and practical research of its author, and of the invincible power and importance of its reasoning ... best approach is by means of a brief comparison of the principles of chemicalagriculture and those of the natural process, the most important of which is the availability ofelements in the soil
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 05:20
Tài liệu Biology of Aquatic Organisms - Fish anatomy pptx
... adenohypophysis » vascular sac Biology of Aquatic Organisms Fish anatomy 31 Internal morphology Internal morphology - - shark shark • Sensory systems –eye •retina Biology of Aquatic Organisms Fish ... chain of mineralised blocks Biology of Aquatic Organisms Fish anatomy 11 Internal morphology Internal morphology - - shark shark • Integumentary system – skin • placoid scale – basal plate of ... cavity » layer of odontoblasts » entrance of blood vessels and nerves – enameloid » hypermineralised bone- like tissue – function » protection » improves hydrodynamics Biology of Aquatic Organisms...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15
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