describe the effect of environmental pollution on human health

... functions to the local environment If the period of the light-dark pattern is too long or too short, or if the light and dark exposures become aperiodic, the master clock can lose control of the ... proportional to the covar-iance of the two signals When normalized by dividing by the number of data samples, subtracting the product of the individual signal means, and dividing by the product of the ... medians Nevertheless, there is some overlap of the distributions, perhaps reflecting a true con-tinuum of the degree of circadian behavioral-entrainment among individuals The data from the rats in

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... 1NONPARAMETRIC MODELING OF THE EFFECTSOF AIR POLLUTION ON PUBLIC HEALTH PENG QIAO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2005 Trang 2NONPARAMETRIC MODELING OF THE EFFECTSOF AIR POLLUTION ON PUBLIC HEALTH ... regression analysis is to understand how the conditionaldistribution of a univariate response Y given a vector X of p predictors depends on thevalue of X If the conditional distribution of Y |X ... Quantification of Health Effects As evidence of negative impacts of air pollution on public health has been lated, quantification of these impacts has increasingly become a critical concern This

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 23:08

... on the organ environment, thereby altering the efficacy of chemotherapy against tumors implanted at different organ sites [20-22] These studies highlight the effect of the organ environment on ... Given the complex interactions of chemotherapy with the tumor microenvironment and tumor vascula-ture, we aimed to investigate the effects of paclitaxel, Figure 3 Effect of paclitaxel on tumor ... nude mice have long been used in the investigation of the efficacy of anti-cancer agents Studies have highlighted the importance of organ spe-cific environments in the development of biologically

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2020, 13:58

... is one of the main causes of environmental pollution Every day, sust turning on the TV or reading a newspaper, we can easily see a lot of information about the increasingly complex situation of ... with the above actions With the rapid pace of industrialization and the large increase in population, the pressure on the environment has become increasingly heavy Environmental pollution is ... Arr pollution According to The Environmental Performance Index-EPI conducted by the American environmental organization, Vietnam is one of the 10 leading countries in Asia in terms of air pollution

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2024, 12:56

... The mass balance is described by the divergence of the mass flux through diffusion and convection Multiple species are considered in the gas phase only, and the species conservation equation ... rupture of the membrane Thermal management is also essential for the control of the water evaporation or condensation rates [1-3] The need for improved lifetime of air-breathing proton exchange ... E NVIRONMENTVolume 2, Issue 4, 2011 pp.589-604 Journal homepage: www.IJEE.IEEFoundation.org A CFD analysis on the effect of ambient conditions on the hygro-thermal stresses distribution in

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... depletion of fossil fuel and the impact of increasing environmental pollution from exhaust gas emissions have led the search for alternative fuels To solve both energy concern and environmental concern, ... Onn Malaysia (UTHM) 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia Abstract The depletion of fossil fuels and the worst impact on environmental pollution caused of their burning have led to the ... to the reduction in oxygen concentration in the combustion chamber [5,16,24,25,26] The NOX emission increased with increasing biodiesel amount in the blends In addition, the NOX emission of JBD

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... to the adoption or modification of a bonus plan Section 2 outlines the provisions of bonus agreements The accounting incentive effects generated by bonus plans are discussed in section 3 Section ... multiplied by the average number of shares of the Corporation's common stock outstanding at the close of business on each day of the year' The upper bound is commonly written as a function of cash ... decisions In summary, the sign and magnitude of discretionary accruals are a function of expected earnings before discretionary accruals, the parameters of the bonus plan, the limit on discretionary

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... clients of Second-Tier audit firms is compared to the cost of capital of Big-audit firms in terms of the expected effect of the level of audit quality provided on the cost of capital The cost of capital ... components: one component is the cost of debt, and the second component is the cost of equity The results show that clients of Second-Tier audit firms incur cost of debt that is higher than the ... and other variables that constitute the relationship between the auditor and the client This study specifically examines the effect of the recent changes in the accounting profession on Second-Tier

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:15

... to the solenoid of the piston firing The time of the peak accelerations of sled and head were measured Also, the time relations of the onset and peak of the EMG were measured and analyzed The ... from the accelerome-ter readings The onset of acceleration was measured by dropping the ascending slope line on the base line The point of intersection of these lines was considered as onset of ... greater than the response of the splenius capi-tis in straight-on frontal impacts Thus, direction of impact also determines which muscles respond and the proportionality of the response among the different

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... player in the co-creation of experience (Bandura, 1982) A review of the existing research shows that much of the work to date has focused on the effect of advertising within a game on the consumer ... the conceptual model which begins with a definition of the concept of the game leading to our hypotheses The paper follows with the methodology and results The paper concludes with the discussion, ... interpretation and experimentation It is also a representation of the functional and recreational desires of the immediate consumer (Newman, the game may be driven by a hedonic need This enforces the concept

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 15:22

... for the generation of DCs, monocytes were cultured in the presence of rEqIL-4 and rHuGM-CSF for 5 days To test the effect of CpG-ODN or LPS on dendritic cells: monocytes were cultured in the ... genomic DNA from the samples, and the lack of amplification of genes in samples without the addition of reverse transcriptase confirmed the purity of RNA A same amount (0.01 μg in 1 μL) of RNA from ... CpG-ODN on monocyte-derived macrophages and DCs from adult horses and foals from birth to 3 months of life We evaluated the effect of CpG-ODN in the maturation process of dendritic cells of foals

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... at a = 0.05 by the Bonferroni t-test *The length of chloroplasts and mitochondria is the longest dimension, and the width of chloroplasts and mitochondria is the widest dimension SD: stomatal ... In addition, leaves can be indicators of plant community responses to global warming, because their responses are not only the basis of changes at the community level, but they are among those ... understanding of the mechanism of plant responses to global warming at the community level Previous studies mainly investigated the effects of experimental warming on leaf photosynthesis and respiration

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... 4amphoter-Effect on ATP isolated airway ringsFigure 1 Effect on ATP isolated airway rings A: typical trace of the effect of 10-3 M ATP on rat IPB B: typical trace of the effect of 10-3 M ATP on human ... Results Effect of ATP on rat and human isolated airways ATP induced a fast and transient contraction of rat iso-lated airway rings which amplitude depended on the con-centration of agonist and the ... 10-5ACh (n = 61), a concentration that induces the maximal [Ca2+]i response [18] The percentage of responding cells was 100%, the amplitude of the Effect on ATP on rat epithelium-free isolated

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... neck The behaviors of the models were investigated by statistical and mathematical analyses Results: There are four points of inflexion on the graphs of the first derivatives of the equations ... compatible with the curve of BMD changes at the spine (Figure 1) until the 18th month of therapy There is a point of inflexion at t = 7.4 or about 7 months For the femoral neck, the regression curve ... pulmonary disease, rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis, and malabsorption syndromes among several other conditions The effect of thyroid hormone on bone turnover Thyrotoxicosis increases bone turnover

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... guidelines from the SCCM regarding the need for windows in each room when constructing new ICUs [17], there is a paucity of clinical data on the topic of the effect of natural light on outcomes of critically ... involved in the design, analysis and interpretation of data; in the drafting and revision of the article; and in the final approval of the version for submission. Competing interests The authors ... as there may be a strong impact of the effect of light on sedated versus unsedated patients We used the motor subscore of the Glasgow Coma Scale as a proxy for attainment of normal cognition

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... reveals the processesof international crisis formation The Process of Bank Hegemony The theory of bank hegemony and finance capitalism offered here describes the structural bases of unification of the ... formation, the related processes of bank power and bank hegemony formation, and the relativeweight of the various postulated sources of bank power The notion of the socialconstruction of corporate ... the term "social construction of reality" in their analysis of the ideological production of knowledge I use the term here to indicate the sociopolitical processes of the production of

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2014, 09:33

... 0.5–4 trillion won, a vertical line at 1 trillion won, and horizontal lines on either side of the vertical line The line to the left of the vertical line shows mean returns to control firms ... for the treatment group, including 1–2 trillion won, 1–8 trillion won, or 2–4 trillion won (using the later-chosen threshold of 2 trillion won as the lower bound) Trang 19treatment group at the ... in the East Asian financial crisis, which was concentrated in the second half of 1997 and the first half of 1998, and then rebounded with a lag in the second half of 1999 Trang 25In regressions

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:48

... 1.4.1 The effects of task complexity on L2 written performance The body of literature on the effects of task complexity on L2 written performance is mainly based on Robinson’s Cognition Hypothesis ... pointed into the direction of Skehan and Foster’s Model 1.4.2 The effect of task type on L2 performance There have been a number of studies on the intervening effect of task type as one important ... in a non-English speaking context The purpose of the second criteria was to control the effect of different amounts of IELTS training that the participants may have received before joining the

Ngày tải lên: 24/06/2015, 08:18

... Design of the Study The thesis consists of three main parts: INTRODUCTION which provides an overview of the study, DEVELOPMENT which is the main part and consists of 3 chapters, and CONCLUSION which ... by- grapheme decoding but the postulation of alternatives of meaning which one reduced by the parsimonious interaction of the component process with the visual configuration Besides, Moses A Adeniji ... Part A: INTRODUCTION 1 Rationale 1 2 Aims of the Study 1 3 Research questions 2 4 Scope of the study 2 5 Importance of the study 2 6 Method of the Study 3 7 Design of the Study 3 Part

Ngày tải lên: 10/07/2015, 15:13

... initiated by the questions promote the comprehension of the language input and whether the teachers questions elicit the students responses out of independent thinking The third type of interaction refers ... the initiation of interaction by the teacher One of the best ways to develop the role as an initiator and sustainer of interaction is to develop a repertoire of questioning strategies Chaudron ... displays the teachers’ perceptions about the importance of classroom interaction and their difficulties in employing the classroom interaction CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION describes the summary of the research

Ngày tải lên: 14/07/2015, 11:52