effects of noise pollution on animals in points

... differential regulation of inflammatory responses mediated by NaHS in pancreas and lung Conclusions In conclusion in this study of acute pancreatitis induced by hourly caerulein administration, pretreatment ... Further histological examination of pancreas sections of vehicle pre-treated mice show clear evidence of oedema, destruction of histoarchitecture of the acini and infiltration of inflammatory cells ... was induced by intraperitoneal administration of caerulein ((50 μg/kg hourly, for 10 h) Column labeled CTRL' refers to chemokines level in mice injected intraperitoneal saline (not caerulein)

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:22

... Methods: We investigated acute effects of smoking on inflammation in 16 healthy intermittent smokers in an open randomised cross-over study We compared effects of smoking of two cigarettes on inflammatory ... therefore investigated the acute effects of cigarette smok-ing on both induction and resolution of the inflammatory response in healthy intermittent smokers This study shows that smoking of two ... in 1 second, IVC: Inspiratory Vital Capacity. Trang 4Time course of smoking of two cigarettes on exhaled carbon monoxide (CO)Figure 1 Time course of smoking of two cigarettes on exhaled carbon

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... Trang 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 ... air pollution, the re-gression function g is often modeled in a nonparametric fashion because of its flexibility in estimating the smooth components and capturing the nonlinear patterns contained ... and pollution data of Americaunder our study Chapter 3 introduces the nonparametric method involved in this study.One component of our approach is the “rMAVE” dimension reduction method based on

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 23:08

... establishing the relationship between benzalkonium chloride concentration and measured QAC The concentration of chloramine-T was determined by analyzing the concentration of total chlorine present in ... time of sample collection, and prevention of contamination by the recirculating spike The time when the peak concentration of injected TAN occurred was determined by proportionally metering a concentrated ... of chemotherapeutants on biofilter nitrification capability might be ascertained through the determination of diminished maximum capacity With this in mind, an investigation into the effect of

Ngày tải lên: 27/09/2019, 10:20

... that institutional quality has strong impact on attracting FDI inflows, and conversely, FDI inflows play an important role to promote introduction of good institutions However, in the context of ... quality of institutions has strong impact on attracting the FDI inflows in host countries Anghel (2005) empirically examined the effects of institutional quality on attracting foreign direct investment ... countries in the period of 1990–2008 The first best approach consisted of reinforcing domestic institutional functions only, while the second one comprised, in addition, enforcing bilateral investment

Ngày tải lên: 04/02/2020, 03:59

... self-injurious behavior consisting of head banging and face slapping, aggression consisting of biting, pinching, hitting, and kicking, and disruption, consisting of throwing objects, kicking objects, ... behavior in the tangible condition may be maintained by attention (instead of or in addition to tangible access) contingency manipulations were conducted In one condition (modified demand), attention ... self-injurious behavior (SIB) consisting of throwing himself to the floor, aggression consisting of hitting, kicking, and choking others, and disruption consisting of throwing objects, kicking

Ngày tải lên: 21/10/2022, 17:27

... application of biosolids only at the Vinh Phuc site There was a higher increase in Zn concentration at Vinh Phuc compared with Ha Tay This was probably due to the concentration of Zn being higher in ... the concentration of both TOC and Ntot being much higher in the chicken manure than in the composted manure (Table 2) 3.3 The effects of applying biosolids on trace metal concentrations in soil ... growing concern about the risk of contamination of waters, soils and agricultural products, in the rapid urbanizing areas in the _ * Corresponding author Tel.: 84-4-35583306 E-mail: khainm@vnu.edu.vn

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... degree of stride time variability in dual-task walking conditions distinguished fallers from non-fallers in a group of independently walking, older inpatients Further, a recent systematic review on ... hold-ing two interlocked sticks steady in front of the body) Gunning-Dixon and Raz [36] attributed age-related dual-task deficits to the shrinkage of prefrontal brain areas in old age, since ... studies investigate the effects of muscle fatigue on gait characteristics by incorporating longer walking dis-tances In fact, longer distances may prevent older sub-jects from initially increasing

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... stimuli of the local environment during axonal regeneration. In the present study, we aimed at investigating the effects of enwrapping the site of end-to-end rat sciatic nerve repair with equine ... number of examples in which the ECM proteins laminin, fibronectin, and collagen have been used for nerve repair applications [12,18-27]. For example, silicone tubes filled with laminin, fibronectin, ... tern of ankle movement, at week-2 post-injury animals were unable to extend this joint and dorsiflexion contin- ued increasing during the entire stance, which is explained by the paralysis of plantarflexor

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... rounding of cells, swelling of nuclei and distortion of cell monolay-ers were observed in control Vero cells, which concurred with previously published data on WNV-induced CPE in Effects of Se ... effect of Se on viral infection Se deficiency increases apoptosis in WNV-infected Vero cells Vero cells were inoculated with WNV NY99 strain at mul-tiplicity of infection (MOI) 1, at day 7 post-induction ... nutrient for maintaining balance between cell death and cell survival genes by limiting OS in WNV infection However, we did not address the effect of Se on WNV mutations and generation of quasispecies

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... production of clams in ponds is another key outcome The artificial production of clam spats will assist in reducing the pressure of declining wild population of clams That is one of the key contributions ... outcome The artificial production of clam spats will assist in reducing the pressure of declining wild population of clams That is one of the important contributions of the project towards Better ... paper mainly focused on providing the impact of stocking biomass on the production of clam It also provides a brief on hatchery production of clam spat, one of the key achievements which contributed

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... milliseconds in case of OLSR even for 7-hop con-nections, while in case of AODV we experienced 700 msec delays for nodes 6-hop away, and 1 second for 7-hop connec-tions In conclusion, both routing ... executing ping operations from node A to every other des-tination (i.e., B, C, and D) The duration of each ping op-eration depends on the distance between the sender and the destination In all ... nodes of the string, in contrast with the previous indoor experiments [14] In this case, the prob-ability of having hidden terminal problems, causing a higher number of MAC collisions, contributes

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... group consisting of beech and willow The results of ANOVA in Table 3 indicate a signifi-cant influence of different cutting operations on the number of all regenerating individuals, of all indi-viduals ... abundance of both one-year-old and older seedlings The abundance of beech seedlings was initially increasing with increasing cutting intensity, and, having reached the peak on plot M (medium intensity), ... intervention – as a control (C) The number of one-year-old seedlings decreased proportionally with increasing cutting intensity The ANOVA results document a significant influence of cutting intensity on

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:22

... raised circulating corticosterone in adult hens did not influence of ALV infection or shedding Similarly, actively acquired antibody induced by inoculation of infectious ALV at 8 weeks of age prevented ... study was performed to determine the effects of suppression of humoral immunity on the pathogenesis of ALV-J infection in the broiler chickens *Corresponding author Phone: 1-919-316-4559; Fax: 1-919-541-4714 ... widely, suggesting involvement of additional factors such as immunosuppressive agents, concurrent infections, vaccination against other diseases and husbandry practices in the manifestation of the disease

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 17:22

... Scarification has been shown to increase growth of container seedlings on an Alaskan interior floodplain site [41], but not on interior burned, upslope sites [14] or central low-elevation sites [11] On ... increased by decreasing competing vegetation Increases depend upon the efficacy of the treatment in controlling competing vegetation and may also be related to increases in soil temperature caused ... replications included, so that the impact of competing cover on sapling size could be eval-uated independent of treatment Then, equations were developed that included all units within each region with

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... dynamics in decaying logging residues was monitored for one year in a thinned stand and in an adjacent clear-cut area In the latter, the effect of intensive site preparation involving logging residue ... were lost from the beginning of the incubation period There was an initial accumulation of N in slash nee-dles during the three first months in all plots (figure 2a). In the thinned stand, there ... not change during the first 10 months of incubation and thereafter it was retained in all plots, especially in the uncut stand Accumulation of N in the initial stage of decomposi-tion, followed

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... patterns among canopy trees in Ocala sand pine, which should minimize the confounding influ-ence of shading and other forms of competition on growth By contrast, the multiple-aged structure of Choctawhatchee ... calculated for the 21-month period ex-tending from March of the previous growing season to November of the current growing season, in keeping with unusually long growing seasons in these near-tropical ... growth in the current growing season, often significantly so in the period between January and June (figures 4 and 5) Indeed, winter and spring precipitation leading into the growing season emerged

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... conditions Seeds of maritime pine (P pinaster) (INRA-CE-MAGREF) were germinated on natural peat for 1 month After germination, 60 seedlings were moved into 4 L pots filled with coarse sand in ... maritime pine seedlings (Saur, 1989) However, there have been no studies on the effects of P deficiency on COassimilation rate in this species In this paper, we determined the effects of P defi-ciency ... Trang 1Original articleEffects of phosphate deficiency on photosynthesis and accumulation of starch and soluble sugars in 1-year-old seedlings of maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait) 1 Laboratoire

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... selection ã Selection and evaluation of measurement methods and equipment ã Management of the laboratory and training of personnel The major components of quality control are: ã Controlling routine ... operations ã Establishing a chain of calibration and traceability ã Internal and external audits (inter-calibration and inter-comparisons) ã Maintaining and supporting systems ã Reviewing and ... information that can be interpreted to indicate population exposure. Correctly determining population exposure requires knowing the population distribution and location of air monitoring stations...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... Effects of Carbon Monoxide 7 Prenatal Effects of Carbon Monoxide 8 Airborne Particles 8 The Challenge of Measuring Particle Pollution 8 Sources of Particle Pollution 9 Historic Air Pollution ... Effects of Air Pollution on Children Fall 2000 - 10 - severe pollution episodes in Donora, Penn., London, and New York in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The particle levels in a four-week pollution ... chemical composition of soil in that area, along with industrial compounds from activities such as mining or smelting operations. The coarse fraction of urban aerosols also contains bits of plants,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20