the significance of oil in the gulf of mexico

... strength between the rest of the cohort (n = 704) and the subjects included in the cur-rent study (n = 395) There was a small difference in the WOMAC pain scores between the subjects in the cur-rent ... pain was assessed using the five sub-scales, which included knee pain while walking on a flat surface, going up and down stairs, at night while in bed, sitting or lying, and standing upright These ... surgery These findings suggest therapeutic interventions aimed at altering the natural history of BMLs should be considered Introduction Osteoarthritis (OA) is a multifactorial disease of the joints

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... 0.05 indicated significance The clinical significance of the p.A31P cMyBP-C protein mutation was determined by looking at the probability of developing fHCM when comparing the heterozygous and the ... Doppler imaging screening of a population of Maine Coon cats tested for the A31P mutation in the myosin-binding protein C gene: a specific analysis of the heterozygous status J Vet Intern Med ... disease-causing mutations in genes including the sarcomere genes most commonly involved in human HCM Furthermore, due to the high probability of developing fHCM in the p.A31P cMyBP-C homozygous cats the

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... number of transduced cells Interestingly, the increase of the number of positively transduced cells was not proportional to the increase of the vector inoculum volume The increase in the number of ... "infec-tious unit" refers to the smallest amount of virus capable of producing an infection in a susceptible cell The titre of the original suspension is defined as the number of infec-tious ... while maintaining the correct relative composition prior to cytokinesis [27] Theoreti-cally, during the intermitotic period the target cells will double the number of target binding sites for the

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... declining throughout the species’ range A number of hypotheses have been proposed to explain the decline, but a lack of basic information on population demographics inhibits hypothesis testing In ... GULF OF MAINE 13FIGURE 1 The 25 sites sampled for spawning Alewives in 2010, including the separation between the Maine sites and the Massachusetts site (top panel) and the 24 sampling sites in ... multivariate mean The accuracy of the classification model was tested by randomly selecting 75% of the data to build the classification model, and then the remaining 25% of the data was used to independently

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2015, 08:12

... linked to records of indi- vidual purse-seine sets in the Gulf Menhaden fishery. We then assessed the spatial effect of DO on four attributes of the com- mercial fishery: the probability of fishing, ... 2. Locations of total Gulf Menhaden landings (millions of fish) at 5- × 5-min grid cells, summed over all fishing sets in the northern Gulf of Mexico during 2006–2009 (darker shading in cells = more ... porting the hypothesis. We have demonstrated that declining concentrations of bottom DO can influence the spatial distri- bution of the catch, effort, CPUE, and probability of fishing in the Gulf

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2015, 08:12

... parameters of the function (more flat topped asb approaches 0), u is the length (mm) corresponding to the peak in the selectivity function, and l is the midpoint of the size interval l If the value of the ... maximizing yield per recruit or minimizing fishing mortality often have the unintended effect of increasing the number of dead discards, thus decreasing the percentage of total harvest constituted ... to test the effect of hook size on reef fish catch rate and selectivity during fishing experi-ments in the northern Gulf of Mexico The scale is in centimeters. TABLE 1.Dimensions (mm) of the Mustad

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2015, 12:45

... spawning, as they are consistent with the postspawning movements northward along the shelf edge described in Jolley and Irby (1979) The spawning period for sailfish in the southern Gulf of Mexico ... were then superim-posed using the archived depth and temperature data recorded during the vertical movements of these individual fish per the methods of Horodysky et al (2007) The structure of the ... vertical profiles from the tag data sets all indicated an MLD of approximately 10 m in the waters of the southern Gulf of Mexico A vertical movement was therefore considered a single dive if it (1)

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2015, 17:12

... upon examination of sharks being born during the time of lowest abundance. The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) longline survey re- ported the lowest abundance of Sandbar Sharks in 1993, ... drastic decline since the early 1980s, reaching a minimum during the early 1990s. Catch rates in the early 1990s were a mere 25% of those during the 1980s. According to several fishery-independent ... within 1 year of each other for 86% of the samples and within 2 years for 93% of the samples. For the VIMS2004 data set, PA was 71%. Reader estimates were within 1 year of each other for 95% of the

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2015, 17:16

... clustering of the recombinant cytoplasmic domain of plexin- B1 also triggers the activation of plexin- B1 (Oinuma et al., 2004b) Interestingly, the extracellular domains of plexin ... Additional domains that are present in semaphorins include PSI (plexin, semaphorin and integrin) domains, immunoglobulin (Ig)-like domains, thrombospondin domains and PDZ-domain binding sites ... Identification of RhoGDIα binding regions in the intracellular domain of pleinx-B3 120 3.4.3 Identification of fascin-1 binding regions in the intracellular

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:11

... signaling and adaptor proteins.ECM binding initiates clustering of integrins in the plane of the membrane andreorganization of the actin cytoskeleton, which further stimulates the organization ofintegrins ... regulated in patients with Kindler syndrome, an autosomal recessive skin disorder.They therefore defined a family of kindlin-related proteins namely Kindlin-1, Kindlin-2 (mig-2) and Kindlin-3 (Siegel ... against different drugs in 4 cell lines A) One-Step RT-PCR showing the expression status of mig-2 in the 4 cell lines B) The absolute value oflogGI50 of anticancer drugs against these 4 cell lines,

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 22:15

... that females gain indirect genetic benefits as a result of their mate choice In conclusion, the findings in this thesis support the hypotheses that UV-reflecting ornamentations in C umbratica ... is important in intraspecific interactions in this species For instance, in male-male interactions, UV reflectance may have a role in indicating the resource holding potential (RHP) of C umbratica ... and each of the two individuals randomly assigned to one of the two male display chambers to eliminate the possibility of any side bias None of the spiders were used more than once in these mate

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 12:00

... consisting of 42 amino acids Aβ peptides with this length form the major part of the senile AD plaques in the brain As Aβ42 cumulates into plaques in the brain, lower concentration of Aβ42 in the ... 2014b) examined the risk of incident AD dementia in individuals with and without SCD in the pre-MCI and MCI stage within a long follow-up time frame of up to six years The main finding of that ... MCI or in the preclinical stages of AD These criteria are detailed in section 2.3 after the temporal development of AD has been outlined Despite major advances in the understanding of the development

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 10:00

... behind return (both at the country of origin and the host) that determine the failures and the successes of the returnees upon their return including the legal settings, the age, skill, and the ... from the working out of the predisposing or structural features such as a downturn in the economic or business cycle in the country of origin, and as a result of economic upturn in the country of ... initial return intention after saving some money during the migration period they stick to the values of the home society; therefore, rather than changing the social structure, they reinforce it

Ngày tải lên: 15/08/2017, 15:10

... by others undertaking thetask of rendering at least a portion of the oil impacts universe into somethingthat we can understand: l Determining the effects of oil is complex, and generalizing about ... estimate the toxicity of weathered and unweathered crude oils.34,35 They defined toxicity of oilmixtures as the toxicity of each individual component of the oil at the watersolubility of that component ... source of fouling, and thus, considerable quantities of oil can potentially be ingested Hartung and Hunt examined the effects of this kind of intestinal exposure in ducks for a range of different oils

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2018, 17:47

... for 22% of the news covered in America, dwarfing the coverage of the next most salient issue, the economy at 12% Furthermore, the Gulf saga registered as the number one story in the mainstream ... impact of the spill The examination of BP’s role and responsibility in the disaster The US government’s actions and responses during the crisis—with much of the focus on the Obama administration The ... archive of three million stories In the 1990s, in the midst of the price war amongst the other broadsheets, The Guardian remained at full price, “investing resources in journalism and distancing...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... would include the intertwining of the WAR and ILLNESS scenarios – where Louisiana coastline is often personified either as a patient or as a victim under siege in the process of containing the oil ... the predisposition and the interactions within the target group in the discourse influences the interpretation of metaphors by the researcher This is a key consideration in the selection of the ... understanding of the meaning Determine the lexical units in the text discourse The basic meaning and the contextual meaning must correspond to elements of different conceptual domains a Establish the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... demonstration of the IICM in identifying and formulating the metaphors embodied in British and American media discourse arising from the BP fallout in the Gulf of Mexico This will be done by applying the ... i.e the heart” of the industry’s plan, the “heart” of the response and the “heart” of the engineering problem A separate search for the lemma “heart” was carried out with Sketch Engine The word ... the concept of PROGRESS in this preliminary examination of the NYT corpus is embodied by the concept of “moving ahead” in the right direction Furthermore, the Ontological Metaphors personifying...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... overcoming the pressure of the oil spewing out of the well/ the experimental procedure will help stem the flow of crude oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico/ the picture of an uncontrolled gusher of ... total of some 3.3 million gallons, so far/armchair engineers brainstormed for ways to stop the torrent of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico/ thousands of barrels of oil spilling into the gulf ... ‘Contain’ effort to contain the leaking oil continued/ unsuccessful engineering efforts to seal the well or contain the leaking oil/ The structures would contain the leaking oil and route it to the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... representations In the NYT-corpus, the recklessness of the oil industry (BP) as well as the failings of the previous Bush Administration were prominently highlighted, comprising 36.4% of the entire range of ... “dramatizing events and polarizing contrasts in order to emphasise the newsworthiness of the contents of the article” (Semino, 2008, p.31) The repeated casting of BP into the role of the UNSCRUPULOUS ... towards the Obama administration’s efforts in containing the oil spill as well as in the settling of moral and financial accounts on behalf of the aggrieved victims The conflation of the CRIME...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... are scathing in their assessment of the Obama Administration’s handling of the oil spill The main difference would lie in the more aggressive stance adopted by the Gcorpus where the incompetence, ... on the comparative analysis of the preeminence of the WAR/CRIME/THREAT conceptual keys in the TT & G-Corpus 233 The in- depth analysis of the varied representations of the CONFLICT scenario in these ... to galvanise the US House and Senate into combat against the foreign aggressor, drawing clear battle lines in the process of mitigating the Obama Administration’s culpability in the oil spill This...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22