The Late Tri as sic–Early Ju ras sic Nicola Group in south-cen tral Brit ish Co lum bia and its north ern con tin u a tion, the Takla Group, con sti tute the vol ca nic arc that de fines the ex tent of the Quesnel terrane (Fig ure 1). It hosts eco nom i cally sig nif i cant alkalic por phyry cop per-gold de pos its, in clud ing those at Cop per Moun tain, High land Val ley, Mount Milligan and M...

The in creas ing in ter est in mo lec u lar sys tems ex hib it ing ESIPT re ac tion has trig gered – due to their broad field of po ten tial ap pli ca tions – an ex ten sive search for prop erly sub sti tuted com pounds with well-tai lored prop er ties. This re view is based on se lected pa pers deal ing with some com monly known ESIPT sys tems mod i fied by spe cific sub stitu ents. The re sul...

Several waste processing facilities have experienced se­ rious difficulties that, given proper and careful conduct of the procurement process, could have been avoided. Some of these difficulties have led to legal disputes with inor dinate amounts of time and effort being spen� to resolv� them. Based on the authors' experience with a number of projects, in many instances the problems could have ...

The sensor element of an imaging system should be mounted into its housing in such a way that the scene can be prop­ erly focused onto the sensor element’s focal plane over the active area. Operational imaging requirements are forcing increasingly smaller tolerances on sensor alignment, and manufacturing systems must improve alignment capability to keep pace. Imaging system designs include refe...

INTRODUCTION: Persistent diarrhea has high impact on infantile morbidity and mortality rates in developing countries. Several studies have shown that 3 to 20% of acute diarrheal episodes in children under 5 years of age become persistent. DEFINITION: Persistent diarrhea is defined as an episode that lasts more than 14 days. ETIOLOGY: The most important agents isolated in persistent diarrhea are...

mptomatic diabetes as a manifestation of another underng condition is uncommon, and usually due to the use drugs with hyperglycemic potential or to neoplastic prosses in the pancreatic area. Among drugs, special mention uld be made of high-dose steroids and, more recently d in young patients, atypical neuroleptics.1 The onset of rdinal symptoms of diabetes mellitus (DM) in a patient der 40 year...

one of the growth limiting factors of onion plants is root and basal plate rot disease, caused by fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cepae. in this research, eight iranian onion genotypes, azarshahr red, ghom white, herssin, isfahan dorcheh, kashan white, nishabour ishaghabad, yazd abarkoh, zanjan gholigheseh and two commercial genotypes, texas erly grano and yellow sweet spanish were investigated. geno...

In this paper P want to analyze in some detail Aristotle’s concept of matter. I do so not simply as a matter of historical scholarship, but in the interest of defending the correctness both scientifically and philosophically of what I would call the central doctrine. The elusiveness of Aristotle’s detailed remarks on the concept of matter is notorious, and I shall not take it as my task to atte...

The purpose of this study vvas to clarify the application range and utility of an ADL illdex for disabled elderly peeple (Demura et al., 2000), by examining the ADL characteristics of an elderly population when this index was ftpplied to disabled and independent elderly people. Subjects ofthis study were 697 Japanese institutionalized disabled elderly people and 482 independent elderly people (...

The ever-increasing num ber of proteins Introduction identified as belonging to the family of small heat-shock proteins (shsps) and a-crystallins enables us to reassess The small heat-shock proteins (shsps) are one of the four the phylogeny of this ubiquitous protein family. While most common groups of heat-shock proteins (Lindquist the prokaryotic and fungal representatives are not prop­ erly ...