Labour and the Environment: A Natural Synergy pptx

... physiological processes of fruits and treatment that is applied TABLE 13.2 Advantages and Disadvantages of Irradiation Over Other Disinfestation Treatments Advantages Disadvantages Radiation can ... low-dose irradiation can slow down the ripening and maturation of fruits and vegetables. Ripening of bananas, mangos, and papayas can be delayed by irradiation at up to 1 kGy. I...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Herzegovina Estonia Greece Bulgaria Croatia Armenia Serbia and Montenegro Latvia Lithuania Russian Federation Portugal Ukraine Albania Uzbekistan Georgia Turkey Turkmenistan Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan Tajikistan Belarus Azerbaijan Romania Republic ... Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain. 8 Albania...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... A and a “Plan B”: Plan A to achieve a carbon-neutral environment; if not, Plan B to learn how to adapt to a non-carbon-neutral environment and to accelerate the time scale of that adaptation. ... Program Assistant AMANDA MAZZAWI, Senior Program Assistant SAYYEDA AYESHA AHMED, Program Assistant Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Implementing the N...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... University Gothenburg), and A. van der Vaart (Free University Amsterdam). The local organization of the s´eminaire wasinthe hands of H. Rootz´en and the smooth running was to a large part due to Johan ... (a) ) and u = 100 (plot (b)). The dotted straight line is the estimated theoretical mean excess assuming the GPD at threshold u, and the jagged dashed lines are th...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 19:20

... (a natural hor- monal chemical found in soy food products) and bisphe- nol A (a chemical commonly used in clear, shatter-proof plastic water and baby bottles and in the material that lines the ... shaped like a T instead of a triangle. These deformities make it harder to get pregnant and cause higher risks of miscarriage and premature labor and birth. Exposure to...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... than to an individual savings bank. In addition to the detailed borrower/bank matched data set, we also use a bank level data set that includes the savings banks and as a control group all other ... decompose the Z-Score and analyze the five components separately for the time before and after the removal of the public guarantees. It is possible that the change in the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... The scramble for arable land in the East African highlands is leaving millions of households with too little land to survive, and sedentary farmers on arable land are rapidly marginalizing pastoral ... viewed as a form of financial, social and natural capital (McLeod and Wilsmore, 2001). Furthermore, livestock can enhance human capital and play a critical role in reducing ma...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 22:20

... collected from an arid area of Australia (central northern South Australia) and from a tropical area. In the tropical area, two types of soils, a sandy loam (Blain) and a clay loam (Tippera), were ... of each element, as well as the physical and chemical characteristics of the soil and other factors such as climate and vegetation must also be considered. Understanding t...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... materials to impart a radiation dose to a civilian population and contaminate an area and its inhabitants with radioactive material. The detonation of a nuclear warhead or an IND within a city ... TABLE 10.1 The Categorization of Nuclear and Other Radioactive Materials: Examples of Materials and Their Application (Adapted from IAEA [28]) Category Type of Material Examp...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20