12 harmonizing traditional and scientific knowledge systems in rainfall prediction and utilization

... managing knowledge Generally, knowledge managing (KM) refers to identifying and leveraging the individual and collective knowledge in an organization to support the organization in becoming more ... participating in knowledge- intensive processes Increasingly, the needs of knowledge workers and other persons (like customers) involved in knowledge managing activities are real-time, situational, and ... that building, using, and maintaining networks is a critical capability, and can in some cases be a dynamic capability ICT and KMS can be a significant means of enabling and supporting networks...

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... Disorder can arise in self assembled systems in two ways; intrinsic and extrinsic sources Thermodynamically intrinsic defect formation is defined by the entropy of a system and the free energy ... energy of mixing is always likely to be positive bearing in mind the definition of χ given in equations and The driving force for self-assembly is the minimisation of the free energy of mixing by the ... Formation in Self-Assembled Systems Colm T O’Mahony, Richard A Farrell, Tandra Goshal, Justin D Holmes and Michael A Morris The Tyndall National Institute and University College Cork and CRANN, Trinity...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 12:20

... organized two vaccination campaigns against H5N1 per year but there is an additional vaccination in between campaigns since 2006 in this province Since July 2007, it is mandatory to vaccinate every ... (sub-) systems, the scale of breeding and the realisation of the cost-benefit analysis of the mass vaccination campaign against H5N1 in these farming systems 2.3.2 Data analysis MATERIALS AND METHODS ... consumed in the family during the Tet festival or different celebrations and one important part of poultry are sold giving some income in cash General characteristics of these farming systems in Long...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:22

... of traditional knowledge systems to ethnopharmacology I use the terms traditional knowledge and traditional knowledge systems to refer to the knowledge of resource and ecosystem dynamics and ... crucial in understanding traditional medical practices As argued before, traditional medical systems are holistic in nature and often consider illness, healing, and human physiology as a series of interrelationships ... principles of folk taxonomy and drew convincing parallels with Linnaean taxonomy According to Berlin [71], humans respond to plant and animal diversity in their environment by grouping living...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... paintings had been a well-known phenomenon since Roman times, and such paintings would create the illusion of, for instance, walls containing a window to the outside world or a ceiling containing ... rendering Image cube trajectory Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Internet Engineering Task Force Interaural intensity difference Interaural level difference Infrared light-emitting ... Human Depth Perception 12. 2.1 Binocular Disparity and Stereopsis 12. 2.2 Accommodation and Vergence 12. 2.3 Asymmetrical Binocular Combination 12. 2.4 Individual Differences 12. 3 Principles of Stereoscopic...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2013, 10:21

... speaking English everyday” 1) He said to her, “Give up smoking!” A He told her to give up smoking B He told her not to give up smoking C He told her if she gave up smoking ... Helen said, “ I’m watching the late night show.” Helen said the late night show A they were watching B you watched C she was watching D Helen is watching I Change into reported speech: (Statements: ... such a nonsense 3) Will and Tim said, “ We were very happy about the present.”  Will and Tim said they very happy about the present A had been B been C were D were being 4) Sarah said, “ My...

Ngày tải lên: 08/07/2013, 01:27

... defecating in open field Households with children defecating in room Households with children defecating in verandah Households with children defecating in latrine   defecating in latrine Households ... LMK PDL PHS PSM NCD Hand washing with soap before eating Hand washing without soap before eating No hand washing before eating Hand washing after defecation with soap Hand washing after defecation ... persistent and non-inundation) and types of inundation (rainy, stagnant-water, heavy-rainy, monsoon-flood and drainage-water inundations) Ten subdistricts were selected by integrating information...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... Science and Technology She received her B.S in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University, Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and Master of Business Administration ... Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology Prior to joining Missouri S&T she was an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Management and ... amount of rainfall per each month is also collected The amount of rainfall has a great influence on BOD and eventually on the energy When there is more rainfall the BOD level in the influent is...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... different income combinations that D can realize by transferring 28 Chapter Consumer Choice and Demand in Traditional and Network Markets 29 income to R (Here ID and IR represent D's and R's initial incomes, ... Choice and Demand in Traditional and Network Markets 44 If you conceded to her demand of $134,000 in annual income, her income constraint would be the thin line that is parallel to A1 H3 and goes ... that D is willing to sacrifice less income to increase R's income by an additional dollar And if R's income increases too much relative to D's income, envy sets in and individual R's income becomes...

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 15:18

... 5.10.4 Cellular systems 5.10.5 Wi-Max 5.10.6 The effect of narrowband interference on UWB systems 5.11 Summary 115 116 116 116 117 117 119 120 121 122 123 123 123 123 124 124 124 124 125 Advanced ... Ultra Wideband Signals and Systems in Communication Engineering Second Edition Ultra Wideband Signals and Systems in Communication Engineering Second Edition M Ghavami King’s College London, ... this exciting technology We too have expanded and consolidated materials in this second edition in the hope that ‘Ultra Wideband: Signals and Systems in Communication Engineering’ will continue to...

Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 17:20

... in the provision of advice on both systems development and strategic thinking/planning In terms of assistance in developing accounting systems, 44.0% of businesses scored the accountant low In ... highly in relation to adding value with an apparent over emphasis on financial reporting and year end accounts and little assistance on management accounting information, systems and business ... young businesses stating their satisfaction with their accounting systems and also to more mature firms being dissatisfied Why in certain firms robust financial systems exist whereas in others...

Ngày tải lên: 09/02/2014, 21:12

... differentiation of EPCs and their homing to sites of vascular injury are complex and involve several mediators and receptors, such as P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1, CXC chemokine, and integrins (Chavakis ... circulating platelets by inducing a conformational change in the glycoprotein receptors and enabling cross-linking or adhesion via fibrinogen and other adhesive ligands During this process, activated ... key role in modulating vascular tone, responding to neural, humoral and mechanical stimuli by synthesising and releasing vasoactive substances By sending activating signals to circulating inflammatory...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 16:20

... the annualized cost of maintaining the capital investment (economic depreciation and interest) in the dairy operation, and costs for non-real estate property taxes and insurance Total economic ... manure handling and storage structures, feed handling equipment, tractors, trucks, and purchased dairy herd replacements used up in the annual production process, plus interest that the remaining ... organic milk processors and certifiers After accounting for non-response and missing data, information on 1,814 farms, including 352 operations producing certified organic milk in 16 states, was available...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20

... Scientific Knowledge Systems in Rainfall Prediction and Utilization 225 RENGALAKSHMI RAJ CHAPTER 13: Managing People’s Knowledge: An Indian Case Study of Building Bridges from Local to Global and from ... processes and phenomena From a heuristic standpoint, the intersection of the issues of scale, knowledge systems, and Introduction assessment provides a rich opportunity for obtaining insights into ... Assessments Working Group Vol 4, Ecosystems and human well-being Washington, DC: Island Press Moller, H., F Berkes, P O Lyver, and M Kislalioglu 2004 Combining science and traditional ecological knowledge: ...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:21

... distance bounding In Proc of the Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC), 2010 [28] J.-Y Lee and R Scholtz Ranging in a Dense Multipath Environment Using an UWB Radio Link IEEE ... on PKES systems Common Scenario: Parking Lot In this scenario, the attackers can install their relay setup in an underground parking, placing one relay antenna close to the passage point (a corridor, ... 2006 G P Hancke and M G Kuhn An RFID distance bounding protocol In SecureComm ’05: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communications...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... differentiation of EPCs and their homing to sites of vascular injury are complex and involve several mediators and receptors, such as P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1, CXC chemokine, and integrins (Chavakis ... circulating platelets by inducing a conformational change in the glycoprotein receptors and enabling cross-linking or adhesion via fibrinogen and other adhesive ligands During this process, activated ... key role in modulating vascular tone, responding to neural, humoral and mechanical stimuli by synthesising and releasing vasoactive substances By sending activating signals to circulating inflammatory...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 20:20

... legislation exists in only half of the 42 reporting countries, human rights inspections and training are infrequent, and collection of data on involuntary admissions and physical restraint and seclusion ... health information systems The mental health of communities should be monitored by including mental health indicators in health information and reporting systems Such monitoring helps to determine ... Duong and Ly Ngoc Kinh Acknowledgements Contributions to this report were made by participants at the meeting, Mental Health Systems Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Preliminary Findings...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... 2004 Determining the sentiment of opinions In Proc of COLING, pages 1367–1373 M Koppel and J Schler 2005 Using neutral examples for learning polarity In Proc of IJCAI (poster) D Lin 1998 Dependency-based ... annotations and summary representations of opinions for multi-perspective question answering In New Directions in Question Answering AAAI Press/MIT Press K Dave, S Lawrence, and D M Pennock 2003 Mining ... classification In Proc of CIKM, pages 617–624 M Gamon, A Aue, S Corston-Oliver, and E K Ringger 2005 Pulse: Mining customer opinions from free text In Proc of the 6th International Symposium on Intelligent...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 04:20

... forgot to wrap the calls to toggleLed and delay in an infinite loop - 27 - Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++ Chapter Compiling, Linking, and Locating I consider that the golden rule requires ... blink.hex, that contains exactly the same information as blink.rom, but in an ASCII representation called Intel Hex Format - 38 - Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++ Chapter Downloading and ... tlink command, Borland's Turbo Linker will produce two new files: blink.exe and blink.map in the working directory The first file contains the relocatable program and the second contains a human-readable...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 13:20

... floating-point and fixed-point controllers in C and C++ Adding nonlinear features such as limiters to the controller design About the Author Jim Ledin, P.E., is an electrical engineer providing ... fixed sampling rate, which results in input and output device updates at equally spaced points in time I/O Between Discrete-Time Systems and Continuous-Time Systems A class of I/O devices interfaces ... nonlinear equations in the vicinity of an equilibrium point An equilibrium point is an operating point where the system is in a steady state and all the derivatives in the equations are zero In...

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