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... emphasis that people have always placed on marking particular dates, seasons and life stages Historically, it may have been the case that attendance at events was a mandatory part of belonging to ... Africa She has published in the area of tourism planning and management, appearing in Anatolia and Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality and Tourism She is also a board member of ATLAS-Africa ... Canadian, American and British occupational standards for several event management-related positions, such as ‘special event manager’, and the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) having...

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... Financial Statements across countries to encourage greater standardization Global harmonization in accounting standards will simplify financial statements analysis, enabling analysts to evaluate ... FSAP (Financial Statements Analysis Package), which is the financial statement analysis software that accompanies this book The FSAP model is an Excel add-in that enables analysts to enter financial ... problems and cases apply the residual income approach to Coca-Cola as well as to Walmart, Starbucks, and Massachusetts Stove Company, considered in Chapters 10, 11, and 12 Chapter 14—Valuation: Market-Based...

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... Financial Statements across countries to encourage greater standardization Global harmonization in accounting standards will simplify financial statements analysis, enabling analysts to evaluate ... FSAP (Financial Statements Analysis Package), which is the financial statement analysis software that accompanies this book The FSAP model is an Excel add-in that enables analysts to enter financial ... problems and cases apply the residual income approach to Coca-Cola as well as to Walmart, Starbucks, and Massachusetts Stove Company, considered in Chapters 10, 11, and 12 Chapter 14—Valuation: Market-Based...

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... Data.Caching.in .a. Mobile.Database.Environment 187 Say Ying Lim, Monash University, Australia David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia Chapter.IX ... Figure Data mining process from data Evaluation and validation Knowledge Data-mining Model Selection and pre-processing Data.for.Mining Database X2(s), …, Xp(s)] that we can extract from an automatic ... clear that f a = Ba y * if a> 0; otherwise Similar arguments can be made a for variables fab and faj Therefore, we can rewrite [LR4(D)] as:   ∑ Ca − Ba max(0, a A    a + ∑ b A \ a ab +∑...

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... marshes, grasslands, and alluvial floodplains in its watershed The wetland area of Poyang Lake Basin has diverse flora and fauna and provides important habitats for many migratory birds As a wetland ... of acoustic signals as a means to measure and interpret ecological characteristics of a landscape—the soundscape Part V features innovative development and applications of wetland assessment and ... have featured case studies from North America, Southeast Asia, and much of Europe, in addition to Australia and Brazil The majority of this volume’s authors originate from China, also the location...

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... built-up area and muddy beach Figure 2.2 illustrates the special overlap between the built-up area and the muddy beach To improve the classification accuracy, the road data and DEM (the geographic ... bodies and built-up areas are close to roads and rails Thus, the spatial adjacency of these two objects to water bodies, the province-level roads, and railways were measured on the relevant thematic ... 18 Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment Water Built-up Urban Welland Mud Beach Forest Grassland Bare Land Farmland Developing Urban Area (a) (b) FIGURE 2.4 The overall comparison...

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... Spectroradiometer for Applications (AISA) AISA is a solid-state, push-broom instrument capable of collecting data within a spectral range of 430 to 900 nm in up to 286 spectral channels The sensor was ... the AISA image by field inspection Distichlis and Patens were combined into one category as high marsh, and low marsh was divided into Spartina pure, Spartina mixture, and Spartina stunted Marsh ... Troccoli, and L Capurro 2004 Coastal water quality assessment in the Yucatan Peninsula: Management implications Ocean & Coastal Management 47(11–12):625–639 Ko, J Y., and J D Day 2004 A review...

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... vegetation distribution area in the low water season, limiting the Carex mapping area within the lake beach wetland and water area The identified flood plain area from the July image was used as a ... landscape fragmentation index of Carex, ∑Ni stands for the total number of Carex landscape type polygons, and A is the total area of the Carex landscape The fragmentation index of the Carex landscape ... The fact that the spectra of the same type are approximately linearly scaled versions of one another due to illumination and topographic variations is utilized to achieve accurate classification...

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... individual factors that influence regional water supply and demand across a range of environmental variability Some factors such as population are relatively stable from one year to the next, ... populations around metropolitan areas will have a limited impact on interannual WASSI variability Even in heavily populated areas, residential and commercial water use represent small segments of total ... temperature and land cover also impact water availability by modifying how much precipitation is evaporated and transpired back into the atmosphere Finally, ancient aquifers provide a significant...

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... is a meteorological observation station near the forest and grass catchments Daily precipitation and maximum and minimum air temperature observations from 2000 to 2001 are available, and they are ... months, water input is generally larger than water output The results indicate that annual change of soil water storage accounts for about 1.0% of rainfall From February to April, increasing rainfall ... rainfall and weak evaporation potential contribute to the increase in soil water storage, although a water deficit can exist From May to September, the soil water storage evinces a gradual decreasing...

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... to have an appreciable reduction in streamflow after Eucalyptus grandis was planted over 97% of a native grassland watershed However, it took eight years to have a clear streamflow impact after ... Bai, S Chen, G Chu, and N Zhang 2004 Measured sap flow and estimated evapotranspiration of tropical Eucalyptus urophylla plantations in China Acta Botanica Sinica 46:202–210 Zhou, X, H Zhao, and ... (Robinia pseudoacacia) plantations and native pine species had over 100 mm per year higher evapotranspiration than the nonvegetated watersheds (Yang et al 1999) Stormflow volume and peak flow rates...

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... MODEL CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION The observed daily precipitation, pan evaporation, and stream discharge from 1982 to 1985 are selected for model parameter calibration, and the daily data from ... is used to calculate the area’s mean precipitation between 1982 and 1987 Additional data of pan evaporation and stream discharge from the observation station of the catchment outlet are used ... Scale 94 Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment TABLE 8.1 Model parameters after calibration Parameter Description Value m SRMAX td Smaxsf Exponential storage parameter Root zone available...

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... the original lumped-parameter water balance model, we are able to easily represent the mass balance of both water and an arbitrary conservative pollutant spatially throughout all storage zones ... evapotranspiration calculations, spatial parameter patterns, and solar insolation estimates We also explored scaling effects in using lumped parameter model calibrations to calculate initial ... surface zones Evaporation from the surface storage, bsepS, and lateral flow to a downstream surface zone, asS, are linearly proportional to the surface zone moisture, S Additionally, evaporation...

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... 10.2) and most of the area was in the agricultural land 10.4 ESTIMATING ANIMAL MANURE LOADING POTENTIAL Improper management of animal manure can result in eutrophication of surface water and nitrate ... agricultural chemical usage survey data Nitrogen fertilizer usage data were also estimated from the agricultural chemical usage survey data at the county level (USDA National Agricultural Statistics ... cropland to derive the average usage of nitrogen fertilizer per acre of cropland Average phosphate application data for all the cropland were based on the USDA National Agricultural Statistical...

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... Department of Agriculture.6–8 Its GIS-based version (AVSWAT 2000) has strong functionality in spatial analysis and visualization The SWAT model can be used to evaluate the impact of land management ... near the basin, including daily precipitation, maximum and minimum temperature data from 1951 to 2000, as well as daily radiation, average wind speed, and humidity from 1980 to 2000 To generate ... natural topography, slope, and channel, (2) climatic and hydrological factors (temperature, solar radiation, precipitation, and runoff), and (3) biomass of natural vegetation Based on these boundary...

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... spatial landscape analyses and serve as standards for comparison between landscapes in different parts of the world Linking water quality to landscape indices allows us to compare land and waterscapes ... desire to manage scale and data problems, such as the interaction among local and regional processes and the lack of adequate data for model calibration.9 Most other models simulate output based ... data from 17 lakes (equivalent to 30 percent of all obtainable lake data) from the same year These lakes were not used to create the model Landscape metrics of the lake catchments were calculated...

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... derived from remote sensing imagery, statistical data obtained from weather stations, and information from soil surveys Individual raster data layers were built for each factor in USLE and processed ... measured from land under various crops and crop management practices However, such experimental installations are rarely available for a wide range of areas Remote sensing provides a powerful tool ... station with the most adequate rainfall, has an erosivity of 9,284.1 Jian, whose station is latitudinally located between Xiushui and Nanchang, has less rainfall erosivity compared to Nanchang...

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... using a stratified random design We established regularly spaced parallel transects, perpendicular to the shore, and randomly placed 1-m2 rectangular quadrats along each transect according to a random ... though overall land in the riparian area may have been largely forested Nonetheless, these estimates appear to be a useful approximation of land use that may be used in riparian rapid assessment ... in the wetland disturbance axis (WDA) Sum of all metrics is 45, but is scaled out of 100 to get final WDA Score and range of values MAX Land use and habitat fragmentation (MAX: 15) Average buffer...

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... spatial PCA is used to transform the data in a stack from the input multivariate attribute space into a new multivariate attribute space whose axes are rotated with respect to the original space ... Bernard, P., and L Antoine 2004 Principal component analysis: An appropriate tool for water quality evaluation and management-application to a tropical lake system Ecological modeling 295–311 Guan, R ... Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment 15.2 MATERIALS AND METHODS 15.2.1 BUILDING AN EVALUATION INDICATOR SYSTEM Many factors, including biophysical and anthropogenic factors, may...

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