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... Meetings and Events Association of Australia (MEA) and serves as a state and national judge of its industry awards She is the lead author of the Australian text The Business and Management of ... 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 ... underlines the 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...

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... estimates, analyst-by-analyst earnings coverage, and analysts’ forecasts • Disclosure SEC Database, which includes company profiles, annual and quarterly company financials, pricing information and ... Financial Statements across countries to encourage greater standardization Global harmonization in accounting standards will simplify financial statements analysis, enabling analysts to evaluate ... drinks and other beverages throughout North America PepsiCo International operates in markets outside North America and manufactures and sells branded snack foods, breakfast foods, soft drinks, and...

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... estimates, analyst-by-analyst earnings coverage, and analysts’ forecasts • Disclosure SEC Database, which includes company profiles, annual and quarterly company financials, pricing information and ... Financial Statements across countries to encourage greater standardization Global harmonization in accounting standards will simplify financial statements analysis, enabling analysts to evaluate ... drinks and other beverages throughout North America PepsiCo International operates in markets outside North America and manufactures and sells branded snack foods, breakfast foods, soft drinks, and...

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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 ... 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 +∑ ... Mobile.Information.Systems.in .a. Hospital.Organization.Setting 151 Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia Chapter.VIII...

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... wetland meadows in Grand Teton National Park using remote sensing and average wetland values Wetlands Ecology and Management 5:265–273 Lunetta, R., and M Balogh 1999 Application of multitemporal ... such as river basin, drainage basin, and catchment area Since the early 1990s, watershed management or the watershed approach— coordinated resource planning and management based on hydrologically ... The coastal wetlands only used a single-season late spring leaf-off image from mid-March Prairie wetlands, forest wetlands, and riparian wetlands utilized a two-season (leaf-off and peak phenological...

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... 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 ... fr, wetland wt, muddy beach m, built-up urban areas u, farmland fm, bare land bl and developing urban area dv A classified result based on the expert system was obtained, and the comparison between ... the Landsat ETM+ RGB image with Bands 4, 3, and 2) (See color insert after p 162.) bodies and built-up areas are close to roads and rails Thus, the spatial adjacency of these two objects to water...

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... residential and industrial land uses interspersed among expanses of landfills, marsh grass fields, tidal wetlands creeks, mudflats, and rivers (Figure 3.1) There are approximately Band 32 Band 17 Band ... 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 ... Vegetation Using Hyperspectral Imagery 23 34 km2 of wetlands and open water within the Meadowlands, and 12 km of salt marsh vegetation including high marsh species Patens (Spartina patens) and...

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... 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 ... differentiation between water and land Image pixels with a reflectance value less than 0.12 were classified as a water body (including both lake and reservoir waters), and the rest as land It can be ... spectral angles among natural materials (lake water, reservoir water, land) spectra and the lake water endmembers, with the analysis results in Table 4.1 Traditionally, the spectral distance and...

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... Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment Communities need to accurately assess future water supply and demand if water limitations are to be minimized However, estimates of average annual ... region: central Texas averages less than 70 cm of precipitation per year, while parts of the Gulf coast and southern Appalachians receive almost 200 cm Average annual air temperature is roughly ... Equation 5.3 Population centers that are projected to expand dramatically over the next 40 years (e.g., Atlanta, Georgia; Dallas, Texas; RaleighDurham, North Carolina; and northern Virginia)...

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... 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 input directly into the SWAT ... 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 ... forest catchment: the original Pinus massoniana forestland remains 6.3.2 DATA PREPARATION The model inputs require climate, soil, land use, and vegetation data There is a meteorological observation...

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... 72 Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and Assessment IGBP Landuse BARREN OR SPARSELY VEGETATED CLOSED SHRUBLANDS CROPLAND/NATURAL VEGETATION MOSAIC CROPLANDS DECIDUOUS BROADLEAF FOREST DECIDUOUS ... the vegetated watersheds The average annual precipitation was about 400 mm Greater than 95% of precipitation evapotranspirated, and less than 5% precipitation became streamflow as infiltration-excess ... In Plantation, farm forestry and water: Proceedings of a national workshop, 20–21 July, Melbourne, ed E K Sadanandan Nabia and A G Brown, 9–19 Vertessy, R A. , and Y Bessard 1999 Anticipation...

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... related to the average catchment storage deficit, S gw, by Sgwi = S gw + m[ Λ − ln (a / tan β)gwi ] (8.1) where m is a scaling parameter, and L is the areal average of ln (a/ tanβ) The subsurface ... Assessment TABLE 8.1 Model parameters after calibration Parameter Description Value m SRMAX td Smaxsf Exponential storage parameter Root zone available water capacity Unsaturated zone time delay per ... 1987 Additional data of pan evaporation and stream discharge from the observation station of the catchment outlet are used for model parameter calibration and model validation Precipitation Station...

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... the surface storage, bsepS, and lateral flow to a downstream surface zone, asS, are linearly proportional to the surface zone moisture, S Additionally, evaporation and evapotranspiration are dependent ... 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...

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... 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 ... 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 ... cross Huron, Sanilac, Tuscola, Lapeer, Genesee, and Saginaw counties of Michigan and joins the Saginaw River near Saginaw (Figure 10.1) and has a drainage area of 2,177 km The Cass River is used...

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... (AVSWAT 2000) has strong functionality in spatial analysis and visualization The SWAT model can be used to evaluate the impact of land management practices on water, sediment, and agricultural-chemical ... summer season The average annual runoff in this basin is approximately 37.35 × 108 m3.1,5 The area receives water from Chang Lake, San Lake, and White Dew Lake, with a watershed area of 8265 ... subtropical zone, features a typical northern subtropical humid monsoon climate, with abundant diurnal heating and precipitation in the same season The average precipitation in the area is approximately...

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... 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 on ... 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 across ... TN, and TSS in SYSTAT 9.0 with water quality parameters (TP, TN, and TSS) being the dependent variables and the landscape parameters (landscape pattern metrics and slope) the independent variables...

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... annual average soil losses for the watershed were 14.36 tons/ha and the standard deviation was 27.28 tons/ha, which suggests that the variation among estimations for the entire watershed was rather ... experimental installations are rarely available for a wide range of areas Remote sensing provides a powerful tool for the observation and study of landscapes Vegetation indices (VI) are robust spectral ... 13.4.1 FACTORS IN USLE The monthly average rainfall and the calculated rainfall erosivity are listed in Table 13.1, which shows that most of the precipitation was concentrated in May, June, and July...

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... 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 ... these land use categories was multiplied by (for high-impact land categories such as urban and agricultural land), by (for moderate land use impacts such as fallow pasture, park, and suburban residential), ... 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...

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... body and vegetation, the near-infrared band is the most useful in distinguishing the land -and- water boundary and ground vegetation (Zhen and Chen 1995, Tan et al 2004) Bands and of the MODIS images, ... synthesize vegetation index diagram as follows: NDVI = (NIR − Red)/(NIR + Red) = (Band2 − Band1)/ (Band2 + Band1) The NIR and Red are are digital numbers (DNs) of the near-infrared band and red band, respectively ... 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...

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... temperature Additionally, the GIS is also used to input, store, retrieve, manipulate, analyze, and output spatial variables and other spatial data, such as solar radiation, digital elevation ... the above-mentioned SAV biomass simulation models In addition, a GIS could be used as a tool for the input, storage, retrieval, manipulation, analysis, and output of these spatial data, and also ... distributions of water temperature, while Handcock et al (2006) studied the accuracy and uncertainty of water temperature estimates from the thermal-infrared band of ASTER, MODIS, and Landsat ETM+ images...

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