agricultural biotechnology in the context of a regulated agricultural sector

... employee quality training and pervasiveness of the quality management system An important advantage of CIT and SIT is the usability of the data gathered with them for improving service levels (Edvardsson ... & Kawani, 1982) Therefore, it can be argued that the aggregate satisfaction of the buying organization is a rather complex function of satisfactions of individual, from an importance viewpoint, ... expectations and the performance of the organization’s offerings (see e.g Parasuraman et al., 1985 & 1988 & 1991) Another stream of research is the performance-based approach (or linear regression approach)...

Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2014, 15:59

... biological data YLM participated in statistical analysis BR participated in the conception and design of the study, statistical analysis and interpretation of data, and in drafting the manuscript Acknowledgements ... was considered as indicating myocardial damage A value >1.5 ng.L-1 was considered as indicating severe myocardial damage, as previously reported [18] Statistical analysis Data are expressed as ... pointed out that a high heart rate indicates a considerable heart strain in the clinical conditions of heatstroke and that an elevated serum creatinine level might reflect global dehydration The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... University In the past, most of these teachers mainly used the GrammarTranslation Method - a way of teaching and learning a foreign language on the basis of detailed analysis of grammar rules and application ... important in working in pair or group If they are afraid of making mistakes, afraid of losing face, they can not make use of the chances to express their ideas and show their language use Their teachers ... one of the most important and useful activities in language classes Some of them think it as a vital activity in language teaching After answering all questions about the time, the benefits, the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54

... is the learners and the teachers who play the primary role in managing a disciplined atmosphere in the classroom In the light of Communicative Language Teaching, where the roles of the learners ... and the same main point: the understanding of this relationship is exclusively vital for discipline to be satisfactorily maintained I.4 Factors affecting discipline and motivation in a language ... to maintain discipline and motivate language acquisition in a language classroom It also goes further to point out specific steps towards helping teachers in a certain classroom to make the most...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:06

... 0.75 are shown Black geometrical shapes are additional domains, as indicated ANOGA, Anopheles gambiae; ASHGOS, Ashbya gossypii; BRARE, Brachydanio rerio; CANDGLA, Candida glabrata; CIONA, Ciona intestinalis; ... constitute the minimal transcriptionally active fragment and are required simultaneously to maintain transcription The PHF3 protein was recovered in initial analyses and also contains a TFS2M domain ... other distantly related protein families involved in DNA binding and chromatin stability Moreover, additional experimental data place the DIDO protein in the context of cell division Our analyses...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20

... sustainability Pearce suggests focusing on savings rates and argues that sustainability in the weak sense means that the value of savings must at least equal the depreciation of manufactured capital ... normalized so that an index of one indicates that the increase in man-made capital is offset exactly by the depreciation of the nation's natural assets An index much less than one indicates that resource ... are aggregated first under each attribute and then into a single Approximated Sustainability Index But the indicators of each attribute appear to be assigned somewhat arbitrarily and the attributes...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... achieved by active learning algorithm A and t amount of training data, and Acct (L) is the average accuracy achieved using random sampling and learning algorithm L and t amount of training data The deficiency ... separate views of learning the same target concept As in active learning, Co-training starts off with a small set of labeled data, and a large set of unlabeled data The classifiers are first trained ... Relabeling of Artificial Training Examples – is an iterative method generating one classifier at a time In each iteration, artificial training data is generated in such a way that the labels of the...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:22

... exploring authentic materials as well as in mastering the language Fourthly, adapting authentic materials is an important task in the process of language teaching Authentic materials should be suitable ... In terms of the frequency of using authentic materials, out of teachers shared the opinion that they often used authentic materials in the classroom They reasoned that using authentic materials ... (http://www.jrc.sophia.ac.jp/kiyou/ki21/gaio.pdf.) Each of these types of authentic materials has certain benefits to certain kinds of learners in certain contexts of teaching and learning It goes beyond doubt that some of the teachers...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:53

... matrix of pair-wise comparisons A = (aij) can be established as follows: A1 A2 An A1 a1 /a1 a1 /a2 a1 /an A2 a2 /a1 a2 /a2 a2 /an An an /a1 an /a2 an/an 149 where ai/aj = aj/ai for all ... block The calculation is based on estimates of average annual local rainfall, absorption capacity of site through permeable paving and landscaping (See 6.3.3.) All waste water in the housing block ... Quality of parking area development Parking areas are in multi-storey carpark surrounded with some landscaping, and dedicated walkways lead from parking areas to a building entrance S.6 Impact...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29

... distance of available point that horizontal and downward views are available of the interior of bedroom and living areas of certain percentage of dwelling units of the building Interpreting from ... percentage of greenery area in the site In daylight factor, other constituting components in the measurement include the total area and reflectance of interior surfaces, the total area and average ... performance, the building footprint area (Af) and the percentage of hard-paved area of the site (P) should be kept as low as possible, and the total net usable area of the building (Anet) should be as large...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29

... criticism and debate' (as in the words of Guy and Farmer, 2001) 329 14.3 Towards sustainable public housing in Singapore In substantiating the main discourse of environmental performance and sustainable ... potential sustainable performance of the project, based on the information available at the end of the Design phase Because the information available during the Pre-Design and Design phases are likely ... few indicators are available in this phase Assessment during the Operations phase is intended to provide an objective and factual indication of the Actual performance of the project, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29

... Conference in Canada The objective of GBC is not a commercial tool, but rather a research and testing tool acting as a generic framework for global practice and national adaptation In the words of Raymond ... for the most part, aloof and apart from these rewards, the gains residing mainly in the realm of institutional improvements (Kellert, 1999) 2.4.2 Quantitative approach The practice of building ... performances of a building as an illustration In a scenario that the building is located in tranquil site, the building can adopt a permeable design with ample and large openings, allowing the user...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29

... Chuan Chin Yee, Ms Normah Bte Mahamood, Zanariah Zainal Abidin M and Mr Mohamad Razali Bin Sak Yok for their efficient administrative assistance Thanks to CJ Koh Law Library staff led by managers ... Mee Lan and Mrs Thavamani Ratnasamy for always extending their helpful assistance I also thank all the staff at Central Library and Office of Student Affairs I thank following persons for sharing ... phrase was given in the GATS context and the panel had held that the ordinary meaning of the term “affecting,” in Art I: of GATS, did not convey any notion of limiting the scope of GATS to certain...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2015, 10:02

... institutions and policies on climate change adaptation: Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development planing • Mainstreaming climate change into national or regional policies • Mainstreaming ... through a case study in Nam Dinh Using the analytical framework of adaptive capacity which is divided into two levels: passive adaptation and active adaptation and data from the household survey in ... change adaptation at local level • Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development planning at sectoral and local levels, • Strengthening policies on adaptation to climate change at...

Ngày tải lên: 09/05/2016, 16:55

... nature to a data manager which fails to free data, but is easier to detect and prevent • Data manager changes data A malicious data manager may change the value of its data on each cache refresh ... when the data manager relinquishes that memory If the data manager does not process and release the data within an adequate period of time, the data may then be paged out to the default pager In ... when it initiates a cache replacement A data manager may restrict the use of cached data by issuing a pager_data_lock request, specifying the types of access (any combination of read, write, and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05