anthropogenic disturbance and tropical forestry implications for sustainable management

... Vancouver for Douglas-fir and Cedar from October 2007 to June 2009 To the best efforts of the authors, no throughfall measurements can be obtained in Stanford for field data verification For further ... even more significant in tropical areas due to frequent and high intensity storm events Therefore, there are strong interests to better understand the hydrological processes and their interactions ... even more significant in tropical areas due to frequent and high intensity storm events Therefore, there is a strong interest to better understand the hydrological processes and their interactions...

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... Rứisland, Anders Vredin, seminar participants at the Norges Bank Macro-Finance Forum, the 2012 Meeting of the International Finance and Banking Society, and the 2012 Meeting of the Society for ... Shiller (1981) and LeRoy and Porter (1981) have shown that stock prices See, for example, Roxburgh, et al (2012) Examples include Iacoviello (2005), Iacoviello and Neri (2010), and Walentin and Sellin ... knowledge is imperfect 12 See, for example, Kannan, Rabanal and Scott (2009), Angelini, Neri, and Panetta (2010), Christensen and Meh (2011), and Lambertini, Mendicino and Punzi (2011) then, the...

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... manacapi@ rand.org RAND Project AIR FORCE RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF), a division of the RAND Corporation, is the U.S Air Force’s federally funded research and development center for studies and analyses ... Training Management Level Training Management Level Direct Training Level Users and Training Infrastructure Information Needs and Flows by Type and Level AETC Management Information Needs and ... Needs and Flows Cost Information Data Needs and Flows Capacity Information Data Needs and Flows Quantity Information Data Needs and Flows Quality Information Data Needs and Flows Summary ...

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... Technology and the Wealth of Nations, N Rosenberg, R Landau, et D.C Mowery, eds., Stanford: Stanford University Press Braun, Ann R, Thiele, Graham., and Fernandez, Maria., 2002 Farmer Field Schools and ... Nkamleu and John Wendt (2000) Implications of Resource-use Intensification for the Environment and Sustainable Technology Systems in the Central African Rainforest’’ Book chapter, In DR Lee and ... role for tropical commodity exports in order to generate foreign exchange and to promote economic growth Among the perennial tree crops, cocoa sector is of particular interest for West and Central...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... to the federal government and to increase the demand for chicken in the marketplace and among consumers Print and television advertising were used to stimulate demand for chicken By the 1970s, ... capacity and distribution networks account for the gap between demand and production, and are likely to keep premiums high for organically-raised broilers Demand for organic broilers continues to be ... mills and processing facilities were located primarily in the east, south and Midwestern regions of the country where water, corn and soybeans and land made poultry production possible and profitable...

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... country’s foreign trade and investment, an outline of its legislative and bureaucratic frameworks for making and enforcing policies affecting foreign trade, and a copy of all the laws and regulations ... of 14.7 per cent compares with per cent for Malaysia, per cent for Indonesia, 11 per cent for the Philippines, 14 per cent for Thailand and 19 per cent for Vietnam in 1997 Lao PDR agricultural ... changed for balance-of-payments reasons, or for sanitary or phytosanitary reasons, must be reported to the WTO Technical standards different from accepted international standards, and conformity...

Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2014, 08:19

... storing, transferring and manipulating data and information The new tools have major implications for the cost and speed of the innovation Intensification of innovation and management of knowledge ... through email and intranets increase the efficiency and speed of sharing documents, diagrams, formulae, symbols and images Groupware facilitates the communication and sharing of information and knowledge ... innovation and management of knowledge 17 design, and help clarify expectations of the clients (who get a good understanding of what a building will look like), and inform contractors and builders...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... in holding and transferring information and knowledge, through, for example, encryption techniques and firewalls (Nonaka and Nishiguchi, 2001), and those that help measure, control and diagnose ... technologies for innovation provide new mechanisms for the management of knowledge and innovation and the construction of the resources, routines and capabilities that are the basis of competitiveness For ... understand the significance of these technologies for the management of knowledge and strategic management, to appreciate the central role of prototyping in contemporary business (Schrage, 2000) For...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... franchises and outlets, they may buy back cars and trucks for secondhand sales More recently, owing to increased environmental awareness and legislation, vehicle producers arrange for the disposal and ... performance can be relayed in flight and the maintenance teams and components can be ready when the plane arrives and problems can be solved before they create a major difficulty for the company and ... For companies like Rolls-Royce, therefore, instrumentation and electronics for monitoring and diagnostics become more central to the company’s innovation profile and strategy Its competitive and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... common platform will be launched for the Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish bank operations in Nordea The platform will first appear in Merita and then move to Nordbanken and the Danish and Norwegian ... responsibilities’, Oil and Gas Journal, 97 (50), 52–60 Sanchez, Ron and Joseph T Mahoney (1996), ‘Modularity, flexibility and knowledge management in product and organizational design’, Strategic Management ... of: geoscience and seismic interpretation, engineering and equipment design, and in decision analysis and decisionmaking, especially with respect to risk, uncertainty, and economic and financial...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... environment as are for instance regulations, and they manifest themselves in the form of convictions, norms, standards, and search heuristics for R&D to which firms will be likely to conform These three ... are dependent Coercive pressures take the form of enforced rules, standards or mandates Typical examples of coercive pressures include mandates or standards set by governmental agencies But also ... regulators, and pressure groups Through a process of dialogue new standards are set by regulators (regulative pressure), best practices are put forward (mimetic pressures) and standards and norms...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... role in the decision to move to methanol, and not gasoline Methanol formed ‘the best option’ for the job (easy reforming, relatively efficient, and a sustainable solution): DaimlerBenz considered ... abstract and codified (Arora and Gambardella, 1994) and thus more easily transmitted at a distance, especially when access to distant information has become easier and more affordable (Amin and Cohendet, ... technological knowledge and the markets – and we will attempt to understand the motives and strategies underlying their establishment Although, for methodological reasons, technological and market relationships...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... enhancing’ and ‘competence destroying’ consequences for firms arose as an important distinction from the studies of Tushman and Anderson of the 1980s (Anderson and Tushman, 1991;Tushman and Anderson, ... Arora, A A Fosfuri and A Gambardella (2001), ‘Markets for technology and their implications for corporate strategy’, Industrial and Corporate Change, 10 (2), 419–51 Arundel, A and A Geuna (2001), ... and nonlocal sources to access scientific and technological knowledge, but they tend to search externally for markets and market-related relationships Connections to external networks expand and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... the Information Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press Bonaccorsi, A., F Pammolli, P Massimo and S Tani (2001) ‘Nature of innovation and technology management in system companies’, R&D Management, ... decade scientific understanding of LAB (e.g its metabolism and functions) has expanded considerably, opening up the way for more reliable process control in production and for an increasing range ... technological change’, Research Technology Management, 34 (3), 26–31 Arora, A., A Gambardella and A Fosfuri (2001), Markets for Technology and their Implications for Corporate Strategy, Cambridge, MA:...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... subconsciously in the human mind, and is acquired through experience, imitation, and observation, and can be transferred only by personal contact (David and Foray, 1995; Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995) The ... Oxford University Press OECD (2000), Main Science and Technology Indicators (MSTI) Database, November, Paris: OECD OECD (2001), ‘Changing business strategies for R&D and their implications for ... time and effort in writing these papers has become increasingly prohibitive, while other performance targets and R&D results such as patents and patent-based licenses are more highly rewarded and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... 254–5 information and communications technology (ICT) banking and 92–3 codification and 12 innovation and 12, 14–15, 24–5 assessment of impact and relevance 18–23 knowledge management and 15–18 ... Organization and Economic Dynamics: Selected Essays, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Freeman, C and F Louçã (2001), As Time Goes By, Oxford: Oxford University Press Freeman, C and L ... method for forecasting telecommunications product demands’, International Journal of Forecasting, 18 (4), 647–71 Criqui, P., N Kouvaritakis, A Soria and F Isoard (1999), ‘Technical change and CO2...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... mammals in north temperate forests, Deer, Forestry 65 (1992) 145–169 [17] Gill RM.A., A review of damage by mammals in north temperate forests: Impact on trees and forests, Forestry 65 (1992) 363–388 ... allows for the development of ground flora (but not its proliferation), thus improving the availability of alternative forage and limiting the risk of browsing on fir 4.2 Implications for forest management ... couvert forestier sur la croissance de quelques résineux dans le jeune âge, Can J For Res (1977) 8–18 [3] Aussenac G., Interactions between forest stands and microclimate: ecophysiological aspects and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:21

... Evidence for and against the involvement of these mechanisms in control of the hypoglossal motor neurones that innervate the GG muscle is presented below, and implications for potential treatments for ... for OSA This caution is necessary because the field is still in its relative infancy and because basic neural mechanisms and the appropriate receptor targets for 5-HT, as well as for other candidate ... of sleep and wakefulness on both pharyngeal muscle tone and reflex responses, and especially the mechanisms that underlie the sleep-dependent loss of the neuromuscular compensation for the narrowed...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... Update on TB Situation in Thailand and Around the World and Launch of New Project in Northern Thailand-TB Photovoice, Chiang Mai, Thailand November 28, 2006 Wandee P, Supawitkul S, Pinta N, ... Thailand: Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University; 2003 Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC): Internal Displacement and Vulnerability in Eastern Burma Bangkok, Thailand: Thailand ... and Girls and the Sex Industry in Southeast Asia: Political Causes and Human Rights Implications Soc Sci Med 2001, 53:543-550 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Conflict and Health...

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... http://www.tbiomed.com/content/2/1/13 is a buoyancy force (Archimedes force); ( M) F12 ( 5) is a frictional force or Stokes force de = ( A) Force F12 causes a particle to accelerate In addition ... rather high and the particle size is small, flow is laminar; m = - and n = (where m and n are criterion coefficients) F∗ = χ πρ V d2 f13 (8) Where F* – resistance force created by the fluid and acting ... to zero [4] Therefore, in accordance with the above, trauma may create transient conditions for the formation of rouleaux or for the interlacing of existing rouleaux that have formed in the flowing...

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