development of health and sustainability indicators for a tropical highlands agroecosystem
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN OMNIDIRECTIONAL MOBILE BASE FOR a SOCIAL ROBOT
... target area speech Motion and Audio and Vision Speech Animation localization gestures task task task Mobile platform Speakers Camera/s Microphone/s Animated head and arms Figure 2-1: Example of ... kinematics are mainly of the following two types: forward kinematics and inverse kinematics In forward kinematics, the length of each link and the angle of each joint is given and we have to calculate ... Example of social robot architecture for execution and robot behavioral layer 2.2 Review of mobile Robots The prevalence of automation and mobile robotic platform has seen a rise of demand for high...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Inhibition kinetics of catabolic dehydrogenases by elevated moieties of ATP and ADP – implication for a new regulation mechanism in Lactococcus lactis potx
... inhibition of the lactococcal dehydrogenases and ADH of yeast and horse liver as a function of the ATP and ADP pool Criterion for all data points chosen: [ATP] > [ADP] (A) Dehydrogenases from Lactococcus ... drawn for the combination of ADP + NAD for ADH, whereas there was a slight increase in inhibition of ADH by the combination of ATP + NAD The combinations ATP + NADH and ADP + NADH had a severe ... dehydrogenases Table Estimated parameter values with 95% condence intervals for the multiple inhibition kinetics of LDH, ADH and GAPDH with ATP, ADP and the cofactor product (NAD for ADH and LDH, and...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 1 pptx
... International, Bangkok, Thailand 111 pp Conway, G.R., and McCracken, J .A (1990) Rapid rural appraisal and agroecosystem analysis In Agroecology and Small Farm Development Altieri, M .A. , and Hecht, ... smallholderdominated tropical highlands agroecosystem Developing a suite of health and sustainability indicators for smallholder farms in the Kiambu agroecosystem Using the selected indicators to assess health ... participatory action-oriented research meant to understand the dynamics of an agricultural ecosystem He and his collaborators formalized the collaborative and participatory characterization of the agroecosystem...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 2 potx
... implement an integrated and adaptive approach to agroecosystem health and sustainability management in a smallholderdominated tropical highlands agroecosystem Participatory and action research methods ... Githima Mahindi Thiririka Gikabu Gitangu Kiawamagira Maize Beans Potatoes Arrowroots Yams Bananas Coffee Tea Kale Tomatoes Maize Beans Potatoes Arrow roots Bananas Maize Beans Maize Beans Potatoes ... human health, and absence of health care facilities Only one village (Kiawamagira) had access to piped water, and even then, the water was available for one half-day per week Roads were mainly...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 3 potx
... suites of indicators of health and sustainability, and (5) monitor progress, assess health and sustainability, and evaluate the status of the agroecosystem This chapter describes how PAR was used ... used to develop a suite of health and sustainability indicators and to implement some actions to address agroecosystem health and sustainability concerns in the tropical highland agroecosystem ... Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Chataway, C.J (1997) An examination of the constraints on mutual inquiry in a participatory action research project Journal of...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 4 ppt
... digraph (Table 4.7) Water quality, health care, and roads have ambivalent impacts on vertices and owing to the perceived negative impacts of the arc [6, 7] and path imbalance between vertices and ... digraph and its adjacency (A) and signed adjacency (sgn (A) ) matrices See CD for color image © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 96 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems ... of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems TABLE 4.7 Impact of Mahindi Community’s Goals Based on Geometric Analysis Community Goals Vertex Employment Water Quality Water Availability Health...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 5 pptx
... the access road, resulting in damage and gully formation along the waterways Based on this, the course of action was to cooperate as a village and find ways and means of redirecting the runoff away ... Communities Agroecosystem health project Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems TABLE 5.2 Activities, Measures of Performance, and Targets Negotiated and Agreed On to Resolve ... farms to the access road causing damage and flooding in other areas of the village O: Kiawamagira community E: Expertise from MoA, Resources from Kiawamagira community, community organization and...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 6 pot
... indicators of agroecosystem health and sustainability was developed for use in a tropical highlands agroecosystem and an evaluation of their practicality and application 6.2 Process and Methods ... Proportion of traditional foods eaten Development of Health and Sustainability Indicators Water 174 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems TABLE 6.8 Summary Statistics for ... 161 Development of Health and Sustainability Indicators TABLE 6.3 (continued) Attributes, Categories, and Number of Researcher-Proposed Indicators of Health and Sustainability of the Kiambu Agroecosystem...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 7 pdf
... 1999 and then in January–March 2000 The methods used for measuring the indicators are described in Chapter Data were managed using a relational database (Microsoft Access) and analyzed using SAS ... & Francis Group, LLC An Assessment of Health and Sustainability Kale production Labor export Labor shortage Availability of farmland Quality of leadership Manure Migration Nutrition Private veterinarians ... Gikabu Distance to schools Food shortage January 2000 Thiririka Mahindi Kiawamagira Githima Gitangu Goals Gikabu January 1999 0 An Assessment of Health and Sustainability 193 significant decline...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 8 docx
... potential to evoke and guide the need for change in natural resource management Although communities have a strong sense of what is good and what is bad in terms of the health and sustainability of ... increasing realization that human activities have complex impacts on the health and sustainability of agricultural and ecological systems has led to the increasing interest in holistic and adaptive ... the health disciplines to assess and set goals for their agroecosystem; to debate, negotiate, and plan remedial measures; and then to monitor and evaluate progress In this regard, sustainability...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 9 pdf
... researchers and policymakers lack the knowledge and mandate to make value-based judgments, it seems that decision support systems for such integrated and adaptive approaches as sustainability and AESH ... Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Technical improvements, such as geographical information systems and remote sensing, self-reporting systems, and automated and ... to provide a balanced assessment 10 MCA (multiple correspondence analysis) was useful in summarizing and presenting indicator data for two reasons: (1) the incorporation of targets and thresholds...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 10 (end) doc
... Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Appendices 219 © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 220 Integrated Assessment of Health and ... Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Appendix 1: Questionnaire Used to Carry Out a Census of All the Land-Use Units in the Village © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, ... and Sustainability of Agroecosystems © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Appendices 221 © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 222 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems...
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Báo cáo hóa học: "Existence of solutions and convergence analysis for a system of quasivariational inclusions in Banach spaces" pptx
... solutions and convergence analysis for a system of quasivariational inclusions in Banach spaces Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011 2011:49 Submit your manuscript to a journal and benefit ... solutions to a system of variational inclusions in Banach spaces and established a strong convergence theorem in uniformly convex and 2-uniformly smooth Banach spaces Kamraksa and Wangkeeree [16] ... smooth Banach space, and A1 , A2 , M1 and M2 be the same as in Theorem 3.4, and let T be a -Lipschitz continuous mapping Assume that Ω ∩ F(T) ≠ ∅, {an} and {bn} are sequences in [0, 1] and satisfy...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Existence and Uniqueness of Positive and Nondecreasing Solutions for a Class of Singular Fractional Boundary Value Problems" ppt
... metric spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 341, no 2, pp 1241–1252, 2008 13 A A Kilbas and J J Trujillo, “Differential equations of fractional order: methods, results and ... problems—I,” Applicable Analysis, vol 78, no 1-2, pp 153–192, 2001 14 S G Samko, A A Kilbas, and O I Marichev, Fractional Integrals and Derivatives Theory and Applications, Gordon and Breach Science, ... solution for a nonlinear fractional differential equation,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 252, no 2, pp 804–812, 2000 T Qiu and Z Bai, “Existence of positive solutions for...
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an investigation into how to use linking words in the development of speaking and writing skills for the ielts examination = nghiên cứu về việc sử dụng từ nối trong việc phát triển kỹ năng nói và viết
... hesitation Grammatical Range and Accuracy 26 This criterion refers to the range and the accurate and appropriate use of the candidate‘s grammatical resource The key indicators of grammatical range ... clear Lexical Resource This criterion refers to the range of vocabulary the candidate has used and the accuracy and appropriacy of that use in terms of the specific task Grammatical Range and Accuracy ... available in two formats – Academic and General Training The Academic Reading and Writing tests assess whether a candidate is ready to study or train in the medium of English at an undergraduate...
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An investigation into how to use linking words in the development of speaking and writing skills for the IELTS examination
... Hints for IELTS, Adams and Austen Press Pty.Ltd, Australia 10 Garry Adams and Terry Peck (2002), 202 Helpful Hints for IELTS, Adams and Austen Press Pty.Ltd, Australia 11 Halliday, M.AK and Hasan, ... speaking and writing samples); analytical (examining in detail the statistics and also analyzing the data obtained) and synthetical (drawing striking features from the analysis) Also, we apply inductive ... discursive type and one sample of account type 5.2.3 Data analysis To the analysis, we use a coding system which aims to make our analysis clearer and easier to follow Semantic categories of linking...
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Development of database and computational methods for disease detection and drug discovery
... designing reasonable database scheme, integrating data from various resource, designing database interface and implementing database function 2.1.1 Database model and rational schema design A database ... pathogen diagnostic methods database and update of therapeutic targets database Chapter and Chapter are devoted to the application of our SVM based VS system for pharmaceutical agents Src and VEGFR-2 ... a theoretical foundation of a database and fundamentally determines in which manner data can be stored, organized, 29 and manipulated in a database system There are several different basic ways...
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Development of 2d and 3d BTEM for pattern recognition in higher order spectroscopic and other data arrays
... Chemometrics, a relatively new and separate branch of chemistry, is a data analysis methodology with the application of mathematical, statistical and logical methods to elucidate the concealed information ... extension of RAFA and applied it to liquid chromatography diode array-UV (LC-DA-UV) data (Sanchez and Kowalski, 1986, Sanchez et al., 1987) and pulsed gradient spin echo (PGSE) NMR data (Antalek and ... which forms a “two-way” data set, denoted as A (v, t) This data set is a matrix A of absorbance with one way along wavenumber (v) 21 Chapter and a second way along time (t) Analogously, a matrix...
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Design and development of command and control system for autonomous underwater vehicles
... view of the mission reference and actual AUV path (b) Top-view of the reference and actual AUV path 76 5.12 (a) Plot of AUV’s trajectory and bearing setpoints (b) Plot of reference and actual ... of a team of AUVs has many advantages compared with a single complex AUV A team of AUVs provides redundancy as well as fault tolerance; failure in one of Figure 1.1: Scenario for mission The AUV ... Sentuator 1: loop for all Health Records in Health Monitor check HEALTH and SEVERITY if HEALTH = HEALTHY and SEVERITY == ABORT then Inform Captain else if HEALTH = HEALTHY and SEVERITY == EMERGENCY...
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An application of GIS and Remote Sensing for Analysis of Agricultural Development-Induced Changes in Land Use: A case study in Lao PDR pdf
... (Ground data, GIS data and satellite imagery data) • The zonation can be regarded as a tool for sustainable agricultural development in the watershed area 17 Suggestion zones for sustainable of watershed ... landscape in the study area has been changed cause of policy implementation such as rubber plantation and irrigation system were installed in the area, and than this place was changed in dynamics ... way of land use system • The forest area was destroyed by increasingly shifting cultivation and rubber plantation areas • Lack of an appropriate tool for decision support system in terms of land...
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