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MULTI - SCALE INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 5 ppsx
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11/08/2014, 21:21
... driven by population growth and socioeconomic pressure, led to a progressive abandonment of the use of green manure (too expensive in terms of land and labor demand) and general switching to synthetic ... aware that the universe of potential perceptions and existing values is open and expanding As already observed in Chapter and as discussed again in the section on complex time in Chapter 8, when dealing ... and others (Checkland, 1981; Checkland and Scholes, 1990; Röling and Wagemakers, 1998) dealing exactly with the impasse typical of science for governance discussed in this and the previous chapters...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 1 pptx
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18/06/2014, 19:20
... Lassoie, and Erick C.M Fernandes Biodiversity in Agroecosystems Wanda Williams Collins and Calvin O Qualset Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities Cornelia Flora Landscape ... computational technologies, land use trends and impacts analyses, and socio-economic aspects of environmental and natural resource conservation and management Dr Gitau received her B.S and M.S degrees in ... actors, and customers; (3) setting or naming the goals and objectives of the system; (4) identifying and implementing feasible and desirable changes; and (5) monitoring appropriate indicators and...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 2 potx
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18/06/2014, 19:20
... Checkland and Scholes (1990) Relationships among various institutions and interest groups were explored and depicted in rich pictures (Checkland, 1979a) In addition, root definitions (Checkland, ... infrastructure, and natural resource endowment Data on climatic and ecological zonation were derived from the Farm Management Handbook (Jaetzold and Schmidt, 1983) Kiambu District Development Plans and reports ... perspectives, goals, and action plans; and (2) as tools for generating a common understanding of a problem situation and for negotiating some degree of consensus on goals and plans These are discussed...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 3 potx
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18/06/2014, 19:20
... climate, agriculture, and pests and diseases Triangulate resource inventories, problem identification, and social maps Farming system and land use Sources and amount of incomes, types and amount of expenditure ... inventory Land-use patterns Problem identification Major events and their impacts Problem identification and coping strategies Resource availability and distribution over time and space Disease and ... (Elden and Levin, 1991) Outsiders have what is missing: (1) training in systematic inquiry and analysis and expertise in (2) designing and carrying out research and (3) recognizing patterns and...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 4 ppt
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18/06/2014, 19:20
... (1965), Jeffries (1974), Roberts and Brown (1975), Roberts (1976a, 1976b), Perry (1983), Puccia and Levins (1985), Klee (1989), Ridgley and Lumpkin (2000), and Bang-Jensen and Gutin (2001) 4.2.1 Participatory ... total degrees are 33, 19, and 26, with total degrees of 7, 6, and 6, respectively There are 12 sources (1, 3, 13, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 27, 32, 35, and 36) and sinks (5, 30, and 37) Of the six key ... loops involving vertices 10 and 11 in one (negative) and 14 and 19 in the other (positive) The largest strong component, comprising vertices 3, 4, 5, 6, and in two-arc and on three-arc positive-feedback...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 5 pptx
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18/06/2014, 19:20
... systems can be made: the primary task system and the issue-based system (Checkland and Wilson, 1980) Primary task systems are ones in which the elements and relationships map on to real-world institutionalized ... targets and thresholds 5.2.3 Building Consensus, Compromise, and Collective Action The rich pictures and models were presented to the different groups or individuals first separately and then ... views and opinions of the facilitator on the problem situation Criticism of the models and depictions by the community and other stakeholders were therefore directed to the facilitator and not...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 6 pot
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18/06/2014, 19:20
... teams and the interviewees For measurement at the land-use level, 20 land-use units were selected from each of the six study sites The units were selected at random from a list of all the land-use ... gender and age Attendance of meetings by gender and age Distribution of chores by gender and age Water quality Presence of fish in river Disposal of agrochemical and related materials Location and ... participatory process, their stated goals and objectives, and the attributes they considered to be most influential to agroecosystem health and sustainability and depicted in cognitive maps The initial...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 7 pdf
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18/06/2014, 19:20
... effectiveness, vigor, and productivity Predictions on the long-term sustainability and health of the systems rely on an analysis of spatial and temporal trends of the indicators (Rapport and Regier, 1980; ... lower left, and Kihenjo, Githima, and Gitwe, all of which were in the lower right Dimension has high negative weights on income/acre of cash crops and income/inputs for cash crops and higher positive ... January 1999 and January 2000 See CD for color image and key in the production of tea and other crops due to improved farming techniques, eventually leading to improved nutrition and incomes Farm...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 8 docx
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18/06/2014, 19:20
... of markets and demand for produce are other important issues, as evidenced by the abandonment of recommended farm enterprises (based on agroecological suitability), such as coffee and tea production ... organizational ability and commitment The participatory techniques for analyzing, planning, and monitoring action plans were effective and contributed to community mobilization and action Communities ... development, to them, implied stating long-term goals for the agroecosystem and then building and evaluating short-term and long-term goals based on these From their perspective, a sustainability...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 9 pdf
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18/06/2014, 19:20
... Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Technical improvements, such as geographical information systems and remote sensing, self-reporting systems, and automated and integrated ... communities often lack the capacity to develop and measure quantitative indicators, while researchers and policymakers lack the knowledge and mandate to make value-based judgments, it seems that ... integrated and adaptive approaches as sustainability and AESH should include both components to provide a balanced assessment 10 MCA (multiple correspondence analysis) was useful in summarizing and...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 10 (end) doc
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18/06/2014, 19:20
... 206 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 ... LLC 207 208 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Appendix 2: Questionnaire Used for Indicator Measurement at the Land-Use Unit Level © 2009 by Taylor & Francis ... Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Appendices 211 © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 212 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability...
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Multi criteria analysis in environmental management: Selecting the best stormwater erosion and sediment control measure in Malaysian construction sites
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05/09/2013, 16:11
... expert’s opinions Based on these interviews and consultations, technical and environmental criteria were assigned with a weighed factor of and the economic and social criteria were assigned with a ... input, easiness to understand and use, and so forth The most essential factors for choosing the MCA technique is the easiness of understanding by the analyst, the stakeholders and use Ref [16] stated ... to flow control and pollution removal The application of BMPs facilities involves a variety of stakeholders in both the public and private arenas and therefore their development and design can...
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Báo cáo " Using multi‐criteria analysis as a tool to select the feasible measures for sustainable development of brackish water shrimp culture in Quang Tri Province " doc
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22/03/2014, 12:20
... method was used and its results are presented in the next sections. This paper is divided into 5 sections. Section 1 is involved with the problem statement. Section 2 is ... develop in shrimp. ‐ A2.2: Wetland. A wetland also can be a solution to Quang Tri Province. The wetland is located near the shrimp ponds and consists of soil with a certain slope and obstacles in it, ... diseases. Finally, the impact and area of impact are important for the aquaculture, agriculture, industries and other land users. Based on these criteria and the preference order, the following paragraph discusses how ...
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báo cáo hóa học:" A biomechanical assessment of modular and monoblock revision hip implants using FE analysis and strain gage measurements" potx
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20/06/2014, 04:20
... Constructs A and B Meshing and material properties ANSYS Workbench 10.0 was used to generate meshes For Construct A, the number of nodes and elements was 41098 and 29436 (Modular) and 33270 and 23744 ... nodes and elements was 52121 and 39423 (Modular) and 61577 and 45847 (Monoblock) Body elements included 10-node quadratic tetrahedrons for cortical bone, cancellous bone, and implants, and a ... Modular and Monoblock implants were developed, and strain and stress maps were generated for two constructs, A and B Construct A modeled a hip implant alone under axial forces of 700 and 2000...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Assessment of Severe Apnoea through Voice Analysis, Automatic Speech, and Speaker " ppt
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21/06/2014, 20:20
... a general severe sleep apnoea class and a control class (speech from healthy subjects) by grouping together all of the training data from speakers of each class and directly applying the appropriate ... representing the apnoea and control classes were built as follows (i) The pathological and control GMMs were trained from the generic UBM relying on MAP adaptation and the standard leave-one-out ... well-known speech and speaker recognition techniques to carry out speech phonetic segmentation and apnoea/nonapnoea voice classification Since we needed to consider specific acoustical features and phonetic...
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Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone docx
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28/06/2014, 19:20
... scientific understanding of how BC and O3 affect climate and public health has significantly improved This has catalysed a demand for information and action from governments, civil society and other ... and ice, wind patterns, and clouds are all affected, and these in turn have an impact on human well-being by influencing factors such as water availability, agriculture and land use Both O3 and ... Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and Pacific Latin America and Caribbean North America and Europe South, West and Central Asia Figure Comparison of regional mean warming over land (C) showing the change...
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Báo cáo sinh học: "Assessment of methods and analysis of outcomes for comprehensive optimization of nucleofection" pptx
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14/08/2014, 19:22
... data point was first standardized by subtracting the mean of the data set from each data point and then dividing by the standard deviation of the data set Standardized and raw data for the secondary ... secondary optimization to a standardized form, clustered the standardized data, and generated a heat map The heat map allows many data sets to be clustered, visualized, and compared with each other ... using only GFP fluorescence, microscopy, and absolute cell number For further evaluation and to alleviate the need for classical cell counting, the viability and cytotoxicity of cells from the SE...
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Assessment of pretreatments and enzymatic hydrolysis of wheat straw as a sugar source for bioprocess industry
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05/09/2013, 15:28
... long chain fatty acids and fatty alcohols, sterols and alkanes Natural waxes have a wide range of industrial uses in cosmetics, polishes and coatings, pharmaceuticals, and insecticides Wheat ... such as furfural and HMF, and phenolic compounds may be toxic to some fermentative bacteria [58] Pretreatments that fall into this category are steam (explosion), liquid hot water and dilute acid ... economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels PNAS 2006, 103(30), 11206-11210 [6] Taherzadeh M.J., Kamiri K Pretreatment of lignocellulosic wastes to improve ethanol and...
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Tuberculosis Care with TB-HIV Co-management: INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF ADOLESCENT AND ADULT ILLNESS (IMAI) pptx
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06/03/2014, 04:20
... pregnancies and family planning advice Support and counselling Support for disclosure ❖ Give post-test counselling and support Advise on basic and positive prevention (see section I and section 11 ... pregnant and HIV status not known, offer HIV testing and counselling and explain benefits of knowing HIV status (offer PMTCT interventions— see section 8.6 of Chronic HIV Care with ART and Prevention ... have both TB and HIV, it can be serious and sometimes life-threatening without proper diagnosis and treatment Treatment for HIV is becoming more available and can help you feel better and live longer...
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