... prices of environmental outputs ofthe householdlevel paper- recyclingunits 87 6.6 A comparative view ofthe shadow prices of environmental outputs: the household- levelpaperrecyclingunitsof Vietnam ... 6.2 Theoretical concepts ofoutputdistance functions and shadow prices of outputs 75 6.3 Empirical estimation oftheoutputdistancefunction for the production process of household- levelpaper ... parametric outputdistancefunction using an econometric method 80 6.4 Theestimatedoutputdistance functions and the production efficiency ofthe household- levelpaperrecyclingunits 83 6.5...
... did most ofthe drafting ofthe first draft ofthe manuscript with assistance from NW All authors then contributed to further re-drafting ofthe manuscript and have given approval ofthe final ... modelling of these data to understand better the transmission dynamics ofthe 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand Methods Data The population ofthe Featherston Military Camp was that of a large ... 1918 from all causes as reported by the Principal Medical Officer at the camp [3] Further examination of data on the cause of death and date -of- death suggests the total mortality attributable to...
... were taken at the desired sampling times The pH ofthe samples and the temperature ofthe solution inside the photoreactor were continuously monitored The adjustment ofthe pH ofthe solution ... 2001) The dosage of H2O2 in the solution has a remarkable effect on the rate of degradation ofthe target pollutant When the initial H2O2 concentration is increased beyond the optimum level, the ... Effect of pH The results ofthe degradation of PCBs at different pH values are shown in Figs and Even when the initial pH ofthe solution was adjusted to 10, a drastic decrease in the pH of the...
... conclusions of their work are that the multi-stage desalination of seawater is reliable, and the undesirable flow of steam that bypasses the condenser is quite harmful to the overall performance ofthe ... considering the effect of various design and operating parameters on the performance and thermal characteristics ofthe system Description ofthe multi-stage evacuated solar desalination system The Multi-stage ... outlet of first collector will be inlet to the second collector and the outlet ofthe second collector will be inlet to the next and so on up to the Ncth collector Thus, the outlet temperature of the...
... almost is inverse The increase of photon intensity of one mode makes the decrease ofthe one of other mode The reason perhaps is due to the conservation of energy in the operation of two-mode random ... For studying the influence of laser parameters on saturated values of mode photon densities, we vary one ofparameters in table and remain invariable all the rest ofparametersThe obtained results ... on the photon densities is inverse (see Fig 3a, 3b) This shows that in the process of interation between the fields of two modes, the increase of photon density of one mode always results in the...
... increases with the number of affected members, the closeness ofthe relationship to the patient, and earlier age of onset.10,11 Medical information that patients provide about their relatives often is ... by sharp dissection in the plane between the fascia propria ofthe rectum and the presacral fascia Radial clearance of mesorectal tissue enables the en bloc removal ofthe primary rectal cancer ... occupy
... a net rate of 50 words per second and then we shall manually insert the graphics as they should appear in theoutput text Theparametersof input then call for a capability to feed the machine ... permit the storage of only the stem form of words with the computer carrying out the necessary logical analysis to identify the morphology and thefunctionof a word in a sentence For the time ... language The third group had the Russian language capability but no expertise in the substance And the fourth group had neither knowledge ofthe Russian language nor ofthe discipline ofthe test...
... settings) These and other features ofthe speech ofthe New Yorkers sometimes struck the Californians present as imposing, hence failing to honor their need for independence The use of contrasting ... in the metaphor of malfunction Paper prepared for the A~erican Anthropological Association annual meeting Furthermore, there are various ways of honoring inter~ersonal involvement, as service of ... service of one or the other of these needs in various ways The paralinguistically gross listener responses mentioned above are features in an array of devices which I have hypothesized place the...
... evaluate the different configurations ofthe theory was that the best definition oftheparameters was the one that would lead to the fewest violations of Constraint and Rule We discuss the results ... chosen, and then to compute the CFs and the CB (if any) of each utterance on the basis ofthe anaphoric information and according to the notion of ranking specified This information was the used ... produced them; the texts in the pharmaceutical domain are leaflets providing the patients with the legally mandatory information about their medicine The total size ofthe corpus is of about 6,000...
... than the change of n values The differences of n values in UV or IR range may be due to the variation of dielectric functions ofthe films depending upon the deposition parametersThe change of ... confirms the XRD results The reason ofthe small height ofthe peak seems to be that the IZO thin film was as thin as mm, whereas the thickness ofthe wafer was as large as 450 mm The change of surface ... shows the change of XRD pattern in the range of 2us10–808 as the substrate temperature increased The IZO films deposited at temperatures below 350 8C were amorphous, whereas the XRD profile of the...
... shows that the SNR at the ME channel output is insensitive to the amplitude ofthe MUAP but inversely related to the shape factor b The impact ofthe shape factor b on the morphology ofthe MUAP ... performance, SNR was defined as the ratio ofthe MSV estimation at the channel output and the variance ofthe estimation The definition of SNR in this study is the same to that in Zhang's investigation ... that the SNR increases with the intensity ofthe driving current, and the steepness of relationship curve is dependent on the shape factor of MUAP It is well known that the driving current of the...
... T) (5) is the Néel relaxation time depending on the magnetic 4π R3 volume ofthe NP, VM = and Kan is the magnetic anisotropy energy constant ofthe magnetic core ofthe NP Therefore, the heat ... that the PAA coating prevents the formation of aggregates, since they are actually well separated from each other (as deduced from thedistance between the whole particle in the middle ofthe ... to the magnetic properties ofthe ferrofluid Since some controversies exists in theoretical studies about the influence ofthe dipolar interaction on the intrinsic magnetic properties of the...
... good source of Zn The amount of Fe L edodes ranged from 3.98 to 7.22 mg/kg wb The highest value was obtained in the first flush term (7.22 mg/kg wb) The mean ofthe Fe value of mushrooms of L edodes ... research, volatiles of mushrooms estimated by the comparing library catalog of GS–MS (Table 4) We estimatedthe most of abundant volatile compounds and their % area of mushrooms in the chromatogram ... almost same in all ofthe investigated samples There is a good balance between high content of K and law content of Na because of curing the high blood pressure The results of K and Na are usually...
... Determination ofthe percentage of PF resin hardening The aim of studying the character of PF resins in the field of UV spectrum was to determine the amount ofthe insoluble proportion of a heat-hardened ... Material and methods In the experimental part ofthe paper, constant parameters were determined first and then variable parameters and the range of selection Constant parameters: – PF resin P ... increase, the amount of evaporated water and heat losses will decrease, and thus the temperature in the marginal part ofthe set will increase The temperature ofthe central zone ofthe set at larger...
... determination of stand parameters (Šmelko 1988) The development of stand parameters was evaluated only in the case of spruce (Petráš et al 2006) Though after the 3rd publishing of yield tables in 1990 their ... the development of mean heights If it is valid that the actual height growth ofthe stand on research plot is the same as the development ofthe respective yield curve, then the same site index ... measurements 70% of them were used for the construction of yield tables and the remaining 30% are new measurements With regard to the principal aim of this work to evaluate the development and not the static...
... from the high energy level to the state of lower energy The character of such radiation may be interpreted as a barometer ofthefunctionof photosynthetic mechanism (Ritchie, Landis 2005) The ... high content of calcium Table shows the basic parametersof chlorophyll fluorescence measured after the illumination of needle samples adapted to darkness These parameters illustrate the state and ... connected with the state ofthe photosynthetic apparatus and with photosynthetic rate The comparison of average values of plants showed higher ETR in container plants (plugs), especially for the mean...
... improves the fitting ofthe distribution because more information is used than in the MOM CONCLUSION In this study, the good results ofthe MOM in terms ofthe number of times for the lowest values of ... time than the LSM or the MLE (Al-Fawzan 2000) Although the results from the LSM and the MLS estimated methods were inferior to the MOM based on the MSE criterion in this study, the LSM and the MLE ... (1) (2) Theparametersof Equation (1) were estimated from the individual tree diameter data of each set of diameter data by maximum likelihood estimation In some plots the procedure of maximum...
... calculated to estimate the values of root plate parameters on the basis ofthe Table Values of correlation coefficients between the aboveground parameters and theparametersof root plates in analyzed ... sites exceeded the circumference ofthe crown This author reported that the width of spruce root systems in the Hronec locality was wider by 94 cm than the width ofthe crown On the other hand, Konôpka ... especially by thelevelof groundwater The groundwater level strongly modifies the root system parameters and consequently, there arises a question how it influences the relationships between the aboveground...
... species regarding the growth reaction in depen- The mean dry weights of 20 plants of each species were determined before starting the incubation in the water bath (at the beginning ofthe growth period) ... from the mean weight ofthe plants after the end ofthe cultivation period Therefore, only the growth increment is dence from various soil temperatures rang- indicated peratures resulting from the ... processes in the leaves For statistical analyses we used the F-test, and thereafter the t-test to evaluate the significance of differences of mean values (between two variants) The results are...
... evaluate whether the same genes were expressed in males and females The results of this analysis were used to calculate genetic parametersof and ofthe ratio ofthe trait expressed in males to the trait ... 2.2 Analysis The analysis model was: where yZ!k is the performance ofthe jth animal from the kth dam, reared in the ith hatch, a the direct genetic effect ofthe jth animal, m! the maternal ... from the kth dam, ez!! the residual ofthe jth animal from the kth dam, reared in the ith hatch and cov(a, m) the covariance matrix between the vector of direct genetic effects (a) and the vector...