evaluating agroecosystem sustainability using an integrated model

Managing for Healthy Ecosystems doc

Managing for Healthy Ecosystems doc

... Ashk Dhawan, and Donald W Kirby Section II.11 Grazing Animals and Rangelands 1027 Chapter 100 Overview: Grazing Animals and Rangelands 1029 Albert C Medvitz Chapter 101 Changing ... 118 Evaluating Agroecosystem Sustainability Using an Integrated Model .1209 Ken W Belcher and M Boehm Chapter 119 Prediction of Soil Salinity Risk by Digital Terrain Modeling in the Canadian ... Qualset Ardeshir B Damania Associate Editors Daniel W Anderson Darwin Anderson James R Carey Santiago Carrizosa Daniel P.Y Chang Gary N Cherr Alexander H Harcourt Robert T Lackey Jean Lebel Nicholas...

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The Importance of Water and Water Quality in Brewing pptx

The Importance of Water and Water Quality in Brewing pptx

... four continents, and produces more than 150 brands • SAB Ltd is the South African operation of SABMiller plc and currently produces 25.9-million hectolitres of beer per annum and 14-million hl ... facilitator: • Water is an essential component for cleaning and rinsing and in various production processes such as pasteurisation, steam generation and CO2 management The composition and quality of the ... flocculation and stabilizes foam (promotes lacing) Manganese Manganese is important for proper enzyme action and has a positive action on protein solubilization and yeast Brewhouse Chemistry pH in the Brewhouse:...

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A CFD analysis of transport phenomena and electrochemical reactions in a tubular-shaped PEM fuel cell

A CFD analysis of transport phenomena and electrochemical reactions in a tubular-shaped PEM fuel cell

... performance This model is used to analyse and evaluate the performance of a planar and a tubular-shaped PEM fuel cell 2.1 Computational domain The full computational domains for the planar and tubular-shaped ... through the anode and cathode gas diffusion layers, and can be modeled by equation (16) 2.2.5.3 Membrane Overpotential The membrane overpotential (η mem ) is related to the fact that an electric ... diameter(tubular) / height HH2 and width(planar) Air flow channel: height (tubular) / height and HAir width(planar) Wland Land area width δ GDL Gas diffusion layer thickness δ mem Wet membrane thickness (Nafion®...

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Báo cáo " Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Huong River basin and adaptation measures " pptx

Báo cáo " Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Huong River basin and adaptation measures " pptx

... all relevant sectors, natural and water resources, biodiversity, agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, industry and energy, transport and construction, culture and sport, tourism, trade and services, ... patterns and productivity are also expected to be severely affected by climate change The spread and introduction of new species and pathogens may cause an increase in animal, livestock and crop ... of fishing boats and other ships and fish migration/spawning routes Changes in the natural environment lead to changes of biodiversity, the behavior of fauna and flora and change of their genetic...

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báo cáo hóa học:" The influence of the level of physical activity and human development in the quality of life in survivors of stroke" potx

báo cáo hóa học:" The influence of the level of physical activity and human development in the quality of life in survivors of stroke" potx

... or financial dealings with any company related to this manuscript Ricardo Jacó de Oliveira, António José Silva, Dihogo Gama de Matos, Nuno Garrido, André Luiz Carneiro, Robert C Hickner and Victor ... quality of life and the capacity for work and leisure, thereby reducing the chances of new strokes and the functional imitations they can bring [34,36] In this sense, physical activities can be considered ... consultant ships, company holdings or patents This study did not receive any financial support for research All authors any direct or indirect conflicts of interests related to this manuscript...

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An assessment of water quality in the Lower Mekong Basin pptx

An assessment of water quality in the Lower Mekong Basin pptx

... 5.1 Assessment of transboundary transport of nitrate-N, total-P and CODMII between selected transboundary locations: Vientiane and Nakhon Phanom, Pakse and Kratie, and Koh Khel and Chau Doc 41 Variation ... (in blue) for selected stations Chiang Sean Luang Prabang Vientiane Nakhon Phanom Paskse Kratie Mean annual discharge 2,700 3,900 4,400 7,100 9,700 13,600 Jan 1,150 1,690 1,760 2,380 2,800 3,620 ... downstream Transboundary stations are shaded grey Name Country River 010501 Chiang Saen Thailand Mekong 011201 Luang Prabang Lao PDR Mekong 011901 Vientiane Lao PDR Mekong 013101 Nakhon Phanom Thailand...

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Analysis of snow accumulation and snow melting in a young mountain spruce and beech stand in the Orlické hory Mts., Czech Republic" pptx

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Analysis of snow accumulation and snow melting in a young mountain spruce and beech stand in the Orlické hory Mts., Czech Republic" pptx

... significance of differences in the snow water equivalent in the spruce and beech stands in the period of snow melting (10 to 28 2006) Paired t-test at the level of significance 0.05 Stand Mean Standard ... water equivalent in the spruce and beech stands in the period of snow accumulation (22 11 2005 to 13 2006) Paired t-test at the level of significance 0.05 Stand Mean Standard deviation of sample ... cover at the permanent field research station Deštné in the spruce and beech stands Beech stand Open area Tape of precipitation Spruce stand Precipitation (mm) Date of measurements  and in the open...

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp:"Analysis of log shape and internal knots in twenty Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) stems based on visual scanning and computer aided reconstruction" pptx

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp:"Analysis of log shape and internal knots in twenty Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) stems based on visual scanning and computer aided reconstruction" pptx

... p [14] Mọkinen H., Colin F., Predicting branch angle and branch diameter of Scots pine from usual tree measurements and stand structural information, Can J For Res 28 (1998) 16861696 [15] Mọkinen ... death, and selfpruning of branches in Scots pine, Can J For Res 29 (1999) 12251236 [16] Mọrkelọ A., Vanninen P., Ikonen V., An application of processbased modelling to the development of branchiness ... geometrical and knot data and gives as output: stem/log volume, individual knot volume (total and sound) and relative amount of knots in the total log/ stem volume, and, for each knot, compass angle...

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Báo cáo khao học: "High-resolution analysis of radial growth and wood density in Eucalyptus nitens, grown under different irrigation regimes" potx

Báo cáo khao học: "High-resolution analysis of radial growth and wood density in Eucalyptus nitens, grown under different irrigation regimes" potx

... oC, mean July maximum / minimum temperature 12.2 / 4.0 oC, and mean annual rainfall 512 ± 115 m Annual rainfall was below that normally suited to plantation establishment Six weeks after planting, ... program of the Austrian Academy of Science Thanks to Dale Worledge, CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products for site maintenance and providing the soil water data REFERENCES [1] Antonova G.F., Cherkashin ... wood are relatively high However, wood density can be changed by silvicultural practices [33] and genetic manipulation [31] Silvicultural practices and genetic improvement may result in rapid tree...

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Analysis of passive cooling and heating potential in Vietnam

Analysis of passive cooling and heating potential in Vietnam

... irradiance (It) (coldest month) of Hanoi, Danang and Hochiminh city are 2678, 3718 and 5161 Wh/m2.day [16], respectively Thus ta for Hanoi, Danang and Hochiminh city are 21.51°C, 21.21°C and 20.78°C ... Consequently, hourly weather data of any season, any month or any day can be separately printed out In this step, hourly meteorological parameters of Hanoi, Danang, and Hochiminh city were graphically ... passive cooling and heating strategies and their combinations The weather in Hanoi is found to be naturally comfortable during only 23.6% of total time of a year whereas in Danang and Hochiminh...

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ANALYSIS OF PASSIVE COOLING AND HEATING POTENTIAL IN VIETNAM USING GRAPHICAL METHOD AND TYPICAL METEOROLOGICAL YEAR WEATHER FILE

ANALYSIS OF PASSIVE COOLING AND HEATING POTENTIAL IN VIETNAM USING GRAPHICAL METHOD AND TYPICAL METEOROLOGICAL YEAR WEATHER FILE

... irradiance (It) (coldest month) of Hanoi, Danang and Hochiminh city are 2678, 3718 and 5161 Wh/m2.day [16], respectively Thus ta for Hanoi, Danang and Hochiminh city are 21.51°C, 21.21°C and 20.78°C ... Consequently, hourly weather data of any season, any month or any day can be separately printed out In this step, hourly meteorological parameters of Hanoi, Danang, and Hochiminh city were graphically ... passive cooling and heating strategies and their combinations The weather in Hanoi is found to be naturally comfortable during only 23.6% of total time of a year whereas in Danang and Hochiminh...

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Analysis of transport phenomena and electrochemical reactions in a micro PEM fuel cell with nature inspired flow field design

Analysis of transport phenomena and electrochemical reactions in a micro PEM fuel cell with nature inspired flow field design

... develop models that could simulate and predict multi-dimensional coupled transport of reactants, heat and charged species using computational fluid dynamic (CFD) methods These models can generally ... through the anode and cathode gas diffusion layers, and can be modeled by equation (16) 2.2.5.3 Membrane Overpotential The membrane overpotential (η mem ) is related to the fact that an electric ... of Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 6, Issue 1, 2015, pp.1-16 phenomena such as convective and diffusive heat and mass transfer, electrode kinetics, transport and phase-change mechanism of...

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Design and analysis of object allocation and replication algorithms in distributed databases for stationary and mobile computing systems

Design and analysis of object allocation and replication algorithms in distributed databases for stationary and mobile computing systems

... sequence in advance and can serve the requests with a minimum cost Further, the factor c is called the competitive ratio of the algorithm ALG and d is an additive constant Thus, constants c and d define ... control-message transferring cost, and data-message transferring cost We first propose mathematical cost models that consider all these costs Using these cost models, we then design an efficient object ... SCE This means that in a SCE, Cc is the ratio of a control-message transferring cost to an I/O cost and Cd is the ratio of a data-message transferring cost to an I/O cost On the other hand, in a...

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Relevance of mineral nutrition and light quality for the accumulation of secondary metabolites in centella asiatica and hydrocotyle leucocephala

Relevance of mineral nutrition and light quality for the accumulation of secondary metabolites in centella asiatica and hydrocotyle leucocephala

... south India and the Andaman Islands: for cultivation and utility in cosmetic and herbal drug application Industrial Crops and Products 32, 545550 Trojanowska, M.R., Osbourn, A.E., Daniels, M.J., ... 285291 Vranovỏ, E., Coman, D., Gruissem, W., 2013 Network analysis of the MVA and MEP pathways for isoprenoid synthesis Annual Reviews of Plant Biology 64, 665700 Wang, X.S., Duan, J.Y., Fang, J.N., ... Urban Molecules 14, 39223941 Jansen, M.A.K., Gabab, V., Greenberg, B.M., 1998 Higher plants and UV-B radiation: balancing damage, repair and acclimation Trends in Plant Science 4, 131135 Jansen,...

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Improvement of nutrient removal and phosphorus recovery in the anaerobic/oxic/anoxic process combined with sludge ozonation and phosphorus adsorption

Improvement of nutrient removal and phosphorus recovery in the anaerobic/oxic/anoxic process combined with sludge ozonation and phosphorus adsorption

... be ozonated and the recirculation ratio of the residual liquid from the physico-chemical processes to the anaerobic and oxic tanks Influent Effluent Anaerobic tank Oxic tank Anoxic tank Sludge ... Water and Environment Technology, Vol 7, No 2, 2009 MATERIALS AND METHODS A lab-scale continuous A/O/A process with a working volume of 36 L (anaerobic tank, 10.3 L; oxic tank, 10.3 L; anoxic tank, ... the Standard Methods (1995) To determine soluble TOC (S-TOC), NH4-N, NO2+3-N, NO2-N, and PO4-P, water samples were filtered using a glass-fiber filter (GF/C, Whatman Japan KK, Japan) TOC and S-TOC...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Altered expression of CD1d molecules and lipid accumulation in the human hepatoma cell line HepG2 after iron loading pptx

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Altered expression of CD1d molecules and lipid accumulation in the human hepatoma cell line HepG2 after iron loading pptx

... like to thank L Mayer and K Uchida for providing antibodies, A Vale, F Pisarra and M.T Silva for help and comments on TEM, and M Santos and R Hultcrantz for critical reading of the manuscript ... Ber-T9 monoclonal antibodies (anti-CD71) and rabbit anti-ferritin Igs, followed by FITC-conjugated rabbit antimouse and FITC-conjugated swine anti-rabbit Igs, respectively Mouse and rabbit Igs were ... MCA534, a monoclonal antibody to human ICAM-1 (SEROTEC, Oxford, UK); Ber-T9, a monoclonal antibody to the human transferrin receptor (DAKO); rabbit Igs to Materials and methods human ferritin (DAKO);...

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PROSTHETIC REHABILITATION OF MISSING TEETH AND ORAL HEALTH IN THE ELDERLY pptx

PROSTHETIC REHABILITATION OF MISSING TEETH AND ORAL HEALTH IN THE ELDERLY pptx

... LG, Mekayarajjananonth T Dental implants and the geriatric patient Implant Dent 1997;6(3):168-73 Geertman ME, Slagter AP, van’t Hof MA, van Waas MA, Kalk W Masticatory performance and chewing experience ... age and denture age were correlated using Spearman rank correlation analysis The number of oral mucosal lesions and medications used daily were also correlated with Spearman rank correlation analysis ... distance from the tangential line of the most inferior points of the body of mandible and the alveolar crest were measured from both sides at a 34% and 53% full mandibular body length distance...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Evolutionary origin and divergence of PQRFamide peptides and LPXRFamide peptides in the RFamide peptide family pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: Evolutionary origin and divergence of PQRFamide peptides and LPXRFamide peptides in the RFamide peptide family pdf

... MA, USA), and a model 4200-1G DNA sequencing system and analysis system (LI-COR, Lincoln, NE, USA), then analyzed with dnasis-mac software (Hitachi Software Engineering, Kanagawa, Japan) Universal ... sequence analysis and MALDI-TOF MS analysis as described above Phylogenetic analysis Multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis of the precursors of lamprey PQRFamide peptides and other ... in the brain of anuran (Rana perezi, Xenopus laevis) and urodele (Pleurodeles waltl) amphibians J Chem Neuroanat 25, 53–71 50 Ukena K, Kohchi C & Tsutsui K (1999) Expression and activity of 3beta-hydroxysteroid...

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Surfing the waves of globalization - Asia and financial lobalization in the context of the trilemma

Surfing the waves of globalization - Asia and financial lobalization in the context of the trilemma

... Liên Bang Nga, Đài Loan, nắm giữ 50% dự trữ ngoại hối giới Trước tình hình này, có lập luận cho nguyên nhân khiến cho dự trữ ngoại hối gia tăng nhanh chóng để ổn định tỷ giá hối đoái Theo quan điểm ... độc lập tiền tệ), ERS (exchange rate stability – ổn định tỉ giá), KAOPEN (financial openness – hội nhập tài chính) Aizenman cộng (2008) ba thước đo ba bất khả thi có quan hệ tuyến tính Do đó, cách ... tóm tắt quan điểm Các kinh tế mở cửa cao nên tập trung vào việc theo đuổi tỷ giá hoái đoái cố định Đối với kinh tế biên động đầu tư quan trọng làm quan trọng mức độ nắm giữ IR cao Thật quan theo...

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