... written permission of Idea Group Inc is prohibited Understanding the Benefits and Impact ofCommunitiesof Practice Table 2: Benefits Supplied by Communitiesof Practice Communitiesof Practice have ... Chapter IV The Paradox ofCommunitiesof Practice: Knowledge Sharing Between Communities 36 Donald Hislop, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom SECTION II: COMMUNITIESOF PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE ... project SECTION I: COMMUNITIESOF PRACTICE Understanding the Benefits and Impact ofCommunitiesof Practice Chapter I Understanding the Benefits and Impact ofCommunitiesof Practice Michael A Fontaine...
... stratified groups of coffee fans on the alt.coffee newsgroup will debate en masse the merits of various strains of coffee beans, of methods of preparation, of coffee machines, and of brands such ... on the assumption of the utility of lifetime communitiesof consumption the many insiders and value assessment of individual customers, often gathdevotees provide a wealth of information about ... be the most permanent and social of virtual communities Figure tion Types of Virtual Communitiesof Consump- ments where players of ‘dungeons and dragons’ types of fantasy games met The term can...
... diseases may occur Symptoms of spot anthracnose include tiny leaf and bract spots, about the size of a pinhead, with whitish centers and purplish borders Symptoms of Discula anthracnose (dogwood ... faster drying of the leaves • If fertilizer is needed, fertilize in the fall about a month after the average date of the first frost or in early spring about a month before the date of the last ... information on the proper use of pesticides and fungicides, refer to any current VCE pest management guide • Because Discula anthracnose is often fatal to the tree, control of this anthracnose disease...
... with the concept of the GAPS community of practice, the implementation of the forums, the financial oversight of the project, the acceptance of submissions to the online community of practice, the ... conflict of interest between different roles and levels of practice • Competencies should be used to guide the development of curricula and allocation of scarce academic resources • The assessment of ... the creation of the diagrams and legends PJ assisted with the concept of the GAPS community of practice, the framework for implementation, the moderation of the forums, analysis of the forums,...
... Assessment of Health and Sustainability ofAgroecosystems significant integration of ecological, economic, and social factors Furthermore, the sociopolitical boundaries of the village often roughly ... infringe Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gitau, Thomas Integrated assessment of health and sustainability ofagroecosystems ... Dr Margaret W Gitau of Florida A&M University and Professor David WaltnerToews of the University of Guelph, Canada The research described in the book is based on the work of Thomas Gitau, who...
... sheds Marketing End of tour of fields, pens, and sheds End of tour of fields, pens, and sheds Beginning of discussion session Name of household head Size of household Occupation of household head ... of the agenda of the workshop, a description of the steps of an action research process and of the objectives and proposed methods of the project was provided Table 3.1 shows the sequencing of ... map Resource map Lists of identified problems Historical profile Lists of identified problems Coping strategies Graphs of trends and time lines Graphs Graphs of transect profiles showing resource...
... these arcs increase the number of oscillating impacts of community goals A weight of 10 resulted in oscillations of all but nine of the impacts of community goals Of all the arcs, [31, 21] produced ... an arc (vi, vi+1) The sign (or effect) of a path was the product of the signs of its arcs, and the length of a path was the number of arcs in it The impact of a path from vertex vi to another vertex ... 100 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability ofAgroecosystems TABLE 4.1 A Comparison of the Number of Concepts and Relationships in Cognitive Maps Drawn by Six Communities in Kiambu District,...
... river) Types of chemicals used on farm Storage of chemicals in homestead Disposal of containers Soil fertility Color of soil Types of weeds Quantity of harvest Soil color and texture Types of weeds ... acre Head of cattle/available labor Heads of cattle per acre Off-farm employment rate Proportion of farmland rented Proportion of land under beans Proportion of land under kale Proportion of land ... 154 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability ofAgroecosystems human health were some of the criteria given by some of the participants in some villages In five of the six villages, no...
... scatterplot of the first two dimension of an SCA of village- against researcher-proposed LUU-level indicators measured in 1999 Together, they accounted for 36.5% of the total inertia Most of the villages ... Inadequate security 3 3 3 Lack of artificial insemination Lack of market and shopping center 3 0 0 Lack of nursery schools Lack of organization and unity Lack of secondary school and polytechnic ... the number of LUUs reported as consuming a high proportion of indicator traditional foods, many of which are utilized during periods of reduced food availability 7.4.2 Evaluation of Goals, Expectations,...
... Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability ofAgroecosystems Although, on average, income for a household was low, many of the households had diverse sources of income, including off-farm employment ... failure of community action plans after a significant amount of resources had been expended, resulting in a lot of frustration and decline in the communities capacity for collective action Communities ... of indicators This is at odds with the assertion that ecosystems present an almost-infinite list of potential indicators This assertion stems from models ofagroecosystems as dynamic states of...
... 204 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability ofAgroecosystems Technical improvements, such as geographical information systems ... reasons: (1) the incorporation of targets and thresholds in the process of categorizing the indicators, thus providing an intuitive interpretation, and (2) projection of data from the initial and ... because the two suites provided complementary but fundamentally different information Because communities often lack the capacity to develop and measure quantitative indicators, while researchers...
... F-13 proves fungal cleavage of the aromatic fluoroquinolone core for the first time Hence, two decades after the emergence of the notion of the nonbiodegradability of fluoroquinolones, fungal degradation ... to F-5 of enrofloxacin (Wetzstein et al 1997) or ciprofloxacin (Wetzstein et al 1999), for which hydroxylation of position C-5 was indistinguishable from hydroxylation of C-8 Degradation of the ... region of the NMR spectrum, assigned to H-5, H-2 and H-2’ (Table 2); (iii) NMR signals of all protons of the cyclopropyl moiety (data not shown); and (iv) specific peaks of absorbance of the...
... Page of Synthesis of antimony complexes Aqueous solution of SbCl3 was made by dissolving 0.5 g (2.19 mM) in 10 mL, and a few drops of dil HCl were added; to this solution, equimolar amount of ligand ... corresponding to the loss of rest of the ligand’s components and formation of metal oxide [22] All attempts employing different sets of conditions to obtain single crystals of the synthesized complexes ... disappeared in the spectra of complexes indicating deprotonation of ligand In the spectra of compounds V-VIII, appearance of new band of medium intensity around 430 cm-1 indicated the coordination...
... F-13 proves fungal cleavage of the aromatic fluoroquinolone core for the first time Hence, two decades after the emergence of the notion of the nonbiodegradability of fluoroquinolones, fungal degradation ... to F-5 of enrofloxacin (Wetzstein et al 1997) or ciprofloxacin (Wetzstein et al 1999), for which hydroxylation of position C-5 was indistinguishable from hydroxylation of C-8 Degradation of the ... region of the NMR spectrum, assigned to H-5, H-2 and H-2’ (Table 2); (iii) NMR signals of all protons of the cyclopropyl moiety (data not shown); and (iv) specific peaks of absorbance of the...
... (1998): Checklist of Non-Vascular and Vascular Plants of Slovakia Bratislava, Veda: 687 Máliš F., Rudaš B., Kontriš J (2005): Soil conditions of forest communities in the area of Bykovo massif ... mixtures of trees In: Cannel M.G.R., Malcolm D.C., Robertson P.A (eds): The Ecology of MixedSpecies Stands of Trees Oxford, Blackwell: 211–232 StatSoft Inc (2005): Statistica 7.1 Tulsa, StatSoft Inc ... stands a reduction of mesophilous herbs and an increase of acidophytes, resulting in lower richness than in hardwood stands The negative effect of Picea abies on diversity and cover of vascular plants...
... form of a decoction A small amount of powdered flower is boiled and served in the form of tea Another means of application included the utilization of bark in the form of smoke Respondents in Kofele ... utilization of kosso the majority of respondents (57% in Bale, 60% in Kofele and 70% in Debark) stated that they are currently not utilizing kosso medicine Of this percentage, 94% in Bale, 78% in Kofele, ... Bale; B = Kofele; C = Debark Medicinal uses of Hagenia against livestock ailments have been also documented in literature [14,16,30,35] Mode of preparation In general, plant parts of Hagenia...
... satisfaction, vitality of exchanges, gains to the community, et al.) that contribute to the assessment of a CoPs success Overall, completion of all questionnaires at time of entry Page of in the study ... Fontaine MA, Millen DR: Understanding the benefits and impact ofcommunitiesof practice In Knowledge networks - Innovation through communitiesof practice Edited by: Hildreth P, Kimble C Hershey, PA: ... initiation of the project Shared repertoire: use of shared information/knowledge in problem-solving strategies, utilization of e-technologies to access and capture information/knowledge, display of explicit...