... LLC 126 IntegratedAssessmentof Health and Sustainability ofAgroecosystems Klee, V (1989) Sign-pattern and stability In Applications of Combinatorics and Graph Theory to the Biological and Social ... 1976), (4) assessmentof stability (Roberts, 1976a), (5) calculation of the strong components, (6) assessmentof connectedness (Roberts, 1976b), and (7) assessmentof the effects of different ... 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 100 IntegratedAssessmentof Health and Sustainability ofAgroecosystems TABLE 4.1 A Comparison of the Number of Concepts and Relationships in Cognitive Maps Drawn...
... 200 IntegratedAssessmentof 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 ... communities have a strong sense of what is good and what is bad in terms of the health and sustainability of their agroecosystems (evidenced in their problem analysis; Chapter 3), they did not ... 198 IntegratedAssessmentof Health and Sustainability ofAgroecosystems agroecosystem That communities perceive this to be the case is illustrated by their recognition of the need to...
... 204 IntegratedAssessmentof Health and Sustainability ofAgroecosystems Technical improvements, such as geographical information systems and remote sensing, self-reporting systems, and automated ... systems for such integratedand adaptive approaches as sustainability and AESH should include both components to provide a balanced assessment 10 MCA (multiple correspondence analysis) was useful ... information Because 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,...
... consists of a set of evaluative criteria, set of weights indicating the importance of those criteria, a set of alternatives, and a set of performance measures indicating the performance of each ... widely applied and now adopted in the current study is the weighted summation multicriteriaanalysis technique The MCA tool depends on criteriaandcriteria s weights The criteriaandcriteria weights ... interviews and consultations, technical and environmental criteria were assigned with a weighed factor ofand the economic and social criteria were assigned with a weighed factor of 1.5 for analysis...
... some problems such as water pollution, salinity intrusion and the spread of shrimp’s diseases. In order to have feasible sets of measures for the above‐stated problem, a MultiCriteriaAnalysis (MCA) method was used and its results are presented in the next sections. ... costs of a constructed wetland depend on the size of the wetland needed, which on itself depends on the amount of flowing wastewater. The advantages of the constructed wetlands ... Another disadvantage is the large amount of pairwise comparisons if many criteria exist. 2.6. Determination of alternatives Based on the constraints and objectives of the problem and the relating sectors, ...
... the number of nodes and elements was 41098 and 29436 (Modular) and 33270 and 23744 (Monoblock) For Construct B, the number of nodes and elements was 52121 and 39423 (Modular) and 61577 and 45847 ... allow for ease -of- comparison to future FE and experimental studies using this often-used commercially-available synthetic bone, and the ease -of- storage and lack of degradation of the synthetic ... testing, and data analysis HB, RZ, and MM did the literature search, manuscript writing, figure preparation, and data analysis MP and PZ did extensive re-reading of the manuscript PZ and EHS were...
... posterior migration of the tongue into the pharynx and descent of the larynx, and shortening of the soft palate with loss of the epiglottic-soft palate lock-up The adaptations came about, it is ... we present a preliminary analysisof the speech signal of the voices in our database, using standard acoustic measurements with the purpose of confirming the occurrence of the characteristic acoustic ... group of OSA males Statistically significant differences were found in formant frequency and bandwidth values between apnoea and healthy groups In particular, the results of the formant frequency analysis...
... Thisdocumentsummarizesfindingsandconclusionsoftheassessmentreport :Integrated AssessmentofBlackCarbonandTroposphericOzone.Theassessmentlooksintoallaspects ofanthropogenicemissionsofblackcarbonandtroposphericozoneprecursors,suchas ... due to tighter standards on road transport and more efficient combustion replacing use of biofuels in the residential and commercial sectors, IntegratedAssessmentof Black Carbon and Tropospheric ... concentrations of BC, OC and O3 (largely through reductions in emissions of CO) The warming effect of BC and O3 and the compensating cooling effect of OC, introduces large uncertainty in the net effect of...
... 96-well nucleofection plate was loaded with 20 μL of one of the three nucleofection solutions (approximately 275,000 cells) and the plate was loaded into the Amaxa 96-well Shuttle for nucleofection ... measurement of whole-cell GFP in each well, and secondly by lysis of cells to release GFP in order to yield a more homogeneous measurement Cell lysis was induced by the addition of uL of 0.2 N HCl, and ... of the 96-well initial primary optimization (screen) is shown in Figure 1A Most of the wells had some degree of successful nucleofection of the GFP plasmid shown by a homogeneous expression of...
... content of esterified and etherified p-coumaric acids is 3.78 and 1.72% respectively, and the content of esterified and etherified ferulic acid is 1.02 and 2.2%, respectively [23] Dimerization of ... 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 ... conversion of lime-treated wheat straw into bioethanol: quality assessmentof bioethanol and valorization of side streams by anaerobic digestion and combustion Biotechnology for Biofuels 2008,...
... instead of streptomycin ❖ If 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 ... Encourage and offer HIV testing and counselling of the patient’s children Give information on the benefits of early diagnosis of HIV in infants ❖ Make sure the patient knows what psychological and ... counselling and support Advise on basicand positive prevention (see section I and section 11 of Chronic HIV Care) 43 ❖ Support disclosure of HIV-positive status • Discuss advantages of disclosure...