integrated soil fertility management in africa from knowledge to implementation

Biological approaches to sustainable soil systems - Part 3 potx

Biological approaches to sustainable soil systems - Part 3 potx

... Group, LLC Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Africa: From Knowledge to Implementation 271 References Bationo, A., Managing Nutrient Cycles to Sustain Soil Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa, ... Group, LLC Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Africa: From Knowledge to Implementation Organic / mineral inputs Erosion / deposition BG biodiversity Inherent traits (CEC, SOM, pH, WHC) Soil Human ... development of improved soil management q 2006 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Africa: From Knowledge to Implementation 263 interventions and principles have been...

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Customer satisfaction: review of literature and application to the product-service systems

Customer satisfaction: review of literature and application to the product-service systems

... behaviour from the point of view of different disciplines Business management and marketing are concerned with ways of satisfying and retaining customers for the purpose of generating profits, improving ... Customer intercepts and exit surveys are two types of in- store information collection methods They are especially useful in probing customer in their shopping environment These surveys aim to intercept ... (technical, information and knowledge services) that are included into PSS may be evaluated • Infrastructure can be evaluated when the customer comes into contact with enabling supporting technology,...

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Tài liệu Evolution of GSM and cdmaOne to 3G Systems pptx

Tài liệu Evolution of GSM and cdmaOne to 3G Systems pptx

... receive point -to- multipoint multicast (PTMM) and point -to- point multipoint group call (PTM-G) data The SGSN may send data or signalling information to an MS The MM state in the MS changes to ready ... moves from ready to standby To move from ready to idle states, the MS initiates the GPRS detach procedure Logical link management functions These are involved with link establishment, maintenance ... the global standard To explain this early expectation we need to point out that the ITU has been in the 3G game from the beginning [6] Paralleling the European Union (EU) RACE initiative, ITU formed...

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A Guide to the Analysis of Fish Marketing Systems Using a Combination of Sub-sector Analysis and the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach potx

A Guide to the Analysis of Fish Marketing Systems Using a Combination of Sub-sector Analysis and the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach potx

... customers Again, others involved in the processing of fish need to have profound knowledge on how to dry/smoke or salt fish to ensure good quality products to attract customers People coming from ... Participatory survey methods Important points to remember when undertaking an informal survey (or indeed any survey) include the following Historically, information-gathering exercises have tended to ... used as a starting point for thinking about how and in what combinations, assets translate into sustainable livelihoods It can also provide an analytical tool for tracking changes in people’s asset...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "EVALUATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES TO DATA BASE SYSTEMS" pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: "EVALUATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES TO DATA BASE SYSTEMS" pdf

... COLING 80: Proceedings of the gCh Internationa~ Conference on Computariona~ Linguistics, Tokyo, October 1980, pp 190-201 Thompson, Bozeua H and Thompson, F B "Shifting to a Higher Gear in a ... questions we might try to answer What has been learned about user needs? What most important linguistic phenomena to allOW for? What other kinds of interactions? Error analysis points in the obvious ... uonparsed inputs in H C is striking Table (the meaning of abbreviations is given below the cable) deals with fragments Zt i s m o s t l y selfexplanatory, as i s the absence of dsfiniclons from ¥-F...

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ELECTIONS: Federal Efforts to Improve Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed doc

ELECTIONS: Federal Efforts to Improve Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed doc

... given its leadership role in defining voting system standards, in establishing programs both to accredit laboratories and to certify voting systems, and in acting as a clearinghouse for improvement ... arranging for polling places, recruiting and training poll workers, designing ballots, and preparing and testing voting equipment for use in casting and tabulating votes Election day activities include ... new guidelines; to give testing laboratories the opportunity to develop testing protocols, train laboratory staff, and be prepared to test the systems against the new guidelines; and to allow...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "The adaptation of a machine-learned sentence realization system to French" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "The adaptation of a machine-learned sentence realization system to French" potx

... analysis Nodes in the logical form representation are linked to the corresponding syntax nodes, allowing us to learn contexts for the mapping from the semantic representation to the surface syntax ... All remaining differences are in the specific linguistic operations which map the semantic representation to the generated string and are limited to specific lexical choices or to reverting semantic ... that the total development time for adapting the system from German to French was ten person-weeks This time includes training all of the models, and general improvements in the system Acknowledgements...

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direct methods for stability analysis of electric power systems theoretical foundation, bcu methodologies, and applications

direct methods for stability analysis of electric power systems theoretical foundation, bcu methodologies, and applications

... illustrated in Figure 3.2 Intuitively speaking, an equilibrium point is asymptotically stable if it is the sink of nearby trajectories An asymptotically stable equilibrium point is also termed a sink in ... according to online TSA, was 2526 MW instead of 2105 MW With a 5% security margin, the output of the remote generator was set to 2400 MW, while the output of the local generator was set to 100 MW to ... object of system identification is simply to gain general insight into the system, for instance, determining resonances in the response, then frequency–domain methods are probably most appropriate...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Changes in the criticality of Hopf bifurcations due to certain model reduction techniques in systems with multiple timescales" pdf

Báo cáo hóa học: " Changes in the criticality of Hopf bifurcations due to certain model reduction techniques in systems with multiple timescales" pdf

... splitting the system into the k-dimensional fast subsystem obtained in the singular limit ε → of (1) and known as the layer problem, and the one-dimensional slow subsystem obtained in the singular ... coupled cells where such intrinsic transient dynamics might play a role in forming new attractors In many physiological models, we are interested in the onset of oscillations, i.e in the existence and ... that in some cases in which a Hopf bifurcation involves the fast variables, all the information needed to determine the criticality of the bifurcation is contained in the fast subsystem but in...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

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báo cáo hóa học: " Characterizing emergency departments to improve understanding of emergency care systems" potx

báo cáo hóa học: " Characterizing emergency departments to improve understanding of emergency care systems" potx

... ongoing Director of EMNet Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests NEDI-International Country Coordinators (to date): Venkataraman Anantharaman MBBS, FRCP (Singapore ... care systems into three groups: underdeveloped, developing, and mature Each group measures certain systemic indicators of EM, including its status as a specialty, the amount of training that providers ... clear-cut definition, a situation that may reflect the complexity of pinpointing one (Table 1) Though it is difficult to incorporate every service providing emergency care into one compact definition,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

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báo cáo hóa học:" Research Article Pitch- and Formant-Based Order Adaptation of the Fractional Fourier Transform and Its Application to Speech Recognition" pptx

báo cáo hóa học:" Research Article Pitch- and Formant-Based Order Adaptation of the Fractional Fourier Transform and Its Application to Speech Recognition" pptx

... 5.93 The training material comes from male and female speakers and consists of 6664 clean tokens, after removing unusable tokens identified during postprocessing The tokens from the remaining speakers ... four tones: the flat tone (tone 1), the rising tone (tone 2), the falling and rising tone (tone 3), and the falling tone (tone 4) Each tone of each vowel from a female voice is recorded five times ... chirp rate corresponding to the transform order p can be transformed into an impulse in a certain fractional domain For instance, it can be seen from the kernel function form in (6) that for the...

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Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Estimates of direct and maternal covariance functions for growth of Australian beef calves from birth to weaning" doc

Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Estimates of direct and maternal covariance functions for growth of Australian beef calves from birth to weaning" doc

... determined by results of the earlier analyses The aim in doing so was to determine the minimum order of fit required for each random factor, and thus determine the most parsimonious model describing ... of to weeks, resulting in the bulk of calves being born during April and May each year Calves were weighed at birth and subsequently, from July to late December or early January, at monthly intervals ... eliminated records with implausible dates or weights In addition, changes in weights between individual weighings were scrutinised The number of animals in the data was sufficiently small to allow...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

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Báo cáo y học: "Adaptation of Rhizobium leguminosarum to pea, alfalfa and sugar beet rhizospheres investigated by comparative transcriptomics" docx

Báo cáo y học: "Adaptation of Rhizobium leguminosarum to pea, alfalfa and sugar beet rhizospheres investigated by comparative transcriptomics" docx

... rhizosphere-induced genes [7] and the gene for autoinducer synthesis protein CinI (RL3378) involved in coordinating quorum-sensing regulation and biofilm formation (Fig 3) Quorum sensing is likely to ... malonate present in the alfalfa rhizosphere may need to be detoxified as it can act as an inhibitor of succinate dehydrogenase Canavanine is a toxic amino acid analogue of arginine found in seeds and ... Melibiose/ */ Raffinose Lactose * α-galactoside RL4655 (IntA) Arabino -galactan myo-inositol RL4218 (MtlE) GABA-like Uracil/ Uridine Mimosine like Sorbitol/Mannitol*/Dulcitol * Arabinan pRL120226 RL0091...

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báo cáo khoa học: " Adaptation of barley to mild winters: A role for PPDH2" pps

báo cáo khoa học: " Adaptation of barley to mild winters: A role for PPDH2" pps

... the time from planting to heading of 70 winter cultivars that were exposed to five different periods of vernalization, which ranged from to 60 d, before transplantation to the field in Martonvásár, ... conditions in the Iberian Peninsula) This could explain why the majority of SBCC winter lines carry the dominant PPDH2 allele SBCC winter lines are adapted to a typical mild Mediterranean winter, in ... out from the winter barleys, which is exactly the case for the Spanish landraces In midlatitudinal regions, including North Africa, southern Europe, Nepal, China, and Japan, both spring and winter...

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báo cáo khoa học: " Metabolic adaptation of skeletal muscle to high altitude hypoxia: how new technologies could resolve the controversies" pdf

báo cáo khoa học: " Metabolic adaptation of skeletal muscle to high altitude hypoxia: how new technologies could resolve the controversies" pdf

... resulting increase in autophagy, thereby maintaining sufficient O2 supply to the remaining mitochondrial population and thus minimizing ROS production Correspondingly, PGC-1α activity appears to ... mitochondrial biogenesis in hypoxic skeletal muscle at altitude involves the downregulation of protein synthesis in response to energy deprivation The AMP-activated serine/threonine protein kinase ... tightly coupled to HIF-1 activity in skeletal muscle cells, with an increase in PGC1α-driven mitochondrial biogenesis causing increased O2 consumption and intracellular hypoxia, leading to HIF-1 stabilization...

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Báo cáo y học: " Direct spread of thyroid follicular carcinoma to the parotid gland and the internal jugular vein: a case report" pot

Báo cáo y học: " Direct spread of thyroid follicular carcinoma to the parotid gland and the internal jugular vein: a case report" pot

... showing left thyroid tumour extending directly into the left internal Figure jugular vein Coronal T2 weighted image (A) and STIR sequence (B) showing left thyroid tumour extending directly into ... IJV: internal jugular vein; MRI: magnetic resonance imaging; TTF-1: Thyroid Transcription Factor Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Consent Written informed ... presenting as a metastasis in the parotid gland serves to highlight the importance of remaining clinically vigilant to the possibility that a salivary gland lesion may be a metastasis from another...

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