... economic link between the forest and cropland components of the agroecosystem is established, it explores the way the community- level social processes affect the exploitation of the forest. 2 ... food, fiber, and cash crops provide the link between the biophysical components of an agroecosystem and the social system. Many communities in rural settings affirm and recreate themselves largely ... sonal cycles and play important roles in community rituals. The milpa and milpa fal- lows also provide fodder for domestic animals, flowers for the dead and for the saints, and, in the case of
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... in the United States. For many peasants, life has consisted of working on the land at the beginning of the rainy season and then migrating as soon as the land is sown with maize and beans. Other ... within the United States and other countries. The flexibility of small and medium farmers producing fresh fruits and vegetables is limited in many ways. The perishability of the product and the ... 85% of the total exports went to the United States and 10% to Canada, and by the end of the 1990s, 98% went to the United States. All tomatoes, 94% of the strawberries, and all watermelons and cucumbers
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Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities - Chapter 7 ppsx
... than most other elements of the landscape mosaic. In the rural Torgau district (western Saxonia), streuobst sites and fruit tree alleys, together with the remaining hedges, tree rows, and the like ... embrace the earth, and its crown reaches up to the kingdom of the gods and supports the sky. Among the fruit trees, cherry and apple trees are mentioned particularly often with myths, beliefs, and ... blossoms, leaves, and fruits, fruit trees enrich the scenery’s variety and diversity in both space, and time. Even in the winter, the bizarre forms of the leafless branches and the individual shape
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Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities - Chapter 8 potx
... of the river valley land has reduced the cycle to moves in the summer (to the mountains) and the winter (to the desert). The circuit consists of the summer pasture, the winter forage, and the ... farmers. That land is between the winter and summer grazing lands of the crianceros. Furthermore, much of the grazing takes place on government land, which is in the process of privatization. These policy ... Press LLC THE RURAL COMMUNITY OF THE CRIANCEROS The crianceros move their sheep and goats through valleys of the southern Andes mountains, mountain slope, woodland, and arid steppes in the Patagonian
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Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities - Chapter 9 pdf
... migrant workers They need housing and other infrastructure while they are there on the farm The corn is harvested by machine in both fields, and in both cases they store it on the farm All the no-till ... institutions change with them Therefore, the personal contacts made by Lynn and other staff of Clarkson Grain have helped them to make the risky shifts they value for themselves and the community This ... by the way he delivered white corn The current suppliers sent the corn in 100 lb bags, which needed several workers to take them off the truck, rip them open, pour them into the bin, and then
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Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities - Chapter 10 pot
... do exist, they tend to be between research and extension at the district level and increasingly between NGOs and extension at the point where the former are engaging the latter in their projects. ... and other infrastructure. They indicate the major species of crops, livestock, fish, and trees. The map of the future is a vision of all the new roads, houses, markets, water supplies, and other ... of how their agroecosystem should be managed. Providing oppor- tunities for private and public services to present the objectives and mandate of their own organization and the constraints they
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Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities - Chapter 11 doc
... gets food from the other without causing damage to the other. Foodsheds are sustainable relationships without harm between people who eat together, and between people and the land. For example, ... bring their children to experience the farm, and they may also assist in harvesting pick-your-own vegetables and flowers. By doing so, they establish a direct connec- tion between the land, the ... food they eat, and the flowers they enjoy. Another connection the farm provides for the community is making available to CSA shareholders other local food grown not on the farm but within the
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Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities - Chapter 12 ppsx
... participants work together and learn from each other about the variety and com- monalities of vision for the community. They built on the latent values, the aspira- tions, and the skills that local ... is developed and shared by many. The statement can change the relationship between the participants and the community, giving them courage to pursue the vision (Senge, 1990). After the vision statement ... showed them that they had the power to lead and make decisions to better their community. The MDA staff provided facilitation for the process, but the actual leadership and commitment came from the
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Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities - Chapter 13 ppt
... given the other forested lands along the bluffs and the flood plain of the Missouri River. During the third meeting in December 1991, the IDT presented an overview of the assessment report and then ... land owned by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. This parcel is the largest con- tiguous unit of land owned by the tribe. The Glover’s Bend area to the east and the bluff land to the west of the ... on the realization that present-day users are only temporary occupants and caretakers of the land. Therefore, they should manage the land and other natural resources for future generations. The
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báo cáo khoa học: " Interactions between cauliflower and Rhizoctonia anastomosis groups with different levels of aggressiveness" ppt
... detected although they could not stop the fungal growth and hyphae were observed beyond the fortified cell walls. Type III reactions, on the other hand, were characterized by the absence of cell ... Rhizoctonia AGs during the early stages of the infection and colonization process and in the nature and extent of host responses. Moreover, a highly significant correlation was found between disease ... incubated in the dark at 21°C for 2 days to allow seed germination. Afterwards, the lower halves of the Petri dishes were wrapped into aluminium foil to pro- tect the roots from the light and the dishes
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Báo cáo y học: " Interactions between genes and environmental factors in asthma and atopy: new developments" pps
... (multifactorial) traits The dissection of these traits is hampered by phenocopy, incomplete penetrance, and genetic heterogeneity [9] The complexity of the genetics of asthma and other atopy-associated ... regions and polymorphisms in candidate genes linked to or associated with asthma, atopic dermatitis, IgE levels and response to asthma therapy The aims of this review are to explain the methodology ... Review Interactions between genes and environmental factors in asthma and atopy: new developments Claudia Sengler, Susanne Lau, Ulrich Wahn and Renate Nickel Department of Pediatric Pneumology and
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Correlation of procalcitonin and C-reactive protein to inflammation, complications, and outcome during the intensive care unit course of multiple-trauma patients" pdf
... by the chi-square test. The area under the curve of the receiver operating characteristic was calculated and plotted by SPSS 10.0. Statistical comparison between the area under the curve of the ... trauma, the PCT level was within the normal range in 88% of the patients while the CRP level was within the normal range in only 6% of the patients. Influence of type of and severity of trauma The ... for the diagnosis of sepsis. Contrary to the previous studies, however, this cutoff value only indicates the risk for the development of such complica- tions during the further course of the
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Báo cáo y học: " Interactions between Nef and AIP1 proliferate multivesicular bodies and facilitate egress of HIV-1" potx
... mechanism other than the removal of CD4 from HIV-1 Env and emphasizes the importance of Nef during late stages of the viral replicative cycle in these cells. Nef can substitute for the function of the ... generate the pNL-∆ pol plasmid, the entire pol gene together with the Vif and the Vpr ORFs were removed by Bcl I-Sal I digestion, treated with Klenow enzyme and fur- ther ligated with the T4 DNA ... in control cells that expressed only GFP. Thus, the proliferation of MVBs requires interactions between Nef and AIP1. Interactions between Nef and AIP1 are required for increased production
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Tài liệu Interactions Between Workers and the Technology of Production: Evidence from Professional Baseball doc
... (0.107) Yes Standard errors are in parentheses The symbol “∆” indicates the first difference between consecutive years in the variable for the same person The coefficient and standard error for ... baseball that these types of interactions between workers are significant, and appear to be based on a rational response to the technology The Data and Background The data was obtained from the “Baseball ... robust to the inclusion or exclusion of the team’s batting performance Regarding the other control variables, they all have the expected signs and are generally significant for the batting and pitching...
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Interactions between Aquaculture and the Environment pot
... Fisheries and Food Published by: The World Conservation Union (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland and Malaga, Spain in collaboration with the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the European ... aquaculture areas should be encouraged Interactions between Aquaculture and the Environment Guide G Therapeutic and other Products Principle The use of therapeutants should be managed correctly ... depends on the capture of wild stocks Therefore, to minimise the interaction of capture-based aquaculture and the ecosystem, there is the need for research about how to close the life cycles of the...
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Báo cáo y học: " The Basic Immune Simulator: An agent-based model to study the interactions between innate and adaptive immunity" doc
... cancer and transplant rejection Both the innate and adaptive components of the host response are complex, and the interaction between the two represents another level of intricate, non-linear and ... agents and signals from one zone to another They are randomly placed in Zones and The variation and uncertainty of the time spent by immune cells in the areas represented by Zone is one of the sources ... of the western population and rising in the developed world [64] The correlation between the hypersensitivity reactions of the immune system that involve T lymphocytes and dendritic cells and the...
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UNDERSTANDING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN VEGETATION AND HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEMS IN TROPICAL URBAN AREAS FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
... in the range of 𝑠 ∗ and 𝑠 𝑤 , the uptake is less than the demand but the plants still stay “healthy” Figure 1.2 shows the relationship between the amount of transpiration and the relative soil ... wetland, and green roof They function as various temporal storages of rainwater and then channel the water to the drainage system gradually Due to the detention and retention functions, they ... affects the infiltration rate and the soil moisture losses though the thickness of the active soil as described in Equation 1.3 Within this layer, the existence of the root changes the compaction and...
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Computational techniques for simulating the interactions between peptides and carbon nanotubes
... position of the particle d the center of mass distance between the peptide and the nanotube at instant simulation time d0 the initial center of mass distance between the peptide and the nanotube ... our understanding of the mechanisms of the interactions between CNTs and bio-materials, and hence promote the design of novel nano-devices These works will be thoroughly discussed in the following ... the interatomic forces from the electronic structure calculations during the process of simulation The typical length and timescales are of the order of angstroms ( Å ) and picoseconds Nevertheless,...
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The conditions in Africa and Eurasia during the last glacial cycle
... at the time The vegetation of the Eurasian Plain during OIS 3, in the west at least, seems to have oscillated between conifer woodland, with shrub tundra in the north, during warm parts of the ... Italy the forest expands during warm phases but never to the extent reached during an interglacial, creating a mosaic landscape of forest and grassland (Watts et al., 2000) The extent and location ... those of the middle Pleistocene (Jahns et al., 1998) The complexity of the African climate is the result of the size and heterogeneous nature of the continent Nevertheless links between Northern...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Bioimaging of the unbalanced expression of microRNA9 and microRNA9* during the neuronal differentiation of P19 cells doc
... positions and sequences used to amplify pri-miR9-1, 9-2 and 9-3 Arrows indicate the position and orientation of the primers Bold font represents the sequence of mature miR9* and italic fonts the sequence ... transcription may be involved in the upstream region between -846 and -531 bp and that positive elements may be involved between -530 and -237 bp These findings indicate that the miR9-1PN3_Fluc construct ... complementary sequences of mature miR9 and miR9*, respectively These three copies were located between the stop codon and the polyadenylation sequence of the GLuc gene These systems were designed to...
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