knowledge gaps and challenges

... stocks within different landscape positions (wetland/riparian areas) and soil zones Quantify GHG fluxes on wetland–upland transects including natural and cropped Basic principle and research on the ... conversion to other land uses (pasture, grasslands, trees, wetlands) Verification of agriculture forest land change and implications on GHG and soil carbon dynamics Effect of land-use conversion ... Working Group and Canmore I and II workshop participants and the Expert Committee on Greenhouse Gases and Carbon Sequestration in the development and refinement of the research gaps and priorities...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:22

... Parvaiz Ahmad, and Nicole Geissler Prospects of Halophytes in Understanding and Managing Abiotic Stress Tolerance Vinayak H Lokhande and Penna Suprasanna UV-B Radiation, Its Effects and Defense ... and uptake of ions, enzymatic and nonenzymatic antioxidant response, maintenance of redox and energetic status, salt inclusion/excretion and genetic control (Flowers and Colmer 2008) Understanding ... Rasheed, and Saddia Galani 135 Understanding Chilling Tolerance Traits Using Arabidopsis Chilling-Sensitive Mutants Dana Zoldan, Reza Shekaste Band, Charles L Guy, and Ron Porat Root Form and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20

... Acknowledgements There are several people I would like to acknowledge: Firstly, my advisor Professor Byrappa Venkatesh for being an excellent and patient mentor, and for devoting so much time and ... microinjections and mouse husbandry; i The members of IMCB Histopathology Unit, especially Keith Rogers and Susan Rogers for histology tips, protocols and equipment; The staff of A*STAR Graduate Academy and ... ectoderm and neural tube, three sequence regions CR1, CR2 and CR3 were found to be conserved between mouse and fugu CR1 was shown to be essential for expression in the mesoderm, and the central and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:08

... power and rate vectors that satisfy constraints (7) and (8) and vi = { p1,i , p2,i , , pB(k),i , r1,i, r2,i , , rB(k),i } The elements p j,i and r j,i represent the transmit power and rate ... algorithm on its operation and achievable performance and allow us to obtain a better understanding of its operational characteristics and properties Then in Sections 4.2.3 and 4.2.4, comparative ... middle SNR, and high SNR In the next subsection, we evaluate the performance of MAX-FAIR, MAX, and HDR methods under all four cases and compare their corresponding achieved throughput and fairness...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... (T) and mean annual precipitation (P) for the following hypotheses: IA0 (T and P), IA2 (T + oC and P), IA3 (T + oC and P), IA4 (T + oC and P); IA2 –50 (T + oC and P –50 mm), IA2-100 (T + oC and ... IA2-150 (T + oC and P –150 mm); IA3 (T + oC and P –50 mm), IA3 (T + oC and P –100 mm), IA3 (T + oC and P –150 mm); IA4 (T + 4oC and P –50 mm), IA4 (T + 4oC and P –100 mm), IA4 (T + 4oC and P –150 ... account both intra- and inter-annual variability in temperature and precipitation Also, due to the diversity and heterogeneity of the climatic descriptions made by the various authors, and to be able...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:20

... and architecture in hot and dry climate of Iran, Payam and Payvandeno, Tehran, (in Farsi) Tavasoli, M., 1982, the construction of city and architecture in hot and dry climate of Iran, Payam and ... the cage and the outflow leads to one or two floor (first floor and basement) [13] (Figure 2) In some classifications they are called two, four, six, and eight sided as well as Yazdi and Kermani ... Cunningham and Thompson [17] offered a model as a combination of single pressure wind catcher and solar chimney (Figure 3) Givoni [18] used their data during a semiempirical investigation and stated...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:32

... patience and knowledge This dissertation would not have been possible if without their guidance and persistent help Their untiring enthusiasm in research inspires me to develop a good understanding ... 1994, Popescu and Rohrlich devised the Popescu-Rohrlich (PR) Box [10] which shows the similarities and differences between quantum correlations and classical ones Taking the controversial and difficult ... Kaszlikowski and Professor Vlatko Vedral for their wonderful lectures on quantum information and solid-state physics respectively These lectures helped me considerably in the grasp of fundamental knowledge...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:48

... locating sources of knowledge and collaborating and sharing knowledge, are the knowledge related needs that are present in all software projects A conscious and defined approach towards knowledge in ... relation to knowledge, and recognize it’s value and influence, have emerged (Eisner 2002) In response to this need, researchers distinguish between data, information and knowledge, and define strict ... successful knowledge enabling initiative rely on (von Krogh, Ichijo & Nonaka 2000): Knowledge is a justified true belief, individual and social, tacit and explicit Knowledge, especially tacit knowledge, ...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 00:20

... observations and lessons learned from the evaluation, and suggested some possible research directions to address these challenges which may be helpful for current and new participants, or IE and QA ... task (Artiles et al., 2007) and ACE2008 (e.g Baron and Freedman, 2008) Compared to WePS and ACE, KBP requires linking an entity mention in a source document to a knowledge base with or without ... Daniel Moder Henry was born Monday in Los Angeles and weighed 8? lbs Roberts, 39, and husband Danny Moder, 38, are already parents to twins Hazel and Phinnaeus who were born in November 2006.” the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... M., and Leidner, D E Knowledge Management Systems: Issues, Challenges, and Benefits,” Communications of the AIS (1:Article 7), 1999 Boland, R J., Jr., and Tenkasi, R V “Perspective Making and ... types of knowledge Knowledge can be either tacit or explicit (Polanyi 1967), this attribute is also expressed as the distinction between knowing and knowledge (Brown and Duguid 1998; Cook and Brown ... difficult for knowledge managers to plan knowledge management initiatives despite all the understanding from the literature about what knowledge is and how it is created, transferred, and shared...

Ngày tải lên: 30/06/2014, 21:16

... this and each of the companies employ scientists, nutritionists and engineers to develop innovative foods and beverages, and have established processes for internal and external expert and scientific ... President of Public and Government Affairs, PepsiCo and Co-Chairman International Food and Beverage Alliance, 700 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, New York, USA and 6Director of Heart Health and Global Health ... nuts, seeds and low-fat dairy in our global product portfolio ▪ Display calorie count and key nutrients on our food and beverage packaging by 2012 ▪ Invest in our business and research and development...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... various authors and researchers on knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer over the past six years Through such examination, the issues, trends, and antecedents of knowledge sharing and knowledge ... uncover the issues in knowledge sharing and transfer, particularly investigating the antecedents and barriers to knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer across various industries and countries This ... challenges of knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer has been discussed This study will generate nomothetic knowledge implications by scrutinizing the antecedents and barriers to KS and knowledge...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2016, 07:34

... areas in highlands and mountains aiming at satisfying local water demand and reducing poverty; • Program for Large Multipurpose Water Systems with big reservoirs (V=0.3÷1.5 billion m3 ) and high dams ... centuries and also directly protects the delta from floods Central Vietnam stretches from the North ( parallel 20o) to the South ( parallel 11o) and is composed of two subregions: the East Coastland and ... where there are sandy islands, large salty ponds, typhoonal and monsoon regime Ecosystem Ecosystem, which changes in basin from the river source to the estuarial zone during and after dam construction,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2013, 22:47

... PSTN signaling and call control infrastructures, (c) service and feature extraction and insertion servers and/ or GWs for delivering the caller’s name and number, voice message, and so on to an ... CONCLUSIONS AND CHALLENGES ITU-T, work groups of IETF, MSF, and the International Softswitch Consortium (ISC), IEEE (standards.ieee.org), Cable Labs (www.cablelabs.com/ projects/), and the DSL and ATM ... flexibility, and widespread availability of the IP-based network and services are fueling the unification of distributed computing and communications (datacom and telecom) infrastructures, and their...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2013, 07:20

... fewer and cheaper resources The situation is however more complex in the case of CDN since higher bandwidth and lower bandwidth cost also have as a side effect that customers develop more and more ... such as streaming and ondemand Important research questions are, e.g., scalability, overlay traffic measurements and modeling, data search and retrieval, load balancing, churn handling, QoS provisioning ... between the origin server and the surrogate server and the other between the surrogate server and the client On top of that, questions related to QoS, content multicasting and multipath routing heavily...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 21:15

... productivity and efficiency gains (Amit and Zott, 2001; Lucking-Reiley and Spulbur, 2001; Wigand and Benjamin, 1995) E-commerce also is expected to facilitate entry into new markets and the extension ... toward creation, trading and distribution of knowledge, intellectual property and intangibles The symbiosis between changing production and business processes and information and communication technologies ... S.K and Gupta, J.N.D (2001) E-Commerce Opportunities and Challenges In M Singh & T Thompson (Eds.), E-Commerce Diffusion: Strategies and Challenges Australia: Heidelberg Press Sharma, S K and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 11:16

... opportunities and challenges of the knowledge- driven economy 3.1 Insufficient capacity to launch new products and services Progress towards completion of the internal market, and the sound monetary and ... production and service systems, are indirectly covered under the transmission and application of knowledge Transmission and application of new knowledge Formal inventive activity, covered under knowledge ... Sweden, Finland and Ireland and the low innovative capacity of Greece and Portugal Of course, this shift towards high or low technology sectors is not accidental, but can reflect both public and private...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... inefficiencies and bottlenecks and enhancing workflow using automation and other information technologies, can add additional cost savings as well as faster cycle times and other business benefits Challenges ... long-term costs such as unemployment insurance and employee benefits, and implementing the software development and quality assurance processes and practices of the offshore suppliers as a way ... management needs to thoroughly understand the challenges to successful offshoring Major risks and issues include differences in language, culture, politics, regulations, and work practices—all of which...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 07:20

... Switzerland, United Kingdom, Holland, USA and Japan) Imports were directed mainly to Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland German and Dutch traders imported mainly spices, fruits, tea, and nuts ... Opportunities and Challenges for Indian Organic Products 18 Fruits and vegetables Total 400 1050 Source: Marg-Org, 2002 (Field survey, and secondary sources: APEDA, Tea Board, Coffee Board, and Spices ... organic markets like Austria and Denmark show poor growth rates (Hamm et al 2002) Switzerland and Denmark have the highest consumption per capita, whereas France, Holland and Italy have low consumption...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... poultry in livelihoods, and the species and breeds kept Broader knowledge, will allow the impact of control measures in this sector to be assessed, and national HPAI preventive and control policies ... in the 21st Century 46 Poultry production and the environment – a review P Gerber, C Opio and H Steinfeld Animal Production and Health Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ... intensification, future, climate 47 Do old and new forms of poultry go together? Jan Slingenbergh1 and Marius Gilbert2 Animal Production and Health Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20