large scale patterns in dissolved organic carbon concentration flux and sources

... cultivated land in total farm area, share of land under maize and other grains, capital intensity of crop production, and labour intensity In terms of LSF scale, there was a steady decline in all ... tobacco in (pre-land invasion) Zimbabwe, fruits in South Africa and fresh vegetable and cut flowers in Kenya, South Africa and pre-land invasion Zimbabwe In all these cases there are differences in ... according to whether it mainly performed land clearance and preparation; or preparation of planting material, planting and field maintenance; or harvesting and loading; or post-harvest processing;...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... allows us to separate domain-independent and domain-specific constraints in lexical choice so that domainindependent constraints can be reused in each application 3.2 PlanDOC Using the proposed architecture, ... work which aims to combine resources with similar type of information, we select and combine multiple resources containing different types of information; while others combine not well formatted ... we use domain-independent constraints that are included in the lexicon as well as domain-specific constraints Syntactic constraints that come from the detailed subcategorizations linked to each...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 04:20

... signal intensity based on probe sequence For example, probes that contain many adenines tend to have lower intensity than probes with many cytosines, especially if the adenines and cytosines are in ... (FC > 1, FC = 1, and mixed) and one using all probesets (FC > 1, FC = 1, mixed, and empty) The AUC performance measure compares only the rate of finding TPs and FPs, and high scoring methods may ... spiked -in transcripts, and at high intensity, the PDNN model works well This suggests that our understanding of the specific binding signal is poor, and any statistical analysis of an individual...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... improve understandability Ironically, some cloning is done with the intention of increasing understandability and the maintainability of the code For instance, sometimes methods are in- lined to reduce ... may not need to be maintained well However, maintaining large web sites involves editing a large number of files: a laborious and error-prone task 35 Chapter Background and Related Work Today’s ... comprehension by injecting implicit dependencies among program parts Tracing and updating all the clones is a tedious and error-prone process, often resulting in update anomalies (inconsistencies in updates)...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 11:05

... shows 3,5-DCP concentrations in the PACT and the control reactors during and after the shock loading of 3,5-DCP The peak concentration in the PACT and the control reactors were 6.0 and 45.3 mg ... tion New tion ba ba bat bat incu incu incu incu 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Figure Change in amount of organic carbon on PAC for every incubation by glucose According to Sutherland (2001), extracellular polymers ... washing solution was separated from PAC by centrifugation (8,000 rpm, 20 minutes) to determine was determined as the amount of biofilm developed on PAC The amount of organic carbon in washing...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... dissolved organic matter (DOM) is pointed out (Imai, 2002) On the other hand, Takahashi (1999) reported that dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in 1997 did not increase - 216 - Journal of Water and ... pathways to increase DOM in the lake are as follows: (1) increase in the DOM loading from the watershed, (2) increase in internal production of DOM, (3) decrease in DOM discharge from the lake, and (4) ... estimated from DP and TP data in 1986, 1990 and 1999-2009 at Imazuokichuo-point and Minamihiraokichuo-point in the northern basin of Lake Biwa (Lake Biwa Environmental Research Institute, 2011)...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17

... Affymetrix GeneChip data in bioinformatics and computational biology solutions using R and Bioconductor In Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Solutions Using R and Bioconductor Edited by: ... platform effects and laboratory effects become more dominant and can mask the tissue-specific global expression patterns observed in analyses using much larger and heterogeneous datasets Since corCor ... clustering patterns were observed in scatter plots of other principal components; one example is components and in Additional file Since the distance between two samples when projected onto the principal...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... “stress-responsive” (17%) including overrepresented transcripts encoding xyloglucan endotransglucosylase/ hydrolases, a DEAD box RNA helicase, and seed storage proteins including albumins and globulins and several ... massexcised in vivo and the resulting plasmids (pBluescript II) were propagated in the E coli SOLR host strain Individual cDNA clones containing inserts were amplified using the TempliPhi DNA Sequencing ... transcripts encoding the CBL-interacting protein kinase 10 (CIPK10) were overrepresented in both the stressed leaf (SL) and stressed berries (SB) clusters CIPK10 participates in the calcineurin B-like...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:20

... seems to fit into two linear portions indicating two classes of binding sites In contrast, DOMs in the samples after and weeks fitted to a single line, signifying only one type of binding site It ... then linearly transformed using the Scatchard equation, as explained in Chaminda et al (2010) and in the Appendix of this paper RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Biodegradability of zinc binding sites in river ... constants, K', and the binding site concentrations, [LT] for Zn during the incubation of river water DOM and DOM of WWTP effluents in river water Sample log K1' log K2' Normalized binding site concentration...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... resources indicates the human effort involved in designing and maintaining the automated machines The ranking assigned for human resources may be higher during manufacturing, installation and ... to increase once a market and demand are established 4.3 Sustainability of fuel handling processes Solid fuels arriving at the system require temporary storage, drying, crushing/milling and internal ... biodiesel production [59] Human resources: Level of direct human work input involved in procuring, manufacturing, installing and operating an element or process, within the Canadian market [5,70,68,72,73,90]...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... (and regions) rising rapidly Meanwhile, some other countries (and regions) in this group were steadily in emitting levels So the inner-differences are increasing in lower income countries (and ... SD and Theil indicators rose from 0.7589 and 0.2781 in 1975 to 0.9075 and 0.3490 in 1987, respectively After then, convergence occurred again The SD and Theil indicators declined to 0.8447 and ... of Science and Technology of China E-mail address: jiejie_g@163.com Wen-Jing Yi is a Ph.D candidate in Management Science and Engineering at the Institue of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... protection of the nation’s financial system remains a top priority for IRS-Criminal Investigation.” The indictment, representing the culmination of a two -and- a-half-year investigation, charges that ... origination, purchasing, and servicing fees over the five-year period covered by the indictment ABACUS is a federally-chartered deposit and lending institution headquartered at Bowery Street in ... participation in this scheme Loan officer JIN HUA “JENNY” ZHANG has been charged by felony complaint with Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree and related charges Loan processors, including...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... Tsukada, and Hideki Isozaki 2007 Online large- margin training for statistical machine translation In Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Mehtods in Natural Language Processing and ... the training examples on which they were introduced The goal of this paper is to investigate if and how it is possible to benefit from scaling discriminative training for SMT to large training sets ... ranking with SVMs Information Retrieval Journal David Chiang, Yuval Marton, and Philip Resnik 2008 Online large- margin training of syntactic and structural translation features In Proceedings...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20

... summing over individual judges and normalizing The average interjudge precision and recall is computed by averaging over all judge pairs However, precision and recall not take chance agreement into ... decrease in retrieval performance when indexing summaries instead of full documents The idea behind it is similar to (Sparck-Jones and Sakai, 2001) In that experiment, Sparck-Jones and Sakai determine ... measure, given the large number of irrelevant documents per query resulting in a large number of tied ranks, we opted for linear correlation Interestingly enough, linear correlation and rank correlation...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20

... consisting of an agent doing the abridging and an optional theme that is being abridged Furthermore, in an English sentence using the verbabridge, the agent is typically found in the subject and ... 4 Finally, if the required information is not found in any of the linguistic resources, there are default assumptions for all linguistic information, to be described later There are four linguistic ... mapping both the object and indirect object to distinct roles such as theme and goal We developed a semi-automatic tool which examined every verb which had rules in the semantics server, and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... Fires and/ or Land Burning explicitly prohibits all persons and their businesses from causing forest fires and using fire for land clearing in their land or concessions They are obliged to extinguish ... orang-utan, Sumatran tiger, elephant and rhinoceros, and the world's largest butterfly, the Queen Alexandra Birdwing In large part owing to their rainforests, Indonesia, PNG and Malaysia are among the ... company will begin constructing roads, setting up a nursery and removing any standing vegetation, including tropical rainforest, which generally brings about a dramatic loss in local biodiversity...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20

... bacterial interaction on beech leaves: influence on decomposition and dissolved organic carbon quality Soil Biol Biochem 31, 367 – 374 Moore, T.R., 1997 Dissolved organic carbon: sources, sinks, and fluxes ... Biodegradation; Dissolved organic matter; DOC Introduction In the past 10 years, much progress has been made in the understanding of dissolved organic matter (DOM) functions and dynamics in soils Today, ... carbohydrates, amino sugars and proteins accumulate during winter and these compounds would largely appear in the small size class For aquatic DOM, Amon and Benner (1994, 1996) found opposite results In their...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:22

... known that an interlayer having high carbon concentration exists at the interface between SiC and SiO2 and this interlayer induce carbon- related peaks (D- and G-band) in Raman scattering [30] It ... stretching sp sp mode of single crystal graphite) [22,25] The D-band grows in intensity with increasing disorder or decreasing crystal size and the ratio of its intensity to that of G-band, ID/IG, ... value determined from TEM observation D- and G-band were also appeared in spectrum (b) As can be seen in Fig 4, D- and G-band in spectrum (b) are different from those of spectrum (a) in position,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:08

... captures, in German trimming necessarily results in trimming something off something else; in the case of example (9) above trimming the bush results in trimming the dry branches off the bush And this ... Grammar Conference 2000 Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav 1991 Wiping the Slate Clean: A Lexical Semantic Exploration In Beth Levin and Steven Pinker, editors, Lexical and Conceptual Semantics, ... valence alternations, including locative alternation in English Their analysis is based on a minimal recursion approach to semantic representation and is formalized using the Minimal Recursion Semantics...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... down naturally The finally products were collected and washed with deionized water and ethanol several times and dried in air at 80 °C The WO3 nanowires were finally obtained 2.2 Characterization ... important role in the synthesis of WO3 nanowires The XRD patterns for WO3 synthesized with different kinds of inorganic salts were compared in Fig It is obvious that the crystalline phases for ... important factor influencing the crystallization process and the growth of the WO3 nanowires With the addition of different inorganic salts, the compositions and the corresponding properties of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 13:04