mechanisms of plant invasion a review

... Studies at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India He is also an adjunct professor of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and holds the SAARC (South Asian Association ... mutualism of invasive plants with mycorrhizae may not be just a two-way association (Reinhart and Callaway 2006) Instead, nonnative plants may use the associations of mycorrhizae and multiple plants and ... Invasion: A Review 2.0 Centaurea, carbon Centaurea, no carbon Festuca, carbon Festuca, no carbon Festuca mass (g) 1.5 a a a 1.0 a a 0.5 a a a b a b b 0.0 Root Shoot Total FIGURE 2.4 Biomass of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:21

... experimental data has the disadvantage of including relatively few records and special attention must be paid to make sure that the data can disentangle direct and maternal effects In this particular ... variance was not due to a mean and variance relationship In fact, the data were normally distributed and the slope of the regression linking the standard deviation of the raw data to the mean ... compared eight models that allowed for heterogeneity of the various variance components for the average daily gain from to 45 days of age in Romane sheep as a function of the number of lambs reared...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... (1) at comparable scope of consolidation and exchange rates RevPAR excluding tax by country (December-end) Nb of Occupancy Rate Average room rate rooms UPSCALE AND MIDSCALE HOTELS Subsidiaries ... under management and franchise agreements and 72% in emerging markets  The sustained roll out of its asset management program This transformation will be sharply accelerated between 2013 and 2016, ... +3.7% (1) at comparable scope of consolidation and exchange rates RevPAR excluding tax Worldwide by segment (4th quarter) Occupancy Rate Subsidiaries (in %) Average room rate Subsidiaries (chg...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... distribution as part of this research Normalization When calculating a metric based on a broad population of data, it is necessary to adjust the data so that individual observations are comparable We have ... cost data reports All of this leads to a reluctance on the part of acquisition program managers and analysts to pursue any kind of risk analysis for their cost estimates; in the absence of guidance, ... methods of assessing cost risk require some historical data, at levels of aggregation that vary widely across the different methods Although the SARs’ data contain a substantial amount of cost data...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

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Ngày tải lên: 03/03/2014, 22:42

... amount of money paid out, but a key part of the uncertainty analysis will allow the insurance company have an idea of how likely different payoffs are in a range around their estimate Risk management ... mean and variance Somewhat oddly, none of the pedagogical literature references the statistical literature One of the major foundational paradigms of statistics is the Bayesian paradigm which takes ... chiropractic treatment Classical psychoanalysis (Freudian psychoanalysis and its derivatives) aims to treat mental and emotional problems by having a patient talk to a therapist, verbalizing ideas and thoughts...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20

... system management Optimal water arrangement, water clarification and recycling of process water for different purposes 5.4 Adequate storage capacity 5.5 De-inking plant: generation of clarified water ... water Appropriate effluent treatment 11 6.1 Installation of an equalization basin and primary treatment of waste water 11 6.2 Secondary treatment 11 6.3 Anaerobic treatment as first stage ... provides a detailed global view of the use of fresh water and of the water circuit arrangement A flow diagram of the in-mill stock and water systems must be made to have an overview of the organisation...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

... S, et al: “Dominance of EMRSA-15 and -16 among MRSA causing nosocomial bacteraemia in the UK: analysis of isolates from the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS)” J Antimicrob ... MRSA bacteraemia, appropriate selection of empirical antimicrobial treatment has been shown to be a major prognostic factor [16] In these cases, newer Page of anti-staphylococcal agents, such as ... residential patients is comparable to that of hospitalised populations and patients transferred from longterm care facilities to hospital often act as nosocomial reservoirs of MRSA [5,6] Additionally,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... relevant financial relationships Maria Rosario G Araneta, PhD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships Jorge Ruiz-Calderon, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships Patricia ... of migrating pregnant women, Tijuana General Hospital 2003 indicates Baja California; 2, Sinaloa; 3, Jalisco; 4, Michoacan; and 5, Chiapas received a blood transfusion for woman, spouse used other ... a cohort of pregnant Women in Baja California, Mexico: evidence of an emerging crisis? [ThPeC7301] Program and abstracts of the XV International AIDS Conference; July 1116, 2004; Bangkok, Thailand...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... 2002, 55, 47-56 Al-Majali AM Seroepidemiology of caprine brucellosis in Jordan Small Rumin Res 2005, 58, 13-18 Al-Majali AM, Majok A, Amarin N, Al-Rawashdeh O Prevalence of, and risk factors for, ... in Awassi sheep in Southern Jordan Small Rumin Res 2007, 73, 300-303 Al-Majali AM, Al-Qudah KM, Al-Tarazi YH, Al-Rawashdeh OF Risk factors associated with camel brucellosis in Jordan Trop Anim ... Brucellosis Laboratory Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris, 1988 Amin KMR, Rahman MB, Rahman MS, Han JC, Park JH, Chae JS Prevalence of Brucella antibodies in sera of cows in Bangladesh...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... neonates, aged 1-28 days, with a median age of days, and 398 infants and children between 29 days and 18 years of age, with a median age of 3.7 years Neonates were analyzed separately from infants ... result of cannulation of the right atrium for CPB and surgical access via the atria Another example is the association of closure of a VSD with a variety of junctional neonatal arrhythmias, including ... 27:51-55 Bhan A, Umre MA, Choudhary SK, Saxena A, Sharma R, Airan B, Kothari SS, Juneja R, Venugopal P: Cardiac arrhythmias in surgically repaired total anomalous pulmonary venous connection: a follow-up...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... develop a more detailed understanding of clinician, staff, and patient perception of their goals and performance [35] Separately, the facilitator will gather data using a standardized medical record ... status quo [20] CASs have multiple feedback loops by which agents organize and reorganize based upon nonlinear interactions [21] The ability of a CAS to adapt in a manner that allows for change ... JD, Herman WH, Marrero DG, Narayan KM, Safford MM, Thompson T, Mangione CM: Diabetes care quality in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System and commercial managed care: the TRIAD study Ann Intern...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... Source of Failure Failure of Branch only Failure of Branch only Failure of Branch only Failure of Branch and only Failure of Branch and only Failure of Branch and only Failure of Branch 1, and Type ... (A and B) express knowledge and ignorance in evolutionary terms as they are socially or factually constructed and negotiated Ignorance can be viewed as having a hierarchical classification based ... Systems Ignorance and Uncertainty in Abstracted Aspects of a System Ignorance and Uncertainty in Nonabstracted Aspects of a System Ignorance due to Unknown Aspects of a System CHAPTER INTRODUCTION...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... downstream of a dam in 1,000,000 Diagnostic Xrays Smallpox vaccination (per occasion) Fishing Poisoning Occasional air travel (one flight per year) Natural background radiation Living at the boundary ... for various aspects of the warehouse automation project – Risk assessment methods include checklist, what-if-then analysis, FMEA, FTA, and ETA, and qualitative and quantitative risk assessments ... be associated with market sentiments that determine a company likelihood of default that could affect its bond rating and ability to purchase money, and maintain projects and operations CHAPTER...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... Diagrams – The contributing factor diagrams are used to identify variables and their dependencies that can be used to analytically evaluate quantities, called answer variables, selected by a risk ... of the utility value for each alternative • The standard deviation can be critical for decisionmaking as it provides a measure of uncertainty in utility values of alternatives • Influence diagrams ... Replacement of a Highway Bridge (cont’d) – Figure provides a contributing factor diagram for such a decision situation – The answer variable in this case was identified as the average annual benefit...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... to illustrate the use of Bayesian methods to update probabilities for a case of two variables A and B with a directed arrow from B to A indicating that B affect A A priori probability of B is 0.0001 ... classification is the data system • The data system includes a source system together with actual data introduced in the form of states of variables for each attribute • The actual states of the variables ... variable; and (2) what other variables (if any) are directly influenced by this variable? In a standard Bayesian network, each variable is represented by an ellipse or squares or any other shape,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... Z mean of Z Z variance of Z Cov ( X i , X j ) covariance of X and X Z Xi partial derivative evaluated at the mean of random variable Slide No 11 CHAPTER 4a RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT Analytical Performance-Based ... RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT Analytical Performance-Based Reliability Assessment ̈ Monte Carlo Simulation Methods – Correlated Random Variables • A correlated (and normal) pair of random variables X1 and X2 ... 30d Generate a random (standard) error using a zero mean and a standard deviation as given by Eq 30d CHAPTER 4a RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT Slide No 65 Analytical Performance-Based Reliability Assessment...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... 83 CHAPTER 4b RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT Bayesian Methods ̈ Bayes’ Theorem Sample Space S A3 A1 A4 A2 A5 E P (A i E) P (A i )P(E A i ) P (A )P(E A ) P (A )P(E A ) P (A n )P(E A n ) Slide No 84 CHAPTER ... Parameter Estimation for Example Data – For Example data, the loglinear least square estimation gives the following values of the parameter estimates: a0 = 0.263018 a1 = - 0.013930 (1/Year) a2 ... Hazard Rate Functions for Reliability Function with a Polynomial CHRF for Example 4-12 Data and Example 15 Computations Year Time to Failure (Years) Hazard Rate Function Cumulative Hazard Rate...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT Bayesian Methods Table 22 Relating the Coefficient of Variation to Prior Shape and Scale Parameters for the Gamma Distribution Shape Parameter ( ) as Scale Parameter (p) as ... RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT Reliability Analysis of Systems Table 23 Hazard (Failure) Rate and Cumulative Hazard Rate Functions for a Series System of Three Identical Components of Example 21 Year ... Table 31 Hazard (Failure) Rate and Cumulative Hazard Rate Functions for of Two-out -of- Three System of Example 26 Year Time to Failure (Years) Hazard Rate Function Cumulative Hazard Rate Function...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21