peatlands canada s past and future carbon legacy

... greenhouse gas sources and sinks Measurement and spatial variability of greenhouse gas sources and sinks Modeling of biological greenhouse gas sources and sinks Impact of legume crops on carbon sequestration ... 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 on rural ... by using proper stocking rates as dictated by species, climate, and site-specific soil conditions Research Stage Application Land Use and Energy Practices Preserve and enhance existing wetlands...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:22

... various responses to stress Plants respond the abiotic stress by up- and downregulation of genes responsible for the synthesis of osmolytes, osmoprotectants, and antioxidants Stress-responsive ... suitability as crops on dry and saline soils in future Conclusion and Future Perspective Abiotic stresses, especially osmotic and ionic stresses, are responsible for the decrease in yield especially ... Polypogon monspeliensis, Raphanus raphanistrum, S taccada, Scaevola plumier, Sessuvium sessuvioides, T passernioides, T ramosissima, T szovitsiana, T tetragyna, Tamarix mascatensis, Thomsonii, Trianthema...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20

... S1 416, S1 591, S2 182 S3 6, S9 3, S9 5, S2 85, S8 78, S1 062 S1 0, S2 14, S4 87, S8 23, S2 332, S3 959 S2 13, S2 79, S3 61, S4 30, S7 58, S1 495, S1 644, S3 876, S4 113 36 2.11 Functional assay of CNEs in transgenic ... the seven Hox loci Fugu Hox locus Aa Ab Ba Bb Ca Da Db Scaffold no S4 7, S1 620, S3 597 S2 9, S3 30, S7 30, S7 95, S4 196 S2 21, S5 58, S7 06, S1 052, S1 082, S1 439, S2 209, S4 018, S4 325 S6 71, S8 87, S1 245, S1 416, ... these CNEs; (4) finally, to assay some of these CNEs in transgenic mouse assays using lacZ (β-galactosidase) as a reporter gene 27 Chapter 2: Materials and methods 2.1 Identifying human, mouse and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:08

... 0.5 schedules the transmissions and distributes the resources so that the various users achieve throughput according to their corresponding assigned weights Specifically users with weights and ... C Li and S Papavassiliou, “Opportunistic scheduling with short term fairness in wireless communication systems,” in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS ’04), ... proposed method, along with some numerical results and discussion, and finally Section concludes the paper subject to specific SINR, maximum transmit power, and fairness constraints as follows: h...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... Aussenac A pinsapo, des risques importants de régression des aires actuelles des sapins circum-méditerranéens existent dans les zones les plus basses de leur aire, mais aussi dans les expositions ... expositions sud et sur des sols tr s superficiels Pour Abies cephalonica et Abies cilicica, espèces débourrement tr s précoce, il y a aussi un risque d’accroissement possible des dégâts de gelées tardives ... alternatives la régression d’espèces plus hygrophiles notamment dans des zones plus septentrionales que leurs aires actuelles Abies / sapins circum-mediterranéens / écologie / écophysiologie /...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:20

... direction (Figures 9, 11 and 12) The wind flow is caused by a series of low compression and congested areas around the cage of both species that Single pressure type uses pressure area in front ... it is moved through the opening and the rest of it has passed around the model As is shown in Figures 8-d -S& P, air flow deals the model with angle of 135 degrees and passes on the southern and ... multi-pressure wind catchers and investigated the mass flow and outgoing pressure of these types of wind catchers in different directions and rates Also Badran [4] studied the efficiency of single-pressure...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:32

... Concepts first subsystem, and ρ23,i is defined in the total Hilbert space of the second and third subsystems Note that the second and third subsystems in this partially separable state ρ can still ... partially transpose The non-PPT states are also referred to as negative-partial-transpose (NPT) states See Ref [18, 19] for discussions on the issue of NPT states and its distillability A positive map ... measurements Πj of the subsystem B, where ρA|j is the state of the subsystem A after a measurement Πj and pj is its probability Thus, D(ρss ) is a measure of non-classical correlations, which include...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:48

... perform it, and this aspect also affects the process The third aspect of a process is the result of the process activities It is interesting to note that this definition states that a process is not ... closely resembles Zahran s description of processes The purpose of using this definition is to emphasize that the analysis will contain both the behavioral aspect and the objects, such as tools and ... considers both the commodity and the community perspectives The analysis is based on previous research studies of open source, and open source practices, and is furthered by a cursory case study...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 00:20

... the system responses (as is done for information retrieval evaluations) together with a set of manuallyprepared slot fills These responses are then assessed by hand Equivalent answers (such as ... F-score than the best of these systems 1156 Conclusion Compared to traditional IE and QA tasks, KBP has raised some interesting and important research issues: It places more emphasis on cross-document ... manual search of the corpus (resulting in 797 instances), and then an independent adjudication pass was applied to assess these annotations together with pooled system responses The Precision,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... Systems asynchronous threaded discussion groups by representing social patterns of interaction such as who starts discussions, who provides responses to questions, and how lively the discussion is This ... questions to which other employees with answers or suggestions can post replies Threaded discussions and e-mail distribution lists (Listservs) are typical technologies used in systems in this ... (Konstan et al 1997; Sarwar et al 1998) The system filters messages based on users’ previous preferences and recommends Usenet news articles a user may find useful—those that other users with similar...

Ngày tải lên: 30/06/2014, 21:16

... within food and beverage companies As Sharma stated, food policies and standards should be science-based and draw upon the findings of major scientific bodies such as IOM in the US and WHO globally ... research to reduce the saturated fat levels of commonly used edible oils, reviewing pricing and subsidies for oils, and shifting palm oil use from unsustainable to certified sustainable sources ... http://www.pepsico.com standards to be adopted by food companies as they implement self-regulatory systems PepsiCo believes that several suggestions made by the authors have merit and should be implemented...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... knowledge management is as important as other assets and resources for the survival and success of the organization Knowledge that is not well managed and shared corrodes easily Especially, the tacit ... industries and countries This way, the author scrutinized the research work done by various authors and researchers on knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer over the past six years Through such ... management and knowledge sharing Authors Year Issues Trends Country McNichols 2010 Barriers in knowledge transfer processes from Baby boomers generation to Generation X The strategies, processes, and...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2016, 07:34

... to their high stream slopes as sources of the rivers are in the mountainous areas close to the coastline This subregion faces yearly 7÷10 typhoons and tropical storms coming from East Pacific Ocean ... Ngà S S Ấp S Ú Phân trường S Ấp Phú Qúy S Vónh An S 20 C.La Ngà S Ú Đội X.Phú Ngọc S Suối S p Đức Thắng S S S S S C.Chiến K hu C.Ấp 3 Ấp S Phú Tâm NT.Phú Ngọc Hòa Bình Bến Nôm S S Ấp Cây Xăng S ... mountainous landscape offers substantial potential for hydropower and water storage In wet seasons this promotes rapid flood concentrations, makes heavy inundation in alluvial plains and deltas, where...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2013, 22:47

... calling services, as discussed in Chapters and Traditionally, these services are o¤ered by using the existing CLASS-4 (and lower) type PSTN switches and SONET rings These PSTN switches are currently ... channels, wireless local loop (WLL) channels, and so on, as discussed in Chapter Based on our experiences and experiments (as discussed in Chapters and and the appendixes), we present a set of ... IP-PSTN MGWs to support interworking with PSTN transmission infrastructures (such as TDM links and trunks), (b) an SS7 SG to interact with PSTN signaling and call control infrastructures, (c) service...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2013, 07:20

... K and Gribble S D., Measuring and Analyzing the Characteristics of Napster and Gnutella Hosts, Multimedia Systems, Vol 9, No 2, pp 170-184, August 2003 [33] Shi S. Y and Turner J .S. , Multicast ... Rarest-Piece-First and Random-Piece, are not advantageous for streaming media This is because the piece reception order is random and streaming applications need a continuous and sequential stream ... delivering services with 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...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 21:15

... integration of systems with suppliers and customers E-commerce is changing business economics and as a result many firms are re-engineering their core business processes Suppliers and retailers are able ... educational standards The cost-effectiveness and success of low-cost, web-based, e-leaning initiatives is the main focus in the discussions within this chapter In this respect, the authors briefly ... reduced transaction and search costs, increased competition and more streamlined business processes Lower search costs may also lead to Internet consumers being more sensitive to price changes By reducing...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 11:16

... enterprises generally Such an environment includes access to new technologies, know-how, venture capital and seed funds, mentoring schemes and support structures such as incubators and hatcheries, as ... Norms, standards and assessment methods for products as tools to promote innovation, – European accounting standards, and will undertake studies to examine “good practices” emerging from Member State ... property issues is being brought to the attention of researchers and entrepreneurs The Commission has established information and assistance services, especially targeted at participants in EU-funded...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... software development and quality assurance processes and practices of the offshore suppliers as a way to quickly improve the customer s own internal processes While labor cost savings have been the ... challenges to successful offshoring Major risks and issues include differences in language, culture, politics, regulations, and work practices—all of which can disrupt a collaborative customer-supplier ... barriers and business compatibility - Infrastructure issues - Supplier may have little or no experience in the industry or business function/process - Uncertain political climate Project and Process...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 07:20

... sales channels in the selected export markets Sales Channel Traders/Wholesalers Processing industry Supermarkets chain Health food stores Restaurants, canteens Direct sales to consumers Situation ... traders and governmental institutions Better understanding of the demands of buyers (small quantities) Suppliers must show financial stability Logistics "Slow shipment, restrictions for The logistics ... traders Shop owners Businessmen/Industrial-lists with No employees: None 1-9 10+ Self-employed professionals Clerical / salesmen Supervisory level A Officers/Executives-Junior B Officers/Executives...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... the industrial sector, there is only limited provision of veterinary services in small-scale production systems This has consequences for the success of disease control measures As HPAI is a zoonotic ... measures in this sector to be assessed, and national HPAI preventive and control policies to be adjusted as needed Key words: disease control, poultry, multidisciplinary, small scale 55 Risks and ... lessons to be learned from the control of other diseases such as Newcastle disease Communication among all stakeholders, including the consumers, was emphasized as a means to foster trust and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20