potential contribution of organic agriculture to national sustainable development

... ontology are not enough to deal with them This conclusion motivates the incorporation of linguistic processing into automatic evaluation metrics In order to check the robustness of these results, we ... reliability in terms of Pearson correlation with human assessments for adequacy and fluency judgements With the aim of overcoming some of the deficiencies of BLEU, Doddington (2002) introduced ... Figure represents the ratio of errors in the set of low scored translations according to a given metric The horizontal axis represents the ratio of errors over the set of high scored translations...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 07:20

... of aniline to embryo-larval stages of fish Toxicity of atrazine to embryo-larval stages of fish Toxicity of Capacitor 21 to embryo-larval stages of fish •••• Toxicity of chlorobenzene to embryo-larval ... embryo-larval stages of fish • • • Toxicity of chloroform to embryo-larval stages of rainbow trout Toxicity of 2,4-dichlorophenol (DCP) to embryo-larval stages of fish • • • • • • • • Toxicity of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic ... acid (2,4-0) to embryo-larval stages of fish Toxicity of dioctyl phthalate (DOP) to embryo-larval stages of fish Toxicity of malathion to embryo-larval stages of goldfish •• Toxicity of trisodium...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 20:20

... reported to be greatly reduced by the mutation of His115 to Leu compared to that observed for wild-type Nox2 [13,14] To assess the contribution of histidines 119 and 111 to the conduction of protons ... include the Arabidopsis (Rboh), rice (RbohAOsp), tomato (RbohTomato) and induced in tomato by whitefly (RbohTomIn), potato (Strboh) and Dictyostelium (DictoNox2) The pig and rabbit Nox1 are incomplete ... as an inhibitor of the influenza A M2 proton channel and hence prevents the uncoating of the viral particle and release of its genome into the cell [18,23] Therefore, the influx of protons through...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... efficiency of organic agriculture In Proceedings of Organic Agriculture and Climate Change: The Contribution that Organic Agriculture and Dietary Choices Can Make to the Mitigation of Global Warming, ... self-sufficient organic farms Livestock contributed an average of 36% of total emissions, while fields contributed about 39% Of the GHGs, N2O and CH4 dominated, accounting for an average of 49% and 42% of total ... potato rotation sequences Agr Ecosyst Environ 2009, 131, 220-228 115 Hepperly, P Food and agriculture offer world of opportunity to combat global greenhouse gases In Proceedings of Organic Agriculture...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 23:20

... N T A L S O F Organic Agriculture O the largest purchasers of U.S Statistics T Organic agriculture is the oldest form of The USDA reported on organic producorganic products agriculture on ... within their orchards to prevent deer attacks Marketing of organic apples can occur through several channels—on-farm sales, CSAs, or directly to stores Stores will require proof of organic certification ... inputs The philosophy of “input substitution” is discredited by many longtime advocates of organic agriculture A truly sustainable method of organic farming would seek to eliminate, as much as...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... retrospective of the financing of higher education More than this, it is a detailed and well-documented response to the question asked to the participants of the International Conference on Economics of ... economics of education was in its infancy as a branch of economics, and the concepts of human capital and the contribution of education to economic growth were only just beginning to feature ... change of emphasis, away from simple comparisons of private and social rates of return as conventionally measured, to a greater recognition of the magnitude of externalities, reflects the work of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... desorption of historical residues of EDB from soil into water was 66 kJ/mol, corresponding to a 7-fold rate increase from 25 to 40 °C (25) The application of heat increased the rate of desorption of ... activated The kinetic energy of desorption (Edes*) is the sum of the thermodynamic energy of adsorption (Q)si.e., the depth of the potential energy wellsand the activation energy of adsorption (Ead*) ... call attention to three features of slow sorption kinetics that, if fully explained, could lead to a deeper understanding of the causes of slow sorption First, a single rate constant often does not...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... idea of counting word lengths to judge the authorship of texts, followed by Yule (1939) and Morton (1965) with the use of sentence lengths In this paper, we measure the overall byte length of SMS ... significantly lessened) In order to evaluate the contribution of different types of stylistic features, we conducted a series of experiments by removing features of a specific type at a time from ... aspects of SMS messages are potentially effective for mobile spam filtering Figure shows the ROC curves of each feature settings Notice the tradeoff when Proposed is used solely with comparison to...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 00:20

... secreted Ab40 levels to increase to ~120-140% of vehicle control, but only after 96 h of treatment (Figure 3B) IL-1b Page of 17 Figure Combinations of pro-inflammatory cytokines elevate endogenous ... contribute significantly to cerebral Ab levels and exacerbate amyloid pathology over time in AD A limited number of studies to date have investigated the effects of pro-inflammatory cytokine and Ab stimulation ... hypothesis that cytokine- and Ab42stimulated astrocytes could contribute significantly to the total burden of cerebral Ab in AD, potentially through elevated astrocytic b-secretase processing of APP under...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... findings of evaluation disseminated to stakeholders and the wider public? 41 Annex I General approaches to National Sustainable Development Strategies Guidance for National Sustainable Development ... information on the state of SD in the country and to identify the major unsustainable trends National sets can be broadened by making use of the sustainable development indicators proposed by Commissioner ... Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), to take immediate steps to formulate and elaborate national sustainable development strategies (NSDSs) where these were still outstanding, and to begin...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20

... to contribute applications to the monitoring of vegetation conditions and the detection and assessment of anomalies and damage Among them: the development of digital analysis tools adapted to ... expected to lead to the implementation of operational services such as the reporting on forest areas and changes in the framework of the Kyoto protocol The resolution of optical data at 10 to 30 ... To explore the possibility to use some of the dierent available systems for setting up a strategy more adapted to monitoring of drought eects in forests BRIEF REVIEW OF THE EXISTING SOURCES OF...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... The share of wood-based panels to the total carbon sequestration varied from 10% in 1997 to 27% in 1992 The other industrial roundwood showed a very small contribution of about 1% to the total carbon ... to 35% of the total consumption of paper and paperboard [7, 8], and 15 to 40% of the discarded paper and paperboard was landfilled [18, 19, 38]) This value was adopted for the minimum value of ... decays within to 30 years [23], but another part, amounting to 33 to 84% of the landfilled paper [23, 30], is very resistant to decay In conclusion, it seemed to be reasonable to assume that...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... samples of 35-150 mg (15 mm of TR corresponded to about 12 mg fresh weight) All lateral roots of one plant were pooled together or split into two samples In order to increase the number of samples, ... level of controls This treatment is referred to as KD The second constraint consisted of a deficiency of all macronutrients (referred to as MD) Supplies of Ca, Cl, Mg, S, K, P and N were reduced to ... higher [inorganic ions] in LR than in TR Globally, solutes analysed in this study contributed to 65-84 % of cell n (table I) 3.3 Effect of deficiencies on the contribution of solutes to the osmotic...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... may imply a role in inflammatory disease Binding of the KIR3DL1 receptor to the Bw4 family of MHC class I receptors has been shown to be dependent on key residues of the HC around isoleucine ... (Bw4-I80) [8] The interaction of KIR3DL1 and Bw4-I80 has an inhibitory effect on the cytotoxic capacity of NK cells All HLA-B27 subtypes carry Bw4 epitope, with the exception of B*2708 and other related ... activating receptor KIR3DS1 and the inhibitory 3DL1 are located in the intracytoplasmic tail The inhibitory receptor has a long tail containing immunoreceptor tyrosine inhibitory motifs, whereas...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... may imply a role in inflammatory disease Binding of the KIR3DL1 receptor to the Bw4 family of MHC class I receptors has been shown to be dependent on key residues of the HC around isoleucine ... (Bw4-I80) [8] The interaction of KIR3DL1 and Bw4-I80 has an inhibitory effect on the cytotoxic capacity of NK cells All HLA-B27 subtypes carry Bw4 epitope, with the exception of B*2708 and other related ... activating receptor KIR3DS1 and the inhibitory 3DL1 are located in the intracytoplasmic tail The inhibitory receptor has a long tail containing immunoreceptor tyrosine inhibitory motifs, whereas...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... patterning of neurons [15-17] and to control the connections of cardiomyocytes [18,19] Using that system to examine the contribution of the ‘community effect’ to the stability of the beating in the homogeneous ... laser beam is permeable to water, thin stable chromium bottom layer was used for absorption of the 1064-nm laser for further μmorder spot heating of a portion of agarose layer to form microstructures ... the addition of fibroblast into the cardiomyocyte network decreased the propagation velocity, and is indicating the reduction of ability to respond to the cardiomyocytes The addition of fibroblasts...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23

... and revision of existing gene structures and on the identification of new protein coding genes The main objective of our study is to assess whether the predicted contribution of AS to the proteome ... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/11/82 Page of 10 Table Identification of nuclear encoded TAIR 10 loci Set Castellana Baerenfaller Merged a Total number of peptidesa Nr of mapped peptides % of peptides mapped Nr of TAIR loci ... number of co-expressed protein isoforms in a given sample, but also on the contribution of a particular AS event to proteome diversity, peptides have to be identified that uniquely map to the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:20

... region of ORFX may associate with increases in fruit size during tomato domestication [7,8] Despite its potential importance, the genetic basis of cis-regulatory evolution is poorly understood Stone ... analysis of expression patterns of genes among the five Correlation analysis of expression patterns of genes among the five accessions A histogram based on the number of genes in each of the 11 ... the different responses of each accession to these factors To identify genes whose expression is highly sensitive to various environmental and developmental stimuli, and to further understand the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:21

... body The skeleton contributes up to 15 to 20 percent of the total human weight The skeleton is made of different types of bone: cancellous (trabecular) bone and cortical bone The skeleton plays an ... resorb unwanted portions of the skeleton to maintain overall bone strength (2) Osteoclasts originate from hematopoietic stem cells (1) Receptor activator of nuclear factor-kB ligand (RANKL) and ... formation (5) In this case, PTH works to reduce the amount of osteoblast apoptosis, to increase the osteoprogenitors to be osteoblasts, and to reactivate the lining cells to be osteoblasts (5) All these...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 09:46

... the contribution of K+ channels to the deleterious influence of metabolic syndrome has not been determined Accordingly, the overall goal of this investigation was to delineate the mechanistic contribution ... investigation as potential end-effectors of metabolic vasodilators Elucidating the role of these important channels in the regulation of coronary blood flow, further attention can be focused to uncover ... end-effectors in the regulation of coronary vasodilation in response to key endothelial and metabolic metabolites (71; 105; 106) However, the 16 contribution of BKCa channel defects to the control of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 13:17