predictability of bird community based ecological integrity using landscape measurements

... contribution of residents to a tourism process, scientists developed community- based ecotourism”, which, as the words suggested, is an employment of the community approach in ecotourism Community- based ... nature -based form of travel, closely related to local culture, based on community participatory approach, for sustainable development [10] This approach is T.T.M Hoa et al / VNU Journal of Science, ... National Park of Vietnam [12] in the context of the study area, the following elements are considered the key to successful community- based ecotourism in Van Don: a) Attractiveness of ecotourism...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

... compared with that of the sensor In addition, the location of attached mass can influence on the changes in frequency of the mass sensor Figure illustrates the effect of location of attached mass, ... shift of the cantilever mass sensor for e0a/ L = 0.3 It can be seen that the effect of the location of attached mass on the frequency shift of the mass sensor is significant Increasing the value of ... sensitivity of the sensor for e0a/L = 0.3 123 1778 It is important to know the sensitivity of the mass sensor The sensitivity of the sensor is defined as the ratio of the variation of the frequency...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... outcome of the program Standards are used to quantify some of the resource consumption, such as hours for each meeting The running costs, i.e consumption of telephone, office supplies, etc, are based ... valuation of leisure time of 35% of average wages [16], 35 SEK per hour The effect evaluation An effect evaluation was performed to determine the number of hip fractures avoided because of the intervention, ... are also reports of cost-effective programs, both internationally [11,12] and from Sweden [13] The aim of this study is thus to investigate whether a nonpharmaceutical community- based safety promotion...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... to act as the community platform of the IDEFICS intervention - No establishment of a community platform (e.g Italy): no community platform was created because of the involvement of four different ... A: Effects of a controlled trial of a school -based exercise program on the obesity indexes of preschool children American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1998, 68:1006-1011 Page 14 of 15 31 Metallinos-Katsaras ... to guide the design of evidence -based intervention programs [13] It also recognizes the importance of a socio -ecological approach in behavioural change [13,20] which was of particular importance...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... foster lasting change Community- Based Services In the late 1970s Pathfinder was one of the first organizations to develop programs supporting the community- based distribution of family planning ... create awareness and ownership of RH/FP services Pathfinder has been implementing community- based programs since 1979, when it began the first community- based distribution of family planning information ... years of experience in community- based services, is that working at the community level is essential to improving the health and welfare of people in underserved communities Donor interest in community- based...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 15:20

... sealed had no signs of closure Of the three main ethnic groups, 98% of Mandinkas, 4% of Wollofs and 32% of Fulas had signs of genital cutting The socio-demographic characteristics of cut and uncut ... campaign against FGC at the community level in the study area The results described in this paper are based on data collected as part of a comprehensive community- based survey of women's reproductive ... consequences of FGC in The Gambia secondary level education (3% of Mandinkas, 6% of Fulas and 1% of Wollofs) During interviews with a ®eldworker 58% (779/1346) reported being circumcised Three of these...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 16:20

... will need 10–15 kg of RUTF, given over a period of six to eight weeks Community- based management of severe acute malnutrition in the context of high HIV prevalence The majority of HIV-positive children ... management of severe acute malnutrition (based, if necessary, on the provision of RUTF) have a strong community- based component that complements facility -based activities • Achieve high coverage of interventions ... Conducting operations research to refine protocols of community- based management of severe acute malnutrition Jointly implementing expanded communitybased programmes to combat severe acute malnutrition...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 21:20

... Role of community - based tourism developmentError! Bookmark not defined 1.3.1 The role of community - based tourism for local communityError! Bookmark not defined 1.3.2 The role of community - based ... other countries 1.1 History and opinions of the formation of community - based tourism 1.1.1 History of the formation of community - based tourism Community - based tourism (CBT) was derived from ... model community - based tourism of Lac village to bring out community based model in Cao Phong History of the research problem There were a great number of scientific studies on community - based...

Ngày tải lên: 20/04/2014, 17:13

... ratios regardless of the incompleteness of the Rhineland-Palatinate cancer Because of the incompleteness of the Rhineland-Palatinate cancer registry, the results of the calculation of standardized ... proportion of community area under fruit cultivation (another potential source of pesticides exposure) was included in the analyses as dichotomous confounder (

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... numbers of HIV-positive individuals being enrolled onto HAART and increasing survival among these patients, there is a growing need to understand the impact of HAART use on the quality of lives of ... up to 75% of drug switches for toxicity within the first three years of first-line HAART [21] In South Africa, there is an ongoing debate about whether or not the side-effect profile of HAART ... count of

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of Hartslag Limburg on QoL after 5-years of intervention Methods Hartslag Limburg In 1998, the community- based intervention ... Presence of diseases at baseline was based on self-reported prevalence of one of the following diseases: myocardial infarction, stroke, cancer, or diabetes mellitus type The occurrence of diseases ... slight decrease of QoL in the intervention group compared with a slight increase of QoL in the reference group Discussion This study focused on exploring the effect of a community- based prevention...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... of community forest was assessed through forest survey to identify the productivity as well as biodiversity The social economic condition of local community and the dependency of livelihood of ... models were also recorded in the field based the samples The processes of land allocation, management of community forest development fund, implementation of community forest management plan were ... 57-100% members of communities agreed that implementation of CFM plan decreased number of illegal cases of forest exploitation or violence 59-100% members of communities responded that community forest...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... can be estimated by analysis of background noise using [38] σg = 2N N i=1 m2 i (9) Using this equation, and analysis of the background of a normalised T2 MR image of the silicone gel phantom, ... to be 0.02 Based on the average normalised gel intensity of 0.39 this corresponds to an SNR of 19.5 However, to evaluate the performance of the marker tracking method in the presence of noise, ... sonomicrometric measurements occurred Neu et al [24, 25] evaluated a tagged MR imaging -based deformation tracking technique for cartilage using spherical marker tracking in a silicone soft tissue...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... Illustration of formation of silver hollow spheres by the two-step route 123 84 Nanoscale Res Lett (2008) 3:82–86 Fig (a) TEM images of the silver hollow spheres, (b) HRTEM images of the silver ... formation of silver hollow spheres by self-assemble of Ag nanoparticles assisted with Eu(TTA)3 Á 2H2O To further confirm the formation of silver hollow spheres, the typical surface morphology of SNOM ... silver hollow spheres are an average diameter of 0.9 lm, which is consistent with the result of TEM images The typical transmission image of SNOM of the silver hollow spheres is further Nanoscale...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... plantation and agroforestry models were also recorded in the field based samples The processes of land allocation, management of community forest development fund, implementation of community forest ... and district staff 3.2 % of Community forest land allocated 100 100 100 100 Establishment of community forest management (CFM) plan After receiving the official rights of using the CF lands, CFM ... – Community based forest management quality of community forest was assessed through forest survey to identify the productivity as well as biodiversity The social economic condition of local community...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 12:20

... (proportion of sites occupied) of common species at high (H), medium (M), low (L) and background (B) SO zones Table Results of GLM tests of the effects of habitat type and SO2 zone on the occurrence of ... in the Table Key findings of a comprehensive ant sampling programme conducted as part of an assessment of the biodiversity impacts of SO2 emissions from Mt Isa mine (Hoffmann, Griffiths & Andersen ... survey of ants, on the other hand, revealed an effect of the smelter for up to 35 km (Hoffmann, Griffiths & Andersen 2000) Ants were therefore a far more sensitive indicator of the effects of the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/07/2014, 17:21

... Determination of OSB fiber orientation (4) Find the location of the edges using the following equation for non-maximal suppression: ∂ - G × g = (2) ∂n (5) Compute the magnitude of the edge using ... values of the standard deviation (2) Convolve an image g with a Gaussian filter of standard deviation σ Figure The flow chart of the computer program (3) Estimate local edge normal directions n using ... on it The Canny method finds edges by looking for local maxima of the gradient of g The gradient is calculated using the derivative of a Gaussian filter The method uses two thresholds, to detect...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... differ based on the type of care, such as hospital or community- based care The type of care could be a large environmental factor However, there have been few studies that compare the prevalence of ... 0.46, df = 1, P = 0.50) The effect of type of care on the odds ratio for MetS To examine the independent effect of type of care for schizophrenia on the odds ratio of for MetS, two logistic regression ... prevalence of MetS than male inpatients using the IDF definition, while male inpatients showed a higher prevalence of MetS than female inpatients using the JASSO definition The prevalence rates of MetS...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... conceptual understanding of the issue For example, users of maps may, over time, be increasingly capable of articulating the importance of using maps to display community- based data Weiss describes ... some of the pitfalls of uncertainty We also discussed the importance of knowing the source and reliability of the data collected, the scale of analysis (i.e., the representative fraction of its ... 1Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, S113-750 Bannatyne Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3E 0W3, Canada, 2Faculty of Health Sciences, Bachelor of Health Sciences, University of Western...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... Background Community- based organizations (CBOs) are important stakeholders in health systems [1,2] because they provide a wide spectrum of programs and services to the members of their community, ... This Page of type of activity largely promotes awareness of newly synthesized research evidence, but it could also have more direct impact on the use of synthesized research evidence by profiling ... the health status of clients of CBOs or of broader populations [10,35] For example, it has been demonstrated that assessing the impact of KTE interventions on the practice of physicians poses...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23