ruminant contributions to methane and global warming — a new zealand perspective

Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems - Chapter 16 pot

Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems - Chapter 16 pot

... Environment Canada (EC), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), and other federal government departments are collaborating on a program to enhance understanding of biological GHG sources and sinks ... and cropland pasture and controlled grazing on extensively managed native and naturalized pastures and ranges Need for data in this area (very little available) Rejuvenate pasture stands using ... setting and tests initial assumptions about economic feasibility Stage that adapts the findings to variances such as scale, landscape, farming practices, and climatic variables; identifies barriers to...

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Environmental Adaptations and Stress Tolerance of Plants in the Era of Climate Change pptx

Environmental Adaptations and Stress Tolerance of Plants in the Era of Climate Change pptx

... Mutants Dana Zoldan, Reza Shekaste Band, Charles L Guy, and Ron Porat Root Form and Function in Plant as an Adaptation to Changing Climate Maria Rosa Abenavoli, Maria Rosaria Panuccio, ... Sacchraum bengalense, Salvadora persica, Sporobolus coromandelianus, Urochondra setulosa Achillea millefolium, Alhaji maurorum, Ammi visnaga, Artemisia scoparia, Avicennia marina, Caesalpinea ... Euphorbia esula (Davis and Swanson 2001), maize (Pastori et al 2000), Cassia angustifolia (Agarwal and Pandey 2003), wheat (Singh and Usha 2003), rice (Wang et al 2005), P acutifolius (Turkan et al...

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Identifying and characterizing cis regulatory elements in the human genome

Identifying and characterizing cis regulatory elements in the human genome

... CCA ACA CTT CTT GAG TTC GCT CTA TGA CTG CTG TGC TAT GCA AGC TG GCA TCT GCT GTA CTG AGT GGG ATC CAT TGA TCA AG TGA GCT GAA GAC CCT TTT CTG CAG C TCT GTG AAG CTG AGC TAG CGG ACT TTG GTC TGC GCA ... handling of administrative affairs; All present and former members of the Comparative Genomics Laboratory and DNA Sequencing Facility in IMCB, Singapore for making the laboratory a conducive and ... transcriptional enhancers and their cognate upstream transcription factors While a gene can have at most a proximal and a core promoter, it can be potentially associated with several enhancers, each containing...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Joint Throughput Maximization and Fair Uplink Transmission Scheduling in CDMA Systems" potx

Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Joint Throughput Maximization and Fair Uplink Transmission Scheduling in CDMA Systems" potx

... the parameters associated with the proposed MAX-FAIR algorithm on its operation and achievable performance and allow us to obtain a better understanding of its operational characteristics and ... [23] data,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol 19, no 10, pp 1860–1870, 2001 A Jalali, R Padovani, and R Pankaj, “Data throughput of CDMA-HDR a high efficiency-high data rate personal ... Paris, France, April 2000 M Andrews, K Kumaran, K Ramanan, A Stolyar, P Whiting, and R Vijayakumar, “Providing quality of service over a shared wireless link,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol 39,...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Ecology and ecophysiology of circum-Mediterranean firs in the context of climate change" ppsx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Ecology and ecophysiology of circum-Mediterranean firs in the context of climate change" ppsx

... cilicica; average bud burst: Abies alba, Abies numidica, Abies marocana, and Abies pinsapo; late bud burst: Abies nordmanniana and Abies bornmulleriana The difference between the earliest and the latest ... near to 30 Meanwhile A alba, A bornmulleriana, A equi-trojani, A marocana, A pinsapo and A borisii regis are characterized by an index range with lowest values between 40 to 50 So as to simulate ... marocana Trabut, Abies nebrodensis (Lojac), Abies numidica Carrière and Abies pinsapo Boissier; – north Anatolian firs: Abies bormulleriana Mattfeld, Abies equi trojani Asch., and Abies nordmanniana...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:20

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Performance of single and multiple pressure wind catchers in terms of air flow changes

Performance of single and multiple pressure wind catchers in terms of air flow changes

... Farsi).http://www.civilica.com/Paper-ETEC01-ETEC01_086.html Ahmad Nejad, M., 2001, Badkhan, Nashre Khak, Isfahan, (in Farsi)Tavasoli, M., 1982, the construction of city and architecture in hot and dry climate of Iran, Payam and Payvandeno, Tehran, ... (in Farsi) Tavasoli, M., 1982, the construction of city and architecture in hot and dry climate of Iran, Payam and Payvandeno, Tehran, (in Farsi) Bahadori N.M and yaghobi, M., 2006, Natural ventilation ... was carried out by means of suitable sprays and a pleasant environment for walking was created under the wind catcher [19] In 2002, Bahadori Nejad & Pakzad [20] analyzed the performance of traditional...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:32

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Generation and control of quantum entanglement in physical systems

Generation and control of quantum entanglement in physical systems

... −1 (a ai+1 + h.c.) , i Hhop = A (1.27) i=1 where the total Hamiltonian H comprises three parts: the free Hamiltonian of the atoms and cavities H0 , the atom-photon interaction Hamiltonian HJC ... entanglement witness [15, 20] The entanglement witness is an observable W that has at least one negative eigenvalue and a non-negative average value under all the separable states ρAB i.e Tr(WρAB ... the total correlation in a bipartite state and the correlation by local measurements These two correlations are identical for classical states Mathematically, for a bipartite system in the state...

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Tài liệu Identifying and Analyzing Knowledge Management Aspects of Practices in Open Source Software Development pdf

Tài liệu Identifying and Analyzing Knowledge Management Aspects of Practices in Open Source Software Development pdf

... or pharmacy, but also many others (Davenport & Prusak 1998) Along with land, labor and capital knowledge has become a organizational asset, and a primary resource for individuals as well as the ... to catch a lot of attention It is widely recognized, that along with land, labor and capital, knowledge has become a primary asset of most organizations, and a core resource for individuals and ... of software products By implementing a set of practices that are based on a quality improvement paradigm, organizations can create a knowledge base, that contains a package of analyzed and synthesized...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Knowledge Base Population: Successful Approaches and Challenges" ppt

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Knowledge Base Population: Successful Approaches and Challenges" ppt

... Manning 2010 A Simple Distant Supervision Approach for the TAC-KBP Slot Filling Task Proc TAC 2010 Workshop Ani Thomas, Arpana Rawai, M K Kowar, Sanjay Sharma, Sarang Pitale and Neeraj Kharya ... Momtazi, Michael Wiegand, Stefan Kazalski, Fang Xu, Benjamin Roth, Alexandra Balahur, Dietrick Klakow Saarland University Spoken Language Systems at the Slot Filling Task of TAC KBP 2010 Proc TAC ... IIRG at TAC 2010 Proc TAC 2010 Workshop Praveen Bysani, Kranthi Reddy, Vijay Bharath Reddy, Sudheer Kovelamudi, Prasad Pingali and Vasudeva Varma 2010 IIIT Hyderabad in Guided Summarization and...

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A framework of knowledge management systems  issues and challenges for theory and practice

A framework of knowledge management systems issues and challenges for theory and practice

... Honda, S., Tomioka, H., Kimura, T., Ohsawa, T., Okada, K., and Matsushita, Y A Virtual Office Environment Based on a Shared Room Realizing Awareness Space and Transmitting Awareness Information,” ... artifacts are then stored and indexed in databases that enable easy retrieval Another influential source (Zack 1999; Zack 2000) casts organizational knowledge management strategies in a more abstract ... appropriate For example, with traditional systems, the domain data is structured into a conceptual schema that is translated into a data model The resulting data model rarely changes and is shared throughout...

Ngày tải lên: 30/06/2014, 21:16

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báo cáo khoa học: " The role and challenges of the food industry in addressing chronic disease" docx

báo cáo khoa học: " The role and challenges of the food industry in addressing chronic disease" docx

... rapidly and individually as well as expand company participation at the local and regional level, to optimize the local impact, and ensure that industry efforts take into consideration regional and ... national guidelines and international standards and the overall aims of the Global Strategy ▪ Underway through the commitments made by International Food & Beverage Alliance (IFBA) to address the areas ... Yach et al Globalization and Health 2010, 6:10 http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/6/1/10 Page of Table 1: World Health Organizations Global Strategy on diet, physical activity and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

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A systematic review of knowledge management and knowledge sharing: Trends, issues, and challenges

A systematic review of knowledge management and knowledge sharing: Trends, issues, and challenges

... communication quality and quantity that are necessary to facilitate knowledge sharing and transfer can be studied Furthermore, various formal and informal communication tools, at organizational level, ... Author details Muhammad Asrar-ul-Haq1 E-mail: asrar@ciitsahiwal.edu.pk Sadia Anwar1 E-mail: sadiaanwar@ciitsahiwal.edu.pk Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, ... constructs Organizational culture’s impact on tact knowledge-sharing behavior Malaysia Miao, Choe and Song 2011 Organizational Factors affecting subsidiary knowledge transfer to parent companies and peer...

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DAM DEVELOPMENT IN VIETNAM - ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES

DAM DEVELOPMENT IN VIETNAM - ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES

... 10 years (2005-2015): • Program for Medium and Small Water Systems in dispersed areas in highlands and mountains aiming at satisfying local water demand and reducing poverty; • Program for Large ... ( parallel 11o) and is composed of two subregions: the East Coastland and the South –West Highlands The coastal subregion, a very narrow land strip between mountains and sea, is composed of a ... Gia Lai Province (Central Highlands) Several variants of dam and spillway sizes were proposed Two of them are as follows and variant N o2 is the final.choice: Variant No1 Height of dam H (m) Water...

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Conclusions and Challenges

Conclusions and Challenges

... of access and transport networks and a plan to upgrade the existing operations support system; and c Mechanisms to guarantee—that is, assign or allocate, monitor, and maintain—user authentication, ... flexibility to support open APIs and to carry multiple types of tra‰c (e.g., real- and non-realtime audio, video, and data streams) have also created many service reliability and security–related concerns ... order to support the availability of a dial tone, an acceptable level of call setup delay, and a high quality of voice packet transmission To achieve this, the IP phone and the CPE or IAD must have...

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Tài liệu Internet Content Distribution: Developments and Challenges ppt

Tài liệu Internet Content Distribution: Developments and Challenges ppt

... typically probe the links to measure parameters such as bandwidth, or latency or packet loss rate Parameters like average bandwidth, startup time and frame rate are also important for streaming ... overlay routing for services such as streaming and ondemand Important research questions are, e.g., scalability, overlay traffic measurements and modeling, data search and retrieval, load balancing, ... the case of CDN since higher bandwidth and lower bandwidth cost also have as a side effect that customers develop more and more resource-demanding applications with harder demands for QoS guarantees...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 21:15

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Tài liệu Digital Economy: Impacts, Influences and Challenges doc

Tài liệu Digital Economy: Impacts, Influences and Challenges doc

... received chapters from the USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Singapore, India and many other countries Authors with background from various cultural groups and with firsthand knowledge ... imagined (Gupta and Sharma, 2001; Zaret and Sawyer, 2000) The Impact of E-Commerce on Local, Social, and Political Values E-commerce may have a significant, impact on local political and social ... is a structural shift from the industrial economy toward an economy characterized by information, intangibles and services and a parallel change toward new work organizations and institutional...

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Tài liệu COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Innovation in a knowledge-driven economy ppt

Tài liệu COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Innovation in a knowledge-driven economy ppt

... be appreciated The media are important as a source of information on progress in research and innovation: they also draw attention to the balance of advantage and disadvantage We need to make ... Member States To be reviewed in: Stimulate and co-ordinate regional initiatives and regional actors to devise and implement integrated research and innovation programmes at regional level 2002 Facilitate ... medium and long terms, – Establishing, where appropriate, quantitative and qualitative indicators and benchmarks against the best in the world and tailored to the needs of different Member States and...

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Tài liệu Benefits and Challenges of Offshoring doc

Tài liệu Benefits and Challenges of Offshoring doc

... 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 primary rationale, ... Uncertain political climate Project and Process Management Issues - Communication, language, and cultural issues - Time zone and holiday schedule issues - Increased travel costs The importance ... information technologies, can add additional cost savings as well as faster cycle times and other business benefits Challenges Before launching an offshore development initiative, senior management...

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Tài liệu Market Opportunities and Challenges for Indian Organic Products pdf

Tài liệu Market Opportunities and Challenges for Indian Organic Products pdf

... Nadu, Karnataka Rice Kharif & Rabi* Punjab, Haryana, Assam, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu Wheat Kharif & Rabi Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh All India All India Maharashtra, Gujarat Madhya Pradesh, ... Coimbatore, Idduki, Coorg Coimbatore, Coorg, Wayanadu, Peeremade Amritsar, Jalandhar, Darrang, Ratnagiri, Kanchipuram, Thiruvallur Ambala, Patiala, Bhatinda, Faridkot Various locations Various ... Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain; • Americas: USA, Canada; • Middle East: Saudi Arabia, UAE; • Asia: Japan, Singapore; • Australia; • Africa:...

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Tài liệu Risks and Challenges for Poultry Production doc

Tài liệu Risks and Challenges for Poultry Production doc

... Karin Schwabenbauer and Jonathan Rushton Animal Production and Health Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy SUMMARY ... Primary and opportunistic microbial pathogens may directly cause infectious and allergic diseases in farm animals, and chronic exposure to some types of aerial pollutants may exacerbate multi-factorial ... in an area, the measures implemented on the farm to prevent disease, and other factors including the density of farms in the area and linkages with other farms and markets Farm biosecurity measures...

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