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MULTI - SCALE INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 5 ppsx

MULTI - SCALE INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 5 ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 21:21
... share with the reader the meaning of these new terms In particular, what is relevant here is the application of the concept of integrated assessment to the concept of agroecosystems Before getting ... Definition of the identity of the two matrices in terms of legends of the matrices For the matrix shown in Figure 5.4, what are the relevant criteria? What are the indicators and the target values ... define the terms of the bet (what can be gained, what can be lost) and the rules of the game (who is calling the bet and who will pay for or gain by it) Unfortunately, at present, these terms of...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 1 pptx

Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 1 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 19:20
... requiring some of the data gathered using the community indicators and vice versa Because of the short span of the project, it is difficult to assess the construct validity of the indicator suites ... assessment of the performance of the system The monitoring subunit integrates signals that indicate changes in either the internal or the external conditions The control subunit provides the mechanisms ... from the activities within the holon are consistent with the purposes and state of the larger whole in which the holon is a part of, then the criteria of effectiveness is satisfied 1.4.2 The...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 2 potx

Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 2 potx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 19:20
... for selecting indicators, specifying the data collection and calculation methodologies and a process for synthesizing all the information into a picture of the system, the overall status of the ... lagged cumulative percentage of the resource T2 is the sum of the cross products of lagged cumulative percentage of land-use units and cumulative percentage of the resource The Gini coefficient lies ... evaluate the progress of individual projects The implementation of the action plans was the responsibility of the communities In addition, the communities were expected to supply all the resources...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 3 potx

Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 3 potx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 19:20
... of the agenda of the workshop, a description of the steps of an action research process and of the objectives and proposed methods of the project was provided Table 3.1 shows the sequencing of ... representations of various characteristics of the study sites as perceived by the participants and what they perceived to be the boundaries of their community These provided reference points for data gathering, ... anything, but rather that the similarity of their orientation toward the issue at hand would allow free sharing of information and deeper insight into the issue under discussion The goal of the facilitator...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 4 ppt

Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 4 ppt

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 19:20
... and the length of a path was the number of arcs in it The impact of a path from vertex vi to another vertex vj was calculated as the effect of the path multiplied by the sign of vertex vj The ... Conversely, the out-degree of a vertex (vi ) is the sum of the row (i) in the adjacency matrix corresponding to that vertex The sum of the in-degree and the out-degree of a vertex is the total ... of 6–10 The number (ranging from to 10) of groups depended on the number of participants and therefore the size of the village A facilitator and a recorder were provided for each of the groups...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 5 pptx

Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 5 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 19:20
... opinions of the facilitator on the problem situation Criticism of the models and depictions by the community and other stakeholders were therefore directed to the facilitator and not to the group ... stakeholders There were three main competing perspectives on the causes of flooding, gully formation, and destruction of the access road The first was that the redirected runoff from the railway ... the causes of this The first was that the Ministry of Agriculture could no longer afford to finance such activities The second was that farmers in many of the villages were too resistant to the...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 6 pot

Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 6 pot

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 19:20
... suitable for many of the attributes in the social domains of the researcher-proposed suite The two suites therefore provided complementary information on the health and sustainability of the agroecosystem ... our forefathers had seen into the future [Kuona mbere] Of their own consideration, they decided to spare some land for a cemetery in the village There were no dairy cattle then, and no one in the ... contacted for permission to participate in the study Dates and times for the interviews were set based on the availability of the inter­ iewees The allocation of interviewees to each of the three...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 7 pdf

Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 7 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 19:20
... time The further away the point, the more significant the deviation The significance of these deviations was assessed by comparing the proportion of LUUs in the specific category during the first ... 1992) of the 1999 data The correlation between the coordinates of the main points and the supplementary points was used to determine the presence of significant deviation of inertia between the ... indicators, the validity of some community assertions, and the impact of community goals on the agroecosystem The implications of the spatial and temporal trends in the indicators in terms of generic...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 8 docx

Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 8 docx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 19:20
... sense of what is good and what is bad in terms of the health and sustainability of their agroecosystems (evidenced in their problem analysis; Chapter 3), they did not seem to appreciate the need for or ... least one measure of performance, a criterion of what constitutes good or bad performance, and the remedial action to be taken for each of the possible outcomes The inability of communities to ... perspective, the objective of the process is to discover and characterize pathological processes and the risk factors associated with them The former focuses on the capabilities of the system and...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 9 pdf

Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 9 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 19:20
... data for two reasons: (1) the incorporation of targets and thresholds in the process of categorizing the indicators, thus providing an intuitive interpretation, and (2) projection of data from the ... fundamentally different information Because communities often lack the capacity to develop and measure quantitative indicators, while researchers and policymakers lack the knowledge and mandate ... 204 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Technical improvements, such as geographical information systems and remote sensing, self-reporting...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 10 (end) doc

Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 10 (end) doc

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 19:20
... 206 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Appendix 1: Questionnaire Used to Carry Out a Census of All the Land-Use Units in the Village © 2009 by Taylor & ... Francis Group, LLC 207 208 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Appendix 2: Questionnaire Used for Indicator Measurement at the Land-Use Unit Level © 2009 by Taylor & ... Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Appendices 211 © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 212 Integrated Assessment of Health and...
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Multi criteria analysis in environmental management: Selecting the best stormwater erosion and sediment control measure in Malaysian construction sites

Multi criteria analysis in environmental management: Selecting the best stormwater erosion and sediment control measure in Malaysian construction sites

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 16:11
... degrading the quality of the adjacent water bodies, affecting the habitats of ecosystem, destroy fish spawning areas, increase the sediments at the bed of the river, and reduce the opportunities for the ... standardized performance measure for xij, xij = the performance of the ith alternative against the jth criterion in real units of any type, xj max = the maximum performance score under the jth criterion, ... standardized value of xij (the performance measure for the ith alternative against the jth criterion), wj = the weight of the jth criterion There are many alternative techniques for assigning weights...
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Báo cáo " Using multi‐criteria analysis as a tool to select the feasible measures for sustainable development of brackish water shrimp culture in Quang Tri Province " doc

Báo cáo " Using multi‐criteria analysis as a tool to select the feasible measures for sustainable development of brackish water shrimp culture in Quang Tri Province " doc

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 12:20
... Nguyen Tien Giang et al. / VNU Journal of Science,  Earth Sciences 24 (2008) 66‐78  2.7. Selection of the feasible measures  The final  stage  in  the decision  making  process  is  to  estimate  the scores  for each  of the alternatives and choose the most suitable  ... In order to score for each of the measures  with  the criteria,  the meaning  of the impact  levels  of measures  on  the criteria  should  be  defined. The meaning levels are as follows:  Costs  of ... implementation:  The lower  the score the better.    Time  of implementation:  The lower  the amount the better.  Manageability  by  farmers:  The easier  the better.  Economic benefits: The higher the better. ...
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báo cáo hóa học:" A biomechanical assessment of modular and monoblock revision hip implants using FE analysis and strain gage measurements" potx

báo cáo hóa học:" A biomechanical assessment of modular and monoblock revision hip implants using FE analysis and strain gage measurements" potx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 04:20
... human femurs previously, the FE model of the synthetic bone was already available to the authors, the inter-specimen uniformity of the synthetic Bougherara et al Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery ... obtained These ratios were close to the ratio of the axial loads themselves (= 2000 N/700 N = 2.9) By dividing strain values of corresponding Locations to for the Monoblock by the strain values for the ... allow for ease -of- comparison to future FE and experimental studies using this often-used commercially-available synthetic bone, and the ease -of- storage and lack of degradation of the synthetic...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Assessment of Severe Apnoea through Voice Analysis, Automatic Speech, and Speaker " ppt

Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Assessment of Severe Apnoea through Voice Analysis, Automatic Speech, and Speaker " ppt

Ngày tải lên : 21/06/2014, 20:20
... migration of the foramen magnum, posterior migration of the tongue into the pharynx and descent of the larynx, and shortening of the soft palate with loss of the epiglottic-soft palate lock-up The ... study The main reason for using GMMs over the cepstral domain is related to the great potential this combination of techniques has shown for the modelling of the acoustic space of human speech, for ... Secondly, due to the pharyngeal anomaly, differences in formant values can be expected, since, for instance, according to [17] the position of the third formant might be related to the size of the velopharyngeal...
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Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone docx

Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone docx

Ngày tải lên : 28/06/2014, 19:20
... the next 20 years (Table 2) therefore hardly affect the emissions of BC, OC or CO The influence of the CH4 and BC measures is thus the same regardless of whether the CO2 measures are imposed ... close to the Arctic, as well as to the climate impact of pollutants in the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere Much of the need for implementation lies within Europe and North America The identified ... methane.Itanalysesthetrendsinemissionsofthesesubstancesandthedriversofthese emissions;summarizesthescienceofatmosphericprocesseswherethesesubstancesare involved;discussesrelatedimpactsontheclimaticsystem,humanhealth,cropsinvulnerable...
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Báo cáo sinh học: "Assessment of methods and analysis of outcomes for comprehensive optimization of nucleofection" pptx

Báo cáo sinh học: "Assessment of methods and analysis of outcomes for comprehensive optimization of nucleofection" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 19:22
... Vaccines and Therapy 2009, 7:6 Background The transfection of molecules into mammalian cells is an essential tool for the study of gene function, the delivery of genetic therapy agents, and for cell ... cells were nucleofected and then allowed to proliferate for 48 hours before addition of the tetrazolium salt (AqueousOne), or the Live (GF-AFC) reagent of the MultiTox assay Cells were then assayed ... subtracting the mean of the data set from each data point and then dividing by the standard deviation of the data set Standardized and raw data for the secondary optimization can be viewed in the supplementary...
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Assessment of pretreatments and enzymatic hydrolysis of wheat straw as a sugar source for bioprocess industry

Assessment of pretreatments and enzymatic hydrolysis of wheat straw as a sugar source for bioprocess industry

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 15:28
... accounts for lack of toxicity of the resultant liquor, and seems to be a feasible way of utilizing lignin as a source of these chemicals The optimum pH for delignification is 11.5 and the loading of ... temperature of 45-50ºC of conventional enzymes As a result, the protein dosage of thermophillic enzymes required to achieve the same conversion as at 45-40 C is decreased as the specific activity of the ... developing lignin as renewable source of biochemicals could bring greater surpluses to the profits of a biorefinery The use of oxidative pretreatments that rely on degradation of this component would...
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Tuberculosis Care with TB-HIV Co-management: INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF ADOLESCENT AND ADULT ILLNESS (IMAI) pptx

Tuberculosis Care with TB-HIV Co-management: INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF ADOLESCENT AND ADULT ILLNESS (IMAI) pptx

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 04:20
... written: The code shows the phases of the regimen, separated by a slash The letters correspond to the drugs to take during the phase This continuation phase is of months duration The number before the ... drug regimen for the initial phase on the front of the TB Treatment Card Record the drug regimen for the continuation phase on the back Under the drug combination, record the number of tablets, or ... The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the...
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