the role of remote sensing in deciphering functional and structural diversity

... predicting, measuring and understanding the roles of different kinds of organisms in the flux and storage of elements in ecosystems The total biomass per unit area, W, is simply the sum of the body ... juvenile and adult survival The effects of changes in the magnitude of each of these traits on the others (e.g increased offspring size may be traded off against a reduction in offspring number), and ... because the mass of the egg indicates not only the size of the hatchling, but also the quantity of resources stored in the egg and expended in metabolism during the course of development Note that the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... logarithm of the likelihood function; W (X!Z); * b° is the solution vector of the MME; C is the inverse of the coefficient matrix of the number of observations The the number of animals; and n the ... strain) is described in table I for the number of ducks (males and females) and the hatching date of each generation Population size was increased from the third generation mainly in order to maintain ... in the base popultion are known, the breeder can define a selection strategy by selecting for a linear combination of the predicted breeding values of the traits EW40, BW40, NEGG52 and ES40 The...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... eggs in G6) On the other hand, the increase in inbreeding coefficient is rather small, the mean ± standard deviation being 0.0485 t 0.0255 in G5 The founder animals are assumed to be neither inbred ... within sire using information from four full sisters: first 35% of them on the averages of h and then 35% on averages of ES30 or ES40 On average in G1 up to G4, 12.2% of the drakes and 25.6% of the ... selection by independent culling levels This extra gain compared to I is explained by the increase in accuracy of the prediction of breeding values and of the multitrait genetic selection index The application...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... denote the terms from the right-hand side The shape of the two factors, (1 + ã + ã2) and (1 + x ), corresponds to the rows and columns in the above scheme The activation and inhibition terms in the ... which then dissociate from the enzyme in arbitrary order; (ii) binding of substrates and products is reversible and much faster than the conversion step; (iii) the binding energies of individual ... between them was greater than that between the ordered and ping-pong mechanisms Mathematically, the three rate laws differ in their denominators: in convenience kinetics, we find all combinations of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... editorialist in the Edmonton Bulletin in the spring of 1895, aimed at the indiscriminate use of fire in the pioneer ranges of the Beaver Hills: “there is the greatest objection to the destruction of 100 ... Valley In time, the combination of gun and horse soon turned the northern prairie and parklands into landscapes in motion.21 The Mandan villages disappeared in the process, victims of the new ... History of Land and Life to the coming of the horse to the northern plains in the first half of the eighteenth century.13 Before the horse, life was more localized for residents of this quarter, and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21

... Hills, the flight activity started at the beginning of May and ended in mid-June with the peak at the end of May and beginning of June in 2005 (Fig 2) In 2006, the flight activity started later in ... of 50 m apart from the forest edge in the locality Cikháj (49°39'43''N, 15°56'46''E; 780 m a.s.l.) in the Českomoravská vrchovina Hills The traps were exposed from the beginning of April to the ... of females of Lecanium sp The anthribid larvae feed on the eggs of the scale insects Larvae pupate in this place and emerged adults bite out through the dorsal parts of hosts’ scales (Valentine...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... fatty acids may influence total body lipid accretion by increasing thermogenesis as a result of increased activity of uncoupling proteins and peroxisomes [16], and/ or by increasing lean body mass ... oil The aim of the present study was 1) to determine the effects of supplemental fish oil on body composition and resting metabolic rate in healthy adults, and 2) to determine the effects of supplemental ... increase in lean mass following weeks of an increased consumption of fish oil In their study, they added fish oil to the diet, but kept total fat and energy constant between the treatments In the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... parameters and BCS between the experimental and control groups Cows were included as random intercepts and polynomials of time in increasing order from parturition in days (or in weeks for milk fat and ... on a growing concern over the use of antibiotics and other growth promoters in the animal feed industry, interest in the effects of microbial feed additives on animal performance has increased ... (Monday and Thursday) starting from the second week PP until the thirteenth week In order to avoid the effect of the time of milk extraction on the P4 Table 1: Chemical composition of the silages...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... gastrointestinal tract, the midpoint of the values of bi is 0.71 The midpoint of the values of ki is -0.14, the midpoint of the values of scaling exponents for the SMR of tissues reviewed in the introduction ... midpoint of the values of ki plus the midpoint of the values of bi because values of ki are not available for certain tissues For scaling of the brain and the epithelial tissues of the skin and gastrointestinal ... estimate of the scaling exponent for the surface area of the epidermis, 0.66 [39], give the estimate 0.75 for the scaling exponent of the mass of cells in the stratum Malpighi The scaling exponent...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... Asian - the Chinese yuan and the Hong Kong Dollar The rapid growth in India’s foreign trade with China and Hong Kong in the recent years has been the underlying factor for including these two ... cent in 1991-92 to 6.1 per cent in 2004-05 The increase in India’s trade with China has been more pronounced in the last four years The inclusion of China and Hong Kong SAR reflects an increasing ... monthly average of the REER and NEER for the base year is benchmarked to the level of 100 As against the practice of having three base years in the case of existing five-country indices, viz.,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/09/2012, 16:47

... livelihoods  Half of these 600m livestock keepers live in Asia  Also, many millions off-farm jobs created along the supply chain (trading, processing, retailing)  Between 4-17 off-farm jobs created ... ceremonies, Racing, bull fighting 21 22 Percentage of rural household owning livestock, share of income from livestock and number of livestock per household 23 Percentage of rural households owning livestock, ... the world will sufficiently accommodate and feed its human population with out destroying the enviroment and depleting natural resources???” Land used by region and country group, 1961,1991 and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2013, 10:35

... efforts of other supply chain members to improve If the firms in the supply chain accept their partnership role in the chain, they will then see the benefits of contributing to other’s continuous ... Lock -In and Novelty They observe that none of the received theories in and of themselves can explain the sources of new value creation in e-business Rather the value creation has to rest on an integrative ... implementing and operating the Internet systems However, as the potential of the Internet to increase the efficiency and efficacy of the supply chain and allow more make-to-order processing, firms...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2013, 07:56

... from China and breeding and selection from the introduced germplasm The limited use of diverse cultivars presents major constraints for soybean improvement in general and enhancing yield in particular ... of mutagen in terms of survival and growth reduction, all populations at dose of 21 kR were advanced for further evaluation and screening The surviving M1 plants were harvested individually and ... further evaluation and screening One of the important indicators to show the effectiveness of mutation is chlorophyll mutation In the M2 generation, both chlorophyll and viable mutants affecting...

Ngày tải lên: 29/08/2013, 08:14

... food Unit 8: Food and health Period 1: Grammar I Countable and uncountable nouns Which of these things are uncountable in English? tomato Orange Pine apple Rice Milk Soft drink Sweet Apple Chicken ... can get some butter and bread at the shop Some:over there is in positive statements Any: is in negative statements and questions Example 2: A Are there any apples? B Yes, but they aren't very good ... 8: Food and health Period 1: Grammar Fat, oil, sugar Protein rich foods Fruit and vegetables I Countable and uncountable nouns II Some / any 18 30 The Pyramid diet Calcium Vitamins, minerals,...

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2013, 21:10

... also show that butyrate is the main source of the produced hydrogen and acetate is the main sink Acetate is clearly influenced by the activity of homoacetogens even in the early stages, with a ... (Figure 5) The total change in the electrons distribution can just be explained partly (< 10 %) by the increase in propionic acid concentration Furthermore from day 30 the increase observed in the lactic ... [26-29] These studies show a decrease in butyrate and hydrogen production and an increase in acetate and ethanol with increasing pH The authors agree that the results are reproducible, reversible and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... (Running sum of the Forecast Error – RSFE) chia cho độ lệch tuyệt đối trung bình MAD TS = - Nếu TS >0 => Cầu thực tế lớn cầu dự báo - = ∑ Nếu TS Cầu thực tế nhỏ cầu dự báo - Một tín hiệu theo ... năm trở lên) Phân loại theo phương pháp dự báo • Dự báo định tính • Dự báo định lượng Phân loại dự báo theo đối tượng dự báo • Dự báo khoa học kỹ thuật công nghệ • Dự báo kinh tế, văn hóa, xã hội, ... cho giai đoạn t theo công thức Tt = Tt-1 + β(Ft – Ft-1 – Tt-1) Tt = β(Ft – Ft-1 ) + (1-β)Tt-1) + Bước 3: Dự báo nhu cầu theo xu hướng (FITt): FITt = Ft + Tt Với: Ft – Mức dự báo theo san mũ giản...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2013, 12:33

... xác suất là: P(T2) = 0,3 Để tiến hành vẽ đinh, đặt S1: chiến lược không mua thông tin, sử dụng số liệu phận Marketing S2: chiến lược có mua thông tin, SA: chiến lược sản phẩm A, SB: chiến lược ... tiết lắp ráp cách dễ dàng, nhanh chóng  Thiết kế tin cậy: Từng chi tiết có mức tin cậy tập hợp lại ta có mức tin cậy hệ thống muốn tăng mức độ tin cậy hệ thống, ta phải: • Thiết kế để tránh hư ... Khái niệm sản phẩm • Theo quan điểm truyền thống: Sản phẩm tổng hợp đặc tính vật lý học, hóa học, sinh học…có thể quan sát được, dùng thỏa mãn nhu cầu cụ thể sản xuất đời sống • Theo quan điểm nay:...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2013, 12:35

... Amanisstandinginthemidstofaforest Hebeginstosing,andhelaughsinjoy. Bothsongandlaughterechobacktohim, Butnoneofitisreal. Understandthateverythingthereeveris Isjustthesameasthis. The point is that things ... constantly use the practiceofthefourpowers. Thesefourarethefollowing 1)Thepowerofthefoundation:Reviewwhatyouunderstandabouthow thingswork,andyourdestinyofcaringforothers. 2)Thepower ofdestruction:Understandthatbydoinganegativekarma, ... Aboutthegoodnessyouvedoneyourself. Thereasonisthatyoullthenbeable Toaccomplishtheincreaseoftheseseeds Thattheenlightenedsaythishappinessbrings. Andtherearesomanyotherreasonsweseeaswell SoIthink,mymind,itsanexcellentthing Ifyoucanbehappyingoodnessthisway....

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 04:15

... feeding in commercial hatcheries may therefore appear evident, in practice the use of natural plankton often entails many constraints which will be explained in detail in chapter For the industrial ... for the determination of active chlorine in hypochlorite solutions Worksheet 4.2.6.: Artemia hatching Worksheet 4.2.7.: Determination of hatching percentage, hatching efficiency and hatching ... used in larviculture, as well as their application potential in terms of their nutritional and physical properties and feeding methods The manual is divided into different sections according to the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 00:15

... the advantage of allowing control of the quality of the cultures The major difficulty in microscopic counts is reproducibility, which is a function of the sampling, diluting, and filling of the ... whether the operation aims at the mass-production of larvae for remote setting or growing millions of seed till planting size In either case, the juveniles, representing the largest biomass in the ... of reasons, including the depletion of a nutrient, oxygen deficiency, overheating, pH disturbance, or contamination The key to the success of algal production is maintaining all cultures in the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 00:15