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... rapid growth in the size of the labor force In the coming years, labor force growth will slow sharply as the baby boom generation retires Furthermore, improving the quality of the labor force ... status Well-off families know the value of high-quality preschool programs, and 70 percent of high-income families send their children to preschool (see Figure 2) At the other end of the income ... receive a voucher for use at the provider of their choice, but the expected amount of the voucher ($2,500 per child) is well below the cost of a high-quality program.163 Furthermore, teachers are only...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

... that the relative profitability of several organic and conventional crop rotations was heavily dependent on the value of the price premium for the organic product The net returns for the most profitable ... Factors Influencing the Economic Sustainability of Organic Producers For producers, the profitability and financial stability of their operation is of paramount concern and is often a driving influence ... given that the exclusion of genetically modified organisms is one of the central tenets of organic agriculture, but it would nevertheless be short-sighted to neglect the potential for either system...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... with the GCUM of the lowest d-class The trend of observed N10 data and corresponding G is shown by the dotted line in Figure The N10 value for equilibrium position lies at the intersection of the ... equilibrium model According to the rule of sustainability, the sum of removal must correspond to the whole increment (in terms of basal area increment or volume increment) otherwise the standing volume ... (the outgrowth rate) is the proportion of trees at the start of the period leaving the class i per year; ni is the number of trees per diameter-class i pi depends directly on the diameter increment...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... meetings relevant to the question of sustainability of the projects, and so the amount of observational work will depend on the number of such meetings taking place during the course of the study Up ... in the course of the review of the existing literature and secondary analysis of the prior evaluation’s data set from these four sites; however, they are likely to cover a number of areas, the ... importance of which is already evident from our earlier work in these sites and others and knowledge of the literature These areas include the changing nature of leadership in the sites; the development...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... No.2, 2005 The above results show that the nitrogen content in the soil at cm did not rise significantly above the initial content at the start of the survey In other words, the results of the soil ... bottom of the Overflow facility is covered with a water proof sheet to water comprehend the water balance Water that penetrates Infiltrated through the soil is gathered at the bottom of the water ... × Ro 0.3785 (8) The amount of pollutant load in overflow was calculated by the regression analysis of Overflow runoff ratio of flow (ro) and Overflow runoff ratio of load (Lro) The following relationship...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... operation of the proposed system to obtain hydrogen in large quantities The values of these indicators specify the sustainability position of a particular element or process within the system along the ... value of 0.7 is assigned to them, which is the highest value for efficiencies of all the items in the system Design: Impact of design of a process or an element on sustainable operation of the ... system sustainability of indicators and system components, but it does provide a broad understanding of the impact on the sustainability of the system The values for each of the specific indices...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... Julai Ogos Sept CONCLUSION The approaches adopted for the development of rubber planting and processing industry in Malaysia takes into consideration of the concept of sustainable development ... changed The current encouraging price of rubber sustained at relatively high levels is a departure from the traditionally low NR price This has tremendous impact on income and returns of the upstream ... Prices of SMR 20 (sen/kg) 2010* SOCIO-ECONOMY TRANSFORMATION OF RUBBER SMALLHOLDERS Before (1980s)…… ……Now The recent steady cash inflow from rubber cultivation has changed the lifestyle of rubber...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... percent of cost of the pilot project—can be reduced, or can cover a larger number of clinics.  Economies of scale also reduce cost of other activities, such as training, because larger  numbers of providers can be trained together. For example, modeling scale‐up from 24 to  ... standardized instrument, generally a checklist or set of questions to determine whether a client needs services other than the one for which she came—such as reproductive health services, immunization, or other services. Providers then offer additional  ... survey of 16 RH NGOs in Uganda analyzed their ability to survive in the context of the Ministry of Health’s SWAp. NGOs have many opportunities offered by the SWAp to enhance  sustainability and effectiveness by reducing current dependency on donor funding if they ...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... augment the capabilities of the lead UTCs, the modules themselves are conceptually discrete, with the exception of the multiple “vignettes” of the “generate -the- mission” module Still, despite the ... with the AEF construct.5 Throughout the evolution of the policies over the first cycles, the mix of forces in the AEFs has changed, but the common underlying principle has been to divide the capabilities ... aircraft The nature and levels of the required ECS will depend on the following parameters: the operational tempo, the number of deployed sites, the range of infrastructure at those sites, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... 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 ... assess the health and sustainability of their own agroecosystems Assessing the potential of various strategies in improving the health and sustainability of the agroecosystem 1.2  Global Context The ... during the process If the various outputs resulting 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...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... 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 ... self-evaluation would create a sense of ownership of the process by the communities, and that this would enhance their participation, thereby increasing the sustainability of the process By understanding ... 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...

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...

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 ... weight of 10 resulted in oscillations of all but nine of the impacts of community goals Of all the arcs, [31, 21] produced the most changes in the impact of community goals when the weight of each...

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 ... Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems action, the monitoring and control unit was identified Measures of performance, based on what the effects and the causes of the problem ... (shortly after the village workshop) showing one of the gullies caused by runoff in Kiawamagira village Plate 5.2 shows the state of the access road during this time Plate 5.3 shows one of the outlets...

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 ... Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems human health were some of the criteria given by some of the participants in some villages In five of the six villages, no consensus ... 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 village...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... 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 ... willing to so With further measurements, it would be possible to assess the impact of these on the accuracy of the measurements In addition, other methods of collecting data on the indicators should ... significant the deviation The significance of these deviations was assessed by comparing the proportion of LUUs in the specific category during the first indicator measurement to those in the same...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... knowledge of the system, emphasizing the importance of community knowledge of their agroecosystem 8.4  Kiambu Agroecosystem Scarcity of farmland is an important determinant of the nature of smallholder ... On the other hand, there was an oversupply of labor in most of the households, and the diversification may be simply a consequence of this Interestingly, communities perceived labor as one of the ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... 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 initial ... data-gathering techniques, would be needed to make indicator data more reliable and cost-effective in the long term Both community-driven and researcher-based indicators were useful because the ... different information Because communities often lack the capacity to develop and measure quantitative indicators, while researchers and policymakers lack the knowledge and mandate to make value-based...

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 & ... 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 Sustainability ... Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Appendices 217 © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 218 Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... feel part of the dialogue." Another nurse shared, " especially when you ask them the pros and the cons You know suddenly the light goes on; like, I guess I could write them down." Of the 25 nurses, ... data on the adoption of the decision support protocol and factors influencing both the use of the protocol in practice and sustainable changes These tools were based on the Ottawa Model of Research ... consistent findings Another limitation was the length of the evaluation Longer-term evaluation of the adoption of the decision support protocol in nursing practice is warranted Given the impending contract...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22