... in the Netherlands The Dutch waterfootprint related to the consumption of paper products is significant if compared to thefootprint related to the consumption of other productsThewaterfootprint ... the individual country, the average ofthe other countries is used Step 7: Estimating thewaterfootprintof paper products in the forestry stage For a quantification ofthewaterfootprintof ... Results 3.1 Thewaterfootprintof paper productsThe evapotranspiration per volume of harvested wood for the main pulp producing countries is shown in Table Thewaterfootprintof paper products...
... supply-chain waterfootprintThe operational (or direct) waterfootprint is the volume of freshwater consumed or polluted in the operations ofthe producer ofthe soy products It refers to the freshwater ... study is 28% ofthewaterfootprintofthe global average cow milk Thewaterfootprintofthe soy burger examined here is 7% ofthewaterfootprintofthe average beef burger in the world For ... 62% ofthe total waterfootprintof soy milk refers to thewaterfootprintof soybean cultivation In the case of soy burger, this is 74% In the case of soy milk, 90% ofthe supply-chain water footprint...
... total waterfootprint * The internal waterfootprint at global scale refers to the aggregated internal water footprints of all nations ofthe world The external waterfootprint refers here to the ... water footprint) and the part ofthefootprint that presses on other countries in the world (external water footprint) The distinction refers to use of domestic water resources versus the use of ... with the import and export of raw cotton or cotton productsThe total waterfootprintof a country includes two components: the part ofthefootprint that falls inside the country (internal water...
... using the ‘Vue-link’ software to connect the two devices A printout of cardiac output data at 1-min intervals was obtained at the end ofthe study period Any discrepancy between the clocks on the ... analysis A plot ofthe difference between measurements against the mean ofthe measurements was then constructed according to the technique for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical ... Bland–Altman plot (Fig 2) showed a poor degree of agreement between the methods Although the degree of bias was acceptable, the precision was very poor The mean ofthe differences (bias) was -0.16 l/min/m2,...
... value of LMWC is due to the release of GlcNAc and GlcNAc-rich oligomers as some oftheproducts An examination of DA values indicates that the total DA oftheproducts is equal to that of native ... (moles/L) · volume of titrant (mL)/mass of sample (g) and the level of deacetylation was calculated by comparison between the number of free amino groups (per unit weight ofthe sample) and the equivalent ... GlcNAc [24] Further characterization of chitosan and the depolymerization products Further characterization of chitosan and the depolymerization products was performed using a variety of techniques...
... respondents made the hypothetical product choice and then read and judged the argument, they were asked to rate the importance ofthe issue and the carefulness with which they read the argument There are ... other words, disaffirming a person’s sense of self does not affect their choice behavior, but affirming a person’s sense of self decreases the share ofthe high-design option CHOICE SHARE OFTHE ... good they feel about themselves, how rational they felt they were, how satisfied they are with their decision, how confident they are in their decision, if they might regret the decision, if they...
... standard of Vietnam (TCVN 5942/95/B) [4, 9] The two reasons for this situation are the discharges of cattle waste into channels then to river and the uses of fertilizer The concentrations of DO, ... 10.000 With the above analytic results, we drew some comments as follows: All the twenty water samples has very high coliform indices, exceeding the limited value of class B - surface waters quality ... craft village) brought about serious pollution for the reach run thought there The cause is the discharging directly untreated waste water into the stream [1] In general, except a few heavy pollution...
... the sum ofthe individual water footprints ofthe members ofthe community Thewaterfootprintof a producer or whatever sort ofbusiness is equal to the sum ofthewater footprints oftheproducts ... of a community = the sum ofthewater footprints of its members • Thewaterfootprintof national consumption = the sum ofthewater footprints of its inhabitants • Thewaterfootprintof a business ... nations The ‘internal’ WaterFootprint Accounting 23 Box 3.1 The relation between the different sorts ofwater footprints • Thewaterfootprintof a product = the sum ofthewater footprints of the...
... corpora For each ofthe steps 1, and we proceed as follows: compare the training corpus to theoutputofthe parser on the strings ofthe corpus, after applying the transformations ofthe previous ... Example of (a) the Penn Treebank WSJ annotation, (b) theoutputof Charniak’s parser, and the results ofthe conversion to dependency structures of (c) the Penn tree and of (d) the parser’s output ... whether the word is the head of a finite verb cluster We then trained TiMBL to predict the label ofthe missing dependency (or ‘none’), given an occurrence of a pattern and the features of all...
... approximately therms of natural gas per metric ton of malt, or 11.2 g of CO2e per 6-pack of FT Depending on the efficiency ofthe kiln and the amount of roasting required, between 30 and 60 therms of natural ... profile of supermarket energy use shows demand for 51.3 kWh of electricity and 0.38 therms of natural gas per square foot of floor space.116 The same publication assumed the average area of supermarkets ... kg of CO2 per gallon at a speed of 23 knots per hour and 70.86 gallons of bunker fuel per mile, the entire trip generates 4,000,618.03 kg of CO2 Allocating by weight of cargo, the transport of...
... operation qualifies for the exemption Attachments and are lists of FSIS district offices for the Office of Field Operations (OFO), and FSIS regional offices ofthe Office of Program Evaluation ... owner ofthe poultry The owner ofthe poultry may deliver the poultry to the mobile slaughter/processing unit located at his or her own premises or any other person’s premises • Ostrich and other ... quarter ofthe year if the Consumer Price Index, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, indicates an increase or decrease of more than $500 in the price ofthe same volume of product from the...
... the back ofthe animals The split human keratome biopsies were then grafted onto the back ofthe animals The grafts were protected by a bandage during the following two weeks All the transplantation ... day 22 and the biomarkers were therefore only scored at the end ofthe study Considering the marked vehicle effect ofthe ointment vehicle observed on clinical score, it is likely that the biomarkers ... [15-17] However, these studies compared the biomarker profiles before and after treatment with the calcipotriol ointment and they did not assess the effects ofthe vehicle on the biomarker responses...
... following theorem 2n+1 Theorem Let 2n + be a prime and F be the family of all minimum dominating sets of Γ(Zn , U ) Every S ∈ F has a defining set of size at most n!2n 2n+1 The proof of Theorem ... → C is the characteristic function of a perfect dominating set if and only if (A + I)f = 1, where A is the adjacency matrix of Γ(Zn , U ) The reader may notice that in the 2n+1 proof of Theorem ... are not ofthe form (1)? If the answer to Question turns out to be negative, then we can improve the bound of Theorem 2: Proposition Let p = 2n + be a prime, and let T denote the set of perfect...
... elastic properties of tissues (e.g [19]) Drought avoider species may be classified as water spenders” or water savers”, depending on their water use [3, 15] These authors enumerate the following ... transpirational water loss On the other hand, plants species classified as water spenders have the opposite characteristics Despite of ecological and economical value of A chilensis in Patagonian region, there ... representative ofthe environmental extremes ofthe species distribution They were bred in a greenhouse in the EEA INTA Bariloche, Argentina In addition, we carried out some of these measurements...
... 1) The lower hydraulic resistance ofthe leaf blade recorded in I- versus the NI-seedlings would further favor thewater transport within the leaf Perhaps the most convincing evidence ofthe ... amount of photosynthetic products in the accumulation of cell wall materials in the leaf rather than in seedling growth Although the functional significance of sclerophylly is still matter of debate ... the surface ofthe pot under a water stream, pots were enclosed in plastic bags fitted tightly to the seedling stem and immersed in distilled filtered waterThe shoot was then cut off under water, ...
... external inputs ofwater from 10 July to September by means of a 1-m deep circular trench all around the plot and a waterproof plastic roof located m above the ground At the end of this period, this ... occurred in the upstream part ofthe xylem tissue because water potential is higher in the trunk and the roots This supposes that the vulnerability of these organs is comparable to that ofthe branch, ... paper the values of gL computed with the second technique = in the flux/potential relathe summer for one tree from the control and one from the dry plot are shown in figure The slope ofthe regression...
... Six leaves per treatment and per species at a time, collected in the illuminated part ofthe crown, were sampled on six trees ofthe same dimension selected for the experiment both in the CO spring ... to the heater The heat pulse velocity (recorded at 30 intervals) was calculated from the time taken by the re-equilibration ofthe bridge, ie, by the heat pulse to travel the distance from the ... concen2 trations around the crown ofthe plants on which the experiment was performed ranged in daytime hours from 500 to 000 ppm with rapid fluctuations The H concentration in the spring is very...
... areas ern Italy nances What is the contribution of these results to the understanding ofthe ecology of silver fir? Water relations of fir are very close to that of pines despite marked differences ... each variable can of course change A cloudy spell may also induce a shift in the model, but the general shape ofthe curves and especially coincidence ofthe peaks is always the rule At SPC, due ... 0.2-0.4 MPa below the potential ofthe driest soil layer, though this, as at the other site, depended on the trees ψ fell to p -1.14 MPa in 1991 and the oldest needles of all trees already...
... cm·s -1 After the rain at the end of August and the beginning of September, and rehydration ofthe dry plot, the g in both plots recovs ered to the pre-stress value The decreases in the ratios T/TM ... dysfunction Assessment ofthe sensitivity of stomata to soil water deficit was one ofthe principal goals of this study The relative reduction of g due to the decline of Ψ reported here s ... shows the seasonal course of average predawn (Ψ and midday water ) pd potential (Ψ of trees in the dry and ) m watered plots Before the roof was put in place, when the soil was well-watered,...
... achieved their covered with a dense net of hairs (Fig 3, 1a and 2a); 2) as the leaf matures, all stomates end their development and hairs progressively disappear (Fig 3, 1b and 2b) The decrease ... epidermal resistance after the leaf has reached its full size may thus be attributed to both stomatal development and a decrease in boundary layer resistance development They are References Nizinski ... foret de Fontainebleau Ann Sci For 46, 173-186 Nizinski J & Saugier B (1989b) A model of transpiration and soil -water balance for a mature oak forest Agric For Meteorol in press budding ...