utilization of compost in horticultural cropping systems

... plants grown in SYT compost increased as the percentage of compost in the medium increased, while mass of plants grown in MSW compost decreased as percentage of compost in the medium increased There ... general increase in number of flowers per pot and a decrease in time required for flowering as the concentration of MSW compost in the growing medium was increased up to and including 100% compost ... worldwide compost quantities are increasing, compost quality is improving, and more commercial vegetable growers are evaluating compost or integrating it into their production systems II COMPOST...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 06:22

... II.2.3 Principles of assessing students In the book Nine Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning, there are principles of assessing student learning  The assessment of student ... program of English During the first and second academic years, four basic communicative skills in English including listening, speaking, reading and writing are taught In the final two years of the ... (Stiggins, 2002) One of the pivotal arguments in favor of developing and extending the practice of formative assessment in writing classes is put forth by Hawkey and Barker , 2004 In supporting...

Ngày tải lên: 16/07/2015, 07:45

... ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to investigate students’ perceptions of benefits of using portfolios as a means of evaluating their learning process in a translation course and find out the students’ ... I.2.1 Definition of evaluation I.2.2 Reasons for evaluating students I.2.3 Principles of evaluating students I.3 Overview of portfolios 12 I.3.1 Definition of portfolios ... Faculty of Foreign Languages, Hanoi Pedagogical University N02” (Graduation paper submitted in partial fulfillment of The Degree of Bachelor of Arts in English) I certify that all the materials in...

Ngày tải lên: 30/11/2015, 09:14

... Booshoot's profitability it must participate in more than one stage of the supply chain Seeking partnerships with leaders in the industry will increase the profitability for Booshoot in the paper industry ... used in a variety of functions including paper 43 Once the chips are made into pulp and arrive at the paper manufacturing facility, the paper making processing can begin Pulp is made from binding ... paper machines and each machine makes a different line of paper Some lines can run at 2,900 ft/min, up from 2000 ft/min in 2007 The average line produces 164,000 tons of pulp and linerboard per...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... They show the characteristics of a stoic, working hard in the hardest of situations Hemingway Code Heros are very rare in real life, but in fiction they survive, setting good examples for all ... catch a fish of any size He did not pride himself on catching the fish He did not go running to tell the other fishermen of the town about it, he just went home and fell asleep Landing the fish ... side of the boat The Old Man And The Sea portrays Hemingway Code Heros to their fullest potential As Heros they try their hardest to persevere under pressure and achieve the goal in front of them...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:50

... In terms of health systems, attending to the increasingly chronic nature of HIV offers links to existing efforts to recognize and address the increasing burden of chronic diseases [40] Finally, ... of HIV-associated conditions affecting all body systems, including neurological and neurocognitive conditions resulting in brain or spinal cord problems, cardiovascular system changes resulting ... of widespread access to ART in Southern Africa marks the dawning of a new era in the history of HIV as vast numbers of people living with HIV may expect to live far longer [5] Indeed, the clinical,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... retain their clinical and even prognostic value and therefore should not be forgotten whenever performing an echocardiographic investigation Competing interests The authors have no competing interests ... particular, the disparity of the mitral annular motion as described recently [13,14], should be evaluated more closely, but indeed could be of certain help in understanding differences in diastolic mitral ... Hayon J, Ricome JL, Jardin F, Vieillard-Baron A: Respiratory changes in inferior vena cava diameter are helpful in predicting fluid responsiveness in ventilated septic patients Intensive Care Med...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... of three of the targeted laboratory tests – the measurement of serum ferritin in the assessment of microcytic anaemia (ferritin), the measurement of serum follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) in ... offer useful insight into the processes underlying change (trial effects) in KT trials [17] Summary Recognition of the KT gap has led to increased interest in more active KT strategies Existing ... was modified in the presence of different barriers and enablers There is increasing recognition of the value of process evaluations alongside trials of complex interventions such as professional...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... /usr/src/linux is, by convention, a symbolic link to the current production version of Linux running on your machine Finding it is easy: The README file contained therein is fairly short and to the point, ... installing the kernel, in addition to backing up the current kernel, we also made a boot disk, just in case After putting a floppy in the A: drive (for you DOS types), we typed: # dd if=/vmlinuz ... DOS-based PC to it, with FTP Software’s PC/TCP PPP stack Everything looked fine; a ping from the PC to the Linux box worked, which meant that PPP was happening Then we pinged the Internet router successfully,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 17:15

... Extent of plant-level downsizing after adopting ABC = no change, = Extent of downsizing increased – 10%, = Extent of downsizing increased 11–20%, = Extent of downsizing increased 21–50%, = Increased ... or services will be eliminated Locally competing trend turns into international competition Instead of paying more money in gathering the information as in the past, internet and technologies ... mining can be explored yearly or seasonally Through this, investors and managers can understand the scale of the mining and the potential profits that these mining can bring to organizations In...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:19

... QUESTIONS • Indicator a gauge by which standards are measured Contamination the act of soiling, staining, corrupting or infecting by contact or association Sample a representative part or single item ... average of about 15 pieces of plastic in the bellies of most of the birds she's investigated And in some of them, she says, she found as much as 120 bits of plastic … jammed and pressed into a ... medicine, hormones and pain killers in their drinking water Here in Santa Clara County, scientists detected eight different drugs, including ibuprofen and a cholesterol-control medication Keep in...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... design of vaccines for immunotherapy of type allergy) In order to generate a universal affinity matrix for binding of any kind of biotinylated molecules, minimum-sized core streptavidin (118 amino ... is continued by lateral growth in all directions until the proceeding front lines of the growing domains meet [12] In this way, a closed mosaic of monocrystalline domains is formed Depending on ... refolding protocol was applied to obtain heterotetramers consisting of one chain of the respective fusion protein and three chains of core streptavidin (Fig 3A,B) Fluorescence quenching of tryptophan...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20

... testing was part of routine examination For HIV testing, specific informed consent was asked and counseling offered Approval for this study was obtained from the relevant authorities of the Ministry ... performance of the so-called reference standard Clinical decisions regarding TB status should be made taking into account the final post-test probability after exploring all findings, and comparing this ... results in this study including clinical, bacteriological and Julie et al radiological findings not permit the measurement of disease status directly, because they are all (imperfect) indicators of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... selection in the absence of nucleosides and amplification of GPV expression by growing cells in the presence of step increased concentrations of methotrexate [21] This clone was maintained in suspension ... (1999) Glycoprotein (GP) Ib-IX-transfected cells roll on a von Willebrand factor matrix under flow Importance of the GPIb/actin-binding protein (ABP280) interaction in maintaining adhesion under ... Fox, J.E (1995) Interaction of platelet glycoprotein V with glycoprotein Ib-IX regulates expression of the glycoproteins and binding of von Willebrand factor to glycoprotein Ib-IX in transfected...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... crops, such as industrial hemp, as a source of industrial fiber Increasing the Area of Forest Plantations Absent of a general increase in forest management intensity, an option for increasing the wood ... to increase in Minnesota in the decades ahead Expansion of Recycling Activity Increases in paper recycling over the past half-century have clearly served to reduce the consumption of virgin pulpwood ... Momentum in the non-wood fiber industry was lost following the war because of the high costs of gathering and processing straw, and the return to pulping of hardwoods on the part of the paper industry...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20

... ubiquitination of lysine 377 of RIP1 and subsequent binding to the ubiquitin-recognition domain of NEMO NEMO itself can be conjugated to linear polyubiquitin chains joined head-to-tail by the linear ... A T Ting presence of ubiquitinated and nonubiquitinated RIP1, for example, pro-survival factors that contain ubiquitin-binding domains such as the IAPs [46,47] and A20-binding inhibitor of NF-jB ... ubiquitin-binding proteins such as NEMO may sterically hinder RIP1 from interacting with downstream death mediators such as caspase or RIP3, which not have ubiquitin-binding domains Ubiquitination of...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... Sepp-Lorenzino L, Fraley ME, Arrington KL, Lobell RB: An inhibitor of the kinesin spindle protein activates the intrinsic apoptotic pathway independently of p53 and de novo protein synthesis Mol Cell Biol ... and induce the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines in Type I EOC cells [4,5] Thus, our next objective was to determine the effect of ARRY-520 on NF-κB and cytokine profile in ... Paclitaxel in this subgroup of EOC patients 10 11 Abbreviations EOC: epithelial ovarian cancer cell; KSP: kinesin spindle protein; NF-κB: nuclear factor κB; XIAP: X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein;...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... the potential binding affinity of the amino acid motif spanning the mutation to the patient’s HLA (Table and 2) Peptides were designed based on the predicted binding affinity using the BIMAS program ... resulting in a change from thymine to cytosine which led to a substitution in valine to alanine at position 166 Patient had a mutation at nucleotide number 332 resulting in a change from guanine ... BioSciences, San Jose, CA) Briefly, following staining of surface antigens, cells were resuspended in mL of fixing solution (buffer A) and incubated for 10 minutes at RT in the dark Cells were washed two...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... socio-demographic, clinical, laboratory and pharmacy information for all patients, including the dates of enrollment into the HIV clinic, the dates of all clinical appointments and CD4 tests and the dates of starting ... Although training of new personnel has been ongoing and a firm priority of the government of Mozambique, the identification and testing of innovative and flexible strategies to best utilize existing ... eligibility (using clinical and psychosocial readiness guidelines) and to approve initiation of therapy when appropriate The CD4 nurse intervention was defined as changing the scope of work for...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20