... plantations, and already many of the smallholders rely on prospects of future sales of latex and thus depend on the dynamics of the global market The success story of Yunnan and the high demand of China ... First of all it should give the author an impression of the landscape and land cover, land use practices, distribution of settlements, etc With the collection of GPS points the classification of ... context of research projects of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) at the Institute of Geography of the University of Berne The CDE is the executive agency of the NCCR North-South and...
... the processes of detachment of soil particles from the soil mass and the subsequent transport and deposition of those sediment particles on land surfaces Erosion is the sourceof 99% of the total ... in terms of focusing experimental research on the two primary sources of eroded soil The separation of the two primary sediment sources facilitates the mathematical modeling ofnonpointsource ... Models of soil erosion play critical roles in soil and water resource conservation andnonpointsource assessments, including sediment load assessment and inventory, conservation planning and design...
... 1988 120 Baker, J L., Agricultural areas as nonpoint sources of pollution, in Environmental Impacts ofNonpointSource Pollution, Overcash, M R., and Davidson, J M., Eds., Ann Arbor Science Publishers, ... applications of N are made The importance of accounting for all sources of N varies greatly from farm to farm and region to region, depending on the relative contributions of various sources of N to ... be a sourceof groundwater contamination 3.2.3 LAND APPLICATION OF MANURES, SLUDGES, AND WASTEWATER Excessive applications of manures or sludges may cause NO3 contamination of groundwater Land...
... understanding the potential for, and impacts of, P transport through watersheds in agricultural and native landscapes The fate and transport of P depend to a great degree on the behavior of the ... growth and makeup of both upland and wetland natural ecosystems Different plants need P in different amounts, so the P concentration in an ecosystem affects the makeup of the ecosystem in both uplands ... low areas of the landscape; and deposition or plant uptake in field buffer strips, treatment wetlands, and riparian zones All of these potential sinks have upper limits to the quantity of P that...
... rainfall and runoff,65 and this washoff may be a sourceof enhanced concentrations in runoff as observed by Baker and Johnson67 and Baker et al.68 However, Baker et al.69 reported that runoff concentrations ... evaluated were no-tillage and preemergent, disk and pre-emergent, plow and pre-emergent, disk and preplant incorporated, and plow and preplant incorporated In total, 63.5 and 127 mm of rainfall were applied ... that conservation practices that reduce runoff volumes also reduce losses of propachlor and atrazine Baker and Johnson67 and Baker et al.65 related runoff and soil loss to crop residues in some tillage...
... Potential sources ofnonpointsourcepollution are runoff from feedlots and barnyards, manure land application sites, livestock grazing, and manure storage and treatment units Runoff from cattle ... manure application and runoff will not greatly affect N and P loss in runoff The type of manure does not appear to affect the amount of N and P lost in surface runoff A number of studies are summarized ... 1.4, 1.8, and 1.3 mmhos/cm for 100, 170, and 235 mm of application of feedlot runoff, respectively, compared with control treatments of 0.4 mmhos/cm 6.4 BARNYARD AND FEEDLOT RUNOFF Runoff from...
... because of both sediment and phosphorous and nitrogen levels 7.4 PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS AFFECTING NONPOINTSOURCEPOLLUTIONNonpointsourcepollution in arid and semiarid ... the best method minimizes nonpointsourcepollution by reducing drainage or surface runoff An irrigation method that maximizes profit and minimizes nonpointsourcepollution is the obvious choice ... root zone Pollutionof surface water occurs from surface runoff of irrigated land, the result of water applications exceeding infiltration rates Measures for reducing nonpointsource pollution...
... location of laterals and mains, and location and number of control structures Appropriate grades for drains must also be specified using the design standards and site information The type of water ... amount of runoff and the peak rate of discharge, thereby further reducing erosion and the associated off-site impacts of erosion 8.9 INSTITUTIONAL AND SOCIAL CONSTRAINTS Improved drainage of agricultural ... maintenance of the system, and timing of the subirrigation and drainage phases are part of the operation and management of the system On large-scale fields (40.5 ha), there may be high spots and depressions...
... land use, and agricultural management practices influence the quantity of water and chemicals that move through each of the aforementioned pathways Because of the complex nature ofnonpointsource ... the GIS (Searing et al.,18 Wu et al.87 ) Intermediate scale WQ modeling ofnonpointsource (NPS) pollution over watersheds is often performed with models of intermediate descriptiveness andGIS ... Hamerlinck, S P Gloss, and L Munn, Determination of nonpointsource pollutionusingGISand numerical models J Environ Qual., 25(3), 411, 1996 106 Fraser, R H., P K Barten, and D A K Pinney, Predicting...
... objectives and priorities of the parties involved The generation and transport of agricultural chemicals by surface runoff is the cause of much of the pollutionof streams, rivers, lakes, and other ... intuitive understanding of the basic mechanics of soil erosion control and water conservation Examples of cropping systems include the sabbatical year of Judea and the three sisters of the Iroquois ... there is a variety of equipment and chemicals available to farmers using conservation tillage practices Blevins and Frye9 offer a comprehensive review of the history and methods of conservation...
... point sources of pollution, the challenges of monitoring diffuse pollution are exceedingly more difficult and typically result in greater costs This is because of the inherent causes ofnonpointsource ... both by point andnonpoint sources ofpollution Point sources include easily defined sites from which pollutants are discharged; in contrast, nonpoint sources are of a diffuse nature and difficult ... Elements of the plan focus on all aspects of • • • • • • • management (e.g., staffing and management hierarchy) training of field and laboratory staff standard operating procedures (field and laboratory)...
... fabrication of mico- and nanoscale complex strcutre using PEC etching process HP was in charge of replication of Si mold using PDMS molding process JK carried out the fabrication of the LED devices ... morphologies and the property of the LED The morphologies of micro- and nanoscale complex structures of the high refractive index polymer were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and atomic ... (Rolla, MO, USA) and used as an imprint resin to form the micro- and nanoscale complex structures since its n and k values are Figure Schematic diagram of fabrication of micro- and nanoscale complex...
... extension of the system in [19] to better address the integration of generative-based and discriminative-based approaches in the case of 3D trackingof human movement, with the advantages oftracking ... kinematics and silhouette manifold learning is a limitation of our proposed framework View-independent trackingand handling of ambiguous solutions are critical for monocular-based tracking To ... includes the projection of silhouette training set ST onto S using GPLVM and the projection of the pose data CT on C using GPDM The number of experts in BME is the number of mappings from S to...
... Fig SEM image of the indent mark of the AAO using a Vickers indenter after loads of (a) 50 g and (b) 1,000 g Fig Morphologies at the edge of the indented AAO after loads of (a) g and (b) 1,000 ... corresponding load– displacement (L–D) curves of the AAO specimen at indentation loads of 1, and mN at room temperature As 123 Fig SEM image of the indent mark of the AAO using a Berkovich indenter Nanoscale ... constant and the resonance frequency were set at 34 N/m and 350 kHz, respectively The measurements of the average roughness (Ra) and the meansquare-root roughness (RMS) of the specimen were 23.4 and...
... work of Pasi Fränti was supported by a grant from the Academy of Finland [5] I.H Witten, A Moffat and T.C Bell, Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images Van Nostrand Reinhold, ... original and the feature image Isolated mismatch pixels (and pixel groups up to two pixels) are detected and the corresponding pixels in the original image are inverted This removes random noise and ... set of test images, the method achieves a compression ratio of 40:1, in comparison to 32:1 of the baseline JBIG A drawback of the method is that the compression phase is now more complex and...
... cDNA was synthesized with μg of total RNA, using Superscript III cDNA synthesis kit (Invitrogen life technologies, CA) and semi-quantitative RT-PCR was performed using primers of Core gene and ... transfected and non-transfected cells was isolated using TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen life Page of 11 technologies, CA), 24 and 48 hrs post-transfection To analyze the effect of siRNA and shRNA on ... effect of synthetic siRNA against Core gene of HCV-3a Huh-7 cells were transfected with 0.4 μg of constructed HCV Core vector or Mock along with or without 10, 20 and 40 nM of siRNAs for 24 and...
... The size of a bicluster is determined by its number of values, i.e the product of the numbers of rows and columns; GeneCoverage% and ConditionCoverage% are the percentage of genes, and conditions ... enriched biclusters Figures andand table explain the high and low performance of algorithms ISA and OPSM, respectively As ISA produces highly enriched biclusters (Figures and 3) and is able to recover ... Construction of Gene Regulatory Networks using biclustering and Bayesian networks Fadhl M Alakwaa1*§, Nahed H Solouma and Yasser M Kadah3* University of Science and Technology, Sana'a, Yemen Department of...
... in aptamers on sandwich complex formation and on detection sensitivity, and 3) the possibility of forming sandwich complex with two aptamers of the same sequence With an optimal sandwich design, ... Summary of ΔD and Δf in different buffer conditions 76 Table 5-3 Analysis of the immobilized G-15 and S-15 DNA film in buffer using a Voigt-based viscoelastic model 78 Table 5-4 Analysis of the ... the study ofDNA secondary structure and also the DNA- protein interaction on surface, which in consequence will be useful in the development ofDNA aptamer-based thrombin biosensors and also establish...
... PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH CONSONANTS BY USING CONTRASTING AND SUBSTITUTING TECHNIQUES is the result of my own research of the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Languages and International ... their hand in front of their mouth to feel the puff of air Also, in teaching the pronunciation of /θ/, the place of articulation and manner of articulation should be contrasted This sound is often ... Vietnamese and in English These techniques can make use of the strength of some previous approaches, such as listening and repeating of the Direct Method, the minimal pair drills of Audiolingualism,...