... databasesl" has resulted in this panel, which is supposed to debate the necessity of continuing work in this area rather than to debate technical issues inthe area. And yet if this problem has been ... THERE STILL ISGOLDINTHE DATABASE MINE Madeleine Bates BBN Laboratories 10 Moulton Street Cambridge, MA 02238 Let me state clearly at the outset that I disagree with the premise that ... for all the Michigan doctors and Pennsylvania dentists, produced a list of all the people who were either doctors or dentists and who lived in either Michigan or Pennsylvania. This isthe state...
... attempt to find evidence linking the dialogue structure to the task structure. The main point is that the structure of the intentions conveyed inthe discourse should mirror to some extent the task ... the user's behaviors arising from the task context. The first step in performing task analysis is to identify the objects involved inthe task. In our case, these objects are vectors, ... before applying the plan. Here are the coding decisions used in deriving the dialogue structure: ã If the user initiated a subdialogue consisting of the statement of a plan or of a goal, the subdialogue...
... but others were not trained. Thereis no official swimming training inthe school program inthe Mekong River Delta. It seems an irrational structure for children living in a floodplain as the ... those living inthe urban areas, children inthe rural area are familiar with the water in rivers and canals. Their daily lives are linked with the rice fields and flood plains. Some of them learn ... statistical data showing high percentage of child deaths inthe total the losses of life inthe flood seasons inthe MD. Save the Children (2003) reported that the vast majority of the drowning...
... floods kill the insets and rats population. Otherwise, flood brings natural fishes, brings plankton which is food for fishes in cases and pools. In some questionnaire survey and interviews have ... In fact, floods bring new organic matter from upstream and deposit alluvium to the fields of the Delta. Flooding water eliminates a great part of the salinity inthe soil inthe coastal areas ... Estimate the role of floods inthe peoples lives; notice the effects to the women and children inthe flooded areas. ã Assess the environmental impacts of the anti-flood works inthe MD. ã...
... forest inthe Upper and the Lower U Minh areas were burned, accounting for approximately 57% (17% inthe Lower U Minh and 40% inthe Upper U Minh) of the total Melaleuca forest area. Inthe U Minh ... managing board finished the wetland situation analysis report as part of the action plan. The analysis report consists in a detailed description of the wetland forest site; the inventory of the ... Fig.1: The Mekong River Basin and Land forms of the MD in Vietnam The main objective of this article isthe presentation of the forest wetland inventory process, applied to both the inland...
... complicated. The main factors are river discharge, local rainfall and runoff, the amplitude of tides inthe East Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, the slope of the river bed, the wind velocity ... level inthe dry season is also 3and in a part of Ca Mau peninsula. This soil is very sensitive to the fluctuations inthe river discharge and groundwater table. From March and April, the ... characteristics of the tropical monsoon climate regions, there are only two seasons inthe Mekong Delta: dry season and rainy season. Dry season: The monthly mean discharge inthe Mekong river is...
... salinity intrusion intheriver branches is very complicated. The main factors that determine this process are river discharges, local rainfall and runoff, the tides and the depth of bars inthe ... flowed out to the sea via the delta. High rainfall combined with high flow of theriver results in yearly flooding. Big flood occurs inthe Mekong river for every 2, 3 or 4 years. Thereis a very ... delta is large if compared others regions on the world, but the capacity of clean water supply is finite in general and the demand is increasing due to a growing population, industrialisation,...
... theriver meets the Tongle Sap river, then splits into Tien river and Hau river before entering the border of Vietnam and continues to branch into 9 tributaries as theriver estuaries. The ... list of the largest rivers inthe world and is longest riverin southeastern Asia. From its source in Tibet, theriver flows to the South China Sea through Yunnan, China, forms the border partly ... to locate inthe most downstream part of the Mekong river to the sea, the MD accepts yearly all the water flood volume of the basin. About 1.2 to 1.9 million ha of land, mainly inthe North...
... lands inthe dry season. The shortage of freshwater leads to increasing salinity intrusion throughout the MD coastal provinces. (v) The floods: Discharge of the Mekong river during the wet ... the MD isthe small difference natural level between the sea level inriver estuaries and the inner lands. Also the MD is Figure 1: The Mekong River and the MD map The second International ... and the economic development needs have also driven the farmers to increase their income by increasing and diversifying their agricultural and fishery production. Since the past 20 years, the...
... year the gap between the response of the lending rate to a tight and an easy monetary policy is 14 basis points inthe first period and 3 basis points in the second. Inthe case of deposits the ... this rigidity diminished after the introduction of the 1993 Banking Law. Second, there has been a considerable fall in average rates since the end of 1992. The main reason for the fall in ... policy indicator. However, the asymmetric effect on the interbank rate is statistically significant only inthe first period, and vanishes inthe 1990s. Thereis also an asymmetry inthe autoregressive...
... increase in rainfall in wet season resulting in an increase inriver flow. By contrast, the decreasing trend of river flow in dry season is a consequence of the decline of rainfall and increase ... environment inthe coastal zone and salinity intrusion of the Huong River lead to water scarcity. This in turn results in conflicts inthe use of natural and water resources. Impacts on tourism Thua ... Changes inthe flow regime will affect the itinerary of fishing boats and other ships and fish migration/spawning routes. Changes inthe natural environment lead to changes of biodiversity, the...
... tobe low in rivers, but participation inthe fishery is veryhigh. Part-time fishing isthe norm and invariably mixedwith agricultural activities. Also, the communities living in river basins are ... support the widely held view that the fisheries are actually declining13. It is true that many fishers report declines in their catches but the problem is that the numbers of fishers are increasing. ... years). Another important characteristic offloodplain river fisheries is their ability tosustain themselves in spite of very intenseSome Important Comparisons Between Inland and Marine Fisheries10...
... Setting and Data-Collection Sites The environmental setting of the McKenzie River basin and a discussion of sampling sites inthe basin have been previously reported in McCarthy and others ... as they become available.Introduction The McKenzie Riveristhe source of drinking water for approximately 200,000 people inthe Eugene area of Oregon (g. 1). To protect this source, the ... polar organic chemical integrative sampler (POCIS)—are being used to collect data from the McKenzie River, Oregon. The McKenzie Riveristhe source of drinking water for the City of Eugene, Oregon,...
... n-/iso-butane atGuangzhou. The solid line isthe regression line of the dots, and the area within the dashed lines isthe 95% confidence interval. The major source of benzene is vehicular emissions,whereas ... periods of northerly wind. The wind vec-tors at XK display a diurnal pattern; frequently, the northerlywind shifted to the south during the nighttime hours or in the early morning, and the land–sea ... andpentenes. Isoprene was not the dominant species as expected;this can be explained by the low emissions from plants in the urban center. Inthe case of clean air, the contributionof isoprene...
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