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Folksonomy: A system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content; this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging. Coined by Thomas Vander Wal, it is a portmanteau of folk and taxonomy.


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To support vital research being carried out into climate change, Mendeley has created the Climate Change Library – a collection of over 5,000 articles published across 412 Elsevier journals in 2018 and 2019. The articles are freely available until the end of 2019 for all existing and new Mendeley users to download and read.   Reflecting the truly interdisciplinary nature of climate change research, the articles have been selected from across subject areas, including the physical,...
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IJETR May 2015 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org
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Understanding the key drivers that affect a decline of soil organic carbon (SOC) stock in agricultural areas is of major concern since leading to a decline in service provision from soils and potentially carbon release into the atmosphere. Despite an increasing attention is given to SOC depletion and degradation processes, SOC dynamics are far from being completely understood because they occur in the long term and are the result of a complex interaction between management and pedo-climatic...
Topics: Agricultural management, Decision support system, Land use, Soil organic carbon
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IJETR December 2014 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org 
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IJETR April 2014 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org 
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Engineering Research Publication Best International Journals, High Impact Journals,  International Journal of Engineering & Technical Research  ISSN : 2321-0869 (O) 2454-4698 (P) www.erpublication.org
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IJETR Research Papers November 2015 Issue Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org
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IJETR September 2014 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org 
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Nowadays multilevel inverter (MLI) technologies becomes extremely main choice in the area of high power medium voltage energy control. Although multilevel inverter has a number of advantages it has drawbacks in the layer of higher levels because of using large number of semiconductor switches. This may leads to large size and price of the inverter is very high and also increase in losses. So in order to reduce this difficulties in the new multilevel inverter is proposed to reducing the...
Topics: ijaers, Cascaded Multilevel Inverter, Harmonic Distortion, MATLAB, semiconductor switches, THD
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IJETR October 2014 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org
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IJETR  " International Journal of Engineering & Technical Research" is an international peer reviewed, online journal Published monthly by Engineering Research Publication. International Journal of Engineering & Technical Research (IJETR) represents the new standared in scholarly Publishing : a liberal open access policy, fast and high quality peer review that brings Publishing to the doorstep of every research and student. IJETR  would take much care in making your research...
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Research Paper of October 2015 ISSUE Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org
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IJETR November 2014 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org ISSN :  2321-0869 (O) 2454-4698 (P)
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IJETR February 2016 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org
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IJETR August 2014 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org 
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IJETR January 2015 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org 
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IJETR February 2014 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org
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IJETR April 2015 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org
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Engineering Research Publication IJETR March 2015 Best Journals, High Impact International Journals, Journals, Monthly Journals, Free Journals, Engineering Journals
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IJETR  " International Journal of Engineering & Technical Research" is an international peer reviewed, online journal Published monthly by Engineering Research Publication. International Journal of Engineering & Technical Research (IJETR) represents the new standared in scholarly Publishing : a liberal open access policy, fast and high quality peer review that brings Publishing to the doorstep of every research and student. IJETR  would take much care in making your research...
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IJETR  " International Journal of Engineering & Technical Research" is an international peer reviewed, online journal Published monthly by Engineering Research Publication. International Journal of Engineering & Technical Research (IJETR) represents the new standared in scholarly Publishing : a liberal open access policy, fast and high quality peer review that brings Publishing to the doorstep of every research and student. IJETR  would take much care in making your research...
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IJETR December Issue Engineering Research Publication Engineering Research Publication is a rapidly growing academic publisher in the fields of Sciences and Engineering like Electronics & Communication Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering etc. Engineering Research Publication is a registered organization, services to education professionals, especially researchers around world....
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— An experiment was conducted in a greenhouse at the Luyengo campus of the University of Swaziland to determine the effect of organic mulch on the growth and yield of spinach. The experiment was conducted between the months of January and February, 2017. The experiment was a completely randomized design (CRD), with treated sewage mulch (TSM) and organic compost mulch (OCM) as treatments. The no mulch (NML) was used as a control. Spinach seedlings were planted at a spacing of 15 cm within rows...
Topics: Compost, mulch, organic, sewage, spinach.
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IJETR Research Papers September 2015 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org
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This article is about new governments for financial recovery after the financial crisis. The focus on tracing the creation of an active class derived from the security of rental income for detached houses has become rent. The study strategically combines conceptual agendas, and is discussed separately. Market formation theories rooted in scientific and technical studies provide information on the analytical method to pay attention to the work of realizing markets, the role of computer devices...
Topics: Organizational learning, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Integration, Team cooperation, Private...
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IJETR August 2015 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org
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This paper beck to examine holistically with respect to all forms of government operated in this Country in relation to the performance of her constitutional role. The paper will also attempt to analyze the myriad of problems and challenges confronting the Nigerian Press and finally recommend a way forward toward achieving an independent Nigerian Press.
Topics: Nigerian press, constitutional role, way forward, independent
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This study examines how public support for four specific low-carbon energy policies (renewable energy investment, revenue-neutral carbon tax, fuel efficiency regulations, expansion of nuclear power) varies when these policies are framed as a way to reduce either climate change, air pollution, or energy dependence. A survey question wording experiment with a nationally representative U.S. sample is utilized. We find framing effects only among Republicans, whose policy support was lower in...
Topics: Clean energy policy, Climate change, Framing, Public opinion
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by Aikaterini Zerva; Georgios Tsantopoulos; Evangelos Grigoroudis; Garyfallos Arabatzis
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The current need to adjust to the climate change requires urgent action to be taken both by the stakeholders involved in addressing climate change and by citizens. However, in order for citizens to be able to take part in such actions directly or indirectly, they will need to have a positive perception of the relevant stakeholders, so that a mutual relationship of trust and understanding is established. The objective of this study is to examine citizen satisfaction with the actions of the...
Topic: Stakeholders
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IJETR June 2014 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org
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IJETR November 2016 Issue
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Engineering Research Publication IJETR May 2017 www.erpublication.org
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The mutual relationship between man and nature brings multiple characters, functions and benefits to the landscape. Landscape services are crucial for the social and economic development and vital activities of human beings. Landscapes produce goods and services in the industry needs as well as that are directly needed by the individual in the cities and in the countryside. In this study, Çankırı, Ilgaz Region landscape services are analysed and defined in multifunctional way which are based...
Topics: Landscape Planning, Landscape Services, Land use, Çankırı, Ilgaz Region
The waste generated by modern society, when discarded in nature can make the water unfit for human consumption. Thus to obtain drinking water is necessary to perform a physical-chemical treatment, which allow the removal of the turbidity and organisms harmful to health. These coagulant chemicals and related products, although efficient, physical and chemical characteristics of water, complicate the disposal of sludge generated, and make the water have a high cost, which is passed on to...
Topics: Water Clarification, Polyelectrolytes, Natural Sources
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Eastern Dharwar Craton in Narella area of Karimnagar district (India) is studied using GIS, remote sensing and planar fabric preserved in high grade metamorphic rocks and structural deformation in their associated igneous dykes and supracrustals. Two distinct phases of deformation characterized with F1 and F2 plunging folds have given rise to ENE-WSW and NNW-SSE aligned ridge and valley system often dislocated by strike slip faults. Structurally controlled drainage, vertical scarps, shattered...
Topics: Eastern Dharwar Craton, Remote Sensing, Structural Fabric, Geomorphology, Seismic Hazards, India
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Journal of Information Technology and Application in Education (JITAE) is an international open-access and refereed journal dedicated to publishing the latest advancements in information technology and application in education. The goal of this journal is to record the latest findings and promote further research in these areas. Scholars from all relevant academic fields are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts that describe the latest, state-of-the-art research results or...
Topic: E-Learning and Knowledge Management ;Evaluating of Teaching and Learning Technologies ;Socially...
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by J. H.N. Palma; R. M. Cardoso; P. M.M. Soares; T. S. Oliveira
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Forest management decisions often rely on forest growth process based models. These models require climate data at a time-scale and a time-frame that is frequently not available in the area of interest. With the purpose of evaluating the use of modelled climate as a replacement for observational data, we compared the performance (efficiency, precision and bias) of a forest growth process based model (3-PG) when the inputs of the observational climate data were replaced by modelled climate data....
Topics: CORDEX, Climate change, Eucalyptus, RACMO, Regional climate models, WRF
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by Hanxiao Zhang; Shouliang Huo; Kevin M. Yeager; Beidou Xi; Zhuoshi He; Chunzi Ma; Fengchang Wu
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Information on both the climate change and anthropogenic activities on lacustrine ecosystem is of crucial importance for understanding the current state and future development of lake systems. The sediment profiles of arsenic, mercury, other metals, and nutrients were used to investigate climate change and anthropogenic activities impacts on three lakes located on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau (Lake Chenghai, Qionghai) and Northeastern Plain region (Lake Jingpohu) of China. The enrichment factor...
Topics: Arsenic, Climate change, Eutrophication, Heavy metals, Lake sediments, Mercury, Trophic status
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Interactive Fiction: The Computer Storygame Adventure A doctoral thesis submitted to the University of California, San Diego, by Mary Ann Buckles in 1985.  The subject of the thesis is interactive fiction, with a focus on the game Adventure (a.k.a. ADVENT) by Crowther and Woods.  "Mary Ann Buckles is widely credited as the first academic to research and speculate about the emotional and cultural impact of videogames." ( Wikipedia )
Topics: interactive fiction, ADVENT, adventure, text adventure, text adventure game, game, gaming,...
This study investigated the equilibrium adsorption mechanism and thermodynamics of Manganese (II) ion (Mn+2) present in wastewater onto the activated carbon produced from Lantana camara stem as a low cost adsorbent. The Lantana camara stem was carbonized at 300 ˚C for 2 h, ground and chemical-activated. The Chemical-Activated Lantana camara (CALC) stem carbon was characterized using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectrophotometry before and after...
Topics: Adsorption, Lantana camara, Manganese, Chemical Activation, Thermodynamic
The present study entitled “Ethno-veterinary knowledge and practices amongst indigenous pastoralists in the Menoua division, West region of Cameroon” was conducted from January to June 2019. It was aimed at assessing and analyzing more specifically; pastoralists’ perceptions regarding ethno-veterinary practices, major ethno-veterinary practices in the study area, major challenges faced by pastoralists in the field of ethno-veterinary, and pastoralists’ conservation measures for proper...
Topics: Ethno-veterinary, Indigenous, Knowledge/Practices, Pastoralism
Carry select method has deemed to be a good compromise between cost and performance in carry propagation adder design. However conventional carry select adder (CSLA) is still area consuming due to the dual ripple carry adder structure. The excessive area overhead makes conventional carry select adder (CSLA) relatively unattractive but this has been the circumvented by the use of add-one circuit. In this an area efficient modified CSLA scheme based on a new first zero detection logic is...
Topics: Ripple carry adder (RCA), Carry select adder(CSLA), Logic gates, Verilog, Adders
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by Mariusz Gałka; Marta Szal; Tanja Broder; Julie Loisel; Klaus Holger Knorr
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High-resolution plant macrofossil records were examined alongside geochemical analysis (non-destructive X-Ray fluorescence and carbon stable isotopes), pollen, and micro-charcoal data of an ombrotrophic mountain peatland located in the Harz Mountains, central Germany, Europe. We hypothesize that increased deposition of dust and pollutants across the bog surface causes changes in habitat conditions, which in turn lead to shifts in moss-dominated communities. We observe that increases in the...
Topics: Carbon isotopes, Deforestation, Human impact, Sphagnum succession, XRF
This paper provides a literature review of the different approaches used for image denoising. Various approaches are studied and their results are compared to provide a better understanding of the filters used to de-noise images. It is shown that how a single image is subjected to various denoising techniques and how it can react to those filters. Statistical and mean deviation techniques used by halder et al. (2019)1 and CNN techniques used by zing et al.(2018)2 are reviewed in detail to show...
Topics: Image pre-processing, noise removal, image denoising, salt and pepper noise, noise filter,...
The book aims towards providing the basic and fundamental information to the researchers and scientists worldwide on the vast herbal and natural medicinal treasure available to us derived from plants, herbs and fruits obtained from traditional agricultural practices. This book is dedicated to the professionals of Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry Sciences and has been composed exclusively for providing first-hand knowledge on the related issues for the development of science and education....
Topics: plants, herbs and fruits, natural medicine
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by Isaac Apuri; Kenneth Peprah; Godwin Thomas Wedam Achana
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The paper aims at assessing agroforestry as an adaptation strategy to a changing local climate. Agroforestry is necessitated by the need to improve tree population along the Sisili River and other areas in the Kassena Nankana West District. Primary data were generated through survey methods in which questionnaires were administered to 75 agroforestry farmers. It was triangulated with eight focus group discussions and five key informant interviews. Additionally, secondary data on rainfall and...
Topics: Adaptation, Agroforestry, Climate change, Farmer, Kassena Nankana West, Local climate
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by B. Pavan Kumar, B. Chamundeswari Devi, D. Ravindra Kumar Reddy and A.Balasubramanian
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Five diets designated as CSM0, CSM5, CSM10, CSM15 and CSM20 with 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20% of cottonseed meal inclusion levels respectively were fed to Catla catla (Hamilton, 1822) for 3 months and the effect studied. All the formulated diets were isonitrogenous with 30% crude protein. Feed was given at the rate of 5% of the body weight and animals were fed twice a day throughout the 3-month duration. Significant difference was observed in the Growth, Protein Efficiency Ratio and Condition Factor of...
Topics: Cottonseed meal, Catla catla, Growth, Survival
The advent of digital transformation, also known as Industry 4.0, has brought considerable challenges to organizations from various industries. The effects of its relevance and intensity can be observed in the relations between organizations, between individuals and the first and governments with these two entities. By encompassing the intense use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), it raises the need for careful evaluation and selection of projects aimed at digitally...
Topics: digital transformation, Industry 4.0, scenarios, portfolio management, information technology and...
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IJETR January 2016 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org
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Climate is changing at an unprecedented rate with impacts being felt in social and ecological systems around the world. Opportunities for building climate resilience of the social-ecological system surrounding freshwater areas are assessed using the aquatic monitoring and reporting programs of Muskoka River Watershed (Ontario, Canada) as a case study. A three-step study design was used: establishment of a knowledge baseline (i.e., what has been done), confirmation of the baseline to ensure...
Topics: Watershed monitoring, Watershed reporting
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by Shuo Liang; Yuefen Li; Xubo Zhang; Zhigang Sun; Nan Sun; Yinghua Duan; Minggang Xu; Lianhai Wu
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Climate change and excessive fertilization will threaten the crops yields and nitrogen utilization in coming decades. The aim of this study is to quantify the response of crop yields and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) to different fertilization strategies and climate change scenarios in the northern China by 2100 using the process-based SPACSYS model. The model was calibrated and validated with the data from four long-term experiments with winter wheat (Triticum Aestivium L.) and summer maize...
Topics: Climate change, Double cropping, Nitrogen use efficiency, SPACSYS model, Yield
The purpose of this paper is describes a method of temperature monitoring  in  bonding interface during the rotary friction welding of dissimilar materials. As it is directly related to the mechanical strenght of the junction, its experimental determination in real time is of fundamental importance for understanding and characterizing the main process steps, and the definition and optimization  of parameters. The temperature gradients were obtained using a system called Thermocouple...
Topics: Friction Welding, Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Dissimilar Materials, Temperature
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by Treponema pallidum tracked by the VDRL non-treponema test and should be treated as early as possible. The objective of the research is to analyze the role of nurses in assisting patients with congenital syphilis. The methodology is a narrative review study with an exploratory, observational, retrospective study approached in 15 articles in the databases (PUBMED, LILACS, BVS, SciELO, REBEN) between 2010 and 2020. Results: Since pregnant and...
Topics: Women's health, Syphilis, Nursing care.
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Topics: Continental Journal, Agricultural Economics, volume 2, 2008, Abulude, F.O
Purpose: This study evaluated the problems and challenges associated with school nursing in Cross River and Akwa Ibom States of Nigeria in terms of coverage, services rendered, adequacy of equipments and supplies, and involvement of other relevant professionals in school health programmes. Materials and methods: A descriptive design was adopted, and sixty schools were randomly selected from the two states. In each school, one nurse was conveniently selected to give a total of sixty respondents...
Topics: Knowledge, Nurses, Practice, Problems, Roles, School-health.
Medicinal plants have been used to prevent and treat various health problems. Several African and Asian nations are now encouraging traditional medicines as an internal component of their public health care programs. Indigenous medicines are relatively inexpensive and locally available and readily accepted by local population. Ethiopia has an enormous resource of plant species that are used in Traditional medicine. Among the 7000 higher plants species that are known to exist about 800 of them...
Topics: Ethiopia, Medicinal plants, WHO report, Traditional medicines, formulation
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by Stephen Ochigbo, Fatima Roheem and Alexander Ajai
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The generally accepted definition of an adhesive is any material used for holding any two surfaces together. Three different polymer latexes derived from natural rubber (NR), Acrylic (Ac) and Vinyl Acetate/Veova (VA/Ve) copolymer emulsions were blended using the principle of simplex lattice design to yield ten compositions. The blends were then used in formulating corresponding number of water-based adhesives each of which was used in making two sets of single-lap adhesive joints for...
Topics: adhesive, ternary blends, latexes, simplex lattice design, bond strength, adhesive joints
— Temperature being one of the indicators of climate change has become one of the most important discussions of recent times. Changes in temperature influence a variety of processes directly or indirectly which cut across every aspect of man existences. This paper therefore examined the trend in temperature as tools of climate change over Ebonyi State, SouthEastern Nigeria, which is an area well known for crop agriculture. Temperature data covering a period of 31 years (1984-2015) were...
Topics: Climate Change, Ebonyi, Trend, Temperature, Agriculture.
Each building requirements a table to survive a system of resisting major forces caused by wind speed or heavy earthquakes. One of the finest arrangement is outrigger. Outriggers of structural elements hold the arrangement of earthquake loads together. When the difficulty of the tallness of the structure is greater than before they turn out to be larger as well as the addition of tempting additions to oppose systems such as truss consists of belt and outriggers is essential. consumption of...
Topics: Lateral loads, Multistoried building, Outrigger system, Plinth Level.
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IJETR July 2014 Engineering Research Publication www.erpublication.org 
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Bait polychaete worms were obtained from areas around Port Dickson coasts of Negeri Sembilan Darul Khusus in Malaysia. There were four species of bait polychaete species used in this study Perinereis quatrefagesi, Halla parthenopeia, Diopatra neapolitana, and Marphysa mossambica. These polychaete species were subjected to lipid, protein, water, carbohydrate, and ash content analysis. The lipid contents in polychaete were determined using Soxhlet analysis. The protein contents were determined...
Topics: Bait polychaetes, Perinereis quatrefagesi, Halla parthenopeia, Diopatra neapolitana, Marphysa...
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Extreme drought and precipitation are expected to occur more frequently due to climate change, which may influence the water uptake patterns by vegetation in the rocky mountainous area of northern China. In this work, dual stable isotopes were used to detect the water sources of mixed forest of coniferous and broad-leaved tree species and their response of leaf water potential under differently sized precipitation events (no rain: 0.0 mm; light rain: 9.8 mm; moderate rain: 21.8 mm; large rain:...
Topics: Leaf water potential, Rain event, Stable isotopes, Water use pattern
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by Hanxue Liang; Jian Guo Huang; Qianqian Ma; Jingye Li; Zhou Wang; Xiali Guo; Huoxing Zhu; Shaowei Jiang; Peng Zhou; Biyun Yu; Dawei Luo
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It is critical to investigate the effects of competition and climate on forest growth as they are main forces affecting forest dynamics. However, in subtropics of China such a study has never been conducted. Here we conducted a pioneer study to evaluate the effects of competition and climate on growth of Chinese red pine (Pinus massoniana) in mixed forests of subtropical China along a broad latitudinal gradient (23°N∼32°N). Twenty-three plots (20m × 20m) were randomly selected from 11...
Topics: Climate change, Dendroecology, Distant-independent competition index, Pinus massoniana, Subtropical...
Fish is a rapidly decomposing source of animal protein, so good handling is important to ensure that the quality of the fish is preserved. How the freshness of fish meat can be preserved can be accomplished through the preservation process. By adding natural ingredients that can prevent the growth of bacteria using liquid smoke, one way of preserving fish meat can be achieved.However, in a traditional way, the application of producing liquid smoke is also carried out such that the resulting...
Topics: Condensation, Design, Fisheries, Natural Preservatives, Pyrolysis.
A technique for imaging distribution of chest's surface vibration due to heartbeat has been established. This technique is based on measurement of minute vibration of the chest surface using 64 sensors and image processing unit. Relations of the vibrational distribution and the heart motion were discussed. The results showed that vibration of the chest surface included three or four frequency bands; less than 50 Hz, 150-200 Hz, 500-600 Hz, and 700-800 Hz. Clear contour images of the heart were...
Topics: A technique for imaging distribution of chest's surface vibration due to heartbeat has been...
In today’s computer era, people used computers for communication purposes. Gesture is one of the most powerful and severe way of communication between computer and human. Gesture Recognition is one type of non-verbal Communication using fingers, palm, face, arms etc. There are multiple techniques for recognizing the gestures. This paper presents a hand gesture interface for executing the commands using dynamic time warping technique. But it is working on only two similar length sequences...
Topics: Accelerometer, Dynamic Time Warping, Gesture Recognition, Magic Ring Sensor, Zigbee
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by Bruno Colling Klein; Mateus Ferreira Chagas; Tassia Lopes Junqueira; Mylene Cristina Alves Ferreira Rezende; Terezinha de Fátima Cardoso; Otavio Cavalett; Antonio Bonomi
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The use of renewable jet fuel (RJF) in substitution to fossil jet fuel is one of the main initiatives towards the reduction of impacts derived from carbon emissions by airline operations. This study compares different routes for RJF production integrated with sugarcane biorefineries in Brazil. Eight scenarios with sugarcane mills annexed to three ASTM−approved RJF production technologies, i.e. Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids (HEFA), Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis (FT), and Alcohol to Jet...
Topics: Biomass, Biorefinery, Life cycle analysis, Renewable jet fuel, Sugarcane, Techno-economic assessment
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by José Manuel Mirás-Avalos; David Uriarte; Alan N. Lakso; Diego S. Intrigliolo
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A carbon balance model (VitiSim) was used for assessing the effects of vine water status and different climate scenarios on the dry matter production and partitioning of ‘Tempranillo’ grapevines (Vitis vinifera L.) grown in two different Spanish regions. Inputs included weather daily variables, stem water potential measurements and vineyard system data. Partitioning is based on the supply and demand balance using relative sink strength coefficients when carbon supply is lower than organ...
Topics: Carbon partitioning, Dry matter, Photosynthesis, Tempranillo, Water stress