... by measuring the magnitude of different types of factor flows and the relative importance of the linkages The model forassessment is developed on AHP taking care of major actors and factors ... different group from others iii Table of Contents Chapter Title Page i Acknowledgement Abstract Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Acronyms List of Appendix ii iii iv viii ix x ... priority basis for the assessmentof relative importance among individual linkages and the strength of the overall linkages • To identify the enhancement of the practical capability for universities...
... of Ecological Indicators forAssessmentof Ecosystem Health Handbook of Ecological Indicators forAssessmentof Ecosystem Health Edited by Sven E Jørgensen Robert Costanza Fu-Liu Xu Library of ... of the other chapters (chapters to 15) by presenting: A discussion of the selection of ecological indicators forassessmentof ecosystem health A classification of indicators The definition of ... site or 20% change Threshold value 18 HANDBOOK OF ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS FORASSESSMENTOF ECOSYSTEM HEALTH APPLICATION OF INDICATORS FOR THE ASSESSMENTOF ECOSYSTEM HEALTH 2.4.1 19 Nematodes/Copepods...
... treatment of selected RDQ scales; 2) assessmentof the concordance between RDQand physician-generated ratings of disease severity; and 3) assessmentof the internal consistency reliability of the ... Consistency of performance in two languages was also observed The study population, being highly enriched for GERD, precluded determination of the predictive validity of the RDQ for a GERD diagnosis ... the potential to meet some of the questionnaire needs for GERD clinical trials In this study, the performance of the RDQ was assessed in a clinical treatment trial for patients with GERD Whereas...
... number of different combinations of parameters for the regionmerging algorithm was 728 for each image The number of different combinations of parameters for the edge-based algorithm was 144 for each ... algorithm provided a value for the geometric mean of SSR of between and 0.88, where most of the combinations of the configuration parameters produced a geometric mean of SSR of over 0.75 Figure 11 ... provided a geometric mean of SSR value of between and 0.78, where only combinations of the configuration parameters produced a geometric mean of SSR of over 0.7 The segmentation of the test image set...
... methods of predicting embryo viability, e.g., adequate measurement of follicles vascularization or correct Figure Timeline for optimal blastocyst development Embryo Development and AssessmentofViability ... al The predictive value of pronuclear morphology of zygotes in the assessmentof human embryo quality Hum Reprod 2001; 16:2177–2181 Embryo Development and AssessmentofViability 217 57 Stalf ... number of cell-to-cell contacts required for regular compaction and blastocyst formation Viabilityof bad quality embryos may be improved in certain instances if spatial relationship of blastomeres...
... subjects provided written informed consent for participation Clinical assessments Diagnostic assessment relied on the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV [18] supplemented for childhood disorders ... from the start of any sudden movement of the steering wheel or depression of the brake pedal and rate of stopping before a traffic light or stop sign was also designed to be a proxy of hyperactivity ... Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Epidemiologic Version [19] Raters performing assessments and interviews were blind to the ascertain- Page of (page number...
... of the other chapters (chapters to 15) by presenting: A discussion of the selection of ecological indicators forassessmentof ecosystem health A classification of indicators The definition of ... Calculation of Ecosystem Health Indicators 5.3.2.2.5 The Assessmentof Lake Ecosystem Health 5.4 Discussions 5.4.1 About Assessment Results 5.4.1.1 Assessment Results for Lake Chao 5.4.1.2 Assessment ... Indicators for Lake Ecosystem Health Assessment 5.2.3 Calculations for Some Indicators 5.2.3.1 Calculations of Exergy and Structural Exergy 5.2.3.2 Calculation of Buffer Capacity 5.2.3.3 Calculation of...
... Number of species Number of species comprising 90% of the catch Number of species in the bottom trawl Proportion of carnivores Proportion of planktivores Proportion of benthivores Number of estuarine ... being favored for such fact, or for its tolerance of that type of pollution in comparison to other less resistant species In a sense, the possibility of assigning a certain grade of pollution ... AMBI index, for example, which accounts for the presence of species indicating a type of pollution and of species indicating a nonpolluted situation, has been considered useful in terms of the application...
... n1 ẳ number of individuals of suspensivores feeders n2 ẳ number of individuals of interface feeders n3 ẳ number of individuals of surface deposit feeders n4 ẳ number of individuals of subsurface ... HANDBOOK OF ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS FORASSESSMENTOF ECOSYSTEM HEALTH discussing how their usage can be improved for environment health assessment The possible relation between values of these ... as site- and pollution type-specific The AMBI index, for example, accounts for the presence of species indicating a type of pollution and of species indicating a reference situation assumed to...
... the biological variables: for phytoplankton, for zooplankton, for bacteria and for Ulva 6.3.2 Discrete Stage-Based Model of Tapes Philippinarum Knowing the importance of Tapes philippinarum in ... (normally the values for which most historical data is currently available) for the calculation of the exergy and specific exergy of a system Finally, in order to transform the concept of exergy into ... EU funded project DITTY (Development of Information Technology Tools for the management of European Southern lagoons under the influence of river-basin runoff, EVK3-CT-2002-00084) in the Energy,...
... the matter in form of species with more information may take place Increased information gives increased possibility to build even more exergy (information) The respiration levels for the various ... application of thermodynamic indicators for the assessmentof ecosystem health in environmental management can probably be derived from these results Figure 7.1 gives an example of the steady-state ... Figure 7.1 Flow diagram of the fish community of Tamiahua Lagoon, Mexico The diagram indicates the results by use of ECOPATH II in g/m2 for biomasses and in g/m2/year for rates 7.1 INTRODUCTION...
... energy as a measure of a system contribution ‘‘A joule of sunlight, a joule of coal, a joule of human effort are of different quality and represent vastly different convergences of energy in their ... results of a comparison of four types of system at different levels having the same number of bits of structural information One thousand bits of molecular glucose, algae, forest and science journal ... variation of the exergy content of the system, ÁEx We therefore introduce the quantity ¼ ÁEx ÁEm with the dimensions of JÁsÁsejÀ1, and representing the change of level of organization (exergy) of the...
... health quality of the whole society There is therefore a severe need for development of a coherent system of information on ‘‘environmental’’ quality of agricultural products This information should ... content of the flows is estimated by taking into account the total primary energy expenses needed for their formation Thus, for example, the energy equivalent of electricity is the heat equivalent of ... determination of energy equivalents for these flows Thereby, it allowed the determination of the intensity of all inflows and outflows in the same energy units and the calculation of the ratio of outputs...
... to have grown out of puberty: For a rising number of ecologists the high complexity of ecological systems has not only become an accepted fact, but also an interesting object of investigation ... Capability of being verified Validity Capability of being aggregated Transparency for users High level of aggregation Target-based orientation Usable measuring requirements Usable requirements for quantification ... Nature Nature is a set of processes, more than a composition of structures is a network of interactions is built up by complex hierarchies of spatio-temporal scales consists of self-organizing systems...
... ancient forests, still present during the ducat of Parma at the end of the eighteenth century Around the end of the nineteenth century, much of the forests in the piedmont and hills were cleared for ... 1935) for generating digital thematic maps as Geographic Information System GIS coverages of mosaics of contiguous patches To avoid MAUP effects, the final delineation of habitat mosaics was performed ... to a combination of human and natural influences may be a mosaic of several states Which state the ecosystem currently assumes is function of its history and of the driving forces operating Multi-scale...
... billions of years and a huge amount of total emergy Table 14.6 provides very average data for tropical forest ecosystems and of course represents only ‘‘order of magnitude’’ estimates of the costs of ... transformities (seJ/J) and specific emergy (seJ/g) of some of the main flows of emergy-driving ecological processes Transformities and specific emergy given in the last column are ratios of the ... processes of terrestrial ecosystems giving several transformities for each Within each category transformities vary almost one order of magnitude reflecting the differences in total driving energy of...
... Waste imported for final treatment and disposal Memorandum items for balancing O2 for combustion (of C, H, S, N ) O2 for respiration Nitrogen for emission from combustion Air for other industrial ... kinds of industrial processes, but is very often disregarded, and calls for a careful assessmentof the consequences that the technological choices of a country may have on other areas of the ... ‘‘unused extraction’’ (e.g., a forest clear-cut for mining purposes) Some authors also include in this category all the products of modern agriculture and forestry It accounts for human-induced erosion...