... Exploratory Assessmentof Living and Working Conditions, with Special Attention to Forced Labor 11 Tapping rubber trees The clearing of land, breeding in the nursery, and the weeding and pruning of fields ... history and development of the rubber sector in the country, and the impact of severe poverty and social and economic instability on the labor force and employment patterns The civil war and subsequent ... Liberia: An Exploratory Assessmentof Living and Working Conditions, with Special Attention to Forced Labor A Profile of Major Plantations in the Sector The production and processing of rubber is an...
... of forest managers The two species of oak were considered here as a single species as there were few pedunculate oak stands (Quercus robur) Soil conditions, previous land use and ecological conditions ... Health of stands (indications of decline) and silvicultural management (uneven-aged stand or recent thinnings) were recorded based on visual inspection In each stand, mean transmittance of radiation ... oak and silver fir stands than for Scots pine stands (Tab III) The cover of shrubs was higher under hardwood and Scots pine canopies than under Douglas-fir and Norway spruce canopies The cover of...
... model It offers a holistic view of both approaches, maps linkages, and suggests an integrated process design capable of meeting high-performing energy management andenvironmental standards In ... sustainability assessment model (SAM) was developed to assess water main replacement options [14] and reduce environmental impact Although standards exist for both energy andenvironmental management ... energy andenvironmental management systems to create a process model capable of evaluating strategic decision points for energy andenvironmental management simultaneously A comparative summary of...
... content of esterified and etherified p-coumaric acids is 3.78 and 1.72% respectively, and the content of esterified and etherified ferulic acid is 1.02 and 2.2%, respectively [23] Dimerization of ... of toxicity of the resultant liquor, and seems to be a feasible way of utilizing lignin as a source of these chemicals The optimum pH for delignification is 11.5 and the loadingof hydrogen peroxide ... hydrolysis of cellulose by respective enzymes (modified from [96]) Enzymatic saccharification of cellulose takes place at optimum temperature of 45-50ºC and pH of 5.0 Cellulase loading range of 10-15...
... assays with increasing amounts of DNA fragments encoding cyt b5 and monitored the formation of androstadienol and DHEA As shown in Fig the stimulation of DHEA and androstadienol production from ... transformation of preg into androstadienol, a precursor in the biosynthesis of 1354 P Soucy et al (Eur J Biochem 270) Fig Influence of increasing amounts of P450red on the relative formation of DHEA and androstadienol ... also in the production of androstadienol which is considered to be an intermediate in the 16-androstene pathway leading to the biosynthesis of androstenol andof 5a(16)androsten-3-one, a pheromonally...
... analysis of IVS2 +691C/G SNP M: marker 1kb; Lane 1, and 7: homozygote CC; lane and 4: GG; lane and 5: heterozygote C/G From that, we calculated allele frequencies of +691C and +691G as 0.75 and 0.25, ... binding and activity Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 95 (1998) 9608 233 [5] Paul Roy Heath et a.l, Allenle of Human histamine H2 receptor and methods of detection of H2 receptor ... to Assoc Prof Trinh Dinh Dat from Faculty of Biology, Hanoi University of Science, for his continuing expertise support and proof-reading the manuscript D.D Long et al / VNU Journal of Science,...
... Standards and Health: Assessmentof risk and risk management for water-related infectious disease This page intentionally left blank Water Quality Guidelines, Standards and Health: Assessmentof ... shows an expanded version of the framework shown in Figure 1.1 Figure 1.2 Expanded framework 10 1.4.1 Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards and Health Environmental exposure assessmentEnvironmental ... exposure assessment is an important input to both the assessmentof risk and to risk management Exposure assessment is a formal component of the risk assessment process (Chapter 8) Exposure assessment...
... 1996 Environmental Life-Cycle Comparison of Recycling, Landfilling, and Incineration: A Review of Recent Studies”; Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 21:6:191-237 32 Microsoft Excel and ... of action by EPA • 1.4 The landfill recovery scenario is based on estimated recovery rates and percentages of waste disposed in landfills with no recovery, landfills with only flaring, and landfills ... reduction and recycling of paper products, for example, reduce energy consumption, decrease combustion and landfill emissions, and increase forest carbon sequestration ES.4 GENESIS AND APPLICATIONS OF...
... collection efficiency (fractional), E, in terms of inlet and outlet loading is _ Inlet loading— Outlet loading Inlet loading Calculate the collection efficiency of the control unit in percent for the ... need for the development of material concerned with both chemical andenvironmental engineering calculations The resulting end product is the Handbook of Chemical andEnvironmental Engineering ... the following inlet loadingand outlet loadingof an air pollution particulate control unit, determine the collection efficiency of the unit Inlet loading = gr/ft3 Outlet loading = 0.1 gr/ft3...
... Role of Assessor: An assessor is a person who is assigned the job of assessing a candidate’s performance in any of the skills that is to be assessed For the purpose of the Summative Assessment, ... Therefore, due care and attention must be given to each of the following: Size of the room Seating arrangements Acoustics of the room Equipment used Quality of the recording of the Listening ... comprises of a variety of task These tasks are graded according to the length of the task and the difficulty level Schools may download the sample tasks and reorganize them in two parts transcripts and...
... ASSESSMENT: ENVIRONMENTAL The Toxicity and Risk of Chemical Mixtures 599 601 John C Lipscomb, Jason C Lambert, and Moiz Mumtaz 22 Environmentaland Ecological Toxicology: Computational Risk Assessment ... Switzerland Panos G Georgopoulos, Department ofEnvironmentaland Occupational Medicine & Environmentaland Occupational Health Sciences Institute, UMDNJ-RWJMS and Rutgers, the State University of ... Axel Pähler, Hoffmann-La Roche, PRBN-T, Bldg 73/311B, CH-4070, Basel, Switzerland Brad Reisfeld, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Department ofEnvironmentaland Radiological...
... development of computational technologies, land use trends and impacts analyses, and socio-economic aspects ofenvironmentaland natural resource conservation and management Dr Gitau received her B.S and ... Programme officers in the development of new projects The participation of civil society, government, and business stakeholders in the diagnosis of environment and health problems and in the design and ... sociocultural and legal impediments to communities setting and working toward—reasonable goals for their own agroecosystems Examples are the regulation of coffee and tea production and marketing,...
... sum of the cross products of cumulative percentage of land-use units and lagged cumulative percentage of the resource T2 is the sum of the cross products of lagged cumulative percentage of land-use ... boundaries of Gikabu-naButi village of Tigoni Division are socioeconomic The village adjoins another, and both are sandwiched within two vast tea estates The land was part of one of the tea estates and ... Casley and Lury (1982) as (T1-T2)/ 10,000 where T1 is the sum of the cross-products of cumulative percentage of land-use units and lagged cumulative percentage of the resource T2 is the sum of the...
... use of the land resource and the types of enterprises Copies of farm records—if available—were made A listing of daily time utilization and work schedules of key members (farm owner, spouse, and ... production and agroforestry Tour of fields Livestock production Tour of pens and sheds Marketing End of tour of fields, pens, and sheds End of tour of fields, pens, and sheds Beginning of discussion ... strategies Graphs of trends and time lines Graphs Graphs of transect profiles showing resource location and land-use characteristics Lists of income and expenditure types Key inputs and outputs Venn...
... 1976), (4) assessmentof stability (Roberts, 1976a), (5) calculation of the strong components, (6) assessmentof connectedness (Roberts, 1976b), and (7) assessmentof the effects of different ... [3, 12] and [12, 3] Increases in the weight of any one of these arcs increase the number of oscillating impacts of community goals A weight of 10 resulted in oscillations of all but nine of the ... Integrated Assessmentof Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Klee, V (1989) Sign-pattern and stability In Applications of Combinatorics and Graph Theory to the Biological and Social Sciences...
... Head of cattle/available labor Heads of cattle per acre Off-farm employment rate Proportion of farmland rented Proportion of land under beans Proportion of land under kale Proportion of land under ... 160 Integrated Assessmentof Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems TABLE 6.3 Attributes, Categories, and Number of Researcher-Proposed Indicators of Health and Sustainability of the Kiambu ... Ownership of resources by gender and age Attendance of meetings by gender and age Distribution of chores by gender and age Water quality Presence of fish in river Disposal of agrochemical and related...
... Inadequate security 3 3 3 Lack of artificial insemination Lack of market and shopping center 3 0 0 Lack of nursery schools Lack of organization and unity Lack of secondary school and polytechnic 0 Low ... twofold: (1) the incorporation of targets and thresholds in the process of categorizing the indicators, thus providing an intuitive interpretation, and (2) projection of data from the initial and ... effectiveness, vigor, and productivity Predictions on the long-term sustainability and health of the systems rely on an analysis of spatial and temporal trends of the indicators (Rapport and Regier, 1980;...
... Integrated Assessmentof Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Although, on average, income for a household was low, many of the households had diverse sources of income, including off-farm ... education/knowledge/skills and access to off-farm employment, they did not appreciate the value of off-farm employment as resulting in increasing community contact with the outside world and as a source of knowledge and ... and villages and larger levels of organization, such as government and other agencies A key feature of the process is that community organization—manifest as a capacity for collective action—is...
... Integrated Assessmentof Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Technical improvements, such as geographical information systems and remote sensing, self-reporting systems, and automated and integrated ... the incorporation of targets and thresholds in the process of categorizing the indicators, thus providing an intuitive interpretation, and (2) projection of data from the initial and subsequent ... information Because communities often lack the capacity to develop and measure quantitative indicators, while researchers and policymakers lack the knowledge and mandate to make value-based judgments,...