Model Transpor Sedimen dan Limbah Domestik di Estuari

Estuari merupakan salah satu wilayah perairan yang memiliki kompleksitas cukup tinggi. Karena pada wilayah tersebut terjadi interaksi antara makhluk hidup dan komponen lingkungan yang ada di sekitarnya, serta terjadinya pertemuan antara air tawar dan air laut. Selain itu, salah satu proses yang juga penting di estuari dan sekitarnya adalah proses geomorfologi. Perubahan atau proses yang terjadi…

Planning Across Freshwater and Terrestrial Realms: Cobenefits and Tradeoffs B…

Conservation planning has historically been restricted to planning within single realms (i.e., marine, terrestrial, or freshwater). Recently progress has been made in approaches for cross-realm planning which may enhance the ability to effectively manage processes that sustain biodiversity and ecosystem functions (e.g., connectivity) and thus minimize threats more efficiently. Current advances,…

Is Coal Fly Ash a Suitable Alkaline Resource for Manufacturing New Calcium Ca…

At present, the production of cement contributes approximately 8% to global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, whereas a further increase in the future is expected. To reduce these emissions, a prominent measure of the cement industry is to use materials such as coal fly ash (CFA) as a cement substitute, but the availability of qualified ash is limited. The development of “green cements” w…

Determination of tropical deforestation rates and related carbon losses from …

Abstract We estimate changes in forest cover (deforestation and forest regrowth) in the tropics for the two last decades (1990–2000 and 2000–2010) based on a sample of 4000 units of 10 910 km size. Forest cover is interpreted from satellite imagery at 30 9 30 m resolution. Forest cover changes are then combined with pan-tropical biomass maps to estimate carbon losses. We show that there wa…

Advanced Techniques in Biophysics

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9783540307006

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39/3100/YL. 543210

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Springer Series Biophysics 10

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Advances in Solid State Physics. Volume 45

The spring meeting of the Arbeitskreis Festk¨orperphysik in the World Year of Physics 2005, the Einstein Year, was held from 4–11 March 2005 in Berlin, together with the yearly meetings of the other Arbeitskreise and Fachverb¨ande of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The total number of conference attendees was about 8000, mostly young physicists. The present volume of Advance…

21st century education : a reference handbook

In addition to the students enrolled in our schools, teachers, professors, administrators, service personnel, and others are employed in educational institutions. Parents and citizens pay large amounts of money for tuition, books, room, and board. Further, parents spend considerable time visiting schools and participating in fundraising activities. Clearly, education directly involves vast numb…

3-D spinors, spin-weighted functions and their applications

The spinor calculus employed in general relativity is a very useful tool; many expressions and computations are considerably simplified if one makes use of spinors instead of tensors. Some advantages of the spinor formalism applied in the four-dimensional space-time of general relativity come from the fact that each spinor index takes two values only, which simplifies the algebraic manipulation…

3D Nanoelectronic Computer Architecture and Implementation

Nanoelectronics is a rapidly expanding field with researchers exploring a very large number of innovative techniques for constructing devices intended to implement high-speed logic or high-density memory. Less common, however, is work intended to examine how to utilize such devices in the construction of a complete computer system. As devices become smaller, it becomes possible to construct eve…

Reliability Assessment of a Storm Water Drain Network

Most of the cities in India are undergoing rapid development in recent decades, and many rural localities are undergoing transformation to urban hotspots. These developments have associated land use/land cover (LULC) change that effects runoff response from catchments, which is often evident in the form of increase in runoff peaks, volume and velocity in drain network. Often most of the existin…

Comparative analysis of technical efficiency for different productionculture …

This study estimated the bias-corrected technical efficiency (BCTE) of different culture systems andspecies of freshwater aquaculture in Malaysia using bootstrapping data envelopment analysis (DEA). Datawere collected from 307 respondents from three states in Peninsular Malaysia using a well-structuredquestionnaire as well as oral interviews. The findings indicate that all technical efficiency …

Pre-shelling parameters and conditions that influence the whole kernel out-tu…

This work investigates the effect of moisture content (MC), nut size distribution and steam exposure time (SET) on the whole kernel out turn (WKO) of cashew nuts during shelling using a 3 x 5 x 4 factorial experiment. Three nut sizes: small (18–22 mm), medium (23–25 mm)and large (26–35 mm); five levels of MC: 8.34%, 11.80%, 12.57%, 15.40%, 16.84% (wet basis)and four levels of steam exposu…

Short industrial placements – developing an activity framework to support t…

Purpose – This paper identifies the activities to be undertaken by students during short industrial placements. The purpose of this paper is to obtain a better understanding of what students do during their placements and provide a framework that supports both teaching and learning. This research focuses on a masters-level programme that contains a series of four, two week industrial placemen…

Cost of water use: A driver of future investments into water-efficient therma…

Based on a global and comprehensive empirical study, this paper analyses the regional impact of water use economics on the decision to invest in new thermal power projects. Investments today are primarily determined by water availability and regulations,and less by the financial implications of water use. The paper aims to help design effective policies and decision-making tools to support long…

A course on serious game design and development using an online problem-based…

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a novel undergraduate course on serious game design and development that integrates both game and instructional design, thus providing an effective approach to teaching serious game design and development. Very little effort has been dedicated to the teaching of proper serious game design and development leading to many examples of serious ga…

A multivariate partial least squares approach to joint association analysis f…

Many complex traits are highly correlated rather than independent. By taking the correlation structure of multiple traits into account, joint association analyses can achieve both higher statistical power and more accurate estimation. To develop a statistical approach to joint association analysis that includes allele detection and genetic effect estimation, we combined multivariate partial lea…

Feeding indices and enzymatic activities of carob moth Ectomyelois ceratoniae…

Feeding indices and enzymatic activities of Ectomyelois ceratoniae (Zeller) were studied in a growth chamber under controlled conditions (29± 2 C, relative humidity of 70 ± 5% and a photoperiod of 16:8 (L:D) hours) on two commercial Pistachio cultivars (Akbari and Kalequchi) and an artificial diet. Feeding indices of E. ceratoniae larvae differed significantly on three hosts (P< 0.05). The r…

Activity of 1,3-β-D-Glucanases and Expression of CG-GLU1 in the Mussel Creno…

The level of the specific activity of digestive enzymes and expression of their corresponding glucanase genes (Cg-glu1) were studied in Gray's mussels, Crenomytilus grayanus, collected from the mussels' assemblages in different parts of Peter the Great Bay (northwestern part of the Sea of Japan). Both methods demonstrated similar independent results: there is variability in the contribution of …

The Study of Sea Water Intrusion in Coastal Aquifer by Electrical Conductivit…

Water plays an important role in domestic as well as industries. The industrial waste and domestic effluent affect the surface water and groundwater quality, hence the water quality of rivers and groundwater wells mainly depends upon the chemical parameters such as pH, Electrical conductivity (EC), Total Dissolved Solid (TDS), chloride and Total alkalinity etc. In this study the groundwater sam…

Water use and urban agriculture: estimation and water saving scenarios for re…

During the last years, in the city of Rome (Italy) due to social and economical trends urban agriculture is a growing phenomenon. Residential kitchen gardens in Rome are a custom started in the past, but recently they experienced a strong increase with a concentration in the city fringe. The amount and extension of these cultivated parcels has been inventoried by the Italian Institute of Agricu…

Enhanced immune response and resistance to white tail disease inchitin-diet f…

Chitin is one of the natural biopolymer found abundantly in the shells of crustaceans, insects and in cellwalls of fungi. In this study, we determined the effect of dietary administration of 0.5, 0.75 and 1% chitinon the immune response and disease resistance in freshwater prawn, challenged against Macrobrachiumrosenbergii nodavirus (MrNV) and extra small virus (XSV). We observed a significantl…

Sustaining Lesson Study in schools with positive peer leadership

Purpose – Multi-cycle Learning Study and multi-cycle Lesson Study are the main collaborative action research approaches for teacher professional development in Hong Kong. The sustaining of these Lesson Study innovations may be inhibited by many challenges. The purpose of this paper is to identify the strategies school leaders utilized to overcome challenges and sustain Lesson Study innovation…

Developing mathematics teachers’ competence through parallel lesson study

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine practicing mathematics teachers’ learning through parallel lesson study in China. Lesson study in China has been practiced for decades. Parallel lesson is an enriched mode of lesson study to address the implementation of new curriculum. Design/methodology/approach – The expansive learning perspective has been used to explore the ways prac…

Evaluating Methods to Predict Streamflow at Ungauged Sites using Regional Flo…

Precise information on streamflows is of major importance for planning and monitoring of water resources schemes related to hydro power, water supply, irrigation, flood control, and for maintaining ecosystem. Engineers encounter challenges when streamflow data are either unavailable or inadequate at target locations. To address these challenges, there have been efforts to develop methodologies …

The effects of tillage on soil water content in dry areas

Annual rainfall is less than 500 mm of rainfall in the dry farming regions in order to be stored in the soil processing. At the time,and is provided with a sufficient number of the version of weed control, leveling a good soil is obtained, the temperature of the soil evaporation will be blocked, and capillarity corruption prevented erosion. Some dry land farming areas is 7-8 times a year. As a …

Physico-chemical and microbiological composition of composts from Bucharest m…

Average composition of household waste in Bucharest has a large variability. The average amount of waste collected is 0.048 m3 /man. year compared with the U.S. 1m3/ man. year, South Africa 0.8 m3 / man . year and Australia 0.4 m3/ man. year. These wastes are sorted, the size which could be sorted and reused according to their composition, remaining part, about 64 % of the original composition …

Spectral Reflectance of Tall Fescue (Festuca Arundinacea Schreb.) Under Diffe…

The issue of water and climate change is present in many countries. Drought stress is one of the main abiotic stresses influencing turfgrass growth and quality. Tall fescue is the most suitable cool-season turfgrass for the Mediterranean region. This species has a better heat tolerance than perennial ryegrass and Kentucky bluegrass. The analysis of radiation reflected by turfgrass can supply pr…

Complexity In Action? Fringe Agro-forest Systems, Demography and Societal Tra…

Urban expansion and the preservation of fringe landscapes are interconnected issues. This article discusses on the relation between landscape and peri-urban agriculture and the possible implications of sustainable land management for fringe land quality proposing a framework to evaluate the latent nexus between agro-forest systems and human settlements in southern Europe. Eco-sustainable planni…

Research on Development and Effectiveness Evaluation Technology of New Enviro…

Reasonably using oil spill dispersant has become one of the important emergency means intended to handle offshore oil spill accidents. With the worldwide nonstop occurrence of offshore oil spill accidents, the effect and toxicity influence of oil spill dispersant have seized popular attention. In particular, oil spill dispersant used in deepwater oil spill accidents urgently needs undergo evalu…

Evaluation of a Parametric Approach for Estimating Potential Evapotranspirati…

Potential evapotranspiration (PET) is key input in water resources, agricultural and environmental modelling. For many decades,numerous approaches have been proposed for the consistent estimation of PET at several time scales of interest. The most recognized is the Penman-Monteith formula, which is yet difficult to apply in data-scarce areas, since it requires simultaneous observations of four …

Impacts of organophosphate pesticide, sumithion on water qualityand benthic i…

This experiment was carried out to evaluate the effect of an organophosphate pesticide, sumithion onwater and sediment quality and benthic invertebrates in aquaculture ponds for 120 days. Three treat-ments were tried in duplicate: no sumithion (control), weekly application of 1.0 mg/L sumithion (Lowdose treatment) and 2.0 mg/L sumithion (High dose treatment). Among the different water quality p…

Rhetoric or reality? A case study into how, if at all, practical work support…

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the use and value of practical work in the secondary school science classroom. Informed by the findings of a large survey of students from a wide variety of schools, a case study of pupils in the middle secondary range sought to investigate the precise role of practical work in the learning of a specific topic over a series of lessons. Design/m…

Performance of Four Rice Cultivars Transplanted Monthly over Full Year under …

In Tanzania, the phenology and seasonal variations of the yields of different rice cultivars have rarely been studied, especially under fully-irrigated conditions. A trial was conducted to identify the most suitable calendar for rice production in Tanzania under fully-irrigated conditions. Four popular rice cultivars,NERICA1, Wahiwahi, IR64 and TXD306, were transplanted monthly from January to …

French Didactique des Mathématiques and Lesson Study: a profitable dialogue?

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present French Didactique des Mathématiques (DM) to the Lesson Study (LS) community. Design/methodology/approach – This theoretical paper presents the origins of DM in the Theory of Didactical Situations (TDS) by Brousseau. It elaborates about didactical engineering, fundamental situation and other fundamental concepts. It briefly presents other D…

Fundamental Study on a New Thin Oil-film Recovery Device Based on the MHD Method

The MHD maritime oil spill recovery method has many advantages in tackling the marine thin oil-film. The existing device, in which the MHD channel is arranged horizontally, can’t operate successfully under wave conditions and the oil and air bubbles can’t move through the MHD channel smoothly. A new method with the MHD channel arranged with a slight tilt angle is proposed to improve the eff…

Treatment of Trichodina sp reduced load of Flavobacterium columnareand improv…

Bacterium Flavobacterium columnare and protozoan Trichodina spp are common pathogens of culturedfish. Studies of parasite–bacterium interaction show evidence that concurrent infections increase severityof some infectious diseases, especially bacterial diseases. The effect of parasite treatment on F. columnareinfection in tilapia is currently unknown. This study evaluated whether treatment of …

Indigenous peoples and industry water users:Mapping the conflicts worldwide

This article presents the findings of a mapping study undertaken in 2014 to determine the characteristics of conflicts between governments, private industrial users and indigenous peoples over the use of water resources. Gathering information about 384 situations of water-related conflicts reported around the world during 1960–2014, the study found that mining and hydropower development were …

Mapping of agriculture plastic waste

The current intensification of the use of plastic materials in agriculture, although has increased significantly the productivity, is also generating growing adverse effects on the environment of the agro-ecosystem. The agriculture is responsible for a massive use of plastic materials, in addition to energy and water inputs, chemical fertilizer and pesticides. Besides the pollution generated du…

Re-visioning English language arts practices and writing outcomes through the…

Purpose – This paper, which originates in an English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classroom activity in Hong Kong, aims to explore English learners’ expressive and creative potential in writing by studying their work in the literary narrative genre. Design/methodology/approach – A group of upper secondary students (15-16 years of age) with limited English resources and competence was enlis…

Heterosis Expression of Hybrid Rice in Natural- and Short-Day Length Conditions

Development of hybrid rice is an important strategy to increase yields of irrigated rice in China. Day length is a highly important environmental factor for hybrid rice adaptability, productivity and quality. Heterosis of hybrid rice has been utilized under natural- (long) day length conditions in the middle and lower reaches plain of Yangtze River Valley in China for a long time. However, whet…

Peer-learning between pre-service teachers: embracing Lesson Study

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore a model of Lesson Study owned entirely by pre-service teachers (PSTs), conveying its potential to facilitate mutual spaces of learning between peers beyond formal hierarchical relationships with expert teachers. Fuller’s (1969) conceptual framework of teacher development informed the study, consisting of self, task and impact “phases of co…

Genetic diversity and association mapping for salinity tolerance in Banglades…

Breeding for salinity tolerance using Bangladeshi rice landraces and understand genetic diversity has been limited by the complex and polygenic nature of salt tolerance in rice genotypes. A genetic diversity and association mapping analysis was conducted using 96 germplasm accessions with variable response to salt stress at the seedling stage. These included 86 landraces and 10 indica varieties…

Discrimination of Transgenic Rice Based on Near Infrared Reflectance Spectros…

Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS), a non-destructive measurement technique, was combined with partial least squares regression discrimiant analysis (PLS-DA) to discriminate the transgenic (TCTP and mi166) and wild type (Zhonghua 11) rice. Furthermore, rice lines transformed with protein gene (OsTCTP) and regulation gene (Osmi166) were also discriminated by the NIRS method. The perfo…

Developing “employagility”: the 3Es case for live-client learning

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review live-client learning activities in higher education,highlighting a lack of multi-stakeholder evaluation of “learning by doing” pedagogies in current literature. It extends existing discussion of employability outcomes, dominated by findings from larger organisations, towards arguably, a more meaningful concept: “employagility”;whereby g…

Genetic variation for seed phosphorus and yield traits in Indian sorghum land…

Phytic acid is the major storage form of phosphorus in cereals. It binds with nutritionally important metals and affects mineral bioavailability. The present study analyzed phytic acid, inorganic phosphorus (IP) content, seed weight, and grain yield in 98 sorghum landraces and varieties grown in two environments to evaluate genotypic and environmental effects and to determine trait stability. …

School leadership and management in South Africa Findings from a systematic l…

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the literature on school leadership and management in South Africa, linked to the 20th anniversary of democratic government and integrated education. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted a systematic review of all published work since 2007 with a more selective review of sources before 2007. Findings �…

Work Posture Analysis of Manual Material Handling Using OWAS Method

The objectives of this research were to determine the work posture risk level and suggest recommendation of improvement on small factory of corn chips. NBM questionnaire was used to find out workers’ complaints encountered from the work they have done. OWAS method was conducted with WinOWAS software, involving six workers and 31 work postures. NBM indicates that workers do enduring the feelin…

Effect of selected parameters on process efficiency and energy consumption du…

More and more people begin to pay attention to how foodstuffs are produced. Due to the changing lifestyle, consumers seek products that do not require long preparation. The extrusion-cooking process responds to this type of applications with an easy management of processing promising product stability and quality. Extrusion-cooking involves the extruding of granular material under high pressure…

Quality of Irrigated Water with Nanometer Pottery Tray Treatment and Its Effe…

To study the impacts of nanometer pottery trays (NPTs) on different rice varieties, three rice varieties, Zhongzheyou 1, Jinzao 47 and Xiushui 09, were treated with four NPTs (NPT-A, NPT-B, NPT-C and NPT-D) with different energies, respectively. The results showed that when the same rice variety was treated with different NPTs or different rice varieties were treated with the same NPT, the impa…

Physiological Age Status of Female Adults and Off-Season Survival of Rice Lea…

Rice leaffolder, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis, is one of the major foliage feeders found in the rice growing regions in India. When the crop was at maturity, numerous adults of rice leaffolder were found in the rice fields though the larval population gradually decreased, and no eggs were found on rice leaves. The population characteristics of C. medinalis were assessed based on the physiological a…