alternative fertilizer utilizing methods for sustaining low input agriculture

... or for that matter, one “best research design” approach for customer satisfaction measurement In the end, the cost versus the value of the information should dictate CSM form and function for ... survey Electronic Low – medium (10 to 50%) Mail Low – medium (10 to 50%) Low – medium CSM Survey Method Phone In-person Hybrid High (35 to 85%) Very high (65 to 100%) High (35 to 85%) Low – medium ... Fair – Poor Very good Excellent Depends on methods Good Good Very good Excellent Depends on methods Lowest Moderate High Highest Blended On review of the information in the table, in-person surveys...

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... efforts to bring together existing toxicological 773 information on reproductive toxicology in an electronic format For data that are publicly 774 available (i.e not Confidential Business Information), ... Toxicity DRAFT FOR CONSULTATION 14.07.10 952 953 Identified Areas with no Alternative Methods Available and Related Scientific/ 954 Technical Difficulties 955 6.1 Approaches for alternative Testing ... than the sum of any combination of alternative approaches 1026 Therefore, for reproductive toxicity testing, animal studies will remain the last resort for 1027 foreseeable time This is caused by...

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... Section presents the general formulation of the problem in the form of a stochastic integral equation, a formal analytical solution and a closure approximation for zero mean forcing function Section ... 10.Appendix: Mathematical Results and Formulae 10.1 MATHEMATICAL PROPERTIES OF VARIATIONAL BIE 10.1.1 Coupling on a Volume 10.2 PROPER NORM FOR RESIDUAL FORCES 10.3 MATRICES FOR THE REFLECTIONTRANSMISSION ... Abstract Introduction Wave Propagation in a Half-Space 2.1 INCIDENT WAVES BEM Formulation for SH Waves BEM Formulation for P, SV and Rayleigh Waves Observed Amplification in the Mexico City Valley...

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... D=2.5 and to 120 sec for those with D=2.0 Under the same coagulation conditions with the curvilinear model applied, 9200 sec were needed for D=3.0, 2050 sec for D=2.5 and 600 sec for D=2.0 The prediction ... and eDS are the correction factors for the collision mechanisms indicated The numerical solutions for approximating the correction factors in the graphical form can be found from the work of ... through the aggregates were negligible For a pulsed input of particles, the number of particles decreases and the average size of all particles increase due to the formation of particle aggregates...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... bioflocculants from activated sludge, followed by steaming extraction SDS and washing extraction methods were ineffective because of low flocculating activity, and low yield and low activity, respectively ... measured for min, and the relative A660 against the control test was calculated every minute using the following formula: The relative A660 = A660 of flocculating test A660 of control test For the ... and autoclaved at 121°C for 10 followed by centrifugation (7,500 rpm, 30 min) Three volumes of cold ethanol was added to the supernatant with mechanical stirring and allowed to stand at 4°C overnight...

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... 264 11 Analytical Methods for Monitoring Biodegradation Processes oriented, and not much attention was paid to the identification of environmental requirements for, and testing of, biodegradable ... degradation The complexity of this issue is illustrated by the following common examples Low- density polyethylene has been shown to biodegrade slowly to carbon dioxide (0.35% in 2.5 years) [8], and according ... appear in an oxidized or reduced form after biodegradation depending on whether the conditions are aerobic or anaerobic, respectively 265 266 11 Analytical Methods for Monitoring Biodegradation...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 08:20

... potential lowcost alternative to the high-tolerance machining and clean-room assembly required for ring laser gyros The glass fiber in essence forms an internally reflective waveguide for optical ... Specifications for the Trak-Star Ultrasonic Speed Sensor Page 13 Part I: Sensors for Mobile Robot Positioning Chapter 1: Sensors for Dead Reckoning the kinematic design closely before attempting ... accuracy For this reason, we will briefly discuss some of the more popular vehicle designs in the following sections In Part II of this report, we will discuss some recently developed methods for...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 21:16

... potential low- cost alternative to the high-tolerance machining and clean-room assembly required for ring-laser gyros The glass fiber in essence forms an internally reflective waveguide for optical ... bulky However, fiber-optic technology now offers a low volume alternative The fiber-optic derivatives also allow longer length multi-turn resonators, for increased sensitivity in smaller, rugged, ... factor linearity that far surpasses the best mechanical gyros Dithered biasing, unfortunately, is too slow for high-performance systems (i.e., flight control), resulting in oscillatory instabilities...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2013, 20:16

... of the shaft (see Figure 1.1 above) Intermediate shaft State Ch A Ch B S1 High Low S2 High High S3 Low High S4 Low Low I A B Figure 1.1: The observed phase relationship between Channel A and B ... 16 Part I Sensors for Mobile Robot Positioning 1.1.2 Absolute Optical Encoders Absolute encoders are typically used for slower rotational applications that require positional information when potential ... mobile robot (bottom view) 20 Part I Sensors for Mobile Robot Positioning For completeness, we rewrite the well-known equations for odometry below (also, see [Klarer, 1988; Crowley and Reignier,...

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... complete and put ξ1 := Fully parallel methods for linear PDAEs In this section we study the numerical solution of the following initial boundary value problems (IBVPs) for linear PDAEs: Aut + B∆u = f ... In what follows, we study the relation between the total (CPU) time spent on the performance of a program, the speedup and the efficiency of this performance The speedup of the performance is ... is assumed to be sufficiently smooth We propose two parallel methods for solving the IBVP (5)-(7) where the parallelism will be performed across both the problem and the method According to Proposition...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 03:20

... 372 General Linear Methods 373 50 51 52 Representing Methods in General Linear Form 500 Multivalue–multistage methods 501 Transformations of methods ... Runge–Kutta methods as general linear methods 503 Linear multistep methods as general linear methods 504 Some known unconventional methods 505 Some recently discovered general linear methods ... the space of C functions on [0, 1] for which u(0) = u(1) = dx2 The eigenfunctions for the continuous problem are of the form sin(kπx), for 10 NUMERICAL METHODS FOR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS...

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... heating at 400°C for four hours in a shallow tray 6.6 Silica gel—100/200 mesh, desiccant, Davison, Grade-923 or equivalent Before use, activate for at least 16 hours at 130°C in a shallow glass tray, ... Practices for Sampling Water,” American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia Methods 330.4 (Titrimetric, DPD-FAS) and 330.5 (Spectrophotometric, DPD) for Chlorine, Total Residual,” Methods ... for each parameter using the four results 8.2.5 For each parameter compare s and with the corresponding acceptance criteria for precision and accuracy, respectively, found in Table If s and for...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... concentration for each compound and internal standard, and calculate response factors (RF) for each compound using Equation Equation where: As = Response for the parameter to be measured Ais = Response for ... or falls outside the range for accuracy, the system performance is unacceptable for that parameter Locate and correct the source of the problem and repeat the test for each compound of interest ... American Laboratory, 15, 58-63 (1983) Methods 330.4 (Titrimetric, DPD-FAS) and 330.5 (Spectrophotometric, DPD) for Chlorine, Total Residual,” Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... Methods for Disaster Mental Health Research Edited by FRAN H NORRIS SANDRO GALEA MATTHEW J FRIEDMAN PATRICIA J WATSON THE GUILFORD PRESS New York London © 2006 The Guilford Press A ... PhD, National Center for PTSD, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California; Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California William E Schlenger, ... University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California Alan M Steinberg, PhD, National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 02:20

... (1963, 1965) for dependent A".- L r TO***"-":- ,,O" - a + A*, -**"c eo%,e"t h,,",,d nes- 16.3 METHODS 16.3.1 Graphical Graphical methods are very useful aids to formal tests for trends The ... limits for the true slope for a = 0.20, 0.10, 0.05, and 0.01 Far this example the 95% confidence limits are -0.009 and 0.012 for station 1, and 0.030 and 0.050 for station The computer code allows ... data in the pth group For example, in the sequence (23, 24, hace, 6, trace, 24, 24, trace, 23) we have g = 3, I, = for the tied value 23, I, = for the tied value 24, end t, = for the three trace...

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