reducing the environmental impact of golf course insect management

... kgCO2 The majority of this was achieved through the installation of small energy saving measures The impact of the visits on the installation of significant measures was negligible, as was the impact ... first, estimate the carbon impact of the small easy measures installed during a visit and second, assess the impact of behavioural change When the impact of the small measures and the reported behaviour ... further measures and then installing these further measures (GLA and EST, 2013b) Given the structure of a RE:NEW visit, data collection to inform estimation of the environ-mental impact of the

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2022, 09:21

... independent factors of mortality in the first year of follow-up Duration of ventilator dependence (DVD) and ICU stay were independent factors of poor prognosis (p < 0.05) Therapeutic use of Sivelestat ... institution of pharamacologic therapy, prediction of treatment response, and prognostication during ICU management in the perioperative period Background Esophageal cancer is one of the most aggressive ... with the onset of ARDS or SIRS and subsequent survival ARDS and SIRS seriously affect the prognosis of postoperative patients Anastomotic Page of 11 leak and pneumonia extend the length of ICU

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... the refer-ence Therefore, to reconstruct most of the target genome, it is enough to find the locations of reads which have unique exact-matching with the reference The rest of the target genome ... Genome-Fraction: The percentage of the target (or reference) genome covered by the aligned contigs when the target genome is not available, we apply the following quality measure to test the accuracy of the ... about half of reads (58.33%) are aligned at the ExactMapping step The con-tigs constructed from this volume of the reads cover 93.22% of the chromosome 14 reference (Table 3) Fur-thermore, the results

Ngày tải lên: 25/11/2020, 14:52

... method for reporting the results of the compilation and findings of the analyses for use in contingency planning or for the assessment of the potential adverse environmental impact of a specific fire ... be present in fire effluents The compounds and the concentration levels of interest are dependent on the goals of the user and could be outside of the limits of the recommended sampling and analysis ... establish a baseline for measurement of the environmental impact of the fire With fires that primarily have the potential to harm the environment it is likely that there will be fewer logistical restraints

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2024, 15:34

... not supporting the environmental efforts of my company.GC3 The environmental concern of my company means a lot to me.GC4 I feel a sense of duly to support the environmental efforts of my company.GC5 ... commitment is the degree to which they recognize and engage with their organization's environmental initiatives This commitment highlights their understanding of the significance of environmental ... overlook the complexity of environmental management and underestimate the importance of employees' pro-environmental behavior (PEB), which hinders their ability to meet sustainability goals PEB often

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2025, 06:10

... the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country, ... diseases in their area of competence More than 100 experts were selected on the basis of their international expertise in the area of each disease or risk factor of concern The experts ... of impacts in terms of specific health conditions The present analysis goes a step further, providing timely new estimates of burden of disease from a much broader range of environmental.

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... other tech and science publications, said, “The key challenge of the next five years—I say ‘the’ because of the importance of education for the entire global labor force and the importance of ... are “working in the trenches” of building the web Most of the people in this latter segment of responders came to the survey by invitation because they are on the email list of the Pew Internet ... attendance of students most of the time at courses featuring a lot of traditional lectures Most universities' assessment of learning and their requirements for graduation will be about the same as they

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20

... over time due to the aging of populations. In the following, we will apply the method of generational accounting in order to evaluate the fiscal impact of immigrants in Austria. The method has been ... is measured by the generational accounts of the current newborn and the next, future generation, that is, the present value of their taxes paid less their benefits received over their lifetime. ... estimate the long-term fiscal impact of immigrants in Sweden. Findings generally are that the fiscal impact of immigration on the host country is positive, depending on the age and skill composition of

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... sense, since in either case the economic impact on the state and, thus, the size of the state's economy, is the same After all, the source of the impact is the new job (an expansion of the economic ... for the position: one is a graduate of a local university and the other is a lifetime resident of another state According to the skill-base approach, if the firm hired the local graduate, then the ... However, if the job were offered to the resident from out of state (who would then migrate to Boston to take the job), there would be no eco-nomic impact from the university on the state in this case

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... comparison of the relative expenditure (costs) and outcomes (effects) of two or more courses of action. Deadweight loss: is the loss of consumer and producer surplus, as a result of the imposition ... During the 12-year period of the study, 23 out of 214 individuals died (or 10.7%): 5 from the 73 individuals without chronic pain at the start of the study (or 6.8%), 5 from the ... Government 5% Employers 5% Society/Other 10% The largest share of chronic pain costs is borne by the individuals with chronic pain themselves who, principally due to the large BoD costs, bear 55% of total costs; 22% of total

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

... holes, golfers are constantly interacting with their partners, their opponents, and other golfers on the course They also rub elbows with golf course employees and other staff and members at the ... beat him or her The camaraderie that exists between golfers The beauty of the venues where golfers play The awareness golfers have of others around them, including those within their group and ... but etiquette is the very first thing that the lords of golf talk about when defining the rules of golf Think I’m exaggerating? Take a look at Section 1 of the USGA’s The Rules of Golf, and you’ll

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 08:20

... to be viable The commission requested that the authors of this report investigate the scope of these environmental factors, to help grasp the breadth of the possible impacts of the ifap system. ... report on the magnitude and key determinants of these impacts, and the resulting impacts on both human health and ecosystems. The major causes of the above noted environmental impacts of ifap ... change, as the production of greenhouse gases from these facilities (both from the animals themselves and from the decomposition of their waste) is significant Taken together, these data suggest

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

... incurred as a result of its use The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this overview not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health ... society and the private sector with key economic insights needed to help reduce the growing burden of NCDs: • A global analysis of the economic impact of NCDs by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard ... The content of this report stems from the work published in two separate reports, one led by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health, and the other developed by the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... the effect of reducing dirty aid and increasing environmental aid on the social development of the poorest states There are many ‘lost’ countries that receive little aid of either type, and often ... generating hypotheses, and establishing the scope conditions of more general theories However, no matter how compelling the case studies, they cannot alone bear the weight of the broad theoretical ... instance of a cooperative equilibrium’ (1997b: 332) From Rio to Gleneagles the likely effectiveness of these two different types of aid 23 Throughout the rest of the book, we will explore whether environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 00:10

... D.H (1968) Pheromones of the honey bee – the secretion of the Nasanoff gland of the worker J Insect Physiol 15, 237–244 54 Boch, R and Morse, R.A (1974) Discrimination of familiar and foreign ... acid in the mandibular glands of the worker bee J Insect Physiol 16, 17–24 Boch, R., Shearer, D.A and Shuel, R.W (1979) Octanoic acid and other volatile acids in the mandibular glands of the honeybee ... involved in the release of worker aggression Behaviour 39, 212–226 51 Boch, R and Shearer, D.A (1962) Identification of geraniol as the active component in the Nassanoff pheromone of the honey bee...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... particularly in relation to the reliability of the tests requested and their feasibility The assessment of the effects of plant protection products is based on the calculation of the Hazard Quotient, ... guideline being the CEB test No 95 method of the Commission des essais biologiques (CEB) [13] Assessment of the effects of application of the product outdoors under a wire meshed tunnel; the of cial ... to classifying the product into one of the following categories: high-, medium-, and low-risk products Each stage of the procedure leads to either an assessment of the risk (and therefore classification...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... to testing), the motivation of the bees to get food would not overpass the fifth trial, the level of the CR then starting to decrease Most often the level of CR reaches a maximum by the third trial ... insect- proof tunnel, the percentage of flights back to the hive decreased in treated foragers, the deltamethrin-treated bees flying in the direction of the sun, without using the local landmarks The ... according to the treatments During the extinction phase, the level of the CR slowly decreased, back to the initial level of spontaneous response (B) This expresses the resistance of the bee’s response...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... side of the box allowed the introduction of a single honey bee for a 5-min observation period The position of the honey bee was recorded every s The duration of successive 5-s periods in the same ... effect of the drug at the dose of 1.25 ng/bee was observed on the other functions after the shortest interval We not retain the possibility that the drug needs more time to diffuse from the thorax ... reported as immobility as the locomotor activity of the honey bee in the same square was very low, if nonexistent Otherwise, the honey bee was moving around The effect of the drug on locomotor activity...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... section of the chapter will briefly review the LANL field studies and the results of these studies The significance of each of these experiments will be examined in the Discussion section of this ... differences in the levels of contaminants in the flowers of the three main forage plants Therefore, the species of flower the bees had visited probably had little influence on the concentrations of radionuclides ... one of these scientists is interested in using these long-term data to estimate the concentration of radionuclides in the environment based on the levels of radionuclides in the bees? If the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... segments The concentrations or activities of the majority of the elements studied were lower in the 1-year-old branch segments compared to the branch tops In the case of Rb, 40K, and 137Cs they were ... pierce the bark of the youngest branches and the needles of fir and spruce trees in search of food Honeydew is the secretion of these insects The results of electrical conductivity measurements and ... each of following years, the tips of the branches and older branch segments, including the segments grown in 1994, were taken for analyses The tips of the spruce branches were collected for the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22