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... estimations of a sampling error of 10% and response rate of 10%, by the end of stage two At the end of stage one, 335 households completed and returned the survey and at the end of stage two, 157 households ... assess the impact of behavioural change When the impact of the small measures and the reported behaviour change were summed together, the total carbon impact of the visit for each household could ... programme, and estimate the change in environmental impact of a household, as the result of a visit This research relates specifically to the period of January to April 2012, when the programme and the

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... produced in glands that secrete to the exterior of the insect, and include pheromones, which are chemicals used to communication between indi- viduals of the same species. Table 2.3 consists of compounds ... exposure and associated effects for more than twenty years. Comparative case histories and guidelines for the use of honey bees as sentinel species have been published [2, 4–9]. More recently, the use ... and completely instru- mented “condo” units [14]. The effect of aging on the loss of volatile and semi-volatile components from hive boxes was assessed by comparing unpainted wood from 1995 and

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... 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 ... However, these tests are not often repeated because of the complexity of their set-up and their high cost. Replicates can be conducted over time but they are subjected to climate variations. • The ... medium-, and low-risk products. Each stage of the procedure leads to either an assessment of the risk (and therefore classification in one of the risk categories previously mentioned) or to further

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... which can be the target of neurotoxic compounds in particular The deleterious impact of pesticide spraying on the foraging activity and on the behavior of bees on the crop and around the hive, as ... 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 ... solution and with fresh pollen during the first 8 days Special attention must be paid to the origin of the food and its preservation Wahl and Ulm [41] have shown that the degree of sensitivity of the

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... the formation and retrieval of olfactory memory We then advanced the hypothesis that, through the activation of the nAChR, the neonicotinoid imidacloprid (IMI) would lead to facilitation of the ... drop of wax–collophane mixture laid between the dorsal part of the thorax and the tube The head and the prothoracic legs were free to move, allowing the honey bee to clean its antennae from the ... in all the experiments performed The intensity of stain-ing was analyzed in the cortical layer and in the internal area of the increase in staining was obtained for the two regions of the glomeruli

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 ... done on the Trang 2various abiotic components (i.e water and soil) of an ecosystem and has often excluded the sampling of many of the biotic components The ongoing interest in assessing the influences ... collecting these samples suggest collecting foragers at the front of the hive as they are returning, while other protocols suggest opening the beehive and collecting bees directly off the frames In the

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... 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 pollen ... of the atmospheric testing of thermonuclear weapons during the period extending from the 1950s to the 1970s. It was distributed globally within the stratosphere and deposited as wet fallout and/or ... differ- ences in the timing and amount of rain at the time of and immediately Honey and environmental monitoring in Croatia 161 © 2002 Taylor & Francis following the accident produced the significant

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... and chemical analysis of the honeys, the sampleswere coded and randomized to avoid identification of their location andcharacteristics by the chemists The mineralization of the honey sampleswas ... framework of their annual control of thequality of honeys, in 1994, the CNEVA analyzed 122 French honeys and 28 foreign honeys for their concentrations of Pb and Cd While Pb was notdetected in the ... for the 18 metallic and nonmetallic elements studied Thezero point was obtained from the acidic solution used to mineralize thehoney and which corresponded with a blank The wavelengths (nm) of theemission

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... the use of these products have been reported,the most important being detrimental impacts on the environment, such aspollution of land and water tables, toxicity towards nontarget organisms,and ... cry1Ac, and cry 9C), and the promoter associ-ated with the coding sequence (which affects the quantity and location ofthe Cry protein) In 1999, 30 percent of the cultivated area in the USA consisted ... ingestion,the alkaline environment of the insect midgut causes the crystals to dis-solve and release their protoxins (several protoxins can be included in thesame crystal) The protoxin is then cleaved

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... in the methodologies used in the study of the sublethal effects of chemical pesticides and the risk assessment of GM plants, the main difference relies on the fact that the ... conclusion, there are two possibilities to avoid risk for honey bees: the nonexpression of the toxin in the tissues bees feed on, or the innocu- ousness of the toxin for bees. The risk assessment of the ... parcels of each type, were sown in the South-west of France (Spring 2000). From the beginning of the flowering, the diversity of the pollinators was evaluated by counting the foragers visiting the

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... support for the use of public transport, and all but one encourage the public to use green means of getting around, as well as providing green public transport vehicles The presence of most of these ... people to walk, bicycle, use public transport or carpool, and identifies the close link between transport and land use policies It was used as the basis for the Metropolitan Transportation Plan for ... 450% in the first year of the program To encourage the use of wind power, the city fast-tracks permits for the installation of municipal, commercial and residential wind turbines Land use: Eighth,

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... the sheer brutality of the act stun the nation, the disjointed and confused actions of emergency responders raised the public’s doubts about their capabilities and preparedness Nowhere were these ... at one of the duffel bags containing the improvised explosive devices they had been pre-staged earlier that morning The gunmen then left the cafeteria and entered the science wing of the school ... large number of students and teachers still located inside the school to the outside One of the most contentious issues that surfaced in the after-action reports was the SWATofficer’s use of seemingly

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... (AA) The team will make house-to-house visits and explain the objective of the study to the candidate household heads The list of candidate households will be separately generated from the roster ... at the beginning and end of the study Each study household will be observed for durability of the screening material, the presence of holes, tears, losses and the fitness of windows and doors The ... part of the contract the PIs will submit annual reports detailing the progress of the trial, the safety procedures put in place and the overall impact of the study Blood sample collection and

Ngày tải lên: 29/11/2022, 10:30

... city and the edge of the SPA Meanwhile, development consent for another section was issued which led the highway to the borders of the SPA from the other side. Trang 4Necessary changes:The Directive ... the basic goals of the Directive (see above), with Article 5 and Annex II of the Espoo Convention or with the special requirements of other EU environmental norms (see namely Article 6.4 of the ... challenge the screening decision b) Necessity to assess the entirety of the project and all its impacts Investors often ask for assessment of and, subsequently, for permits for parts of the projects

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 02:20

... measureenvironmental regulation This indicator is measured in current US dollars IFDI and OFDI We aim to examine the impact of two-way FDI flows on greeninnovation so we use the IFDI and OFDI flow ... canimprove their technological levels and therefore enhance their green innovation ability (Zarsky,1999) Several empirical studies show that the greater the IFDI, the higher the technical andknowledge ... ofChina‘s economy, but also promoted the green innovation capability of Chinese enterprisesthrough technology spillovers On the other hand, the huge inflow of foreign capital accompanied by environmentalpollution

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2023, 21:08

... a standardized 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 ... sampling and analysis of fire effluents from environmentally significant fires It is important to understand the chemical and physical nature of the components of the fire effluents, including their ... 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 methods referenced in this

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2024, 15:34

... benefits of reducing the risk factor by a specified amount. 2. A determination of the size of the population groups exposed to PM10 and PM2.5, and the type of health effect of interest. 3. The ... account for the dispersion and transport capacity of polluting emissions. The model includes measures of the annual average and seasonal changes (measured as the standard deviation of the monthly ... Specifically, the model was estimated using the data from 1979 to 1983, the data for 1999 and 2000, and the average of all of the available data. Associations were reported between all three of these...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... environmental reform throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the behavior of multilateral donors remained relatively unchanged through the mid- and late 1990s. The second half of the chapter begins the ... China and India were at the top of the list of recipients as developing nations with huge populations and quickly rising economies, and shared the same major donors of environmental aid. Brazil and ... for the Earth? between 1970 and 2000, they provided less than half of the total money flowing from of cial sources. The PLAID database covers the vast majority (perhaps over 90 per cent) of official...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 00:10

... the advantages of letters and the advantages of phone calls. FQx2 ã How have mobile phones and the internet improved the way people communicate today (compared to the days before we used these ... the one hand, using mobile phones and the internet to communicate and, on the other hand, of face-to-face communication? ã In the future, do you think the use of high-tech communication equipment ... phones and the internet improved the way people communicate today (compared to the days before we used these inventions)? ã What are the advantages and disadvantages of, on the one hand, using...

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... Future, and the Santa Fe Institute. While many respondents are at the pinnacle of Internet leadership, some of the survey respondents are “working in the trenches” of building the web. Most of the ... classroom time. The idea of having students watch the video lecture and/ or read the material at home and then work on problems or case studies together in the classroom with other students and a teacher ... adjunct staff officer at RAND Corporation, and former director of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies. “2020 is not that far away in terms of the pace at...

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