Cacao agroforestry

Ebook "Carbon sequestration potential of agroforestry systems: Opportunities and challenges" focuses on the role of multispecies production systems involving tree and crop species as a means for carbon sequestration and thereby reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

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Rehydration consists not only of the ingestion of water but also of its absorption and distribution throughout the body tissues. Because of large buffering capacity of their alimentary tract, ruminants are able to drink large quantities of water in a very short time after a period of privation. Animals without this capacity are rarely able to take all their requirements in one short session, mainly due to the problems associated with haemolysis. Some non-ruminants are, however, capable of rapid drinking, including dogs and donkeys.

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The data confirm the expected role of population and income. Early- and middle-adopting DMAs had, on average, five times larger populations and 24% larger per capita incomes than late- adopting DMAs. After controlling for log population and income, however, differences between early and late adopters appearmuch more idiosyncratic. Indeed, in regressions controlling for log pop- ulation and income, F-tests show no statistically significant re- lationship between television adoption category and percent high school educated, median age, or percent nonwhite at the DMA level.

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Produced by the Dubai School of Government’s Governance and Innovation Program, the Arab Social Media Report series continues to analyze usage trends of online social networking tools across the Arab region. Based on data collected in the second and third quarters of 2011, this edition of the report analyzes data on Twitter and Facebook users in all 22 Arab countries, in addition to Iran, Israel and Turkey. In another first-of-its-kind regional survey, this special edition of the report explores the role of social media in Arab women’s empowerment.

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The Protection Area and Development review, in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), BirdLife International and FPD undertook another field study in Khe Tran and other specific sites of Thua Thien Hue province in late 2001 and early 2002. The objective was to examine the actual and potential economic contribution of the protected areas to different economic sectors in the province and to define important policy and planning issues related to maintaining and enhancing the development benefits from the protected areas.

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In 2010, an estimated 16 million operative procedures were performed in the United States.1 A recent prevalence study found that SSIs were the most common healthcare-associated infection, accounting for 31% of all HAIs among hospitalized patients.2 NHSN data for 2006-2008 (16,147 SSIs following 849,659 operative procedures) showed an overall SSI rate of 1.9%.

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Bond funds, which accounted for €373 billion of Irish IFs by shares/units in issue, experienced inflows of €12 billion and positive revaluations of €4.2 billion, amid generally increasing bond prices. This continues a longer term trend of significant inflows into bond funds, which comprised 42 per cent of Irish IFs by end-Q3 2012, compared with 24 per cent at end-Q1 2010.

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Many examples of P2P systems have emerged recently, most of which are wide-area, large-scale systems that provide content sharing [12], storage services [10], or distributed “grid” computation [4, 11]. Smaller-scale P2P systems also exist, such as federated, serverless file systems [2, 1] and collaborative workgroup tools [7]. The success of these systems has been mixed; some, such as Napster, have enjoyed enormous popularity and perform well at scale.

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The Australian National University International Sculpture Park is an extension of the University’s impressive commissioned artworks program. Located on the beautiful Acton Peninsula at the south end of the campus, the Park embraces the Old Canberra House precinct and extends across undulating grassy slopes and gullies and open woodlands, to the shore of Lake Burley Griffin. Magnificent original eucalypts and more recently planted Brittle Gums trace the sweeping line of what was old Balmain Crescent.

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Solar cells are most commonly made from silicon, the same material used to make computer chips. Silicon is one of the Earth’s most common elements, and is a major component of sand and many kinds of rocks. A solar cell is built like a sandwich, with two layers of silicon separated by a thin layer of insulating material. All three layers work together to convert sunlight into electricity. When sunlight falls onto the solar cell, it produces a small electric charge. Like a battery, the charge is positive on one side of the cell, and negative on...

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If something close to the higher-end trajectory occurs, fuel economy improvement will be even more important to contain the rise in global CO2 emissions. And other complementary measures, such as careful land-use planning, travel demand management, development of high quality transit systems where these provide more efficient trans- port services than private cars, and strong shifts to low-carbon fuels, will be needed to help move toward outright reductions in CO2 and reach lev- els well below those of 2005.

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The web in recent years has experienced an explosion in the number of devices users employ to access services. A single user may access a certain service using multiple devices. Most services allow clients to access the service through a broker. The client is then forced to interact with the service via this broker throughout the duration that it is using the service. If the broker fails, the client is denied servicing till such time that the failed broker recovers.

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Empirical evidence regarding international relative prices at the consumer level suggests that arbitrage in international markets is not rapid and that these markets are highly segmented. In fact, even markets for traded goods appear to be highly segmented internationally: In the data, both real exchange rate movements and deviations from the law of one price for traded goods are large and persistent.

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Thin and thick blood smears were also collected from participants who accepted malaria testing. Blood slides were stained with Giemsa stain that was prepared by the laboratory in advance of the field work. Parasite densities were calculated by counting the number of asexual stage parasites/200 white blood cells (WBCs), assuming 6000 WBCs/dl of blood. Blood smears were considered negative if no parasites were found after counting 200 fields. An informed consent form was read to the eligible person or parent/responsible adult of the child or teenager ages 15-18 years old.

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Uganda has relevant health policies and regulations in place, many developed through a participatory multi-stakeholder process, including the recent HSSIP. Innovative policies that are currently under development include the Public-Private Partnership in Health Policy. The health sector has many actors including nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations, HDPs, and multiple government agencies beyond the MoH. A recently signed country “Compact” is a new mechanism for coordination in the health sector.

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The economic reforms implemented since the signing of the GPA have borne positive results for the economy. Real GDP grew by about 6% in 2009 and is estimated to have grown by 9% in 2010. The adoption of the multi-currency regime along with the tightening of fiscal policy stance through the implementation of a cash-based budget system has helped Zimbabwe to bring down inflation to the commendable level of 3.0% by end-April 2011. In the medium term, Zimbabwe’s prospects and performance will be largely determined by political developments and how these impact the economy.

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The Mangalore coast which is situated at the western part of the Indian peninsula stretching to about 22 Kms of Coastal district of Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka. The healthy condition of the aquatic system depends upon its physical, chemical and biological characteristics which actually fluctuate with season and degree of pollution. Marine ecosystem is one of the richest ecosystems (Cairns & Dickson, 1971). Industrialisation, development activities in coastal zones have placed enormous stress on habitats.

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This paper presents the design and implementation of DOT, a flexible architecture for data transfer. This architecture separates content negotiation from the data transfer itself. Applications determine what data they need to send and then use a new transfer service to send it. This transfer service acts as a common interface between applications and the lower-level network layers, facilitating innovation both above and below. The transfer service frees developers from re-inventing transfer mechanisms in each new application.

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The external audit is intended to enhance the credibility of the financial statements of a firm. Auditors are supposed to verify and certify the quality of financial statements issued by management. However, over the last several decades, a substantial and increasing portion of an accounting firm’s total revenues have been derived from consulting services of various kinds. Provision of these nonaudit services can potentially hurt the quality of an audit by impairing auditor independence because of the economic bond that is created between the auditor and the client.

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Another important benefit is associated with the creation of multidimensional network effects due to the new possibilities of product creation in the clouds, that is between companies exploiting in different ways the potentialities of cloud com- puting through the same platform or different ones. This is related to another new possibility, the rapid adoption of changes: it is not uncommon, that applications in the clouds are modified on a daily base (to accommodate new requirements, or en- able new economic venues), which is impossible with on-premise solutions.

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