Resultados de búsqueda - "subjectivity"

Pinning down a moving target: sustainability, people and forests por Prabhu, Ravi, Vanclay, J.K.

“…Two complementary approaches to better understanding the key-issues and the dynamics of managing forests are the subject of this presentation. In the first approach CIFOR is seeking to identify the key-issues in terms of Criteria and Indicators for sustainable forest management, with the objective of developing better assessment methods. …”
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Effects of livestock grazing on physical and chemical properties of sandy soils in Sahelian rangelands por Hiernaux, Pierre H.Y., Bielders, Charles L., Valentin, Christian, Bationo, B. André, Fernández Rivera, S.

“…Studies were also conducted in a fallow subjected to 9 years of intensive grazing. Although grazing reduced (P<less than>0.001) and fragmented the area of crusted soil, the infiltration index increased with moderate grazing, and decreased at high stocking rates. …”
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Modeling the impact of technological change on nutrition and marketed surplus por Ahmed, M.M., Preckel, P., Baker, T.G., López Pereira, M.A.

“…This work extends the subject of household modeling to problems with risk, and thus complements prior work in both the integrated analysis of production/consumption decisions and stochastic decision analysis.…”
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Reproductive biology of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) and isolation of experimental field trials por Halsey, ME, Olsen, KL, Taylor, Nigel J., Chavarriaga Aguirre, Paul

“…The testing and development of genetically modified cassava will of course be subject to regulatory review, and experimental field trials must be performed in a fashion that prevents gene flow from the regulated plants. …”
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Enhancement of capacity in applied biometry in East and southern Africa por Rowlands, G.J.

“…Training in biometrics provided hitherto by overseas institutions has been beneficial, but lecturers do not often have a full appreciation, or practical hands-on experience, of the special features of agricultural research and development in Africa. The subjects of experimental design, statistical analysis, interpretation and presentation of results are still recognised to be among the top priorities for training by national agricultural research system (NARS) scientists participating in collaborative networks co-ordinated by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF). …”
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Measuring the production efficiency of alternative land tenure contracts in a mixed crop-livestock system in Ethiopia por Gavian, S., Ehui, Simeon K.

“…Despite the importance of the question of relative production efficiency of indigenous land rights, the subject has not benefited from rigorous empirical analysis, largely due to lack of sufficiently disaggregated data. …”
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Bringing science and technology studies into agricultural anthropology: Technology development as cultural encounter between farmers and researchers por Crane, Todd A.

“…However, the original “farmer-back-to-farmer” approach left the “expert” practice of science and technology as an implicitly practical and apolitical space rather than as a subject of ethnographic study. The increasing and diverse articulation of farmers' livelihood practices with the professional practices of agricultural scientists demands theoretical tools that bring them all into the same frame of analysis. …”
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Motivations of sustainable entrepreneurship and their impact of enterprise performance in Gauteng Province, South Africa por Nhemachena, Charles, Murimbika, M.

“…Reliability of the performance and motivation scales were subjected to the Cronbach's alpha coefficient test, and the results were acceptable. …”
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Nutrition-sensitive value chains: A guide for project design. Volume I por Peña, Isabel de la, Garrett, James

“…The participatory and consultative approach taken for the development of this guide, which has been field-tested in Nigeria and Indonesia and subject to wide expert consultations at country and global levels, has been instrumental in ensuring voices and practical experiences from the field are adequately reflected. …”
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Characterization of citrus HSVd isolates por Palacio-Bielsa, Ana, Romero-Durbán, J., Durán-Vila, Núria

“…Seven citrus isolates of Hop stunt viroid (HSVd) were subjected to retrotranscription and DNA amplification (RT-PCR), cloning and sequencing. …”
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Viroids as Companions of a Professional Career por Durán-Vila, Núria

“…Since then, disease-causing agents suspected to be viroids were usually subjected to a number of tests to define their: (i) Molecular nature (RNA or DNA; single stranded or double stranded; circular or linear RNA); (ii) molecular weight; (iii) secondary and tertiary structure. …”
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Field-evolved imazapyr resistance in Ixophorus unisetus and Eleusine indica in Costa Rica por Valverde, B.E., Chaves, L., González, J., Garita, I.

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Aproximación hacia una clasificación de las formaciones forestales del Paraguay por Ferreiro, O.E.

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Reputation and Household Recycling Practices: Field Experiments in Costa Rica. por Alpízar, Francisco, Gsottbauer, Elisabeth

“…We find that reputational concerns indeed play a role in shaping individual pro-environmental behavior. Surprisingly, subjects cooperate more if the situation is framed as avoiding shame (bad reputation) rather than as acquiring pride and gratitude (good reputation). …”
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Beyond milk : framing milk and oat-drink campaigns in Sweden por Rigo Cavinato, Maria Eduarda

“…Through Facebook and Instagram, companies are able to connect with their consumers and present their own point of view on many different subjects. By analyzing 50 online publications from two Swedish companies, Oatly producing oat-drink and Arla producing milk, it was possible to identify the different frames used in their social-media campaigns when referring to environmental issues caused by especially, the milk production system. …”

Exploring labeling for ecosystem services and biodiversity : a Q study with the German food-processing industry por Hagenmüller, Andrej

“…Q methodology was applied which ensured that the interviewees compared statements relative to each other and sorted them based on their subjective valuation which yielded three distinct viewpoints as outcomes. …”

Svandammen por Eneroth, Erik

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Medlemsundersökning SÖDRA Skog por Torstensson, Anna

“…To solve this problem, activities must be arranged in the right place, at the right time and with the right subject. The members are fairly satisfied with the different services that are offered, except when it comes to silviculture, such as planting and pre-commercial thinning where 22 % of the respondents declare that they are partly unsatisfied with the services. …”

Laminin motifs inserted into a recombinant spider drag-line silk protein increase the proliferation of human dermal fibroblasts por Hillerdal, Carl-Olof

“…Therefore, cysteine was inserted into 4repCt, which allows production of potentially stronger fibers that can be subjected to tensile strength tests and disulphide brigde formation tests.…”

Skötsel och avverkning i tätortsnära skog i Båstads kommun por Ifverson, Johan

“…To get this information a study was needed on what was written in this subject and what was important to think about when planning the thinning of this area. …”