We use innovative experimental approaches to measure the extent of biogeochemical interaction driven by the input of terrestrial organic carbon to the coastal oceans. The evolution of organic carbon from continents to oceans is not well understood. Remineralization of this carbon plays an unknown but apparently important role in stimulating productivity. This process and associated phenomena al...

urbanisation is still one of the social themes in developing countries. in china, the rapid process of urbanisation and economic growth bring to people not only more opportunities for creating new life and pursuing happiness, but also the challenge to face various and complex social, economical and environmental problems. among them some are outstanding, like the shrinking plowland devoured by ...

Different floor space allowances for dry, pregnant sows in pens were evaluated to determine the impacts of space on sow performance, productivity, and body lesions during 2 consecutive farrowings. Treatment groups of 5 sows/pen were assigned to 1.4, 2.3, or 3.3 m(2) of floor space/sow or of 5 sows in individual stalls (1.34 m(2)). The experiment consisted of 6 replications (blocks 1 to 6), and ...

Parvati techno cast (Guj) pvt. ltd. (688, GIDC estate Makarpura, Vadodara, 390010) is the company which manufacture different mechanical components (100gm to 200kg weight) by using casting. Also manufacturing engineering services include machining of components which are produced by casting. At present situation company is having less productivity due to ineffective utilization of plant layout,...

In this paper a new model (Bounded Innovation Management Model, BIMM) based on systems thinking principles is presented to contribute to the research being conducted in mapping creativity to productivity pathways. This research was conducted in five information technology companies in New Zealand all presenting different pathways from creativity to productivity. It has been discovered that: (i)...

We present the emerging discipline of Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM), which studies the possibility of computer-supporting and even automating the representation, cataloguing, retrieval, refactoring, plausibilization, change propagation and in some cases even application of mathematical knowledge. We focus on theory graph technology here, which supports modular and thus space-efficient...

Solving many actual safety problems in atomic, electrotechnical, space, railway and oil industries as well as in science takes noncontact optical measurement technologies with micron resolution and productivity from 500 to 100 000 meas./s. We have developed, implemented and tested in real workshop and outside conditions some novel optical measuring systems, which are operating successfully in m...

The simulation of computer architecture is an important task in the development of new architectures. Exploring novel architectures requires simulations which are flexible, easy to produce, and high performance. The greater these characteristics, the more efficiently the design space can be explored. A number of simulation frameworks exist which can assist the architect in creating new simulato...

Labor and floorspace cost functions are derived for smail business trade. Relationships are proposed between average volume of labor or average fioorspace per establishment on the one hand, and average size per establishment, average rental paid, percentage selling space, and indicators of business type and location on the other. Promising estimation results are reported using South African dat...

In this paper, we explore the role of constituent properties in English and German noun-noun compounds (corpus frequencies of the compounds and their constituents; productivity and ambiguity of the constituents; and semantic relations between the constituents), when predicting the degrees of compositionality of the compounds within a vector space model. The results demonstrate that the empirica...