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Earth-Sky Link Quality Performance for Fixed and Mobile Scenarios in Tropical Regions
... in tropical regions have been explained, and the experimental setup for the fixed and mobile scenarios had been discussed using the newly developed ERS extension to improve the PER calculation under ...
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Comparative Studies of the Rain Attenuation Predictions for Tropical Regions
... In this paper, comparison and discussions of four different path reduction factor models have been presented. The essence of reduction factor is either to reduce the point rain rate to the path averaged rain rate, or to ...
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Yam´s Potentials as Basis of Nutritional Security Programs in Underdeveloped Tropical Regions
... Numerous attributes favor the growth of yam cultivation in tropical regions and in conditions of organic and environmentally friendly agriculture. Its high rusticity that allows it to be cultivated with ...
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A New Rain Attenuation Conversion Technique for Tropical Regions
... depolarization by hydrometeors such as clouds and precipitation [1]. All these effects must be considered as they are the causes of signal impairment for both terrestrial and Earth-satellite systems; with rainfall being ...
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Landscape management in tropical regions based on an assessment of ecosystem services
... lowland tropical forests, and is now the leading center for international field research in Asian tropical forests (Ashton et ...of tropical forests at the landscape ...
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COST EFFECTIVE GREEN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION STRATEGIES FOR TROPICAL REGIONS
... Abstract – Global warming & greenhouse effects has considerably changed the scenario of environment & world in recent years. Main causes of these are increasing industrialization & urbanization. These things, ...
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Assessment of multiplex Onchocerca volvulus peptide ELISA in non endemic tropical regions
... Helminth infections make up a major part of the diseases listed on the World Health Organization (WHO) list of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) [1–3]. One of these helminths, Onchocerca volvulus causes ...
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A novel algorithm for detection of precipitation in tropical regions using PMW radiometers
... arid regions, and over snow- covered ...the regions of the Earth where precipitation is infre- quent ...semi-arid regions in the tropics), precipitation detection is crucial for drought ...
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... The scope of this study is limited to the design and fabrication of a portable fume extractor that can extract fumes generated during welding processes in tropical regions. In the cause of carrying out this ...
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Edible and medicinal termites: a global overview
... in tropical regions and are important natural resources, which are widely used in traditional medicine and are also consumed by human populations in several parts of the ...
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Nuptial flight of the Southeast Asian plant-ant Crematogaster captiosa (Forel, 1911) and the phenology of colony founding
... ABSTRACT. Despite the great importance of nuptial flights for ants, little is known about the swarming processes from the highly diverse tropical regions, especially rainforests. This is particularly true ...
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Freeze tolerance, supercooling points and ice formation: comparative studies on the subzero temperature survival of limno terrestrial tardigrades
... Many limno-terrestrial tardigrades live in unstable habitats where they experience extreme environmental conditions such as drought, heat and subzero temperatures. Although their stress tolerance is often related only to ...
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WEATHER AND CLIMATE IN SHAPING OF INFLUENZA
... temperate regions in both hemispheres during the winter (Alonso et ...northern, tropical regions in summer (November) to the southern, temperate regions of the country in winter ...
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Patterns of Leaf Litter Decomposition as Related to Litter Traits in the Sudano-Guinea Savannahs of Ngaoundere, Cameroon
... [55] comparing the litter decomposition of invasive and native species. Indeed, the 2 exotic invasive species are annual and deciduous species with lower thickness (0.15 and 0.20 mm), sclerophyllous index (0.01 0.14 ...
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Long-term Effects of Forest Plantations on Soil Carbon in Brazil.
... The organic carbon stored globally in soils accounts for more than three times that currently sequestered in plant biomass, and can act as a source or sink of carbon to the atmosphere depending on land use practices ...
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Comparative characteristics of some ecosystems of the upper regions of the shelf in tropical, temperate and Arctic waters
... The distribution of biocoenoses in the upper shelf parts of temperate and tropical regions in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, in upper boreal Atlantic water[r] ...
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Seaweed distribution patterns as revealed by ordination with reference to the Atlantic and southern Oceans
... Open symbols: regions in the northern hemisphere; closed symbols: regions in the southern hemisphere; asterisks: tropical regions; circles: warm temperate regions; sq[r] ...
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A modified effective path length for predicting rain attenuation based on measurements in Penang Malaysia
... temperate regions will not be accurate for tropical ...temperate regions will be unsuitable to be applied in tropical regions ...
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Resource Supply Overrides Temperature as a Controlling Factor of Marine Phytoplankton Growth
... We compiled data on phytoplankton carbon biomass concen- tration and primary production rate that were determined concurrently in surface assemblages of coastal and open-ocean regions. Coastal observations (number ...
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Deciphering the spatio-temporal complexity of climate change of the last deglaciation: a model analysis
... as regions where a 100-year mean is more representative of interannual to decadal variability than of climate in the sense of a 30-year ...two regions are significantly cool- ing in our ...continental ...
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