574 research outputs found
Blood pressure measurement protocol determines hypertension phenotypes in a Middle Eastern population
No full textProposals for Strengthening the Research and Financial Management of WARDA
No full textDraft report of a mission from the CGIAR and TAC secretariats to WARDA from 15 to 29 September 1974. It describes WARDA's rational, structure, and activities, and makes recommendations concerning research management, project integration, CGIAR support, financial planning and budget responsibilities, and the roles and responsibilities of various WARDA units. A certified statement of expenditure for 22 months ended September 1973 is attached. Agenda document presented at CGIAR meeting, October 1974
"Warda dell’egiziano Sonallah Ibrahim: storia di una guerrigliera"
No full textThe study focuses on the novel Warda published in 2000 by Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim. The female protagonist is a freedom fighter who narrates her experience in her diary. Dedicated to the movements of the Arab left, this historical novel covers two periods: one goes from 1957, shortly after the Suez War, until 1975, when the Dhofar insurrection ends; the other is the year following the 1990-1991 Gulf crisis. Warda is a partisan of the Dhofar guerrilla warfare, one of the lesser known conflicts of the twentieth century, which the author illustrates without neglecting the most important war events in the Arab world and internationally, not failing to refer to the Palestinian tragedy. The work describes the post-Cold War era, marked by globalization and US unipolarity, in the context of which the Middle Eastern peace process initiated at the Madrid conference in autumn 1991
Characterization and utilisation of Oryza glaberrima Steud. in upland rice breeding
No full textOryza glaberrima Steud. is a potential source of useful genes for a range of econornically important characters. During the 1992 and 1993 growing seasons, 1130 accessions of 0. glaberrima and 591 accessions of 0. sativa L. were characterized at the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA) at M'bé, Côte d'lvoire for 43 morphological traits. A number of accessions with desirable morphological traits and resistance to stresses such as drought and blast have been identified and are now being utilized in the breeding program. Progenies from interspecific hybridization of 0. sativa and 0. glaberrima are showing high sterility in the F1 hybrids and early generations. However, fertility was obtained (5-95%) and retained after two to four backcrossings in some populations. Although true intermediates between 0. glaberrima and 0. sativa were generally rare, their occurrence in some populations was as high as 30%. Desirable morphological traits introgressed frorn 0. glaberrima into segregating BC2 F3 populations included early maturity (75-100 days), rapid seedling growth and high tillering. To exploit the potential of 0. glaberrima in interspecific breeding, it is necessary to better understand its physiology and ecology. It will also be necessary to characterize alien gene introgression through isozyme analysis and molecular markers to examine the crossability, genetic homoeology and nuclear stability of hybrid progenies
The pattern of the letter as a tool for education and upbringing of children and youth in the XIX century (based on the letter-writing manuals by Józef Chociszewski)
No full textThe article analyzes the XIX century collection of letter patterns prepared by Józef Chociszewski for children and youths: Listownik dla młodzieży zawierający wzory listów z dodatkiem powinszowań, łamigłówek, wierszyków, powiastek i nauki grzeczności dla młodzieży (Bytom 1900). Letters included in this publication were examined in terms of the author’s use of their species traits (at the structural, pragmatic, cognitive and stylistic level) for youth education.The pattern of the letter by Chociszewski is not only a collection of examples of kids’ and youths’ correspondence, but above all a tool for various aspects of education and upbringing of young Poles during the partitions. The author tried to develop general language skills in his readers and encourage the use of the Polish language, presenting a very wide selection of lexis, formulas and stylistic means for reproduction in various communication situations. He taught them ”language savoir-vivre”. A clear educational purpose were also: a selection of the content of fictitious letters, selection of the authors of authentic letters and the rich system of values characteristic in the Polish Catholic family presented in the letters. In this way, J. Chociszewski aimed to show the Polish culture in the letter-writing manuals and to shape Polish national consciousness.W artykule poddano analizie XIX-wieczny zbiór wzorów listów przygotowany przez Józefa Chociszewskiego dla dzieci i młodzieży: Listownik dla młodzieży zawierający wzory listów z dodatkiem powinszowań, łamigłówek, wierszyków, powiastek i nauki grzeczności dla młodzieży (Bytom 1900). Przyjrzano się zamieszczonym w tej publikacji tekstom listów pod kątem wykorzystania przez autora ich cech gatunkowych (na płaszczyźnie strukturalnej, pragmatycznej, poznawczej i stylistycznej) dla edukacji młodzieży. Listownik Chociszewskiego to nie tylko zbiór przykładów korespondencji dziecięco-młodzieżowej, ale przede wszystkim narzędzie służące różnym aspektom edukacji i wychowania młodych Polaków w czasie zaborów. Autor starał się rozwijać u swoich czytelników ogólną kompetencję językową i zachęcić do używania języka polskiego, przedstawiając bardzo bogaty wybór leksyki, formuł i środków stylistycznych do odtwarzania w różnych sytuacjach komunikacyjnych. Uczył ich przy tym językowego savoir-vivre’u. Wyraźny cel edukacyjno-wychowawczy miały także: dobór treści listów fikcyjnych i wybór autorów listów autentycznych oraz przedstawiony w nich bogaty system wartości charakterystycznych dla polskiej katolickiej rodziny. Chociszewski dążył w ten sposób do ukazania w listowniku polskiej kultury i do kształtowania polskiej świadomości narodowej
Sound Design for Our Town
No full textThis document is a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre. It is a detailed account of the author, Anna Warda Alex\u27s artistic process in developing the sound design for Minnesota State University, Mankato\u27s production of Our Town in the fall of 2014. The thesis documents the designer\u27s process from the pre-production analysis through the designer\u27s afterthoughts on the design in five chapters: a pre-production analysis, an historical and critical perspective, a process and rehearsal journal, a post-production analysis and a process development. Appendices and works cited are included
O potrzebie zinwentaryzowania i skatalogowania ksiąg miejskich. Na marginesie opracowania: Testamenty z ksiąg sądowych małych miast polskich do 1525 roku. Oprac. A. Bartoszewicz, K. Mrozowski, M. Radomski, K. Warda. Red. A. Bartoszewicz. Warszawa 2017
No full textO potrzebie zinwentaryzowania i skatalogowania ksiąg miejskich Na marginesie opracowania: Testamenty z ksiąg sądowych małych miast polskich do 1525 roku. Oprac. Agnieszka Bartoszewicz, Krzysztof Mrozowski, Maciej Radomski, Katarzyna Warda. Red. Agnieszka Bartoszewicz. Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper, 2017, ss. 184
The pygmy dipole strength, the neutron radius of 208Pb and the symmetry energy
No full textThe accurate characterization of the nuclear symmetry energy and its density dependence is one of the outstanding open problems in nuclear physics. A promising nuclear observable in order to constrain the density dependence of the symmetry energy at saturation is the neutron skin thickness of medium and heavy nuclei. Recently, a low-energy peak in the isovector dipole response of neutron-rich nuclei has been discovered that may be correlated with the neutron skin thickness. The existence of this correlation is currently under debate due to our limited experimental knowledge on the microscopic structure of such a peak. We present a detailed analysis of Skyrme Hartree-Fock (HF) plus random phase approximation (RPA) predictions for the dipole response in several neutron-rich nuclei and try to elucidate whether models of common use in nuclear physics confirm or dismiss its possible connection with the neutron skin thickness. Finally, we briefly present theoretical results for parity violating electron scattering on Pb at the conditions of the PREx experiment and discuss the implications for the neutron skin thickness of Pb and the slope of the symmetry energy
Economic analyses of maize storage innovations in southern Benin
No full textKey words: Storage innovations, maize, information sources, farmers’ perceptions, adoption and modification, treatment effects, sample selection bias, correction function approach, technology abandonment, cross-sectional and panel data, Benin. Maize is a staple food and an important source of income for farmers in southern Benin. It is stored at village level in traditional storage structures and treated with conservation products. To improve control pest damage in stored maize, improved wooden granaries and a new product, Sofagrain®, were introduced in 1992. On-farm trials indicated that after six months of storage, the losses were reduced from 30% to only 5% for maize treated with Sofagrain® stored in an improved wooden granary. Although the effectiveness of storage innovations against pests is well documented, little is known about the socioeconomic aspects of promotion of these innovations in southern Benin. Using appropriate econometric models, this study investigates the perceptions of farmers regarding the characteristics of storage innovations and the causal effect of participation in extension on their formation, the adoption of storage innovations and effect of sources of information on the determinants of adoption, the impact of adopting storage innovation on schooling expenditure and the factors that affect the abandonment of storage innovations. First, the empirical results show that the effectiveness against pests and the length of the storage are the most important preferred characteristics and are provided by the storage innovation. Second, farmer’s participation in an extension program on these storage technologies has an important effect on the probability that positive perceptions of the quality of effectiveness against insects are provided by the improved wooden granary and the Sofagrain®. Third, there are differences in adoption and modification decisions between farmers who are informed by extension agents and those informed by other farmers. Fourth, adoption of a storage innovation increases the schooling expenditure of adopters. Finally, the study highlights the effect of road conditions, availability of family labor and availability of the protection measure Sofagrain® on the probability of abandonment of storage innovations. <br/
Exploring the relationship between diversity and productivity of a semi-natural permanent grassland using plant functional traits
No full textRecent studies have indicated that plant functional traits are important instruments for analysing functional diversity of grasslands. We present the results of a study on the relationship between diversity and productivity conducted in the Solling Uplands, Germany. The experimental site is an old permanent semi-natural grassland, with no history of arable farming. The three-factorial Latin square design with six blocked replications includes sward type (control, monocot-reduced and dicot-reduced by herbicide application), mowing frequency (1 and 3 cuts per year) and fertilization intensity (no fertilization and 180–30–100 kg ha–1 of N-P-K) as main factors, and block and row effects as spatial factors. On each plot, we collected information on six plant functional traits for the main species making up 80% of the yield: plant height, green leaves/total leaves ratio, leaf dry matter content, stem dry matter content, stem specific density, and specific leaf area. We found that the functional diversity index (FD), defined as the total branch length of a functional dendrogram based on a species-traits matrix, increases with higher cutting frequency and decreases with higher fertilizer input. The main factor influencing the differences in the functional diversity index is the number of species making up 80% of the yield
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