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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"SWC"”.
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The effect of seaweed concentrate on turfgrass growth, nematode tolerance and protein synthesis under moisture stress conditions
… Under well-watered conditions, the effects of SWC and RKN infection on bentgrass plants were studied. Applications of Swe at 0.5 liter ha⁻¹ and 1.0 liter ha⁻¹ effectively enhanced bentgrass growth under both RKN-free and RKN-infected condition. It was shown that RKN caused less damage to …
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Exploring winter rainfall in western South Africa : connections, influences and the potential for statistical seasonal forecasting
… physical connections of relationships between SWC rainfall and the Southern Annular Mode (SAM), South Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST), Antarctic sea ice concentration (SIC), and the EI Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) were explored using spatial and temporal correlations. Insight gained …
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Effects of land tenure on soil and water conservation measures in Tanzania?s Kigoma Region
… to invest in soil and water conservation (SWC) measures, which can combat land degradation, and consequently improve plot productivity. Studies on the nexus between land tenure and SWC measures in Africa are rare and have yielded mixed results. This paper examines the relationship between …
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Understanding the adoption of soil and water conservation practices: the role of social capital
… the use of soil and water conservation (SWC) practices have been unsuccessful. The study focuses on Merigi Ward, Kenya. Merigi Ward lies within the Mara River Basin (MRB), an ecologically and economically important river basin that has experienced extensive erosion problems. Increased …
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An analysis of anomalously wet summers in the South Western Cape of South Africa
… the rest of South Africa, the southwestern Cape (SWC) experiences most its rainfall in the austral winter (May-September). Due to interannual, intraseasonal and interdecadal variability, drought is a familiar occurrence. The SWC recently suffered from an extended dry period, known as the ‘Day Zero …
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Effects of tillage and mulching on selected soil properties, growth and yield of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.)
… soil organic carbon (SOC), soil water content (SWC), bulk density (BD), infiltration rate (IR), cumulative infiltration (CI) and aggregate stability (AS). Sunflower plant parameters including plant height, leaf area index, dry matter at flowering stage (FS), total biomass at harvest maturity …
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Low-Shrinkage Fiber-Reinforced Concrete for Infrastructure Construction and Rehabilitation
… fiber-reinforced super workable concrete (FR-SWC) for infrastructure construction and fiber-reinforced self-consolidating concrete (FR-SCC) for repair applications. HPC with excess content of shrinkage mitigation materials (SMMs), including shrinkage-reducing admixture (SRA), superabsorbent …
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Deficit Irrigation Strategies on young orange trees (cv Tarocco Sciara)
… number were carried out. Soil water content (SWC) was monitored by using Time (and Frequency) Domain Reflectometry. Preliminary results, obtained during the 2011 season, showed that: (i) xylematic potential and stomatal conductance were slightly variable between the investigated treatments …
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Assessing the sensitivity to climate change of the Berg River Voelvlei abstraction system, Western Cape Province, South Africa
… event that occurred in the southwestern Cape (SWC) region around Cape Town, which ultimately lasted three consecutive years, these six reservors declined due to a shortage of rainfall that was exacerbated by anthropic factors associated with the growth of the urban population, as well as …
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Water relations and cutting management of switchgrass
… Total leaf elongation and soil water content (SWC) were measured daily. Leaf water potential (Ψ), osmotic potential (Π), relative water content, and concentrations of K, Na, Ca, and total free sugars were measured at the end of each water-stress cycle. Osmotic potential at full turgor …
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Does Attachment Predict Coping Strategies? An In-Depth Look At Millennials During COVID-19
… and included: Shortened Ways of Coping-Revised (SWC-R), the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised (ECR-R), and the Bird's Nest Drawing art directive. The results suggest secure attachments are associated with adaptive coping strategies; however, due to the small sample size of this study, …
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Improving Validity and Reliability in Children’s Self Reports of Technology Use
… be used in many contexts. The guidelines (RWC, SWC and SRT) can be applied on three levels, for general use in research with children, in the design of surveys and in the specifics of designing self-report tools for prior technology experience.
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A study to examine the validity and reliability of a selected group of physical fitness tests within a primary school setting
… variation (CVTE) and smallest worthwhile change (SWC) were calculated for each sex and age group (grade). Changes in measurement were categorised as small, medium or large based on effect sizes. Results: The 20m shuttle run (SRT), hand grip strength (HGS), standing long jump (SLJ), body mass index …
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Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems With Transmitter Diversity
… LMMSE, LMMSE by significant weight catching (SWC) and low complexity LMMSE with power delay profile approximation as uniform. The new techniques and their combinations can significantly reduce the full LMMSE processor complexity, by 50% or more, when the estimation accuracy loss remains within …
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Time-resolved Resting-state fMRI of Brain States Associated with Drug-resistant Epilepsy
… methods: sliding-window cross-correlation (SWC) and a newly developed technique. Performance is assessed in terms of successfully detecting state transitions and their timings. The framework is then applied to fMRI data obtained from a small group of individuals with frontal lobe epilepsy …
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Negotiating A Neoliberal Funding Regime: Feminist Service Organizations and State Funding
… documents produced by Status of Women Canada (SWC) and the Ontario Women’s Directorate (OWD), as well as the provincial and federal Public Accounts. This allowed me to analyse shifts in approaches to the nonprofit sector and government priorities. My research indicates that there is a shrinking …
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Content dissemination for static and dynamic mobile P2P groups
… model for Situated Wireless Communities (SWC) using physical phone traces of the Mobile Learning Community (MLC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We take the bottom-up approach where through data mining and inference techniques, we analyze and infer from low-level …
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Investigating the relationships between wheat-specific rainfall characteristics, large-scale modes of climate variability and wheat yields in the Swartland region, South Africa
Wheat producers in the South Western Cape (SWC) of South Africa need to cope with biophysical and socio-economic systems exposing farmers to a multidimensional decision- making environment. The rain fed wheat production in the Swartland region is highly susceptible to the interannual variability of …
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‘Soldier-Diplomat: a reassessment of Sir Henry Wilson’s influence on British Strategy in the last 18 months of the Great War’
Sir Henry Wilson remains one of the most controversial British Army generals of the Great War. A colourful character in life, he attracted admirers and detractors in equal measure; in death, his reputation was ruined by a biography based on his personal diaries. The Wilson of the historiography is, …