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Greenhouse Gases from Agriculture
The rapidly changing climate due to increased emission of (GHGs) is leading to an increased occurrence of extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, and heatwaves. The three major GHGs (CO2), (CH4),...
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Micrometeorological Methods for Greenhouse Gas Measurement
Micrometeorological techniques are useful ( ) emissions from larger areas (i.e. entire fields) should be integrated. The theory and the various techniques such as flux-gradient, aerodynamic, and as well as...
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Automated Laboratory and Field Techniques to Determine Greenhouse Gas Emissions
and techniques are described measurements ( ) in both the laboratory and the field. Robotic systems are currently available to measure the entire range of gases evolved from soils (N2). These systems usual...
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Soil Fauna, Fungi and Plants on Greenhouse Gas Fluxes
Soils harbour diverse a wide range of soil microorganisms. These fauna and microorganisms directly contribute to ( ) fluxes via their respiratory and metabolic activities and indirectly by changing the p...
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Isotopic Techniques to Measure N2O, N2 and Their Sources
are usually the result of several simultaneous processes. Furthermore, some gases such are very difficult to quantify and require special techniques. Therefore, in this chapter, the focus is on . tec...
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Methodology for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agricultural Soils Using Non-isotopic Techniques
Several approaches exist for (GHGs), , , , from soil surfaces. The principle that are used from agricultural sites are chamber-based techniques. Both open and techniques are in use; however, the maj...
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Methane Production in Ruminant Animals
is a significant and ruminant animals are one of the largest contributors to these emissions, responsible for an estimated 14% ( combined) worldwide. A large fluxes from agricultural activities i...
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Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices for Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions
approximately 37% of the global land surface, and is a significant source ( ) emissions, (CO2), ( ) (N2O). Those GHGs are responsible for the majority of the anthropogenic global warming effect. Agricu...
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Interactive Effects of Land Use and Climate on Soil Organic Carbon Storage in Western Siberian Steppe Soils
Soils store much more carbon (C) than all terrestrial plants and the Earth’s atmosphere together, and the C exchange between soils and atmosphere largely influences the CO2 contents in the atmosphere. While conve...
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The Result: A New Design Paradigm
One of the key challenges faced by engineers is finding, concretizing, and optimizing solutions for a specific technical problem in the context of requirements and constraints (Pahl et al. 2007). Depending on ...
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Manufacturing Induced Properties: Determination, Understanding, and Beneficial Use
Based on its procedural principle, every manufacturing technology affects a variety of properties of the workpiece or product in a characteristic way (Sect. 2.3). The sum of all those properties which comprise...
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Finding New Opportunities: Technology Push Approach
Realizing the benefits of a manufacturing technology is a key challenge that manufacturing engineers and designers face that exceeds conventional aspects of manufacturability and manufacturing compliant soluti...
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Cobalt/Cobaltoxide Exchange Bias System for Diluted Ferromagnetic Alloy Films in Superconducting Spin-Valves
The present work reports on the influence of a Cobalt sublayer on a conventional exchange bias CoOx/Cu41Ni59 interface. For superconducting spintronics the ability to exchange bias diluted ferromagnetic alloys is...
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SCIAMACHY – The Need for Atmospheric Research from Space
The Earth’s atmosphere is part of a complex system comprising the Sun and the Earth. Throughout the Earth’s history this system responded to natural and anthropogenic phenomena. To assess the significance of c...
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Implementation of the T3μPS in the Delfi-n3Xt Satellite
This chapter presents the interfaces that exist between the TNO, TU-Delft and UTwente developed micro propulsion system experiment (T3μPS) and the Delfi-n3Xt satellite currently under development at TU-Delft. ...
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Is It Possible to Minimize Overdrainage Complications with Gravitational Units in Patients with Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus? Protocol of the Randomized Controlled SVASONA Trial (ISRCTN51046698)
Overdrainage is a common complication observed after shunting patients with idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH), with an estimated incidence up to 25%. Gravitational units that counterbalance intra...
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Extinction and Recovery of Superconductivity by Interference in Superconductor/Ferromagnet Bilayers
In superconductor–ferromagnet (S/F) metallic contacts, the superconducting condensate penetrates through the S/F interface into a ferromagnetic layer. In contrast to the conventional S/N proximity effect, the ...
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Temporal-Awareness in SLAs: Why Should We Be Concerned?
Traditionally, Service Level Agreements have been decomposed in two sets of properties: functionals (what) and non-functionals (how). However, in our opinion, there has been a third key element that has had a ...
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Improving Temporal-Awareness of WS-Agreement
WS-Agreement (WS-Ag) is a proposed recommendation of the Open Grid Forum that provides a schema to describe SLAs and a protocol to create them based on a mechanism of templates. However, although it identifies...
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Impact of Sedimentation on Convergent Margin Tectonics: Example of the Makran Accretionary Prism (Pakistan)
This paper discusses the geodynamic evolution of the Makran accretionary prism from a new field investigation in the Pakistani area and from the interpretation of reprocessed seismic lines in the offshore area...
