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Heavy Metal Levels In Paddy Soils And Rice (Oryza Sativa (L)) From Wetlands Of Lake Victoria Basin, Tanzania, J. F. Machiwa Dec 2010

Heavy Metal Levels In Paddy Soils And Rice (Oryza Sativa (L)) From Wetlands Of Lake Victoria Basin, Tanzania, J. F. Machiwa

Tanzania Journal of Science

A survey of paddy fields in Lake Victoria Basin (LVB) wetlands was conducted at a wider scale in different locations including closer to mining and within urbanized areas in Tanzania. The objective of the study was mainly to assess the present situation with regard to levels of heavy metals in O. sativa grains harvested locally as well as to set the baseline levels of some heavy metals in paddy fields. The results showed that the levels of Cadmium, Chromium, Copper, Lead, Zinc and total Mercury in brown rice are generally within the acceptable levels for human food. However, higher concentration …

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Urban Dietary Heavy Metal Intake From Protein Foods And Vegetables In Dar Es Salaam, F. N. Ngassapa, O. C. Othman, E. Elisante Dec 2010

Urban Dietary Heavy Metal Intake From Protein Foods And Vegetables In Dar Es Salaam, F. N. Ngassapa, O. C. Othman, E. Elisante

Tanzania Journal of Science

Contamination of food and food products by heavy metals has made dietary intake as one of the major routes of these harmful elements to human beings. The human dietary intake of heavy metals cadmium, copper, lead and zinc from protein-foods (beans, meat, fish, milk) and green vegetables consumed daily from restaurants and street food-vendor kiosks in Dar es Salaam were determined using the Total Diet Study (TDS) method. The cooked food was bought from the restaurants and street food-vendors at several city locations (i.e. Buguruni, Manzese, Mwenge, Temeke and Ubungo) over several months and analyzed. Heavy metal concentrations were determined …

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Regulating Compensation, A. Christine Hurt Dec 2010

Regulating Compensation, A. Christine Hurt

Faculty Scholarship

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Knowledge And Education: Pro-Access Implications Of New Technologies, Dalindyebo Shabalala Dec 2010

Knowledge And Education: Pro-Access Implications Of New Technologies, Dalindyebo Shabalala

School of Law Faculty Publications

This book examines the social impact of intellectual property laws. It addresses issues and trends relating to health, food security, education, new technologies, preservation of bio-cultural heritage and contemporary challenges in promoting the arts. It explores how intellectual property frameworks could be better calibrated to meet socio-economic needs in countries at different stages of development, with local contexts and culture in mind. A resource for policy-makers, stakeholders, non-profits and students, this volume furthermore highlights alternative modes of innovation that are emerging to address such diverse challenges as neglected or resurgent diseases in developing countries and the harnessing of creative possibilities …

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Review Of The Transition Period From Scrapping To Ship Recycling And Analysis Of Contemporary Issues, Burak. Kemerci Dec 2010

Review Of The Transition Period From Scrapping To Ship Recycling And Analysis Of Contemporary Issues, Burak. Kemerci

World Maritime University Dissertations

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The Stcw Manila Amendments : Its Challenges To The Far East, Chong Ju. Chae Dec 2010

The Stcw Manila Amendments : Its Challenges To The Far East, Chong Ju. Chae

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Analytical Review Of Market-Based Measures For Reducing Marine Ghg Emissions And The Impacts On The Chinese Shipping Sector, Jian Zhao Dec 2010

Analytical Review Of Market-Based Measures For Reducing Marine Ghg Emissions And The Impacts On The Chinese Shipping Sector, Jian Zhao

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Oil Spill Contingency Management, Its Financial Arrangement And Implications In The South Asian Region, Agampodi Jagath Mendis. Gunasekara Dec 2010

Oil Spill Contingency Management, Its Financial Arrangement And Implications In The South Asian Region, Agampodi Jagath Mendis. Gunasekara

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Lng Supply Chain Analysis And Optimisation Of Turkey's Natural Gas Need With Lng Import, Guzel Dec 2010

Lng Supply Chain Analysis And Optimisation Of Turkey's Natural Gas Need With Lng Import, Guzel

World Maritime University Dissertations

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An Analysis Of The Creation Of A Global Ship Recycling Fund In The Framework Of The Hong Kong International Convention For The Safe And Environmentally Sound Recycling Of Ships, 2009, Gopal Krishna Choudhary Dec 2010

An Analysis Of The Creation Of A Global Ship Recycling Fund In The Framework Of The Hong Kong International Convention For The Safe And Environmentally Sound Recycling Of Ships, 2009, Gopal Krishna Choudhary

World Maritime University Dissertations

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A Study On The Imo Regulatory Instruments Concerning The Evaluation Of Safety And Pollution Hazards Of Chemicals In Bulk Transported By Sea (Based On Marpol Annex Ii And Ibc Code), Gimoon Jea Dec 2010

A Study On The Imo Regulatory Instruments Concerning The Evaluation Of Safety And Pollution Hazards Of Chemicals In Bulk Transported By Sea (Based On Marpol Annex Ii And Ibc Code), Gimoon Jea

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Analysis Of Possibilities The North Aegean Candarli Port Of Being A Regional Hub Port In The Mediterranean Sea Region, Hasan Tarcan Dec 2010

Analysis Of Possibilities The North Aegean Candarli Port Of Being A Regional Hub Port In The Mediterranean Sea Region, Hasan Tarcan

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Multimodal Transport In Vietnam In Relationship With Asean Countries : A Case Study Of Routes Thailand-Cambodia-Vietnam And Laos-Singapore, Thi Bich Bui Dec 2010

Multimodal Transport In Vietnam In Relationship With Asean Countries : A Case Study Of Routes Thailand-Cambodia-Vietnam And Laos-Singapore, Thi Bich Bui

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Djibouti Code Of Conduct : An Instrument To Suppress Piracy In The Western Indian Ocean And The Gulf Of Aden, Dave Muli Dec 2010

Djibouti Code Of Conduct : An Instrument To Suppress Piracy In The Western Indian Ocean And The Gulf Of Aden, Dave Muli

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Air Emissions : The Effects On The Shipping Industry And Ports : Implications For The Port Of Singapore, Ling Ling Jolyn Tay Dec 2010

Air Emissions : The Effects On The Shipping Industry And Ports : Implications For The Port Of Singapore, Ling Ling Jolyn Tay

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Performance Of Four Near Zero Energy Homes: Lessons Learned, Florida Solar Energy Center, Carlos Colon Dec 2010

Performance Of Four Near Zero Energy Homes: Lessons Learned, Florida Solar Energy Center, Carlos Colon

FSEC Energy Research Center®

While the idea of a zero or near zero energy home is well understood, the actual performance of the structure can be different than expected. High performance homes necessitate increasingly complex envelope, HVAC, water heating, and appliance systems, and successful designs rely on proper function and feedback from those systems to achieve low-energy goals. This paper presents measured data on four near zero energy homes located in Florida that are a part of the U.S. DOE Building America program. The monitored data are compared to both a benchmark model and the prototype computer simulations. By examining the submetered energy data, …

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The Major Cause Of Observed Erosion Surge On The Beaches North Of Dar Es Salaam City, N. Nyandwi Dec 2010

The Major Cause Of Observed Erosion Surge On The Beaches North Of Dar Es Salaam City, N. Nyandwi

Tanzania Journal of Science

Surges in coastal erosion north of Dar es Salaam city have been documented from 1977 to the early 1980s and around 1997/98. Analysis of the wind data shows that the documented increase in coastal erosion coincided with increased wind speeds. Extreme winds in excess of 10-11 m s-1 were experienced during 1976-78, 1984 and after 1996. Their coincidence with extreme high tides produced the high erosion rates. Using beach profile data for the years 1998-2000 the evolution of the beach profile with the changing monsoon winds and sediment input by rivers could be demonstrated. The beach erosion took place during …

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Geomorphological Potential Of Coelacanth Habitat Across Mozambique-Tanzania Border, N. Nyandwi Dec 2010

Geomorphological Potential Of Coelacanth Habitat Across Mozambique-Tanzania Border, N. Nyandwi

Tanzania Journal of Science

The coelacanth is a new fish in Tanzania. It was first discovered in September 2003 after it was spotted by a tourist in a fish market. It was caught by fishermen in the deep waters off Songo Mnara Island offshore of Kilwa Masoko Town in Southern Tanzania. The find potentially added southern Tanzania to the list of known coelacanth areas of the southern Western Indian Ocean Region. Observed current conditions indicate that the waters are swept by strong (2 m/sec) northward flowing current. This suggests that there must exist hideouts for the fish, such as caves in canyons and overhangs. …

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Stock Split Dan Likuiditas Saham Di Bei: Pengujian Menggunakan Hipotesis Likuiditas, Ignatius Roni Setyawan Dec 2010

Stock Split Dan Likuiditas Saham Di Bei: Pengujian Menggunakan Hipotesis Likuiditas, Ignatius Roni Setyawan

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

This study aims to re-examine the effectiveness of liquidity hypothesis in stock split. Liquidity hypothesis in stock split is defined as the returning stock price to the optimal trading level. Based on Ekaputra and Putri (2006), this study consists of two analysis methods such as: 1) Paired t-test among return volatility and liquidity during stock split 2) OLS-test focuses on the consistency of the model of Ekaputra and Putri (2006) and in line with Kim et al. (2007), this research includes Amihud’s Illiquidity as an alternative proxy of liquidity in stock split in addition to relative spread. According to paired …

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Pengaruh Mekanisme Corporate Governance Terhadap Kinerja Keuangan Bank Perkreditan Rakyat, Okky Andriyan, Supatmi Supatmi Dec 2010

Pengaruh Mekanisme Corporate Governance Terhadap Kinerja Keuangan Bank Perkreditan Rakyat, Okky Andriyan, Supatmi Supatmi

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

This research is aimed to find out the influence of Corporate Governance (CG) mechanisms to the banking financial performance. As a regulated industry, this research wants to prove that the banking financial performance can be influenced by CG mechanisms, not just its complience to the banking regulations. The samples in this research are the non-governmental rural banks (Bank Perkreditan Rakyat) in Central Java. The financial performance of the BPR is measured by the ratio of NPL, KPMM, LDR, and ROA. CG mechanisms are measured by its managerial ownerships, the proportion of the outside directors, and the number of board of …

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Masyarakat Dayak Di Kesultanan Kutai Pada Abad Ke-19, Ita Syamtasiyah Ahyat Dec 2010

Masyarakat Dayak Di Kesultanan Kutai Pada Abad Ke-19, Ita Syamtasiyah Ahyat

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

The Dayak people of Kalimantan, who have occupied in the territory of Kutai Sultanate, the water kingdom along the riverbank and the upper course of the Mahakam, live by trading in the river ways. The Dayak people consist of eleven tribes; the Kenyah, Kayan, Bahau, Tunjung, Benua, and Bentian, were only some of them. They were governed under the sovereignty of the Sultanate of Kutai which had made easier for the colonial government to subdue the territory. However, the people of Kutai found ways to accept the Dayak, and vice versa. They sold forest produce, such as resin, birds’ nests,rice, …

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Belajar Sejarah Kolonial Melalui Pameran Koleksi Lukisan Jadoel, Lilie Suratminto Dec 2010

Belajar Sejarah Kolonial Melalui Pameran Koleksi Lukisan Jadoel, Lilie Suratminto

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Pictures or paintings of high-rank officials hanged in government or public offices are not only a recent phenomenon. Francois Valentijn (1724-1726) wrote in his book, Oud en Neuw Oost Indien, the common practice of hanging pictures or paintings of high-rank officials even in the eighteenth century in Indonesia when the East India Company (VOC) had its power over the land. The Fatahillah Historic Museum in Jakarta has kept all the pictures and paintings of the Dutch Indies officials from the time of the East India Company (VOC) to 1942. The curriculum vitae of those persona is a corpus for research …

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Eksperimen Pembuatan Beliung Persegi, Ali Akbar Dec 2010

Eksperimen Pembuatan Beliung Persegi, Ali Akbar

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Writing a research paper does not only use three steps, such as analysis, explanation and conclusion, but it may also use analogy. It assumes two phenomena, individual or inter-related, similar. Analogizing method uses historic, ethnographic, and experimental sources. Experimental analogy, in particular, is done by duplication. For example, it is conducted by making a stone tool, which implies that there is a collective knowledge about the characteristics of the raw material and their relations to human. Despite the fact that prehistoric archeological remnants, such as the rectangular adze, were found in different areas in Indonesia, there had not been many …

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The Market Orientation Of Slovenian Companies: Two-Group Comparisons, Mateja Bodlaj, Iča Rojšek Dec 2010

The Market Orientation Of Slovenian Companies: Two-Group Comparisons, Mateja Bodlaj, Iča Rojšek

Economic and Business Review

The purpose of the presented empirical study was to examine market orientation between groups of companies in terms of three company characteristics, i.e. main business sector, company size, and type of the market, and three environmental characteristics, i.e. market turbulence, technological turbulence and competitive intensity. Market orientation is analysed by distinguishing between a cultural and behavioural perspective and by distinguishing between a responsive and proactive form. Comparisons between groups of companies are made by testing invariant latent mean structures. The analysis of 325 Slovenian companies reveals that the particular market orientation dimensions only differ when different levels of market and …

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What Determines The Co-Operative Potential For Firms In Western European And Cee Border Regions? A Comparative Micro-Level Analysis, Birgit Leick Dec 2010

What Determines The Co-Operative Potential For Firms In Western European And Cee Border Regions? A Comparative Micro-Level Analysis, Birgit Leick

Economic and Business Review

The present article investigates whether Eastern European enlargement influences the co-operative potential of firms in the borderland between Western and Central Eastern Europe more than of other firms, i.e. of those not being located in the borderland. Based on theoretical arguments as well as empirical evidence, we build a micro-level framework of factors, which determine a firm’s likelihood of cross-border business co-operation. Using logistic regression, this framework is empirically tested and compared for two cross-sectional datasets of firms located in the border regions in Northern Bohemia (the Czech Republic) and Saxony (East Germany).

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Determinants Of Firm Entries: Empirical Evidence For Slovenia, Dijana Močnik Dec 2010

Determinants Of Firm Entries: Empirical Evidence For Slovenia, Dijana Močnik

Economic and Business Review

We empirically investigate the determinants of new firm formations on Slovenian data set for the 6-year period across statistical regions. Analyzed are the relationships of the determinants classified into five groups: demand, unemployment, industrial restructuring, local financial capital, and knowledge concentration. We find a positive and significant impact of GDP p.c., unemployment rate, productivity growth and a negative relationship for employment density. Results show that some regions have significantly worse conditions for start-up firms than others. Practical implications of this study would allow policy makers to better understand the dynamics in new firm formations.

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Color Vision Defects In School Going Children, R. K. Shrestha, M. R. Joshi, S. Shakya, R. Ghising Dec 2010

Color Vision Defects In School Going Children, R. K. Shrestha, M. R. Joshi, S. Shakya, R. Ghising

School of Health Professions

Introduction: Color Vision defect can be observed in various diseases of optic nerve and retina and also a significant number of people suffer from the inherited condition of red and green color defect. Methods: A cross-sectional descritptive study was designed with purposive sampling of students from various schools of Kathmandu Valley. All children were subjected to color vision evaluation using Ishihara Isochromatic color plates along with other examination to rule out any other causes of color deficiency. Results: A total of 2001 students were examined, 1050 male students and 951 females with mean age of 10.35 (±2.75) and 10.54 (±2.72) …

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ϒ(1s)→Γf'2(1525); F'2(1525)->K0sk0s Decays, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, T. Skwarnicki, S. Stone Dec 2010

ϒ(1s)→Γf'2(1525); F'2(1525)->K0sk0s Decays, Raymond Mountain, Marina Artuso, T. Skwarnicki, S. Stone

Physics - All Scholarship

We report on a study of exclusive radiative decays of the Upsilon(1S) resonance into a final state consisting of a photon and two K0s candidates. We find evidence for a signal for Upsilon(1S)->gamma f_2'(1525); f_2'(1525)->K0sK0s, at a rate (4.0+/-1.3+/-0.6)x10^{-5}, consistent with previous observations of Upsilon(1S)->gamma f_2'(1525); f_2'(1525)->K+K-, and isospin. Combining this branching fraction with existing branching fraction measurements of Upsilon(1S)->gamma f_2'(1525) and J/psi->gamma f_2'(1525), we obtain the ratio of branching fractions: B(Upsilon(1S)->gamma f_2'(1525))/B(J/psi->gamma f_2'(1525))=0.09+/-0.02, approximately consistent with expectations based on soft collinear effective theory.

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Analisis Formalin Dalam Sampel Ikan Dan Udang Segar Dari Pasar Muara Angke, Herman Suryadi, Maryati Kurniadi, Yuanki Melanie Dec 2010

Analisis Formalin Dalam Sampel Ikan Dan Udang Segar Dari Pasar Muara Angke, Herman Suryadi, Maryati Kurniadi, Yuanki Melanie

Majalah Ilmu Kefarmasian

The use of formalin as a food additive has been prohibited by the ministry of health as stipulated in The Indonesia Ministry of Health Regulations No.722/Menkes/Per/IV/88. However, in recent years the Indonesian authorities have found trace amounts of formalin as a preservative in perishable foods such as fish and shrimp. The aim of this research is to identify the use of formalin in fresh fish and shrimp samples sold in Muara Angke Market as the fresh seafood market in Jakarta. The first step of this research was formalin identification in fish and shrimp samples and continued by quantitative analysis to …

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Oracle And Multiple Robustness Properties Of Survey Calibration Estimator In Missing Response Problem, Kwun Chuen Gary Chan Dec 2010

Oracle And Multiple Robustness Properties Of Survey Calibration Estimator In Missing Response Problem, Kwun Chuen Gary Chan

UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series

In the presence of missing response, reweighting the complete case subsample by the inverse of nonmissing probability is both intuitive and easy to implement. However, inverse probability weighting is not efficient in general and is not robust against misspecification of the missing probability model. Calibration was developed by survey statisticians for improving efficiency of inverse probability weighting estimators when population totals of auxiliary variables are known and when inclusion probability is known by design. In missing data problem we can calibrate auxiliary variables in the complete case subsample to the full sample. However, the inclusion probability is unknown in general …

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