Humans have significantly altered the redistribution of water in intensively managed hydrologic systems, shifting the spatiotemporal patterns of surface water. Evaluating water availability requires integration of hydrologic processes and associated human influences. In this study, we summarize the development and evaluation of an extensible hydrologic model that explicitly integrates water rig...

The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the quality characteristics, chemical composition lipid profile lamb meat from Italian (Biellese Sambucana) German (Texel-Merino-Blackhead-Charollais [TMBC]) breeds reared in extensive semi-extensive production systems. Meat samples 89 animals were analysed. lambs semi-intensively Biellese, extensively Sambucana TMBC produced lean meat, with sli...

background: the performance and parasitology of semi-intensively managed west african dwarf (wad) lambs were evaluated following exposure to gastrointestinal helminth infected paddock and varied protein-energy feeds. methods: twenty four lambs obtained from the department of animal breeding and genetics and brought to directorate of university farm (dufarm) of federal university of agriculture ...

This study was designed to compare the meat quality traits in Muscovy ducks raised under extensive and semi-intensive management systems. Nine female birds from each system were randomly selected slaughtered at 18 wk of age. Meat samples obtained both breast (Pectoralis major) thigh (Biceps femoris) meats analyzed for physicochemical (color, pH, water holding capacity, cooking loss, proximate a...

Use-wear analysis of five glossed flint blades found at Ohalo II, a 23,000-years-old fisher-hunter-gatherers' camp on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, Northern Israel, provides the earliest evidence for the use of composite cereal harvesting tools. The wear traces indicate that tools were used for harvesting near-ripe semi-green wild cereals, shortly before grains are ripe and disperse naturall...

This paper presents the framework of our intelligent video production, which has functions for multimodal data acquisition, accumulation to a database, and intelligent video editing. Since multimodal approach is most e ective and promising for semi-/automatic video production, we rst developed a prototype of multimodal acquisition system and database in which human behaviors are recorded in a m...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and micro air vehicles (MAV) are already intensively used in geodetic applications. State of the art autonomous systems are however geared towards the application area in safe and obstacle-free altitudes greater than 30 meters. Applications at lower altitudes still require a human pilot. A new application field will be the reconstruction of structures and building...