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The impact of sedimentation and climate variability on the hydrological status of Lake Hawassa, South Ethiopia
Belete, Mulugeta Dadi (2013-12-16)Lake Hawassa is a topographically closed lake in the Central Main Ethiopian Rift Valley. The water level of this lake has been rising significantly with an average rate of 4.9 cm/year over the study period (1970-2010). The ... -
The Impact of Sensor Characteristics and Data Availability on Remote Sensing Based Change Detection
Thonfeld, Frank (2014-12-04)Land cover and land use change are among the major drivers of global change. In a time of mounting challenges for sustainable living on our planet any research benefits from interdisciplinary collaborations to gain an ... -
The impact of socio-economic development and climate change on livestock management in Benin
Gruber, Ina (2008)Livestock management is a rapidly changing sector in developing countries due to increasing demand for animal products and changes in the availability of common resources. Moreover, livestock management is important as it ... -
The impact of soil water distribution on root development and root water uptake of winter wheat
Cai, Gaochao (2018-04-10)Root water uptake (RWU) is a key process in the root zone that determines water movement from the soil into roots and transport to the atmosphere via plant leaves. Different RWU models were developed with different assumptions ... -
Impact of spatial correlations on the surface estimation based on terrestrial laser scanning
Jurek, Tobias; Kuhlmann, Heiner; Holst, Christoph (2017-07-19)In terms of high precision requested deformation analyses, evaluating laser scan data requires the exact knowledge of the functional and stochastic model. If this is not given, a parameter estimation leads to insufficient ... -
The impact of the European Union on national legislation
Raunio, Tapio; Wiberg, Matti (2017)Eines der Schlüsselargumente der Brexit-Befürworter bei dem Referendum vom Juni 2016 war, dass 60 bis 75 Prozent der britischen Gesetzgebung ihren Ursprung in Brüssel hat und nicht in London. Eine Untersuchung des Einflusses ... -
Impact of the lack of cross-presenting dendritic cells on the generation of inflammatory immune responses in experimental Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection and therapeutic possibilities to limit excessive brain inflammation with doxycycline
Küpper, Janina Melanie (2017-07-21)Malaria is a vector-transmitted disease caused by unicellular parasites of the <em>Plasmodium</em> species and resulted in over 400,000 deaths in 2015, most of them in African children below the age of five. <em>Plasmodium</em> ... -
The impact of the spectral dimension of hyperspectral datasets on plant disease detection
Mewes, Thorsten (2011-04-04)Precision Agriculture as an information based approach requires explicit spatial information about the within field heterogeneities for site-specific applications. Thus, the usage of cost-intensive agrochemicals and the ... -
The impact of tides and mass transfer on the evolution of metal-poor massive binary stars
Marchant Campos, Pablo (2018-05-24)Stars more massive than 10Msun , although few in number compared to objects like our sun, play a very large role in the evolution of the universe. Through strong winds and supernovae they enrich the interstellar medium ... -
The impact on meat quality of strategies to improve feed conversion efficiency in pigs and the functional networks underpinning the relationship
Horodyska, Justyna (2018-09-20)Feed efficiency (FE) is defined as a measure of efficiency in converting metabolizable energy acquired from macronutrients into body mass. The overall aims of this thesis were to identify genomic regions associated with ... -
Impacts of adaptation to climate change on farmers’ income in the Savana region of Togo
Mikémina, Pilo; Gerber, Nicolas; Wünscher, Tobias (2018-03)West African farmers are among those most likely to suffer from climate change, partly due to the agro-climatic characteristics of the regional system and to their limited scope for coping with shocks. Climate change ... -
Impacts of agricultural mechanization: Evidence from four African countries
Daum, Thomas; Adegbola, Ygué P.; Kamau, Geoffrey M.; Kergna, Alpha O.; Daudu, Christogonus; Zossou, Roch C.; Crinot, Géraud F.; Houssou, Paul; Mose, Lawrence; Ndirpaya, Yarama; Wahab, A. A.; Kirui, Oliver K.; Fatunbi, Oluwole A. (2020-06)Agricultural mechanization is on the rise in Africa. A widespread replacement of manual labor will change the face of African agriculture. Despite this potentially transformative role, only few studies have looked at the ... -
Impacts of Climate Change and Land-use Change on the Water Resources of the Upper Kharun Catchment, Chhattisgarh, India
Kumar, Navneet (2014-12-10)The Upper Kharun Catchment (UKC) is one of the most important, economically sound and highly populated watersheds of Chhattisgarh state in India. It covers diverse land use types: urban, rural, agricultural, forest and ... -
Impacts of community health insurance schemes on health care provision in rural Tanzania
Msuya, John M.; Jütting, Johannes P.; Asfaw, Abay (2004-01)In 1996 the Tanzanian government initiated community health insurance schemes to improve the access to health care and to protect people against the financial cost of illness in an environment with shrinking budgets for ... -
Impacts of European biofuel policies on global biofuel and agricultural markets
Becker, Arno (2011-10-13)The strong increase of global biofuel markets within the last years has led to a continuous increase of biofuel feedstock demand. Due to the current state of biofuel production technologies primarily traditional agricultural ... -
Impacts of mothers’ time on children’s diets
Saleemi, Sundus; Bubune Letsa, Crystal; Owusu-Authur, Johnny; Mohammed, Abubakri; Baah-Tuahene, Sylvia; Yeboah, Marilyn; Omari, Rose (2024-01)This paper provides insights into how variances in time spent by mothers in home production (i.e., domestic and care work) impact children’s diets. We test the hypothesis that a decrease in the time spent by mothers in ... -
Impacts of Rural-urban Migration on Demographic Transition, Human Capital Investment and Agricultural Productivity in China’s Rural Areas
Zhang, Yi (2015-07-21)This dissertation focuses on the impacts of rural-urban migration on the rural areas in China. It consists of five chapters. <br /> The first chapter introduces the research problems and presents the framework for studying ... -
Impacts of supermarkets on child nutrition in China
Liu, Zhen; Kornher, Lukas; Qaim, Matin (2023-06)In many developing countries, food environments are changing rapidly. One emblematic trend is the proliferation of supermarkets and other modern retailers. While changing food environments likely influence the types of ... -
Impacts of the expansion of aquaculture on global agricultural markets and land use change
Chang, Chiao-Ya (2022-02-14)Aquaculture is one of the most rapidly growing food producing sectors. It has the potential to meet future seafood demand from a growing global population. However, the expansion of aquaculture has led to a continuous ... -
Impaired synaptic plasticity in a rat model of tuberous sclerosis
von der Brelie, Christian (2007)Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a common hereditary disorder caused by mutations in either the TSC1 or TSC2 genes, and characterized by severe epilepsy, cerebral hamartomas and mental retardation. We have used rats ...