Sentences with phrase «on plant productivity»

I think the briefest answer to the question would be yes, some positive impacts of increased CO2 on plant productivity are expected, but some negative impacts on vegetation are also expected, and many uncertainties remain concerning vegetation responses to increased CO2 and climate change.

With intermediate levels of biodiversity loss, the effect on plant productivity could be as bad as climate change.

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Not only will they have a dramatic effect on the mood and productivity of your employees, as well as on overall aesthetic impression in your offices, but plant waste can be used as an organic fertilizer.

Some firms also commented on additional measures to avoid forced job cuts at their plants, including work - share arrangements and greater efforts to boost productivity.

«The American standard of living, the productivity of the American economy and America's ability to compete in the global economy no longer rest exclusively, or even primarily, on natural resources, capital plants, access to financial capital, or population.

20 Apr 2018 — The food and beverage industry is embarking on its biggest transformation in decades, leveraging new technology to improve food quality, increase plant efficiency and boost productivity.

SIMBA's Automated Real - Time Solution for the Seafood Processor combines the latest technology with with a flexible solution that resides on your plant floor to increase productivity and eliminate keyed data entry without changing your established processes.

SIMBA's Automated Real - Time Solution for the Meat Packer combines the latest technology with with a flexible solution that resides on your plant floor to increase productivity and eliminate keyed data entry without changing your established processes.

Which wise government spending (see: investment in technology and other productivity - enhancing measures) can help that last bit, which is one reason I'm all in favor of spending on alternative energy research (I'm a little sick of sending hundreds of billions of dollars per year overseas for hydrocarbons; I'd rather employ Americans to maintain windfarms, solar plants, not - on - the - table - now - but - maybe - soon thorium reactors, etc.).

He said the aim of the government is to use the «Planting for Food and Jobs» programme to transform the agricultural sector; and this would be done by increasing productivity of the farm resources centred on small holding activities, to provide job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youth and to provide raw materials for the industrial sector.

In the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers found that these indirect effects explain, on average, 28 per cent of the total plant productivity response, and are almost equal to the size of direct effects on evapotranspiration (ET)-- the sum of evaporation and plant transpiration from the land to the atmosphere..

As a graduate student working on the mechanisms of photosynthetic enzymes, my Ph.D. advisor and I pondered how to increase plant productivity through genetic engineering.

The simulations suggested that the indirect effects of increased CO2 on net primary productivity (how much carbon dioxide vegetation takes in during photosynthesis minus how much carbon dioxide the plants release during respiration) are large and variable, ranging from less than 10 per cent to more than 100 per cent of the size of direct effects.

This global biological recordbased on daily observations of ocean algae and land plants from NASAs Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - View Sensor (SeaWiFS) missionwill enable scientists to study the fate of atmospheric carbon, terrestrial plant productivity and the health of the oceans food web.

The question of how photosynthetic efficiency is maintained affects plants on which humans depend, including crops and even forests, so answering this question has practical implications for improving agricultural productivity.

«With increasing average temperatures across the globe being predicted to have negative impacts on agricultural productivity, it is important to understand more about how plants regulate their growth,» said Associate Professor Balasubramanian, School of Biological Sciences, which was also echoed by Dr. Carlos Alonso Blanco, who co-lead the investigation at National Center of Biotechnology (CSIC) from Spain.

Throughout the experiment, they measured the effects of each species mix on three important salt marsh functions: overall grass growth (productivity); the rate of dead plant removal (decomposition); and how fast tidal or storm surge water percolated through the marsh (filtration).

Zelikova et al. studied the effects of elevated CO2 on grassland in in Wyoming over 8 years and found that the plant productivity stabilized over time.

On the other hand, ecosystem productivity had either regained or exceeded its normal level a year after a climate event, regardless of plant diversity, showing that biodiversity has no effect on ecosystem resilience, at least on annual timescaleOn the other hand, ecosystem productivity had either regained or exceeded its normal level a year after a climate event, regardless of plant diversity, showing that biodiversity has no effect on ecosystem resilience, at least on annual timescaleon ecosystem resilience, at least on annual timescaleon annual timescales.

Using detailed production data from a half - million Chinese manufacturing plants in the period 1998 - 2007, the research team estimated the effects of temperature on firm - level productivity, factor inputs and output.

PULLMAN — Washington State University scientists conducting research on plants and animals are among the most productive in the nation, according to a survey measuring faculty scholarly productivity published recently in The Chronicle for Higher Education.

I worked with the person responsible for Kaizen [productivity improvement] activities within the plant, and the idea went on to a national Kaizen competition.

The Volvo Car Corporation plant in Ghent, Belgium, received the prestigious Japanese «Productive Maintenance Excellence Prize» for its successful work on streamlining quality and productivity.

Terrestrial palaeoclimate reconstructions based on botanical proxies (pollen and seed productivity, stomatal frequency) do not account for plant physiological response to low atmospheric CO2 levels.

There are more herbivores and creatures that parasitise other animals, but the detritivores — the creatures that consume carrion, excrement and decomposing plants — seem to be on the way down, with, the scientists say, potential implications for key ecosystem processes such as decomposition, nutrient cycling and primary productivity.

And it was recognized those actions were a crap shoot (Where good science and policy goes bad: de-salinization plants in Oz rather than managing episodic flooding, drilling 20,000 ′ below a seafloor 5,000 ′ under a precious biosphere to seek oil that is abundantl available on dry land, for examples), but can anyone name a project of doubt on the scale of this one where unspeakable trillions are to be spent, redistributed, productivity disincentized, where people's lives across the world will be thrown into uncertainty, where this trans - generational mindset will, by design, crush the willful and spirited energy and creativity of human kind until it is finally overthrown democratically or otherwise?

What affect would reducing CO2 levels to preindustrial levels have on global plant productivity?

The plant will use outdated technology and as a result will be a coal plant with disproportionate emissions, impacts on human health, water availability, and agricultural productivity in an age when any new coal plant can not compete economically with renewable energy and is a climate crime.

However, dry - spell duration and warming trend effects on vegetation productivity may be at least partly offset by rising atmospheric CO2 effects on plants (Bachelet et al., 2001; Thuiller et al., 2006b), leading to sometimes contrasting projections for deserts that are based on different modelling techniques that either incorporate or ignore CO2 - fertilisation effects.

Preserving the biological productivity of highly erodible cropland depends on planting it in grass or trees before it becomes wasteland.

BCDR depends on increasing and / or utilizing plant productivity, and most strategies require land of at least moderate fertility (except degraded land restoration).

Matt Yglesias points us to a new study, which finds that pollution reduces working productivity — and acts as a drag on the economy: We already know that emissions from coal plants and factories cause hundreds of billions of dollars of damage to the economy annually, in the form of health care costs (not to mention causing tens of thousands of deaths, respiratory illnesses, missed school and work days, and so forth).

Herbicides can no longer control the weeds that threaten crop productivity and food security in the UK because the plants have evolved resistance, and future control must depend on management strategies that reduce reliance on chemicals.

A potential system failure in your plant or business can have disastrous effects on your productivity and operations.

Career Objective: As an experienced individual in product development and engineering, I now seek for a position of a plant utilities engineer to handle entire productivity operations on the plant and ensure minimal or zero breakdown.

Recently implemented TBWS (Team Based work system) on the shop - floor through out the global plants Currently working on increasing the productivity and lowering the costs by introducing smart automation concept in the old plants.

Advised sales force regarding all aspects of printing and filing requirements., 1998 - 2004 RCI GROUP, INC., New York, NY, Customer Service Representative and Print Production Manager, 1996 - 1998 NEW YORK PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY, New York, NY, Lead Plant Foreman, • Supervised press room staff consisting of 27 union employees., • Negotiated aspects of collective bargaining agreements., • Coordinated daily with plant and operations managers on all production schedules., • Purchased all supplies required to meet project specifications., • Monitored press room personnel to guarantee consistent maintenance of equipment., • Negotiated vendor and supplier contracts., • Developed internal systems and policies to increase productivity, increase profitability, and decrease waste., 1994 - 1996 BOWNE OF NEW YORK, New York, NY, Senior Customer Service Representative, 1987 - 1994 MERRILL CORPORATION, New York, NY, CORPORATE PRINTING COMPANY (acquired by Merrill Corporation in 1993), Senior Customer Service Representative, 1984 - 1987 PANDICK TECHNOLOGIES, New York, NY, Facilities Management Analyst, • Wrote business plan for start - up company that was subsequently sold to Pitney Bowes for $ 100, 000,Plant Foreman, • Supervised press room staff consisting of 27 union employees., • Negotiated aspects of collective bargaining agreements., • Coordinated daily with plant and operations managers on all production schedules., • Purchased all supplies required to meet project specifications., • Monitored press room personnel to guarantee consistent maintenance of equipment., • Negotiated vendor and supplier contracts., • Developed internal systems and policies to increase productivity, increase profitability, and decrease waste., 1994 - 1996 BOWNE OF NEW YORK, New York, NY, Senior Customer Service Representative, 1987 - 1994 MERRILL CORPORATION, New York, NY, CORPORATE PRINTING COMPANY (acquired by Merrill Corporation in 1993), Senior Customer Service Representative, 1984 - 1987 PANDICK TECHNOLOGIES, New York, NY, Facilities Management Analyst, • Wrote business plan for start - up company that was subsequently sold to Pitney Bowes for $ 100, 000,plant and operations managers on all production schedules., • Purchased all supplies required to meet project specifications., • Monitored press room personnel to guarantee consistent maintenance of equipment., • Negotiated vendor and supplier contracts., • Developed internal systems and policies to increase productivity, increase profitability, and decrease waste., 1994 - 1996 BOWNE OF NEW YORK, New York, NY, Senior Customer Service Representative, 1987 - 1994 MERRILL CORPORATION, New York, NY, CORPORATE PRINTING COMPANY (acquired by Merrill Corporation in 1993), Senior Customer Service Representative, 1984 - 1987 PANDICK TECHNOLOGIES, New York, NY, Facilities Management Analyst, • Wrote business plan for start - up company that was subsequently sold to Pitney Bowes for $ 100, 000, 000.

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