INCREASED MARKET INTEGRATION, VALUE, AND ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE OF TEA AGROFORESTS IN THE AKHA HIGHLANDS OF SOUTHWEST CHINA

Increased Market Integration, Value, and Ecological Knowledge of Tea Agroforests in the Akha Highlands of Southwest China

This study assesses the persistence and change of traditional land use patterns and ecological knowledge in response to expanded commercialization of tea (Camellia sinensis var.assamica (L.) Kuntze Theaceae in an indigenous Akha (Hani) community in the midlevel montane forests of southwest Yunnan, China.Surveys were conducted in 2005 and 2008, over

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Sizing Procedure of Reactive Electric Spring

Reactive electric spring (RES) is a technique aimed at stabilizing the user voltage in presence of grid voltage variations by means of a user-encapsulated circuit.In spite Exfoliator of the numerous papers on the matter, no expressions are still available to size the RES elements.This paper fills this lack, by drawing up a sizing procedure of them.

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Generation of Melodies for the Lost Chant of the Mozarabic Rite

Prior to the establishment of the Roman rite with its Gregorian chant, in the Iberian Shotgun Cleaning Kit Peninsula and Southern France the Mozarabic rite, with its own tradition of chant, was dominant from the sixth until the eleventh century.Few of these chants are preserved in pitch readable notation and thousands exist only in manuscripts usin

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Infection may play an important role in the pathogenesis of alveolar osteonecrosis following facial herpes zoster: a case report and literature review

Abstract Background Herpes zoster (HZ) is one of the most common skin diseases caused by viruses.Facial HZ develops when the varicella-zoster virus affects the trigeminal nerve, and alveolar osteonecrosis is a rare complication.However, the exact pathogenesis of postherpetic alveolar osteonecrosis remains unclear.Case description We encountered a p

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