Дисертації з теми "NEWEST rice"

The way digital news are being created today is very different from traditional printed methods. The digital news format has possibilities that printed versions do not have. For example, they can use animations, video, audio, and interactivity, referred to with a collective name as rich content in this study. The problem is that there is little knowledge about rich content, how it is being used and the reasons for using it. By interviewing journalists and content creators, this study aims to answer the following questions: How can rich content help convey a digital news story to the reader in a more engaging way than traditional methods? How can rich content help widen the audience of digital news stories? Through semi-structured interviews, the author explored how rich content is used, and how people think when creating it. Ten employees at the media house Schibsted, all working at different Norwegian newspapers, participated to this study. The results indicate that rich content in digital news articles can help convey a news story’s main points by delivering complex things in an easy and understandable way. As a result, rich content seems to encourage more readers to finish the whole article. This study has also found that rich content can be used to widen the audience, since it can make the promotion of an article more interesting and make more people eager to share the article on their own social media accounts. Furthermore, targeting news articles towards different user groups could help widen the audience even further. Strengths and weaknesses are discussed, and the future work section show potential in further investigating how different user groups are affected by rich content, and what types of articles can benefit the most by using rich content.
Det sätt som digitala nyhetsartiklar skapas på idag skiljer sig mycket från traditionella tryckta metoder. Det digitala nyhets formatet har möjligheter som tryckta versioner inte har. Till exempel, användning av animationer, video, ljud och interaktivitet, som med ett kollektivt namn kallas för rich content i denna studie. Problemet är att det finns begränsad kunskap om rich content, hur det används och anledningarna till användning av det. Genom intervjuer med journalister och innehållsskapare har denna studies mål varit att besvara följande frågeställningar: Hur kan rich content hjälpa till att förmedla digitala nyheter till läsaren på ett mer engagerande sätt än traditionella metoder? Hur kan rich content hjälpa till med att bredda publiken av digitala nyheter? Genom semistrukturerade intervjuer undersökte författaren hur rich content används och hur de anställda tänker under skapandet av rich content. Tio anställda på mediehuset Schibsted, som alla arbetar vid olika norska tidningar, deltog till denna studie. Resultaten indikerar att rich content i digitala nyhetsartiklar kan hjälpa att förmedla en nyhets huvudbudskap genom att leverera komplexa saker på ett enkelt och mer förståeligt sätt. Resultaten visar på att rich content verkar uppmuntra fler läsare till att läsa klart hela artikeln. Denna studies resultat visar även att rich content kan användas till att bredda publiken, eftersom det kan göra marknadsföringen av en artikeln mer intressant och får fler människor att vilja dela artikeln på sina egna sociala medier. Vidare kan riktade nyhetsartiklar mot olika användargrupper hjälpa till att bredda publiken ytterligare. Eventuella styrkor och svagheter diskuteras och stycket framtida arbete visar potentiell vidare undersökning gällande hur olika användargrupper påverkas av rich content och vad för typ av artiklar som kan dra störst fördel av användning av rich content.

This thesis is a study of La Nacion, the largest circulating newspaper in Costa Rica. The purpose of this study is to examine whether claims made by La Nacion regarding their fairness and balance of news coverage are justified.

This thesis considers how fiscal and monetary policy should be conducted in resourcerich economies. It consists of three papers addressing: whether governments should spend, save or invest volatile oil income; the assets they should save in; and how monetary policy should respond. The first, “Eight principles for managing resource wealth”, shows that capital-scarce countries should save relatively less against oil price volatility, and invest more in domestic capital. They also should prepare for volatility in advance, and treat savings as a source of income rather than a temporary buffer. To show this the paper develops a framework that nests a variety of existing results, which are presented in eight principles. The second, “The Elephant in the Ground: Oil extraction and asset allocation in sovereign wealth funds”, shows that governments should use sovereign wealth funds to offset oil price risk, extract oil faster if its price is pro-cyclical, and use precautionary savings to manage any residual volatility. To do this it combines three strands of literature for the first time: on continuous-time portfolio theory, oil extraction and precautionary savings. The third, “Optimal monetary responses to oil discoveries”, addresses the anticipation effects around an oil discovery. It shows that the terms of trade will need to appreciate twice: once when oil is discovered and consumers anticipate future revenues; and again when the government begins spending the revenues. Oil wealth will give the monetary authority an incentive to appreciate the terms of trade, in addition to stabilising domestic inflation and the output gap. Optimal policy is well-approximated by a standard monetary rule that also responds to expected changes in the natural level of output.

This thesis investigated graph theoretic analysis of connectivity and habitat availability for landscape scale management of Triturus cristatus, the Great Crested Newt. The ecological foundations of wider landscape management concepts and knowledge base on T. cristatus' habitat requirements, dispersal and migration were explored. Species presence, and aquatic and terrestrial habitat on the Cholmondeley Estate, Malpas, Cheshire, UK was mapped and land cover characterized for suitability and traversibility by T. cristatus. Habitat area available and accessible from ponds were identified. Analysis and modelling of pondscape connectivity using Probability of Connectivity (PC) and related indices, was carried out using Euclidean and Cost Weighted Distance and pond clustering at ecologically relevant scales was examined. Association or correlation of presence with proximity to breeding ponds, pond cluster size, proximity and available quantity of terrestrial habitat, proximity to roads and moving water, and connectivity of breeding ponds were examined at Cost Weighted and Euclidean distances. Connectivity, (PC index), pond count in clusters at 250 and 500m thresholds of connectivity, and proximity to core habitat (broad leaved woodland and rough grassland) using Cost Weighted distances were positively associated with breeding presence. Road proximity and density, proximity of core habitat at Euclidean distances and mean inter-pond distance were not significantly associated with breeding presence. Proximity to moving water was negatively associated with breeding presence. Resistance to movement of various land cover types has important implications for habitat availability and connectivity, , / and important questions are raised in terms of "rule of thumb" guidelines for estimation of connectivity between pond populations and habitat availability around breeding ponds. Graph analysis was used to identify priority areas for maintenance of landscape level connectivity, and enhancement of habitat connectivity and availability on the local population scale, with prioritization of pond creation/protection sites against their contribution to connectivity and habitat I availability, examining various scenarios.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (February 8, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

Post financial crisis, economic and business news has generated conflicting narratives where, for example, bankers and corporate executives enjoy large salaries while ordinary people find their lifestyles under increasing pressure. Accordingly, the issues of income inequality, wealth and poverty have attracted increased scholarly attention. Citizens make sense of such issues via the media, and most often via TV news which is still the U.K’s primary news provider. Given that U.K broadcast media are bound by public service obligations, the intellectual puzzle addressed here is whether either side of the financial crisis (2007 and 2014), two TV news providers (BBC1 and ITV1) address financial news generally, and income inequality more specifically, in ways that serve all citizens. Large-scale content analyses are used to identify recurrent themes within economic, business and financial news, and stories containing elements of income inequality, poverty, wealth and the “squeezed middle”. To further explore how these issues are covered, typical cases are developed using critical discourse and multimodal analyses. The study finds that while economic and business news has increased and has been partially redefined by the crisis, income inequality is covered less in 2014 than in 2007, and since it is embedded within various news stories, the issue is not covered in ways helping citizens to make sense of causes and consequences. Despite indicators that “trickle down” economics is broken and that wealth remains concentrated among a few, even post-crisis, economic growth is presented as a universal solution to ease discomfort and inequality. Although coverage of business actors and corporations is often critical, the wider model of capitalism within which they operate remains unchallenged. In conclusion, despite the seismic financial events and normative expectations that they should discuss issues of social significance, because of institutional, economic and historic causal mechanisms, these channels do not provide any such critique.

My study has questioned recognized factors of news valuation in the context of Costa Rican newspapers, with the aim at getting greater understanding in how news are valued in Costa Rican newspapers and what factors contribute to making an event the main article of an issue. My research therefore is a snapshot at how the news valuation process is conducted in Costa Rica at the moment. I furthermore went on to do a quantitative content analysis containing five theories of factors of news valuation, that I have theorised myself as a result of my research containing recognized factors of news valuation.   The data has been selected through a random selection process, and then collected via the national library in San José, Costa Rica. I then went on to carry through a quantitative content analysis, containing 46 variables from recognized factors of news valuation and an additional five variables from my own theories, on the selected samples.   The variables in my analysis to a great extent tried questioning the theories of Judy McGregor, Henk Prakke, Håkan Hvitfelt and Galtung and Ruge.   The results show that some of the theories created by mentioned scholar do apply in the news valuation process in Costa Rican newspapers. It furthermore show that some factors, mentioned by the same scholar, to have great impact in the news valuation process does not at all impact the news value of an event in Costa Rican newspapers. This study shows that there is cultural and geographical differences in how events are valued as newsworthy or not, and that the factors that are acknowledged as determining of news value in one region or country, may in fact not at all apply in another part of the world.   The results of my own theories show that there are differences in what factors that affect the news valuation process. My theories state that there are other factors that affect news values and that there can be opposing factors depending on in what country/region/journalistic area the news are valued.

This diploma thesis describes how to create or convert traditional Java programs to desktop-like rich internet applications with the Google Web Toolkit. The Google Web Toolkit is an open source development environment, which translates Java code to browser and device independent HTML and JavaScript. Most of the GWT framework parts, including the Java to JavaScript compiler as well as important security issues of websites will be introduced. The famous Agricola board game will be implemented in the Model-View-Presenter pattern to show that complex user interfaces can be created with the Google Web Toolkit. The Google Web Toolkit framework will be compared with the JavaServer Faces one to find out which toolkit is the right one for the next web project
Diese Diplomarbeit beschreibt die Erzeugung desktopähnlicher Anwendungen mit dem Google Web Toolkit und die Umwandlung klassischer Java-Programme in diese. Das Google Web Toolkit ist eine Open-Source-Entwicklungsumgebung, die Java-Code in browserunabhängiges als auch in geräteübergreifendes HTML und JavaScript übersetzt. Vorgestellt wird der Großteil des GWT Frameworks inklusive des Java zu JavaScript-Compilers sowie wichtige Sicherheitsaspekte von Internetseiten. Um zu zeigen, dass auch komplizierte graphische Oberflächen mit dem Google Web Toolkit erzeugt werden können, wird das bekannte Brettspiel Agricola mittels Model-View-Presenter Designmuster implementiert. Zur Ermittlung der richtigen Technologie für das nächste Webprojekt findet ein Vergleich zwischen dem Google Web Toolkit und JavaServer Faces statt

• Trials of NEWEST rice are ongoing in Ghana and there is the need to carry out risk assessment on the GM rice before adoption and commercialisation. The objective of this project was to study farmer’s perception on NEWEST rice in Ghana. The likelihood and extent of gene flow between NERICA 4 and selected rice varieties in Ghana was also studied. • 150 farmers were surveyed across five major rice growing areas. To study the likelihood of gene flow, manual crossing was carried out by crossing NERICA 4 with NERICA 1, Togo Marshall, AgraRice, Amankwatia and Jasmine 85 and genotyped using SSR markers. The extent of gene flow was studied by planting NERICA 4, from NERICA 1, Togo Marshall, AgraRice, Amankwatia and Jasmine 85 at 2 m, 4 m, 6 m, 8 m, and 20 m in the field.• The survey found that 59 % of farmers were not aware of the existence of GM crops. 80 % of farmers were willing to adopt NEWEST rice because it is high yielding. Results of the manual crossing shows that all varieties crossed with NERICA 4 had a degree of success. The seed set ranged from 5- 37.5 %. Gene frequencies observed on the field was 14 % - 100 %. NERICA 4 alleles were found among all the varieties.• Ghanaian farmers are willing to adopt NEWEST rice due to its potential to increase yield. It is recommended that an isolation distance of 10 m from NEWEST rice should be maintained to prevent outcrossing.
Thesis (M.Bio.(PB)) -- University of Adelaide, Masters of Biotechnology (Plant Biotechnology), School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, 2016.

Title page, abstract and table of contents only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University of Adelaide Library.
Background: To boost local rice production in Ghana, to meet demand, there are plans to introduce transgenic rice. Confined Field Trials (CFTs) of rice lines transformed for Nitrogen-Use Efficiency, Water-Use efficiency and Salt Tolerance (“NEWEST” rice), are on-going. NEWEST rice is multi-stacked with genes that make the plant better utilize available nitrogen, water and bind to excess salt in the soil which restore saline soils over time. Perceived ecological risk such as gene flow to wild species is associated with the release of transgenic crops. In Ghana the presence of the wild rice (Oryza longistaminata) has been reported. It is important to know whether NEWEST transgenes will escape to wild rice through gene flow, and the consequences on the weediness of wild rice in the case of NEWEST transgenes escape to the wild rice. Methodology/key findings: In a survey of wild rice distribution in Ghana, we observed infestation of O. longistaminata in cultivated rice. The availability of nitrogen, water and salt was experimentally manipulated to determine their effect on the weediness of wild rice (O. longistaminata). The wild plants had a better growth with more access to water and nitrogen and were severely inhibited by salinity (p<0.05). Hand hybridization between cultivated rice and O. longistaminata was confirmed in this study with a success rate of 20 %. Gene flow frequency under field conditions was performed using 6 highly polymorphic SSR markers. We observed moderate gene flow under field conditions with an average of 10.17 migrants per generation. Significance/conclusion: NEWEST genes may have the potential to increase the weediness of O. longistaminata if incorporated. Gene flow between NEWEST and wild rice can occur, which may lead to improved tolerance in wild rice. Mitigation strategies should be put in place before NEWEST rice is introduced to prevent the risk of transgene escape.
Thesis (M.Bio.(PB)) -- University of Adelaide, Masters of Biotechnology (Plant Biotechnology), School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, 2016

碩士
國立政治大學
傳播學院碩士在職專班
101
Product placement in TV programs has become increasingly common in the two decades in Taiwan. Although it arouses huge controversies over media credibility and marketing values, up to date, there have been very limited empirical studies focusing on how journalists handling product placement messages, particularly in television news programs in which product placements were usually forbidden in use. Instead of using content that directly promotes the brand, product or service through traditional marketing tactics, product placement journalism focuses on building stories and other informational content that highlights value from a different point of view. The current study examined a unique program genre in Taiwan’s TV news programs, in which product placements are still in use. Based on in-depth interviewing, this study canl shed some light on how we define the boundaries of news and marketing information. Product placements are proven to be quite effective in television news programs. However, the effectiveness is built right on the cost of news credibility and integrity, which is ironically distinguishing product placement and advertising and is believed to be the magic power of product placement in news. Although companies that build trust with the content they produce can maintain their presence as reliable media sources for their audiences. The origins of the ethical problems and their implication for product placement research are explored.

碩士
真理大學
財務與精算學系碩士班
106
When making investment, stock investors tend to refer to numerous sources of information as indicators for stock selection. News is regarded as a crucial source of information. If investors can collect and analyze news to predict the rise and fall of stock prices, they can easily select the stocks to invest and the optimal time of investment. However, news is a type of unstructured information; unlike other types of data, the analysis and processing of the collected news are difficult. Applying R software to text mining can extract a large amount of information from financial news. The R software is used for collecting financial news and information related to stock markets, as well as for information processing, model construction, and data analysis, which can substantially reduce the required time. This study uses technical indicators and news keywords as characteristic values, which are input into four machine learning models to predict future stock returns.

碩士
國立中興大學
歷史學系所
102
The Central Cross-Island Highway ( the “ Central Highway ” ) is Taiwan’s first east-west highway spanning across Taiwan after World War II . Its initial importance lies in the connection of traffic between east and west Taiwan and the balanced development for different regions. Furthermore , it also comes with considerations of opening up critical passage for national defense , exploration of resources in mountainous area as well as accommodation for veterans of the national army . It took almost four years , from 1956 to 1960 , to complete the construction of this highway . Construction for the Central Highway in the early days was extremely difficult . Economies in the areas along this highway flourished with the opening of this passage . However , these areas were heavily devastated by natural disasters such as 921 earthquake and July 2nd flood . This situation is compounded by man-made disasters of excessive land exploitation from man-made development as well as disasters of fire . All these combined have jeopardized the road safety of the Central Highway . Even improvement or repair engineering conducted by the government does not completely live up to the expectations of protecting road utilization safety . This has led to never ending controversies over the need to rebuild or to seal off these areas , and then comes with concept of emphasis on co-existence with environment . Against this backdrop , an alternative traffic option for the Central Highway has been raised for the purpose of replacing functions of existing Central Highway . However , obviously there is no way to replace the Central Highway completely . Management and development in areas along the Central Highway has been transformed from the production of first tier industries of agriculture , animal husbandry , forestry and mining in the early days to the development of tourism and industry nowadays . Although this has increased local residents’ income and improved local hardware facilities , damage on environment from tourists pouring into these areas as well as environmental pollution from cement industry have all become difficult issues to be faced and resolved . With the rise of sports atmosphere ,experience events and sports events held by local communities have stimulate the participants and their families’ consumption in local communities . Furthermore , through the contact with natural beauties , people’s senses of natural environment as well as ecological protection have also been enhanced accordingly . This research utilizes “ Full Text Newspaper Database ” history materials derived from the “ Government Gazette ” and “ Joint Knowledge Database ” to study the building and the fall of the Central Highway , and how to rejuvenate local communities through transformation of functions . Last but not least , this paper hopes that everyone can have a new understanding of the Central Highway . With the perspective of sustained management and based on considerations of developing unique tourism resources in central and southern Taiwan as well as emphasis on ecological environment protection , it is hoped that the Central Highway will become a shining start again !