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Understanding agricultural knowledge management system is important for agricultural development because it can help to understand their indigenous knowledge, how to acquire, use and transfer their...

As one part of agricultural industry, sugar cane plantation is very important agricultural sector in many developing countries. In relation with rapid demand increasing of sugar government and non...

As a result of economic growth, development and increased consumption, waste generation has globally increased over the last decades. Although waste management has traditionally relied on disposal,...

The changes from traditional to modern production system from 1980 to 2002 are resulted due to interactions of various 'fields' such as economy, ecology, off-farm employment and politics that brought...

This book is an excellent addition in the field of plant biotechnology covering basic information about Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation. It covers current and future prspectivs...

The games industry is evolving and expanding very rapidly. New game hardware platforms from big vendors are frequently released in the hope of further expanding the market. Niche markets such as the...

Among the modern martial arts most often mentioned in relation to "spirituality" is the Japanese martial art aikido, created by Morihei Ueshiba (1883 -1969) in the 1940s. He described aikido as an...

This text presents the results of a comparative study of the development and enforcement of air pollution policies in three large Asian port cities: Singapore, Hong Kong and Dalian. It examines why...

Evaluation of advanced Air Traffic Management concepts is a challenging task due to the limitations in the existing scenario generation methodologies. Their rigorous evaluation on safety metrics, in...

The objective of this book is to introduce flight performance analysis of air vehicles, particularly heavier-than-air craft. It includes subjects such as maximum speed, absolute ceiling, rate of...

This study investigated new methods for allocating airport slots. The currently used and proposed systems have been reviewed and their advantages and disadvantages highlighted. A survey of airlines...

Al-Qaida's Quest for Weapons of Mass DestructionAuthor: Anne StenersenPublisher: VDM VerlagPublication Date: Dec 05, 2008Number of Pages: 116 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Living and working under the oppressive Soviet regime, Fr. Aleksandr Men managed to develop an extensive body of scholarly and pastoral work that established him as one of the most influential...

During recent decades, biopolymers have frequently been used as raw materials for the design of drug delivery formulations owing to their unique properties, such as non-toxicity, biocompatibility,...

The study of braid groups and their applications is a field which has attracted the interest of mathematicians and computer scientists alike. We begin with a review of the notion of a braid group. We...

This book focuses on the content and process of aligning business and manufacturing strategies, and the impact of the alignments on firm competitiveness. Based on empirical analyses of 384 companies,...

This manuscript will examine how the creation and production of innovative public art in Los Angeles (LA) might be cultivated through the concept of an "Alternative Arts Incubator" that blends the...

Perennial forages are always in short supply or low in quality during summer because of high temperatures that favor the growth of perennial grasses in the temperate regions such as Appalachian...

This book summarizes the how alternatively certified teachers reduce teacher shortages. A list of shortage-area subjects was matched to the numbers and types of certificates obtained by alternatively...

The present work is directed to the production of pure aluminium oxide (Al2O3), known as alumina, from the solid waste cake produced as a by - product from aluminium small factories using many of...

Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes are two devastating diseases that are expected to reach global epidemic proportions in the near future. Currently, treatments for them only provide limited...

American Onsen is a book that guides the reader to learn how to take the ancient art of mineral spring bathing and redevelop it into a spa structure that can be enjoyed by any Western consumer. By...

Amharic is the second largest language, next to Arabic, in terms of number of speakers with in the Semitic language family. This language of wider communication is an official or working language of...

Infection with herpes simplex virus (HSV) is the single most frequent cause of corneal opacities. Current available therapy for HSV keratitis involves the use of trifluorothymidine, idoxuridine and...

This book shows how phonetics in general and acoustic phonetics in particular can be used to diagnose different sorts of speech and voice disorders and suggests ways of remedy. It touches upon...

Aircraft noise prediction and control is one of the most urgent and challenging tasks worldwide. A hybrid approach is usually considered for predicting the aerodynamic noise. The approach separates...

Petroleum resources continue to be the main source of energy in today's civilization. It is important to predict petroleum production accurately in order to plan long-term energy management...

Conventional exchange rate models are based on the fundamental hypothesis that, in the long run, real exchange rates adjust in such a way as to make countries equally competitive, eliminating trade...

This book is based on the theoretical framework that third-person perceptions are largely influenced by motivational components and cognitive ability, which vary by perceivers (the self-based...

To give shape to a planned city a Master Plan was drawn up in 1961 for khulna city covering an area of 42,635 acres. All major assumptions of the Master Plan regarding population growth,...