Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries topic list of research papers
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Analysis of Potential Relationships between Functional Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment
Abstract The design of products with environmental considerations is a global strategy based on life cycle thinking. All stages of the design process should take into account environmental considerations in order to face the environmental challenge. ...
2015 / Paulina Rodriguez Moreno, Serge Rohmer, Hwong-Wen Ma -
Assessing the drain estuaries’ water quality in response to pollution abatement
Abstract To assess 12 years of pollution abatement efforts in all drain estuaries in Northern Egypt, which discharge to Northern Lakes and the Mediterranean Sea, this paper provides temporal trends in water quality indices from 2002 to 2013. For the ...
2015 / Alaa Farouk Abukila -
Local Initiatives to Link Farmers to Markets in Upland Laos2006 / Joost Foppes, Souvanpheng Phommasane
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Impact of Organic Load Shock on the Dynamic Transition of Microbial Communities During the Anaerobic Start-up Process
Abstract This study investigated the shifts of bacterial and archaea diversity suffering the organic load shocks during the start-up. To demonstrate the effects of organic load shock, six reactors was operated in different OLR for 31 days. The...
2015 / Jie Li, Yiying Jin, Jiwei Ren, Wanbin Zhu -
Controlling salt and aroma perception through the inclusion of air fillers
Abstract Global dietary sodium consumption significantly exceeds the WHO recommended intake levels, although strategies are available for sodium reduction, most are partial product-specific solutions. A wider range of approaches is urgently required ...
2015 / Natalie Chiu, Louise Hewson, Ni Yang, Robert Linforth, Ian Fisk -
Thermal Environment Regulating Effects of Phase Change Material in Chinese Style Solar Greenhouse
Abstract Phase change material (PCM) can store and release heat within a certain temperature range during the phase transitions. Compared with sensible heat material, latent heat phase change material (PCM) is very attractive, because of its...
2015 / Liguo Li, Yuxin Wang, Wei Ren, Shuang Liu -
The Comparison of the Calculation of the Volume of the Foundation Pit
Abstract The realization of the earthwork represents a large part of the cost of construction works. Therefore, it is very important to determine the volume of the earthwork as accurately as possible. There are many ways how to determine its value....
2014 / Jaroslav Šíma, Anna Seidlová -
Wpływ występujących w piwie związków polifenolowych na organizm – przegląd literatury
Abstract The long term health consequences of alcoholic beverage drinking are related primarily to the unfavourable influence of ethyl alcohol on the organism, which contributes to an increased risk of the development of various diseases. It is...
2015 / Aleksandra Kołota, Michał Oczkowski, Joanna Gromadzka-Ostrowska -
The Reduction of Aerobic Bacterial Counts of Bovine Milk as Influenced by Heat-treatments at Pasteurisation Temperatures
Abstract A number of experiments were conducted to evaluate the bacterial reduction of milk as influenced by the heat treatments at pasteurisation temperature (72°C for 15 s) considering the Indonesian Standard for raw milk values. The milk samples...
2015 / Setya Budi Muhammad Abduh, Bhakti Etza Setiani -
Husk Detection Using Thermal Imaging Technology
Abstract Harvested paddy normally contains impurities including husk. This study focuses on the use of thermal imaging to detect husk. Heating and cooling treatment was applied to 20%, 40%, 60%, 100% husk and 100% seed to differentiate between husk...
2014 / Norazlida Jamil, Siti Khairunniza Bejo -
Manurial Effect of Wood Ash and Refuse Tea on Nutrient Status and Yield of Tea (Camellia Sinensis L.)
Abstract A field experiment was carried out to determine the effects of wood ash and refuse tea with urea on yield and nutrient status of tea. Experimental plots were located in the St Coombs Estate, Tea Research Institute, Talawakelle, Sri Lanka....
2016 / L.H.M.G. Gunathilaka, G.P. Gunarathne, L.P. Vidhana Arachchi -
Intelligent Environmental Scanning Approach (A Case Study: The Egyptian Wheat Crop Production)
Abstract Policy/decision makers need to an intelligent, robust and more confidence mechanism to help them to analysis the futures impacts and overcome the future high uncertainty and complexity. Also, all environmental scanning and analysis methods...
2014 / Ahmed Mohamed Omran, Motaz Khorshid -
Monitoring of Cargo Transport in Urban Areas Using GPS/EGNOS Technologies as Part of the Safety System
Abstract Safety in the transport of goods in cities much depends on the choice of route and monitoring of heavy vehicles in urban areas. When a passage route has been selected, the transport firm must have control over the driver's performance. This ...
2014 / Andrzej Banachowicz, Ryszard Bober, Tomasz Szewczuk, Adam Wolski -
Utilization of Vetiveria Zizaniodes (L.) Nash Leaves in Ganoderma Lucidum Cultivated
Abstract The aim of this reserch were investigate the substitution of sawdust with Vetiveria zizaniodes (L.)Nash, Sri Langka cultivar on the media in mycelia growth of Ganoderma lucidum in plastic bag. The suitable three media from eleven formulas...
2014 / R. Sornprasert, S. Aroonsrimorakot -
An “all-in-one” solution for simultaneous spoligotyping and drug resistance gene analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: TB-SPRINT and TB-SPRINTplus
Abstract The aim of this study is to develop an innovative and alternative nucleic acid-based method for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) diagnostics, such as the Cepheid GeneXPert or the ...
2015 / M.K. Gomgnimbou, B.J. Klotoe, B. Molina, J. Dominguez, G. Refrégier, et al. -
Assessment of fire protection systems in proscenium theaters
Abstract Stage fire protection measures, details differing from one region to another, have been established, codified and enforced throughout the world and have changed little over the past 100years. Technological advancements in both stagecraft...
2014 / Jaewook Kwon -
Scale Controlling Chemical Additives for Phosphoric Acid Production Plants
Abstract During the past two years, Cytec Industries has successfully developed and demonstrated an antiscalant technology that substantially reduces the fouling issue that remains a perennial problem in wet-process phosphoric acid production...
2014 / John Carr, Lei Zhang, Matthew Davis, S.A. Ravishankar, Greg Flieg -
Sulfated Zirconia Catalyst for Hydrolysis of Palm Oil Lignocellulosic Wastes
Abstract The waste plant materials remaining from palm oil extraction consist of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. They are potential sources of cellulose, which can be used as raw material for production of fermentable sugar. In this study, a...
2015 / Anis Kristiani, Kiky Corneliasari Sembiring, Fauzan Aulia, Haznan Abimanyu -
Reactor-regenerator System Joint Work Optimization in Benzene Alkylation with Higher Olefins Unit
Abstract The work has been carried out to provide smooth operation of “reactor-regenerator” system as an important step in the problem of synthetic detergents production efficiency enhancing. Reasons which cause violation of HF-catalyst regeneration ...
2014 / Irena Dolganova, Igor Dolganov, Emiliya Ivanchina, Elena Ivashkina, Nataliya Belinskaya, et al. -
Comparison Study of Two Different Isolation and Purification Method for Rice Tungro Bacilliform Virus (RTBV)
Abstract This paper studies two different virus purification methods for rice tungro bacilliform virus. In the first method, infected samples were extracted using liquid nitrogen with mixture of 10% Cellulases whereas the second method used...
2014 / M.N.A. Uda, C.M. Hasfalina, A.A. Samsuzana, S. Faridah, I. Zamri, et al.