Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries topic list of research papers
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The Influence of Ownership on the Sustainable Use of Product-service Systems - A Literature Review
Abstract The evolution towards sustainable product service systems introduces a new relationship between product and user in PSS, where we see that the user no longer is the legal owner of the product. This article reports upon an exploration of the ...
2016 / Klara Demyttenaere, Ivo Dewit, Alexis Jacoby -
Microbiological Study of the Anaerobic Digestion of Sludge from the Purifying Plant Wastewater from the City of Touggourt, Southeast of Algeria
Abstract Exploration anddevelopment of newenergy sources havebeen undertakenincludingbiomassenergyspecificallybiogas. Thisform of renewableenergywidelyavailable, inexpensiveand non-pollutingisused to supplementthenon-renewablefossil fuels....
2015 / SIBOUKEUR Hicham, TOUZI Abdelkader, YOUCEFI Amina, OULD ELHADJ Mohamed Didi -
Biophysical Monitoring on the Effect on Different Composition of Goat and Cow Manure on the Growth Response of Maize to Support Sustainability
Abstract Currently Indonesia has targeted to satisfy the national demand of maize by fulfilling its own production. The policy will benefit the social economy of the local farmers and communities and create a variety of jobs. Attempts in fulfilling...
2016 / Yuda C. Hariadi, Arry Y. Nurhayati, P. Hariyani -
Tourism-induced disturbance of wildlife in protected areas: A case study of free ranging elephants in Sri Lanka
Abstract Tourism-induced disturbance is a growing concern in wildlife conservation worldwide. This case study in a key protected area in Sri Lanka, examined the behavioral changes of Asian elephants in the context of elephant watching tourism...
2015 / Eranga Ranaweerage, Ashoka D.G. Ranjeewa, Koun Sugimoto -
Development of Partial Oxy-combustion Technology: Design, Commissioning and Experimental Program in a Pilot Plant
Abstract Post-combustion and oxy-combustion are considered as most relevant Carbon Capture and Storage technologies (CCS) to be applied in mid-term in from fossil-fuels power plants. However, solvent regeneration, high-purity O2 production and...
2014 / Fernando Vega, Benito Navarrete, Bernabé Alonso-Fariñas, Mónica Rodríguez -
Nutrition Security in Sri Lanka2016 / K.D.C.E. Liyanage
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Following Mothers to the Wet Market: The Significant Benefits Gain by Young Generations
Abstract Fewer youngsters are seen in the wet markets with their mothers to purchase raw materials. This study attempts to identify and rectify the quality that youngsters may increase when following their mothers. An ethnographic method was...
2015 / Mohd Shazali Md. Sharif, Norazmir Md Nor, Mohd Salehuddin Mohd Zahari, Rosmaliza Muhammad -
Evolution of Architectonic Spatial Environment in Latvian Rural Populated Areas Due to Natural and Human Interaction
Abstract The natural environment of the Baltic Sea coast became the life habitat of people who settled there. By changing the water and greenery systems and creating architectural structures a new functional environment was established. Nature...
2015 / Silvija Ozola -
Digitalis toxicity: ECG vignette
Abstract “Digitalis toxicity, often candidly indexed as poisoning, has plagued the medical profession for over 200 years. The situation qualifies as a professional disgrace on the basis of three items: the situation persists, physicians are often...
2016 / Aniruddha Vyas, Neeta Bachani, Hrishikesh Thakur, Yash Lokhandwala -
Thermographic Mapping of a Complex Vernacular Settlement: The Case Study of Casalnuovo District within the Sassi of Matera (Italy)
Abstract The research focuses on an abandoned area within the Casalnuovo District, situated in the south of the city, probably the place of the future Demoethnoanthropological Museum. It is known today that the particular shape of the area is made...
2015 / Tiziana Cardinale, Alessandro Balestra, Nicola Cardinale -
The Contribution of the ITACA Protocol in the Control of the Environmental Quality in Residential Buildings and the Subsequent Contribution to the Adaptation to Climatic Change
Abstract During the last years the aim to reduce environmental impacts in the building sector has led to the development of assessment methods called protocols, to certify the sustainable quality of the building, such as the ITACA Protocol. In the...
2015 / Paolo Principi, Silvia Catalino, Roberto Fioretti -
Arable Crop Disease Control, Environmental Change and Food Security
Abstract Crop diseases cause yield losses, yet crop productivity needs to increase by > 70% over the next 35 years to accommodate population growth and changing dietary preferences1. Crop plants and pathogens interact in response to changes in...
2015 / Bruce Fitt, Aiming Qi, Fay Newbery -
Mineralogical Assessment Regarding the Sustainability of Mortars Exposed to Sodium Sulfate Attack
Abstract The paper presents the mineralogical analysis in XRD and thin sections of three types of mortars, before and after immersion in a salty solution of sodium sulphate decahydrate (Na2SO4•10H2O). The proposal of the study it was to identify the ...
2016 / Anca-Andreea Balog, Nicoleta Cobîrzan, Ramona-Crina Suciu, Emilia Moşonyi, Claudiu Aciu -
Application of Principal Component Analysis for Outlier Detection in Heterogeneous Traffic Data
Abstract Level-of-service (LOS) measures of two-lane highways exhibit incompatibility if the prevailing traffic is heterogeneous in character. Thus, such traffic warrants development of LOS criteria on the basis of compatible measures which capture...
2016 / Pritam Saha, Nabanita Roy, Deotima Mukherjee, Ashoke Kumar Sarkar -
A Composite Index to Measure the Italian “Enological Vocation”
Abstract The Italian wine industry is going through, during a general economic crisis, a period of strong growth and expansion in the world markets. The quality of products, characterized by tradition and innovation, has defeated the involution of...
2016 / Massimo Greco, Matteo Mazziotta, Adriano Pareto -
Women Included Engineering Education in Korea
Abstract Women in engineering subject were developed for women included engineering education in Korea. Women in the predominantly male-oriented college of engineering which is afflicted by the high dropout rate and the low employment rate of coeds...
2015 / Jong-Tae Youn, Song-Ah Choi -
Improving the objectivity of sustainability indices by a novel approach for combining contrasting effects: Happy Planet Index revisited
Abstract Measuring complex and rather intuitive qualities such as sustainability requires combining many different measures together. These measures often quantify contrasting effects. The resulting composite index then also depends not only on the...
2016 / Julia Bondarchik, Matylda Jabłońska-Sabuka, Lassi Linnanen, Tuomo Kauranne -
Feasibility Study of Fe-ti based Oxygen Carriers for Chemical Looping Combustion
Abstract The reactivity and high fuel conversion efficiency of metal oxide as oxygen carrier are two of the most important functions that can be research in order to make chemical looping combustion (CLC) a reality. In this study, oxygen carriers of ...
2015 / Yu-Cheng Liu, Young Ku, Yao-Hsuan Tseng, Yu-Lin Kuo -
Monitoring Protocol to Assess the Overall Performance of Lighting and Daylighting Retrofit Projects
Abstract In the field of lighting and daylighting, standard monitoring procedures to assess the overall performance of retrofit projects are scarce. Nevertheless the access to monitored data is crucial to assess whether daylighting or electric...
2015 / Niko Gentile, Marie-Claude Dubois, Werner Osterhaus, Sophie Stoffer, Cláudia Naves David Amorim, et al. -
Self and Non-self Discrimination Affects the Seedlings Development of Different Kinship Degrees Under Water Deficit
Abstract The strategy adopted by plants for exploit environments with low moisture may depend on the neighbor's identity. Roots of the plants have the ability to discriminate self (roots of the same plant) of non-self (roots of other plants), even...
2015 / S.C. Bertolli, G.M. Souza