Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries topic list of research papers
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Urban governance and urban food systems in Africa: Examining the linkages
Abstract Urban food systems have increasingly been recognised as a topic that needs to be better understood, in order to address issues of urban food security and urban poverty. This is particularly so in Africa, which has high rates of urban...
2016 / Warren Smit -
Towards a New Integrated Spatial Decision Support System in Urban Context
Abstract The current growth of urbanization rate indicates that this trend is not going to stop, and therefore, it stresses the necessity of actions for mitigating the local and global pollution. Moreover, most of the actual stock is characterized...
2016 / Sara Torabi Moghadam, Chiara Delmastro, Patrizia Lombardi, Stefano P. Corgnati -
Traditional ecological knowledge in Thailand: Mechanisms and contributions to food security
Abstract Despite worldwide advances in science and technology, human well-being of the rich and poor has been threatened by food insecurity. Due to socio-economic and environmental pressures on agriculture, developing countries have faced a shortage ...
2016 / Ekarin Phungpracha, Kulvadee Kansuntisukmongkon, Opart Panya -
Síndrome de descompresión pericárdica: una entidad poco frecuente
Resumen El síndrome de descompresión pericárdica es una complicación poco frecuente, que puede presentarse posterior al drenaje del pericardio y llevar a un desenlace fatal. Se describe el caso de un paciente de 60 años de edad,...
2016 / Jerson Quitián Moreno, David Rodríguez, Jose Julián Carvajal -
Water productivity of poultry production: the influence of different broiler fattening systems2015 / Michael Krauß, Jens Keßler, Annette Prochnow, Simone Kraatz, Katrin Drastig
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1H-NMR dataset for hydroxycoumarins –Aesculetin, 4-Methylumbelliferone, and umbelliferone
Abstract Herein, the integrated raw data regarding the 1H-NMR, experiments of Aesculetin, 4-Methylumbelliferone, and umbelliferone, in Acetone-d6 at 25°C, are presented for further analysis and comparison purposes, for whom may be interested. ...
2016 / Rui Galhano dos Santos, João Carlos Moura Bordado, Maria Margarida Mateus -
Alternate wetting and drying irrigation maintained rice yields despite half the irrigation volume, but is currently unlikely to be adopted by smallholder lowland rice farmers in Nepal2015 / Katharine R. Howell, Pitambar Shrestha, Ian C. Dodd
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Analysis of co-fired clay and palm kernel shells as a cementitious material in Ghana
Abstract The treatment of clay through a calcination process at high temperatures have been the usual and a common means of producing clay pozzolan as a supplementary cementitious material. However incorporating waste biomass as a component material ...
2016 / Mark Bediako, Simon K. Gawu, Albert Amartey Adjaottor, Johny Solomon Ankrah, Eugene Atiemo -
Effects of fermentation time on the functional and pasting properties of defatted Moringa oleifera seed flour2015 / Omobolanle O. Oloyede, Samaila James, Ocheme B. Ocheme, Chiemela E. Chinma, V. Eleojo Akpa
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Quality evaluation of physical properties, antinutritional factors, and antioxidant activity of bread fortified with germinated horse gram ( Dolichus uniflorus ) flour2016 / Karishma Moktan, Pravin Ojha
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Who Will Feed China in the 21st Century? Income Growth and Food Demand and Supply in China2015 / Emiko Fukase, Will Martin
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Optimization of some processing parameters and quality attributes of fried snacks from blends of wheat flour and brewers' spent cassava flour2015 / Adebukola T. Omidiran, Olajide P. Sobukola, Ajoke Sanni, Abdul-Rasaq A. Adebowale, Olusegun A. Obadina, et al.
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Effects of Solar Radiation, Buoyancy of Air Flow and Optimization Study of Coffee Drying in a Heat Recovery Dryer
Abstract A solar heat recovery dryer for drying coffee beans was designed and tested based on heat recovery through condensation. A mathematical model of the dryer was built based on heat and mass transfer, fluid flow and boundary analysis....
2016 / M.U.H. Suzihaque, Robert Driscoll -
Multi-site assessment of the effects of plastic-film mulch on the soil organic carbon balance in semiarid areas of China
Abstract Plastic-film mulch is widely used to increase soil temperature and reduce water evaporation in vegetable production. In China, it is also extensively used for growing grain crops, especially in temperature and rainfall limited areas....
2016 / Yong Peng Wang, Xiao Gang Li, Taotao Fu, Lin Wang, Neil C. Turner, et al. -
Predicting Road Accidents: A Rare-events Modeling Approach
Abstract Modeling road accident occurrence has gained increasing attention over the years. So far, considerable efforts have been made from researchers and policy makers in order to explain road accidents and improve road safety performance of...
2016 / Athanasios Theofilatos, George Yannis, Pantelis Kopelias, Fanis Papadimitriou -
The physicochemical properties of microwave-assisted encapsulated anthocyanins from Ipomoea batatas as affected by different wall materials2015 / Norazlina Mohd Nawi, Ida Idayu Muhamad, Aishah Mohd Marsin
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Effect of species, pretreatments, and drying methods on the functional and pasting properties of high-quality yam flour2015 / Bashirat A. Wahab, Abdul-Rasaq A. Adebowale, Silifat A. Sanni, Olajide P. Sobukola, Adewale O. Obadina, et al.
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Development of Risk Assessment Specifications for Analysing Terrorist Attacks Vulnerability on Metro and Light Rail Systems
Abstract With terrorist security of critical assets becoming a vital aspect of railway systems, this paper reviews the existing international policy frameworks and also risk assessment methodologies. This information fed into development of a risk...
2016 / Emmanuel Matsika, Conor O’Neill, Umberto Battista, Mony Khosravi, Antonio de Santiago Laporte, et al. -
The effect of agricultural extension services: Date farmers’ case in Balochistan, Pakistan
Abstract The Government of Pakistan has adopted a policy of providing agricultural extension services to promote agricultural production by disseminating appropriate knowledge and technologies to farmers. Consistent with this national policy,...
2016 / Mumtaz Ali Baloch, Gopal Bahadur Thapa -
Laser Scanner for the Architectural and Cultural Heritage and Applications for the Dissemination of the 3D Model
Abstract The development of new technologies surveying has allowed great strides to acquire spatial data for various applications. Among these, it the scanner technology is one of the methods That Allows for rapid and detailed acquisition of date....
2016 / Vincenzo Barrile, Antonino Nunnari, Rosa C. Ponterio