With a large and growing population, ensuring an adequate food supply has alwaysbeen one of the most important goals worldwide. According to the Food and Agricul-ture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), food production will have to increaseby 70% to feed the world’s projected 9.1 billion population by 2050 (FAO2009). In2018, this world population projected figure has been updated to 10 …
Contract farming—described broadly as an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricul-tural commodities against predetermined conditions—is not a recent phenomenon. Yet, a recent wave of agricultural industrialization and the emergence of large-scale food retailing in developing countries may have precipitate…
When it was originally published in 2002, Sue Curry Jansen’s “What Was Artificial Intelligence?” attracted little notice. The long essay was published as a chapter in Jansen’s Critical Communication Theory, a book whose wisdom and erudition failed to register across the many fields it addressed. One explanation for the neglect, ironic and telling, is that Jansen’s sheer scope as an in…
This book shines a light on the value and effectiveness of football clubs’ community engagement work, the cultural value of sport and the position sport plays within people’s daily lives. The book considers the deep historical roots that many football clubs have as charitable institutions within their civic locales. Including original research carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic, the b…
Which kind of music do I listen to and which not? Can I go to a classical music concert if I have never been to one? Can I, as a pop music fan, attend a heavy metal concert? Which music do I talk about with my friends? How do I communicate my preferences? And what does it even mean to be a jazz fan? In light of the fundamentally social function of music, this book tries to answer the question o…
The basic premise of this volume of articles is that there is a need to respond to the challenge issued by Jerry Bentley – one of the pioneers of the now well-established field of ‘World History’ – for historians to attempt both to ‘globalize history’ and to ‘historicize globalization’. Though directed at historians, it is a challenge that raises broader questions about the …
The benchmarks in this guide were developed using data from experiments carried out in England, Scotland and Wales over four growing seasons (harvests 2014-2017). These ‘reference’ trials examined winter and spring husked milling oat varieties. The trial sites are represented by the blue squares on the map. The benchmarks for winter and spring oats are presented in separate sections of this…
Oil palm is one of the most profitable commercial high-tree crops, and has undergone one of the highest rates of expansion in comparison with other crops in the tropical world. Nevertheless, the conditions under which oil palm plantations expand as well as their social and environmental implications are ambiguous, which makes palm oil one of the most controversial globally traded commodities. O…
Napier grows in low to medium altitudes. Napier grows in an altitude of up to 2000 m above sea level. However, altitudes of 2000m and above cause slow regeneration of Napier. Napier performs best if rainfall is above 950mm per year. Napier performs well in annual temperatures ranging between 18.3 °C to 26.6°C . In highland areas where morning frost occurs it should be noted that Napier grass …
The easy to use Syngenta Grass Identification Guide, produced in conjunction with specialists from the Sports Turf Research Institute (STRI), provides a quick and reliable means to accurately assess the main turf grass species. The Syngenta Grass ID Guide is uniquely designed to help identify grass species in closely mown turf. Following a route of characteristic physiological features you will…
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The same basic laws govern the flight of both fixed and rotary wing aircraft and, equally, both types of aircraft share the same fundamental problem; namely that the aircraft is heavier than air and must, therefore, produce an aerodynamic lifting force to overcome the weight of the aircraft before it can leave the ground. In both types of aircraft the lifting force is obtained from the aerodyna…
OSHA has established permissible exposure limits (PELs), as specified in 29 CFR 1910, subpart Z, for hundreds of chemical substances. A PEL is the chemical-specific concentration in inhaled air that is intended to represent what the average, healthy worker may be exposed to daily for a lifetime of work without significant adverse health effects. The employer must ensure that workers’ exposure…
Domestic Cook Book, pub-lished in 1866, is a fascinating first-person chronicle of a free woman of color in mid-19th century Amer-ica. Hers was a life of “hard labor” and travail, but she overcame all her hardships and setbacks with an indomitable spirit. It is truly an American story.Like its author, the fragile copy of A Domestic Cook Book, housed in the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary …
The primary aim of this book is to introduce key ideas, concepts and analyses in order to reveal the social and ethical implications of the globalization of the emerg-ing skin-whitening biotechnology. These biotechnologies promise women ‘ageless beauty’ and youthful appearance by removing visible signs of ageing and by shield-ing women’s bodies from the harmful effects of ageing, environm…
As critical science studies scholar Karen Barad (2010) reminds us, “thepresent is not simplyhere-now” (p. 244, emphasis mine). Rather, it isalso a dis/continuous enfolding of heterogenousthere-thens.1This isto say that the central process of this book—accounting for and beingaccountable to the uneven and unequal relation between Indigenousmetaphysics and classical Western metaphysics by w…
he aim of this anthology is to explore how such legal proceedings in, and out-of-court, can be matched with the complex problems that are both caused by, and underlie such disputes. The anthology draws specif-ically on Nordic experiences of resolving custody disputes. However, the challenges are not unique to the Nordic legal systems: they exis…
At around 3:00 on weekday afternoons, dismissal bells ring at thousands of schools across the country. For millions of students, these bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important educa-tional activity: federally funded after-school programs offering tutoring, homework help, and basic supervision.At Jackson Elementary1 in Chicago, the end o…
What does it mean to you when I say, “These are my parents”? What would you want to know in order to figure out whether they are, in fact, my parents? Whether they are my genetic progenitors? Whether the woman on the right gestated me? Whether they raised me?We all know that the relationships captured by these questions— the ge-netic relationship, the gestational relationship, and the soc…
Who is a child’s legal mother? Must a child have exactly one mother, can it have two or three, or can it have two fathers, but no mother? Or has the concept of motherhood become obsolete and should we just talk of parenthood in a gender neutral way? Questions such as these would have appeared esoteric only a few decades ago, but as a result of new social developments (such as frequent family …
Jakarta adaalah potret kehidupan yang penuh warna. Di sana tersimpan mimpi-mimpi, ambisi, dan harapan. Di sana terukir kisah-kisah kegetiran dan kebahagiaan anak manusia, yang terkadang penuh ironi, satire, aneh dan menggelikan. Lewat Lagak Jakarta, penulis melaporkan semua tiu dengan cerdas, sebagai sociological report. Pada edisi kedua ini memuat tema "Krisis Oh Krisis", "Reformasi", dan "Hur…
Jakarta adaalah potret kehidupan yang penuh warna. Di sana tersimpan mimpi-mimpi, ambisi, dan harapan. Di sana terukir kisah-kisah kegetiran dan kebahagiaan anak manusia, yang terkadang penuh ironi, satire, aneh dan menggelikan. Lewat Lagak Jakarta, penulis melaporkan semua tiu dengan cerdas, sebagai sociological report.
Any substance which nourishes the body and is fit to eat is called food. Food is essential for human life because it is the source of energy and nutrients. Our body is made up of the foods we eat. Food contains chemical components similar to those that make up the body. These chemical components of food are called nutrients.
Pineapple production is an area with significant potential ranging from fresh fruit and organic pineapple to value added products including dried pineapple slices, wedges for toppings, tit bits, juice concentrates and other by-products that have attractive local and external markets. Improvement in production and productivity levels is paramount to the expansion of the value chain. Though these…
Notwithstanding the identification of any specific pesticide for the control of pests and diseases, this decision is for the discretion of the Ministry of Agriculture Area Extension Officer and the farmer. However, the mention of any pesticides and other products used in the Tech Pack should strictly comply with local regulations and all instructions provided by the manufacturer. Also, the use …
TANGANYIKA (TANZANIA SINCE 1964) was part of German East Africa from 1885 to 1918. It became a British League of Nations mandate between 1922 and 1946 and a British United Nations Trusteeship Terri-tory between 1946 and 1961. On December 9, 1961, Tanganyika gained independence from the British, and in 1964 it merged with Zanzibar, a former British protectora…
Four days after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, the Los Angeles Police Department established O.J. Simpson as their prime suspect. Inconsistencies in his statements to law officials and first DNA testing results constituted grounds for an arrest warrant, and Simpson was subsequently ordered to turn himself in; a rare privilege in a homicide investigation that immediately…
grew up without television. My parents believed that television was a badthing; it cost too much, would take attention away from other activities,would lead to passivity and obstruct family life. This was in Norway in the1960s and my parents’beliefs resonated with the dominant misgivingsabout television at the time.As a child, I was proud of our TV-free life. But the resistance did notstick. …
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations in 2015 (hereinafter Agenda 2030),1 marks a global milestone in the commitment to addressing imperative sustainability issues such as ending poverty, overcoming food insecurity, reversing climate change impacts, and reversing inequality and injustice.2 At the core of the Agenda …
Scientists regularly use microbes in their research. However, they often overlook their richness and potential for action and reaction, particularly in their attempts to control or eradicate them. Antibiotic resistance, a health scourge that is still largely underestimated, is a particularly good illustration of the consequences of industrial capitalism's massive use of microbes to manufacture …
Markets are the ambivalent gods of our societies. Powerful and fickle, they become subject to our collective hopes and fears. Some believe that they will deliver us from evil by reconciling us with our rivals and fostering in-novation. To others, they will forever corrupt nature, spread inequality, and alienate us from our communities. True to this ambiguity, markets var-iously appear…
Disasters, from natural phenomena to human-made conflicts, indiscriminately af-fect societies, where the gravity of impact varies significantly depending on time, place, and extent (Karadag & Hakan, 2012, p. 609). For instance, regional and global military conflicts present very complex and unpredictable situations with far-reach-ing consequences. Wars and armed conflicts frequently destroy …
Literature recognises the relevance of technological roadmapping activities as funda-mental elements supporting strategic decisions for R&D policy definition both atprivate and public level. In particular, the aim of roadmapping is to identify devel-opment paths to help a system to acquire competitive advantage facing exogenousfactors while implementing reactive and pro-active actions. Trends a…
What is an industrial revolution? Does the concept take us back to the history or does it carry us to the future of industrial manufacturing? Quick Google search gives us both perspectives. Industrial revolution connects the past, the present, and the future.It is widely agreed that the Internet, artificial intelligence, Internet of things, automated robots, sensors, augmented real…
Our hands and feet covered in dirt, we were sitting at the side of the garden areas, on the top of the hill overlooking the plateau. Jenny and I had worked there most of the day. The sun had long since passed its zenith, but it was still burning on our heads. Until that point, we had been removing weeds around pineapple plants and planting countless maize kernels and manioc stalks, so-called …
Over the past decade, the EU has adopted a number of pieces of legislation regarding ocean governance with internal and external dimensions, such as the Marine Strategy Framework Directive2 and the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive.3 The Arctic is also on the EU’s Agenda. The EU aims to ensure sus-tainable development in and around the Arctic region on the basis of i…
A political anthropology of energy starts from the position that en-ergetic infrastructures are pivots for sociopolitical inquiry. They fa-cilitate the contours of the state and local communities, both in their material existence and in their projection of imaginaries into the fu-ture and into a global environment. Not only is energy at the core of many economic interests, geopolit…
Solar energy is currently the fastest growing renewable energy sector. Growth in electricity from solar energy – mostly photovoltaics (PV) – is expected to remain strong toward 2030 and beyond, with some predicting that solar energy will eventually constitute the greatest source for electricity production worldwide. In the mid-2020s, we find ourselve…
Impersonation in Kuchipudi dance is grounded in a moment of divine inspira-tion. According to popular hagiography, the founding saint of Kuchipudi dance, Siddhendra, had a revelatory vision of Krishna and his consort Satyabhama, after which he abandoned all worldly ties and dedicated his life to singing the praises of his god. Envisioning himself as Sa…
While a larger history of medieval Indian theatre, comprehensively accounting for its different literary, theoretical, and performative strands, still needs to be written, the ambition of the present study is to explore the emergence of an original debate on the nature of dance and dramatic acting in the Abhinavabh?rat?, Abhinavagupta’s eleventh-century commentary on Bharata’s N??ya??stra. …
Strolling through the streets of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, an urban observer happens on an advertisement for the Folies-Bergère, a music hall and revue theater (fig. 1). Illustrated on this poster is a slim, captivating woman; her posterior is exposed, and she is on her tiptoes in heels, coyly look-ing back at the spectator. Her flowing hair creates the impression that she is…
It was the last day of October 2015 when I attended Rootlessroot’s (2015) performance Europium [The end of the world will be better this year]1 at the Onassis Stegi in Athens, Greece. Europium, the chemical element, is known for its volatile and unpredictable nature, much like the narratives circulating internationally about Greeks during the Greek financial crisis. …
Funk and disco era California dancing demonstrates a dynamic fluidity of stylistic boundaries, reflective of dancers’ travels within and across neigh-borhoods, cities, and regions. By way of everyday people’s movements of migration and dislocation, physical and imaginative wandering, vernacular dances trace circuitous routes, emerge from multiple centers, and prolifer ate in re…
The main aim of this book is to generate a better understanding of how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. The question – how punishment produces pleasure – is understood against the background of the problematic of desire. It is a problematic defined by the inescapable tension between desire and enjoymen…
Governance is about how society, organizations and individual groups make and implement collective choices. It comprises shifting decision-making responsibilities from individuals to a governing authority, with implementation by one or more institutions and with accountability systems to monitor and assure the progress of the decisions taken. Governance in the health system…
This book is for professional people working in organisations and institu-tions who need to acquire competence in recognising, analysing and deal-ing with corruption issues. It is action-oriented, enabling the reader to know better how to limit the effects of such corruption on their organisa-tion’s functioning and outputs, thereby improving performance, and to build their…
Upturned lashes create an illusion of longer lashes and give a more wide-eyed doe look. A lash lift is essentially a lash perm. We are curling the lashes onto a silicone rod, applying eyelash-specific perm solutions, and then tinting (dyeing) the lashes dark. The lift (perm) tends to last about 6-12 weeks. The tint (dye) tends to lash 2-8 weeks. These will vary on the client as everyone has a n…
Diarrhoea is the second leading cause of death in children under five years old. It is both preventable and treatable. Diarrhoea is also a leading cause of malnutrition in children under five years old. Diarrhoea is defined as the passage of three or more loose or liquid stools per day or more frequent passage than is normal for the individual. Frequent passing of formed stools is not diarrhoea…
This topic measures the number of procedures, time, cost and paid-in minimum capital requirement for a small- to medium-sized limited liability company to start up and formally operate in each economy’s largest business city. To make the data comparable across 190 economies, Doing Business uses a standardized business that is 100% domestically owned, has start-up capital equivalent to 10 tim…
Conflict is increaslingly common in contemporary fish and wildlife management. The source of conflict is typically not a matter of biology; rather, it involes a clash of goals among stakeholders. To many in the widllife profession, conflict among stakeholders appears to be intensifying over time. The purpose of this project was to asses the social context of wildlife management in the US in an …