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...ity. The major challenge for the future, as he points out, is for agricultural education to explore and fully comprehend the complex interactions of science, people, and the environment; to strengthen its relevance by grappling with the scientific issues, both national and international, that affect the continued transformation of agriculture and the protection of the nat...

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... Food Production 42 Sustainability and Image 45 People and Agriculture 47 Towards an Alternative Approach 51 Chapter 3. UNDERSTANDING AND EDUCATION: ENVIRONMENTAL EMPATHY 55 Awareness 55 Bread Baskets of the World 58 The Global Need 59 The Imperative of Education 60 Public Environmental Education 63 Changes in Agricultural Education 66 Information or Knowledge 70 Chapte...

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...k Two applies these alternative and rather novel, but scientifically supported evolutionary scenarios to what we currently know regarding the ancient environmental and fossil record. The need for a radical rethink of biological and evolutionary complexity and a solution to the many problems embedded in our current Neo-Darwinian model, became clearly apparent as a resul...

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... 2 AM and I am in my car, damn it’s so dark, from the side of the highway I hear something like a scream but no problem its only a nightmare what the environmental situation caused, my secret documents here in my briefcase! I remember The Great Britain had decided that one of their spies who was sick (because of the amounts of tortures on him) dies but some agents of UK an...

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...r conscious beings are worthier than non-conscious nature, or not - a topic assumed consequential for philosophy, ecology, ecofeminism and biocentric environmental movements, and ethics....

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...pansion of networks that collect water and transport it to the sea is a classic approach of dealing with rainwater runoff that has grave quantity and environmental consequences and is thus nowadays hydraulically inefficient, technically doubtful, environmentally aggravating and management erroneous. The sustainable approach to the problem is a practice trying to “imitate”...

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...dark! From the side of the highway I hear something like a scream but I tell myself: no problem, it’s only a nightmare, a hallucination caused by the environmental situation of the ecosystem of my current geographical location. My mother is praying for her son to come back home soon. But I left her alone. And here, inside my car, I have only a knife, and my secret document...

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...of evolution are still widely misunderstood, are the factors which led me to produce this Gutenberg edition. In these times when every second popular science book is about the "environmental crisis", why resurrect such an ancient document? Simply because its fundamental argument is a timeless one, an insufficiently appreciated one, and one which is probably as briefly and ...

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... Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase -- 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine -- 68 Hawai‘I Diversity Ideal for Medical Research -- 74 Perfect Pl...

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...elopment Eco-Tourism Funding Sources for Non-Profi ts Forestry Franchises Environmental Stewardship High Value Hardwood Timber Production Environm... ... Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies 42 A History of Innovation NATURAL SCIENCE 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences 48 Turning Science Into... ... FROM TOP: SUNNY TAKEISHI, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I SCHOOL OF OCEAN AND EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (SOEST), CYANOTECH. PHOTOS ON PAGE 3, CLOCKWISE FRO... ...ana , kapa ‘a solar llc , university of hawai ‘i school of ocean and earth science and technology Our Ownership Hawaii Business is printed in Hawai‘i ... ...BUSINESS 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase HEALTH SCIENCES 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine 68 Hawai‘I Diversity Idea... ... at the highest level of energy efciency in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system. The development, built especi... ...f ocean water, the ultimate goal is to produce massive amounts of clean, environmentally sustainable electricity from 100-MW land-based plants. BIO... ... based in Boston, chose the spot as the perfect place to demonstrate the environmental and economic benefts of combining wind turbines with cuttin... ...r Hawai‘i community afairs, says the University of Hawai‘i has completed environmental reviews and is close to obtaining permits that will enable a...

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...m and water is considered as the most vital item in the world due to reduction of water resources in most regions. In this condition, role of water science researchers and hydraulic experts is more important than ever. If a hydraulic engineer student is not educated well, he/she will not solve problems of hydraulic sciences in future. Many engineer students learn all n...

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Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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...XIII. The Myth of the Earnings Yield XIV. Immortality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences XV. The Agent-Principal Conundrum XVI. The Green-Eye... ... and Place Marketing XXXV. NGOs – The Self-appointed Altruists XXXVI. The Wages of Science XXXVII. The Lessons of Transition XXXVIII. The Morality... ...mass behaviour. Many of its practitioners sought to disguise its nature as a social science by applying complex mathematics where common sense and d... ...eful approximation. According to this latter day - rational - version of the dismal science, people refrain from repeating their mistakes systematic... ...urces can either be replenished or substituted. Alarmist claims to the contrary by environmentalists have been convincingly debunked by the likes o... ...been convincingly debunked by the likes of Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist". Equally, it is true that manufactured good... ... to obtain a sequence of reactions and actions. To isolate, observe and manipulate environmental variables and study human interactions. No snapsho... ...udability are ideals - not realities. They apply strictly only to the sunlight. As environmentalists keep warning us, even the air is a scarce comm... ... concerned - is crisis management. Public awareness of crises - from civil wars to environmental disasters - can be manipulated within limits of pr...

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...Publication Review by F. Liu. 22 -- Annotation in the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics. 27 -- Neutrosophic Dialogues. 51 -- Absolute Truth. 68 -- Science, Destiny, and Buddhism. 79 -- Call for Papers. 94 -- Neutrosophy and Dialectic, postface by Anthony Mansueto. 95 --...

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...………………………………..………...51 Absolute Truth……………………………………………………………………………68 Science, Destiny, and Buddhism……………………………………………………….…79 Call for Papers…... ...differential view and the integral view. In medicine, Chinese traditional science regards humans as a part of the universe, and as being in constant... ...ng up in a struggle or conflict, leading to wars – losing the harmony. In science, Chinese culture pays more attention to spiritual harmony than mate... ...d the universe, but persisting fast in the most primitive knowledge called science. In politics, Chinese prefer a natural discipline, a natural order... ... right to ask, “How much do Western people understand the universe?” In a science report at the Great Hall of People, Beijing, the world famous Nobe... ...ple look to science as though it is God, as if it can prolong lives, solve environmental crises, war, disasters, etc. However this is the fiction of ... ...ort of advanced technology that has destroyed our society from the root: “Environmental pollution has become a serious problem, and now humankind has...

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...pose of this book is to postulate some theories and test them numerically. Estimation is often a difficult task and it has wide application in social sciences and financial market. In order to obtain the optimum efficiency for some classes of estimators, we have devoted this book into three specialized sections: Part 1. In this section we have studied a class of shrinkage ...

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... Box 141 NM 87322, USA Many books can be downloaded from our E-Library of Science: http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooks-otherformats.h... ...a, Romania; Dr. Sabin Tabirca, University College Cork, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Ireland; Dr. Vasantha Kandasamy, Department... ...ly. Estimation is often a difficult task and it has wide application in social sciences and financial market. In order to obtain the optimum efficie... ...2000 MSC: 62E17 1. INTRODUCTION Identical rudiments subjected to identical environmental conditions will fail at different and unpredictable tim... ...iliary variates in double sampling. Journal of Raishankar University, 6, (B) (Science), 79-83. Srivenkataramana, T. and Tracy, D.S. (1989): Two-p... ...ly. Estimation is often a difficult task and it has wide application in social sciences and financial market. In order to obtain the optimum efficien...

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...-mail99/0819.html. [13] Girard, Jean-Yves, Linear logic, Theoretical Computer Science, 50:1-102, 1987. [14] Guinnessy, Paul; Gilbert, John, Procee... ...knowledge representation, Preprint 232, Computer Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 1980 (in Russian). [32] Perez, Minh, Neutros... ...u/epigone/sci.math/lelswoboi. [33] Peirce, C. S., Essays in the Philosophy of Science, The Liberal Arts Press, Inc., New York, 1957. [34] Priest,... ...foundations of the probability theory with a new interpretation as the logic of science can be found through the works of E.T. Jaynes in [27, 25, 26].... ...pproach to Judgment Based Decision Making”, Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1986. [35] Li X.R.... ...ty of the organism and with experience (adding flexibility to better cope with environmental change) - successive stages adding higher values - what ... ...olation but interact in nonlinear ways, both amongst themselves and with their environmental contexts (i.e. we cannot simply add their 'fitnesses' o... ...ist, botanist, zoologist, artist and mystic will all see (and value) different environmental 'systems'. These may be disjoint (if the experts are to... ...evant subsets as necessary (if we can identify them). Thus 'sustainability' in environmental terms would be such an holarchic valuation. In these ca...

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...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Comm...

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... The Farmers’ Tale: An Allegory, 83 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179... ...se Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Evidence-Free Zone, 205 10 An Environmentalism for Information, 230 Notes and Further Readings, 249 Ind... ...thics, Law and Policy Center, provided cru- cial support to my work with the sciences in general and synthetic biology in particular. I was also inspi... ...lar. I was also inspired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I am descr... ...academy, my main debt is to the board members and staff of Creative Commons, Science Commons, and ccLearn. Creative Commons, on whose board I am proud... ... 10 has its roots both in my article “A Politics of Intellec- tual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?” 3 and in the symposium, Cul- tural Environ... ...cisely because we are in the information age, we need a movement—akin to the environmental movement—to preserve the public domain. The explosion of in... ...alue of the public domain. This enlightenment does not happen by itself. The environmentalists helped us to see the world differently, to see that the... ... creative expression. The promise of copyright is this: if you are a radical environmentalist who wants to alert the world to the danger posed by clim...

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...mental development. Increasing dairy production is a major challenge for those engaged in international livestock development. Moreover, there are environmental concerns about livestock production in fragile landscapes, so increasing milk supply should be done in an environmentally sustainable manner. Research can help meet this challenge. Meeting the growing demand ...

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... issues Institutional support for smallholder dairy development activities Projects Summary and conclusions References Chapter 4: Climatic and environmental factors affecting dairy productivity J. E. Vercoe Background Introduction Thermal equilibrium Heat load Heat dissipation Reducing heat load Enhancing heat dissipation Effects of heat stress Other en...

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...orghe Petrescu-Eri ţã, 23 T. Vladimirescu Street, Govora, Romania. More science books can be downloaded from the E-Library of Science: www.gallup.... ...College, EC, USA Florentin Smarandache Department of Mathematics and Sciences The University of New Mexico at Gallup, USA ... ...ies of those prior books. Related analyses also appear in Speculations in Science and Technology, 1993 (ISSN 0155-7785); and in Electron and Ion Bea... ...ience and Technology, 1993 (ISSN 0155-7785); and in Electron and Ion Beam Science and Technology from The Electrochemical Society, 1968. Homer ... ...tanding. Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia Distinguished Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics Distinguished Professor, Graduate Program in Materia... ...s, and other gear. Two modules (M3 & M4) form the biosphere (ecosystems/ environmental/hydroponics). Module M1 is given over to the ship's Bridge a...

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... Australia. Dr. G. Lakshma Reddy, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India Copyright 200... ...or war and the consequent persecution or in some of the cases because of environmental degradation. In between these two diverse classifications, t... ...hi (1992). 6. Ankrah, E.M., “AIDS and the Social Side of Health,” Social Science Medicine, 32 (1991) 967-980. 7. Aral, S.P., and Holmes, K.K., “Sex... ...llective Computational Abilities,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 79 (1982) 2554-2558. 40. Hunter, N.D., and Rubenstein, W.B., AID... ...986) 65-75. 59. Kosko, B., “Fuzzy Entropy and Conditioning,” Information Sciences, 40 (1986) 165-174. 60. Kosko, B., “Hidden Patterns in Combined a... ... Spread of HIV-1 and HIV-2 Infections,” Proc. of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 91 (1994) 2407- 2414. 77. Raka, Sharon, Indian Women Workers... ...ical system, 42 Economic factors, 7 Edge values, 38 Edge weights, 41 Environmental degradation, 7 Equilibrium of the system, 105 Equilibrium s...

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...uding social benefits which have now caused agriculture to be treated as both a social and financial sector in planning, with increased cognisance of environmental and cultural values. Unique elements of Thai agriculture include: irrigation technologies which spanned a millennium; administrative structures which originated with agricultural water control; its global leade...

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... Chapter 3 - Arrival of Tai Agriculture Chinese Tai Muang F Integrating Technologies Tai Agriculturists Migrating Farmers Tai in Thailand Tai Traits Environmental Traditions Tai and Buddhist Environments Summary Chapter 4 - Expansion of Thai Agriculture from 1200 C Agricultural Organisation Agricultural Administration Integrating Irrigation Systems Agricultural Dominati...