The Pedigree of the family Kattenberg

The Pedigree of the family Kattenberg

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  • Author: Christine van de Wetering
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 1445260204
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 148


Water-wise Rice Production

Water-wise Rice Production

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  • Author: B. A. M. Bouman
  • Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
  • ISBN: 9712201821
  • Category : Rice
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352


The Genetics of Pain

The Genetics of Pain

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  • Author: Jeffrey Steven Mogil
  • Publisher: Progress in Pain Research and
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 376

Genetics more than any other biological approach can explain why some people experience more pain than others and receive less benefit from existing analgesics. Sixteen scholarly articles from international contributors describe the application of genetic techniques to the problem of pain and consider the knowledge that has so far resulted. Three themed sections review the techniques that are allowing the study of pain mechanisms at the genetic level; describe the progress being made in lab animals and humans in identifying the genes responsible for individual differences; and explore the practical and ethical issues that face pain researchers. The editor is associated with the Centre for Research on Pain, McGill U., Montreal. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).


Understanding Options for Agricultural Production

Understanding Options for Agricultural Production

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  • Author: G.Y. Tsuji
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9401736243
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 405

The first premise of this book is that farmers need access to options for improving their situation. In agricultural terms, these options might be manage ment alternatives or different crops to grow, that can stabilize or increase household income, that reduce soil degradation and dependence on off-farm inputs, or that exploit local market opportunities. Farmers need a facilitating environment, in which affordable credit is available if needed, in which policies are conducive to judicious management of natural resources, and in which costs and prices of production are stable. Another key ingredient of this facilitating environment is information: an understanding of which options are viable, how these operate at the farm level, and what their impact may be on the things that farmers perceive as being important. The second premise is that systems analysis and simulation have an impor tant role to play in fostering this understanding of options, traditional field experimentation being time-consuming and costly. This book summarizes the activities of the International Benchmark Sites Network for Agrotechnology Transfer (IBSNAT) project, an international initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). IBSNAT was an attempt to demonstrate the effectiveness of understanding options through systems analysis and simulation for the ultimate benefit of farm households in the tropics and subtropics. The idea for the book was first suggested at one of the last IBSNAT group meetings held at the University of Hawaii in 1993.


Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators

Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators

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  • Author: Brigitte Unger
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0198854722
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 369

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators analyzes the impact of new international tax regulations on the scope and scale of tax evasion, tax avoidance, and money laundering. These are analyzed through an ecosystem framework in which, similar to a natural ecosystem, new tax regulations appear as heavy shocks to the tax ecosystem, to which the 'species' such as countries, corporations, and tax experts will react by looking for new loopholes and niches of survival. By analyzing the impact of tax reforms from different perspectives--a legal, political science, accounting, and economic one--one may derive an assessment of the reforms and policy recommendations for an improved international tax system. The ultimate goal is to combat fiscal fraud and empower regulators, in that line, this volume is intended for a broad audience that seeks to know more about the latest state of the art in the realm of taxation from a multidisciplinary perspective. The money involved amounts to billions in unpaid taxes that could be better used for stopping hunger, guaranteeing education, and safeguarding biodiversity, hence making this world a better one. Regulators can see this book as a guiding light of what has happened in the past forty years, and how the world has and will continue to change as a result of it. Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators is also a warning about new emerging tax loopholes, such as freeports or golden passports and visas, where residency can be bought in tax havens, even within the European Union. The main message is that inequality can and has to be reduced substantially and that this can be achieved through a well-working international tax system that eliminates secrecy, opaqueness, and tax havens.


Genomic Designing of Climate-Smart Oilseed Crops

Genomic Designing of Climate-Smart Oilseed Crops

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  • Author: Chittaranjan Kole
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319935364
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 498

This book highlights modern strategies and methods to improve oilseed crops in the era of climate change, presenting the latest advances in plant molecular breeding and genomics-driven breeding. Spectacular achievements in the fields of molecular breeding, transgenics and genomics in the last three decades have facilitated revolutionary changes in oilseed- crop-improvement strategies and techniques. Since the genome sequencing of rice, as the first crop plant, in 2002, the genomes of about one dozen oilseed crops have been sequenced and more are to follow. This has made it possible to decipher the exact nucleotide sequence and chromosomal positions of agroeconomic genes. Most importantly, comparative genomics and genotyping-by-sequencing have opened up new vistas for exploring available biodiversity, particularly of wild crop relatives, for identifying useful donor genes.


First Episode Psychosis

First Episode Psychosis

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  • Author: Katherine J. Aitchison
  • Publisher: CRC Press
  • ISBN: 0429524145
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 152

The new edition of this popular handbook has been thoroughly updated to include the latest data concerning treatment of first-episode patients. Drawing from their experience, the authors discuss the presentation and assessment of the first psychotic episode and review the appropriate use of antipsychotic agents and psychosocial approaches in effective management. This is an authoritative text written by a team of highly respected authors for psychiatrists, neurologists, primary care practitioners and health care professional working in psychiatry. Drawing from their experience, the presentation and assessment of the first psychotic episode are discussed, details regarding antipsychotic drugs and their appropriate use are reviewed and psychosocial approaches are examined. The resulting book offers a concise and valuable guide to those wishing to review the latest proposals for the treatment of first-episode psychosis supported by up-to-date references, in a single publication.


Life Cycle Assessment in the Agri-food Sector

Life Cycle Assessment in the Agri-food Sector

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  • Author: Bruno Notarnicola
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319119400
  • Category : Technology & Engineering
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 390

The book presents an overview of the International practices and state-of-the-art of LCA studies in the agri-food sector, both in terms of adopted methodologies and application to particular products; the final purpose is to characterise and put order within the methodological issues connected to some important agri-food products (wine, olive oil, cereals and derived products, meat and fruit) and also defining practical guidelines for the implementation of LCAs in this particular sector. The first chapter entails an overview of the application of LCA to the food sector, the role of the different actors of the food supply chain and the methodological issues at a general level. The other chapters, each with a particular reference to the main foods of the five sectors under study, have a common structure which entails the review of LCA case studies of such agri-food products, the methodological issues, the ways with which they have been faced and the suggestion of practical guidelines.


Poplars and Willows

Poplars and Willows

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  • Author: Jud G. Isebrands
  • Publisher: CABI
  • ISBN: 1780641087
  • Category : Technology & Engineering
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 656

Poplars and willows form an important component of forestry and agricultural systems, providing a wide range of wood and non-wood products. This book synthesizes research on poplars and willows, providing a practical worldwide overview and guide to their basic characteristics, cultivation and use, issues, problems and trends. Prominence is given to environmental benefits and the importance of poplar and willow cultivation in meeting the needs of people and communities, sustainable livelihoods, land use and development.


No Virtue Like Necessity

No Virtue Like Necessity

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  • Author: Jonathan Haslam
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • ISBN: 9780300091502
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 278

"The author explores four themes relating to international relations in the modern era: Reasons of State, the Balance of Power, the Balance of Trade, and Geopolitics. He contrasts realist ideas with universalist alternatives, both religious and secular, which were based on a more optimistic view of the nature of man or the nature of society. Realist thought never attained consistent predominance, Haslam demonstrates, and the struggle with universalist thought has remained an unresolved tension that can be traced throughout the evolution of international relations theory in the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.