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The main crop production in Timor-Leste has not been improved in the last 20 to 30 years but environmental destruction has been prevalent due to various factors such as: poor farming practices, lack of improved seeds, poverty, poor government policies and natural calamities. It is underscored in this book that such problems can only be effectively addressed if the government designs and implements policies that do not only concern about crop p...

This empirical research explores the environmental attitudes and practices of SMEs in the UK and Japan. The research provides a dynamic picture of the barriers and drivers of environmental reform within small businesses, embedding the findings within broader debates on sustainability and 'ecological modernisation''(EM) theory. A key conclusion is that an SME policy strategy which relies too heavily on voluntarism and self- regulation is unlike...

Taking into account the need and significance of a roadmap or framework for testing software fault tolerance techniques, a prescriptive framework FTFT is proposed. The framework has been attempted to be highly implementable and prescriptive in nature. It has been structured into a hierarchical description including provinces, generic guideline, metrics development process etc. The framework testing robustness of fault tolerance techniques comp...

In the science of consciousness, it is vigorously debated whether consciousness involves self-awareness or not. Especially the so called "higher-order" theories of consciousness hold that consciousness depends on self-awareness: only those mental states are conscious that we are somehow aware of. In this book, I attempt to show how these theories fail or even refuse to tackle the greatest challenge of the philosophy of mind, explaining the phe...

Jewish American literature holds an essential place in the literary history of the United States. It is supposed to be the first ethnic literature that achieved great influence in the U.S. and reached its mature expression in the post-war "Jewish American novels" of Henry Roth, Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Chaim Potok, and Philip Roth. This book concentrates on the work of the triad of authors - Bellow, Potok and...

In today''s dynamic economic environment, customer needs and demanding organizations are increasing. In order for the organizations, both of the private and public sector to confront the fast changes, they are forced to change their vision, mission, and structure. An organization is effective to the degree to which it achieves its goals and should make sure that there is a spirit of cooperation and sense of commitment and satisfaction within t...

Information Technology generates about 2% of the global CO2. Network hosts, most of which are idle most of the time, are maintained fully powered-on at all times only for the purpose of maintaining network presence. This book develops general requirements for proxying and is the first exploration of application-level proxying with the intention of saving energy by maintaining network presence. Proxying for TCP connections, SIP, and Gnutella P2...

Cancer is one of the most important causes of mortality and morbidity. Diagnosis and management of Cancer has always challenged the medical field. Head and neck malignancies constitute a major part of all the cancers worldwide. Oral carcinoma is one of the most prevalent cancers and a common cause of death. The basic treatment modalities for cancer are surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The majority of new cases of invasive head and neck ...

The aim of this work was to evaluate the suitability of coconut plant as a main raw material for pulp and papermaking. In these experiments coconut coir and coconut trunk were pulped by kraft pulping. This experiment aimed to find suitable cooking conditions by changing chemical charge and liquid to chips ratio. To assess the papermaking potential of coconut pulps, the study was conducted to examine fiber characteristics, pulpability, bleachab...

Poverty reduction in recent years has received greater global attention. Poverty is mainly concentrated in rural areas of developing countries like India. To achieve this goal of poverty reduction, the need is to identify the pockets of rural poor along with the factors helping in poverty alleviation. The book, therefore, explores the estimates of rural poverty and its trends in Uttar Pradesh, which is one of the most populous states of India,...

The book presents a watershed based sustainable livelihoods framework which analyses the livelihoods of watershed community, evaluates watershed interventions and establishes linkages between livelihoods and hydrological components. A methodology is proposed for quantification of the socio-economic aspects, which is found effective in measuring the impacts of watershed program on local community. The SWAT hydrological model with ArcView GIS in...

This book presents new idea of galvoscanner position control that can be used to various applications: target tracers, material processing machines or medical imagers.The controller uses hybrid (digital-analogue) approach along with micro-controllers to achieve its goals: low power consumption, simple electrical circuit and very high performance. Designed control system has been build and verified with real galvoscanners (LSK 040EF) proving th...

A body of research exists which suggests that firms founded by entrepreneurial teams are more likely to be fast-growing than firms founded by individuals. This 2001 study does not question the validity of such findings, but instead builds from it by asking "if this is true, then what do firms founded by entrepreneurial teams uniquely effect that makes them fast-growth?". A detailed exploration of the literature brought the decision to examine ...

Storage life Talaja Red onion can be increased in forced ventilated storage to catch higher prices. The storage disease in natural ventilation was higher due to sorption and desorption of moisture. The weight loss can be reduced from 23.74 in natural ventilated storage to 10.24 per cent in forced ventilated storage. Pungency and dry matter content are the important quality attributes in onions for processing which was higher in forced ventilat...

Throughout the 20th Century African-American men were repeatedly exposed to racism during military service. There is overwhelming documentation that veteran service organizations either reinforced race- related stressors or subjected African-American military personnel to racist environments while they were actively engaged in combat conditions. This study provides recommendations to therapists that work with African-American veterans. Among t...

An Ontology-based E-learning Management system using Topic Maps (TMs) can tackle problems that learning object (LO) systems are facing: less orientation, poor narrative flow, poor conceptual flow, and poor partial reusability. In this system, a LO together with its characteristics is mapped to a topic, LO''s learning resources are categorized and described based on concepts of Learning Objects Metadata (LOM) elements and attached by occurrence...

Das Schachturnier zu London im Jahre 1851 war der Beginn einer neuen Ära des Schachspiels. Erstmals trat die internationale Schachelite in einem Turnier gegeneinander an. Die parallele Durchführung zur ersten Weltausstellung in London ermöglichte das Aufeinandertreffen der stärksten Schachspieler der Zeit. In der Folge etablierte sich eine vielfältige Turnierkultur in der Schachwelt. Heutzutage trifft sich die Weltspitze mehrmals im Jahr an we...

Es ist Tatsache, dass Frauen in krisenhaften Beziehungen oft den Kürzeren ziehen, sei es durch Gewalt, Flucht in Frauenhäuser, in psychiatrische Einrichtungen oder zu Therapeuten. Auch Paschaverhalten von Männern sorgt immer wieder für Unmut und erschwert es Frauen, sich zu emanzipieren. Dies zu ändern scheint oftmals aber unmöglich. Verena Hagstedt, darüber ins Grübeln gekommen, würde in Kirchheim gerne ein Ausrufezeichen setzen und dies ände...

Das Schachturnier zu London im Jahre 1851 war der Beginn einer neuen Ära des Schachspiels. Erstmals trat die internationale Schachelite in einem Turnier gegeneinander an. Die parallele Durchführung zur ersten Weltausstellung in London ermöglichte das Aufeinandertreffen der stärksten Schachspieler der Zeit. In der Folge etablierte sich eine vielfältige Turnierkultur in der Schachwelt. Heutzutage trifft sich die Weltspitze mehrmals im Jahr an we...

With computerized health information receiving unprecedented government support, a group of health policy scholars analyze the intricate legal, social, and professional implications of the new technology. These essays explore how Health Information Technology (HIT) may alter relationships between physicians and patients, physicians and other providers, and physicians and their home institutions. Taken together, these investigations cast new li...