Soil particles contain a variety of anthropogenic and natural organic components derived from many sources such as industrial and traffic fossil fuel emissions and terrestrial biota. The organic contents of soil and sand from the Arabian region have not fully characterized. Thus, samples of fine soil particles (sieved to
Cold acclimation shows the increased Pi in skeletal muscle of Channa punctata variety of fishes after 1 h and 2 h while reduces at prolonged exposure (4 h). Similar stimulatory effects were observed in heart, however, reduced at 30 min and 4 h and in liver it causes prevention of Pi release after 30 min, 1 h, 2 h and 4 h respectively. In gastrointestinal tract, the effects were pronounced whene…
Most of the date fruits are processed traditionally in Iran. It becomes imperative to characterize the fruits with a view of understanding the properties that may affect the design of machines to handle their processing. The objectives of this study were to find the basic physical properties of date fruit at different storage time. Some physical properties of the Iranian Stamaran date variety w…
The present study investigated the influence of microwave power on the drying kinetics,energy consumption and drying efficiency of green pepper during microwave drying at 180, 240,300, 360, 420, 480 and 540 W. Seven mathematical models for describing the thin-layer drying behaviour of pepper samples were investigated. The models were compared based on their R2,RMSE and v2 values between experim…
Starch isolated from lotus stem was treated by gamma-irradiation at different doses of 5,10 and 20 kGy. Physicochemical, morphological and pasting properties of irradiated lotus stem starches were investigated and these properties differed significantly. Carboxyl content, water absorption capacity, amylose leaching, and transmittance increased, whereas swelling power, apparent amylose content, …
Dextrinization of corn starch by twin screw extruder was studied. The effect of extruder operating conditions (five different screw speeds: 35, 45, 55, 65, and 70; and three temperatures: 125,130, and 135 C) on some physicochemical properties of dextrin (total soluble solid, water absorption index, water solubility index, and total color difference) was investigated. Results showed that as the…
GW2 is an important gene that regulates grain width and weight. We used cDNA clone to obtain the sequences of GW2 from large- and small-grained rice varieties, TD70 and Kasalath,respectively. Then, we developed a dCAPS (derived cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence) marker on the basis of the sequence difference between functional and nonfunctional GW2 genes to analyze the genotypes and phenot…
Purpose – Liberal Studies (LS), as a compulsory subject for senior secondary students (S4-6) who sit for the Diploma of Secondary Education, was introduced in 2007. There has been increased discussion about merits of the subject. This paper was written based on a study the researchers conducted with LS teachers and students to probe the role LS may play in relation to civic education. The pap…
Purpose – Liberal Studies (LS), as a compulsory subject for senior secondary students (S4-6) who sit for the Diploma of Secondary Education, was introduced in 2007. There has been increased discussion about merits of the subject. This paper was written based on a study the researchers conducted with LS teachers and students to probe the role LS may play in relation to civic education. The …
Jember is a town in the East Java province with a high appeal to become a tourism city. The local delicacy as souvenirs and gifts to bring to families at the tourists’ hometown became one of the important things sought by tourists when traveling to Jember. This can be viewed by industries to acquire income. Besides the available raw materials or ingredients that can be obtained easily, there …
As a bio-fuel, the bio pellet is popular as an alternative for replacing firewood for cooking. The potential of bio pellet as a bio-fuel produced from cassava skin becomes the focus of this study. The purpose is to determine the process and composition of bio pellet based on mass balance. The material was collected from several fermented cassava industries located in Jember Regency and Yogya…
The achievement of "food security" involves the companies and their productive capacity. As well, the role played by the financial and commodities markets and their operators - commercial, financial and credit intermediaries- is important for the achievement of a new sustainability. Therefore, the "agricultural crisis" is based, principally on agricultural and environmental questions, but also …
Abstract A brief overview of those bee genera and subgenera occurring in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is provided. In total 22 genera are currently documented in the literature for the country, although a further 17 genera undoubtedly occur here based on extralimital records. The lists provided here will serve as a baseline for biodiversity studies on the bee fauna of the country that are pr…
The purpose of this paper is to review the key analytical developments in international trans-boundary water politics and to shed light on the important, but overlooked, issue of ecosystems. The scholarship has gained greater breadth resulting interests and motives governing water use and allocation. However, it is argued that much of the literature is anthropocentric and frames the natural …
Indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities suffer lower levels of access to improved water and sanitation services due to socio-economic and cultural marginalisation and geographical challenges. Lack of cultural sensitivity and operational limitations tend to render water and sanitation interventions less effective and services unsustainable. Field studies and action research realised in six c…
Among insect fauna reported in Sudan, Galeatus scrophicus Saunders, was detected earlier in last century, and known as a pest of sunflower. Nevertheless, very limited research works have yet been conducted on this pest. Therefore, this study was proposed to cover certain bio-ecological aspects of G. scrophicus, including host range, geographical and intra-host distributions, seasonal abundance …
Geographical studies on characteristics and diversity of the landscape in the Balkans have frequently referred to the portrayals by travelers from different countries, who, due to their work as diplomats and officials or simply as a result of their curiosity, visited various areas of Balkan. Putting the Balkans’ in the attention of Europe, through its recognition and recovery, both in the XIX…
The economic size of agricultural farms is defined by means of the standard output (SO). However, economic effects of these farms depend on the way of husbandry. The analysed family farms of the area ranging from 8.58 ha UAA to 150 ha UAA had economic sizes ranging from €9,737 to €24,9379. Such a range made it possible to create 4 groups of farms according to classes of the economic size ES…
The Colorado beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), is a major pest of potato crops in Poland. Both the striped beetle and the blackspotted,red larva feed on potato leaves. Their damage can greatly reduce yield and even kill plants. The paper shows the results of the studies aimed at capabilities of developing model to be used in pest control. The research was conducted in the years 2013-2014 at t…
The transportation sector is a strong factor in terms of economic and regional balanced development, as well as also having a great influence on national integration to the world economic market. India has a rich history of trade across seas. Ports constitute an important economic activity in coastal areas. The higher the throughput of goods and passengers year-on-year, the more infrastructure,…
Total organic carbon (TOC) and total nitrogen (TN) are the most important components of sediments and soils as they can be used to distinguish marine and terrestrial sources of organic matter, environmental depositional conditions, pollution indices and soil quality and productivity indicators. In this paper we present datasets of measurements of TOC and TN in sediments applying high temperatur…
The primary purpose of the study was to determine the attitudes of students at the College of Agriculture toward agriculture programs and the field of agriculture in an effort to better identify, recruit, and retain students in the College of Agriculture. The population of the study was 110 students from the College of Agriculture freshmen enrolling in course 203 Ag. ext. Communication skills i…
The Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition (BCFN) has produced an updated version of the traditional Food Pyramid based on the Mediterranean Diet in order to assess the simultaneous impact that food has on human health and the environment. The Double Pyramid model demonstrates how the foods recommended to be consumed most frequently are also those exerting less environmental impact, whereas the …
The environmental impact of wheat production was assessed through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Local data were collected to characterize Walloon conventional and organic wheat production systems. Two functional units (FU) were investigated: 1 kg of wheat grains at 15% humidity and 1 ha used for wheat cropping. An uncertainty analysis assessed the significance of differences between conventional…
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assist in identifying the value to the student of the College of Policing approved Certificate in Knowledge of Policing (CKP), whilst identifying some of the challenges encountered by both students and staff. Design/methodology/approach – The research involved students completing self-administered questionnaires both on commencing their study of …
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to look at the experiences of university academic staff setting up a small computer games studio to provide work placement opportunities for undergraduate students and the supporting role of industry. Design/methodology/approach – The case study uses sense making to explore the boundaries between “simulated” and “real” work in an educational se…
Marine biofouling is a natural phenomenon representing one of the greatest problems in marine technology (navigation,aquaculture nets, etc). To circumvent these problems, antifouling paints or coatings, i.e. matrices containing biocidal species, are used to protect the submerged surfaces and objects. Polymers containing quaternary phosphonium or quaternary ammonium groups are promising biocidal…
This paper aims to investigate the profit inefficiency among hybrid rice farmers in Central Vietnam using stochastic frontier analysis method with a stochastic translog normalized profit frontier function. The results showed that the average profit efficiency was 0.63, implying 0.37 was profit inefficiency. The research found that age, education, irrigation, share of rice income, share of hybri…
Internal (the consumer itself) and external factors influence the consumer to buy a product. It is these factors that can affect the length of time the consumer to buy a product. Time-to-event data analysis is the method to analyze the data when the response of interest is the time until some event occurs. The data to be analyzed is in the form of time, also called failure time or survival time…
In this study we focused on the investigation of the cardiovascular system in swine by means of angiocardiographies utilizing Iopamiro 300 as contrast agent. Our choice of subject is due to the correlation between human species and swine, knowing that the latter was and continues to be an experimental model for various studies performed both in veterinary and in human medicine. The research was…
Soybean waste is by product in production of tofu and soymilk. Soybean waste commonly dumps directly to the water sewer and made environmental problems like eutrotification. Soybean waste contains 23% hemicellulose, 16% cellulose dan 28% protein. Xylan rich hemicellulose is potential source of xylooligosacharides (XOS). XOS was known as functional food with prebiotic activities. In this researc…
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the growing interest in oracy and to propose the pedagogy of process drama as an ideal model for the dialogic classroom. Design/methodology/approach – This paper takes the form of an explanatory case study where the author draws on a successful drama/oracy project in a primary school in Brisbane, Australia, to illustrate the connections bet…
Small and medium enterprise (SME) needs to apply effective scheduling in order to meet the demand schedule. This is done traditionally, though, it is necessary to allocate production resources to produce product variety such as bread. The fact shows that the order fulfillment is often delayed because of incorrect scheduling. This problem can be solved by making production scheduling that have a…
As infrared range cameras have recently become commercially available at reasonable cost, we have been trying to use the range camera for monitoring nest-building behavior in mice and leaf movement of kidney beans. Three-dimensional (3D) images represented the nest-building behavior clearly and height information was very useful for assessment of nesting procedures and nest’s quality. And als…
The main aim of this research is to explore the effect of supplementary feeding, Azolla piñata and probiotics, on the quality and profile of fatty acids in patin fish oil extracts, protein and amino acids content. In this research, patin fish were divided into three different feeding treatments: pellets only (P1) as a control; pellets and A. piñata (P2); pellets and probiotics (P3). These fis…
This review article presents an overview of the development of the numerical wave modelling techniques that are used.Due to the advent of powerful computers and development of several numerical techniques, solving coastal problems using numerical models are found to be very reliable, cost effective and time saving tools. Numerical models are used to hindcast and forecast wave parameters whic…
This study aimed to identify and mitigate risks in tobacco supply chain in Temanggung Regency, Central Java Province,Indonesia, based on risk management principles in ISO 31000: 2009. The mitigation plan was composed by using tool of analytical network process (ANP). The results showed that the risk that were classified as avoidance risk at farmer level are weather, capital access, the price an…
Purpose – Australian tertiary institutions are increasingly incorporating technologies, such as social media and Web 2.0 tools into teaching in response to changing student needs. The purpose of this paper is to revisit a fundamental question, frequently asked in marketing, “what do our ‘customers’ [students] think now?” This will help determine the effectiveness of application of the…
This article describes the policy and legislative developments that have made the rights to water and sanitation a reality in South Africa since apartheid ended in 1994. A household survey as part of the formal national census in 2011 practical policies, good planning and monitoring of progress. The progressive principle is applied to not only provide access but also to continuously improve …
The present work aimed to investigate the main quality attributes that influence the purchase decisions of fresh berries. To this regard, an empirical survey has been conducted by interviewing 200 consumers of fresh berries at the exit of the main centers of the large scale retail trade in the city of Munich (Germany). An econometric model has been adopted to examine the relationship that singl…
Environmental conditions affect the individuals’ quality of life as well as physical, psychological and social well-being. Green areas play a key role in improving well-being perceived by the citizens in urban contexts. The direct and indirect experience with nature helps to reduce psychophysical stress, induces positive emotions, and facilitates renewal of cognitive resources. An example of …
Agroindustry is one of the sectors which provides a big support to national economy. However, the added value given by this sector is still low, particularly for processed products, most of the products exported by this sector are raw materials. Agroindustry sector in Indonesia is generally dominated by Small Medium Industries (SMIs) that still have to face various limitations in order to give …
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a dialectical framework for the examination of performance management in schools. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based upon a qualitative study of ten headteachers that involved in-depth semi-structured interviews. Findings – The findings identified four dialectical tensions that underpin performance management in schools: th…
As a component of a complex program studying musk deer ecology in the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve, a survey of the musk deer population density, based on pellet group count method, was carried out at stationary posts from 2012 to 2014. The use of this method in the snowless season provides a means of surveying the most hard-to-reach areas of the musk deer habitat. Keywords: Musk deer Mos…
Quality non-dairy creamer was influenced by the color and the stability of emulsion. Non dairy creamer used a natural emulsifier ie protein concentrates derived from the class of Leguminosae. This study aimed to assess the effect of the concentration of sodium caseinate and protein concentrate source on the quality (physico-chemical and organoleptic). This study used two factors were sodium cas…
Solar energy is one of the free and clean sources of energy supply without any destructive influence on the environment. Solar energy has been used in different forms for a long time. Concentrators of solar radiation can be used to produce unlimited, clean and free energy and save fossil fuels considerably. One of important applications of solar energy is to manufacture solar wood drying uni…
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the viewpoint that student role identity, its dimensions and salience, impact strongly on student expectations of college-based higher education (CBHE) within the UK. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on doctoral research undertaken within the context of CBHE in the UK and is further supported through engagement with a range of…
Greening material is a plant which is installed in buildings using a panel to reduce the impact of the environmental deterioration. In this research, we used a moss plant (Sphagnum sp) as a greening material. In 2014, we are ready to apply the prototype as a greening material product in Merapi Disaster Prone Area as pre-commercialization phase. The purpose of this research was to pursue the fin…
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to improve the critical thinking of biology students of STKIP Hamzanwadi Selong on an environment course through the implementation of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and Group Investigation (GI) through Lesson Study. Design/methodology/approach – This study employed a descriptive qualitative method. The subjects of the study were 73 freshmen biology stu…
The rheological behaviour of untreated and pasteurized white carrot juice was modelled to investigate the influence of temperature on viscosity and its fluid type. The research was conducted using a rotational viscometer at shear rates ranging from 1 to 100 s-1 and temperatures between 10 and 60