DESIGNING A PEST AND DISEASE OUTBREAK WARNING SYSTEM FOR FARMERS, AGRONOMISTS AND AGRICULTURAL INPUT DISTRIBUTORS IN EAST AFRICA

Designing a Pest and Disease Outbreak Warning System for Farmers, Agronomists and Agricultural Input Distributors in East Africa

Early warnings of the risks of pest and disease outbreaks are becoming more urgent, with substantial increases in threats to agriculture from invasive pests.With geospatial data improvements in quality and timeliness, models and analytical systems can be used to estimate potential areas at high risk of yield impacts.The development of decision supp

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The resilience of Chinese minorities: Transformation of Chinese entrepreneurs in Lasem batik industry, Central Java, Indonesia

The Lasem batik industry underwent a significant dynamic change after the inauguration gildan antique orange of batik as an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO on October 2, 2009.The increasing growth of the batik industry in Lasem turned out to affect the decline in industrial ownership by Chinese-Indonesian business person.Although the Chinese

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Genotype-phenotype correlation in phenylketonuria

Introduction.Phenylketonuria is an inborn metabolism error with a high phenotypical variability, due in part to the large number of implicated genetical variants (over 1200 reported) but also due to other factors.Establishing a genotype=phenotype correlation, accessible today through molecular testing, is an important instrument for diagnostical ac

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Customizing Android Tablets for a Shared Environment

The Valley Library at Oregon State University Libraries & Press rusk 6.66rr supports access to technology by lending laptops and e-readers.As a newcomer to tablet lending, The Valley Library chose to implement its service using Google Nexus tablets and an open source custom firmware solution, CyanogenMod, a free, community-built Android distributio

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The Stability of Some Galaxy Disks is Still Perplexing

The problem of how some disk galaxies avoid forming bars remains unsolved.Many galaxy models having reasonable properties continue to manifest vigorous instabilities that rapidly form strong bars and no widely accepted idea has yet been advanced to account for how some disk galaxies manage to avoid this instability.It is encouraging that not all ga

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