technology agriculture and the arts

... to buy our land But how can you buy or sell the sky? The land? The idea is strange to us If we not own the freshness of the air and the (5) sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part ... know the blood that courses through our veins We are part of the earth and it is part of us The perfumed flowers are our sisters The (15) bear, the deer, the great eagle, these are our brothers The ... crests, the juices in the meadow, the body heat of the pony, and man, all belong to the same family The shining water that moves in the streams (20) and rivers is not just water, but the blood...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 17:20

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Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 11:20

... are the most abundant soils of tropical Asia, AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE HUMID TROPICS 24 AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE HUMID TROPICS 25 AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE ... systems will mean the loss of much of the remaining tropical forests and wetlands, the endemic plant and animal species, and the values they represent Agricultural lands and forested lands are often ... in the humid tropics EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 18 19 PART ONE 20 AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE HUMID TROPICS 21 Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics The wide belt of land and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... profile and summary gives the reader an abstract view of the business plan and determines whether the document is worth further consideration It is usually the first section read and the last ... buildings dimensions, age, and condition The outline of land should describe the cultivated acreage, woodland, and other significant features such as land type and whether or not it is tile drained ... the value of assets These changes in asset values may reflect inflation and/ or changes in market demand Depending upon the age of the business, the differences between the market value, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... towards the Figure The Broncelli Polyptych by Giotto and his school (1334) The lower parts show an enlargement of the inner, left-hand panel Symmetry and asymmetry in aesthetics and the arts 165 ... portrait, but the broad picture could not be explained away in those Symmetry and asymmetry in aesthetics and the arts 167 terms The next step therefore was to explore the hypothesis further in the much ... the Madonna and Child at the beginning of the Renaissance (top) and at the end of the Renaissance (bottom) Figure The percentage of portrayals of the Madonna and Child in which the Madonna, the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20

... direction of their capabilities and how these capabilities expand and alter Penrose (1959) saw the growth of a firm as based on the possession and development of unique and idiosyncratic resources The ... shaped by the firm’s assets and the evolution path it has adopted or inherited These theories emphasize the significance of knowledge, and place the practices that surround the development and use ... transaction costs and of the resource-based theory of the firm and overcome their limitations He compares and contrasts the two theories and discusses the weaknesses of the approaches He argues that transaction...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... 2000) The blending of transaction costs economics and the resource-based theory makes it possible to understand the constraints and the limitations that the costs of using the hierarchies and the ... necessary to understand the firm The understanding of the factors affecting the choice between inclusion and exclusion, including the costs of using respectively the markets and the internal hierarchies, ... according to the combined costs of production and coordination on the one hand and the combined costs of purchasing and using the markets on The role of localized knowledge 35 the other Coordination...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... clauses and tax all rolled together The second is more sophisticated in that it seeks to offer the consumer not the manufactured product itself but rather the goal that the purchase of the manufactured ... process and activity The problem for both academics conceptualizing the process and for firms themselves is how wide should they conceive the process to be For firms themselves, part of the reason ... discussing the film with friends and colleagues afterwards and remembering it in connection with other films and books after the event? With the exception of Greenfield (1966, pp 8–9) few researchers in the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... capability If the identification of capabilities, and indeed formulating these in the context of activities and complementarity, is a dynamic and emergent process, we can examine these further in the contexts ... A5.1 94 Innovation and firm strategy The chapter is organized in the following way Sections and present the theoretical concepts and models that we use to analyse and compare the two banks’ development ... from one technology to another under the threat that other banks will make this move faster and be successful in adopting the new technology thereby gaining a first mover advantage (Robinson and Fornell,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... competition on the one hand, with call centres, and on the other hand, with PC connections in the near future It was acknowledged that the work on the BDT platform was running late and consumed ... between the customer’s operations and the carrying out of the transaction by the bank; and (4) a possibility to subscribe online to minitel banking, and to look and research the movements on the ... had the job of configuring the server, designing the web pages, and adapting them to an Internet environment At the same time the BDT team suggested in a document that in the future, when the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... regarding the structure of their relationships and the motives behind the definition of these strategies; analysing the process of establishment and management of distant relationships and discussing the ... difficulties and underlying strategies The research involved: mapping the network of NBFs’ technology and market-oriented relationships and assessing the importance attributed to and the roles performed ... new biotechnology firms This chapter is arranged as follows Section examines the network structure of the biotechnology industry, focusing on the role of the new biotechnology firms and the importance...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... lend themselves to meaningful interpretation, and a few of the meaningful themes appear quite randomly across the 180 patents, as indeed they should on the basis of their content The 12 themes ... understand if the success of the US model is specific to particular areas – or stages – of biotechnology Will the infusion of biotechnology into agriculture and foods require other models? And will ... exploitation, and they are the key source for the data analysed below The chapter is structured as follows We first review and discuss the literature on discontinuities and distributed innovation, and relate...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... to the 1980s To conclude, the pattern is entirely inconsistent with – and in some respects the opposite from – the model from the technology cycle literature We may assume, therefore, that the ... titles and abstracts we identify the major R&D themes and their evolution through the 1990s A partial fusion of food R&D with nutraceutical and pharma-related issues emerges towards the end of the ... becomes the R&D agenda in which they provide the cognitive ordering of collaborative projects that make them assignees of resultant patents The research mandate of GRIs in this field, on the other hand,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... to try and model technology and economy The impacts and feedbacks through the other subsystems will be reflected qualitatively in the macroeconomic model structure and through scenarios The objective ... (1996), The private and social returns to research and development’, in B Smith and C Barfield (eds), Technology, R&D and the Economy, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Halperin, M R and A K ... one technology would eventually dominate the market with 100 per cent probability and this would not necessarily be the most effective technology, (the phenomenon of ‘lock-in’) The problem with the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... by the linearity of the Fisher–Pry plot The ␣ is the diffusion coefficient of the product to the market If the time span between Fϭ0.1 and Fϭ0.9, is conveniently taken to express the spread of the ... that the origin of the technology trajectory was the discovery of the transistor by Shockley et al in 1948 and the last core technology was the completion of 278 Long-term technological change and ... innovation indicates that there is no technology progress before or after the development time span because of the breakthrough of the origin and the maturation of technology after the time span It is...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 02:20

... more and more pesticides in attempting to control the pests, and therefore to the farmer we tremendously raised the cost and the frequency with which he then had to apply the pesticides, and also ... pome and stone fruits, and soybeans The project was jointly funded by the NSF, the USDA, and the USEPA The federal agencies coordinated their efforts, with NSF supporting basic research and the ... in finding the right balance between these two objectives they will understand the trade-offs involved and will continue to support the effort The strength of the IPM concept lies in the flexibility...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... sufficiently impact the host plant, the population dynamics of common groundsel and the rust, effects of the rust on weed competition, and the effect of pesticides on the infection process and on groundsel ... created by the elimination of other competing microbes They also sporulate abundantly in culture and on natural and artificial substrates and produce both conidia and chlamydospores The modes of ... the epidemic starts from these foci and that the pathogen’s inoculum sources needed to control the weed can be calculated from the number of inoculum sources (infection foci) and their spatial...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... damage reduction (the value of the last unit used) equals the marginal cost As a result, the prices of crops, pesticides, and other practices should influence the use of pesticides and other pest control ... aids, and growth regulators For the crops included, cotton, fruits, and vegetables accounted for virtually all of the quantity in the late 1990s.† Growth in the use of fumigants on potatoes and other ... during the 1964–1971 period to over 60 million lb in the 1990s The use of growth regulators, desiccants, and harvest aids on cotton and other crops account for most of the acreage treated with “other...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21