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Improving Soil Health (Hardcover)
William R. Horwath; Contributions by William R. Horwath, Michelle M. Wander, Regina O'Kelley, David D. Myrold, …
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R4,735
Discovery Miles 47 350
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Agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to climate change.
More sustainable crop production based on agroecological principles
is seen as a key solution to this challenge. Understanding and
improving soil health is the foundation for this approach.
Improving soil health provides a considered assessment of key
management strategies to enhance the physical, chemical and
biological health of soils in achieving sustainable improvements in
crop yields. The book reviews the role of cultivation practices as
well as organic and other soil amendments, such as biofertilizers.
By assessing the dimensions of soil health, and reviewing the
wealth of evidence on how well individual techniques contribute to
improving soil, the book shows how farmers can achieve sustainable
improvements in both productivity and profitability. Improving soil
health will be a standard reference for researchers in soil and
crop science, government and other agencies responsible for the
health of agricultural soils, companies providing soil monitoring
and management services and farmers wishing to further their
knowledge on the latest developments in effective soil management.
With the evolution of technology and sudden growth in the number of
smart vehicles, traditional Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs) face
several technical challenges in deployment and management due to
less flexibility, scalability, poor connectivity, and inadequate
intelligence. VANETs have raised increasing attention from both
academic research and industrial aspects resulting from their
important role in driving assistant system. Vehicular Ad Hoc
Networks focuses on recent advanced technologies and applications
that address network protocol design, low latency networking,
context-aware interaction, energy efficiency, resource management,
security, human-robot interaction, assistive technology and robots,
application development, and integration of multiple systems that
support Vehicular Networks and smart interactions. Simulation is a
key tool for the design and evaluation of Intelligent Transport
Systems (ITS) that take advantage of communication-capable vehicles
in order to provide valuable safety, traffic management, and
infotainment services. It is widely recognized that simulation
results are only significant when realistic models are considered
within the simulation tool chain. However, quite often research
works on the subject are based on simplistic models unable to
capture the unique characteristics of vehicular communication
networks. The support that different simulation tools offer for
such models is discussed, as well as the steps that must be
undertaken to fine-tune the model parameters in order to gather
realistic results. Moreover, the book provides handy hints and
references to help determine the most appropriate tools and models.
This book will promote best simulation practices in order to obtain
accurate results.
Features Provide a state-of-the-art description of the
physiological, biochemical, and molecular status of the
understanding of abiotic stress in plants. Addressing factors that
are threatening future food production and providing potential
solutions of these factors. Design to cater to the needs of those
students engaged in the field of environmental sciences, soil
sciences, agricultural microbiology, plant pathology, and agronomy.
New strategies have pointed in this book for the better crop
productivity and yield. Understanding of new techniques pointed out
in this book will open the possibility of genetic engineering in
crop plants with the concomitant improved stress tolerance.
This book provides insights into recent developments in the use of
mulching in agroecosystems with emphasis on the major pros and
cons. Increase in human population, climatic changes and
agricultural intensification have put enormous pressure on soil and
water resources. As a result, we are confronted with challenges to
enhance nutrient and water use efficiencies and conserve soil
organic matter without compromising crop yields and food security.
Increasing the soil organic matter (SOM) via residue return
increased nutrient availability and soil physical and biological
properties. Management practices, such as straw mulching or
incorporation, have significant effects on soil health. Straw
addition also increases functionality related to carbon and N
metabolism via increasing the microbes and thus greatly contributes
to CO2 and N2O emissions. However, the co-use of organic and
inorganic fertilizer reduces the N2O emission without compromising
crop yield. Mulching has long been advocated to conserve soil
moisture and increase the efficiency of macro- and micro-nutrients
by improving soil physical, chemical, and biological properties.
These effects of mulch are translated into better crop yields while
improving soil health and quality in the long run. Therefore, the
use of mulching techniques is on the rise in organic as well as
conventional agriculture. The book is of great interest for
researchers, academics, agriculture extensionists, soil and plant
scientist, fertilizer industry, farmers, agro-industrial workers,
farm managers, NGOs, and climate and civil society activists.
The book "Blockchain and AI in Cyber Physical System (CPS)"
explores the intersection of blockchain technology, artificial
intelligence (AI), and cyber physical systems (CPS). It discusses
how these technologies can be integrated to create secure and
efficient CPS solutions. The book covers various topics, including
the basics of blockchain and AI, their applications in CPS, and the
challenges of integrating these technologies. It also explores
real-world examples of how blockchain and AI are being used in CPS,
such as in smart cities, transportation systems, and healthcare.
The authors delve into the technical aspects of how blockchain and
AI can be used together to enhance CPS security, data privacy, and
interoperability. They also discuss the potential benefits and
limitations of these technologies and provide insights into the
future of CPS. Overall, this book provides a comprehensive overview
of the use of blockchain and AI in CPS, making it a valuable
resource for researchers, professionals, and students in the fields
of computer science, engineering, and cybersecurity.
There are many current threats to the citrus industry, this is a
timely effort to publish a book covering recent challenges and
progress to their approaches to improve conditions. This book is
useful to researchers, academicians, scientists to enhance and
boost their knowledge for further research on citrus. There are few
reviews and books dealing with various aspects of citrus industry.
Existing publications are over 10 years old and do not have recent
updated knowledge of citrus industry. Global appeal - Citrus is
mainly produced commercially in 140 countries, primary producers
are Brazil, China, United States, and Mexico.
Petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil
is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products, such
as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, and
liquefied petroleum gas, it consist of several units which have
great importance such as Heat exchanger trains, Pre flash tower,
Crude distillation tower and Vacuum distillation.It is important to
size and design distillation tower properly and expertly to get
desire products of petroleum with their required specifications.
This report work is divided in to seven chapters. First three
chapters discuss about introduction, history and main process which
are carried out in refinery. Chapter four discuss important factors
which have sound impact on distillation operation, chapter five
discusses about the Designing of crude distillation tower for 6000
BPSD production. Chapter six and seven Discuss about selection of
necessary equipments used in fuel refinery such as pumps, heat
exchangers, valves etc. And lastly the utilities require for plant
operation.
Biomedical Engineering Tools for Management of Patients with
COVID-19 presents biomedical engineering tools under research (and
in development) that can be used for the management of COVID-19
patients, along with BME tools in the global environment that
curtail and prevent the spread of the virus. BME tools covered in
the book include new disinfectants and sterilization equipment,
testing devices for rapid and accurate COVID-19 diagnosis, Internet
of Things applications in COVID-19 hospitals, analytics, Data
Science and statistical modeling applied to COVID-19 tracking,
Smart City instruments and applications, and more. Later sections
discuss smart tools in telemedicine and e-health. Biomedical
engineering tools can provide engineers, computer scientists,
clinicians and other policymakers with solutions for managing
patient treatment, applying data analysis techniques, and applying
tools to help the general population curtail spread of the virus.
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