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This collection summarises key advances in crop modelling, with a
focus on developing the next generation of crop and whole-farm
models to improve decision making and support for farmers. Chapters
in Part 1 review advances in modelling individual components of
agricultural systems, such as plant responses to environmental
conditions, crop growth stage prediction, nutrient and water
cycling as well as pest/disease dynamics. Building on topics
previously discussed in Part 1, Part 2 addresses the challenges of
combining modular sub-systems into whole farm system, landscape and
regional models. Chapters cover topics such as integration of
rotations and livestock, as well as landscape models such as
agroecological zone (AEZ) models. Chapters also review the
performance of specific models such as APSIM and DSSAT and the
challenges of developing decision support systems (DSS) linked with
such models. The final part of the book reviews wider issues in
improving model reliability such as data sharing and the supply of
real-time data, as well as crop model inter-comparison. With its
distinguished editor and range of experienced and expert chapter
authors, this collection will be a standard reference for crop
modellers and developers of decision support systems to improve the
efficiency and sustainability of farming.
Soil Physical Chemistry, Second Edition takes up where the last edition left off. With comprehensive and contemporary discussions on equilibrium and kinetic aspects of major soil chemical process and reactions this excellent text/reference presents new chapters on precipitation/dissolution, modeling of adsorption reactions at the mineral/water interface, and the chemistry of humic substances. An emphasis is placed on understanding soil chemical reactions from a microscopic point of view and rigorous theoretical developments such as the use of modern in situ surface chemical probes such as x-ray adsorption fine structure (XAFS), Fournier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopies, and scanning probe microscopies (SPM) are discussed.
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Greener Living
Mamta Sharma, Hukam Singh, Upendra Singh
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R674
Discovery Miles 6 740
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Economic growth is directly impacted by a multitude of different
industries; in recent years, the service industry has emerged has a
significant contributor to the global economy. As such, the
effective management of this sector has become a widely studied
topic. The Handbook of Research on Promotional Strategies and
Consumer Influence in the Service Sector is an authoritative
reference source for the latest research on emerging methods for
innovative service design and delivery, examining how growing
customer expectations and global competition has influenced this
industry. Featuring quality factors, marketing tools, and the
effects of consumer behavior, this publication is ideally suited
for researchers, professionals, and academicians actively involved
in the service industry.
Cosemeceuticals, cosmetic formulations developed for pharmaceutical
purposes, has attracted attention of researchers across the globe
in recent years. Despite of extensive armamentarium available to
treat UV rays associated skin damage and subsequent photo-ageing,
search for a suitable alternative still remains elusive. This book
explicitly explains a representative study to formulate and
evaluate cosmeceutical formulation containing
multi-photoprotectants for effective protection from harmful
effects due to chronic exposure to sun rays. It is an attempt to
provide experimental insights in to the process and intricacies of
pharmaceutical product development, optimization and pre-clinical
efficacy studies in simplified manner for easy understanding to
serve as a start-up guide to scientific fraternity involved in the
field of cosmeceuticals.
This book explores the knowledge of health care professionals on
role of health communication for the integral growth of health care
management. This book is useful for all health care professionals
those are involved in health care and its management. Today the
communities around the world are taking advantage of the
communication methods to improve people's lives. They are using new
information and communication technologies to help and create
social and economic changes in areas as diverse as health,
education, culture, and democratic engagement. The expansion of
communication channels and health issues on the public agenda
increases competition for people's time and attention; at the same
time, people have more opportunities to select information based on
their personal interests and preferences. Health communication is
therefore an important area of communication. The study reveals
that Health Communication is very important in health care
management and the various methods used are effective and are
capable of making behavioral changes.
Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Its
incidence is the highest in primary school children and it is the
principal cause of school absenteeism. Prevalence of childhood
asthma in India is increasing day by day. It is important for
teachers and staff to be aware of the symptoms, triggers and the
management of asthma in the school environment. School teacher
could be a useful source of health information for students, but
they themselves would have to possess adequate and accurate
knowledge regarding asthma. The study revealed that the existing
knowledge of teachers on asthma among school children is moderate
but practices are very low. The enhancement in both knowledge and
practice is very much required. This research study is useful to
read by health personnel's, teachers, doctors, nurses and school
administrators, health administrators, persons involved in care of
sick children for gaining the knowledge on issue and better
handling & management of children with asthma.
Modern data processing techniques based on the concepts of
Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), which works on the analogy of
human brain, has emerged as one of the most powerful alternative
perspectives for complex geo-data analysis. ANN based techniques
are robust and have many advantages to handle large amount of data
sets. The main goal of the present book is to develop, apply and
compare various ANN based algorithms to construct subsurface
resistivity structure using the Schlumberger resistivity sounding
data. This book presents important results of ANN modeling of
geoelectrical sounding data from some of the crucial tectonic and
geologically important regions such as Barmer District of Rajasthan
and Puga Valley of Jammu & Kashmir. These modelling results are
important for ground water exploration and geothermal resources.
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