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Climate Change has become a global concern and emerging threat to earth's climate and there is now overwhelming scientific consensus that it is happening, and human-induced. Factors that are contributing to climate change, among them aerosols have not yet revealed all of their clear climate-influencing roles and still uncertainties exist.Both natural and human processes contribute to aerosol concentrations but Anthropogenic activities such as ...

This book focused on the heavy metal concentrations in the different parts of 12 species of Malaysian intertidal molluscs, six species of bivalves and gastropods, respectively. The aim of this book is to provide information on the concentrations of the essential metals: Cu, Fe and Zn and the non-essential metals: Cd, Ni and Pb in the edible tissues of molluscs with particular reference to the food safety and ecotoxicological points of views. T...

The thesis focuses on student written plagiarism as a research problem. From prior research on plagiarism and scientific knowledge three hypotheses are developed: intentional plagiarism as an easy way to perform an assignment, unintentional plagiarism caused by misleading flow of digital texts, unawareness of instructions, and lack of feedback, and different identity of students, as opposed to scholars.

Who would have thought that in the twenty-first century, the enslavement of human beings would still exist? Though distinct from the classic legal slave trade, contemporary slavery is a harsh reality, lived daily by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. This manuscript investigates the situation in the region of the Amazon of Maranhão where the majority of slaves work on farms or carvoarias. It then asks why such an atrocity still exists....

Due to the relatively high environmental importance of endemic species on the regional ecosystems of Southern Sinai, to consider a taxon as endemic without specifying a geographic range is meaningless. Because the ranges of taxa change over time, time must also be specified, or at least understood. Changes in the ranges of species, either by invasion (range extension) or by range contraction, change the percentage endemism within a given area....

I have immense pleasure to bring out this thesis which is basically designed to covers the determinants and dimensions of food insecurity at urban household level. This thesis was written for fulfilling partial requirements of Master's Degree in Economics in Mekelle University in 2011. This thesis will useful for researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate level students.This thesis will equally serves both social and natural science students ...

The essence of pharmaceutical formulations such as tablets gets defeated due to problems with disintegration, dissolution and consequently absorption. Bioavailability of solid dosage forms plays a crucial role in formulations and usually calls the attention of drug regulators. This book seeks to bring to the fore a scientific investigation into the dissolution and implicitly the efficacies of certain brands of albendazole tablets (anthelmintic...

Can Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) contribute to human development and poverty reduction in Egypt? The author argues that poverty alleviation, human development and disaster risk reduction are strongly interdependent in the case of Egypt. Progress towards the attainment of the first two objectives will not be achieved unless more attention is given to the DRR discourse. The thesis explores various initiatives undertaken by the Government of Egy...

Power and machinery is a single largest cost component, constituting about 60% of the total investment cost on mechanized farm. The profit of a farm depends, to a great extent, on the appropriate mechanization planning of the farm. Selection of proper size of power source(s) and its matching equipment is of paramount importance for an efficient mechanization planning.The bottleneck in the farm mechanization planning has been due to complexity ...

This book examines historically and critically the nature of the human-divine paradox as typified by two late renaissance Italian artists: Carlo Crivelli and Giovanni Bellini. Each artist's painting depicts the Trinity. The fundamental question is how well does each artist achieve an appropriate mix of human and divine in the persons of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and within the unity of the Godhead.

Roughness is an auditory attribute produced by rapid temporal envelope fluctuations, and it has been related to musical dissonance. After reviewing the main theories that explain the origin of roughness, a software program created for reducing dissonance through roughness is presented. This software application, based on a spectral model (a physical predictor of the auditory attribute), is able to control (usually, to reduce) the predicted rou...

This book discusses the pace of economic integration in the South Asia and throws light on regionalisation and its institutional, economic, financial and monetary dimensions.South Asian countries maintain a higher level of protection within the region than with the rest of the world. Restrictive policies neutralised the beneficial effects of common cultural affinity, common geography, and the 'gravitational' pull of proximity on movement of go...

This books concerns with the relationship between Psychology as a cognitive discipline and the logical foundation on which psychological theories can be based. This book is dealing with Gestalt psychological theory from the point of philosophy of science where concern is given to the logical foundation on which all developments of Gestalt psychology can be reduced. The central base of Gestalt psychology based on what we call relational structu...

For years it has been pointed out the topicality of a revision of some of the landscape's interpretative paradigms, in the awareness of the fact that the contemporary landscape expresses itself prevalently in the ordinary contexts, whose well-established images and shared value's attributions can not exist. Taking in a critical way the European Landscape Convention's definition (landscape as area, as perceived by people) and starting from a cr...

The author investigated the application of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) to the task of signature verification. Traditional RNNs are capable of modeling dynamical systems with hidden states, they have been successfully applied to domains ranging from financial forecasting to control and speech recognition. This manuscript is the result of successfully applying on-line signature time series data to traditional L...

What was the contribution of James Wilson of Pennsylvania to the successful ratification of the U.S. Constitution? Specifically, what impact did his speech given in the Pennsylvania State House Yard on October 6, 1787, have? For many Americans, it was the arguments put forth by Wilson in the State House Yard Speech that framed the Federalist rationale for ratification. The impact of Wilson's speech can be seen in the large number of essays tha...

This book deals with the techniques to solve elliptic eigenvalue problems on polygonal domains using least squares methods. It provides an in-depth treatment of an exponentially accurate nonconforming h-p spectral element method. The spectral element functions are nonconforming and a correction is made to the approximate solution so that the corrected solution is conforming. In this book we discuss the method separately when the boundary of un...

South Africa may be seen as a tourism success story based on the significant growth of the tourism industry over the last decade and the contribution thereof on the economy. One of the fastest growing sectors of the tourism industry is events. A critical issue facing the successful management of tourism is the trend towards responsible tourism practices. The South African government and tourism stakeholders have developed strategies which plac...

510 males with ischemic heart disease were asked to fill out the abridged five-item version of the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF-5. 90.4% (461) of the respondents reported some degree of erectile dysfunction(IIEF-5 score >22). 24.5% have mild ED, 26.7% have mild to moderate ED, 5.5% have moderate ED and 33.7% have severe ED. Age above 60 years old and diuretic are the most significant risk factors for ED by logistic regression...

Remote Access of process control devices deals with devices with very limited computing resources with high cost sensitivity such as light switches, dish washers, washing machines, thermostats, dimmers and motion sensors, to name a few. Control devices are practically everywhere around us. Remote Access of Process Control devices is an embedded system project using which we can control the operation of any process device from a computer which ...