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Utilizing Information Technology Systems Across Disciplines: Advancements in the Application of Computer Science (Premier Reference Source)
In the information technology age coupled with computer advances, information systems have become an
integral part of many disciplines; accordingly, business, marketing, medicine, communication, banking,
geography, physics, chemistry, aviation, pilots, forensics, agriculture, and even traf.c lights have one
thing in common called... | | Effects of Pollution on Fish: Molecular Effects and Population ResponsesIn April l999 an article appeared in Fishing News under the headline ‘Dredging and pollution hit stocks far more than fishing’. The article reported on claims made by an environmental group that these two anthropogenic impacts are causing a far greater decline of fish stocks in the North Sea than ‘supposed overfishing’ and... | | |
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Global Intellectual Property Rights: Knowledge, Access and DevelopmentIntellectual property rights such as patents can reduce access to knowledge in genetics, health, agriculture, education, and information technology, particularly for people in developing countries. Global Intellectual Property Rights shows how the new global rules of intellectual property have been the product of the strategic behavior of... | | Nanomaterials and Plant Potential
This book discusses the latest developments in plant-mediated fabrication of metal and metal-oxide nanoparticles, and their characterization by using a variety of modern techniques. It explores in detail the application of nanoparticles in drug delivery, cancer treatment, catalysis, and as antimicrobial agent, antioxidant and the... | | Understanding Vineyard SoilsTerroir connotes a sense of place that imparts a distinctive character to wine. A central component of terroir is the soil and its immediate surroundings. Thus, an understanding of the basic properties of soils and how they function as a "living skin" on the earth's surface is of fundamental importance to grape growers and winemakers.... |
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Food Packaging Technology (Sheffield Packaging Technology)This is a very useful book addressing a wide range of scientists (professors, researchers, technologists and manufacturers of packaging machinery) involved in the field of packaging. … This book will prove a necessary and potent companion … for [those] in the field … . - Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture,... | | The Handy Weather Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)It is no exaggeration to say that weather affects everything we do in our lives. Weather influences how we dress, changes our plans for outdoor activities, cancels sporting events, closes airports, changes the course of wars, erodes mountains, destroys entire towns and cities, and has even been blamed for the death of U.S. President William Henry... | | Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture
The miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. Estimates of the net energy balance of agriculture in the United States show that ten calories of hydrocarbon energy are required to produce one calorie of food. Such an imbalance cannot ... |
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