Drawing on the collective expertise of world authorities in the field, this comprehensive volume employs extensive use of tables and figures to demonstrate how ecologically sustainable agroecosystems can meet the challenges of enhancing crop productivity, soil fertility, and environmental sustainability. Divided into four sections, this book studies tree-crop interactions in tropical and temperate climates. It covers above and below ground interactions, alley cropping, tri-trophic interactions, ecologically based pest management, and the chemistry and practical potential of chemically mediated plant interactions. It demonstrates computer modeling to predict effective designs, and addresses the socio-economic factors including different farming systems and technological tools.
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Forestry
Agriculture
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Professional

Highlighting the competitive advantage available from using risk-based reliability design in the aerospace, automotive, defense, and shipbuilding industries, this book provides an overview of how to apply probabilistic approaches and reliability methods to practical engineering problems. Engineers from the industry and national labs as well as university researchers present success stories and quantify the benefits of reliability design for their organizations. They demonstrate how to convince colleagues and management of the potential benefits of these approaches in allowing their organizations to accrue significant benefits and increase dramatically their competitiveness.
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Quality Control & Reliability
SPC/Reliability/Quality Control
Aerospace Engineering
Reference
Professional

Ésta es una historia que te llevará a la India, a un animado viaje por el Himalaya, y que te ayudará a comprender la importancia de conservar los bosques.Todo comienza un mes de octubre muy caluroso, tanto que Tiojoven, su sobrino Ravi y sus sobrinas Sarita y Bebé convencen a Hermano Mayor y a Cuñada para ir al Himalaya de vacaciones. Cuando Tiojoven y su familia llegan al lúgubre y misterioso Hotel Pino-Lejano, pronto se dan cuenta de que sus vacaciones no van a ser muy tranquilas.Allí se encontrarán con fantasmas, deshonestos hombres de negocios, un cartero que tiene doscientos años y muchos otros personajes inolvidables. ¿Quién será la extraña Niña-Ratita que hechiza a los roedores para que salgan del hotel? ¿Podrán los niños y su excéntrico tío frustrar los turbios planes del Pradeep Daalmakhni, el director de una inmobiliaria? ¿Podrá Tiojoven ayudar a la futura esposa de Pradeep Daalmakhni a escapar de un destino peor que la muerte?

Esta colección presenta una panorámica sucinta y equilibrada de las religiones del mundo. Escrito con estilo directo, ágil e informativo, y sin presuponer ningún conocimiento previo por parte del lector, cada volumen ofrece una introducción básica a una fe particular ?historia, doctrina, prácticas y creencias?, subrayando su evolución en el mundo moderno y sin olvidar el papel e impacto fundamental de la religión en la sociedad actual. Este libro es una visión de conjunto, concisa y amena, de la historia del sijismo, desde su fundación en el Punjab en el siglo xvi hasta su actual expansión por todo el planeta. Centrada especialmente en el periodo moderno, proporciona una valiosa introducción a las creencias, las formas de devoción y el espacio sagrado contemporáneo de los sijs. El sijismo examina de qué forma esta tradición religiosa de ámbito regional se ha convertido en una religión global y cómo sigue adaptándose y enfrentándose a los retos del mundo moderno.

The third book in this series, Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement: Vegetable Crops, Volume 3 provides discussion subjects for each crop, including origin, germplasm collections, maintenance and exploration, taxonomy, gene-pools, germplasm diversity and enhancement through chromosome engineering, mutation breeding, and contributions of biotechnological methods. As the first comprehensive book on vegetable crops in more than a decade, it features recent advances in genetic analysis and molecular methods. This book serves as the standard reference for laying out the best paths for improving vegetable crop yield to maximize return on the investments made in establishing and growing these crops.
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Crop Science
Botany
Molecular Biology
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Professional

The fourth book in this new series is the first comprehensive treatise on oilseed crops in nearly a decade, including recent advances in genetic analysis and molecular methods. With each chapter written by an internationally renowned scientist, the book reviews the role of alien germplasm for the domestication and improvement of each major oilseed crop. Discussion for each crop covers origin, germplasm exploration and maintenance; taxonomy; germplasm enhancement through chromosome engineering; mutation breeding; and contributions of biotechnological methods. Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement: Oilseed Crops, Volume 4 serves as the standard reference for improving the yield for oilseed crops.
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Crop Science
Botany
Molecular Biology
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Professional

In response to an increasing demand for novel computing methods, Neural Networks for Applied Sciences and Engineering provides a simple but systematic introduction to neural networks applications. This book features case studies that use real data to demonstrate practical applications. It contains in-depth discussions of data, model validation, and uncertainty assessment issues, as well as data dimensionality and methods to reduce dimensionality. It provides detailed coverage of neural network types for extracting nonlinear patterns in multi-dimension scientific data, including multi-layer perceptron for nonlinear prediction and classification, self organization maps for discovery of unknown data clusters and recurrent networks for nonlinear time-series forecasting.
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Machine Learning
Intelligent Systems
Bioinformatics
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Professional

Presenting the latest economically and environmentally friendly methods for managing weeds, this compendium focuses on designing future weed management strategies that reduce herbicidal usage, restore ecological balance, and increase food production. It provides new insights and approaches for weed scientists, agronomists, agriculturists, horticulturists, farmers, and extentionists. Tables, figures, and more than 125 illustrations – including a color photo section – make complex information easy to access and understand. This comprehensive book, valuable to both professionals and students, is a vital addition to the debate over how global weed management is changing in the 21st century.
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Crop Science
Botany
Agriculture
Reference
Professional

Presenting the latest economically and environmentally friendly methods for managing weeds, this compendium focuses on designing future weed management strategies that reduce herbicidal usage, restore ecological balance, and increase food production. It provides new insights and approaches for weed scientists, agronomists, agriculturists, horticulturists, farmers, and extentionists. Tables, figures, and more than 125 illustrations – including a color photo section – make complex information easy to access and understand. This comprehensive book, valuable to both professionals and students, is a vital addition to the debate over how global weed management is changing in the 21st century.
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Crop Science
Botany
Agriculture
Reference
Undergraduate

The book collates and sifts a vast amount of literature on the design of structures in mining and construction industry to synthesise a comprehensive text on the subject area. The book will serve as a standard text for undergraduate courses in mining, civil engineering and engineering geology.
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Rock Mechanics
Mining Engineering
Reference
Professional