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Spatial Multivariate Cluster Analysis for Defining Target Population of Environments in West Africa for Yam Breeding
Tunrayo Alabi, Patrick Adebola, Asrat Asfaw, David De Koeyer, Antonio Lopez-Montes, Robert Asiedu
Jul 01, 2019
Yam (Dioscorea spp.) is a major staple crop with high agricultural and cultural significance for over 300 million people in West Africa. Despite its importance, productivity is miserably low. A better understanding of the...
Geoinformatics Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
Characteristics of Red Spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) Encroachment at Two Central Appalachian Heathland Study Areas
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, intensive land use nearly eliminated red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) throughout portions of West Virginia (WV). Red spruce has been slow to regenerate on mountaintop heathland...
Geoinformatics Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
Published by: IGI Global
Situated Learning Meets Community Needs
Gabriele Strohschen, David LaBuda, Pauline Scott, Jasmine Dash, Gail Debbs, Jeff Phillips
May 15, 2019
This chapter describes a community-based learning project (CbLP) in the Chicago West Side community of Austin. This learning setting provided the context for applying instructional strategies, methods, and techniques that are...
Published by: IGI Global
The Use of Chest Voice in African-American Religious Singing
Robert T. Townsend
Nov 19, 2013
Chest resonance is used during singing events in most African-American churches. Actually, it is the way of singing for most folk singing. I remember the presentation by a Russian professor demonstrating the folk singing of his...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Long Run and Short Run Linkages Between Credit and Output
An appropriate link between the financial sector and real sector is required to have a balanced growth and development of a country as well as its regional levels particularly for the countries whose financial developments are...
Published by: IGI Global
What is the optimal management of potentially resectable stage III-N2 NSCLC? Results of a fixed-effects network meta-analysis and economic modelling.
Matthew Evison, Ross Maconachie, Toby Mercer, Caitlin H Daly, Nicky J Welton, Shahzeena Aslam, Doug West, Neal Navani
Apr 17, 2023
INTRODUCTION: There is a critical need to understand the optimal treatment regimen in patients with potentially resectable stage III-N2 nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS: A systematic review of randomised controlled...
Daring to Stretch toward the Ultimate Consummation
Daniel Helminiak
Mar 16, 2022
Daniel A. Helminiak is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of West Georgia. He holds PhDs in theology and psychology and has published widely in these fields and their applications to spirituality and sexuality. Among...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Design of a Blockchain-Based Smart Contract Model for Child Labor Alleviation
The achievements of west and central Africa in producing more than 60% of the world's cocoa, and sub-Saharan Africa's achievement in producing 13% of the world's cotton, hide child labor. These significant levels of production...
Digital Divide & Developing Countries Computer Science and Information Technology IT Research and Theory
Published by: IGI Global
A Looking Forward
Alexandra Gillis
Mar 16, 2022
Alexandra Gillis is a teacher and educational researcher living in the city of Vancouver, on the territorial lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, amidst mountains and ocean of Canada’s west coast. She has...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Enhancing Service Sector Productivity in Palestine
This article discusses the productivity of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector using cross-sectional data from 793 service firms in Palestine. The authors have examined the impact of ICT growth on service...
Published by: IGI Global
Hope in the Age of the Anthropocene
Brian Treanor
Jan 07, 2019
Today we are faced with all the traditional reasons to despair: poverty, loneliness, loss, tragedy, death, and the like. And, for many, this despair is exacerbated by either the modern disenchantment of the world, or a...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Sorting Out Fuzzy Transportation Problems via ECCT and Standard Deviation
A well-organized arithmetical procedure entitled standard deviation is employed to find the optimum solution in this paper. This technique has been divided into two parts. The first methodology deals with constructing the entire...
Published by: IGI Global
A Cross-National Study on the Perception of Algorithm News in the East and the West
Donghee Shin
Mar 01, 2021
Although algorithms have been widely used to deliver useful services, how users actually experience algorithm-driven news remains unclear. This study examines user attitude and perception of algorithmic journalism and identifies...
Published by: IGI Global
Value Chain Mapping of Tourism in Birbhum
Tourism is one of the most enhancing and continuous developing economic sectors throughout the world. The main objective of the study is to develop a proper value chain mapping on Birbhum tourism, along with generation of...
Business and Management Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management Hospitality, Travel, & Tourism Management
Published by: IGI Global
Mapping Intrinsic Vulnerability to Pollution Using the DRASTIC Method in the Temara Groundwater (Northwestern Morocco)
the DRASTIC method was chosen because it can be adapted to different environments and because it combines the seven criteria that directly influence groundwater: depth, recharge, geology, soil, slope, unsaturated zone and...
Published by: IGI Global
STOP AND GO (AWAY)
TO UNDERSTAND THE LINGUISTIC CLIMATE of Newfoundland, one must look not only at the linguistic variation that exists among Newfoundland speakers, but also at what underlies and drives this variation. It is clear that social...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The State Route 520 Floating Bridge in Seattle, Washington
Cheryl L White
Apr 09, 2013
The four longest floating bridges in the world are located in Seattle, Washington on the North West Coast of the United States of America. At 2.3 km long and 35 m wide, the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also known as the...
Civil Engineering (ENGI 8751) (Case Study) (Civil) (Floating Bridge) (SR 520) (Concrete Pontoons) (Seattle, Washington) (Evergreen Point Bridge)
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Qualitative Analysis of 3D Routing Algorithms in 3×3×3 Mesh NoC Topology Under Varying Load in Bio-SoC
This article presents a qualitative analysis of a 3D routing algorithm in a 3×3×3 mesh NOC topology. The effect of load variation on throughput, total energy, and maximum delay for different types of routing is observed. The...
Published by: IGI Global
Data Capture and Presentation in the Romanian Online Dialect Atlas
RODA,the Romanian Online Dialect Atlas (Embleton, Uritescu, and Wheeler 2002, 2004,2006, in press), is a two-stage project involving (I) the transfer of data from a hard copy atlas of the Crisana dialect of Romanian (Stan and...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Performance Analysis of Select ESG Funds in India
The creation of the “Jones Sustainability Index” in 1999, the “Asia Pacific Index” in 2009 and other indices have made it easier for investors to select companies with a best-in-class approach to ‘economic’, ‘environmental’ and...
Published by: Singh Publication
The Nakba Continues
Drawing on postcolonial and settler-colonial studies, this article accounts for the settler-colonial nature of the Jewish state, which is founded on the cadastral displacement and effacement of Palestinians, who are dehumanized...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Diverse Contexts Within an Inuit School Setting—Schooling in Nunavik
Kirk Anderson
Jun 29, 2022
This is a qualitative case study of one school in one of the 14 communities of Nunavik. Nunavik is an Inuit Nunangat region located at the Northern tip of Quebec. Nunavik is also bounded by Hudson Bay to the west, Nunavut to the...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
Decrease in Soil Functionalities and Herbs' Diversity, but Not That of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Linked to Short Fire Interval in Semi-Arid Oak Forest Ecosystem, West Iran.
The semi-arid forest ecosystems of western Iran dominated by Quercus brantii are often disturbed by wildfires. Here, we assessed the effects of short fire intervals on the soil properties and community diversity of...
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