Earthworm services: an agroecological perspective

Farm animal genetic and genomic resources from an agroecological perspective

and Zerjal T (2015) Farm animal genetic and genomic resources from an agroecological perspective. Agroecology, as a scientific approach, relies on a better knowledge of biodiversity at all levels of organization and function, in order to better manage agricultural production systems, from farm scale to landscape. Ecological concepts such as functional redundancy, complementary use of resources,...

Licensing Services: An "Open" Perspective

Though service orientation is an incipient technology, the inherently infinite potentiality of services makes them to proliferate seamlessly, serving in myriad domains. Licensing of services enables to regulate the commercial use and modifications of service, retaining the copyright with owner of the service. With the growing influence of open source initiatives today, it becomes a significant ...

An Integral Approach to Agroecological Research

Recent Iranian Health System Reform: An Operational Perspective to Improve Health Services Quality

The operational management of healthcare services is expected to directly touch patient experiences. Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME) for the first time, as such, has sought to improve the operational management of healthcare delivery within a reform agenda by setting benchmarks for ‘number of visit per hour’ and waiting time in outpatient clinics of about 700 affiliated...

Agroecological Farming Systems

The term agroecology refers to ecosystems. Ecosystems are characterised by aspects such as nutrient cycling, population regulation, energy flows and a dynamic equilibrium. These characteristics apply to natural ecosystems, and, in a much altered form, also to manmade or agricultural ecosystems. The magnitude of the differences between natural and agricultural ecosystems depends mainly on the hu...