Abstract Over the past decades, a large area of peat swamp forests in Indonesia has been cleared original forest cover and developed as agricultural lands. Several important issues are associated with clearing drainage areas, including loss biodiversity, increased emission Green House Gases (GHGs), smoke/haze pollution. Moreover, development large-scale oil palm plantations did not always impro...

Rodents are mammals that comprise more than 2000 species and approximately 30 families. There are many morphological and ecological differences among them as variations in their shape, size, weight and habitat. In addition to significant economic losses, rodents have a major role in the dissemination of infectious diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites or other micro-organisms. Rodents...

Centre for International Child Health, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, VIC. Trevor Duke, MD, FRACP, FJFICM, Senior Lecturer and Paediatrician. Reprints will not be available from the author. Correspondence: Dr Trevor Duke, Centre for International Child Health, Department of Paediatrics, Royal Children’s Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkvi...

This paper reports on a project involving software selection in the context of a curriculum redesign of a university level Japanese language program. The project aimed to improve learning outcomes, increase flexibility in student access, and increase flexibility in approaches to teaching and learning, through the use of a variety of software packages and digital resources. In doing so, an imper...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has brought about first and foremost by the nonstop changing businesses. New products, new customers, new partners, new counterparts, and ambitious business process management implay ongoing software modifications. Point-to-point integration of enterprise resource planning systems, legacy systems and other enterprise applications cause out of control costs as...

Sludge produced by municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) amounts to only a few percent by volume of the processed wastewater, but its handling accounts for up to 50% of total operating costs. Moreover, the need to achieve a sustainable sludge management strategy has become of great concern. It follows that as conventional and more traditional options, such as land spreading for agricult...