due to increasing importance of desertification challenges and its consequences the necessity of sustainabledevelopment achievement in arid and semi-arid regions is essential in order to avoid limited sources asting, increase the efficiency of controlling, reclamation and restoration projects of natural areas. based on the iterature review, it has been recognized that combating desertification ...

BeagleBone is a low cost, open hardware, expandable computer first introduced in November 2011 by BeagleBoard.org, a community of developers sponsored by Texas Instruments. Various BeagleBone variants, including the original BeagleBone and the new BeagleBone Black, host a powerful 32–bit, super–scalar ARM Cortex A8 processor operating from 720 MHz to 1 GHz. Yet, BeagleBone is small enough to fi...

Design and programme changes during refurbishment projects remain a considerable cause of concern for UK National Health Service (NHS) Estates managers, due to their potential to disrupt or delay projects and increase cost uncertainty. Similar concerns also impact on the engineering sector, especially in the production of complex, highly engineered products. The techniques developed to study an...

Formal quality-improvement (QI) projects require that participants are educated in QI methods to provide them with the capability to carry out successful, meaningful work. However, orchestrating a portfolio of projects that addresses the strategic mission of the institution requires an extension of basic QI training to provide the division or business unit with the capacity to successfully deve...

The Real Options approach has proved to be a suitable methodology for capturing the flexibility in the investment decision process. This is very useful for the financial evaluation of R&D projects where there are several possible decisions concerning to the investment – delaying, improving or abandoning. Since the risk of an R&D project is usually due to singular characteristics of the project ...

Introduction This paper briefly describes, compares, analyzes the methodologies and tools being used for monitoring and evaluation (M&E), and finally M&E experience of two major agricultural development projects in India namely Diversified Agricultural Support Project (DASP) being carried out in 32 districts of Uttar Pradesh and 5 districts of Uttranchal and National Agricultural Technology Pro...

This study aimed to evaluate the extent of benefits gained by indigenous people resettlement area in Barangay Camias, Municipality Porac, Pampanga, community-based development programs and projects University Makati as entrepreneurial livelihood programs, infrastructure developments, health services, social welfare projects. Descriptive-survey design was used describe present situation barangay...

Ten years after privatising agricultural extension in Brandenburg (North-eastern Germany) the political and economic conditions for integrating public goods issues have taken a change for the worse. The precarious financial and institutional structure of agro-environmental projects, government’s loss of influence on extension strategies and contents, and a lack of linkages between important reg...