Land degradation continues to be an enormous challenge human societies, reducing food security, emitting greenhouse gases and aerosols, driving the loss of biodiversity, polluting water, undermining a wide range ecosystem services beyond supply water climate regulation. Climate change will exacerbate several processes. Investment in diverse restoration efforts, including sustainable agricultura...

In late August 2005, 80 researchers from more than 15 countries convened for a 4-day conference entitled “The Tenth Anniversary of 51 Peg b: Status and Prospects for Hot Jupiter Studies”. The meeting was held at l’Observatoire de Haute-Provence, the location of the 1.93-m telescope and ELODIE spectrograph used to discover the planetary companion to 51 Peg roughly 10 years ago. I summarize sever...

A decision support system with over one billion rows of data has been developed at Lands’ End using the IBM DATABASE 2” (DB2@) relational database management system. This corporate database is a subset of an Information Warehouse” framework and functions as both a decision support system server and an application enabler. The corporate database uses operational data gathered from order processi...

background: dental waste can be hazardous to humans and the environment. objective: to determine the current status of dental waste management in private and public dental clinics and private dental offices in shiraz, southern iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted at the shiraz university of medical sciences from february through june 2013. a stratified random sampling method ...

The emerging environmental problem in the tanning industry is disposal of chromium-contaminated sludge soil. In Walajapet Taluk Vellore District, distribution and mobility chromium soils surrounding tannery waste region were explored. This paper presents soil contamination agricultural lands located SIPCOT Industrial complex near India. 64 samples collected from 15 different villages, analyzed ...

1. Significance of Land Reclamation 2. Evaluation of Possible Expansion of Arable Lands 3. Peculiarities and Principles of Efficiency Evaluation 4. History of the Question 5. Expenses for Construction of Reclamation Systems and Land Development 6. Running Costs. Income 7. Methods of Economic Efficiency Evaluation 7.1 Traditional Methods 7.2 Discounting methods. 7.3 Uncertainty and Risk Calculat...

In a remote area of Rhodesia, 4051 rural Africans were examined. Emphasis was placed on examination of the eye although attention was also devoted to any other complaints. The main finding was of a follicular conjunctivitis, two-thirds of these cases being judged to be due to trachoma. Pathology was found more frequently in the younger patients, in whom there was a high incidence of acute purul...

The article contains information about a newly developed technology for processing waste from logging and woodworking enterprises. developers have proposed an environmentally friendly organic into product that has strong land-reclamation effect increases the natural potential of soils. by authors is based on unique technical capabilities machine - highly efficient mill grinds nano-sized finenes...