Small-scale broiler farming has become one of the fastest-growing sub-sectors in Zimbabwe. However, profitability levels these small ventures have been questioned due to rising production costs owing highly inflationary macroeconomic environment. Using a sample 110 small-scale producers selected using exponential non-discriminative snowballing sampling method, paper analysed factors affecting f...

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In the tropical Andes, there have been very few systematic studies aimed at understanding the biomass burning dynamics in the area. This paper seeks to advance on our understanding of burning regimes in this region, with the first detailed and comprehensive assessment of fire occurrence and the derived gross biomass burning emissions of an area of the Peruvian tropical Andes. We selected an are...

The study focused on the production cost efficiency and profitability of Abakaliki rice in Ihialia Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria.. A random sampling technique was employed to select a total of 100 Abakaliki rice farmers from the study area. Data collection was achieved through the administration of structured questionnaire assisted with personal interview. Data analysis was do...

Australia is a rich first world nation. In 2007–08 it had a $1 trillion economy as measured by nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) with per capita income of over $A50 000. In recent years mining sector revenue has constituted a growing share of the national economy, reaching about 11 per cent of GDP in 2007–08 with a value of $A119 billion (Reserve Bank of Australia 2009). The Minerals Council...

The present study was conducted to investigate the impact of breeding season on the productivity and profitability of Barki flock. Simulation technique was used based on technical coefficients derived from statistical analysis of the basic data. Basic data utilized in this study were obtained from the accumulated records collected over 34 successive breeding seasons from 1972 to 2005 of Barki s...

A Gross space is a vector space E of infinite dimension over some field F , which is endowed with a symmetric bilinear form Φ : E → F and has the property that every infinite dimensional subspace U ⊆ E satisfies dimU < dimE. Gross spaces over uncountable fields exist (in certain dimensions) (see [G/O]). The existence of a Gross space over countable or finite fields (in a fixed dimension not abo...

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Examples 1.1. • Y ∼= P, D a nodal cubic. • Y a complete nonsingular toric surface, D the toric boundary (i.e, the complement of the big torus orbit Gm). • Blowups: Given a Looijenga pair (Y ,D), we can take “toric blowups,” where Y is the blowup of Y at a nodal point of D and D is the inverse image of D). Note that toric blowups do not change U . “non-toric blowups,” where Ỹ is the blowup of Y ...

ly isomorphic as rings are conjugate in B. 146 BRIAN CONRAD (APPENDIX BY W. R. MANN) Remark A.10. The order ( A mn A A ) in (2) is the intersection of the maximal orders M2(A) and γnM2(A)γ−1 n = ( A mn m−n A ) , where γn = ( 0 πn 1 0 ) . This example is called a standard Eichler order. Proof. For the first part, it suffices to show that the set R of elements of B integral over R is an order. Th...