Radiations and radioisotopes are used in agricultural research to induce genetic variability in crop plants to develop improved varieties, to manage insect pests, monitor fate and persistence of pesticides, to study fertilizer use efficiency and plant micronutrient uptake and also to preserve agricultural produce. Use of radiation and radioisotopes in agriculture is one of the most important fi...

The agricultural industry is at the crossroads in terms of workforce capacity. Evidence is presented that there is a sizeable job market in agriculture and more than 4000 jobs per year are consistently being advertised seeking agricultural professionals. Conversely the number of graduates being supplied by Australian universities continues to decline significantly and is less than 20% of the nu...

The humanities have not enjoyed preeminence in academe since the Scientific Revolution marginalized the old trivium. But they long continued to play a subordinate educational role by helping constitute the distinguishing culture of the elite. Now even this subordinate role is becoming expendable as devotees of the profit motive seek to reduce culture to technological delivery of cultural produc...

practitioners. By H. J. Curtis. Th is little book is arranged in the form of lessons, and contains 133 illustrations of a useful nature. It comprises the course of stud}7 usually required for the diploma of public health, while sufficient details are given to make it eminently useful in the laboratory. Plimmer's recent work on cancer, and much information on the parasites of ringworm are given,...

The main purpose of the study is to evaluate the heuristic inspection of children’s authoring tools to develop games. The researcher has selected 15 authoring tools for making games specifically for educational purposes. Nine students from Diploma of Game Design and Development course and four lecturers from the computing department involved in this evaluation. A set of usability heuristic chec...

The value of a college degree is often quantified as the difference in earnings between those with and without a degree. The research presented here operationalizes this idea in two important ways. First, since future income and tuition are uncertain, a contingent claims model is developed and the appropriate discount rate for valuing future earnings is, therefore, endogenized given an economy ...

Acknowledgements I would like to thank Prof. Ney for offering me the opportunity to work as a student researcher at the Chair of Computer Science 6, where I have been a member of the image recognition group since August 2004, and to write my diploma thesis at this department. Also, I would like to thank Prof. Seidl who kindly accepted to co-supervise this work. For the excellent supervision of ...

The phenomenon we discuss is illustrated by the contrast in (1)-(8) (we use coindexing to indicate intuitive binding): (1) ??Every dog i came in. It i lay down under the table. (2) *If every cat i purrs, it i is happy. (3) *If John owes every man i money then Sam pays him i. Hornstein, 1984] (4) *John likes every dog i and Sam feeds it i. Hornstein, 1984] (5) Every story i pleases these childre...

introduction: at the present time, information dissemination is one of the important functions of the libraries. and every library must adjust itself with the increasing development. therefore in order to effectively provide their users with sufficient information, university library managers must examine job-satisfaction of librarians in esfahan university and esfahan university of medical sci...