This study examines the determinants of International Joint Venture marketing performance in Thailand. The data for the study were collected from a self-administered mail survey of 1,047 Thai-Foreign IJVs in Thailand, yielding 203 useable responses from firms that were primarily engaged in agricultural, metal-working, electrical and chemical industries. From the application of the exploratory f...

The paper undertakes a detailed analysis of Revealed Comparative Advantage of the exports of Rwanda. The objective of the research is to understand the Rwanda’s pattern of trade; to identify a change in this pattern over the period of study; in support of the policies and strategies, to identify areas for improvement. Rwanda is primarily an agrarian economy where people have been dependent on c...

agroXML is a standardized language for data exchange in agriculture. It is based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) using XML Schema as its definition language. agroXML is used to submit data from farm management information systems to external partners, like e. g. product processing industries in the food supply chain or agricultural service providers. In addition, data about operating su...

Biotechnology has had an important impact on the agricultural and food industries over the last twelve years by way of fast and extensive adoption of a few genetically modified (GM) crops. This has produced large efficiency gains, including higher yields and reduced costs of weed and pest control, as well as some environmental benefits. The expected development of crops with additional agronomi...

We explore heat-related labor impacts both for their own interest and to understand the role of adaptation in responding to climate change. Focusing on non-agricultural sectors in the United States, we find that hot temperatures exert a causal negative impact on county-level payroll – reducing payroll by several percentage points in a 2◦C hotter year – with larger impacts in highly exposed indu...

Microbial biotechnology is defined as any technological application that uses microbiological systems, microbial organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use (Okafor 2007). Current agricultural and industrial practices have led to the generation of large amounts of various low-value or negative cost crude wastes, which are difficult to treat and va...

Biomolecular engineering is an emerging field of academic research and industrial practice having the goal of engineering value-added biomolecules and biomolecular processes for applications in medical, chemical, agricultural, and food industries. This new subject is very broad and highly interdisciplinary, including, but is not limited to, protein engineering, metabolic engineering, bioinforma...

Fruit peels have been a valuable source for maintaining human health. The use of fruit peel extracts for antimicrobial properties can be of great significance in therapeutic treatments. Fruits by-products such as seeds, peels, stems, barks and leaves usually been discarded and currently the cause of a serious disposal problem in food and agricultural industries (Ghasemi et al., 2009). Therefore...

Although metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) or porous coordination polymers have been widely studied, their antimicrobial activities have not yet been fully investigated. In this work, antifungal activity of copper-based benzene-tricarboxylate MOF (Cu-BTC MOF), which is water stable and industrially interesting, is investigated against Candida albicans, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus oryzae and Fu...

Environmental pollution in India has increased from uncontrolled emission of chemical pollutants from the Industries, automobiles and non-point sources where modern agricultural practices are used. These chemicals have contaminated the air, water, soil and their residues have been detected in drinking water, food and consumer products. Some of these are very persistent in the environment and ha...