This volume brings together many contributions and aspects of functional-structural plant modelling. These last pages draw attention to three significant questions that may emerge while reading this book: (i) to what extent do these models address plant functions? (ii) what is the (future) role of these models in plant sciences? and (iii) how can the use of these models be enhanced? These quest...

three stocking densities (20, 40, and 60 sheep/ha) were applied in four stocking periods (0, 2, 4, and 6 weeks) on a medicago truncatula cv. paraggio pasture. treatments were arranged in a split plot system and compared through a completely randomised block design with four replications.grazing period had a significant effect (p

rural women in pakistan, under a small holding system of farming, play a pivotal role in farming. they actively participate in a range of activities related to crop production and livestock management. rural women remain busy from dawn to dusk in various agricultural activities, including pre-harvest, post-harvest and livestock management. their participation is well dispersed but less perceive...

one of the issues of reducing waste and therefore increasing productivity in manufacturing enterprises is to endow with smooth and good production layout. thus, identification and assessment of the factors hindering the realization of the expected productivity of the production flow layout is the important. one of these factors is waste; organizations can make layouts and production stream prod...

Three samples of 50 undergraduates each completed the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-R), one sample under normal test conditions and two samples under di€erent instructions to fake good. The data con®rm the view that the correlation between neuroticism and lie scale scores provides an index of the motivation to fake good within di€erent samples. # 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights r...

This paper looks at differences in spatial and temporal variation of rice yields in China and Brazil. We find that rice yields in China have converged over time and that rice production has become more and more homogeneous. In contrast, rice yields in Brazil have diverged over time, primarily due to variations in upland rice yields. Three hypotheses are put forward to explain the different beha...

— This paper investigates intermediate input effects and labor pooling in the context of urban informality, examining the handicraft industry of Nairobi, Kenya. The paper tests if conditions found in informality interfere with transition pathways in production clusters. 102 semi-structured interviews were conducted with industry participants, including 69 production firms. Findings confirm the ...

Rice yield is subjected to severe losses due to adverse effect of a number of stress factors. The most effective method of controlling reduced crop production is utilization of host resistance. Recent technological advances have led to the improvement of DNA based molecular markers closely linked to genes or QTLs in rice chromosome that bestow tolerance to various types of abiotic stresses and ...