In the past few years, we have seen growing calls for a transformation in global food systems response to multiple challenges, including climate change. Food are responsible third of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity and agricultural yields at risk due change impacts. Although many proposals been made, there fewer insights on what these imply knowledge innovation systems. We seek adv...

automatic road extraction from aerial images can be very helpful in traffic control and vehicle guidance systems. most of the road detection approaches are based on image segmentation algorithms. color-based segmentation is very sensitive to light changes and consequently the change of weather condition affects the recognition rate of road detection systems. in order to reduce the light change ...

This commentary addresses two points raised by Kitson and colleagues’ article. First, increasing interest in applying the Complexity Theory lens in healthcare needs further systematic work to create some commonality between concepts used. Second, our need to adopt a better understanding of how these systems organise so we can change the systems overall behaviour, creates a paradox. We seek to m...

Adjustment decision making is shown to be based on having a balance between pairs of alternatives, leading to two, four and eight kinds of activities, the latter which corresponds to McKinsey’s Seven Ss. Development decision making is shown to have three extroverted levels embedded within three introverted levels, and to underpin Maslow’s hierarchy, Jung’s thinking types and the Systems Develop...

knowledge management is a process of using a source of strategic knowledge in organizations in order to find key information and organize and transfer it. many organizations adopted knowledge management systems to maintain their stability and usefulness. since there is occupational similarity between informatics experts and librarians, librarians can change to knowledge managers by being inform...

Health systems have entered a third era embracing whole systems thinking and posing complex policy and management challenges. Understanding how such systems work and agreeing what needs to be put in place to enable them to undergo effective and sustainable change are more pressing issues than ever for policy-makers. The theory-policy-practice-gap and its four dimensions, as articulated by Chini...

experimental results of dielectric investigations for binary mixtures of 2, 3-butanediol, 2, 3-bd, in2-ethyl-1-hexanol, 2eh, were reported for various mole fractions and temperatures (298.2-308.2) kand they were used to calculate dielectric parameters such as kirkwood correlation factor, excesspermittivity and bruggeman parameter. these parameters were used to carry out temperaturedependent die...

Food systems contribute 19%–29% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, releasing 9,800–16,900 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2008. Agricultural production, including indirect emissions associated with land-cover change, contributes 80%–86% of total food system emissions, with significant regional variation. The impacts of global climate change on food syste...

Tensegrity structures are prestressed compliant structures composed of a set of disconnected rigid compressed elements connected by continuous prestressed tensional elements. A spatially limited, local impact on tensegrity structures yields a global change of their shape. This essential property initiates the development of novel compliant locomotion systems with large shape variability and sim...