E-agriculture

More advanced applications of e-agriculture in farming exist in the use of sophisticated information and communication technologies such as satellite systems, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and advanced computers and electronic systems to improve the quantity and quality of production (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 2005). 

Waggoner P. E., Agriculture and a climate changed by more carbon dioxide. In Changing Climate . Report of the Carbon Dioxide Assessment Committee. National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., pp. 383-418 (1983). 

While method transfer, discussed earlier in this chapter, refers to the process of implementing a newly developed method in a designated laboratory, the term calibration transfer is used in several contexts. One context, in fact, is similar to the usual definition of method transfer. A question that arises when NIR equations are concerned is Can a second instrument, using the same equation, give predictions comparable with the instrument on which the equation was developed Nonpharmaceutical applications (i.e., agriculture, textiles, process foods, and tobacco) are routinely transferred between instruments. The only difference between those applications and the pharmaceutical applications that the reader is con-... 

The large majority of researchers support the following statements [9] autochthonous urban population is spared rural way of life, i.e., agricultural activity is needed for exposure to the agent(s). Separation from an endemic focus early may prevent the disease, while immigration to an endemic area provides risk of disease development, providing that the exposure was sufficient. Prevalence of the disease has been stable over many years, but now appears to decline in most affected settlements. Incidence rates are shifting towards... 

Mercury and arsenic are extremely toxic heavy metal and metalloid pollutants that adversely affect file health of millions of people worldwide (/). These toxic pollutants have reached unacceptably high levels in file environment due to industrial, def e, agricultural, and municipal properties. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and other government and industrial sites in the United States are heavily contaminated with mercury, arsenic, and other toxic metals such as cadmium, copper, lead, and zinc. Each of these elemental pollutants has common environmentally relevant electrochemical species that are thiol-reactive and thus relevant to the phytoremediation strategies oufiined in Figure 1. Hundreds of Superfimd sites in the United States are listed on file... 

B.c.E. Agriculture Agriculture allows people to produce more food than is needed by their families, freeing humans from the need to lead nomadic lives and giving them free time to develop astronomy, art, philosophy, and other pursuits. 

A detailed comparison of the existing biofuel certification schemes based on their principles, criteria, and indicators regarding key socioeconomic and environmental issues was conducted by Van Dam et al. (2010). Some of the systems cover certain selective areas in biomass production (i.e., agriculture, forest, and fair trade). Various initiatives propose or are developing methodologies and default values to calculate the reduction of GHG emissions for bioenergy chains. 

The alcohol ether sulfates (AES) represent approximately 9% of industrialized surfactant consumption. Because of their perceived mildness, they are used primarily in personal care products. They have a strong position in terms of raw materials since they can be made from either petroleum or renewable (i.e., agriculturally derived) raw materials. One possible disadvantage of AES surfactants is the possible presence of dioxane derivatives as a byproduct of the ethoxylation process. Although modem processes have been shown to effectively eliminate the presence of such contaminants, emotional factors and lack of good information must always be considered, especially where consumer products are concerned. 

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