Dryland legumes: perspectives and problems

Priority regions for research on dryland cereals and legumes

Dryland cereals and legumes  are important crops in farming systems across the world.  Yet they are frequently neglected among the priorities for international agricultural research and development, often due to lack of information on their magnitude and extent. Given what we know about the global distribution of dryland cereals and legumes, what regions should be high priority for research and...

Some Perspectives of Machine Repair Problems

In this article, we survey machine repair problems (MRP) with an emphasis on historical developments of queuing models of practical importance. The survey proceeds historically, starting with developments in 1985, when the first published review on machine interference models appeared. We attempt to elaborate some basic MRP models of the real life congestion situations. The brief survey of some...

1 Risk : Problems and Perspectives

System Identification: Problems and perspectives

The paper presents a tutorial overview of the main problems arising from (quantitative) system identification . The fundamental issues of identifiability, overparametrization and model comparison are addressed within a probabilistic framework . After having classified models according to their linearity with respect to the unknown parameters, it is explained why system identification is definit...

Bowman-Birk inhibitors from legumes and human gastrointestinal health: current status and perspectives.

Bowman-Birk inhibitors and their variants (BBI) from legumes, such as soybean, pea, lentil and chickpea, are a class of naturally-occurring protease inhibitors which have potential health-promoting properties within the gastrointestinal tract. BBI can resist both acidic conditions and the action of proteolytic enzymes, and transit through the stomach and small intestine without major degradatio...