Land Preservation: An Essential Ingredient in Smart Growth

Applications of Essential Oils in Food Preservation

Many food products are perishable by nature and require protection from spoilage during their preparation, storage and distribution to give them desired shelf-life. Because food products are now often sold in areas of the world far distant from their production sites, the need for extended safe shelf-life for these products has also expanded. Currently, there is a strong debate about the safety...

Jeffrey Sachs The essential ingredient

story. Poor countries are poor, in their view, because the poor do not behave like "us". The battle against poverty thus becomes a battle against corruption, wrong ideas and incompetence, and little more. Of course, the morality tale sometimes fits, as in present-day Zimbabwe, where an ageing tyrant, surrounded by rapacious lieutenants, is destroying his country in a vain and desperate attempt ...

Computer Forensics : An Essential Ingredient for Cyber Security

Computer forensics uses computer investigation and analysis techniques to collect evidence regarding what happened on a computer that is admissible in a court of law. Computer forensics requires a wellbalanced combination of technical skills, legal acumen, and ethical conduct. Computer forensics specialists use powerful software tools to uncover data to be sorted through, and then must figure o...

Interaction Compatibility: An Essential Ingredient for Service Composition

Common to Grid services, Web Services, software agents and software components is that they are independently built and provide services aimed for composition. A key issue is whether or not the services in a composite system can interact with each other “sensibly” and as orchestrated by the enclosing composition. In this paper, we introduce an approach where we can specify individual services’ ...

Land Supply and Infrastructure Capacity Monitoring for Smart Urban Growth