A study was conducted in Northern Ethiopia to assess the sheep production system and factors affecting live sheep supply for quality meat. The survey was done in selected districts known for their high density of sheep population. The flock structure seems to be affected by the demand, requirement of breeding female, feed availability and the occurrence of disease and natural calamities. Farmer...

Leptospira is an important re-emerging zoonotic human pathogen, disseminated by sick and carrier animals, water and soil. Weather calamities, such as flooding or cyclones favour the spreading of these bacteria. To check a potential role of natural water and soil in the persistence and spread of Leptospira on the territory of eastern Poland, 40 samples of natural water and 40 samples of soil wer...

Copyright: © 2012 Hernández D. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The recent occurrence of Hurricane Sandy and other climate change-related calamities prompt us to consider the significance of pub...

With dynamic trends and new developments in hardware and software, and the need to manage them efficiently, designing an Element Management System (EMS) for effective management of Network Element‟s (NE) is a challenging task. Small and medium businesses may not have the required skills or resources to manage their EMS. Large businesses may also want to use EMS services from skilled vendors. Wi...

In recent years, governments, industry and academia have all invested increasing amounts of time, effort and resources into the production of biorenewable fuels. This interest owes, among other reasons, to our planet's growing demand for energy, depletion of fossil fuel resources and the negative effect of drilling for and burning fossil fuels on the health of our eco-systems and atmospheric ch...

Online social media has become an integral part of every Internet users’ life. It has given common people a platform and forum to share information, post their opinions and promote campaigns. The threat of exploitation of social media like Facebook, Twitter, etc. by malicious entities, becomes crucial during a crisis situation, like bomb blasts or natural calamities such as earthquakes and floo...

My aim in this essay is to explore the complementarities that obtain between Nietzsche’s account (or teaching) of “death God” and J. M. Coetzee’s characterization David Lurie his 1999 novel Disgrace. I am particularly concerned investigate responses Madman protagonist their respective insights into experiences of) God.” Both respondents, offer, may be seen understood create public spectacles wh...

Abstract Implementing the Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) concept into practice requires interaction among key stakeholders, especially forest owners and managers, policymakers (or regulators in general), consultants, users. But what could be most effective policy instruments to achieve climate smartness mountain forests? Which ones would acceptable for owners? And local communities? Should they d...

The continuous occurrence of changes in the global climate causes significant variability in the seasonal and intra-seasonal rainfall pattern, which often leads to frequent floods and droughts in India. To reduce the magnitude of effect of such natural calamities and for better management of water resources, it is essential to predict the rainfall, well in advance. In this study the possible re...