ORTHOGONAL SIGNAL CORRECTION TO PLS MODELLING IN APPLICATION TO SPECTRAL DATA GraŜyna Balcerowska, Ryszard Siuda, Henryk Czarnik-Matusewicz Institute of Mathematics and Physics, University of Technology and Agriculture ul. Kaliskiego 7, 85-796, Bydgoszcz e-mail: [email protected] Research Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical Academy ul. Bujwida 44, 50-345...

BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR, SCOTT E. BROOKS & JEFFREY M. CUMMING Entomology, Ontario Plant Laboratories, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, K.W. Neatby Bldg., C.E.F., 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0C6 ([email protected]) Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Bldg., C.E.F., 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0C6 ([email protected], cummingjm@ag...

E. Kelly1,2†, L. Shalloo1†, U. Geary1, A. Kinsella3 and M. Wallace2 1Teagasc, Livestock Systems Research Department, Animal and Grassland Research & Innovation Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland 2School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland 3Agricultural Economics and Farm Surveys Department, Rural Economy and Development Programme, Te...

Thermal stability of soil organic matter responds to long-term fertilization practices J. Leifeld, U. Franko, and E. Schulz Air Pollution/Climate Group, Agroscope FAL Reckenholz, Swiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agriculture, Switzerland UFZ – Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle, Germany Received: 18 January 2006 – Accepted: 7 February 2006 – Published: 4 April 2006 Correspon...

Dr. Mohammad Hossein Jazirei was born in 1922 in Bandar-e-Anzali and finished high school there.In May 1944, he graduated in agriculture engineering and occupied the position of Lahijan forester in Forestry Department of Ministry of Agriculture in fall. In 1955, he moved to Belgium and was admitted by Agronomy Institute of Belgium; he achieved MS in Water and Forest field in 1957. After doing r...

This paper estimates the economic impact of climate change on Indian agriculture. I estimate the e¤ect of random year-to-year variation in weather on agricultural output using a 40-year district-level panel data set covering over 200 Indian districts. These panel estimates incorporate farmers’within-year adaptations to annual weather shocks. I argue that these estimates, derived from short-run ...

Background: DZN (diazinon) is an organophosphate insecticide that had been used in agriculture and for domestic and veterinary use for several years and caused many negative effects on plants and animal species, especially on human. The aim of present study was to evaluate the effects of DZN on MDA (malondialdehyde) and GSH (glutathione) levels in female rat reproductive tissue (ovary) and to...

Approximently 10,000 years ago, civilization began in the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia around the river valleys of the Euphrates and the Tiger rivers. It was agriculture that allowed these civilizations to prosper and the river water that allowed agriculture. The number of people in the world has grown signi cantly since then increasing the demand for food production. Agriculture has been fo...

Multifunctional agriculture (MFA) has emerged as a key concept in science and politics with respect to the future of agriculture and rural development in the recent decade. Overall, MFA implies that in addition to their main function in production and support of rural livelihood, the agricultural activities have some other advantages for the environment including the conservation of water and s...

This review by a multidisciplinary team maps key components and emerging connections within the intellectual landscape of agroecology. We attempt to extend and preview agroecology as a discipline in which agriculture can be conceptualized within the context of global change and studied as a coupled system involving a wide range of social and natural processes. This intrinsic coupling, combined ...