The Integrated Tropical Coastal Zone Management at AIT is an area of specialization under the Schools of Environment, Resources and Development and Civil Engineering. This interdisciplinary field aims to develop human resources for coastal zone management in the Asia and the Pacific regions where the coastal areas encompass a diverse array of resources and ecosystems with intense human activiti...

times, but more uncertainty seems to be hallmarks for 2008. Agriculture is experiencing the best times since the 1970s. It’s finally a boom for Indiana farmers and agribusinesses. Farm incomes are up. Equity is way up due to a 17% increase in land values. Farm families on average are on their strongest financial footing in 50 years. These better times are being driven by a worldwide surge in th...

Offshore wind farming is a new emerging technology in the field of renewable energies. This study investigates the potential impact of the construction of one of the first major, offshore wind farms (>100 MW) on harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena by means of acoustic porpoise detectors (T-PODs) monitoring porpoise echolocation activity. The monitoring program was established as a modified BACI...

An emerging literature on values-based supply chains offers models for meeting both the scalebased requirements and values-based goals of farm-to-institution initiatives. These models seek to incorporate conventional supply chain norms of efficiency, standardization, and affordability while meeting the diverse social and environmental values motivating the local food movement. Values-based supp...

A questionnaire survey was conducted to determine the worm control practices and anthelmintic usage of 150 key respondents involved in sheep and goat production in the arid Thal area of Pakistan. The information was collected by visiting farms, and interviewing the key respondents which included veterinary officers (n = 15), veterinary assistants (n = 51), traditional practitioners (n = 24), an...

This document describes how the currently specified IPv6 flow label can be used to enhance layer 3/4 (L3/4) load distribution and balancing for large server farms.

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Along with the population increasing and social economic developing rapidly, the groundwater resource is affected by human activities seriously. In order to achieve optimal local allocation of water resources and promotion of local economic development, a suitable method for measuring the effect degree of human activities on groundwater resource system is very important. In this paper, regardin...

Two varieties of grapes, white grape and red grape grown in the Campania region of Italy were selected for the study of drying characteristics. Comparisons were made with treated and untreated grapes under constant drying condition of 50 C in a conventional drying system. This temperature was selected to represent farm drying conditions. Grapes were purchased from a local market from the same s...