Water management and utilization is an ongoing problem in developing countries with semi-arid to arid climates such as Afghanistan. The lack of effective irrigation systems are oftentimes the most limiting factor for maximizing agricultural productivity in these countries. In Afghanistan, the most widely used irrigation methods are basin/border for cereal crops and furrow for vegetables and gra...

This study examines technical efficiency between Participatory & NonParticipatory farmers under Integrated Crop Management project (ICM) in the north-west region of Bangladesh. Sixty farmers of which 30 participatory & 30 nonparticipatory were selected following stratified random sampling technique from four villages under pirganj upazila in Thakurgaon district. ICM project participatory farmer...

Participatory modes of development, in general and community-based forest management in particular, have been widely accepted as a better alternative to traditional management paradigms, which have been discredited for being too expert-driven, centrally planned, and essentially top-down with strong adherence to principles of rationality. Recently however, participatory approaches have also rece...

In recent years the human dimension and governance issues have gained more and more in importance in the management of natural resources. One important aspect is to understand the processes of social learning that precede any collective decision-making. The HarmoniCOP project developed a framework for social learning for resources management that can be interpreted as combining content manageme...

We describe a design prototype for a virtual bookshelf which transfers characteristics of the interaction with books as physical artifacts into the digital medium. We focus on the actual visual presentation and arrangement of books. The virtual bookshelf is intended as a tool for advancing Personal Information Management (PIM). 1. Motivation und Kontext Mit der Verfügbarkeit digitaler Dokumente...

The Object Management Group (OMG) proposed Model Driven Architecture (MDA) that architecturally separates viewpoints on specifications. MDA suggests three different models for each of the proposed viewpoints. According to MDA principles stated in (The Object Management Group, 2003), they are a Computation Independent Model (CIM), a Platform Independent Model (PIM), and a Platform Specific Model...

I ncreasing production efficiency is becoming a major theme for producers in order to maintain or increase their economic return in an increasingly competitive global market. In the case of irrigated agriculture, producers must also address increasing public concern about water conservation, water quality, and environmental protection. Two irrigation management issues require attention in order...

UNLABELLED Translationally controlled tumor protein (TCTP/TPT1) was identified from a yeast 2-hybrid screen and shown to interact with Pim-3, a member of the proto-oncogene Pim family with serine/threonine kinase activity. TCTP was aberrantly expressed in human pancreatic cancer cells and malignant ductal epithelial cells, but not in normal pancreatic duct epithelial cells adjacent to tumor foc...

In order to prove that ectopic over-expression of Pim-2 could induce malignant transformation of human liver cell line L02, three groups of cells were set up including human liver cell line L02 (L02), L02 cells transfected with Pim-2 gene (L02/Pim-2) and L02 cells transfected with empty-vector (L02/Vector). Pim-2 expression levels were detected. The morphology, proliferation level, apoptosis ra...