the study was carried out on 120 crossbred holstein × shahiwal dairy cows for a period of 150 days to quantify the influence of dietary energy and protein intake on yield and composition of milk. total 12 dairy farms having similar housing systems and holding at least 20 dairy cows in between mid to late lactation were selected for study purposes. the farms were located in the peri-urban and ur...

TO DATE, MOST development theory and practice have focused on either “urban” or “rural” issues with little consideration of the interrelations between the two. By contrast, several empirical studies show that the linkages between urban centres and the countryside, including movement of people, goods, capital and other social transactions, play an important role in processes of rural and urban c...

New basic factors are affecting the orientation of the research strategies of the CGIAR Centers and national research and transfer of technology institutions in the region (NARI ́s). Global macroeconomy changes imply a new set of rules that are followed by the economies of the region and a redefinition of the terms to face the problems of access to income and ways of overcoming food insecurity a...

ion methods, handpumps for example, where operation costs are minimal. For this reason gravity flow water systems are included in this category even though they may develop into networks delivering to houses. Some urban areas, particularly secondary towns and peri-urban areas, also access water through point sources and therefore require a similar approach to cost recovery. In larger urban area...

In the 1960s Indianapolis, Indiana’s near-Westside, was transformed by urban renewal projects that carved space for the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus out of a predominantly African-American neighborhood. Within two decades that longstanding community was totally displaced, and today the former neighborhood covering 300 acres is completely effaced and the commu...

This paper is meant as a brief description of the Romanian syntax within the dependency framework, more specifically within the Universal Dependency (UD) framework, and is the result of a volunteer activity of mapping two independently created Romanian dependency treebanks to the UD specifications. This mapping process is not trivial, as concessions have to be made and solutions need to be foun...