The course examines natural resource issues affecting developing countries, and explores the impacts on communities, households, their decisions, and their health. Key resource use issues include water use (drinking, sanitation, and irrigation), agriculture (intensification, pesticide use, and land degradation), fuel wood scarcity, deforestation, conservation, and mining. For each of these issu...

drafts of major primary tillage implements were measured in a clay loam soil using a tension loadcell. implements consisted of a moldboard, a disk and a chisel plow each equipped with one tillage unit. a photoelectric speed sensor was used for actual forward speed measurements. during the study, the effects of forward speed and tillage depth on draft requirements were investigated. a general re...

The neostriatum and associated organs are a widely distributed and densely interconnected subcortical system. Anatomically, through a variety of stages and pathways, the striatopallidal system (SPS) is a complex mosaic of segregation, convergence, and divergence. Computationally, it is characterized by competitive selection and reinforcement-driven learning. Although the SPS is canonically a sy...