Abstract Adaptation to climate change is imperative for the resilience of smallholder agriculture in many developing countries. While studies have focused on climatic impacts crops and adaptation decisions, barriers uptake measures by farmers remain largely unexplored. We empirically quantified adoption measures, as well their determinants Far Western Province, Nepal, based a survey 327 farmers...

Energy efficiency and conservation policy continues to take the proverbial “backseat” energy access renewable discourses in small island developing states (SIDS). In this study, we intend motivate agenda encourage more action. To do so, review current challenges SIDS role of addressing those challenges, discuss trends rate improvement SIDS, exhibit an updated list programs initiatives being imp...

know about the risks of the procedure. Do the benefits outweigh the risks? Jurors in states with the reasonablepatient standard can ask themselves, “Would I have wanted to know about this risk?” “Would it have affected my decision making?” Drs Drolet and Brower also express concerns about operationalizing the reasonable-patient standard. They argue that each patient’s informational needs are un...

This paper is a continuation of my previous work on informational confidence. The main idea of this technique is to normalize confidence values from different sources in such a way that they match their informational content determined by their performance in an application domain. This reduces classifier combination to a simple integration of information. The proposed method has shown good res...

Florida, like much of the southeastern United States, is rapidly urbanizing. With this urbanization, there an increasing interest in commercial urban agriculture (CUA) as important sector for state. The U.S. Department Agriculture Census does not report data about CUA operations, thus limiting knowledge status operations regarding basic features such farm size, operator demographics, production...

investigations concerning the higher level activities of the cerebellar cortex in regard to psychoneurosis have revealed quite different point of views as compared to early pioneers in this field such as freud. systematic approach to informational processing as one of the higher level functions of cerebellar cortex plays an influencial part of the genesis of psychoneurosis. there are some simil...

Internet banking or online banking has revolutionized an integral activity of our modern twenty first century lives – ‘banking’. Internet banking is conducted through a PC, PDA, a hand-held communication gadget or any mobile device offering Internet connectivity but with the development of Hi-Tech asynchronous technologies and secured electronic transaction technologies, however, more banks hav...