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Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture and Food Security

Londhe, Sunil - In: International Journal of Disease Control and … 1 (2016) 1, pp. 32-46

Many studies have demonstrated the sensitivities of crop yield to a changing climate, a major challenge for the agricultural research community is to relate these findings to the wider societal concern with food security. Apart from few exceptions, the likely impacts of climate change on...

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Irrigation Measurement System for Dry Areas Based on WSN

Granda, Juan; Almanza, Mauricio; Fontalvo, Jose; Calle, … - In: International Journal of Interdisciplinary … 9 (2017) 3, pp. 10-20

exceeded. Water pressure provides the kinematic energy used on irrigation systems to spray the water on the field. The amount … of water that the irrigation system can provide per hour should be carefully monitored to save water in dry areas. The …. Results show sensor nodes exhibit a 4% average error, and 9% packet loss maximum. Both values are adequate for crop irrigation …

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Public Participation Distribution and Marketing: An Inseparable Duality

Kabst, Rüdiger; Weber, Patrick; Wagner, Sascha Alexander - In: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social … 3 (2016) 4, pp. 1-13

The distribution of public participation in Western political environments has become an important topic in recent years. Low participation rates combined with low levels of trust toward government officials has resulted in low efficiency of public participation projects. Whereas prior research...

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Exploring Digitally Enabled Service Transformation in the Public Sector: Would Institutional and Structuration Theory Concepts Keep the Research Talking?

Weerakkody, Vishanth; Omar, Amizan; El-Haddadeh, Ramzi - In: International Journal of Electronic Government Research … 12 (2016) 4, pp. 1-14

Digitally Enabled Service Transformation (DEST) in the Public Sector (PS) offers a unique opportunity for public administration (PA) and information systems (IS) disciplines to interlace. Albeit complicating the deployment of a coherent analytical lens in its study, such uniqueness has formed a...

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Digital City Projects: Information and Public Services Offered by Chicago (USA) and Curitiba (Brazil)

Rezende, Denis Alcides - In: International Journal of Knowledge Society Research (IJKSR) 7 (2016) 3, pp. 16-30

Offering full information and efficient public services is a permanent challenge for cities concerned with citizens' quality of life and effective municipal management. The objective of this study is to describe and assess the digital city projects in Chicago (USA) and Curitiba (Brazil), using...

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Governments' Need for Digitization Skills: Understanding and Shaping Vocational Training in the Public Sector

Ogonek, Nadine; Hofmann, Sara - In: International Journal of Public Administration in the … 5 (2018) 4, pp. 61-75

This article describes how while confronted with digitization, governments need to equip their employees with skills for dealing with the upcoming technologies. To date, however, there has been no thorough analysis of which skills governments actually require and how these skills are addressed...

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Urban Sprawl Monitoring using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques of the City Jaipur, India

Sisodia, Pushpendra Singh; Tiwari, Vivekananda; Dahiya, … - In: International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) 7 (2016) 3, pp. 93-104

The rapid increase in population of India forced people to migrate from rural areas and small towns to metropolitan … cities for better employment, education, and, good lifestyle. Major cities of India were industrialized and required more … city Jaipur, India. The changed entropy value during the years 1972–2013 proves more dispersed growth in the city. The …

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SMEs and Branding Strategies

Baporikar, Neeta; Deshpande, Mukund - In: International Journal of Applied Management Sciences … 4 (2017) 1, pp. 43-55

Automobiles Sector that has put India on Global map. Therefore, studying branding in this industry brings reveals that marketing …

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Modelling of Critical Factors for Improving Logistics Performance of India Using Interpretive Structural Modelling

Jhawar, Amrita; Garg, S. K. - In: International Journal of Applied Management Sciences … 5 (2018) 1, pp. 29-51

for a developing country like India, using interpretive structural modelling (ISM). This research presents a framework and …

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Gene, Genomics and Networks

Vimal, Manoj - In: International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and … 9 (2017) 1, pp. 1-12

Innovations in biomedical research have the potential to transform the healthcare diagnostics. Human genomics research is another approach which provides new tools and techniques by which life science researchers hope will help in predicting susceptibility towards common diseases. In this...

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