East compared to the West. Yet, these patterns were not uniform and diverging patterns of intensification in areas highly … to a spatial reorganization of land use (i.e., co-occurring area decline and intensification or co-occurring area …

CONTEXT: Feeding strategy is a major dimension of intensification and largely determines the environmental and economic … livelihoods. Literature suggests that a key driver of intensification is increasing population density – associated with decreased … rangeland environments implying important trade-offs to intensification which merit further study. …

investigate changes in crop rotations as one intensification metric for half of the croplands in Germany with annual field … important metric of land-use intensity and can reveal the patterns of land-use intensification. …

farmers are forced to increase their output. Nevertheless, the level of intensification is still lower than what is considered … farmers’ intensification choices and their interdependent determinants. We propose a novel modeling approach for identifying … determinants of intensification and their interrelationships by combining a Bayesian belief network (BBN), experimental design, and …

be more strongly predicted by feelings of insecurity or representations of men and women as strong and fragile when …. sexual threat), Experiment 1 (n = 142) showed that feelings of insecurity were related to an increased support for expelling … of insecurity were most strongly related to support for expelling immigrants when a male immigrant was presented as a …

The survival of any organization depends upon its competitive edge. Even though Lean is one of the most powerful … quality improvement methodologies, nearly twothirds of the Lean implementations results in failures and less than one-fifth of … deploy the significant Lean practices like quality circle, Kanban, Just-in-time purchasing, etc. The term 'bundle' is used to …

automotive component industry started implementing Lean practices to fulfill the demand of these customers. United Nations … competitive. The primary objectives of this research are to study the UNIDO- ACMA Model as well as ISM Model of Lean … implementation and validate the ISM Model by comparing with UNIDO-ACMA Model. It also aims at presenting a roadmap for Lean …