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Analysis of Gender Disparity in Meghalaya by Various Types of Composite Indices

Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Subjugation of women in certain spheres of life is very common in the patriarchal societies and it has a long history. In India, women have little social or economic independence. They are treated inequitably at home as much as at the workplace outside. Perhaps, it is so for the Indian society...

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Trends in Resource Extraction and Implications for Sustainability in Canada

Mariam, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

sustainability. In this respect, analysis of indicators related to the extraction of natural resources seems to be appropriate for a … available stock as a proxy for progress toward sustainability. The extraction of resources may also cause major environmental … problems due to the release of pollutants or wastes that requires an increasing amount of expenditure for environmnetal …

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Intertemporal and Spatial Depletion of Landfills.

Gaudet, G.; Moreaux, M.; Salant, S.W. - Michigan - Center for Research on Economic & Social Theory - 1997

users are distributed spatially. Extraction and transport costs are assumed to be linear in the rate of extraction, but … is important in many resource ap- plications, it is essential to an understanding of solid waste problems. Landll space …

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Do commercial forest plantations reduce pressure on natural forests? Evidence from forest policy reforms in Uganda

Ainembabazi, John Herbert; Angelsen, Arild - In: Forest Policy and Economics 40 (2014) C, pp. 48-56

This paper investigates if and how the establishment of private commercial forest plantations in degraded forest reserves can conserve natural forests in Uganda. It uses difference-in-difference and decomposition analyses on household data collected from intervention and control villages in the...

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Effect of Lignocellulose Related Compounds on Microalgae Growth and Product Biosynthesis: A Review

Miazek, Krystian; Remacle, Claire; Richel, Aurore; … - In: Energies 7 (2014) 7, pp. 4446-4481

Microalgae contain valuable compounds that can be harnessed for industrial applications. Lignocellulose biomass is a plant material containing in abundance organic substances such as carbohydrates, phenolics, organic acids and other secondary compounds. As growth of microalgae on organic...

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Development of an Inclined Plate Extractor-Separator for Immiscible Liquids

Munir, Shahid; Daood, Syed Sheraz; Rizvi, Syed Zahoor … - In: Energies 2 (2009) 4, pp. 957-975

A new inclined plates extractor-separator is developed for operation with immiscible liquids in which extraction and … have any moving part inside the vessel. This feature makes it free from the mechanical problems associated with … conditions to evaluate its performance on the basis of extraction efficiency. Water (light phase) was used as solvent to extract …

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Empirical Assessment of the quantity-quality tradeoff for the Ogallala: A case study from West Texas

Ghosh, Sanchari; Willett, Keith - Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University - 2012

problems. This research attempts to fill this gap, taking the rural county of Castro as a case study. The main objective is to … use on the groundwater and to evaluate the effect on the net present value of production. First a constraint is imposed on …

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Chemical Analysis of Some Herbicides Contents of Most Common Vegetables and Aquatic Animals in Makurdi Metropolis

Anhwange, B.A.; Agbaji, E. B.; Gimba, C.E.; Ajibola, V.O. - In: International Journal of Natural Sciences Research 1 (2013) 2, pp. 14-19

Vegetables, water snails and fish samples were collected from farmlands, river, streams, wetlands, and stagnant waters within Makurdi metropolis and analysed for two common herbicides (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and glyphosate) residues using GC-MS. This was to assess the impact of...

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A new perspective on the Gold Standard: Inflation as a population phenomenon

Faria, João Ricardo; McAdam, Peter - In: Journal of International Money and Finance 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1358-1370

deflation unless extraction resources outstrip population growth; and iii) there is no optimal quantity of money. The …

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A review on harvesting, oil extraction and biofuels production technologies from microalgae

Pragya, Namita; Pandey, Krishan K.; Sahoo, P.K. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 24 (2013) C, pp. 159-171

to develop cost-effective technologies for efficient biomass harvesting, lipid extraction and biofuels production. This … review aims to collate and present an overview of current harvesting, oil extraction and biofuels production technologies … from microalgae. Since much of the current studies on oil extraction are focused on biodiesel production from microalga …

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