One of the most common methods to evaluate environmental footprints of farming systems is life cycle assessment (LCA). Although LCA itself is suitable for and adopted by a wide range of industries far beyond agriculture, what separates agriculture, and in particular pasture-based ruminant production systems, is the high degree of uncertainties associated with physical, chemical and biological p…
This open access book is the first comprehensive guideline for the beryllium-7 (Be-7) technique that can be applied to evaluate short-term patterns and budgets of soil redistribution in agricultural landscapes. While covering the fundamental and basic concepts of the approach, this book distinguishes itself from other publications by offering step-by-step instructions on how to use this isotopi…
"Material karet digunakan secara luas baik dalam aplikasi rumah tangga maupun industri. Terdapat berbagai jenis karet dengan sifat dan karakteristik yang krusial. Buku ini mengkaji berbagai tipe material karet tersebut dengan menyajikan informasi mendalam mengenai sifat mekanik, optik, akustik, serta kinetiknya. Selain itu, dipaparkan pula metode karakterisasi material melalui teknik spektrosko…
"Buku ini menghimpun artikel ilmiah yang memaparkan kemajuan dalam sintesis nanomaterial serta aplikasinya dalam remediasi air. Publikasi di dalamnya membahas berbagai permasalahan lingkungan, seperti degradasi zat warna, pembersihan ion logam berat, serta penangkapan dan sekuestrasi elemen radioaktif. Terdiri dari sepuluh artikel penelitian orisinal dan satu artikel tinjauan (review), buku ini…
Poverty and inequality remain extremely high for Cameroon despite improvements in poverty figures between 1996 and 2001. To understand the dynamics of poverty and inequality between 1996 and 2001, this book develops a poverty and inequality profile, investigates the sources of inequality along spatial lines and simulates some policies which could be used in the reduction of poverty and inequali…
Melalui analisis mendalam dalam studi hukum Islam, yaitu murtad (al-Riddah), buku ini mengkaji fondasi ajaran Al-Qur'an, Sunnah Nabi, serta tinjauan historis guna mengungkap asal-usul perdebatan mengenai fenomena ini dan membantah berbagai miskonsepsi yang berkembang. Penulis mengkritisi narasi media arus utama dan kritikus Islam yang sering kali menggunakan isu hukuman mati bagi orang murtad s…
Dialysis (clearance of uremic toxins and removal of excess fluids) is a broad term for different modalities of treatment for patients with acute and end-stage kidney disease. These modalities include peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis, hemofiltration, hemodiafiltration, and continuous renal replacement therapy for critically ill patients with acute kidney injury. Dialysis is a lifesaving measure…
Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is a slow and smooth continuous extracorporeal blood purification process. It is usually implemented over 24 hours to several days with gentle removal of fluid overload and excess uremic toxins. CRRT, which is based on the physiological principles of diffusion, ultrafiltration, convection, and adsorption, can be performed as slow continuous ultrafiltr…
Written for a general audience, the essays collected here present refreshing and often humorous glimpses of various topics in Jewish history and traditional religious literature. Inspired by the diversity of Jewish thought, author and scholar Eliezer Segal sheds light on the social and political forces that have brought the Jewish community together in the past and still speak with familiarity …
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Providing an in-depth and cutting-edge investigation into the rise of Asian research practices and paradigms, Mats Benner examines how this rise has been accomplished, what effects it has had, and how it has shaped universities across seven Asian countr…