Keberlanjutan pertanian ditantang oleh perubahan iklim dan meningkatnya permintaan pangan dari populasi manusia yang lebih besar dan lebih kaya. Umat manusia akan menghadapi krisis pangan global kecuali jika efisiensi dan ketahanan produksi tanaman pangan ditingkatkan. Dalam beberapa dekade mendatang, tantangan terhadap produksi pangan internasional akan terjadi tidak seperti sebelumnya dalam s…
Pelestarian, perlindungan, dan promosi Sumber Daya Genetik Tanaman (SDG), Pengetahuan Tradisional (TK), inovasi, dan praktik-praktik dari masyarakat lokal dan masyarakat adat merupakan kunci penting bagi pembangunan suatu negara. Kekayaan PGR dan TK memainkan peran penting dalam perawatan kesehatan, ketahanan pangan, budaya, agama, identitas, lingkungan, pembangunan berkelanjutan, dan perdagang…
Pemuliaan tanaman yang mulai bekerja pada tahun 2015 akan mendekati akhir karir mereka pada tahun 2050. Kedua tahun itu sangat penting. Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa menetapkan delapan Tujuan Pembangunan Milenium yang ambisius untuk dicapai pada tahun 2015, dari garis dasar tahun 1990. Salah satunya mengurangi separuh tingkat kemiskinan ekstrim dan termasuk mengurangi separuh proporsi orang yang m…
Ada peningkatan hasil panen yang signifikan sejak tahun 1950-an, yang membuat makanan lebih murah dan lebih terjangkau. Namun, produksi tanaman dunia harus meningkat dalam tiga setengah dekade ke depan untuk memberi makan populasi yang terus bertambah. Itu harus terjadi sebagian besar di tanah yang sudah ditanami. Pemuliaan tanaman, subjek buku ini, menyediakan sarana untuk mengatasi tantangan …
Johan Ludwig Krapf (1810–81), a German-born member of the Church Missionary Society in East Africa, is regarded as the founder of Swahili studies in Europe. Having pursued an interest in Oriental culture from an early age, he first went to Abyssinia (Ethiopia) as a missionary. During his travels in Africa, he became the first European to see Mount Kenya; but he also considered the potential o…
This book examines the bottom-up applicability of swarm intelligence to solving multiple problems, such as curve fitting, image segmentation, and swarm robotics. It compares the capabilities of some of the better-known bio-inspired optimization approaches, especially Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Darwinian Particle Swarm Optimization (DPSO) and the recently proposed Fractional Order Darwin…
Even though there are huge differences in the techniques and methods used by biomedical researchers, there is now an increasing tendency to share research results in terms of formal knowledge representation methods, such as ontologies, statistical models, network models, and mathematical models. As there is an urgent need for health-care professionals to make better decisions, computer-based su…
The publisher John Sainsbury produced this two-volume biographical dictionary of musicians in 1824. The book, as he acknowledges on his title page, borrows from the previously published works of Choron and Fayolle (in French), Gerber (in German), Orloff (Russian, writing in French), and his two notable English predecessors, Dr Burney and Sir John Hawkings. It contains a 'summary of the history …
The publisher John Sainsbury produced this two-volume biographical dictionary of musicians in 1824. The book, as he acknowledges on his title page, borrows from the previously published works of Choron and Fayolle (in French), Gerber (in German), Orloff (Russian, writing in French), and his two notable English predecessors, Dr Burney and Sir John Hawkings. It contains a 'summary of the history …
This illustrated dictionary, written by the prolific Victorian composer Sir John Stainer (1840–1901) – best remembered today for his oratorio The Crucifixion – and W. A. Barrett, was first published by Novello in 1876. It provides definitions for 'the chief musical terms met with in scientific, theoretical, and practical treatises, and in the more common annotated programmes and newspaper…