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Quality in Design and Execution of Engineering Practice: Research in Design S…
Quality in Design and Execution of Engineering Practice is about quality management focused at fitness for purpose, rather than compliance with specifications, rules and regulations. The focus on getting execution in line with fitness for purpose is supported by a classification of seven different categories of quality, defined by their relevance for purpose, compliance with specifications and …
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Qualities of food
This book addresses current controversial debates about food quality. What is it that makes people decide that food is of good, or alternatively of dubious, 'quality'? How food is produced, how it is prepared, how it tastes and in what circumstances it is consumed are all dimensions of its quality. Chapters address a number of intriguing questions: how do people make judgements about taste?; ho…
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Protocols for Pre-Field Screening of Mutants for Salt Tolerance in Rice, Whea…
Agriculture; Plant
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Pro-Poor Land Reform
Using empirical case materials from the Philippines and referring to rich experiences from different countries historically, this book offers conceptual and practical conclusions that have far-reaching implications for land reform throughout the world. Examining land reform theory and practice, this book argues that conventional practices have excluded a significant portion of land-based produc…
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Processing of Heavy Crude Oils: Challenges and Opportunities
Unconventional heavy crude oils are replacing the conventional light crude oils slowly but steadily as a major energy source. Heavy crude oils are cheaper and present an opportunity to the refiners to process them with higher profit margins. However, the unfavourable characteristics of heavy crude oils such as high viscosity, low API gravity, low H/C ratio, chemical complexity with high asphalt…
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Proceedings of the 1st Virtual Control Conference VCC 2010
Contents Reference Tracking and Profit Optimization of a Power Plant Modeling and Control of an Experimental pH Neutralization Plant using Neural Networks based Approximate Predictive Control Sensitivity Analysis of the LMI-based H-inf Control Problem Revisited H-inf control with transients: LMI based time-invariant outputfeedback controllers Robust H-inf Output Feedback Sliding Mode Control Wi…
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Preparing Urban Water Use Efficiency Plans: A Best Practice Guide
Many communities are facing water scarcity in developing and developed countries alike. There are numerous publications and on-going research studies documenting the changes in our climate and potential for worsening shortages in our future. Meeting future potable water demands as communities continue to grow will rely heavily on using our existing water resources more efficiently. Preparing…
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Precision Agriculture Technology for Crop Farming
This book provides a review of precision agriculture technology development, followed by a presentation of the state-of-the-art and future requirements of precision agriculture technology. It presents different styles of precision agriculture technologies suitable for large scale mechanized farming; highly automated community-based mechanized production; and fully mechanized farming practices c…
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Post-Truth Imaginations: New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Tec…
This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth discourse is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge societies than commonly recognised. Scholarly responses to post-truth have not fully addressed these entanglements, treating them either as something to be morally condemned or as accusations against…
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The Popes, the Catholic Church and the Transatlantic Enslavement of Black Afr…
Mehr als 400 Jahre lang erlitten schwarzafrikanische Männer, Frauen und Kinder während des transatlantischen Sklavenhandels schlimmste Formen der Versklavung und Erniedrigung durch Katholiken und das westliche Christentum. Damals wie heute glaubte niemand an die tiefe Verwicklung der Kirche und des Papsttums in den schwarzafrikanischen Holocaust. Trotz jüngster Behauptungen des päpstlichen …
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