scholarly journals III. The influence of rainfall on the yield of wheat at Rothamsted

1925 ◽  
Vol 213 (402-410) ◽  
pp. 89-142 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Present System ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
Instrumental Observations ◽  
Plant Physiologist ◽  
National Industry ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Instrumental Records ◽  
Almost All

At the present time very little can be claimed to be known as to the effects of weather upon farm crops. The obscurity of the subject, in spite of its immense importance to a great national industry, may be ascribed partly to the inherent complexity of the problem which it presents, and more especially to the lack of quantitative data obtained either under experimental or under industrial conditions, by the study of which accurate knowledge alone can be acquired. Of the industrial applications of such knowledge it is unnecessary to speak here in detail. It is sufficient to indicate that the present system of Life Insurance, which safeguards the economic stability of many thousands of families, and occupies the activities of many of the greatest financial corporations, was made possible by the studies of statistics of human mortality by the mathematicians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and that on the basis of adequate knowledge similar economic stability with its attendant security of capital should be within the reach of the industrial farmer. The inherent complexity of the relationships which it is sought to elucidate, between the yields of farm crops, and the previous weather which largely controls those yields, arises primarily from the complexity of the problem of specifying the weather itself. Meteorologists have, however, gradually devised a number of instrumental observations, which although far from specifying the total environment of the growing plant, as understood by the plant physiologist, do nevertheless give a sufficiently detailed account of the general environmental conditions of the growing crop, in so far as these vary from season to season. It is probable indeed that almost all the weather influences to which crop variations are due could be expressed in terms of the instrumental observations of a modern meteorological station. The actual difficulty of calculating the crop variations from given instrumental records is, however, immense; only an attack of the most preliminary kind upon the general problem can be attempted in this paper. The complete aim of agricultural meteorology should, however, be emphasised, for it is only by its substantial achievement that other causes of crop variation can be freed from much obscurity.

scholarly journals A Comprehensive Understanding of Electro-Fermentation

Fermentation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drishti Dinesh Bhagchandanii ◽  
Rishi Pramod Babu ◽  
Jayesh M. Sonawane ◽  
Namita Khanna ◽  
Soumya Pandit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Pathways ◽  
Biomass Yield ◽  
Carbon Chain ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Chain Elongation ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Specific Product ◽  
Microbial Strains ◽  
Metabolic Reactions ◽  
Almost All

Electro-fermentation (EF) is an upcoming technology that can control the metabolism of exoelectrogenic bacteria (i.e., bacteria that transfer electrons using an extracellular mechanism). The fermenter consists of electrodes that act as sink and source for the production and movement of electrons and protons, thus generating electricity and producing valuable products. The conventional process of fermentation has several drawbacks that restrict their application and economic viability. Additionally, metabolic reactions taking place in traditional fermenters are often redox imbalanced. Almost all metabolic pathways and microbial strains have been studied, and EF can electrochemically control this. The process of EF can be used to optimize metabolic processes taking place in the fermenter by controlling the redox and pH imbalances and by stimulating carbon chain elongation or breakdown to improve the overall biomass yield and support the production of a specific product. This review briefly discusses microbe-electrode interactions, electro-fermenter designs, mixed-culture EF, and pure culture EF in industrial applications, electro methanogenesis, and the various products that could be hence generated using this process.

Gender and Consumption in the Modern United States

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey Deutsch
Keyword(s):  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
Consumer Movements ◽  
Wage Earners ◽  
Almost All

Although often understood as frivolous, women’s shopping was anything but. By the late nineteenth century, almost all households had to purchase daily necessities. Women’s paid work was often in retail or consumer goods manufacturing. Thus, even as men also bought goods and services, women’s responsibilities as purchasers and wage earners made consumption particularly crucial to their daily labor. Thus, consumption reinforced gender ideology. Fashions, food, and public performance helped to “make” gender. In so doing, they also reinforced racial and class hierarchies. From the first advertisements, “mass” consumption equated real women with white, young, slender, and middle-class bodies. However, specialized products, commercial districts, and fashions also made consumption important to nonwhite, queer, and working-class identities. Moreover, both policymakers and everyday consumers increasingly sought economic stability and also political change in stores and shopping; “consumer” movements and less organized, recurrent protests raised the possibility, and the threat, of women’s political authority.

scholarly journals Study of selection and purification of Brazilian bentonite clay by elutriation: a XRF, SEM and Rietveld analysis

Cerâmica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (361) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Alves ◽  
A. E. Zanini ◽  
M. E. de Souza ◽  
M. L. F. Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Rietveld Method ◽  
Bentonite Clay ◽  
Rietveld Analysis ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Scanning Electron

Abstract Clays obtained from nature have a lot of impurities. Therefore, for best using of these materials, it is necessary its selection and purification. Thus, the aim of this work is to separate and to purify the smectite fractions using water as a solvent at a low flux mixed with a bentonite clay extracted from a mine in Vitória da Conquista - Bahia / Brazil. For this a separation method of fractions of expandable clays based on the Stokes' Law was applied - this process is called elutriation, in order to ensure and to expand possible industrial applications of this material. The samples were characterized by analysis of X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence and scanning electron microscopy. The Rietveld method enabled the quantification of main phase minerals: montmorillonite, kaolinite, nontronite and quartz, reaching 85% in mass of montmorillonite phase at the end of the process. Results showed that the method used was efficient to remove almost all quartz, carbonates and organic matter from the sample. It was also observed a monomodal grain size distribution of elutriated materials with thinner grains, around (18.1 ± 1.8) μm at the end of the process. It has been concluded that the method developed and applied showed promising characters to be applied to elutriate kilograms of clays and could be used in industrial scale.

scholarly journals Moringa oleifera Lam.: A Biofunctional Edible Plant from India, Phytochemistry and Medicinal Properties

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. N. Pandey ◽  
Vandana Chauhan ◽  
V. S. Pandey ◽  
P. P. Upadhyaya ◽  
Olga R. Kopp
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Value ◽  
Moringa Oleifera ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Edible Plant ◽  
Medicinal Value ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Medicinal Properties ◽  
Common Illnesses ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Moringa Oleifera Lam

Moringa oleifera is a versatile horticulture tree with important medicinal, nutritional and industrial applications, widely distributed and used in India. The Moringa tree originated in India and was introduced to Africa from India and other countries as a health supplement. Almost all parts of the plant have shown nutritional value and are used in India for a variety of food preparations. In India, M. oleifera leaves are available in powder to treat mild malnourishment in children. About all parts like leaves, seeds and pods are used as vegetables. Phytochemicals such as flavonoids, tannins, triterpenoids, saponins, flavonoids, anthraquinones, alkaloids and others, are responsible for the medicinal value of this plant. This species is rich in protein, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals that form part of its quality as superfood. It has been reported to have strong antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective, diuretic, anthelminthic and antiurolithiatic properties, among others. People in India use this species to treat common illnesses because of its availability and easy preparation. This review provides information on the significant potential of Moringa and its nutritional, medicinal, pharmaceutical and industrial values.

scholarly journals Evaluating the utility of qualitative personal diaries in precipitation reconstruction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-149
Author(s):  
Alice Harvey-Fishenden ◽  
Neil Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Precipitation Series ◽  
Precipitation Reconstruction ◽  
Daily Weather ◽  
Weather Information ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Instrumental Records

Abstract. To date few studies have reconstructed weather from personal diaries (also known as private diaries). In this paper, we consider different methods of indexing daily weather information, specifically precipitation, from eighteenth and nineteenth-century personal diaries. We examine whether there is a significant correlation between indexed weather information and local instrumental records for the period, thereby assessing the potential of discursive materials in reconstructing precipitation series. We demonstrate the potential for the use of diaries that record weather incidentally rather than as the primary purpose, and the value and utility of diaries covering short periods when used alongside nearby contemporary diaries. We show that using multiple overlapping personal diaries can help to produce a more objective record of the weather, overcoming some of the challenges of working with qualitative data. This paper demonstrates indices derived from such qualitative sources can create valuable records of precipitation. There is the potential to repeat the methodology described here using earlier material or material from further away from extant instrumental records, thereby addressing spatial and temporal gaps in current knowledge globally.

scholarly journals Populasi, One Child Policy dan Reformasi Cina

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-101
Author(s):  
YUSNARIDA EKA NIZMI NIZMI
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Population Policy ◽  
Aging Population ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Short Term ◽  
One Child Policy ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Almost All

Abstract One child policy has been implemented  in 1979 and the effects both  negative and positive clearly to women. One child policy is a simple China’s economic growth grand strategy that was design to reduce population growth, infrastructure problems,  labour and resources. This policy obviously effective in controlling almost all family just to have one child. The problem is that one child policy should be noted only just for short term, implemented for giving state to get its economic goals and to socialize the values of small family and not for long term solution.  Various critics defense this policy because of its unrespect and harmful for women and also breaking the human rights. This research analyze one child policy and its implications to decline labour ratio which threat economic stability because of aging population. China government  needs to be focus on the meaning of growth in wholistic and more understand that economic growth is also include better echievements in social politics and economic policy dimension. These dimensions will not be reached if the government keep going its attention only on liberalization and modal accumulation.   Keywords: Population Policy, One Child Policy, Family Planning, Economic Growth.   Sejak One Child Policy diimplementasikan pada tahun 1979, terlihat dengan jelas pengaruh positif dan negatifnya terhadap kaum perempuan. Kebijakan satu anak adalah salah satu bagian sederhana dari grand strategi pertumbuhan ekonomi Cina, yang dirancang untuk membatasi pertumbuhan populasi  dan mengurangi tekanan infrastruktur, ketenagakerjaan dan sumberdaya.  Kebijakan ini efektif dalam membatasi  hampir semua keluarga hanya memiliki satu anak. Masalahnya adalah bahwa kebijakan ini harus dipandang sebagai sebuah program jangka pendek, diimplementasikan untuk memberi negara kesempatan mencapai tujuan-tujuan ekonominya dan membantu mensosialisasikan nilai dari keluarga kecil, dan bukan sebagai solusi jangka panjang untuk tekanan ekonomi. Kritik terhadap kebijakan ini sudah banyak bermunculan, kebijakan ini membahayakan kaum perempuan dan implikasinya melanggar hak asasi manusi. Tulisan ini menganalisa posisi kebijakan satu anak dan implementasinya yang banyak mendapatkan pertentanga dan penurunan rasio tenaga kerja yang pensiun yang dapat mengancam stabilititas ekonomi Cina karena persoalan “aging population”. Pemerintah Cina perlu untuk memfokuskan makna pertumbuhan secara holistik dan lebih memahami bahwa pertumbuhan juga mencakup pencapaian yang lebih baik dalam dimensi sosial, politik, dan kebijakan ekonomi.  Dimensi-dimensi ini tidak akan dapat dicapai jika pemerintah terus melanjutkan perhatiannya hanya pada liberalisasi dan akumulasi modal.   Kata Kunci: Kebijakan Populasi, Kebijakan satu anak, Perencanaan Keluarga, Pertumbuhan Ekonomi  

scholarly journals THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF UTENDI WA MWANA KUPONA: A SWAHILI/ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-72
Author(s):  
Rayya Timammy ◽  
Amir Swaleh
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Coast ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
Verse Form ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Almost All

This paper has the objective to make a thematic analysis of a classic poem Utendi wa Mwana Kupona using a Swahili/Islamic approach. The poem is believed to have been written by Mwana Kupona binti Mshamu in 1858. The poem is intended to be a motherly advice to her daughter about her religious and marital duties in a Swahili society.As a background to this paper, it was found out that Swahili culture has been greatly influenced by Islam. Ever since Arab, Persian, Indian and other merchants from Asia and the Middle East visited the East African coast to trade or settle, the Waswahili people embraced Islam. The Islamic religion influenced Swahili culture greatly. One of the more direct influences was the adoption of the Arabic script which the Swahili used to write their poetry and used it for other communication.The Arabic language had a lot of impact on the Kiswahili language, enriching it with new vocabulary, and especially religious and literary terminology. This is why a majority of the Waswahili are Muslims; hence Islam is an attribute accompanying the definition of ‘Mswahili’. A modest estimate would put words borrowed from the Arabic language into the Kiswahili language at between twenty to thirty percent.The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a rapid development of written Kiswahili literature, especially in verse form. The majority or almost all of the poets of the time were very religious or very knowledgeable about Islam. This is the reason most poems of the time were pervaded by Islamic religious themes or other themes but definitely using an Islamic perspective. Utendi wa Mwana Kupona is one such verse. It is a mother’s advice to her daughter about her duties and obligations towards God, and specifically, towards a husband.

Ophidian Diversity in Tumkur District, Karnataka, India

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
B. Parimala
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Loss ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Agricultural Fields ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Successful Group ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Local Farmers

Snakes are the most diverse successful group of animals belonging to the Class Reptilia, which are completely dependent upon the natural environment for their sustenance. They are highly significant as they are an important part of food chain and food webs of almost all the ecosystems, due to which their presence and absence depicts the status of their ecosystem. These crawlers are predators on rodents and insects which are harmful in agricultural fields, due to which they are considered to be the farmer’s friend. Also, snakes play a vital role in controlling the population of harmful rodents which functions as vectors of deadly diseases. Such beneficial species are at the verge of threat which may even lead towards their local extinction. The major threats to these limbless reptiles are as far identified as, the habitat loss, accidents such as road kills and also being slayed when sighted in residential areas. This is mainly due to the lack of adequate knowledge about their status and their significance. Hence the conservation of the herpetofauna at the region is very much needed. Therefore, this study is carried out by obtaining the data from interaction with the local farmers ’and volunteers from snake rescue teams. The study resulted in 29 snake species belonging to 9 different families. Out of which 21 non-venomous, 03 semi-venomous and 05 venomous species were recorded. This study provides the primary information about the Ophidian diversity to educate and bring in awareness among the people and further leading to put up strategies for their natural conservation. Whether these species is medically significant to humans needs further study.

Open Elites: Recruitment to the French Noblesse and the English Aristocracy in the Eighteenth Century

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. McCahill
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Past ◽  
Closed Group ◽  
Large Scale Land ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Almost All ◽  
New Recruits ◽  
Landed Elite

Over the past fifteen years historians of Britain have debated the degree to which the nation's aristocracy was open to newcomers. First, W. D. Rubinstein suggested that the new rich of the nineteenth century broke with the pattern of centuries and refrained from large-scale land purchases, in part because the established aristocracy had assumed a more “caste-like” mentality that held outsiders at bay. Then in 1984 two important works extended the challenge to earlier centuries. John Cannon demonstrated that throughout the eighteenth century recruits to the peerage were chosen from among the upper reaches of the landed aristocracy, a fact that suggested to him that the British nobility was a closed group, more closed than its continental counterparts. More significantly, Lawrence and Jeanne Stone completed an immense study of the elite of three counties over a 340-year period; they concluded that the proportion of newcomers was small and that new recruits were drawn mainly from groups already affiliated with the aristocracy. It was not businessmen but small gentry, office holders, and members of the professions who dominated the ranks of newcomers to their county elites.Other leading students of the British aristocracy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have taken exception to the claims of these iconoclasts. Sir John Habakkuk concluded in his Ford Lectures that “there was no weakening among new men in the eighteenth century of the desire to acquire landed estates. Almost all the wealthiest (or their descendants in the next generation) joined the landed elite….” In greater detail F. M. L. Thompson called into question Rubinstein's findings by challenging the usefulness of his probate data and by showing that millionaire Victorian businessmen or their direct heirs made substantial land purchases.

Knowledge over mother`s breastfeeding attended by the children clinic in Cáceres city, Mato Grosso, Brazil

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1471
Author(s):  
Eliane Márcia Souza Egues ◽  
Moisés Kogien ◽  
Carlos Alberto Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
Basic Education ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Categorical Variables ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
The Social ◽  
Registration Number ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Social Demographic

ABSTRACT Objectives: characterize the studied population about the social demographics factors and verify the mother`s knowledge on breastfeeding. Method:  this is about a transversal, prospective and descriptive study with mother`s attended by the Children Clinic in Cáceres/MT where a semi-structured interview questionnaire was applied containing dada of social demographic characterization and questions over breastfeeding; the work was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Cuiaba University, under the registration number 126/2009. To analyze the results the categorical variables and the variables on the mother`s knowledge were described using taxes, proportion and raw numbers. Results: 56% were over 24 years old, 46% had only basic education, 73% were housewives, 46% were primigravidae and among the multigravidae almost all of them had breastfed earlier children for a period equal or superior to six months. All of them gave satisfactory answers about the ideal period and benefits of breastfeeding. Conclusion: it is concluded that the mothers had an adequate knowledge over the benefits that breastfeeding has over the development and growth of health children and for the mother`s health, even though they are young and primigravidae; low schooling of the mothers, isolated, it can`t be associated to the breastfeeding flaws. It was not possible to associate the level of knowledge with breastfeeding flaws. There were flaws during the prenatal relating to the thematic approach by health professionals. Descriptors: knowledge; breastfeeding; prenatal care.RESUMOObjetivos: caracterizar a população estudada quanto aos fatores sócio-demográficos e descrever o conhecimento de puérperas sobre aleitamento materno. Método: estudo transversal, prospectivo e descritivo com vinte e seis puérperas atendidas no Ambulatório da Criança em Cáceres/MT onde se aplicou um formulário de entrevista semi-estruturada contendo dados de caracterização sócio-demográfica e questões sobre aleitamento materno; o trabalho foi aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da Universidade de Cuiabá, sob registro n.126/2009. Para análise dos resultados descreveu-se as variáveis categóricas e variáveis sobre conhecimento das mães usando-se taxas, proporções e números brutos. Resultados: 56% tinham mais de 24 anos, 46% tinham apenas ensino fundamental, 73% eram donas de casa, 46% eram primigestas e entre as multíparas a quase totalidade amamentou filhos anteriores por um período igual ou superior a seis meses. Todas deram respostas satisfatórias sobre o período ideal e benefícios do aleitamento materno. Conclusão: concluiu-se que estas mães têm um nível adequado de conhecimento sobre os benefícios que o aleitamento materno tem sobre o desenvolvimento e crescimento saudáveis das crianças e para a saúde da mãe, mesmo estas sendo jovens e primigestas; a baixa escolaridade das puérperas, isoladamente, não pode ser associada com falhas na amamentação. Não foi possível associar o nível de conhecimento com falhas na amamentação. Houve falhas durante o pré-natal em relação à abordagem da temática por profissionais de saúde. Descritores: conhecimento; aleitamento materno; cuidado pré-natal.RESUMENObjetivos: caracterizar la población en estudio cuanto a factores sociodemográficos y describir el conocimiento de las madres sobre lactancia materna. Método: estudio transversal, prospectivo y descriptivo con veintiséis madres asistidas en el Ambulatorio Infantil en Cáceres - Brasil dónde se aplicó un cuestionario de entrevista semiestructurada conteniendo informaciones de caracterización sociodemográfica  y cuestiones sobre lactancia materna; el estudio fue aprobado por el Comité de Ética en Investigación de la Universidad de Cuiabá, sob protocolo n. 126/2009. Para análisis de los resultados se describió las variables categóricas y variables acerca del conocimiento de madres utilizando tasas, proporciones y números brutos. Resultados: 56% tenían más de 24 años, 46% con escuela primaria, 73% eran donas de casa, 46% eran primigestas y entre las mujeres con hijos anteriores casi todas practicaran la lactancia materna por seis meses o más. Todas respondieron satisfactoriamente sobre el tiempo ideal y ventajas de la lactancia materna. Conclusión: se puede concluir que las madres tienen un bueno nivel de conocimiento de las ventajas que la lactancia materna tiene acerca del desarrollo y crecimiento saludables de los infantes y para la salud de las madres, mismo estas siendo jóvenes y primigestas; la baja escolaridad de las madres, individualmente, no pude estar asociada con errores en la lactancia.  No fue posible asociar el nivel de conocimiento con errores en la lactancia. Hube errores en el prenatal en relación a abordaje del tema por profesionales de salud. Descriptores: conocimiento; lactancia materna; atención prenatal. 

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