scholarly journals Fabrication of Advanced Agribot Robot

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1576-1579
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Central Point ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Wide Scope ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
Social Affair ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Crop Condition ◽  
High Work

Numerous nations in Asia including India are agrarian economies and the majority of their rustic populaces rely upon horticulture to acquire their business. The utilization of apparatuses and domesticated animals in the rural procedure has decreased the human exertion. Central point that influence agribusiness incorporate less holding territory, deficiency of seeds, manures and work and vulnerability of storm. The motorization of horticulture alludes to the utilization of devices or machines in the rural procedure that conceivably lessens the human exertion. In spite of the fact that it lessens the human exertion in the horticultural procedure, it requires total human collaboration. The mechanization and apply autonomy application in the part of agribusiness is at the blasting stage when contrasted with its wide scope of use in different divisions. Numerous inquires about have been done in this field to robotize the procedure. In the current paper an exertion is made for the plan and advancement of the robot that can perform seeding process with no human intercession. The robot created is equipped for causing a gap in the dirt to up to certain profundity, putting the seed precisely in a similar gap and shutting the mud. The procedure is constrained by a microcontroller. The robot created defeats the disadvantages in the customary technique for seeding which incorporates wastage of seeds, high work wage, lower use of land and so forth. By the utilization of computerization and mechanical technology in the field of farming it is conceivable to build the general proficiency of the agrarian procedure and can alleviate impacts of work lack. This paper likewise presents the IoT-based horticultural creation framework for balancing out organic market of rural items while building up the earth sensors and expectation framework for the development and creation measure of yields by social affair its ecological data. As of now, the interest by utilization of horticultural items could be anticipated quantitatively, be that as it may, the variety of reap and creation by the difference in homestead's developed zone, climate change, infection and bug harm and so on. Couldn't be anticipated, so the market interest of agrarian items has not been controlled appropriately. To beat it, this paper structured the IoT-based checking framework to dissect crop condition, and the technique to improve the effectiveness of dynamic by investigating harvest measurements.

scholarly journals IoT-based Horticultural Generation Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1923-1925
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
Financial Factors ◽  
Data Framework ◽  
It Innovation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Factual Data

There has been a lot of research and different endeavours to apply new IoT innovation to agrarian zones. In any case, IoT for the agribusiness ought to be considered diversely against similar territories. The proposed system exhibits the IoT-based horticultural generation framework for settling market interest of rural items while building up nature sensors and forecast framework for the development and creation for measure of harvests by social occasion its ecological data. Presently, the interest by utilization of horticultural items could be anticipated quantitatively, nonetheless, the variety of gather and generation by the difference in homestead's developed zone, climate change, illness and bug harm and so forth couldn't be anticipated, with the goal that the organic market of rural items has not been controlled appropriately. The IoT-based rural creation framework through relationship investigation between the yield measurable data and horticultural condition data has improved the capacity of ranchers, analysts, and government authorities to dissect current conditions and anticipate future collect. Furthermore, horticultural items quality can be improved in light of the fact that ranchers watch entire cycle from seeding to selling utilizing this IoT-based choice emotionally supportive network. Strategies for gather anticipating have gotten progressively detailed. Profoundly refined measurable systems in farming are currently being utilized to remove data from past information and to extend forecast estimations of financial factors. To an enormous degree, these advances in the study of reap anticipating have been gained conceivable by ground in IT innovation. Be that as it may, lone measurable strategies don't give immaculate future circumstance. Thusly, it is important to examine associating checking crop conditions with factual data about collect. It is normal that from IoT-based choice emotionally supportive network, this data on factual example of harvest can be gotten. The motivation behind this investigation is to improve the horticultural figure supporting data framework, so constant conjecture will be conceivable. To this end, it will be expected to oversee IoT gadgets and assemble data on them all the more properly

The Origin of the Moon

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 149-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. L. Ruskol
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Solar System ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Origin Of The Moon

The difference between average densities of the Moon and Earth was interpreted in the preceding report by Professor H. Urey as indicating a difference in their chemical composition. Therefore, Urey assumes the Moon's formation to have taken place far away from the Earth, under conditions differing substantially from the conditions of Earth's formation. In such a case, the Earth should have captured the Moon. As is admitted by Professor Urey himself, such a capture is a very improbable event. In addition, an assumption that the “lunar” dimensions were representative of protoplanetary bodies in the entire solar system encounters great difficulties.

Religion in the Age of the Anthropocene

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arianne F. Conty
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Risks And Benefits ◽  
Human Exceptionalism ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
Genesis 1 ◽  
Forms Of Life

Though responses to the Anthropocene have largely come from the natural and social sciences, religious responses to the Anthropocene have also been gaining momentum and many scholars have been calling for a religious response to complement scientific responses to climate change. Yet because Genesis 1:28 does indeed tell human beings to ‘subdue the earth’ monotheistic religions have often been understood as complicit in the human exceptionalism that is thought to have created the conditions for the Anthropocene. In distinction to such Biblical traditions, indigenous animistic cultures have typically respected all forms of life as ‘persons’ and such traditions have thus become a source of inspiration for ecological movements. After discussing contemporary Christian efforts to integrate the natural sciences and the environment into their responses to the Anthropocene, this article will turn to animism and seek to evaluate the risks and benefits that could ensue from a postmodern form of animism that could provide a necessary postsecular response to the Anthropocene.

Dryland Degradation and Expansion: Implications for Mexican Policies from the Earth System Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Gabriel Lopez Porras
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Science Policy ◽  
Land Degradation ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
The Earth

Despite international efforts to stop dryland degradation and expansion, current dryland pathways are predicted to result in large-scale migration, growing poverty and famine, and increasing climate change, land degradation, conflicts and water scarcity. Earth system science has played a key role in analysing dryland problems, and has been even incorporated in global assessments such as the ones made by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. However, policies addressing dryland degradation, like the ‘Mexican programme for the promotion of sustainable land management’, do not embrace an Earth system perspective, so they do not consider the complexity and non-linearity that underlie dryland problems. By exploring how this Mexican programme could integrate the Earth system perspective, this paper discusses how ’Earth system’ policies could better address dryland degradation and expansion in the Anthropocene.

Climate change, global change: What is the difference?

Eos ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 69 (25) ◽  
pp. 668
Author(s):  
S.I. Rasool
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Change ◽  
The Difference

III. On the figure, dimensions, and mean specific gravity of the Earth, as derived from the ordnance trigonometrical survey of Great Britain and Ireland

1857 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 111-116 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Government

The Trigonometrical Survey of the United Kingdom commenced in the year 1784, under the immediate auspices of the Royal Society; the first base was traced by General Roy on the 16th of April of that year, on Hounslow Heath, in presence of Sir Joseph Banks, then President of the Society, and some of its most distinguished Fellows. The principal object which the Government had then in view, was the connexion of the Observatories of Paris and Greenwich by means of a triangulation, for the purpose of determining the difference of longitude between the two observatories.

scholarly journals Towards Sustainable Development: Building’s Retrofitting with PCMs to Enhance the Indoor Thermal Comfort in Tropical Climate, Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3614
Author(s):  
Zeyad Amin Al-Absi ◽  
Mohd Isa Mohd Hafizal ◽  
Mazran Ismail ◽  
Azhar Ghazali
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
Phase Change Materials ◽  
Thermal Environment ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Transition Temperatures ◽  
Indoor Thermal Environment ◽  
Adaptive Thermal Comfort ◽  
The Difference

Building sector is associated with high energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to climate change. Sustainable development emphasizes any actions to reduce climate change and its effect. In Malaysia, half of the energy utilized in buildings goes towards building cooling. Thermal comfort studies and adaptive thermal comfort models reflect the high comfort temperatures for Malaysians in naturally conditioned buildings, which make it possible to tackle the difference between buildings’ indoor temperature and the required comfort temperature by using proper passive measures. This study investigates the effectiveness of building’s retrofitting with phase change materials (PCMs) as a passive cooling technology to improve the indoor thermal environment for more comfortable conditions. PCM sheets were numerically investigated below the internal finishing of the walls. The investigation involved an optimization study for the PCMs transition temperatures and quantities. The results showed significant improvement in the indoor thermal environment, especially when using lower transition temperatures and higher quantities of PCMs. Therefore, the monthly thermal discomfort time has decreased completely, while the thermal comfort time has increased to as high as 98%. The PCM was effective year-round and the optimum performance for the investigated conditions was achieved when using 18mm layer of PCM27-26.

scholarly journals Analysis of livestock breeders’ perceptions and their adaptation measures to climate change in Morocco‘s arid rangelands

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Wadii Snaibi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Eastern Morocco ◽  
Climate Analysis

AbstractThe high plateaus of eastern Morocco are already suffering from the adverse impacts of climate change (CC), as the local populations’ livelihoods depend mainly on extensive sheep farming and therefore on natural resources. This research identifies breeders’ perceptions about CC, examines whether they correspond to the recorded climate data and analyses endogenous adaptation practices taking into account the agroecological characteristics of the studied sites and the difference between breeders’ categories based on the size of owned sheep herd. Data on perceptions and adaptation were analyzed using the Chi-square independence and Kruskal-Wallis tests. Climate data were investigated through Mann-Kendall, Pettitt and Buishand tests.Herders’ perceptions are in line with the climate analysis in term of nature and direction of observed climate variations (downward trend in rainfall and upward in temperature). In addition, there is a significant difference in the adoption frequency of adaptive strategies between the studied agroecological sub-zones (χ2 = 14.525, p <.05) due to their contrasting biophysical and socioeconomic conditions, as well as among breeders’ categories (χ2 = 10.568, p < .05) which attributed mainly to the size of sheep flock. Policy options aimed to enhance local-level adaptation should formulate site-specific adaptation programs and prioritise the small-scale herders.

Data Fusion of Total Solar Irradiance Composite Time Series Using 40 years of Satellite Measurements: First Results 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Montillet ◽  
Wolfgang Finsterle ◽  
Werner Schmutz ◽  
Margit Haberreiter ◽  
Rok Sikonja
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Data Fusion ◽  
Solar Irradiance ◽  
Total Solar Irradiance ◽  
Maunder Minimum ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Climate Reconstructions ◽  
The Earth ◽  
First Results ◽  
The Difference

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Since the late 70&amp;#8217;s, successive satellite missions have been monitoring the sun&amp;#8217;s activity, recording total solar irradiance observations. These measurements are important to estimate the Earth&amp;#8217;s energy imbalance, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;i.e. the difference of energy absorbed and emitted by our planet. Climate modelers need the solar forcing time series in their models in order to study the influence of the Sun on the Earth&amp;#8217;s climate. With this amount of TSI data, solar irradiance reconstruction models &amp;#160;can be better validated which can also improve studies looking at past climate reconstructions (e.g., Maunder minimum). V&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;arious algorithms have been proposed in the last decade to merge the various TSI measurements over the 40 years of recording period. We have developed a new statistical algorithm based on data fusion.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;The stochastic noise processes of the measurements are modeled via a dual kernel including white and coloured noise.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;We show our first results and compare it with previous releases (PMOD,ACRIM, ... ).&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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