This book presents proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA 2017) which examine sustainable rural development in the context of environmental, economic, and the socio-cultural dimension. This book raises awareness of the importance of sustainable management in agriculture using examples of actual i…
Chapter1: Introduction -- Chapter2: Crop Area Statistics -- Chapter3: Procedure adopted in different States -- Chapter4: Theme of the Crop Inventory Experiment.-Chapter5: Development of a spatial reference (system) database -- Chapter6: Results of field inventory -- Chapter7: Reasons for non-cultivation -- Chapter8: Land Use -- Chapter9: Repetition in second year -- Chapter10: Kitchen Garden in…
1 Introduction -- PART I. Theoretical and methodological background -- 2 State of research on devotional fitness -- 3 Goal, theory, and method -- PART II. Body and religion in twentieth century America -- 4 From New Thought to Bod4God -- PART III. Analysis of empirical data: products, narratives, and theologies -- 5 Devotional fitness as discourse and embodied practice6 Between inclusion and ex…
- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Language Ideologies, Multilingualism, and Social Media -- Chapter 3. The Who and the What: Amounts and Types of English -- Chapter 4. The How: Interactional Functions of English -- Chapter 5. The Why: Ideology, Positioning, and Attitudes Toward English -- Chapter 6. English as a Trans-National Language.This book explores the use of English within otherwis…
1. The Issei: In Search for Autonomy -- 2. Religious and Social Communities: The Importance of Ethnic Solidary -- 3. The Nisei Experience -- 4. World War II -- 5. Rebuilding Social and Religious Communities: The Aftermath of the War.This book studies the Japanese-American coffee farmers in Kona, Hawaii. Specifically, it sheds light on the role of first and second generation immigrants in the em…
1. From Intervention to Invention: Introducing Topological Techniques -- 2. Aristotle’s Topoi and Idia as a Map of Discourse -- 3. Topoi and Tekmēria: Rhetorical Fluidity among Aristotle, Isocrates, and Alcidamas -- 4. The Shape of Labor to Come -- 5. Inventing Mosquitoes: Tracing The Topology Of Vectors For Human Disease -- 6. Genre Signals in Textual Topologies William Hart-Davidson and Ry…
Part I: Volunteering: An Introduction and Theoretical Framework -- 1: Volunteering: A Complex Social Phenomenon -- Part II: Cross-national Approaches -- 2. The Economic Value of Volunteering: Comparative Estimates among Developing, Transitional, and Developed Countries -- 3. Perceptions of Volunteering and Their Effect on Sustainable Development and Poverty alleviation in Mozambique, Nepal and …
Introduction: Reconsidering Japanese food; Andreas Niehaus and Tine Walravens -- Part I: Inventing Japanese Food Identities -- 2.“They should be called gluttons and be despised”: Food, Body and Ideology in Kaibara Ekiken’s Yōjōkun (1713); Andreas Niehaus -- 3. ‘Sweets Reimagined’: The Construction of Confectionary Identities, 1890-1930; Mitsuda TatsuyaFor Gluttons, Not Housewives: J…
Effect of Water Deficit on Food Productivity Under Saline Conditions: Case Study - North Sinai, Egypt -- Land-air and Water Resources on Sustainable Agricultural Development in Egypt -- Reclamation of Saline-Sodic Soils for Sustainable Agriculture in Egypt -- Impact of Tissue Culture in Agriculture Sustainability -- Pesticide alternatives use in Egypt: the concept and potential -- Biological pe…
Part I. Introduction -- Applicability of Sustainable Agriculture in Egypt -- Part II. Overview of Egyptian Sustainable Agriculture -- Deficit Irrigation Management as Strategy Under Conditions of Water Scarcity; Potential Application in North Sinai, Egypt -- Soil toxicology: Potential Approach on the Egyptian Agro-environment -- Part III. Potential application of crop productivity -- Potential …