"This volume provides a useful detailed review of 250 UAVs that examines their usefulness in enhancing profitability, yield, and quality of crop production. A detailed view of the recent trends indicates an increase in agricultural drone production. Millions of dollars have been…
"This volume provides a useful detailed review of 250 UAVs that examines their usefulness in enhancing profitability, yield, and quality of crop production. A detailed view of the recent trends indicates an increase in agricultural drone production. Millions of dollars have been…
"This volume provides a useful detailed review of 250 UAVs that examines their usefulness in enhancing profitability, yield, and quality of crop production. A detailed view of the recent trends indicates an increase in agricultural drone production. Millions of dollars have been…
New agricultural crops
New agricultural crops
Current and projected worldwide shortages of energy, fertilizer, and irrigation water, coupled with a rapidly expanding population, are prompting agricultural scientists to seek, identify, and develop new crop species.
In this new edition of Foundations for Moral Relativism, a distinguished moral philosopher tames a bugbear of current debate about cultural difference. J. David Velleman shows that different communities can indeed be subject to incompatible moralities, because their local mores …
This dissertation explores how migration to Germany and the experience of cultural, linguistic, and social displacement are conveyed in the prose texts of three women writers of Turkish origin, Emine S. Özdamar, Aysel Özakin, and Renan Demirkan. Focusing on issues of cultural id…
This study explored how news is defined by three groups of people (journalists, public relations practitioners, audience members) and in three types of media (television, newspapers, radio) across two different cultures (Israel and Germany). Shoemaker's (1996a) theory of newswor…
Individualist cultures emphasize independence, self-reliance, self-expressiveness, and emotional detachment in most of their relationships, whereas collectivist cultures emphasize interdependence, cooperation, maintaining harmony, and strong emotional attachment. Based on these …
This study was designed to test the discriminant predictions of self-discrepancy theory (SDT) (Higgins, 1987) within USA, China and Turkey. More specifically, using SDT as a framework, this study explored cross-cultural differences related to the role of different perspectives (…
The dissertation examines the transmission of cultural values in a selection of African women's texts, written in English and published between 1966 and 1986. Focusing on a range of works by Kenyan, Nigerian and South African women, the study explores modes of memory and examine…
Male authors intent on critiquing American racism, specifically William Faulkner and Richard Wright, have been more successful in defining the parameters surrounding the discussion of violence in American society than have their female counterparts. Intent to illuminate the conn…
In this dissertation, I examine the issues involved in the localization of global ideas associated with liberal democratic governance as seen through the cases of Malaysia and Singapore. This study addresses aspects of contemporary political developments in both these countries …
This case study examines a whole-system method used in a development setting: a November 1998 Future Search conference for the UN system in Pakistan, with a multicultural mix of over 60 participants from different UN, government, donor and civil society organizations. The resear…
Educational research emphasizes the importance of the family's role in the child's educational process. Jewish tradition grants the family a dominant role in passing on Jewish heritage from generation to generation. For Jewish schools to enhance school achievement and teach valu…
Since the launch of Sputnik in 1957, satellite technologies have had a profound impact upon cultures around the world. “Cultures in Orbit” examines these seemingly disembodied, distant relay machines in relation to situated social and cultural processes on earth. Drawing upon a …
From an anthropologist's (Maddock, 1981) point of view, "science and science education are cultural enterprises which form a part of the wider cultural matrix of society and educational considerations concerning science must be made in the light of this wider perspective" (p.10)…
In this study I investigate an array of aspects concerning cultural conflict. I use Samuel Huntington’s civilizations, from his theory of a Clash of Civilizations (1993), as a means of identifying different cultures. Taking advantage of an expanded data set that was not availabl…