Crop disease detection through Deep Convolutional Neural Network

INTRODUCTION 1.1 OVERVIEW The agricultural land mass is more than just being a feeding sourcing in today’s world. Indian economy is highly dependent of agricultural productivity. Therefore in field of agriculture, detection of disease in plants plays an important role. To detect a plant disease in very initial stage, use of automatic disease detection technique … Read more

Understanding Fukushima and Preventing its Recurrence

Abstract In short, the events that culminated to result in the Fukushima Daachi disaster in 2001 were largely unavoidable, but as with most situations of this nature sometimes the event itself is not the issue, but how it is handled. A high-caliber tsunami and earthquake created the perfect storm for a nuclear accident, with widespread … Read more

Energy Consumption and Impacts

The change in our world is unavoidable. We outface with this current situation because of the fast change that have become undisciplined. Belonging to the present time of our economic and industrial evolution appear to be unsustainable. Population increase, urbanization, technological advancements, and their effect on the environment are undoubtedly in the company of the … Read more

Carbon Capture and Storage

Where countries have set very ambitious climate goals without presenting appropriate policy plans on how to achieve them (i.e. PA), CCS might prove essential. CCS refers to a collection of technologies that enables the capture and liquefaction of CO2 emissions from industrial and fuel combustion plants either before the combustion or after. The liquid CO2 … Read more

Waste management

Chapter 1 ABSTRACT Waste is a byproduct of life, due urbanization and ever increase in population solid waste management and its proper disposing is major concern in the developing countries. The general method of disposing the solid waste is by land filling in dump yard. In this method the disposing site should be far away … Read more

The culling of badgers in the UK

The culling of badgers in the UK has been a hotly debated topic over recent months. Many local governments are under the impression that these culls may, in fact, decrease the spread of Mycobacterium bovis from badger to cattle (Donnelly, et al., 2005). M.bovis is a bacterium that causes bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle. Bovine … Read more

Determination of particulate matter (PM10) in relation to landuse development

Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Research background Understanding the phenomenon of urbanization and analyses of patterns of urbanization would help in addressing the present and future needs of a region because it plays an important role in infrastructure planning and regional planning, so it is very important especially when resources are limited. During the landuse development, … Read more

NATURE OF SHEA TREES PRODUCTION, CONSERVATION AND EXPLOITATION

CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 2.1. INTRODUCTION Key concepts discussed in this chapter include; economic values of natural resources, valuation techniques, willingness to pay, nature of shea production and exploitation, governance and institutional arrangements. 2.2. MEASUREMENT OF ECONOMIC VALUE Neo-classical economist adopts a distinct value system based on the utility derived from an environmental good (Mohd-Shahwahid, … Read more

Situational crime prevention

Future research also needs to pay more attention to the implementation of crime prevention programs and its influence on their outcomes (Durlak & DuPre, 2008). Successful implementation calls for taking account of local environment, context and conditions.  For example, detailed observational and other information on the crime problem that is the focus of the attention, … Read more

FOOD INSECURITY (focus on Pakistan)

FOOD INSECURITY: It is the condition when people don’t have the enough good quality and healthy food which fulfills the all nutrients requirements for the people. I will say that yes there will be food security in Pakistan Inshallah. REASONS: There are some reasons which are responsible for food insecurity in Pakistan: Water Shortage: Water … Read more

Rejection or approval of (the reservation of) the parallel Kaagbaan?

Introduction In this paper an ethical dilemma in the working practice of the Economic- and Airport Affairs team of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer will be discussed. The issue discussed here is the – spatial – reservation for a possible extra future runway at Schiphol Airport in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer: the parallel Kaagbaan. The theories … Read more

Renewable energy sources

Chapter One: Introduction ________________________________________ 1.1  General Today, most1of the1energy we1used comes1from1fossil’fuels. /Oil, natural1gas, ’and/ coal’ are/ all/ fossil ’fuels [1].’While 1fossil1fuels are still/being1created/today1by underground heat1and pressure they are1being consumed more rapidly than are created. For that reason, fossil1fuels/are/considered non/renewable; that1is, they/are1not replaced1as soon1as we use/them. So1we could run1out of them1sometime in the1future, /or we1might someday1use … Read more