Knowledge on evapotranspiration is essential in quantifying water use depletion and to allocate scarce water resources to competing uses. Despite that an extensive literature describes the theoretical mechanisms of turbulent water vapour transport above and within crop canopies fewer studies…

The increase in global demand for renewable energy has encouraged, both directly and indirectly, the production of oilseeds, including sunflower, as feedstocks for biodiesel. In this scenario, Brazil stands out for its excellent agronomic and climatic conditions for growing these…

One of the main crops and income and alternative food source for the population from Northeast region of Brazil is the lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus), besides an important source of protein for the rural population from South America and Africa.…

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This paper investigates and analyses the process of building a knowledge management (KM) model at Brazil‟s Embrapa (The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation). Embrapa is a world class knowledge organization whose mission is to provide feasible solutions for the sustainable development…

The purpose of the present thesis was to examine psychosocial and behavioural factors associated with the decision-making process involved in uptake of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. In Canada, the HPV vaccine has been approved for women and men aged…

My study focuses on b-boying, the archetype of hiphop dance, to better understand the informal teaching and learning processes embodied in the freestyle or raw b-boy cipher (improvisational dance circle). I draw from an ethnographic approach to investigate how hiphop…

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Objective: Despite the established effectiveness of medication in improving symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Spencer et al 2000), rates of adherence to pharmacotherapy are low, ranging from 34% to 91% (Gau et al., 2006). Since higher adherence rates are…

Automatic knowledge discovery from texts (KDT) is proving to be a promising method for businesses today to deal
with the overload of textual information. In this paper, we first explore the possibilities for KDT to enhance communication in
virtual communities,…