Most orchard industries renew themselves through new plantings. The marketplace and the availability of more disease resistant varieties can fuel interest in establishing new orchards as well as influence the choice of new cultivars.
Methane hydrate found in marine sediments is thought to contain gigaton quantities of methane and is
considered an important potential fuel source and climate-forcing agent. Much of the methane in hydrates is
biogenic, so models that predict the presence and distribution of hydrates require accurate rates of in situ
methanogenesis....
Intellectual property rights is an incredibly important and salient issue today in both China and the rest of the world. This topic of intellectual property rights, or IPRs, has been an increasingly frictional and hostile issue of contention between
China and the rest of the world for many years. IPR...
This presentation, given at ALA 2008 in Anaheim, covers Czech history, the history of libraries and librarianship in the Czech Republic during the 20th century, cultural differences encountered while teaching library school students and librarians during two visits to the Czech Republic by the author in 2005 and 2007, and...
This research seeks to understand the influences of perception on land use around
the Mount Hood area of Oregon and evaluate how it has evolved over the past 4,000
years. The study addresses three specific questions:
1) How has the study area evolved over time into the modern landscape?
2)...