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Engineering Economy For Economists [PDF]

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, 2020
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Developing capabilities in the seed industry: which direction to follow? [PDF]

, 2014
Since the 1990s, many developing country policy makers have assumed that plant genetic engineering represents the only technological frontier in seed innovation; that it has been the leading technology for improving seeds and agricultural performance in ...
Marin, Anabel, Stubrin, Lilia, van Zwanenberg, Patrick   +2 more
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Globalisation and the Political Economy of Genetic Engineering

Teorie vědy, 2019
This article argues that the development of genetic technologies has to be critically evaluated from a socio-political economy pers pective to establish if, on balance, the benefits of such technologies outweigh their costs and risks.
Del Weston
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Domestic engineering as a factor of scientific and technological development of the Russian economy

Модернизация, инновация, развитие, 2019
Purpose: study of the impact of innovation and technological development of engineering industries on the effectiveness of the impact of engineering factors on the growth and development of the economy.Methods: in conducting the study, the methods and ...
V. N. Borisov, O. V. Pochukaevа
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Environmental Cadmium Exposure Perturbs Gut Microbial Dysbiosis in Ducks

Veterinary Sciences, 2023
Ore extraction, chemical production, and agricultural fertilizers may release significant amounts of heavy metals, which may eventually accumulate widely in the environment and organisms over time, causing global ecological and health problems.
Xuefei Wang, Junxian Mi, Kun Yang, Lian Wang   +3 more
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The Case for Improving U.S. Computer Science Education [PDF]

, 2015
Despite the growing use of computers and software in every facet of our economy, not until recently has computer science education begun to gain traction in American school systems.
Adams Nager, Robert D. Atkinson
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A novel life-cycle analysis approach using pavement performance curves with cost and performance considerations

International Journal of Sustainable Engineering
The life-cycle duration (TLC) is typically assumed constant in pavement life-cycle analysis. The added scientific value of this paper is that (TLC) is considered a variable parameter to be estimated from the performance curve using a variable terminal ...
Khaled A. Abaza
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Overview and Prospect of Engineering Practice of Permanent Floating Bridge Structures

Zhongwai Gonglu
As the bridge construction goes forward to the deep-water environments, the permanent floating bridge structures have attracted more and more attention from international scholars.
ZENG Zhuo, ZHENG Honggang, XIANG Sheng, CHENG Bin   +3 more
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Social-Ecologic Oriented Curricula in Engineering Education: “Leonardo’s Oath” as an Answer to Janus-Headedness in Engineering Work

Высшее образование в России, 2021
Any engineering activity is characterized by contradictions: social – between engineering problems and technical solutions and technological – between laws of nature and artificial engineering objects.
R. Dreher, V. V. Kondratyev, M. N. Kuznetsova   +2 more
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‘Can Simple Biological Systems be Built from Standardized Interchangeable Parts?’:Negotiating Biology and Engineering in a Synthetic Biology Competition [PDF]

, 2013
Synthetic biology represents a recent attempt to bring engineering principles and practices to working with biology. In practice, the nature of the relationship between engineering and biology in synthetic biology is a subject of ongoing debate.
Calvert, Jane, Frow, Emma
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