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Impacts of Crop Residue on Damage by Sugarcane Pests during the Tillering Phase in Argentina [PDF]
, 2016 One of the most important recent changes in sugarcane cultural practices in Tucumán, Argentina, is the adoption of the practice of green-cane harvesting, which involves harvesting the sugarcane crop in the absence of burning.
Gastaminza, Gerardo +5 more
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The Effects of Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions on Pro-Environmental Behaviour: How Culture Influences Environmentally Conscious Behaviour [PDF]
THEORY METHODOLOGY PRACTICE: CLUB OF ECONOMICS IN MISKOLC 14 (1)
pp. 27-36 2018, 2022 The need for a more sustainable lifestyle is a key focus for several countries. Using a questionnaire survey conducted in Hungary, this paper examines how culture influences environmentally conscious behaviour. Having investigated the direct impact of Hofstedes cultural dimensions on pro-environmental behaviour, we found that the culture of a country ...
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Developing a cyber security culture: Current practices and future needs [PDF]
Computers & Security, 2021, 2021 While the creation of a strong security culture has been researched and discussed for decades, it continues to elude many businesses. Part of the challenge faced is distilling pertinent, recent academic findings and research into useful guidance. In this article, we aim to tackle this issue by conducting a state-of-the-art study into organisational ...
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Enhancing Phosphorus Uptake in Sugarcane: A Critical Evaluation of Humic Acid and Phosphorus Fertilizers Effectiveness [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Our research conducted in an area characterized by alkaline, lime-abundant soils investigated the potential of utilizing phosphorus fertilizer and humic acid to enhance phosphorus absorption in sugarcane crops. The results indicated that the application of phosphorus fertilizer significantly increased the total and bioavailable phosphorus in the ...
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Mineral Nutrition and Fertilization of Sugarcane [PDF]
, 2017 Sugarcane extracts large amounts of nutrients from the soil and accumulates them in the plant due to its large mass production. Thus, agricultural practices ensuring adequate supply of nutrients to the crop must be adopted to obtain high crop yields in ...
da Silva, Vinicius Santos Gomes +4 more
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A framework for Culture-aware Robots based on Fuzzy Logic [PDF]
Proc. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems
(FUZZ-IEEE), Naples, Italy, 2017, 2018 Cultural adaptation, i.e., the matching of a robot's behaviours to the cultural norms and preferences of its user, is a well known key requirement for the success of any assistive application. However, culture-dependent robot behaviours are often implicitly set by designers, thus not allowing for an easy and automatic adaptation to different cultures ...
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Documentary film and ethical foodscapes : three takes on Caribbean sugar [PDF]
, 2013 This article demonstrates how certain stories, voices and values around agro-food networks can be made powerful by documentary film. Our central argument is that documentaries mobilize ethics by presenting a partial and affective account of their subject
Richardson, Ben +1 more
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Cultural Incongruencies in Artificial Intelligence [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Artificial intelligence (AI) systems attempt to imitate human behavior. How well they do this imitation is often used to assess their utility and to attribute human-like (or artificial) intelligence to them. However, most work on AI refers to and relies on human intelligence without accounting for the fact that human behavior is inherently shaped by ...
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Biomass resources and biofuels potential for the production of transportation fuels in Nigeria [PDF]
, 2016 Solid biomass and waste are major sources of energy. They account for about 80% of total primary energy consumed in Nigeria. This paper assesses the biomass resources (agricultural, forest, urban, and other wastes) available in Nigeria and the potential ...
Ben-Iwo, Juliet +2 more
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Sugarcane in Brazil: current technologic stage and perspectives. [PDF]
, 2017 This article aims at analyzing the sugarcane culture in Brazil, showing the current agricultural and industrial development stage of the sugar-alcohol industry and how important this culture has become.
ALVES, E. R. de A. +4 more
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