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......................................................................... 69 SOCIAL CLASS ................................................................. ...lion that existed before my voyage. Added to this is the fact that medical science has been able to extend the life spans of a great number of people... ...ent and loved children on the globe. They have done this through a strong social value system that praises intelligence and rewards education. This ... ...orld clamor to be allowed to work in either country to find the cures that science will uncover. For more than 15 years stem cells have been harveste... ...ndant problems are a major drag on modern societies and their economic and social systems.” 10 —“No question about that. We discussed som... ...ion planners are making promises they can‟t keep. The advances in medical science are so great that people are not wearing out as early as they used ... ...t up to 3.8 during the twenty years after the war. That started impacting Social Security and Medicare about ten years ago. Today, in 2025, the impac... ...y, in 2025, the impact is meteoric. It is not only their dipping into the social purse, they are often looking for more handouts from the government... ... has at least one robot. Among other things they teach the children math, science and English. We use their robotics technology extensively.” ...

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...64-0-2 Second edition (First edition published by Aisling Press, 2007) 1. Science Fiction. 2. Fantasy 3. Anthropological—Fiction. I. Title To Mar... ... thankful for the guidance I received back then by members of the Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop (Jon Burrowes, Alexander Jablokov, Geoffrey A. ... ...y A. Carver's article, "Psst! Wanna Buy a Free Ebook?" (The Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Dec. 2008-Jan. 2009) prov... ...rvest festivals, but had not spent much time in each other's company beyond social gatherings. WindTamer shook his head. "No, but he will." 29 El...

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...n crying. She did not open the door even though her mother kept knocking at it repeatedly. After a while she got up, pulled a sheet of paper from her Social Science notebook and started writing under the banner ‘Female butcher’ and her very first sentence was naturally ‘Mother is an evil character’. (Stories with Evil Characters) ...

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...n- sumed. In no other country has life ever been more ardent or acute. The social nature, even in fusion, seems to say after each completed work: “Pas... ...ass on to another!” just as Nature says herself. Like Nature herself, this social nature is busied with insects and flowers of a day—ephemeral trifles... ...the type of its strength carried to its highest expression, and sum up its social capacity in an existence wherein thought and movement combine less t... ...p all things—history, literature, politics, government, religion, military science. Is he not a living encyclopaedia, a grotesque Atlas; ceaselessly i... ... of this hell, which, perhaps, will some day find its Dante. In this third social circle, a sort of Parisian belly, in which the interests of the town... ... Golden Eyes wits in interminable arguments. Almost all conveniently adopt social, literary, or political prejudices, to do away with the need of havi... ...to do away with the need of having opinions, just as they adapt their con- science to the standard of the Code or the T ribunal of Com- merce. Having ... ...old doctors of sixty years. The wealthy obtain in Paris ready-made wit and science—for- mulated opinions which save them the need of having wit, scien... ...minates it through the hundred mouths of her tribunes, ploughs the seas of science, rides with full sail, cries from the height of her tops, with the ...

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...ommon…. Quite ordinary persons you perceive, both of them, out- side their science. Or if anything on the unpractical side of ordinary. And that you w... ...ion of his fellow-men, or to read the anguish of Nature at the “neglect of science” when the angel of the birthday honours passes the Royal Society by... ...e one to realise the unfaltering littleness of men. And withal the reef of Science that these little “scientists” built and are yet building is so won... ...y. “For my part I incline to the good old classical allusion. It— it makes Science res—. Gives it a touch of old-fashioned dignity. I have been thinki... ...fect. He said that nothing ought to stand in the way of the Advancement of Science, and she said that the Advancement of Science was one thing and hav... ...ffed arm-chair, covered by a grubby antimacassar that had given a touch of social distinction to the Skinners’ sitting-room for many years. His unaccu... ...high, who won’t be able to get inside a church, or a meeting-house, or any social or human institution. But for all that they’re not so easy in their ... ...eing clearly, which he was never to see clearly. It was the whole gigantic social side of this lonely dumb monster crying out for his race, for the th... ...mpleton, nothing of trade, nothing of the complex pretences upon which the social fabric of the little folks was built. He needed, he needed—Whatever ...

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............................................................. 10 ECONOMY AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS............................................................... ... is the conundrum of poor uneducated people. The democratic ideal and the socialistic goal is to equalize opportunities and benefits. This means red... ...ocracy, while cumbersome, was more efficient than was Mao‘s state planned socialism. ―The high caste people were capable of high levels of ed... ...d Indus are tugging us backward at the same time that Indian business and science are leaping into the future. 60% of all Indians are below the age ... ...ers. ―Cruelty to children is a universal in every land and every social class. Religious, and non-religious, rich and poor, educated and ig... ...r ramshackled hospitals, for children and adults. ―The effects of social deprivation in India and Pakistan make it difficult for either coun... ... but we must be able to see as much of the whole as possible. We need the sciences to inform us and enlarge our understanding of things great and sm... ...to inform us and enlarge our understanding of things great and small, but science is not the only achievement of the human mind. As Nietzsche pointe... ...No modern democracy has voters who are all educated in history, political science, economics, the environmental sciences and all the other areas tha...

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...G ELDERLY ........................................................ 33 U.S. SOCIAL SECURITY ............................................................. ...China but in the late 90s it had been granted a freedom to experiment with social and political policies and with technology. Its progress has been ... ...ghts‟, that are generally based on individual selfishness rather than the social good, are at least in part responsible for the over two million pri... ...oncern by so many of my fellow citizens had soured me on the potentials of science and the hope of technology in delivering a utopian society to us. ... ...al knowledge of mental and physical health. We study the psychological and social sciences, particularly history. And we study mathematics and the n... ...ledge of mental and physical health. We study the psychological and social sciences, particularly history. And we study mathematics and the natural ... ...rewarded. ―We emphasize honesty as essential in a society based on social values. Criminal behavior is severely punished. Organized crime th... ...tic surgery, psychiatry or pep pills, you search for a better self through science—not self discipline. That goes against the basic tenets for our pe... ... will have to be raised. Just as births have to be reduced. And as medical science keeps us living longer, the adjustments will have to be ‗adjusted...

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...ledge of other civilizations to make their own kingdom better. The arts and sciences, the inventions and manufactures, the books and instruments were... ...ing parenting. “And what about health care. Socialized medicine sounded like a good idea. The British National Heal... ...h intimidation and reward, through law and ideal, and through education and science—begun to slow the raging river of ever increasing births and to t... ... pensions of their elders. Longer life spans aided by advances in medical science and governmental or private health plans increased the need for m... ...eats has required a sudden reversal of tradition in order to save the race. Science affirms our common sense, that millions of people are dying from... ...uman lives can be happier and more productive. Ashley Montague, my favorite social thinker, and Sigmund Freud, not one of my 25 favorites, agree ... ...e time the population reached 150 all the good places to live and the major social roles were taken. Shortly after this population mark had been rea... ...lot of things but we agree on a lot too. For example we both want effective Social Security. You liberals want it all to be handled by the government... ...f they realize that there are highly probable theories in economics and the social sciences that may make them capable of developing economically sa...

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........................................................................ 124 SOCIAL CONCERNS—DO UNTO OTHERS ............................................... ........................................................................ 181 SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY ARE SIAMESE TWINS ...................................... ........................................................................ 243 SOCIAL QUESTIONS ............................................................. ...h is wrong in the other‘s eyes. My habits are right, my beliefs regarding socialism or free enterprise, appropriate dress, how to raise children, or... ...hical, capital punishment is ethical; rape is unethical, rape to avenge a social wrong is ethical. War is unethical, but this war is ethical. Abortio... ...tions are ethical are quite the opposite of Spain‘s prime minister who has social policies favoring gay marriage, easier divorce, more stem cell rese... ...be given the task of healing the afflicted. In our modern world we look to science for probabilities, such as which potential cure is more likely to ... ...alues to see whether or not we should use it. Our values often trump what science indicates. Commander?‖ -- ―That‘s certainly true Wanda. We alw... ...mary in their thinking. Religion is an emotional decision based on faith, science is an intellectual decision based on empirical evidence. In either...

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Collation of social, economic, technological and cultural research conducted in the Thailand highlands in the 1970s.

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...urs or so, and then coming back in pochayses? I don’t know where this here science is to stop, mind you; that’s what bothers me. ’ Here there was a co... ...lating masses of vapour was gorgeously picturesque; together with a little science about the refraction of the sun’s rays, and some myste- rious hints... ...n the very name of Christmas. Petty jealousies and discords are forgotten; social feelings are awakened, in bosoms to which they have long been strang... ... and upwards, without wish for change, or care for variety, when his whole social system was suddenly upset and turned com- pletely topsy-turvy—not by...

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...urs or so, and then coming back in pochayses? I don’t know where this here science is to stop, mind you; that’s what bothers me. ’ Here there was a co... ...lating masses of vapour was gorgeously picturesque; together with a little science about the refraction of the sun’s rays, and some myste- rious hints... ...n the very name of Christmas. Petty jealousies and discords are forgotten; social feelings are awakened, in bosoms to which they have long been strang... ... and upwards, without wish for change, or care for variety, when his whole social system was suddenly upset and turned com- pletely topsy-turvy—not by... ...ers meet- ing beneath his chin, seemed strings wherewith to tie it on, ere science had rendered them unnecessary by her patent invisible springs. ‘Din... ...a permanent engagement at a fashionable haircutter’s; hairdressing being a science to which he had frequently directed his attention. In this situatio... ...claimed that most romantic of all ro- mantic young ladies, as the light of science seated him- self beside her, ‘Oh, Edward, is it you?’ Mr. Theodosiu...

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...inable growth and equitable development in the Asia-Pacific region, to reduce economic disparities among members, and to improve overall economic and social well-being. ...

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...ne technical experiments, which gradually give way to contextual works, development experiences and holistic appreciation of the role of agricultural science. Half of the chapters include a personal reflective comment, which becomes integrated with the research itself as the thesis develops, until it culminates in an embracing final observation of the real outcomes of four...

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...ture Overview 49 Numbered list of papers included in Chapter 5 50 Discussion 51 A More Personal Comment Looking Back 61 Re-Cultivating Agricultural Science: 40 Years of Professional Life – Lindsay Falvey x Chapter 6 - Agricultural Education Overview 65 Numbered list of papers included in Chapter 6 66 Discussion 66 A More Personal Comment Looking Back 80 Chapter 7 - I...

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...riginally been published in 1890-96 as a series of essays in the British monthly literary magazine, Nineteenth Century. Written partly in response to Social Darwinism and in particular to Thomas H. Huxley's Nineteenth Century essay, The Struggle for Existence, Kropotkin's book drew on his experiences in scientific expeditions in Siberia to illustrate the phenomenon of coop...

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...d prosody, biography, astronomy, ge ography, and general cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land surveying and levelling, voc... ... had taken the bloom off the higher branches of mathemat ics and physical science, French, German, Latin, and Greek. 9 CHARLES D ICKENS He knew all ... ...I suppose so. The little Gradgrinds had cabinets in various departments of science too. They had a little conchological cabinet, and a little metallur... ... tear fell down her cheek. ‘You! Thomas and you, to whom the circle of the sciences is open; Thomas and you, who may be said to be replete with facts;... ...y well.’ His pride in having at any time of his life achieved such a great social distinction as to be a nuisance, an incumbrance, and a pest, was onl... ...it,’ said Mr. Bounderby. ‘Yes, sir,’ returned Mrs. Sparsit, with a kind of social wid owhood upon her. ‘It is unquestionably true.’ Mr. Bounderby, be... ...e arrival of new recruits. In that charmed apartment, the most complicated social questions were cast up, got into exact totals, and finally settled ... ...ume at the Bank is one that I could occupy without descending lower in the social scale—’ ‘Why , of course it is,’ said Bounderby . ‘If it was not, ma... ... that light. From Mr. Bounderby I have received every acknowledgment of my social station, and every recognition of my family de scent, that I could ...

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...nt to complain that this is a cold world; and to cold, no less physical than social, we refer directly a great part of our ails. The summer, in some c... ...ached a friendly pier, — there is the untold fate of La Perouse; — universal science to be kept pace with, studying the lives of all great discoverers... ...Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that blows Is all that any ... ... much as mathematics. If I wished a boy to know something about the arts and sciences, for instance, I would not pursue the common course, which is me... ...s one not interested in the success or failure of the present economical and social arrangements. I was more 34 Walden independent than any farmer in... ...is moment stopping at some brilliant station house in town or city, where a social crowd is gathered, the next in the Dismal Swamp, scaring the owl a... ...nd of new eternity; and between us we manage to pass a cheerful evening with social mirth and pleasant views of things, even without apples or cider, ... ...d hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively,... ...rom the other side of the town, and the catching of the dinner was as much a social exercise as the eating of it. Hermit. I wonder what the world is d...

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...e’s as stiff a cove as ever he see, but that it is within the resources of Science to double him up, with one blow in the waistcoat. Mr Sownds and Mrs... ...s miserable daughter, only the reduction to their lowest grade, of certain social vices sometimes prevailing higher up? In this round world of many 9... ...ops. The housemaid won- ders too, and so does Mrs Perch, who has the happy social faculty of always wondering when other people wonder, with- out bein... ...d to give him hospitable entertainment. And the generous influence of that social virtue, hospitality (to make no mention of wine and good cheer), ope... ...g been conceived, and born and bred, in Hell! Those who study the physical sciences, and bring them to bear upon the health of Man, tell us that if th... ...llen air where Vice and Fever propagate together, raining the tremen- dous social retributions which are ever pouring down, and ever coming thicker! B... ...e expression, ‘ain’t I been on the look-out for any tidings of that man o’ science, old Sol Gills, your Uncle, day and night, ever since I lost him? A... ...e since Mr Dombey’s little son died; but all such excitements there take a social, not to say a jovial turn, and lead to the cultivation of good fello... ... his old infallible chronometer ticking away in his pocket. ‘Chock full o’ science,’ said the radiant Captain, ‘as ever he was! Sol Gills, Sol Gills, ...

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...ad set off to carry out cultural anthropological fieldwork in Thailand. No science called cultural anthropology existed in those days in Finland. I lo... ...ned and controlled. People are accustomed to demanding ever more benefits, social and health services, higher wages and bigger pensions, compensation ... ...nding nature, the habitat, but to 'reality', those economic, political and social conditions that the natural environment also impacts upon. The real ... ..., where old structures no longer function. Scarcely any of the material or social structures that used to govern the former way of life remains in the... ...l states - universal technosystems - Internet, global networks - universal science - global databases ('World Brain') - global hierarchy Planetary dev... ...e globe. From 1973 for almost thirty years I was Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Helsinki. The decades cannot be re... ... that time, a large immediate and extended family and kinship group was a social power and security for the future. On the plain, the surrounding m... ... complex genetic and chemical programs only understood by state-of-the-art science. Postlocal experiences of nature will be produced by the consciousn... ...lopment. (25 Civilization is scientific knowledge and technological skill, science and art. The opposite of a civilized citizen is a person who lacks ...

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...hysician, [1] and in another he speaks of Asclepius as "the founder of our science," [2] and all his illustrations show a breadth and variety of me... ... Ππῤῥώλεηνη. [4] Suidas calls Favorinus a great author and learned in all science and philosophy, [5] and Favorinus made Rome the centre of his ... ...under the title of πξὸο καζεκαηηθνύο, one of which is directed agai nst the sciences in general, and the other against the dogmatic philosophers. The... ...extant works of Sextus is similar, as they are all directed either against science or against the dogmatics, and they all present the negative side ... ...on, but bear entirely upon the possibility of reasoning, as demanded by the science of logic, in contrast to the earlier ones which related almost e... ...ake of peace. This basis of action was itself a death-blow to all reform in social or political life. It was a selfish, negative way of seeking what ...

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...torytelling is almost musical, the dimensions are psychological, the contents earthy and realistic. The book contains aspects of the history of the social conditions of the 1910s, 20s, and 30s, including the relations between parents and children. The book also deals with the psychological aspects of the relations between father and daughter, and stepmother and daughter....

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...SIC ASSUMPTION 97 THE SOURCE OF POWER IN A SOCIETY 104 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF A SOCIETY 104 TYPE OF GOVERNMENT108 USING GOD’S LAWS FOR SOCIETY 112 SOCIAL CONCERNS—DO UNTO OTHERS 114 ECONOMIC CONCERNS WHEN ESTABLISHING YOUR IDEAL SOCIETY 115 ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY117 THE WELFARE STATE—CRADLE TO GRAVE BENEFITS 119 RETIREMENT PENSIONS 125 HEALTH CARE128 HEALTH CARE AND AGING ...

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................................................................................................................................... 54 POWER THRU SOCIAL... ... 5 Meeting Dr. Chan —―Good morning gentlemen. I want to introduce you to Dr. Chuck Chan. He is a professor of social... ... our doctorates at the same time at your alma mater Commander. Of course I was in psychology and she was in philosophy but we knew each other social... ...y approach to life is quite different. The motivations for these people may be the same as for mentally healthy people, they just behave anti-social... ...ive us better control over our own lives. The more we know about ourselves, the better we can control our own destinies. This is what much of scienc... ...n control our own destinies. This is what much of science and most of education is all about. If we can get a better grasp of the appropriate scienc... ...eve it because people deny that they don‘t have control over their behavior, except in court then they are looking for excuses for their anti-social... ...e our minds to be able to conjure up so many absolute truths! And so with psychology! But with psychology we can start with evidence, like any scienc... ...dating, but often forget it when the ‗I do‘ eventually becomes ‗I don‘t.‘ ―I wonder if Freud would have taken the same approach to his scienc...

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...“The Letters contained in this little Volume embrace some of the most important points of the science of Chemistry, in their application to Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Agriculture, and Commerce. Some of them treat of subjects which have already been, or will hereafter be, more fully discussed in my larger works. T...

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...with the potential of reducing our costs by up to this same 50%. Lifestyle is also a far more accurate predicator of our future health care needs and social service requirements. This allows lifestyle to provide the best measure of planning & forecast over today’s ‘comparison shopping’ models. ROOPA highlights the number of savings and other advantages gained from this dua...

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...Contents RAGHU-NOMICS 4 1 ROOPA II 1 Health Care Reform Made Easy: Social Cost 1 Editors Copy 2 Prospectus 3 The 4 page ROOPA Pamphlet used for campaign run for Congress. 5 Raghu Giuffre for Congress 5 ROOPA: 5 50% of Taxes & Insurance Spent on Life Style 5 Excerpt: 5 Part I: 5 Part...

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...ies.......56 The non-preservation of the military and state secret. .................58 The place and the non-role of the army in the political and social life of the country......59 The ceremony of the oath non-deposition......................60 Country’s anti-defense ............................61 The sources of the party’s concepts disregarding the country’s anti-d...

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...stronomy, and we recounted by turns the most interesting discoveries in that science. But at length we composed ourselves seriously to sleep. It was i... ...n new, and adequate to the The Allegash and East Branch 111 occasion. I let science slide, and rejoiced in that light as if it had been a fellow cre... ...d, would have been altogether out of place there. That is for pale daylight. Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportuni... ... some other trees, greatly to the convenience of the lumberer. They are of a social habit, growing in “veins,” “clumps,” “groups,” or “communities,” a... ...eon, lives in one of them, in Lincoln. The Penobscot Indians seem to be more social, even, than the whites. Ever and anon in the deepest wilderness of...

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...e conditions that affect outcomes - thus our best efforts to predict natural outcomes are usually flawed. We further display our ignorance in seeking social sustainability while we behave inequitably towards groups other than ‘us’ and invoke spurious reasoning to justify further research. The effect of ignorant self-interest is played out daily in our largest intervention ...

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...agriculture declined in relative financial importance, it continued to provide the benefits of employment, crisis resilience, self-sufficiency, rural social support, and cultural custody. Technical and economic globalisation forces which assumed a cultural uniformity were eventually revealed to require modification, but had meanwhile allowed unregulated exploitation of com...

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...and Early Agribusiness Summary Chapter 6 - Agriculture and Politics: From the 1930s Agricultural Policies from 1932 Policies Post-World War II Agro-Social Change Highland Agriculture Agribusiness and The State The Culture of Irrigation Environmental Change Summary Chapter 7 - Thai Agriculture to the 1990s Agricultural Planning Context Planning History Foreign Fillips t...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 Individual rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3 Social harmony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3 Checks and balances 11 3.1 Acceptable personal risk and responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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...4). Scientists used to think that only humans could count, but it has been discovered that chimpanzees have arithmetical skills (Inoue S, 2007). Many social functions, such as altruism, understanding another person’s cognitive state, social cooperation, and cultural transmission, which were once thought to be human-specific, have recently been described in various forms in...

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...rs to the next generation of smallholder dairy farmers, scientists and the international development agencies concerned with technical issues and the social and economic benefits of dairying in the tropics. This book results from productive collaboration among institutions and scientists in developing and industrial countries. The Thailand Research Fund (TRF) of the Pri...

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...ration Flood Programme Dairy co-operative development under Operation Flood Dairy co-operatives in other tropical countries Bangladesh Sri Lanka Social impact Conclusion Suggested reading Chapter 21: Successful smallholder dairy projects S.R. Na Phuket Introduction Experience in smallholder dairy development projects and programmes Features Project perfo...

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...ses arise from whether a disaster is perceived to be of slow or rapid onset. This investigation reflects on the interplay of short and long- term social and biophysical factors on the scale of one particular disaster, Tropical Cyclone (TC) Nargis, which hit the Ayeyarwady Delta area of Myanmar in May 2008, killing perhaps 140,000 people in four hours. This will be achi...

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................................53 5. A Triple Inequality with Series and Improper Integrals, by Florentin Smarandache, in Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences, Vol. 25E, No. 1, 215-217, 2006.........54 6. Immediate Calculation of Some Poisson Type Integrals Using SuperMathematics Circular Ex-Centric Functions, by Florentin Smarandache & Mircea Eugen..........................

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................................53 5. A Triple Inequality with Series and Improper Integrals, by Florentin Smarandache, in Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences, Vol. 25E, No. 1, 215-217, 2006.........54 6. Immediate Calculation of Some Poisson Type Integrals Using SuperMathematics Circular Ex-Centric Functions, by Florentin Smarandache & Mircea Eugen..........................