258 research outputs found
Hydraulic simulations to evaluate and predict design and operation of the Chashma Right Bank Canal
No full textIrrigation systems / Irrigation canals / Flow control / Velocity / Canal regulation techniques / Hydraulics / Simulation models / Design / Operations / Crop-based irrigation / Distributary canals / Water delivery / Policy / Protective irrigation / Water allocation / Water requirements / Sedimentation / Water distribution / Equity / Water conveyance / Pakistan / Chashma Right Bank Canal
Biochar: An emerging recipe for designing sustainable horticulture under climate change scenarios
No full textThe interest in sustainable horticulture has recently increased, given anthropogenic climate change. The increasing global population will exacerbate the climate change situation induced by human activities. This will elevate global food demands and the vulnerability of horticultural systems, with severe concerns related to natural resource availability and usage. Sustainable horticulture involves adopting eco-friendly strategies to boost yields while maintaining environmental conservation. Biochar (BC), a carbon-rich material, is widely used in farming to improve soil physical and chemical properties and as an organic substitute for peat in growing media. BC amendments to soil or growing media improve seedling growth, increase photosynthetic pigments, and enhances photosynthesis, thus improving crop productivity. Soil BC incorporation improves abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, which are significant constraints in horticulture. BC application also improves disease control to an acceptable level or enhance plant resistance to pathogens. Moreover, BC amendments in contaminated soil decrease the uptake of potentially hazardous metals, thus minimizing their harmful effects on humans. This review summarizes the most recent knowledge related to BC use in sustainable horticulture. This includes the effect of BC on enhancing horticultural crop production and inducing resistance to major abiotic and biotic stresses. It also discuss major gaps and future directions for exploiting BC technology
Correction to: female reproductive organs of Brassica napus are more sensitive than male to transient heat stress
No full textThe article Female reproductive organs of Brassica napus are more sensitive than male to transient heat stress, written by Sheng Chen, Renu Saradadevi, Miriam S. Vidotti, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, Jose Crossa, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Wallace A. Cowling, was originally published Online First without Open Access. After publication in volume 217: 117 the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed t
Conservation Agriculture: Concepts, Brief History, and Impacts on Agricultural Systems
No full textConservation agriculture (CA) is characterized by minimal soil disturbance, diversified crop rotations, and surface crop residue retention to reduce soil and environmental degradation while sustaining crop production. CA involves changing many conventional farming practices as well as the mindset of farmers to overcome the conventional use of tillage operations. Although adoption of CA is increasing globally, in some regions it is either slow or nonexistent. The adoption of CA has both agricultural and environmental benefits but there is a lack of information on the effects and interactions of key CA components which affect yield and hinder its adoption. In this chapter, we discuss the basic concepts and brief history of CA, and its impacts on agricultural system
NGO field workers in Pakistan
No full textNGOs came into the society in their present form after World War II and more precisely in 1960s. Before that also different forms of philanthropy existed. Like elsewhere in the world, in Pakistan also state and the market were the two sectors catering for different needs of the people. When foreign funding started coming into the poor countries, the channel of NGOs was considered more appropriate including the fact they had roots in the society and the benefit could reach the far flung areas. NGO field workers are the real actors in the NGOs’ activities but sadly the NGOs those raise the slogans of working for the destitute do not bother to facilitate the NGO field workers. Eventually the NGO field workers are facing problems of job insecurity, poor salary structure, unhealthy working environment and even harassment especially in case of women NGO field workers in Pakistan.Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), NGO field workers, wage level and structure, working conditions
NGOs and poverty issues in peri-urban areas
No full textPoverty reduction is the top-most element in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations those have provided a broad way for the development planning professionals on the globe to assess their past performance in the important aspects of development planning as well as to plan their strategies for the design period of 2000-2015. The United Nations sees the nations as members of a global family and expects them to work for the fellow-beings setting some guidelines, for instance, ‘The millennium Development Goals can be achieved if immediate steps are taken to implement existing commitment.NGOs, poverty, peri-urban areas
The concept of tarikah in the Islamic law of succession with special reference to the practices of the civil courts and the Syariah courts in Malaysia
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HAZRAT ABU BAKR’S ACHIEVEMENT IN PRE-ISLAMIC AND ISLAMIC ERA
No full textThe core objective of this study was to conduct a comparative analysis of Hazrat Abu Bakr’s Achievements in pre-Islamic and Islamic era. For this purpose, a qualitative research was done under the topic as cited above. Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique (R.A) was a great personality of Muslim history who got a prominent and unique status not only in Islamic era but also in pre-Islamic era due to his services for the mankind as a successful trader as well as a true believer of Islam in Arab history. People of Arab loved him because he used to spend his money generously. He was also a well-known personality in Arab due to his good manners, wisdom, truthfulness, kindness and common sense. In Islamic history, Abu Bakr Siddique (R.A) immediately started to preach Islam among Arabs after the embracing of Islam as a first adult, but like other new Muslims, he also had to face hardships from the enemies of Islam. He also had to migrate towards Madina as a closest companion of Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH). He also accompanied with the Holly Prophet (PBUH) through thick and thins either in form of battles or in other critical events during the struggle of Islam and played a vital role as a lifelong friend of Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) from the frontline of Islam. Owing to his sacrifices for Islam and Muslims, He was elected by the Muslims as first Caliph after the passes of the Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH). His caliphate continued for two years and three months. Allah Almighty praises him in Holy Qur'an as well as the Holly Prophet (PBUH) in His sayings (Hadees) due to his considerable contributions for Islam. When Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique (R.A) reached at the age of sixty-three years, he was died on Monday evening, 23- 8- 634 CE (22- 6- 13 H)
BENGALI AUTHORSHIP CLASSIFICATION CORPUS (BACC-18)
No full textIf you use the Dataset, please cite the following paper. @ARTICLE{9478882,
author={Hossain, Md. Rajib and Hoque, Mohammed Moshiul and Dewan, M. Ali Akber and Siddique, Nazmul and Islam, Md. Nazmul and Sarker, Iqbal H.},
journal={IEEE Access},
title={Authorship Classification in a Resource Constraint Language Using Convolutional Neural Networks},
year={2021},
volume={9},
number={},
pages={100319-100338},
doi={10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3095967}
Correction to: Female reproductive organs of Brassica napus are more sensitive than male to transient heat stress (Euphytica, (2021), 217, 6, (117), 10.1007/s10681-021-02859-z)
No full textThe article Female reproductive organs of Brassica napus are more sensitive than male to transient heat stress, written by Sheng Chen, Renu Saradadevi, Miriam S. Vidotti, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, Jose Crossa, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Wallace A. Cowling, was originally published Online First without Open Access. After publication in volume 217: 117 the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) 2021 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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