This study was conducted to investigate dairy farming practices and gross margin at smallholder dairy farmer level to design a business model for scaling up climate-smart dairy in Ziway-Hawassa milk shed. 80 sample dairy farmers from five districts (which then categorised as urban and peri-urban dairy …

”Landscape as House” is about animating my families landscape through a new form of topographic living: a frag-mented house embedded into forests, meadows and the village. This house creates a life constituted of movement through landscape, on the scale of a farmers ground, with rooms inhabiting its …

Cairo. Home to twenty million people, bursting at the seams. An archipelago of planned and unplanned districts. How should this metropolis prepare for future growth? ‘Delta Strikes Back’ focuses on the rapidly urbanising agricultural landscape within the Nile Delta. Environmental pressure, ‘water wars’ …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the influence of abutment geometry on papillary fill in the esthetic zone in a delayed crown protocol. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Twenty-six subjects received two non-adjacent endosseous implants in the esthetic zone. Functional temporary crowns were installed 17-19 weeks later, using …

Organische halfgeleiders worden alom gebruikt in de huidige elektronica. Een halfgeleider is een materiaal dat bij een sterk genoeg elektrisch veld, stroom geleidt. Voor elektronica is het cruciaal dat een halfgeleider een zo hoog mogelijke ladingsmobiliteit heeft. Interessante kandidaten voor halfgeleiders …

Major resections for esophageal, gastric, hepatic, pancreatic, and colorectal cancer continue to be associated with a high peri-operative morbidity of up to 30%–40%. To a large extent, this morbidity is caused by infectious complications that add up to a considerable burden to patients and hospital costs. …

Surgery aims to improve a patient’s medical condition. However, surgery is a major life event with the risk of negative consequences, like peri- and postoperative complications, prolonged hospitalization and delayed recovery of physical functioning. One of the major common side effects, functional …

De behandeling van non-infectieuze posteriore of intermediaire uveïtis berust op topicale, systemische of posterior peri-oculair geïnjecteerde corticosteroïden. Dit geeft echter veel bijwerkingen en de beoogde werking is kortdurend. Een recente ontwikkeling in de behandeling is een dexamethason implantaat. …

In this paper, the performance gain obtained by combining parallel peri- odic real-time processes is elaborated. In certain single-core mono-processor configurations, for example, embedded control systems in robotics comprising many short processes, process context switches may consume a considerable …

Spätestens seit der PISA- Studie (2004) liegt das Augenmerk der deutschen Bevölkerung verstärkt bei sprachauffälligen Kindern. In den Vordergrund der derzeitigen Problematik ist die Sprachentwicklung der Kindergartenkinder gerückt. Weisen Kinder Defizite in der Sprache auf, so kann dies schnell zu Chancenungleichheit …