This paper elaborates on potential linkages between TNAs and NDCs. TNAs have been conducted by developing countries since 2001 as a participatory process to prioritize technologies for mitigation and adaptation within countries’ national sustainable development contexts. Around 15 years after conducting …

The Inverted Pendulum is one of the classical control problems of an inherently unstable system. The idea is that the pendulum, fixed on a cart, stays upright in its vertical position while the cart is moving, or disturbances are applied. The system is used to demonstrate the capability of the target …

Kalumwange Farm Block is the largest farm block in the Western Province of Zambia. The farm block is situated in the Kaoma district, and small-scale farmers mainly occupy it. With a size of 100,000 hectares, on average, Kalumwange Farm Block produces over 1,242,000 kilograms of maize. This is in a farming …

Objectives To determine nurse-sensitive outcomes in district nursing care for community-living older people. Nurse-sensitive outcomes are defined as patient outcomes that are relevant based on nurses’ scope and domain of practice and that are influenced by nursing inputs and interventions. Design A …

Modern airport management is challenged by the task of operating aircraft parking positions most efficiently while complying with environmental policies, restrictions, schedule disruptions, and capacity limitations. This study proposes a novel framework for the stand allocation problem that uses a divide-and-conquer …

Common bean is a vital legume essential crop in Uganda. Common bean seed marketing and accessibility is the major concern in south western agro-ecological zone for both small-scale farmers and seed producers. An acute element in attaining higher crop yield is better access to key farming inputs by farmers …

The southern highlands regions of Tanzania form the important potato growing part of the country. Several initiatives have been and they are still being established to develop the sub-sector, CD-PIT being part of them. Productivity is the key challenge that farmers face which is articulated with their …

Shea tree fruits is first processed as shea kernels for sale or further processed into butter. The butter has been used over time in food, cosmetic and industrial purposes. Processing shea as an individual usually comes with a risk of poor sales at the market due to inefficiencies. To avert this and …

In order to enhance the acceptance of new technologies by the farmers, there is a need for standard technics of different types of protected cultivation. This study aims to develop a comparison of a lowtech, mid-tech and high-tech structure to build a complete standard for Indian farmers. The objective …

Germany has a known a growth of organic consumption within the recent years, however its consumption is growing faster than the German wine production which is still relatively low. Therefore, a large amount of wine is imported from other countries, making Germany the largest organic wine importer in …