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Infocrop: a process-based dynamic crop simulation model for analysing genotype x environment interactions in tropical crops
This chapter explains the development, key components, and applications of InfoCrop: a process-based, dynamic simulation model developed by Indian scientists to simulate the growth, development, and yield of major tropical crops. These include wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, pearl millet, soybean, c...
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The denitrification-decomposition (dndc) model
DNDC is a well-established biogeochemical crop model that has been featured in over 400 peer-reviewed publications and excels at quantifying agricultural impact under diverse environmental and management conditions. DNDC employs a thermal time-driven biomass accumulation sub-model across all crop...
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The daisy crop model
The process-based model Daisy simulates complex crop traits in different environments through various process descriptions for water and solute/nitrogen transport and crop growth of diverse agroecosystems and managements. Daisy runs in one or two dimensions, in the field (basic management unit) o...
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The light interception and utilisation family of crop models
There is a wide range of models in the LINTUL family of crop growth models. All are based on a simple relationship between leaf area index and light interception and the concept of light or radiation use efficiency to convert intercepted radiation into dry matter. This chapter provides an overvie...
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The genotype-by-environment interaction on crop growth simulator model
The Genotype-by-Environment interaction on CROp growth Simulator (GECROS) is a generic crop model that specifically addresses carbon-nitrogen, root-shoot, and source-sink interactions to predict crop responses to weather variables and soil water and nitrogen supply. GECROS uses relatively few, ea...
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Crop modeling with simple simulation models (ssm)
Models can be effective tools, and in many cases essential tools, to understand and predict the development, growth, and yield of crops in response to variation in environment, plant genetics, and management. Criteria for such effective models are that they are transparent and robust. The family ...
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Swapwofost: a combined ecohydrological and crop growth simulation model
The ecohydrological and crop growth simulation model combination SwapWofost is a model that can be used for crop simulation when detailed soil moisture processes, such as for example capillairy rise, salination, etc., have to be considered. It has been succesfully used in the Netherlands, Argenti...
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The simulator of crop trait assembly, management response and adaptation crop model
SAMARA was developed to study in-silico plant type (ideotype) concepts submitted to different climatic/soil environments and management practices. The originality of the model relies on (1) the integration of substantial morphological detail of plants organ cohorts (leaves, tillers, internodes), ...
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The monica agroecosystem model
This chapter describes the MONICA agroecosystem model, its development from the original HERMES model, its main features, and example applications for various tasks across scales. MONICA allows a balanced view on crop and soil processes when simulating cropping systems over a wide range of enviro...
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The cycles agroecosystem model
Cycles is a process-based model of the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum that functions as both a knowledge repository and analytical tool. This chapter outlines its structure, highlights its use in in-silico trait exploration and modeling of biogenic carbon and water cycles, and presents three cas...
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The stics soil-crop model: a generic model to simulate the functioning of agroecosystems
This chapter offers a general presentation of the STICS soil-crop model. Through numerous illustrations dealing notably with genetic x environment x management interactions, it presents an overview of the wide domain of validity of the model, along with its performances, demonstrating its potenti...
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The crop, land, and soil simulation (classim) group of models
Process-level crop models integrate mathematical representations of the soil-plant-atmosphere with genetic, environment, and management factors. These tools support a range of needs including on-farm decision support, scientific inquiry, crop breeding, and climate impact assessments. The USDA-ARS...
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The systems approach to land use sustainability (salus) model
This chapter explores SALUS (Systems Approach to Land Use Sustainability), a process-based crop model designed to simulate interactions between soil, climate, genetics and agronomic management, focusing on their effects on crop growth and yield, soil organic matter and nitrogen dynamics. SALUS ex...
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The usda root zone water quality model
The USDA Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM), developed in the 1980s and released in 1992, simulates root zone processes based on earlier models like CREAMS, GLEAMS, and NTRM. It includes modules for water balance, soil carbon and nitrogen cycling, plant growth, energy balance, solute transport...
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The simplace crop and ecosystem management modelling platform
Process-based crop models have become a central tool for agricultural systems analysis, allowing scientists to explicitly define model structures most suited to a given research question and data availability. With the evolution of computation and programming language paradigms, algorithms descri...
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The aquacrop model
FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) launched in 2009 the dynamic crop growth model “AquaCrop” to predict yield response to water of herbaceous crops. After a brief description of the calculation scheme and the input requirements, the chapter discusses the parametriza...
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The cropgrow model
The CropGrow series model, comprising WheatGrow and RiceGrow, was developed by the Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture at Nanjing Agricultural University. The model integrates cutting-edge methodologies, such as system analysis, dynamic modeling, scenario simulation, and...
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Turnaround management
Following the highly regarded first edition, this second edition of Turnaround Management covers important legislative changes since 2018 and their significant effect on turnaround practice, particularly the EU Directive on Restructuring and Insolvency 2019 and the UK’s Corporate Insolvency and R...
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Practical derivatives
This fourth edition includes updated chapters explaining how derivatives are used in the practical context, how the documentation works and any pitfalls for the unwary.
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Decolonising international solidarity
Decolonising International Solidarity explores how differences in natural resources between Europe, Africa and the Middle East contributed to the failure of the colonialists’ attempts at imposing their civilisation onto the colonised. It shows how this colonial attitude persists to this day and a...
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The freedom of information officer's handbook
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the practical management of freedom of information compliance, including interpretation of the Act as well as the Environmental Information Regulations.
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Information at work
This book provides a comprehensive account of information in the modern workplace.
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The chief data officer's playbook
This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling Chief Data Officer’s Playbook offers new insights into the role of the CDO and the data environment. Written by two of the world’s leading experts in data driven transformation, it addresses the changes that have taken place in ‘data’, in ...
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Narrative expansions
Libraries across all sectors are responding to the call to decolonise, critically examining their own historic legacies and practices and supporting institutional change. This book brings together current thinking and emerging practices around decolonising the library, providing conceptual framew...
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Building your portfolio
Open up new career opportunities and prove your value as a professional with expert guidance on producing a successful portfolio for CILIP's Professional Registration qualifications.
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Energy storage
Energy storage is a key trend in the electricity industry across the globe, with one recent analysis predicting 942GW of storage (excluding pumped storage) will be developed by 2040.
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Electricity storage
This book offers a comprehensive guide to the commercial, regulatory and financing issues shaping storage projects worldwide.
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Decision making in law firms
Decision Making in Law Firms provides law firm partners with practical tools for understanding and improving their decision-making processes, from individual cognitive patterns to partnership consensus to strategic transformation.
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Instant insights: understanding and managing diseases affecting sheep
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the main diseases which pose a threat to sheep production, including diseases which impact the reproductive, nervous and respiratory systems, as well as diseases of the skin and feet. The book also reviews best practices for managing these diseases, ...
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Instant insights: understanding and tackling pests and diseases of forest trees
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of pests and diseases affecting boreal, temperate and tropical forests, as well as best practices for their monitoring and management.
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Instant insights: soil contaminants
This book provides a detailed overview of key groups of contaminants in agricultural soils, the range of indicators used to identify soil contamination, as well as the ways in which particular contaminants impact soil, crop and human health.
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The anthem beckett studies reader
The Anthem Beckett Studies Reader, edited by S. E. Gontarski, is an indispensable guide to the restless, rigorously inventive field of Beckett studies—one that mirrors Samuel Beckett’s own refusal of settled meanings and stable forms.
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Superheroes and contemporary cultures
The interdisciplinary collection links in-depth close readings of central texts of the superhero discourse from a variety of media with larger societal and cultural discourses such as cross-medial, meta-textual and more general intersections and negotiations between the figure of the superhero an...
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Lines of inquiry
Multi-disciplinary edited collection on drawing research and methods. The international group of contributors provides suggestions for developing new ways of knowing, for developing empathy toward things that may lie outside our own experiences, and for seeing alternative perspectives through dra...
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Chimera
Analyzes, through the lens of posthuman philosophy, the practices of artists and designers who explore the potentialities of bio-mechanical, sensory, and cognitive techno-scientific extensions of our bodies, to define the 'Expanded Body' and its new ethic and entangled relationship with the human...
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Building a business development culture and strategy
Drawing on decades of experience advising law firm leaders, chief marketing officers, and partners, Building a Business Development Culture and Strategy provides senior management and practice leaders with actionable strategies for integrating business development into their organization's fabric.
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Art is the evidence
The practical research guide explores art as both the process of inquiry and the evidence it generates. Universal access across disciplines is encouraged. Artistic intelligence and its sustained personal contributions to human understanding offers a timely complement to science and the exponentia...
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Helmbrechts walk, 1998–2003
Helmbrechts Walk, 1998-2003 is a memorial testament to the forced march of 580 female Jewish prisoners at the end of the Second World War. This work is a visual representation of the 225 miles that the prisoners were forced to march from the camp in Germany into the occupied portion of Czechoslov...
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Amplifying theatrical horizons
Drawing on scholarship in theatre studies, economics, philosophy, and performance practice, the book develops the Wasteful Theatre Equation, distinguishing waste as surplus that amplifies experience rather than squandered loss.
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The minneapolis sound
The Minneapolis Sound: The City, Music and Identity examines how Minneapolis shaped its own globally recognized sound and how that phenomenon, in turn, shaped the city’s identity, connecting geography, race, memory, and community through the intertwined stories of place, culture, and sound.
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Stone
This volume of collected essays, theoretical articles, case-studies, artistic texts and artwork portfolios aims to open a field of thought in which stone is not questioned as a materia prima of artistic work, but rather as a carrier of information.
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Punk & the animal
This book explores synergies, crossovers, and alignments of punk thinking in terms of the animal. It includes contributions from leaders of the punk movement, chapters by artists, scholars of visual and popular culture, animal studies specialists, and others in artistic and art-affiliated discipl...
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The workless
This book contests the hegemonic discourse around 'worklessness' - and dominant definitions of what we recognize as 'work'. It argues the current 'crisis' in economic inactivity is merely the latest in a long line of moral panics that have exaggerated the scale of 'worklessness' while denying the...
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Media imaginaries
This collection of new work by international scholars on media imaginaries explores the concept as a tool for reflection. Authors empirically and conceptually examine media imaginaries as multiform, providing space for dialogue on themes of political-social imaginaries, cultural-technological ima...
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Screening the transition
Screening the Transition examines how Spanish cinema produced in the years immediately following Franco’s death articulated—through its narratives and characterizations—the social and cultural challenges encountered during the country’s transition to democracy. These films reflect emergent post-d...
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Fat performance
Fat Performance is the first published edited collection dedicated to fat performance. The text connects materials from across scholarship on fat performance and provides the readership with routes into this area of artistic practice and scholarly enquiry.
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The examined illness
Being a patient is part of being alive. Sooner or later most of us go through it. Disease and serious illness often strike quite randomly, and when they do, we quickly become subject to the impersonal forces of biochemistry and pharmacology. We rarely think about this beforehand and are often tot...
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Alternative futures
Herzogenrath’s collection confronts us with a fantastic oscillation between utopia and dystopia. It presents us with the essence of what it means to engage in artistic research – in fact, research tout court: the desire to get away from a present perceived as deficient, if not disastrous, and loo...
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Designwise
DesignWISE introduces a 360-degree, regenerative approach to design development. Bringing together designers, thinkers and changemakers and moving beyond linear processes, combining design thinking, systemic leadership, and earth-based wisdom traditions to foster reflection, intentional action an...
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Inclusive musical theatre
Inclusive Musical Theatre is a comprehensive guide that presents a research-backed curriculum and strategies for creating an inclusive and accessible musical theatre rehearsal and performance process at the high school level.
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A bakhtinian approach to the visual arts
First book to develop methodology for transposing Bakhtin’s thought to visual art. Achieved via transpositional theories from S Langer, N Bryson, Vygotsky, P Florensky, P Rawson, Baxandall and Deleuze. Bakhtin’s insights applied to Giotto, Riemenschneider Velasquez, Cezanne, Picasso, Rauschenberg...
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Cutting up books
Explores writing as experiment and destruction as discovery. Blending theory, art, and practice, it introduces textrapolation: a cut-up method that reimagines creativity, authorship, and knowledge-making in the age of artificial unintelligence. Encourages intellectual play, intuition, and embodie...
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Embodying the artificial
Embodying the artificial explores dance creation with generative AI and other technologies. Drawing on ethnographic research, it examines the kinesthetic, ontological, and ethical dimensions of human–AI co-creation, offering frameworks for choreographers to engage critically and creatively with i...
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Shaping citizenship through talk radio
This is a book about how to have an inclusive, reflective and civil national conversation and whether the mass media can contribute to meaningful public debate. In this year-long study of the BBC’s national phone-in show before the 2024 British general election we see the public expressing its mo...
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Hyper-imaging
The book addresses the changes in how images behave, how they circulate and affect knowledge, subjectivity, and public exchange. It tackles the urgency that, from social media algorithms to user behaviors, from metadata architectures to interface logics, images today shape, prompt, and govern res...
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Space in the image
Space in the Image is an intercontinental, interdisciplinary book exploring how still and moving images shape our experience of cities. At the intersection of architecture and digital media, it questions how representation and experience evolve in urban life amid rapid urbanization and digital im...
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The future of humanity (third edition)
Humanity now stands at a crossroads in the history of human civilization, the author, from the perspective of sublating Eastern and Western cultures and civilizations, proposes the concepts of “Global Civilization”and “Great Civilization,” explains their significance and discusses practical appro...
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Directory of world cinema: central asia
The book follows the format of other DIRECTORIES OF WORLD CINEMA in the presentation of film credits, synopsis and a short critique of key films from each of the Central Asian republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
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Regulating new media in africa
A collection of research on digital media regulatory interventions across Africa, an area that has largely been overlooked in the literature. It considers a range of perspectives from scholars within and outside Africa on the subject, providing a compendium on digital media regulation on the cont...
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A phenomenology of trumpism
This thought-provoking book spans historical periods, cultures, and continents to prompt reflection on rhetoric, politics and the enduring challenges of democracy. Revisiting Classical thought, it offers a lens through which to examine the early ideals of democratic governance, social and cultura...
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Regulation, compliance and ethics in law firms
This second edition has been updated to reflect the replacement of the SRA Handbook with the new regulatory toolkit, the SRA Standards and Regulations, in order to help lawyers acknowledge and develop strategies to accommodate risk management, regulatory and legal compliance and ethical values in...
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Enabling data
Through a story, a model, and a data manifesto, this book challenges the reader to rethink how enabling data can add real value to an organisation.
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The prosperity pathway
In The Prosperity Pathway: From Wealth Creation to Legacy, Russell Prior shows advisers and families how they can be more prepared at whatever stage they are at on the Prosperity Pathway.
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Sporting systems and social harm
The book provides a critical, evidence-led account of how sport fails to deliver many of its promised social benefits, how it produces predictable social harms, and what policymakers, regulators, and sport leaders can do about it.
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Women and ghosts in eighteenth-century england
Women and Ghosts in Eighteenth-Century England provides an exploration of eighteenth-century hauntings in the words of the women who experienced them. These female narratives of ghostly experiences formed the foundations for the psychical research that continues today.
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Through the prism of the senses
This book is a vital contribution to discussions surrounding research creation and the body in relation to digital media, highlighting the ways in which new technologies confront the sensate, somatic body.
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Decolonial media imaginaries
A bold inquiry into media imaginaries and imaginaries-work as tools of decolonial resistance, worldmaking, and collective futurity. DMI pivots away from the digital, technological, and sublime imaginaries created in the service of global capitalism to foreground the potential viability and genera...
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Principles and techniques of radiological protection
This book describes the regulatory context for radiological protection as well as the conceptual and mathematical tools used to address issues that arise in complying with applicable legislation, regulations and guidance. An essential text for postgraduate students and radiation protection profes...
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Migrating borders and citizenship in law
Devyani Prabhat’s groundbreaking book examines the multifarious ways in which law operates with borders, demarcating not only nations and territories, but people and migrants, residents and foreigners. From worldwide to the nation, family to the workplace, this interdisciplinary study explores th...
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The idiot
Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a positively good and beautiful man, sets out on his journey home to Russia after an extended stay at a sanitarium in Switzerland. Open-hearted and somewhat simple, the young prince attempts to be among the people, finding himself in an unfamiliar and immoral society obs...
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The extended phenotype: plants as shapers of microbial communities
It can be tempting to reduce the scope of our concern around crop plants to the harvestable yield of grain or biomass, but plants actually accomplish much more than this. Wider effects of crop plants on interacting organisms and on properties of the agroecosystem represent an extended phenotype t...
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Rendered in bits and stone
The book provides a cross disciplinary examination of digital reconstruction projects and innovations in the field of immersive exhibitions, looking into the ‘digital politics of conservation’; technologies that augment storytelling’; and digital technologies considered tools for creating ‘virtua...
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Cotton
This book explores the importance of cotton as a major resource for US fashion businesses. It is rooted in an investigative research project that deployed undergraduate and graduate students and faculty researchers to US fashion businesses that rely on cotton to understand how the resource is sou...
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Matrescence and performance
Asks what performance can do to expand representations of becoming a mother. Using mimesis, liveness, and digital mediums to render their own matrescent bodies, contemporary mother/artists explore historical pejorative theoretical concepts and aesthetics in new, feminist ways. A valuable and rigo...
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Propositions for studio inquiry
Examining art studios as a way of thinking through a cross-Canada journey into over 100 painters’ studios. Drawn from ways artists described their process, the studio is presented as an active ecosystem wherein artmaking is emergent, performative, generative, material, speculative, messy and in d...
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British and french television drama
A comparative study of the politics and production processes of television drama in France and in Britain during a formative historical moment for communication systems. The juxtaposition reveals surprising similarities in the intentions and achievements of practitioners in this expanding field i...
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Advances in measuring the water footprint of dairy farming
The water footprint (WF) is a comprehensive methodology used to estimate the total water consumption associated with the production of a product and serves as an important tool for assessing sustainability in the livestock sector. The WF indicates the water consumption per unit of product and con...
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Advances in understanding methane production in the dairy cow
Methane emissions from dairy cows are a process that represents an energy loss for the animal, prompting efforts to reduce methane emissions in dairy cows. Feed additives, particularly 3-NOP and Asparagopsis taxiformis, have shown promise, reducing CH₄ production by 20-40%. However, factors such ...
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Integrating dairy farming and crop production
This chapter explores the path to net zero dairy agriculture by emphasizing the multifunctionality of Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems (ICLS), accounting for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across farm boundaries, assessing the mitigation potential of farm vegetation, evaluating GHG mitigation te...
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Measuring methane emissions from dairy farms
Methane (CH₄) emissions from dairy farms significantly contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, with enteric fermentation responsible for 90% of livestock-derived CH₄ emissions, while manure management accounts for about 41% of the CH₄ emissions. This paper explores various methods for measuring C...
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Manure management and processing
Manure management within the United States is considered one of the key hotspots of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Linked to the formation of gases like methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and ammonia, great attention must be paid to this portion of the dairy production chain in order to mit...
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Methane utilisation on dairy farms
On dairy farms, enteric fermentation in ruminants and the handling of manure and slurry cause unwanted greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In contrast, anaerobic digestion (AD) through engineered systems yields biogas or biomethane as a renewable energy with negative net GHG emissions. The production...
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Genetics and breeding for reduced methane emissions
Selective breeding in dairy cattle offers a cost-effective, permanent, and cumulative strategy to mitigate methane emissions. By incorporating methane traits into breeding objectives, reductions in methane production of approximately 1% per year can be achieved. This chapter discusses the integra...
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Housing strategies to reduce the carbon footprint and improve animal welfare in dairy farming
This chapter focuses on the importance of housing strategies in dairy farming, and its impact on animal welfare and the carbon footprint. It begins by exploring the different types of dairy production systems, and then moves on to the effects of housing on productivity and emission intensity. The...
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Improving feed conversion efficiency in dairy cattle
Improving feed conversion ratio is important for advancing sustainability and warming neutrality goals of the dairy industry. Traditional nutritional and genetic technologies have advanced feed efficiency and productivity in the dairy industry over the past several decades, and the movement towar...
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Assessing greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farms
Interest has developed in knowing the net greenhouse gas (GHG) emission or carbon footprint of food production systems and to mitigate those emissions toward the goal of no effect on global warming. Quantifying and evaluating production system emissions requires a modeling approach. Models at var...
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Development and use of methane-inhibiting feed supplements in dairy farming
This chapter explores feed supplements that inhibit enteric methane production. It begins by discussing opportunities to inhibit this through nutrition and then moves on to analyse methane-inhibiting feed supplements. Next, it focuses on the invention and discovery of methane mitigators. The chap...
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Sustainability, nutrient and energy flows in the dairy cow: an overview
This introductory chapter comes in two parts. It first sets out the rules of engagement: the complex set of interactions that determine the sustainability of dairy farming. The chapter starts with some basic elements/concepts involved in sustainability. It then provides a simple introduction to t...
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Achieving net zero dairy farming: weighing the options arising from new understanding
This concluding chapter to the book Achieving net zero dairy farming takes stock of the key insights provided by individual chapters in the book. It reviews the evidence relating to the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) and other pollutants, approaches to their mitigation, and the potential for ...
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The ramayan through the theatre of ramlila
This book tells the story of the epic Ramayan through photographs of Ramlila, an annual Hindu theatre festival, in which community groups across North India enact the story of the Hindu god Ram. It also includes narrative that explains the story and its staging.
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Mapping the traveling body
This volume aims to explore the role of the (lived) body and embodiment in travel writing. As a first step in systematizing the topic, four thematic sections – “Mobility”, “Encounters”, “Incorporation”, and “Vulnerability” – feature chapters on travelogues from the early modern period to the pres...
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Fan phenomena: star trek
In this anthology, a panel of rising and established popular culture scholars examines the phenomenon of Star Trek fan culture and its most compelling dimensions. The resulting collection is both critical and respectful, capturing the practices and attitudes of a fan culture that is arguably the ...
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Studying unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television
A compendium to the study of unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television, with case studies, definitions, indications for further reading, and details of methodological and theoretical approaches. A foundational text it also contains new discoveries and perspectives and is a key reference ...
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The outperformers
Through candid, first-hand accounts from top law firm leaders, the book explores how visionary management, detailed planning, consensus-building and disciplined execution have driven extraordinary performance and enduring success compared to their competition.
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Arbitration in the international energy industry
This title provides a practical, user-friendly overview of the essentials of international arbitration in the energy industry.
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Plagiarism and artificial intelligence
Questions about authorship and originality have become urgent in an era where artificial intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models can write essays, generate images, and mimic human creativity. This authoritative book explores the intersection between plagiarism and forms of artificial intellig...
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Introduction to knowledge organization
‘A mighty introduction to knowledge organization’ - Technical Services QuarterlyFully revised and updated throughout, the new edition of this book provides a complete introduction to the rapidly expanding field of Knowledge Organization (KO), presenting historical precedents and theoretical found...
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Nature within
Reconnecting with Nature is the most important public health intervention of our time. Science has shown how our bodies are shaped by our environment – yet we still see ourselves as separate from the natural world. To protect human health, we need to protect our environment and the countless spec...
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The barbastelle bat conservation handbook
This is a long-awaited guide to barbastelle bat ecology, behaviour, conservation management and threats, the first publication of its kind to draw together all of the scientific research on the barbastelle bat into one comprehensive volume.
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