The Middle East will continue to play the dominant role of a petroleum supplier in the world oil market in the year 2000, according to business-as-usual forecasts published by the US Department of Energy. However, interesting trade patterns will emerge as a result of the democratization in the...

Smallholder farmers all over the world, particularly in regions of rich agro-biodiversity contribute to on-farm conservation. Past and present agricultural progress could not have happened neither without these genetic resources nor the associated farmer knowledge. Six species of minor millets...

Earthquake damage depends on the ground acceleration generated by ut, with this ground acceleration being directly proportional to the changes in rupture speed as a fault propagates. This is the primary motivation for seismologists to study earthquake fracture dynamics. The theoretical...