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In the last decade Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) was listed by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) as a notifiable disease, due to the fact that it causes significant production losses in cattle industry worldwide. The production losses include reduced milk production, reduced...
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Changing consumer and market demands is an important driver behind the challenges and opportunities that are facing the agriculture and agri-food sector in Canada and that will influence the sector's profitability and competitiveness in the future. It is therefore important to understand...
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Climate change is a natural and dynamic phenomenon resulting from complex interrelationships between physical, environmental and human factors. The sustainability of life on earth depends partly on the ability of mankind to maintain this natural and balanced flow of such gases such as carbon...
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Food and fuel security in the face of population growth and climate change represent key societal challenges. Extending an arable farm-level bio-economic optimisation model ‘MEETA’ to include dedicated energy crops (DECs) and water metrics, we quantify water use implications and trade-offs...
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coordination. However, difficulties arise when modelling long-lived business transactions involving information updates and … modelling that formulates business processes as multiagent systems. Organizational structure and its effect on interactions are … commitment semantics into business modelling and enables agent collaboration for business process enactment. We derive commitment …
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major steps; 1) Data preparation 2) Modelling/Generation of IGNRN, and; 3) Measuring three classes of centrality, namely …
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-scale hydrogen facilities integrated into SSI. This study reveals gaps in the current hydrogen modelling literature that need to be …
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Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Management Research News, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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An easy-to-use quantitative risk analysis model is developed for the private security industry in South Africa, which can be used as a suitable analysing tool in the hands of the private security manager.This model incorporate different concepts such as the probability, impact, cost of risk,...
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