People are part of the pattern
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Most agricultural researchand extension services in a majority of developing countries tend to overlook the social factors involved in small farm-household systems. To be really effective in reaching farmers, extension workers and research workers alike should think in interdisciplinary and integral terms to fully comprehend what is taking place in such systems. They should realize that the system involves various interactions that include the natural environment, socio-cultural environment, government support services, financial environment and programs and services that are not strictly written in the scope of the agricultural sector.
Publication Name: Ceres
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0009-0379
Year: 1992
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Predicting incident size from limited information
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The Pareto distribution is not appropriate for identifying a suitable frequency distribution to losses that can have a range of two or more orders of magnitude. No solid theoretical reasons are available for opting for a Pareto distribution for the size of losses. Even the claim that the Pareto distribution has a thicker tail than distributions that have an exponential decrease in the right tail is not solid grounds for choosing the approach.
Publication Name: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0733-9372
Year: 1997
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Allometry for sexual size dimorphism: pattern and process in the coevolution of body size in males and females
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The evolution of allometry can be argued to have its base in correlational selection between the sexes. Studies show that sexual size dimorphism increases with size in clades in which the males are the larger sex. It decreases with size, however, in clades in which the females are larger. Another hypothesis attributes dimorphism to different reproductive roles.
Publication Name: Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0066-4162
Year: 1997
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- Abstracts: Self-pollution: a major threat to the prawn farming industry in Sri Lanka. Bolivian mining pollution: past, present and future
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