Impact of Adding Anaerobic Digestate to Soil and Consequences on Crop Performance

Funding: This study was funded by The LEVERHULME TRUST (Grant DS-2017-073). Juana HallatSanchez, a Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar, is part of the 15 PhD scholarships of the “Leverhulme Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Production of Chemicals and Materials” at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK). Acknowledgments: This study has been carried out thanks to the funding of the Leverhulme CDT. The authors also acknowledge Andrew for providing the digestate from his farm (Gaskfarm) and the other owners of the digestate (Powerhouse). This study was supported by the University of Aberdeen, UK. The authors thank Michael McGibbon for his technical assistance.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

RELATIVE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN OILSEED INDUSTRY

An overview of the oilseed industry locally and globally is provided, followed by measurements of the comparative and competitive advantages of the South African and Argentine oilseed industries. Three indexes are used to calculate the comparative and competitive advantages namely the Net Export Index (NXI), the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) and the Relative Revealed Comparative Trade Advantage (RTA) index. According to the results South African groundnuts and sunflower seed have a competitive advantage in their primary form. Oilseeds to which value has been added have, in most cases, a competitive disadvantage, exactly the opposite to Argentina's oilseed products. The finding that South Africa is only competitive in the primary oilseed market, lead to the secondary oilseed industry. In the analysis it was found that the South African oilseed industry is price driven. Since price plays a large role in the competitiveness of the industry, imports of cheaper bottled refined oils are considered to pose a major threat

Producing Good Stories in English As A Foreign Language: Analysis of The Kurdish Efl Learners’ Oral “frog Story” Narratives

By focusing on the structural elements particularly the evaluative devices by (Labov &amp; Waletzky, 1967) and (Peterson &amp; McCabe, 1991), this study examined how the Kurdish participants’ narrative discourse deviate from the target language discourse, and how this deviation is explained in line with the cultural discourse strategies in both types of discourse (Kurdish and English). This study analyzed the frog narratives told by the EFL Kurdish participants (in Kurdish and English) and the American speakers with special attention on the narrative length, narrative structure and evaluative devices. The findings from the T-test and MANOVA statistics revealed cross-cultural patterns of differences between the narratives told by the Kurdish and the American speakers. Generally, the narratives told by the American participants were longer than those told by the Kurdish participants in both Kurdish and English. The American speakers elicited narratives with frequent evaluation. Conversely, the Kurdish participants constructed narratives with higher number of durative (descriptive) clauses, orientation and repetition.</jats:p

RELATIVE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN OILSEED INDUSTRY

An overview of the oilseed industry locally and globally is provided, followed by measurements of the comparative and competitive advantages of the South African and Argentine oilseed industries. Three indexes are used to calculate the comparative and competitive advantages namely the Net Export Index (NXI), the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) and the Relative Revealed Comparative Trade Advantage (RTA) index. According to the results South African groundnuts and sunflower seed have a competitive advantage in their primary form. Oilseeds to which value has been added have, in most cases, a competitive disadvantage, exactly the opposite to Argentinas oilseed products. The finding that South Africa is only competitive in the primary oilseed market, lead to the secondary oilseed industry. In the analysis it was found that the South African oilseed industry is price driven. Since price plays a large role in the competitiveness of the industry, imports of cheaper bottled refined oils are considered to pose a major threat.Crop Production/Industries, International Relations/Trade,

تكرار موجات الحر والبرد في مدينة السليمانية (1993 _ 2015)

 تتباين الآراء حول تحديد موجات الحر والبرد، وفي هذه دراسة تم تحديد موجات الحر بارتفاع درجات الحرارة ب(5)مْ او اكثر من المعدل الشهري لدرجات الحرارة العظمى شريطة ان ارتفاع درجات الحرارة تستمر لمدة ثلاثة ايام متتالية او اكثر، وتحديد موجات البرد بانخفاض درجات الحرارة لمدة ثلاثة ايام متوالية او اكثر ب(5)مْ او اكثر عن معدل درجات الحرارة الصغرى الشهرية .     وعلى هذا الاساس فإن محطة السليمانية في مدينة السليمانية وهي مركز محافظة السليمانية التي تقع في شمال العراق و شمال شرق اقليم كردستان، واعتمادا على البيانات المناخية اليومية التي سجلت خلال الفترة (1993_2015)، فقد تم تحديد ( 127) موجة حر و برد ومنها (89) موجة حر (38)موجة برد، وتتكرر موجات الحر بين(3_10)موجات سنويا، وتتكرر موجات البرد بين (1_4)موجات سنويا، هناك (6)سنوات لم تسجل فيها اي موجة برد .واكثر  موجات الحر تكرارا سجلت خلال فصل الخريف وكانت(32)موجة، بينما اكثر البرد تكرارا سجلت في فصل الشتاء(17)موجة، حيث لم تسجل اي موجة برد خلال اشهر الصيف .</jats:p