Bibliothèques françaises et législation européenne à l\u27aube du XXIè siècle

Mémoire de fin d\u27étude du diplôme de conservateur, promotion DCB19, portant sur les effets de la transposition de la législation européenne sur les bibliothèques françaises

Impact of Natural Resource Conservation Policies on Household Consumption Around Zambian National Parks

Key Policy Points - Game Management Areas (GMAs) in Zambia aim to combine nature conservation with economic empowerment of rural households and communities. - We find evidence of consumption gains from living in GMAs and from participating in natural resource management through Community-Resource Boards (CRBs) and Village Action Groups (VAGs). - However, these benefits are unevenly distributed. Only GMAs with limited alternative livelihoods (Bangweulu and South Luangwa) exhibit significant consumption benefits. Also, the benefits accrue mainly to the relatively well off while the poor do not gain even if they participate. - Resources from ZAWA to CRBs seldom reach the VAGs. Richer, more educated community members participate at CRB or higher level while poorer households participate at VAG level. There is need to address impediments to effective participation by the majority of the community members. - Infrastructure development, which is more evident in Kafue and Lower Zambezi park systems, does not necessarily translate into household level consumption gains in the short run. Moreover, the observed infrastructure development in these areas cannot be attributed to the GMA institution.zambia, food security, policy, natural resources, conservation, Agricultural and Food Policy, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Food Security and Poverty, International Development, q18, q56,

Identification of protein coding genes in genomes with statistical functions based on the circular code

A new statistical approach using functions based on the circular code classifies correctly more than 93 % of bases in protein (coding) genes and non-coding genes of human sequences. Based on this statistical study, a research software called "Analysis of Coding Genes" (ACG) has been developed for identifying protein genes in the genomes and for determining their frame. Furthermore, the software ACG also allows an evaluation of the length of protein genes, their position in the genome, their relative position between themselves, and the prediction of internal frames in protein genes

Ferroelectric tunability: from characterization to telecomunication application

4International audienceAdvanced dielectric spectroscopy enables studying of the ferroelectric complex permittivity. Interpretation with the hyperbolic law provides a better fundamental understanding of the material's tunability: bulk contribution, domain wall vibration and displacements may be discerned. Applications, like mobile telecommunication terminals may profit for the design of miniaturized and tunable antennas. As an example, conception and realization of a notch slot antenna with an integrated ferroelectric thin film varactor is presented

Check your milking machine

MILKING machine efficiency testing carried out by officers of the Department of Agriculture\u27s Dairying Division have shown that many machines are not up to standard. One reason for this is that farmers do not check their machines regularly

Castor beans : ricinus communis Linn

MANY people have seen the wild castor oil plants around the metropolitan area, growing in rubbish dumps, and waste lands. But they have not realised that the demand for castor oil has been increasing over the last 15 years. Although one of its main uses is in the lubrication of jet engines, it is also used in plastics, special low temperature lubricants, hydraulic fluids, paints, varnishes, textiles and pharmaceutics

Exploring repression of racial identity in The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney: biracial children in lone-parent families

The bildungsroman novel The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu identifies Nnenna’s unstable identity due to several factors such as her not knowing the Igbo language and her biracialism which worsens the tensions with her mother, Joanie. She resolves this by exploring Nigerian culture, such as learning Igbo and Nigerian cuisine. Her father feels alienated because he was brought up in Nigeria which still held colonialist beliefs about England being superior. Her mother suffers from oppression in being a young white single mother and struggles to fit in. Nnenna slowly embraces her racial identity and becomes more confident in herself

Castor beans in trial plantings : Bundidup Research Station, Wokalup, 1959-60

THE main producing countries of the world are Brazil, India, U.S.S.R. and U.S.A. This means Australia has to import her supplies of castor oil, which has led to great interest in the possibility of growing castors in Australia. Since the turn of the century, this interest has been increasing, and has accelerated in recent years, but it has never passed the experimental stage