Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsAssessment of the Maize (Zea mays)-Mucuna (Mucuna deeringianum Bort) AgroecosystemCarlos Ernesto Aguilar-Jimenez, Alfredo Tolon-Becerra, Xavier Lastra-BravoProblem statement: In Selva de Chiapas, Mexico, the traditional farming technique of slash-fell-burn used on hillside fields has caused severe soil deterioration. Consequently, indigenous farmers reacted by developing several agroecological practices that improve the physical, chemical and biological fertility of the soils. Standing out among these techniques is the use of Mucuna (Mucuna deeringianum Bort.) in rotation with maize (Zea … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 30 Mar 2012 · 7,987 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsA Decision Making Tool for Hazardous Waste Landfill Site SelectionP. Pandiyan, A. Murugesan, T. Vidhyadevi et al.Problem statement: Continuous global environmental crisis and degradation has been a challenge for the sustainability of living on earth. This threat was posed by industrialization, high products need, urbanization and population growth activities. As a result, the hazardous waste generation has tremendously increased. Approach: Landfill was one of the positive approaches to handle hazardous waste generated in great quantity. The … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 2 · 26 May 2011 · 7,416 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsWho Really Cares About Higher Education For Sustainable Development?Torsten Richter, Kim Philip SchumacherProblem statement: It is agreed that integrating Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) into the curricula of universities is of key importance to disseminate the idea of sustainability. Especially the curricula of teacher-training should contain elements of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) due to the crucial role of future teachers in information propagation. Approach: In order to find out about … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 18 Dec 2010 · 8,194 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsHigher Education for Sustainable Development: Students' Perspectives on an Innovative Approach to Educational ChangeMatthias Barth, Jana-M. TimmProblem statement: With Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) being an innovative approach to educational change, its principal objective is students’ development of transformation competencies. However, HESD evaluations hardly consider students’ perspectives. This study presents a study that examined undergraduate students’ view on the HESD approach at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany) and aims at shedding light on their … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 18 Dec 2010 · 11,283 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsPrivacy and Social Interaction in Traditional Towns to Contemporary Urban Design in IranSamira Ramezani, Shima HamidiPrivacy as an inherent feature of Iranian culture is evident in formation of Iranian traditional towns. Put differently, attention to the inside was one of the most desirable principles in Iranian traditional architecture as well as urbanism. However, privacy did not lead to isolation in Iranian culture and social contact was also of a great importance to Iranians. Problem statement: … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2010 · 8,770 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsReorganization of Agricultural Extension toward Green AgricultureMohammad S. AllahyariProblem statement: Considering unsustainable agricultural conditions of Iran and organizational recession and inability of current extension organization to achieve sustainability, it seems that extension systems require a new organizational structure to achieve sustainability objectives. The purpose of the present study was to identify the most appropriate characteristics for extension organization toward green agriculture in Iran context. Approach: To fulfill this … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2009 · 8,879 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsThe Case for Interdisciplinary Environmental Education and ResearchWill Focht, Charles I. AbramsonProblem statement: Interdisciplinary environmental education and research at American colleges and universities have been criticized for ambiguous focus, insufficient integration and lack of rigor. Part of the reason for a clearly articulated conceptualization of the field is the failure to reach a consensus among those in the environmental profession and academic community on an overarching paradigm of environmental education and … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 2 · 30 Apr 2009 · 7,204 accessesView PDFCite
Review ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsStructural Barriers to the Deployment of AI Foundation ModelsHristo Hristov, Elena Somova, Emil FuchedzhievArtificial Intelligence (AI) foundation models excel at benchmarks but are not always cost-effective or successfully deployed in enterprise systems. This paper analyzes the failures in their deployment through interconnected structural components characterized by: Economic constraints (computational costs, memory, and latency that scale with increasing use of AI model services), cognitive constraints (related to training objectives that optimize plausibility rather than … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 22, Issue 10 · 5 Oct 2026 · 808 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsMachine Learning Based Prediction of Catch Yields in Small Scale FisheriesEpifelward Niño Olaivar Amora, Patrick D. CernaSmall-scale fisheries are critical for food security and livelihoods but increasingly face threats from overfishing and environmental change. This study employed machine learning to predict catch yields in Cogtong Bay, Philippines, using 3,478 records collected in 2020–2021 that included species, gear, location, season, and weather data. Models developed in Python with scikit-learn and XGBoost compared Random Forest (RF), Extreme Gradient … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 22, Issue 8 · 24 Aug 2026 · 1,096 accessesView PDFCite