BLUE THEOLOGY AND WATERSHED DISCIPLESHIP IN SOUTH AFRICA

“…In South Africa, a region beset with severe droughts and where water demand is outstripping supply, the work of Myers is hardly known. …”
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"Turning garbage into luxury": the materiality in practices of the carnival production by Ana Carolina Júlio, César Tureta

“…Specifically, we investigate the effort to balance the demand for luxury and the scarcity of resources. To understand these phenomena, we use Schatzki’s epistemology of practice. …”
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Enzensberger's challenge to leftist communicologists by Eric Louw

“…His proposed "praxis" theory  of com munication and related demand for democratic participatory media structures are examined with some reference to their adoptability in South Africa. …”
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The Importance of Cost Structure for the Effectiveness of State Aid by Jannis Bischof, Christopher Karlsson, Davud Rostam-Afschar, Thomas Simon

“…Abstract For many firms, the coronavirus crisis has lead to persistent sales slumps that generated urgent liquidity demand — unless fixed costs were reduced. The authors use a newly developed classification procedure that makes the cost structure of companies and, thus, their sensitivity to sales shocks visible. …”
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Using Supplemental Lighting to Control Flowering of Hops in Florida by Shinsuke Agehara

“…To respond to their strong demand for locally grown hops, an interdisciplinary hops research team is currently studying optimum crop management practices at the UF/IFAS Gulf Coast Research and Education Center (UF/IFAS GCREC). …”
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INTERNATIONALIZATION OF MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES IN THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA by Vlatka Bilas, Sanja Franc, Iskra Kvaternjak

“…Nevertheless, decreased demand for the products from the industry in the Republic of Croatia results in domestic information technology experts deciding to internationalize their business. …”
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Incorporating Woody Ornamentals into Residential Landscapes to Reduce Nutrient Leaching by Drew C. McLean, Andrew K. Koeser, Amy L. Shober, Zhixuan Qin, Gitta Hasing, Richard C. Beeson

“…Incorporating more woody ornamentals into your landscape can reduce fertilization and irrigation demand and help reduce nutrient leaching losses from your yard—a combination that will help protect Florida’s water resources. …”
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DEVELOPING THE NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK: KYRGYZ EXPERIENCE OF QUALIFICATIONS ANALYSIS IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR by Мasuma I. Bashirova, Farida I. Ryskulueva

“…The research findings can be used for balancing the labor marker supply and demand, and ensure, therefore, the effective personnel management in agricultural industry. …”
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Improved Distributed Model Predictive Control with Control Planning Set by Wei Chen

“…Control planning set algorithm approximates the future control sequences by designed planning set, which can reduce the exchange information among the controllers and can also decrease the distributed MPC controller calculation demand without degrading the whole system performance much. …”
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Financial management of fish and seafood processing enterprises in Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic by T. H. Pham

“…During the pandemic, when demand decreased, this led to a reduction in supply. …”
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Configurações territoriais dos cursos de formação de professores de Sociologia no Brasil (1934-2017): disputas e implicações by Cristiano das Neves Bodart, Caio dos Santos Tavares

“…Deconcentration, in turn, is a result of complex changes stemming from recent disputes in the political field, the rise of reformist groups, the devaluation and the increasing precariousness of the teaching career, and the expansion of the demand for Sociology teachers in all Brazilian states.…”
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Which Industries Are Economically Relevant to the System? by Christian Schneemann, Enzo Weber, Marc Ingo Wolter, Gerd Zika

“…On the one hand, there are industries in which production losses lead to massive demand losses in other industries. On the other hand, there are industries in which production downtimes lead to massive delivery difficulties for other industries. …”
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PREEMPTIVE AND NON-PREEMPTIVE GOAL PROGRAMMING APPROACH TO INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION OF THE CENTRAL STERILE SUPPLY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL, IBADAN, NIGERIA by MOJISOLA BOLARINWA, KHALID BELLO, PAUL ADEOSUN

“…Data on six raw materials and four finished products were collected, in addition to their costs, demand rates, shelf lives, and available capital. …”
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A sustainable future for hamlets. Albergo Diffuso and new regeneration scenarios by Giancarlo Dall’Ara, Teresa Villani

“…Starting from the specific features of facilities and the new ‘demand’, we present the results of a fact-finding survey aimed at developing meta-design tools, assessing impact in terms of regeneration of hamlets, and identifying strategies and actions to define best practices of operation on the built environment, with a responsible and sustainable perspective.…”
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Higher school infrastructure as an object of management by Yu. V. Kotelevskaya

“…The patterns, providing both positive and negative trends in the development of higher education, are revealed.Among the key factors that require close attention of both theoretical and practical economists are the factors that describe the decline in demand for higher education. This is the position of students and employees of higher school organisations.…”
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Universities in the Conditions of Change: Request for Social Innovation by I. I. Soshenko

“…A constantly growing demand for ensuring the competitiveness of countries in the international arena and improving the quality of higher education actualizes changes in universities. …”
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Germany’s Labour Market at a Turning Point by Holger Bonin, Ulf Rinne

“…This article outlines how labour shortages could be countered by concerted action from the supply and demand sides. It shows that coping with the changes in the German labour market requires more efforts from policymakers, firms and the labour force.…”
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Shortage of Rental Housing in Germany: Causes, Instruments, Implications by Stephan L. Thomsen, Daniel Vogt, Lars Brausewetter

“…Over the last few years, an excess demand in urban areas has led to an increase in rental prices. …”
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Pole Placement-Based NMPC of Hammerstein Systems and Its Application to Grade Transition Control of Polypropylene by He De-Feng, Yu Li

“…Then, actual control actions are determined in consideration of constraints by online solving a finite horizon optimal control problem, where only the first control is calculated and others are approximated to reduce the computational demand. Moreover, the asymptotic stability can be guaranteed in certain condition. …”
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Modeling and Thermodynamic Analysis of Solar Collector Cogeneration for Residential Building Energy Supply by Ghassan F. Smaisim, Azher M. Abed, Salema K. Hadrawi, Ali Shamel

“…The results show that the proposed system is capable of supplying more than 85% of hot water demand and annual production of 316.36 kWh of electricity.…”
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