The STICS soil-crop model: a generic model to simulate the functioning of agroecosystems

The STICS soil-crop model: a generic model to simulate the functioning of agroecosystemsThis chapter offers a general presentation of the STICS soil crop model. Through numerous illustrations dealing notably with genetic x environment x management interactions, it presents an overview of the wide domain of validity of the model, along with its performances, demonstrating its potential for a wide range of agronomic and environmental applications. Since the beginning of its story in the early 90s, STICS has been able to remain a generic

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It is a critique of the poor state of commercial research and an articulation of the shifts and changes in thinking needed to fulfil the empty promises of human-centered research

Mutua identifies areas of further norm development and concludes that norm-creating processes must be inclusive and participatory to garner legitimacy across various cleavages and divides

A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language

and explorations of consciousness and reality from Buddhist

Explores the shifting terrain of Confucianism in Chinese history