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Author | : Jonathan Gressel |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2020-03-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1421429136 |
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As the world’s population rises to an expected ten billion in the next few generations, the challenges of feeding humanity and maintaining an ecological balance will dramatically increase. Today we rely on just four crops for 80 percent of all consumed calories: wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans. Indeed, reliance on these four crops may also mean we are one global plant disease outbreak away from major famine. In this revolutionary and controversial book, Jonathan Gressel argues that alternative plant crops lack the genetic diversity necessary for wider domestication and that even the Big Four have reached a “genetic glass ceiling”: no matter how much they are bred, there is simply not enough genetic diversity available to significantly improve their agricultural value. Gressel points the way through the glass ceiling by advocating transgenics—a technique where genes from one species are transferred to another. He maintains that with simple safeguards the technique is a safe solution to the genetic glass ceiling conundrum. Analyzing alternative crops—including palm oil, papaya, buckwheat, tef, and sorghum—Gressel demonstrates how gene manipulation could enhance their potential for widespread domestication and reduce our dependency on the Big Four. He also describes a number of ecological benefits that could be derived with the aid of transgenics. A compelling synthesis of ideas from agronomy, medicine, breeding, physiology, population genetics, molecular biology, and biotechnology, Genetic Glass Ceilings presents transgenics as an inevitable and desperately necessary approach to securing and diversifying the world's food supply.
Author | : Diona Wise |
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Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2007 |
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Author | : Steven G. Rogelberg |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications |
Total Pages | : 1923 |
Release | : 2016-09-27 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1483386880 |
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The well-received first edition of the Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2007, 2 vols) established itself in the academic library market as a landmark reference that presents a thorough overview of this cross-disciplinary field for students, researchers, and professionals in the areas of psychology, business, management, and human resources. Nearly ten years later, SAGE presents a thorough revision that both updates current entries and expands the overall coverage, adding approximately 200 new articles, expanding from two volumes to four. Examining key themes and topics from within this dynamic and expanding field of psychology, this work offers a truly cross-cultural and global perspective.
Author | : Giovanni Russo |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
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Both vertical (between job levels) and horizontal (within job levels) mobility can be sources of wage growth. We find that the glass ceiling operates at both margins. The unexplained part of the wage gap grows across job levels (glass ceiling at the vertical margin) and across the deciles of the intra-job-level wage distribution (glass ceiling at the horizontal margin). This implies that women face many glass ceilings, one for each job level above the second, and that the glass ceiling is a pervasive phenomenon. In the Netherlands it affects about 88 percent of jobs, and 81 percent of Dutch women in employment work in job levels where a glass ceiling is present.
Author | : Sian Griffiths |
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Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Based on profiles which first appeared in the Times Higher Education Supplement, the women interviewed include: Camille Paglia, Marina Warner, bell hooks, Anita Desai, Mary Warnock, Catharine MacKinnon, Mary Daly, Kay Davies, Jane Goodall, Julie Theriot, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Jacqueline Rose, Ann Oakley, Marilyn Strathern, Shirley Williams and many others.
Author | : Steven G. Rogelberg |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 1169 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1412924707 |
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Author | : Cynthia Silvest |
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Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Lanny Whetstone |
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Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Natural history |
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Author | : Veerle Draulans |
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Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2002 |
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