Published on Aug 26, 2019
CONTENTS
-For the first time in Africa: 24th International Grassland Congress
-Buffelgrass: Broadening the frontier of genetic resources conservation, research and utilization
-Potential of Namibian native forage legumes as ruminant fodder
-Dairy farmers in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania reap big from Brachiaria grasses
-Agronomic status of grasses of the genus Urochloa in Grupo Papalotla
-Andropogon gayanus: Adoption and impact in Mexico
-Announcements
Beans - New bean varieties for income and nutrition in AfricaHillary Hanson
Science and Technical Partnership in Africa: Technologies, Platforms and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
Developing inclusive visions for transforming value chains Catherine Pfeifer
Developing inclusive vision for transforming livestock value chains using participatory modelling and serious gaming in Sub-Saharan Africa, presentation OSM 2019 in Bern.
GBIF BIFA mentoring, Day 1 GBIF intro, July 2016Dag Endresen
GBIF BIFA mentoring in Los Banos, Philippines for the South-East Asian ASEAN Biodiversity Heritage Parks. With Dr. Yu-Huang Wang, Dr. Po-Jen Chiang, and Guan-Shuo Mai from TaiBIF the GBIF node of Taiwan (Chinese Tapei); and the Biodiversity Informatics team at ASEAN Centre For Biodiversity. http://www.gbif.no/events/2016/gbif-bifa-mentoring.html
Database of African Theses and Dissertationsiaaldafrika
Presentation on "Presentation on "Open Access Publishing: Views of Researchers in Public Agricultural Research Institutions in Zambia" made at the 2nd IAALD Africa Chapter Conference, 15 - 17 July 2009, Accra, Ghana
Research Data Management at International Food Policy Research Institute-IFPRICIARD Movement
Luz Marina Alvaré, Head, Knowledge Management at IFPRI, at RDA 5th Plenary Meeting, IG Agriculture Data Interoperability Session in San Diego (CA, US) on the 9th of March 2015
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
Tantely Razafimbelo (University of Antanarivo) and Viridiana Alcántara C. (4 per 1000 Initiative / Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, BLE, Germany)
Published on Aug 26, 2019
CONTENTS
-For the first time in Africa: 24th International Grassland Congress
-Buffelgrass: Broadening the frontier of genetic resources conservation, research and utilization
-Potential of Namibian native forage legumes as ruminant fodder
-Dairy farmers in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania reap big from Brachiaria grasses
-Agronomic status of grasses of the genus Urochloa in Grupo Papalotla
-Andropogon gayanus: Adoption and impact in Mexico
-Announcements
Beans - New bean varieties for income and nutrition in AfricaHillary Hanson
Science and Technical Partnership in Africa: Technologies, Platforms and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
Developing inclusive visions for transforming value chains Catherine Pfeifer
Developing inclusive vision for transforming livestock value chains using participatory modelling and serious gaming in Sub-Saharan Africa, presentation OSM 2019 in Bern.
GBIF BIFA mentoring, Day 1 GBIF intro, July 2016Dag Endresen
GBIF BIFA mentoring in Los Banos, Philippines for the South-East Asian ASEAN Biodiversity Heritage Parks. With Dr. Yu-Huang Wang, Dr. Po-Jen Chiang, and Guan-Shuo Mai from TaiBIF the GBIF node of Taiwan (Chinese Tapei); and the Biodiversity Informatics team at ASEAN Centre For Biodiversity. http://www.gbif.no/events/2016/gbif-bifa-mentoring.html
Database of African Theses and Dissertationsiaaldafrika
Presentation on "Presentation on "Open Access Publishing: Views of Researchers in Public Agricultural Research Institutions in Zambia" made at the 2nd IAALD Africa Chapter Conference, 15 - 17 July 2009, Accra, Ghana
Research Data Management at International Food Policy Research Institute-IFPRICIARD Movement
Luz Marina Alvaré, Head, Knowledge Management at IFPRI, at RDA 5th Plenary Meeting, IG Agriculture Data Interoperability Session in San Diego (CA, US) on the 9th of March 2015
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
Tantely Razafimbelo (University of Antanarivo) and Viridiana Alcántara C. (4 per 1000 Initiative / Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, BLE, Germany)
2010-11 CIARD - Bridging Rural Digital Divide (Brasil) - EnglishCIARD
Presentation by Dr. Stephen Rudgard
Chief, Knowledge and Capacity for Development
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
III Conferência Internacional sobre Inclusão Digital e Social Brasilia, Brasil. 16-19 Novembre , 2010
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024
2010-07 CIARD AASW Meeting (Burkina Faso) - access to agricultural research in Africa
1. Presentation by Dr. Stephen Rudgard Chief. Knowledge and Capacity for Development Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 5 th African Agricultural Science Week Burkina Faso. July 2010 www.ciard.net [email_address] Access to Agricultural Research Outputs in AFRICA
3. Source : Thomson-Reuters (April, 2010). Africa’s output of publications Publications over period 1999-2008
4. Source : Thomson-Reuters (April, 2010). Network of collaboration Cluster of countries with strongest partnerships (by papers)
5. 1990-96 Open Access Repositories Source : Repository Maps - repository66.org Powered by Google
6. 2006 Open Access Repositories Source : Repository Maps - repository66.org Powered by Google
7. Source : Repository Maps - repository66.org Powered by Google Jun-2010 Open Access Repositories
8. Graph by FAO. Source data from www.webometrics.info (Webpages from universities. January, 2009) Content in Google from universities
9. Graph by FAO. Source data from Agricultural Information Worldwide. Vol. 3. No.1 (2010) Accessibility of research outputs in some International Centres Centre A Centre B Centre C Bibliographic References Full Text Resources Search Engines
10. Source : Graph elaborated by FAO based on ILRI. July, 2010. number of views 2009 2010 Accessibility of research outputs International Livestock Research Institute
11. Agric. Research Institutional Repositories Status in Kenya Source : Graph by FAO. Source data from KARI, Kenya. May, 2010.
12. Number of publications Agric. Research Institutional Repositories Status in Ghana Graph by FAO. Source data from INSTI, Ghana. March, 2010 Number of publications
13. Presentation by Stephen Rudgard. FAO 5th African Agricultural Science Week Burkina Faso , July, 2010. Access to Agricultural Research Outputs in Africa www.ciard.net [email_address] THANK YOU for more information please visit www.ciard.net
Editor's Notes
Introducing the issue of lack of access to the outputs of African agricultural research
Noting in a positive context that output of traditional scientific publications from African scientists has been rising over the last decade in all parts of the continent. Note: This covers all subjects not just agriculture.
Graphical representation of how African scientists are collaborating together – as reflected by co-authoring of scientific papers together. Shows language barriers (Anglo:Franco) and regional barriers to collaboration Note: This covers all subjects not just agriculture.
A time series in 3 slides covering 2 decades of the number of open access repositories - showing that some progress has been made in Africa although the region has not developed as fast as some parts of the world Note: This covers all subjects not just agriculture.
Graphic representation of the amount of web-based information/content across continents/regions. Note: This covers all subjects not just agriculture.
This slide shows how three agricultural research centres are struggling with making their research outputs truly accessible in three generic areas, starting with % accessibility of Bibliographic References, moving to % accessibility of Full Text, and lastly % accessibility through international search engines/indexes. It can be noted that these issues affect international centres just as much as they affect national ones. Note: The various segments of the diagram represent different indicators of accessibility within each of the three general categories – the details have been left out to simplify the diagrams.
This slide shows how the communication of research outputs can be diversified – by using a variety of different media and international services in addition to traditional websites.
Under the Kenya Agricultural Information Network (KAINet), five national organizations are making their research outputs accessible in metadata format and full text, and have had varying degrees of success so far.
Under the Ghana Agricultural Information Network System (GAINS), five national organizations are making their full text research outputs accessible in digital format, and have had varying degrees of success so far.