Showing papers on "Sustenance published in 1993"

Insects in Art and Religion: The American Southwest

Abstract: Many of the indigenous peoples of North America were virtually dependent on local hunting, gathering, and crop production for sustenance. Trade, especially among different groups, was limited to a few valuable items and rarely consisted of food. These peoples lived off the land, and thus were at the mercy of whatever fate provided: drought, flood, pestilence, and so forth. That pestilence did occur was well documented by settlers of European descent as they moved into the American west. Plagues of Rocky Mountain grasshoppers, Melanoplus spretus (Walsh), and Mormon crickets, Anabrus simplex Haldeman, are two well-known examples of pests that made life difficult or intolerable in earlier times. How did the indigenous peoples feel about insects? Were they viewed as enemies, threats to survival, and did these peoples actively practice pest control?

Transportable animal sustenance dispensing device

Abstract: A transportable animal sustenance dispensing device is resistant to spillage, requires less filling, and is easily attachable to a variety of crates. The sustenance dispensing device comprises a reservoir for storing sustenance; a sustenance container which receives sustenance from said reservoir, said container being movable between a closed container position in which said container is resistant to sustenance spillage and an open container position in which said sustenance is accessible by said animal; and a spring biased valve for controlling flow of said sustenance from said reservoir into said sustenance container. An animal sustenance dispensing device of the present invention further comprises a connector for attaching the dispensing device to an animal containment device.

Shelter as Sustenance: Exclusionary Mechanisms Limiting Women's Access to Housing

Abstract: Fsransk Mlraftsb is cuffently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation research examines the spatia/and social impacts of women's home­ based production in urban areas of developing countries. She has a Master of Architecture from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Her undergraduate architectural studies were at Tehran University In Iran. Her work In the U.S., Norway, Latin America, and Iran has helped her develop a social understanding of the buln environment. This paper discusses the role of shelter for the suste­ nance of women in cities of the developing world and the ways in which women's access to shelter is limited in these societies. This problem is particularly important since processes of economic change and urbanization that bring women to cities in the developing world often strip them of forms of social support and force them to seek shelter in a commodified environment in which they lack adequate monetary resources and/or legal or social rights.

Population resources and food: the world between today and tomorrow.

Abstract: This is a general review of current and future trends concerning the relationship between global population growth natural resources and food supplies. "It is argued that with good management the resources and technology to sustain such a population at a reasonable standard of living and without the spectre of Malthusian misery and vice are available or achievable. What is far less certain is whether this technical capacity for sustenance will be matched by political capacity to ensure the institutional and policy frameworks necessary to achieve adequate wellbeing that is sustainable and equitable." (SUMMARY IN GER) (EXCERPT)

Forestry with Populus deltoides

Abstract: “The tree is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity. It affords protection to all beings, offering shade to the axeman who destroys it.” Gautama Buddha

Employee Feeding - Productivity and Performance

Abstract: The second of two articles, the first providing an overview of employee feeding and current issues facing this sector. Addressed specifically at the catering sector, outlines the importance of providing sustenance in the workplace with particular reference to productivity and performance.

A Quantative Optimal Control to Renewable Resource Economics

Abstract: As we approach the end of the 20th century the world community is becoming acutely aware that the resources that are available for the sustenance and improvement of human welfare are finite and exhaustible unless managed wisely.