Ostrich Production Systems
Ostrich Production Systems

Author: M. M. Shanawany

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9789251043004

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A comprehensive review of all aspects of ostrich production including a series of case histories from some countries that farm ostriches commercially: important countries such as South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe; newly re-emerging industries such as Australia; and countries where production is less developed, such as Kenya, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Dreambirds
Dreambirds

Author: Rob Nixon

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 9780312270124

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Explores the societies that have pinned hopes for wealth on the feathers and meat of the ostrich, from South Africa's Karoo Desert to the modern American west, and discusses the passions and politics surrounding the bird.

A Framework for Complex System Development
A Framework for Complex System Development

Author: Paul B. Adamsen II

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1914

Total Pages: 1788

ISBN-13: 9781420038828

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Industry, government, and academic efforts to create a generalized systems engineering process have repeatedly fallen short. The outcome? Systems engineering failures that produce losses like the September 1999 destruction of the Mars Climate Orbiter. A simple information transfer error between teams motivated far-reaching managerial and technical