Currently, the need for transdisciplinary approaches and collaboration, to reduce the gap between science and practice, is continuously rising along with the need for sustainable development. An increase in knowledge transfer, meetings and overall communication among researchers and practitioners is a logical consequence of the previous. However, the resulting higher transaction costs, mainly related to transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions (and additional financial costs) involved in face-to-face meetings, are in direct conflict with the urgent need to reduce our carbon footprint. This research explored the development of an online platform, "CoLabS", specifically designed as a virtual meeting and learning space to support collaboration within and between communities to accelerate sustainable community development efforts. While the move towards online collaboration in virtual environments has steadily increased in the past decade, it has now become essential due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the feedback provided by focus groups, the collaboratory platform's design and usability as well as the technical aspects and its functionality are discussed in this paper.High temperature induced by climatic fluctuations are an important threat for plant growth, development and quality of agricultural produces. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/Daidzein.html Adaptableness to environmental changes generally derives from a large set of genetic traits affecting physio-morphological, biochemical and agronomic parameters. Therefore, the identification of genotypes with higher yield and good quality parameters at high temperatures is becoming increasingly necessary for future breeding programs. Here, we analyzed the performance of different tomato genotypes grown under elevated temperatures in terms of yield and nutritional quality of the fruit. High temperature stress was induced from flower initiation to maturity stage by keeping the pots in a temperature controlled green house facility for 45 days. The quality and yield parameters were taken at the harvesting stage. Starch and soluble sugar concentration in the leaves of tomato genotypes showed significant reduction in its amount under heat stress. Titrable acidity (TA), total and higher yield under high temperature condition.This study to evaluate the effects of silver nanoparticles on the salinity tolerance of (Satureja hortensis L.). The study done based on factorial experiment using a completely randomized design, in a laboratory and greenhouse in Islamic Azad University of Khoy, Iran in 2015. Silver nanoparticles concentrations were 0, 40, 60, and 80 ppm and salt concentrations 0, 30, 60, 90, and 120 mM l-1. Germination seeds of Satureja hortensis were counted twice a day for 14 days at laboratory. Then seedling transferred to the greenhouse and their growth continued. Traits measured were seedling weight, seedling lengths, germination rates, germination averages, germination potentials, and percentages of germination. Results showed that the silver nanoparticles improved significantly germination average; plants shoot length and increased plants resistance to salinity. Results showed that a significant reduction in germination percent and seedling growth due to the salinity stress while significantly increased with nano-particles application. In control treatment (without silver nanoparticle) and low level of salinity (0 mM l-1) increased seed germination percentage, while the high levels of salinity inhibited the seed germination significantly. The results showed that the effect of silver nanoparticles was significant on germination percentage in P ≤ 0.05. Overall, application of silver nanoparticles was beneficial in improving salinity tolerance in the S. hortensis seedling and its application may stimulate the differences defense mechanisms of plants against salt toxicity.Water scarcity is a known and major issue throughout the world. To tackle water scarcity, there is an urgent need for water re-use and recycling through wastewater treatment. This study is an attempt to re-used industrial effluent after treatment with gamma irradiation. The main drain of the industrial estate was sampled and analyzed for Physico-chemical parameters. For treatment, irradiation dose 13 Kilo Gray (kGy) cobalt (Co60) was applied. The treated water was re-analyzed for comparison with pre-analysis and compliance with the National environmental quality standard (NEQS). A decrease was observed in TSS, BOD5, and COD with 79%, 81%, and 85% respectively. The results achieved are within the permissible limits of NEQS. It was concluded that gamma radiation is an instant method for industrial effluent and is herein recommended.Countries endowed with abundant natural resource have not shown similar economic growth. Thus, the study investigates why some resource-abundant countries are not successful while others are. By using the fixed effect panel data model, the study examines the role of institutions and ICT services in overcoming the resource curse problem. The study employed panel data from World Bank database for the period of 25 years (1995-2019). The result shows that natural resource abundance and institutional performance indicators have significant negative effect on economic growth in the case of some group of economies, confirming presence of resource curse and institutional curse. However, these economies have the potential to escape the resource curse provided that they able to build human capital, adopt ICT services and build quality of institutions. Therefore, policies that firmly promote building human capital, quality institutions, adoption and usage of ICT services in resource curse economies could help them to escape the curse.Three-to-five-year-old Laotian kindergarten children, native speakers of the Lao language were investigated in order to map the peculiarities of their picture of the world through their word associations. Results were contrasted to a previous comparative study of Hungarian and Russian kindergarteners of the same age aiming at revealing linguistic and cultural differences and similarities in this age group in the three aforementioned countries. Theories and methods of the Moscow School of Psycholinguistics were utilized for the cross-cultural comparison based on a Vygotskian cultural-historical approach, on Leontiev's speech activity theory, on the concept of verbal consciousness (linguistic picture of the world) and on the association experiment. A pedagogical perspective was incorporated through the application of the Conception of Childhood theory and the shoulder-to-shoulder method. Linguistic data gained during the association experiment was analysed by Sketch Engine, an online corpus linguistics research tool.