June 2011

In vitro regeneration of Acacia nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Del from nodes on B5 medium

  Acacia nilotica (L.) Willd. ex Del epicotyls buds were initiated in a medium supplemented by a combination of naphthalene acetic acid NAA (0.1 mg/L), benzyl amino purine BA (1.5 mg/L) and gibberellic acid GA (1.5 mg/L) were then used to produce a factorial experiment on B5 medium supplemented with auxin indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) and cytokinin BA with five levels (0.0, 0.1, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 mg/L) of...

Author(s): Gabriel Samake, Fousseni Folega, Hamidou Senou and Hua-Fang Wang

June 2011

The endogenous growth theory and innovation in Egypt

  In today’s economy and society, performance analyses of the government attract more and more attention. This paper presents an evaluation of the Egyptian government of using R&D expenditure from (1996 to 2008) using data envelopment analysis (DEA). Special emphasis was placed on how to present the DEA results to government to provide more guidance to it on what to manage and how to accomplish the...

Author(s): Mohamed Ali Abd El-Fattah