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Email: petroengineer@126.

com This research aims to examine the existence and nature


of complex business – social relationships in the
Abstract Chinese context (GuanXi) and evaluate how these
With the continuous low oil price, the national oil relationships influence the behaviors of managers in
companies in China are under the pressure of lowering State-owned Chinese engineering firms. Research on
the development cost and improving their investment GuanXi is comprehensive though little work
efficiency of their overseas investments. Optimal investigates internal influences and how internal
methods are needed in screening the overseas assets relationships may mirror or replicate external GuanXi.
within the constraint of investment. This paper presents This study uses a snowball sample of 66 senior
a multi-objective integer programming model for the managers across the key functional disciplines in
optimal selection of overseas oil development projects typical large Chinese firms and explores how often
for Sinopec based on the economic evaluation of strategic level problems in the firm are solved through
various projects in different countries and regions. relationships outside, inside or between the companies.
Combination of economic parameters and practical Do GuanXi networks penetrate the organization itself
constraints are discussed and presented in the and are there relationships that are unique to internal
mathematical models. Application of the model shows networks? The research finds that problem solving at
its advantages over the traditional screening and strategic levels are often through internal and external
ranking methods. networks, rather than internal management structures,
but also that different problems complexities typically
demonstrate unique problem solving networks. The
ID: EBM2018_10007 research identifies three different forms that these
Title: the role of guanxi on the Chinese leadership relationships take: Internal, inter-firm and hybrid
innovation relationship modes. Implications for this work suggest
Name: xin yan problem solving in Chinese firms is enhanced through
Affiliation: Professional cooperation and mutual respect, and likely to be
Email: xy.jason@hotmail.com inhibited by traditional Western approaches to
management.
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ID: CGC2018_10001 Department of Fisheries Management, Bangladesh
Title: Lysozyme produced form duck egg is capable of Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh
reducing methane emission from ruminants Email: harunur7rashid@gmail.com
Name: Daina Maliat1, Md Ashraf Ali
2 1,3
Biswas , Harunur Rashid * Abstract
Affiliation: 1Environmental Sciences Program, Asian Methane emission from the livestock industry has been
University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh; a concern of recent times contributing to the global
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Department of Animal Science and warming directly. It is produced in the regular
Nutrition, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences fermentation of ruminants as part of the digestion
University, Chittagong, Bangladesh; procedure performed by rumen microorganism. It
represents a major contribution in the greenhouse gas

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emission. With time and bolstering acknowledgement Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming, China
of this greenhouse gas source, several methods are Email: masarker@bau.edu.bd
being explored and implied by scientists in order to
mitigate enteric fermentation of methane. Likewise, Abstract
existing techniques have been improved in order to Bangladesh is a small and over populated country in
have a better adaptation for enteric rumen methane South-Asia which is one of the top 10 nations that are
production. Among the many methods, this research mostly vulnerable to climate change (IPCC, 2014).
experiments the efficacy of a feed additive, lysozyme Seventy seven percent of its population lives in rural
from duck egg, in mitigating methane emission from areas, majority are dependent on natural resources for
cattle rumen. In vitro technique was practiced in this livelihood (BBS, 2011). Forestry is a sub-sector, which
experiment to calculate amount of methane produced makes a significant contribution to the livelihoods of
in rumen fermentation at three different incubation people living in rural and remote areas and to promote
periods (4.5, 24 and 48 hours; at 37 °C temperature). social, economical and environmental sustainability.
Freshly slaughtered cattle rumen fluid was collected Due to ever- growing population forest land has been
and preserved at 39°C in anaerobic condition and decreasing in the country at 2 percent per annum.
mixed with buffer and wheat bran in order to run the in Madhupur Sal forest is one of the major forest of the
vitro rumen fermentation following 3:1 (buffer: rumen) country which as not beyond the exception. Due to
ratio. In vitro incubation was done in triplicate in 20 ml settlement of the ethnic people and encroachment for
glass serum bottle poured with 0.5 g of wheat bran farming rate of deforestation is increasing sharply at
alone (control, C) and 0.5 g wheat bran mixed with the recent time. However, deforestation is one of the
0.05ml of lysozyme as feed additive (treatment, T). major factors responsible for climatic change events
After 4.5 hours of incubation, methane gas productions like recurrent natural calamities and degradation of
were recorded to be 2.5 (±0) and 0.27 (±0.06) ml for C natural resources. Tribal ‗Garo‘ people lives inside this
and T, respectively. After 24 hour incubation C and T forest and meeting up their livelihoods from forest
were 1.5 (±0.5) and 1.25 (±0.65) ml, respectively and resources. This is now under threat of unsustainable
after 48 hours of incubation C and T were 7.0 (± 1.41) and environment-antagonistic agricultural practices.
and 4.95 (± 0.57) ml, respectively. In our study, Thus, a pilot project was taken in the forest area by
suppression in methane production is evident when Bangladesh Agricultural University to minimize
duck egg lysozyme is added to rumen fluid. It is a carbon emission through introduction of low emission
consequence of the reduced microbial activity as part agricultural practices (vermi-compost and botanical
of the activity of lysozyme in rumen fermentation. As a pesticide) in crop production and to increase women‘s
result, lysozyme produced from duck egg can be participation in social forestry program. The project
potentially used as cattle feed additive for reduction also introduced improved cooker in the study area for
methane emission from livestock industry. reducing amount of fire wood for cooking with the
view of reducing local people‘s dependency on forest
for fire wood. Video mediated extension approach was
ID: CGC2018_10006 used to teach the people of the forest community
Title: Videos in Improving Farmers‘ Innovation regarding the consequences of climate change on their
Capacity for Climate-Smart Forest and Agricultural livelihoods. Participatory learning videos were
Practices: An Experience of Madhupur Sal Forest in prepared and demonstrated them preparation and use of
Bangladesh vermi-compost and botanical pesticides and use those
Name: Mohammed Sarker low emission inputs in multiple crop cultivation in the
Affiliation: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of deforested land (taken as leased from the Forest
Agricultural Environment and Resources, Yunnan Department). Findings showed that, project

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