They encouraged farming and agriculture and taught farming and cultivation techniques, as they believed that agricultural development was the key to a stable and prosperous society.

Fields in established and stable shifting cultivation systems are cultivated and fallowed cyclically. This type of farming is called jhumming in India.

In a stable shifting cultivation system, the fallow is long enough for the natural vegetation to recover to the state that it was in before it was cleared, and for the soil to recover to the condition it was in before cropping began.

Shifting cultivation was still being practised as a viable and stable form of agriculture in many parts of Europe and east into Siberia at the end of the 19th century and in some places well into the 20th century.

Agriculture in both has until recently consisted of slash-and-burn cultivation of corn and maize, though more stable cultivation of vegetables and fruits is becoming established.

The HeLa genome has been remarkably stable after years of continuous cultivation ; therefore, the genetic alterations detected may have been present in the primary tumor and reflect events that are relevant to the development of cervical cancer.

Therefore it was indispensable to recruit help of peasants, who did nearly all the work of cultivation, in order to ensure stable labor force for cultivation and reclamation of new fields.

The band remained stable enough to record If I Should Fall from Grace with God in 1988 ( with its Christmas hit duet with Kirsty MacColl " Fairytale of New York ", which was voted " the best Christmas song ever " in VH1 UK polls in 2004 ) and 1989's Peace and Love.

With a few preview releases of version 0. 9 in mid 2002 he showed some new features he wanted to integrate, but before this version gained a stable status, he announced on the 2 March 2004 that no new releases were planned until the Mozilla Foundation decided its future policy.

However a 2004 National Audit Organization report noted that the business case was unproved ; conditions at the site of the Variable Speed Limits trial were not stable before or during the trial, and the study was deemed neither properly controlled nor reliable.

Ali Shaheed then focused on developing a stable of artists, most of whom were showcased on his debut solo album Shaheedullah and Stereotypes, released independently in 2004.

In the United Kingdom, it declined by more than 80 % between 1966 and 2004 ; although populations in some areas — such as Northern Ireland — are stable or even increasing, those in other areas — mainly in England — declined even more sharply.

On 23 February 2004, Firebird 1. 5 was released, which was the first stable release of the new codebase.

DNRC membership stood at 533, 198 in February 2008 and has been fairly stable since September 2004.

In 2004, a 20 stall stable was added behind the main motel building.

In 2004, there were 38 San Miguel island foxes, all in captivity ; 46 foxes in captivity on Santa Rosa Island and 7 in the wild ( golden eagle predation prevented the release of captive foxes into the wild ); Santa Cruz Island had 25 captive foxes and a stable wild population of around 100 foxes.

A majority of researchers on the determinants of democracy agree that economic development is a primary factor which allows the formation of a stable and healthy democracy ( Hegre, 2003 ; Weede, 2004 ).

With his father's health failing, he took over the operation of his training stable in January 2004, renaming it Takanohana stable.

As of 2004, Rilen had settled on a fairly stable line up of his current project, Ian Rilen & the Love Addicts, who included Cathy Green on bass.

In 2004 he appeared as a stable hand named Paul in " The Big My Little Pony Episode ", the third season premiere of the TV series Half & Half.

These features have been in the stable Linux kernel since release 2. 6. 8 in August 2004.

With an extremely large range and a large population that appears to be stable, they have been evaluated as Least Concern by IUCN since 2004.

Despite having no formal connection with the stable, Fallon continued to ride major winners for Stoute including the Derby winners Kris Kin in 2003 and North Light in 2004.

It took three more years until first stable version, 1. 0, was released in 2004.

According to Daniel Albright, " In the late twentieth century, the term Neoromanticism came to suggest a music that imitated the high emotional saturation of the music of ( for example ) Schumann, but in the 1920s it meant a subdued and modest sort of emotionalism, in which the excessive gestures of the Expressionists were boiled down into some solid residue of stable feeling " ( Albright 2004, 278 – 80 ).

Other than Mike Bruner's succeeding Rick Warner in January 1998 and Ivan Greilich's filling in for Ray Monette for five years ( beginning in 2004 ), the lineup has been stable overall during the last decade or so.

Grenier returned to the stable on the March 15, 2004 edition of Raw.

The Xtreme Horsemen was a professional wrestling stable in Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling, and later Major League Wrestling, and also appeared across Japan, that disbanded in 2004.

It is listed as Endangered on the 2009 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species ,, with the population appearing more stable than in a 2004 assessment of the species being Critically Endangered, which suggested there was a 50 % chance of the silvery gibbon becoming extinct within the next decade.

Carbon stable isotopes are fractionated primarily by photosynthesis ( Faure, 2004 ).

Gelignite was more stable, transportable and conveniently formed to fit into bored holes, like those used in drilling and mining, than the previously used compounds and was adopted as the standard technology for mining in the Age of Engineering bringing Nobel a great amount of financial success, though at a significant cost to his health.

At 100 ° C, it gradually transforms into the stable form.

Above this temperature and in ambient light, this metastable allotrope transforms into the more stable black allotrope.

* Atomization of the sample from a graphite platform inserted into the graphite tube ( L ’ vov platform ) instead of from the tube wall in order to delay atomization until the gas phase in the atomizer has reached a stable temperature ;

Sakharov then tested a MK-driven " plasma cannon " where a small aluminium ring was vaporized by huge eddy currents into a stable, self-confined toroidal plasmoid and was accelerated to 100 km / s.

They were partly correct: a white dwarf slightly more massive than the Chandrasekhar limit will collapse into a neutron star, which is itself stable because of the Pauli exclusion principle.

Of the 118 known elements, only the first 98 are known to occur naturally on Earth ; 80 of them are stable, while the others are radioactive, decaying into lighter elements over various timescales from fractions of a second to billions of years.

As concern about landfill space increases, worldwide interest in recycling by means of composting is growing, since composting is a process for converting decomposable organic materials into useful stable products.

The first proposed catalytic cycle for the conversion of hydrogen into helium was at first simply called the carbon – nitrogen cycle ( CN cycle ), also honorarily referred to as the Bethe – Weizsäcker cycle, because it does not involve a stable isotope of oxygen.

and evolving into more stable forms.

Such predictions were called into question by 1995 data that show that within regions of Southeast Asia much of the original forest has been converted to monospecific plantations, but that potentially endangered species are few and tree flora remains widespread and stable.

" They noted that " the law of transformation of quantity into quality ", " holds that a new quality emerges in a leap as the slow accumulation of quantitative changes, long resisted by a stable system, finally forces it rapidly from one state into another ," a phenomenon described in some disciplines as a paradigm shift.

In hyperbolic systems the tangent space perpendicular to a trajectory can be well separated into two parts: one with the points that converge towards the orbit ( the stable manifold ) and another of the points that diverge from the orbit ( the unstable manifold ).

Gary Becker, a contributor to the expansion of economics into new areas, describes the approach he favors as " combinthe assumptions of maximizing behavior, stable preferences, and market equilibrium, used relentlessly and unflinchingly.

In anaerobic, and particularly geothermal conditions, the divalent form is sufficiently stable that it tends to be incorporated into minerals of calcium and the other alkaline earths.

Other states decohere into mixtures of stable pointer states that can persist, and, in this sense, exist: They are einselected.

Feeding relations require extensive investigations into the gut contents of organisms, which can be difficult to decipher, or stable isotopes can be used to trace the flow of nutrient diets and energy through a food web.

In 2009, scientists in Japan announced that they had successfully transferred a gene into a primate species ( marmosets ) and produced a stable line of breeding transgenic primates for the first time.

* Short-lived nature of gene therapy – Before gene therapy can become a permanent cure for any condition, the therapeutic DNA introduced into target cells must remain functional and the cells containing the therapeutic DNA must be long-lived and stable.

Such dispersions are stable for 10 – 15 days with little or no chemical changes and are suitable for coating purposes or for extrusion into a precipitating bath.

Although the Holy See, as distinct from the Vatican City State, does not fulfil the long-established criteria in international law of statehood — having a permanent population, a defined territory, a stable government and the capacity to enter into relations with other states — its possession of full legal personality in international law is shown by the fact that it maintains diplomatic relations with 179 states, that it is a member-state in various intergovernmental international organizations, and that it is: " respected by the international community of sovereign States and treated as a subject of international law having the capacity to engage in diplomatic relations and to enter into binding agreements with one, several, or many states under international law that are largely geared to establish and preserving peace in the world.

Heraclitus calls the oppositional processes ἔρις eris, " strife ", and hypothesizes that the apparently stable state, δική dikê, or " justice ," is a harmony of it: We must know that war ( πόλεμος polemos ) is common to all and strife is justice, and that all things come into being through strife necessarily.

The same book famously featured a devastating inaccuracy: the eponymous Ringworld is not ( in ) a stable orbit and would crash into the sun without active stabilization.