bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Types And Sizes Variations of Market Organic Waste in Composting Using Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL)
Authors: Aziz Rizki , Ruslinda Yenni , Pratiwi Hesti Anggia , Fauzi Mhd. 
Published: July 2023

Purpose: Organic waste processing can be done through composting. This study aims to see the effect of variations in the types and sizes of market organic waste in composting using Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL).

Theoretical framework: Market-generated organic waste needs to be handled without harming the environment. Composting is the proper method for treating organic waste from markets. BSFL is one of the organisms that can be utilized as a catalyst for the breakdown of organic waste. In many ways, using BSFL as an agent to break down organic materials is a profitable recycling technique. When it comes to waste management, BSFL can transform a variety of organic waste types, including animal manure, boosting the organic waste's value as a recyclable resource.

Method/design/approach: Market organic waste composting using BSFL. This composting uses several variations. The variation of this study consisted of six variations. Variation 1 (100% of fruit waste with manual chopped), 2 (100% fruit waste with machine shredded), 3 (100% vegetable waste with manually chopped), 4 (100% vegetable waste with machine chopped), 5 (65% fruit waste + 35% vegetable waste with manual chopped), and 6 (65% fruit waste + 35% vegetable waste with machine chopped).

Results and conclusion: Compost analysis was carried out on the maturity, quality, and quantity of compost produced. A scoring system selects the optimum variation with the best variations obtained from variations 1 and 5. The highest waste reduction index and reduction rate were obtained from variation 1 as 6.755 % and 94.571%.

Research implications: Utilization of BSFL as a market organic waste decomposition agent into compost that has a selling value or is used to fertilize plants.

Originality/value: Effect of variations in types of waste (fruit waste and vegetable waste) and waste size on composting using BSFL.
The Impacts of Urban Sprawl on Environmental Pollution, Agriculture, and Energy Consumption: Evidence From Amman City
Authors: AbdelJawad Nour , Nagy Imre 
Published: July 2023

Purpose: Urban sprawl can cause an increase in economic development, and as a result, it is followed by increased consumption of energy, waste generation, urbanization, and reduced green land. In this sense, the current study aims to investigate the impacts of urban sprawl on environmental pollution, in terms of CO2 emissions, while considering other control variables. Further, this study explores the relationship between population growth and agricultural land and energy consumption, in the period between 2008 to 2020, in Amman city.

Method/design/approach: This study employs the STIRPAT model and the panel unit root test, and the panel cointegration test (ADF), in order to investigate the effect of urban sprawl on the emissions of CO2.

Theoretical framework: Urban expansion is a low-density, dispersed, and poorly planned form of spatial growth that has a number of detrimental effects on the quality of the environment.

Results and conclusion: The results describe that waste generation, economic development, and urbanization had negative impacts on CO2 emissions.

Research implications: The findings indicated the influence of urban growth on the consumption of energy and agricultural land in Amman.

Originality/value: This work can provide possible solutions to reduce the impacts of urban sprawl on the environment through implementing regulations and policies and re-adjustment of urban land use in an efficient manner.
Absence of Genotoxic Effect of Mercury Vapor in Lymphocytes of Occupationally Exposed Individuals
Authors: Pereira João Paulo Góes , De Jesus Iracina Maura , Lima Marcelo de Oliveira , De Oliveira Edivaldo Herculano Corrêa 
Published: July 2023

Objective: to evaluate the genotoxic effects caused by exposure to Hg vapor in individuals with occupational exposure in a municipality in northern Brazil.

Methods: Blood samples were collected from 70 individuals (38 exposed and 32 unexposed controls) in heparinized tubes. The comet assay and the micronucleus test were used to detect the occurrence of genotoxic effects. The results were statistically analyzed using the Shapiro-Wilk normality test, Student's T test and ANOVA. Non-parametric data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests. Spearman's test was used to assess the correlation between dependent variables. Mean, geometric mean and standard deviation (SD) were calculated.

Results and Conclusions: The evaluation of genotoxicity revealed no difference in the frequency of DNA damage when the two groups, control and exposed, were compared, even considering confounding variables such as smoking and alcoholism, gender, age, time of exposure. In conclusion, our results indicate that exposure to Hg vapor (elemental form) did not produce detectable genotoxic changes in blood cells in vivo.

Research Implications: Although no genotoxic effects were detected in blood cells from individuals exposed to mercury vapor, studies with cells that are in more direct contact with this source of contamination, such as oral and nasal epithelial cells, should be performed to confirm whether elemental form of Hg has no genotoxic effect.
Poultry Production Nexus-Few: a Study About the Effect of Public and Private Investments on the Efficient Use of Water
Authors: Da Rosa Fabricia Silva , Costa Gabriel Donadio , Silva Luiz Paulo de Oliveira , Lunkes Rogério João , Gomes Sonia Maria da Silva , Rodrigues Valquíria Duarte Vieira , Ribeiro Viviane Pires 
Published: July 2023

Purpose: This paper aims to analyse how investments in innovation, research and development in poultry production affect the water's efficient use.

Theoretical framework: To understand water stress, the literature review addresses content related to the analysis of the balance between water and food production (Nexus-Few), as well as those that support the analysis of the effects of investments in research and development in poultry production and improving the efficient use of water.

Method/design/approach: The data were collected from the FAOSTAT database, where were analysed the investments in research and development (government and private), poultry production, water stress and efficient water use (US$/m3). The period of analysis is from 2005 to 2019, and priority was given to countries with the highest production of poultry, based on available data (Brazil, India, Mexico, Myanmar and Russia).

Results and conclusion: the results reveal that there is interdependence between water and poultry production. On the one hand, factors that can lead to water stress (climate, competition for water, food production) can also affect poultry production, as the more water stress, the greater the risk for poultry production that depends on these resources. On the other hand, public and private investments in research and development (R&D) can be crucial to reduce water stress, improve water use efficiency and poultry production performance.

Research implications: The study shows to poultry farmers that water stress (demand greater than supply) interferes with poultry production, and that private or public investment in R&D is important for the efficient use of water. The paper revewls to governments and companies what actions are necessary to encourage the sector to seek the Nexus Few (balance between water and food production).

Originality/value: expands understanding of the sustainability of the poultry production chain and the goals of sustainable development, in order to encourage the efficient use of water. The sudy reveals too the importance of public and private investments to promote the balance between water use and poultry production .
Diagnosis of Water Quality in an Urban Wetland
Authors: Koch Silviane , Bianchi Vídica , Grutka Stéfani Alexandra , Martins Caroline Thérèse Aygadoux , Alves Alcione Aparecida de Almeida , Da Silva José Antonio Gonzalez , Da Rosa Juliana Aozane , Alessi Odenis 
Published: July 2023

Purpose: The objective was to evaluate the water quality based on physical and chemical parameters in different quadrants of an urban wetland and correlate variables that may show possible natural and anthropogenic polluting sources.

Theoretical framework: Wetlands are essential ecosystems for the maintenance of ecological balance, biodiversity of organisms, and water reserves. Studies on water quality in urban wetlands are important for understanding their preservation level, elucidating the need for possible conservationist actions.

Method/design/approach: The wetland area was divided into four quadrants; water samples were collected for analysis of physical and chemical. When possible, the results were compared with the limits established by the CONAMA Resolution 357/2005 (class 1), which deals with surface waters, and with the literature.

Results and conclusion: The Quadrant 3, which presented riparian forest, invasive species, and high deposition of solid waste, showed a greater degree of environmental impact. Changes in several physical and chemical parameters indicate that the impairment of water quality in the evaluated wetland is mainly due to the anthropogenic action of the surrounding population.

Research implications: The analysis of wetland water quality as an indicator of socio-environmental actions can be implemented and stimulate public power actions, ensuring its preservation.
Originality/value: Studies in urban wetlands are rare. The irregular occupation on the banks denotes a socio-environmental issue. Wetlands are a valuable resource for environmental education practices in schools.
The Language Policy of Learning English as Support to the Internationalization Management of the Autonomous University of Baja California [Mexico]
Authors: Toledo Sarracino David Guadalupe 
Published: July 2023

Objective: The objective of this work is to provide the management actions of internationalization and teaching of the English language carried out by Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC). In the first place, concepts of soft skills (softskills), linguistic, digital, socio-emotional and environmental are described that the student learns in an interdisciplinary way when learning a foreign language and must have associations in the disciplinary field and its relationship with the language policy of English teaching. Secondly, the results of the strategies used by the UABC to promote student exchange are analyzed.

Theoretical Framework: The theories that support this study are the language policy by Cooper (1997) and Arnoux & Bein (2015) related to the way English is learned at the UABC and how the internationalization policy makes you participate in it. For this reason, the results of the strategies used by the UABC to promote student exchange at the UABC are analyzed.

Methodology: This study focuses on the quantitative-descriptive methodology using a 15-item survey addressed to 100 students to collect information on the improvement of English during the student exchange. The results were plotted in an .xlsx matrix; the instrument that was validated under the calculation and interpretation of Cronbach's Alpha (1951). That is, through the variance of the items used in MS Excel with the statistical package SPSS (22).

Results and conclusions: An explicit language policy proposal is presented in the short term from an institutional perspective of the UABC, which will have an impact on having highly qualified graduates towards a successful labor insertion.

Research implications: The main contribution of this study is to make known the importance of the role of learning the English language during university studies and the benefits that the student brings when participating in the student exchange in English-speaking countries.

Originality/value: This research contributes significantly to the scientific knowledge of student exchange management and, consequently, the impact of learning English at the University so that graduates have direct access to a secure job.
Use of Agroindustrial Materials as Activated Carbon Precursors for Caffeine Removal: Global Overview
Authors: Tapia Yuliana Menco , De Oliveira Tatianne Ferreira , Gabriel Ellen Flavia Moreira , Scalize Paulo Sergio 
Published: July 2023

Objective: Prepare a global overview of agro-industrial residues used for activated carbon (CA) production, seeking caffeine removal of water bodies.

Theoretical reference: Aiming the adequate understand of involved processes, as well as each stage when adsorption occurred. The theoretical concepts might help to analyse how important is pollution of emerging contaminants in water bodies, as a current environmental problem.

Method: A data survey was developed in general perspective, using information from literature published in online repositories, such as Scopus and Science Direct, trough investigations that seek the use of agro-industrial residues for production of activated carbons and, also, their caffeine removal parameters analysis.

Results and conclusion: The analysis results of the different methodologies applied in studies for activated carbon production from agro-industrial residues, showed that good caffeine adsorption process and the adequate characteristics of each adsorbent material, depend on processes and conditions adopted by each researcher. In this way, the different studies here analysed showed the importance of using industry waste, helping to reduce waste volumes in landfills and, at the same time, the search for new technologies that could help to remove emerging contaminants, such as caffeine.

Originality/value: This study provides different basic and methodological concepts related to carbonization processes from agro-industrial waste, verified and studied by different authors for caffeine elimination; and also the importance of tracking new economical and environmentally friendly precursor materials.
Mosaic of Protected Areas: a Conservation Strategy for the Seridó Potiguar Biome
Authors: Fontgalland Isabel Lausanne , De Oliveira Zenon Sabino 
Published: July 2023

Propose: The aim of this work is to show the Seridó Potiguar (Brazil) through the model of integrated management of conservation units and protected areas, known as area fragmentation mosaics.

Theoretical Frame of Reference: The loss of native vegetation, caused by anthropic destruction, is felt as one of the conditioning factors in the decrease of biodiversity almost everywhere on Earth, however, only with the creation of Conservation Units (UCs) will it be possible to establish a tool as a conservation strategy. From this perspective, the National System of Conservation Units (SNUC) has initiated the structure in mosaics, providing a participatory and social management of the territory, taking into account the conservation of biodiversity and geodiversity.

Method: The study of mosaics favors knowing the size of the distribution area by shallow cuts. Through this methodology, it is possible to know the depletion and/or rapid recovery of the APA protection scenario or fragmentation by deforestation. In this way, this article observes to what extent a good management of UC mosaics can cause a better contribution to the conservation of biodiversity and geodiversity, taking into account, particularly, the Caatinga biome in the Seridó of the state of Rio Grande do Norte.

Results and Discussion: As results, it was observed that the project presents biophysical, socioeconomic and environmental elements of the Seridó of Rio Grande do Norte.

Implications of the Research: There is no verification of studies of conservation mosaics in this region of Rio Grabnde do Norte, therefore a pioneer study.

Originality/Value: This research is unusual and original and will broaden the discussion of the Conservation Units in the Brazilian Northeast
Adulteration of the Fuel Sold at Gas Stations in Two Towns in the Eastern Amazon Region of Northern Brazil
Authors: Oliva Pedro Andrés Chira , Da Silva Elisama de Paula Rosario , Da Costa Gabriela de Nazaré Silva 
Published: July 2023

Purpose: The aimed witch of this study was to verify the quality of the fuel sold by gas stations in the Amazonian towns of Bragança and Tracuateua (Brazil).

Method: It were applied physicochemical analyses to verify the anhydrous ethyl alcohol content of samples of gasoline, as well as the specific mass of samples of diesel and gasoline.

Result and conclusion: Just over a quarter (26.47%) of the samples of gasoline collected in Bragança contained more ethanol than permitted by Brazilian law and were thus classified as in non-conformity. Three (75%) of the four gasoline samples from Tracuateua were non-conformity. In addition, 11.76% of the gasoline samples collected in Bragança were less dense at 20 °C than specified by the Brazilian legislation, and were thus considered as in non-conformity. Based on this same criterion, half (50%) of the gasoline samples collected in Tracuateua were also non-conformity. Diesel was the only fuel that presented no alteration in specific mass in either town.

Research implications: There is a lack of academic studies related to this serious problem in the surveyed sites. This pioneering study is of great importance because it will alert local authorities about the problem of marketing fuels that do not meet the current specifications of the Brazilian legislation and whose emission of gases causes atmospheric pollution besides being harmful to life and to the environment.

Originality/value: This study indicated that both types of gasoline (regular and premium) may be subject to adulteration in both Amazonian towns (Pará, Brazil).
Organic Toddler Food – an Analysis of the Perception of Users
Authors: K. P Radhika Priya , A Dharmaraj 
Published: July 2023

Objective: Understanding the factors influencing the rising levels of organic toddler food consumption, such as motivation, is essential to maximizing the market's potential for organic toddler food.

Theoretical framework: Perception and attitude of organic toddler food customers with reference to the perceived benefits. This study involves the investigation of perception and attitude towards organic toddler food of the customer in the context of India and the analogy worldwide.

Method: Purposive sampling procedure has been used to collect data. With a sample size of 384. Researcher has used the following tools:

Correlation
Multiple regression
Chi-square test

Results and conclusion: Age and gender of respondents and users perception are associated with each other. The users perception and perceived risk are related. The perceived benefits have a greater impact on user’s perception towards organic food than the perceived benefits.

Implications of the research: majority of people know about the term organic, its understanding and usage and their health benefits. Now the responsibility lies on the shoulder of the marketers to use the best source of information cropped by this study and by the mediums such as through internet, print media and through specialized organic stores to influence the perception of customers.

Originality/value: Educated retailers can easily persuade the customers by upgrading the knowledge and convincing about the associated benefits of organic food. Marketer should expand their distribution channel using National or local retail chain store and provide more variety in organic products as per the consumer demand.
Production of Milito-Type Cassava Flour in the Brazilian Amazon Region: A Systematic Review
Authors: Gonçalves Muller Padilha , Soliani Rodrigo Duarte , De Oliveira Dion Alves , Bastos Ricardo Carneiro , Ferreira Júnior Genildo Cavalcante , Pereira Paulo Vinícius de Miranda 
Published: July 2023

Objective: Identifying and describing the production stages of "milito" flour is important for standardizing the production process, preserving the product's identity, and promoting its commercialization and consumption through public policies. The objective of this study is to consolidate previous research and identify strategies to improve the quality and economic viability of "milito" flour production.

Theoretical framework: "Milito" flour is a unique product highly valued by consumers in Acre and is expanding to other Brazilian states. Although produced traditionally, the manufacturing process is not well characterized or documented, which may result in variations in quality among different producers and, consequently, loss of product identity.

Method: A systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted to identify the state-of-the-art research on "milito" flour in the Amazon region. The review was carried out by searching for scientific papers, regardless of the year, in three databases.

Results and conclusion: Only two studies containing any mention of "milito" flour were selected. The findings highlight the importance of identifying production sites and characterizing the manufacturing process of "milito" flour. The creation of a geographical indication (GI) for this product could increase its recognition throughout the country and encourage socio-economic and cultural development in the region.

Research implications: The creation of a GI could stimulate the implementation of public policies that support cassava cultivation and "milito" flour production, as well as other by-products that have not yet been commercially exploited.

Originality/value: This study fills a research gap by providing valuable information on "milito" production and can serve as a model for other regions interested in developing similar products. Promoting sustainable agriculture and generating income for local communities, especially small farmers, are important objectives of this study.