cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Globalization, Transnational Corporations, the State and Democracy 37-48
Creators: name: Bonanno, Alessandro
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2004

description: In this article I argue that TNCs are the most powerful actors under globalization. Additionally, I contend that the contradictory relationship between TNCs and the state represents one of the most important aspects of this era. The core of this article, however, probes the issue of future outcomes of globalization. My point is that, while globalization is a response of the dominant groups to the gains and status that subordinate classes obtained under Fordism, it contains important contradictions that allow the possibility for the democratization of contemporary society. Under Fordism, subordinate classes’ gains established never-reached-before levels of substantive democracy. Globalization represents a dominant class’ response to this situation and, above all, an attack on labor and class based movements and the historical Left. Under globalization, the historical Left’s ability to organize and find strength in the factories and agricultural fields has been significantly diminished. Resistance emerged from new social movements. The environmental and consumer movements are two among these new social movements. Because of their focus on quality of life and consumption, they have the possibility to counter TNCs and establish substantive forms of democracy. My point is that these new social movements represent new emancipatory actors in the era of globalization. New emancipatory actors are accompanied by spaces of emancipation. I identify one of these spaces in the state. Because of its contradictory relationship with TNCs, the state is called to support and legitimize corporate actions in a situation in which TNCs tend to by-pass state demands and consequently limit the state’s ability to assist them. This situation opens up a crisis of legitimation in which the state is called to justify actions that it cannot fully control and regulate. I further argue that the contradiction of realization experienced by TNCs is another space of emancipatory action. I argue that TNCs’ need to realize their production – i.e., to sell the commodities they produce in order to transform them into money – makes them vulnerable to new social movements’ demands and create the possibility for more ethically and socially acceptable forms of production. I conclude the article by arguing that, in spite of the above mentioned contradictions and anti-corporate movements, TNCs remain firmly in control of contemporary society. This situation makes the attainment of more democratic conditions a contested terrain whose outcome will be decided by the ability of alternative forces to exploit globalization’s contradictions and use available spaces of emancipation.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 12 (2004): Special Issue: Globalization
Additional file 1 of Glucoraphanin and sulforaphane biosynthesis by melatonin mediating nitric oxide in hairy roots of broccoli (Brassica oleracea L. var. italica Planch): insights from transcriptome data
Creators: name: Ma, Shaoying
name: Bao, Jinyu
name: Lu, Yaqi
name: Lu, Xu
name: Tian, Peng
name: Zhang, Xiaoling
name: Yang, Jie
name: Shi, Xiaotong
name: Pu, Zhihui
name: Li, Sheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. Sequencing data and quality statistics of 15 transcriptomes at five time points of MT-induced hairy roots of broccoli.
title: Labor Day Public Service Announcement
Creators: name: Dole, Elizabeth Hanford
name: United States Department of Transportation
Publisher: name: United States Department of Transportation
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02xfw2e90
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1985
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90594
subject: Safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/93814
subject: Seat belts
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90602
subject: Highway safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90848
subject: Drunk driving
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90847
subject: Intoxication

description: See the Secretary of Transportation Speeches Collection's finding aid at: https://ntl.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/13
description: Labor Day Public Service Announcement from Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole, 1985.
Anomalous Silicate Dust Emission in the Type 1 LINER Nucleus of M81
Creators: name: Smith, Howard A.
name: Li, Aigen
name: Li, M. P.
name: Koehler, M.
name: Ashby, M. L. N.
name: Fazio, G.
name: Huang, J-S
name: Marengo, M.
name: Wang, Z.
name: Willner, S.
name: Zezas, A.
name: Spinoglio, L.
name: Wu, Y. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection and successful modeling of the unusual 9.7\mum Si--O stretching silicate emission feature in the type 1 (i.e. face-on) LINER nucleus of M81. Using the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) instrument on Spitzer, we determine the feature in the central 230 pc of M81 to be in strong emission, with a peak at ~10.5\mum. This feature is strikingly different in character from the absorption feature of the galactic interstellar medium, and from the silicate absorption or weak emission features typical of galaxies with active star formation. We successfully model the high signal-to-noise ratio IRS spectra with porous silicate dust using laboratory-acquired mineral spectra. We find that the most probable fit uses micron-sized, porous grains of amorphous silicate and graphite. In addition to silicate dust, there is weak PAH emission present (particularly at 11.3\mum, arising from the C--H out-of-plane bending vibration of relatively large PAHs of ~500--1000 C atoms) whose character reflects the low-excitation AGN environment, with some evidence that small PAHs of ~100--200 C atoms (responsible for the 7.7\mum C--C stretching band) in the immediate vicinity of the nucleus have been preferentially destroyed. (abstract continues)
description: To appear in The Astrophysical Journal; 37 pages, 2 tables, and 11 figures
Agriculture and Food in the Globalisation Age
Creators: name: Belo Moreira, Manuel
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2004

description: The objective of this article is to reflect on three basic questions concerning globalization and its effects on agriculture and food: what are the major characteristics of globalization? Who are its major actors? And what are the future trends? Highlighted are two primary changes that differentiate contemporary globalization from the past. Changes in the international financial system altered the relations between the state and capital and between capital and labor. They also created new forms of management and the development of new strategies from the major actors of globalization, the transnational corporations. Attention is paid to the logic and dynamics of the global actors and their relationships with the local actors, illustrated through examples concerning agro-food. To consider future trends in agriculture and food, a framework was created based on a two-scenario approach: backlash and further globalization. This framework also makes an appeal to the concepts of appropriationism and substitutionism that reflect the industrialization of agriculture, and the technological treadmill resulting from the structural dynamic induced by market competition between farmers. Finally, it is shown that globalization, as a state-led process, occurs within a highly contested and disputed arena. This means that attention must be paid to the profound gap between the rhetoric and the underlying ideology, both extremely liberal and pro-market, and the praxis that reveals a much more complex outcome. The globalizing idea, even as it is hegemonic inside the most relevant nation-states apparatus, is tempered by state pragmatism in response to the game of power relations
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 12 (2004): Special Issue: Globalization
L’uso del patrimonio culturale nell’insegnamento della storia Una sperimentazione pratica nella scuola media
Creators: name: Mariani Arcobello, Francesca
Publisher: name: Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
Year: 2016

description: Inserendosi nel solco dell’animata riflessione collettiva sui vantaggi dello sfruttamento o della valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale a fini educativi e della robusta bibliografia pubblicata su questo argomento negli ultimi anni, il lavoro presentato in questa sede prende le mosse dal desiderio di chiarire in che modo e con quali vantaggi il patrimonio culturale possa essere inserito nell’insegnamento della storia anche alle nostre latitudini. In concreto, si è trattato di ideare e sperimentare un itinerario che, articolandosi lungo l’arco dell’anno scolastico 2015-2016, permettesse di utilizzare alcuni degli elementi del patrimonio culturale disponibili nell’area del Monte San Giorgio quale chiave di accesso al programma di prima media (o almeno a parte di esso), servendo quindi da filo conduttore dell’anno. I riscontri ottenuti confermano la validità di un approccio di questo tipo, in ragione del coinvolgimento emotivo che esso tende a suscitare negli allievi e delle premesse favorevoli che in tal modo crea per i processi cognitivi legati all’apprendimento. L’educazione al patrimonio si presenta, inoltre, come uno spunto promettente per dare sostanza – nell’area delle scienze umane e sociali, ma non solo – all’attuale transizione verso una pedagogia incentrata sulle competenze. Relatore: Alessandro Frigeri. Materia: storia
Agrifood Globalisation and Commodity Systems
Creators: name: H. Friedland, William
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2004

description: Globalization is focused in this paper on agrifood commodities and refers to the processes by which commodities move into long complex chains. Rather than being spatially limited to locality, nation, or region, expanded spatial movements and integration produce a new division of labor and increase distances between production and consumption spatially and socially. The paper focuses on (1) the globality or degree of globalization and (2) the economic concentration of segments of agrifood commodity systems. The first considers the degree to which segments of a commodity system are global, and which aren’t. The second examines economic concentration in commodity systems as they become global. Using empirical cases of tomatoes (processing and fresh) and lettuce, agrifood commodities are shown to be differentially globalized in their various segments. Four commodity systems — frozen concentrated orange juice, wine, fresh fruits and vegetables, and processing tomatoes — are examined to understand the degree to which economic concentration occurs in each systems’ segments. The main conclusion is that globalization and economic concentration occur primarily in segments requiring substantial capital investments. Agriculture itself is rarely globalized but processing, handling, and marketing “beyond the farm gate” become the realm of both globalization and concentration.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 12 (2004): Special Issue: Globalization
Correlations of electrons from heavy flavor decay in p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions
Creators: name: Sickles, Anne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In relativistic heavy ion collisions heavy flavor probes are crucial to understand the interactions between partons and the produced hot nuclear matter. Measurements in p+p collisions provide information about how the heavy quarks are produced and fragment and in d+Au collisions are sensitive to possible effects from cold nuclear matter. Azimuthal correlation measurements involving heavy flavor probes are complementary to single particle spectra measurements and provide additional information about production and interactions of heavy quarks. Measurements of electrons with heavy flavor decay with other hadrons from the event can provide information about how the heavy quark interacts with the produced matter and can be compared to similar measurements from light hadron correlations. Correlations between electrons from heavy flavor decay with muons, also from heavy flavor decay, can provide further information about heavy flavor production and cold nuclear matter effects in d+Au collisions with a very clean signal. We present PHENIX results for electron-hadron correlations in p+p and Au+Au collisions and electron-muon correlations in p+p and d+Au collisions and discuss the implications of these measurements.
description: talk presented at DIS 2010, Florence Italy
title: Talking Points for Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Hanford Dole, Executive Women Briefing at the Department of Transportation
Creators: name: Dole, Elizabeth Hanford
name: United States Department of Transportation
Publisher: name: United States Department of Transportation
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02xfw2e90
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1985
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91628
subject: Executives
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91565
subject: Females
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91976
subject: Businesses

description: See the Secretary of Transportation Speeches Collection's finding aid at: https://ntl.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/14
description: Talking points for Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Hanford Dole, Executive Women Briefing at the Department of Transportation on August 8, 1985.
title: Talking Points Prepared for Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Hanford Dole at the Farewell Reception for Donald Derman
Creators: name: Dole, Elizabeth Hanford
name: United States Department of Transportation
Publisher: name: United States Department of Transportation
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02xfw2e90
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1985
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91634
subject: Government employees
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91626
subject: Managerial personnel
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88768
subject: Budgeting
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/92148
subject: Public service

description: See the Secretary of Transportation Speeches Collection's finding aid at: https://ntl.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/117
description: Talking points prepared for Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Hanford Dole at the farewell reception for Donald Derman on September 5, 1985.
question for Orthopaedic residents.docx
Creators: name: Kasai, Yuichi
name: Paholpak, Permsak
name: Wisanuyotin, Taweechok
name: Sirichativapee, Winai
name: Oo, Shwe Kyaw
name: Thu, Si
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110314 Orthopaedics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: questionnaire answer about the system of being Orthopaedic specialists
Multiple superconducting gap and anisotropic spin fluctuations in iron arsenides: Comparison with nickel analog
Creators: name: Li, Z.
name: Kawasaki, S.
name: Oka, T.
name: Tabuchi, T.
name: Ooe, Y.
name: Ichioka, M.
name: Ren, Z. A.
name: Zhao, Z. X.
name: Luo, J. L.
name: Wang, N. L.
name: Wang, X. C.
name: Liu, Q. Q.
name: Jin, C. Q.
name: Lin, C. T.
name: Zheng, Guo-qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present extensive 75As NMR and NQR data on the superconducting arsenides PrFeAs0.89F0.11 (Tc=45 K), LaFeAsO0.92F0.08 (Tc=27 K), LiFeAs (Tc = 17 K) and Ba0.72K0.28Fe2As2 (Tc = 31.5 K) single crystal, and compare with the nickel analog LaNiAsO0.9F0.1 (Tc=4.0 K) . In contrast to LaNiAsO0.9F0.1 where the superconducting gap is shown to be isotropic, the spin lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 in the Fe-arsenides decreases below Tc with no coherence peak and shows a step-wise variation at low temperatures. The Knight shift decreases below Tc and shows a step-wise T variation as well. These results indicate spinsinglet superconductivity with multiple gaps in the Fe-arsenides. The Fe antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations are anisotropic and weaker compared to underdoped copper-oxides or cobalt-oxide superconductors, while there is no significant electron correlations in LaNiAsO0.9F0.1. We will discuss the implications of these results and highlight the importance of the Fermi surface topology.
description: 6 pages, 11 figures
title: Talking Points Prepared for Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole, Swearing In Ceremony for Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Regulatory Review Panel
Creators: name: Dole, Elizabeth Hanford
name: United States Department of Transportation
Publisher: name: United States Department of Transportation
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02xfw2e90
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1985
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88931
subject: Regulations
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91993
subject: Motor carriers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90595
subject: Transportation safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88911
subject: Laws and legislation

description: See the Secretary of Transportation Speeches Collection's finding aid at: https://ntl.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/118
description: Talking points prepared for Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole at the swearing in ceremony for the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Regulatory Review Panel on September 5, 1985.
Underlying events in p+p collisions at LHC energies
Creators: name: Agócs, A. G.
name: Barnaföldi, G. G.
name: Lévai, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: General properties of hadron production are investigated in proton-proton collisions at LHC energies. We are interested in the characteristics of hadron production outside the identified jet cones. We improve earlier definitions and introduce surrounding rings/belts around the cone of identified jets. In this way even multiple jet events can be studied in details. We define the underlying event as collected hadrons from outside jet cones and outside surrounding belts, and investigate the features of these hadrons. We use a PYTHIA generated data sample of proton-proton collisions at s = (7 TeV)^2. This data sample is analysed by our new method and the widely applied CDF method. Angular correlations and momentum distributions have been studied and the obtained results are compared and discussed.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the EPJ Web of Conferences, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Hot and Cold Baryonic Matter 2010 (Budapest, Hungary, 15-20 August 2010)
Pesticide Use and Risk Perception: An Analysis from the Laboratory Fields
Creators: name: Guivant, Julia
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2003

description: The central focus of this article is the analysis of farmers’ hybrid local knowledge and their perceptions of risk as they are present in the dynamics of legitimisation of pesticide use -including how it is selected, store, prepared and applied. The case study was situated in a rural area in Southern Brazil, where there is widespread intensive and unsafe use of pesticides in horticultural production. Through the data I question two presuppositions that are common in the literature on pesticide risks. One considers farmers as lacking the correct or sufficient information about health and environmental risks. The other sees farmers as victims of economic constraints, pressure by salespeople, or a ‘technological treadmill’. Without denying the relevance of these arguments, farmers are seen as knowledgeable agents with their own reasons and their own perception of the risks associated with the use of pesticides. I point to a current local knowledge that is a mixture of past and present experiences, resulting from the interface with expert knowledge, exposing a “cognitive dependency” on pesticides. In the conclusions, consideration is given to some implications of this research for the debate on participatory sustainable rural development.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 11 (2003)
title: Remarks Prepared for Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole (to Be Delivered by Federal Highway Administrator Ray Barnhart)
Creators: name: Dole, Elizabeth Hanford
name: Barnhart, Ray
name: United States Department of Transportation
Publisher: name: United States Department of Transportation
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02xfw2e90
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1985
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91456
subject: Public works
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90602
subject: Highway safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/92846
subject: Interstate highways
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90085
subject: Road construction
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88701
subject: Fuel taxes

description: See the Secretary of Transportation Speeches Collection's finding aid at: https://ntl.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/119
description: Remarks prepared for Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole to be delivered by Federal Highway Administrator Ray Barnhart at the International Public Works Congress and Equipment Show sponsored by the American Public Works Association in Los Angeles, California on September 9, 1985.
Authority, Power and Value in Contemporary Industrial Food Systems
Creators: name: Dixon, Jane
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2003

description: Within agro-food studies there is a growing appreciation that power is not limited to the interplay between actors engaged in production and consumption. Belatedly, actors in the spheres of distribution and exchange are being acknowledged, as is their role in the processes being enacted to constantly recommodify foods through reconceptualizing their values. The mobilisation of product branding and other “intangible assets”, including a corporate persona as authoritative, helps to explain the restructuring of contemporary industrial food systems. An examination of the Australian chicken meat commodity complex reveals how large food retail chains are positioning themselves as authority figures. The study confirms the emergence of a new form of authority in relation to food, i.e. market-mediated authority. The argument pivots around the activities of an ‘intermediary sector of the economy’, comprising experts and professionals who contribute to the setting of cultural standards around what is legitimate in food systems. This particular class fraction undertakes three activities in support of market-based authorities. First, it provides corporations with third party associations with more traditional authorities, especially health authorities; second, it mobilises symbolic capital to renew corporate charisma; and third, it brokers producer-consumer relations through providing expertise. The paper concludes that consumer authority is fleeting within a context of the corporate manipulation of intangible assets.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 11 (2003)
Two-Step Acceleration Model of Cosmic Rays at Middle-Aged SNR
Creators: name: Inoue, Tsuyoshi
name: Yamazaki, Ryo
name: Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent gamma-ray observations of middle-aged supernova remnants revealed a mysterious broken power-law spectrum. Using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations, we show that the interaction between a supernova blast wave and interstellar clouds formed by thermal instability generates multiple reflected shocks. The typical Mach numbers of the reflected shocks are shown to be M ~ 2 depending on the density contrast between the diffuse intercloud gas and clouds. These secondary shocks can further energize cosmic-ray particles originally accelerated at the blast-wave shock. This "two-step" acceleration scenario reproduces the observed gamma-ray spectrum and predicts the high-energy spectral index ranging approximately from 3 to 4.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, accepted by ApJ Letters
Farm Crisis or Agricultural System Crisis? Defining National Problems in a Global Economy
Creators: name: Glenna, Leland
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2003

description: The popular press, farm groups, and the Federal Government characterized the 1980s as a period of severe farm crisis. But the decline in farm numbers in the 1980s was not as steep as it had been in the 1950s, 1960s, or even the 1970s. Sociologists recognize that social problems are not the result of the sudden awareness of objective and identifiable conditions, but become defined through a collective process that assigns social significance to a set of conditions. What remains open to examination is how social systems and changes in those systems tend to structure the collective problem-definition process in such a way that one set of actors is able to promote its definitions over others. Using congressional hearings leading up to the passage of the 1985 Food Security Act and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) data on agricultural conditions in the 1980s, I argue that policy makers defined those conditions as an agricultural system crisis, not as a farm crisis. This choice of definitions reflected the ability of emerging transnational agribusinesses to convince policy makers that the pressures of an international economy required a restructuring of the national farm policies. I will then discuss how these findings improve our understanding of how the state negotiates its national responsibilities in a global economy.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 11 (2003)
Strongly Enhanced Spin Squeezing via Quantum Control
Creators: name: Trail, Collin M.
name: Jessen, Poul S.
name: Deutsch, Ivan H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a new approach to spin squeezing based on a double-pass Faraday interaction between an optical probe and an optically dense atomic sample. A quantum eraser is used to remove residual spin-probe entanglement, thereby realizing a single-axis twisting unitary map on the collective spin. This interaction can be phase-matched, resulting in exponential enhancement of squeezing. In practice the scaling and peak squeezing depends on decoherence, technical loss, and noise. A simplified model indicates ~10 dB of squeezing should be achievable with current laboratory parameters.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures.
Modeling and simulation of a photovoltaic assisted single-slope solar still
Creators: name: Migaybil, Hashim
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Water is crucial and very important to our lives needs such as human needs, artificial needs and agriculture’s needs. Seawater desalination process in industrial applications plays a primarily role in meeting the demands for fresh water. The energy of desalination process can be obtained from fossil fuel or from a renewable source of energies such as solar, wind and geothermal energy. Nowadays, Solar energy can be utilized in water production by evaporating saline water in order to produce fresh water. Solar still desalination is considered as one of the emerging processes among other different methods that employs renewable source of energy. This technology has multiple advantages comprising simplicity, ease of maintenance, low cost and low environmental impact. Solar still is a renowned technology for water desalination, impurities and contaminants removal and high-quality water production. Scientists have to illustrate the applications of the solar desalination system based on energy, exergy, thermo dynamic properties and cost analysis. The design analysis should consider the technique and types of the desalination system. It is necessary to model a flexible visualized computer program in order to design/or perform a reliable analysis for a widespread range of solar desalination processes with different structures. The proposed topic claims for modeling and simulation of an integrated solar cell heating element (photovoltaic cell) system accompanied with a single slope solar still for performance improvement, process optimization and efficiency enhancement. The main objective of this study is to develop a software using SIMULINK in order to design and simulate solar desalination systems single slope solar still with a photovoltaic Cell. The study results reveal that solar desalination technique without a photovoltaic cell is astonishing with lower efficiency and performance, while comparing with solar desalination technique assisted with a photovoltaic cell (heating coil) that improve the efficiency by 45% and enhance the performance of the entire system.
Farm Enterprises as Self-organizing Systems: A New Transdisciplinary Framework for Studying Farm Enterprises?
Creators: name: Noe, Egon
name: Fjelsted Alrøe, Hugo
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2003

description: The growing attention to sustainable food production and multifunctional agriculture calls for a multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary research and development perspective on farming, one that is able to grasp the environmental, social, technical, and financial aspects of a farm and the dynamic relationship between the farm enterprises and the surrounding world. Our thesis is that a transdisciplinary approach needs to build on a working ontology that goes beyond the epistemology of each discipline and that is not just pieced together of the ontologies connected to these different epistemologies. Based on a review of three prevailing theoretical frameworks within the field of agro-sociology (the farming styles approach, the Bawden approach, and Conway’s agroecosystem approach,) we argue that the existing theories do not offer such a transdisciplinary theoretical framework. Drawing on ideas from Actor-Network theory (ANT) and Luhmann’s theory of social systems, this paper argues that a new concept of “farm enterprise” as a self-organizing social system. This approach could serve as a useful ontological platform for understanding a farm-enterprise as an entity independent of a scientific observer.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 11 (2003)
title: Statement by Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Hanford Dole on the Transfer of Washington Airports to a Regional Authority
Creators: name: Dole, Elizabeth Hanford
name: United States Department of Transportation
Publisher: name: United States Department of Transportation
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02xfw2e90
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1985
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91990
subject: Regional airlines
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/92589
subject: Airports
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88280
subject: Airport operations
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97208
subject: Metropolitan areas

description: See the Secretary of Transportation Speeches Collection's finding aid at: https://ntl.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/120
description: Statement by Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Hanford Dole on the transfer of Washington Airports to a regional authority, September 11, 1985.
Inverse problems with partial data for a magnetic Schrödinger operator in an infinite slab and on a bounded domain
Creators: name: Krupchyk, Katsiaryna
name: Lassas, Matti
name: Uhlmann, Gunther
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35R30, 35J10, 35P25

description: In this paper we study inverse boundary value problems with partial data for the magnetic Schrödinger operator. In the case of an infinite slab in $R^n$, $n\ge 3$, we establish that the magnetic field and the electric potential can be determined uniquely, when the Dirichlet and Neumann data are given either on the different boundary hyperplanes of the slab or on the same hyperplane. This is a generalization of the results of [41], obtained for the Schrödinger operator without magnetic potentials. In the case of a bounded domain in $R^n$, $n\ge 3$, extending the results of [2], we show the unique determination of the magnetic field and electric potential from the Dirichlet and Neumann data, given on two arbitrary open subsets of the boundary, provided that the magnetic and electric potentials are known in a neighborhood of the boundary. Generalizing the results of [31], we also obtain uniqueness results for the magnetic Schrödinger operator, when the Dirichlet and Neumann data are known on the same part of the boundary, assuming that the inaccessible part of the boundary is a part of a hyperplane.
Agricultura y desarrollo. Las instituciones de cooperación y ayudahacia América Latina y el Caribe
Creators: name: Prato Barbosa, Nelson
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 1991

description: The main objective of this paper is to expose a research project to analyze the historic variations of knowledge and information about Latin America and the Caribbean among public and private institutions, which offer aid and cooperation to that region in the agricultural field. Our aim is to determine how the historic image of Latin America and the Caribbean has affected the criteria of those institutions in their perception of the Region's problems and their solutions, and related cooperation policies and international aid. Likewise, the project will make a diagnosis of the economic, financial, scientific and technological aid offered by the Developed Countries and Multinational Programs for Development (FAO, PNUD, etc.) to Latin America and the Caribbean agriculture. The research intends, a posteriori, to compare the present levels of institutional development for cooperation and aid to Latin America and the Caribbean in agricultural fields, among the countries and regions selected for the study. This will help in the plans for more solidarity and egalitarian cooperation mechanisms, based on mutual knowledge and respect for the cultural, political and social ethos which historically determine their identities. ? Agricultura y desarrollo. Las instituciones de cooperación y ayudahacia América Latina y el Caribe Resumen ? El objetivo central del proyecto es tratar de conocer las tendencias históricas de los programas de cooperación y ayuda hacia América Latina y el Caribe que tienen las instituciones gubernamentales y privadas de los países desarrollados, así como de las agencias multinacionales. Se trata de establecer el modo cómo la imagen que históricamente se ha tenido sobre América Latina y el Caribe, ha afectado los criterios que utilizan dichas instituciones para evaluar los problemas y salidas hacia el futuro de la Región, así como, en la formulación de sus políticas de cooperación y asistencia internacional. El Proyecto de Investigación pretende, a posteriori, hacer comparaciones sobre los tipos y carácter de las instituciones existente en los países altamente industrializados y organismos internacionales para el desarrollo (FAO, PNUD, etc) para la cooperación y asistencia a los países de América Latina y el Caribe en diferentes ámbitos de la agricultura.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 1 (1991)
title: Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Hanford Dole, Jewish National Fund
Creators: name: Dole, Elizabeth Hanford
name: United States Department of Transportation
Publisher: name: United States Department of Transportation
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02xfw2e90
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1985
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88618
subject: Awards
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/92148
subject: Public service
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/92107
subject: Service agencies
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/96636
subject: International relations

description: See the Secretary of Transportation Speeches Collection's finding aid at: https://ntl.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/121
description: Remarks prepared for delivery by Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Hanford Dole at the Jewish National Fund in New York, New York on September 12, 1985.
Conicoid Mirrors
Creators: name: Castano, Diego J.
name: Hawkins, Lawrence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first order equation relating object and image location for a mirror of arbitrary conic-sectional shape is derived. It is also shown that the parabolic reflecting surface is the only one free of aberration and only in the limiting case of distant sources.
description: 9 pages
Agriculture and Development Institutions for Cooperation and Aid to Latin America and the Caribbean: An Historical Evaluation
Creators: name: Prato Barbosa, Nelson
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 1991

description: The main objective of this paper is to expose a research project to analyze the historic variations of knowledge and information about Latin America and the Caribbean among public and private institutions, which offer aid and cooperation to that region in the agricultural field. Our aim is to determine how the historic image of Latin America and the Caribbean has affected the criteria of those institutions in their perception of the Region's problems and their solutions, and related cooperation policies and international aid. Likewise, the project will make a diagnosis of the economic, financial, scientific and technological aid offered by the Developed Countries and Multinational Programs for Development (FAO, PNUD, etc.) to Latin America and the Caribbean agriculture. The research intends, a posteriori, to compare the present levels of institutional development for cooperation and aid to Latin America and the Caribbean in agricultural fields, among the countries and regions selected for the study. This will help in the plans for more solidarity and egalitarian cooperation mechanisms, based on mutual knowledge and respect for the cultural, political and social ethos which historically determine their identities. ? Agricultura y desarrollo. Las instituciones de cooperación y ayudahacia América Latina y el Caribe Resumen ? El objetivo central del proyecto es tratar de conocer las tendencias históricas de los programas de cooperación y ayuda hacia América Latina y el Caribe que tienen las instituciones gubernamentales y privadas de los países desarrollados, así como de las agencias multinacionales. Se trata de establecer el modo cómo la imagen que históricamente se ha tenido sobre América Latina y el Caribe, ha afectado los criterios que utilizan dichas instituciones para evaluar los problemas y salidas hacia el futuro de la Región, así como, en la formulación de sus políticas de cooperación y asistencia internacional. El Proyecto de Investigación pretende, a posteriori, hacer comparaciones sobre los tipos y carácter de las instituciones existente en los países altamente industrializados y organismos internacionales para el desarrollo (FAO, PNUD, etc) para la cooperación y asistencia a los países de América Latina y el Caribe en diferentes ámbitos de la agricultura.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 1 (1991)
Bushy pseudocharacters and group actions on quasi-trees
Creators: name: Martínez-Pérez, Álvaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M07, 05C05

description: Given a group acting on a graph quasi-isometric to a tree, we give sufficent conditions for a pseudocharacter to be bushy. We relate this with the conditions studied by M. Bestvina and K. Fujiwara on their work on bounded cohomology and obtain some results on the space of pseudocharacters.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
title: Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Hanford Dole to the Women Business Owners of New York
Creators: name: Dole, Elizabeth Hanford
name: United States Department of Transportation
Publisher: name: United States Department of Transportation
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02xfw2e90
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1985
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/92171
subject: Women owned business enterprises
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91976
subject: Businesses
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91565
subject: Females
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91629
subject: Entrepreneurs
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91422
subject: Economic and social factors

description: See the Secretary of Transportation Speeches Collection's finding aid at: https://ntl.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/122
description: Remarks prepared for delivery by Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Hanford Dole to the Women Business Owners of New York on September 13, 1985 in New York, New York.
Utility of instrumented indentation for the optimization of horizontal wellbore completions with examples from the Montney formation of Alberta and British Columbia
Creators: name: Hazell, Arthur James Scott
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Unconventional shale reservoirs are commonly exploited by drilling horizontal wellbores up to several kilometers in length. Hydraulic fracture completions of a wellbore are designed, in part, based on the geomechanical properties of the reservoir. The completion program is executed in a series of stages, typically spaced at regular intervals along the length of the lateral, without consideration of variable lithology and geomechanical properties that may exist along the length of the borehole. Assessing the geomechanical properties and stress conditions along the lateral has proven difficult due to the cost and challenge of obtaining core samples for analyses. Drill cuttings derived during drilling provide an opportunity to characterize the reservoir geomechanical properties, including the elastic moduli. If such small samples can be tested reliably and be shown to be scalable to the reservoir, the geomechanical variability along a wellbore can be measured and exploited with planned hydraulic fracture completions at geomechanical sweet spots. In this thesis, the utility of instrumented indentation for characterizing geomechanical variation in shale core chips and drill cuttings is evaluated. Indentation testing on mineral and shale samples assesses the effects of indentation and sample parameters on indentation results, suggesting that samples of size 841 µm, tested at 50 – 200 mN load, with at least 83 standard indentations are likely to provide repeatable and representative mean indentation results. Indentation can characterize geomechanical variability between shale core chips and drill cuttings samples with centimeter differences in sample depth. Repeatable indentation results are compared for indentation tests, as well as unoriented and oriented subsamples; oriented subsamples showed 2 – 18 % greater mean indentation modulus in samples with bedding oriented parallel to the direction of indentation, compared to bedding perpendicular, indicating the effects of mechanical anisotropy on indentation results. Moderate correlations are presented between mean indentation modulus and static (R² = 0.53) and dynamic (R² = 0.45) Young’s moduli, for Montney Formation shales. Geomechanical correlations with mineralogy suggest mean indentation results are controlled by dominant, stiff components of shale, with minimal influence from clay composition. Variability in indentation results can be applied as an index through geomechanical depth profiles.
Two Crises or One? Persistence and Disappearance of Simple Commodity Production in Tobacco in Turkey and Canada
Creators: name: Koc, Mustafa
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 1991

description: Through a comparison of the conditions of tobacco production in Turkey and in Canada, this study aims to bring an understanding to the conditions of persistence and disappearence of simple commodity production in agriculture. It is argued that the variations in the scale of production and in labor - and capital - intensity between these two cases reflect two different tendencies in the decomposition and transformation of simple commodity production. Resumen Una o Dos? Persistencia y Desaparición de la Producción Simple de Tabaco en Turquía y Canadá ?A partir de la comparación de las condiciones de productión de tabaco en Turquía y Canadá. este estudio apunta a poner de manifiesto y a entender las condiciones de persistencia y desaparición de las producción simple de mercancías en la agricultura. Para ello se argumenta que las variaciones en las escalas de producción, así como, de la intensidad en el uso del trabajo y el capital en estos dos casos, refleja igualmente, dos tendencias diferentes en la descomposición y transformación de la producción simple de mercancías.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 1 (1991)