88 research outputs found

    Description of MSME Survey in Viet Nam

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    During the first half of 2023, researchers associated with Work Package 2 (WP2) of the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) conducted three linked surveys to learn more about micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) that currently supply foods within urban, peri-urban, and rural locations in Viet Nam and contribute to developing ways to foster their supply of sustainable nutritious foods. 1 Therefore, the surveys had three linked goals—to better characterize the business environment in which MSMEs operate; to understand any constraints they face in selling more sustainable nutritious foods; and to help inform interventions with scaling potential that could increase the availability of sustainable nutritious foods for consumers. The first survey was a listing exercise (or a short audit, as it is called by Work Package 1 of SHiFT). This listing exercise was almost exclusively an observational exercise, taking place within selected areas of the urban, peri-urban, and rural sites. The idea was to understand the proportion of different types of businesses available, what was sold at those businesses, and to understand if people could sit down at the establishment or not (particularly for restaurants). The second survey was a longer survey targeting outlets from the listing exercise that had a higher chance of being MSMEs and could potentially modify their food offerings. This MSME survey inquired about labor use, sources of foods or ingredients for foods sold, asset holdings of the business, access to and use of financial instruments, degree of formality, and perceptions of and desire to sell more sustainable nutritious foods. The MSME survey, in turn, was used to seed a third survey, targeted at suppliers, with the objective of identifying any potential constraints at the supplier level for expanding the offering of sustainable nutritious foods. Outlets participating in the MSME survey were asked to share the contact information of some of their suppliers, and a subset of these were reached by phone and administered a reduced version of the MSME questionnaire, inquiring about their businesses and perceptions. A secondary goal of the survey was to understand to what extent employment of women and youth relates to MSME activity. In particular, when devising interventions to help MSMEs offer more sustainable nutritious foods, we want to ensure that those interventions have either a positive or neutral effect on employment among women and youth; in other words, we want to ensure that they do not have a negative effect on employment among these populations

    Analisis Yuridis Pertimbangan Hakim Terhadap Tindak Pidana Pembunuhan Berencana (Studi Kasus Putusan Nomor 1474/Pid.B/2019/PN.Dps)

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    Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pertimbangan hakim sekaligus pertanggungjawaban pidana pada putusan tersebut. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian yuridis normatif melalui pendekatan studi kepustakaan. Data pada penelitian ini terdiri dari bahan hukum primer, sekunder, dan tersier yang seluruhnya diolah dengan metode analisis kualitatif. Dalam perkara tindak pidana pembunuhan berencana, hakim harus mengkaji secara mendalam mengenai motif, cara pelaksanaan, serta bukti-bukti yang ada untuk memastikan apakah unsur-unsur tindak pidana pembunuhan berencana telah terpenuhi. Guna menjamin kapasitas untuk bertanggung jawab, seseorang harus terlibat dalam tindakan pidana, untuk menilai apakah mereka memiliki kemampuan untuk bertanggung jawab dan apakah mereka melakukannya dengan sengaja atau tidak, seseorang tidak dapat diminta bertanggung jawab ketika mereka tidak melakukan tindakan pidana. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan pertimbangan hakim didasarkan pada fakta yang terungkap dalam persidangan bahwa terdakwa telah secara sah memenuhi unsur tindak pidana pembunuhan berencana Pasal 340 KUHP yang dapat dibuktikan melalui alat bukti yang ada. Pelaku dianggap mampu bertanggungjawab, sebagai bentuk pertanggungjawaban, terdakwa dijatuhi pidana 16 (enam belas) tahun penjara

    Strong PUFs from arrays of resonant tunnelling diodes

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    In this work, we design and implement a strong physical uncloneable function from an array of individual resonant tunnelling diodes that were previously described to have a unique response when challenged. The system demonstrates the exponential scalability of its responses when compared to the number of devices present in the system, with an expected large set of responses while retaining a 1:1 relationship with challenges. Using a relatively small set of 16 devices, 256 responses are shown to have promising levels of distinctness and repeatability through multiple measurements

    The Impact of Biopreparations and Sowing Dates on the Productivity of Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.)

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    Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.) is a valuable medicinal and aromatic plant. The introduction of such an ecofriendly element as presowing seeds inoculation with phosphate mobilizing microbial biopreparation into the growing technology is especially important in the cultivation of this crop. It is connected with an extensive use of fennel in the production of medicines, including the remedies for children. Under the moisture deficiency conditions of the southern Steppe of Ukraine, the study on the effectiveness of phosphate mobilizing biopreparations depending on the impact of sowing dates is particularly relevant. Our field experiments were carried out in 2017–2019 in the Kherson region on the dark chestnut soils typical for the southern Steppe of Ukraine. Presowing seeds inoculation with biopreparations of phosphate mobilizing bacteria Albobakteryn and Polimiksobakteryn positively affected the indicators of fennel productivity and yield quality. Among the microbial preparations studied, a preference for Polimiksobakteryn was recorded. The research findings indicate a tendency to lower the quantitative and qualitative indicators of fennel seed yield from early to late sowing. The most favourable conditions for the productive processes of fennel plants and accumulation of essential oil were ensured by the interaction of seeds bacterization with the Polimiksobakteryn biopreparation and early spring sowing at the right soil tilth stage in the third ten-day period of March. In this variant, the yielding capacity was 1.41 t/ha, the weight of 1000 seeds reached 5.61 g, the essential oil content in the seeds amounted to 6.13% in dry matter, the relative yield of essential oil being 76.1 kg/ha. The introduction of microbial preparations of phosphate mobilizing bacteria into the technology of fennel cultivation is a promising environmentally friendly approach to improving the crop productivity
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