344 research outputs found
Integrating methods to enhance inhibition of storage fungi and to prevent moulding of damp maize grain.
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Integrated strategies for the control of moulding in grain
No full textAttempts to prevent moulding and mycotoxin production in stored grain have
mostly emphasised control of one factor. Management strategies that integrate environmental, physical and chemical methods for preventing moulding might enable
less extreme use of anyone method. Such treatments may need to include measures
for the control of moulding and mycotoxins even before the crop reaches store.
In laboratory experiments with a range of seed types, combined irradiation and
propionic acid treatments, with both 1 kGy + 0.1% propionic acid and 0.5 kGy +
0.3% propionic acid, controlled moulding better than any of the component
treatments. Superficial seed 1ipids, that control afl atoxin production by A.
flavus, were little affected by the irradiation. A collaborative study, funded
by the European Economic Community, is seeking to develop systems for using combined treatments that can be applied on farms, especially in developing countries
Historia fucorum
No full textError in pagination: p. 237 misnumbered 227First 4 plates numbered: IA, IB, IIA, IIBMode of access: Internet.Special Collections copy formerly owned by John Crerar LibrarySpecial Collections copy bound in period mottled calf, gilt spine, and paste paster endpaper
Tortoise versus Hare: Pop-up Coloring Book
No full textThis 8½ x 11 book is in a series that also includes, up until now, Red Riding Hood and Three Pigs. Sturdy cardstock allows for cutting out sections and gluing them in clearly marked places for the effects of a pop-up book. The version of TH here is strange to me. The tortoise is clumsy. The hare slips on apples and sends them flying. One of the apples lands on the tortoise and shoots him out of his shell. The young cutter-and-paster can decide who wins the race. And the young reader can color in these black-and-white designs.Çlirim Muça; English translation by Besjana Gorreja and Myfanwy Woods-Jac
The role of business in the development of the welfare state and labor markets in Germany : containing social reforms
No full textThis book assesses the role of employers in the development of welfare state and labour market institutions. Building on an in-depth analysis of Germany, a market economy known to often provide economic benefits to firms, this book explores one of the most contested issues in the comparative and historical literature on the welfare state. In a departure from existing employer-centered explanations, the author applies new empirical data to contend that the variation in acceptance of social reform depends more on changes in the types of political challenges faced by employers, than on changes in the type of institutions considered economically beneficial. Covering major reforms spanning more than a century of institutional development in unemployment insurance, accident insurance, pensions, collective bargaining, and codetermination, this book argues that employers support social policy as a means to contain political outcomes that would have been worse, including labour unrest and more radical reform plans. Using new and controversial findings on the role of employers in welfare state development, this book considers the conditions for a peaceful coexistence of a generous welfare state and the business world.1. Introduction
2. Theory: Economic Interests and Political Constraints
3. The Origins of Employers’ Associations: Coordinating against Organized Labor
4. Bismarck’s Social Reforms: Employers and Social Pacification
5. World War I and Its Consequences: Class Collaboration in Exceptional Times
6. Business and the Origins of Unemployment Insurance: Protecting Work Incentives
7. Business after World War II: The "Social Market Economy"
8. Post-War Social Policy Reforms: Containing Welfare Expansion
9. Codetermination: Employers against Economic Democracy
10. Employers and the German Model Today
11. Conclusions: How Employers Shaped the Welfare StatePublished version of EUI PhD thesis, 200
I-voting and Public Policy Approach: Cross-case comparative analysis of i-voting policy in Norway, Estonia and Switzerland
No full textThis report analyses what factors determine the termination of the i-voting policy in Norway by employing a cross-case analysis of the i-voting policy in Norway, Estonia and Switzerland using a method of difference. It employs the public policy approach, basing the theoretical framework on Lowi’s (1972) thesis “Policies determine politics” and conceptualises the i-voting policy type, as a governance policy following Tolbert’s (2002) contribution, adding to Lowi’s (1972) policy typology. The study finds that political will and its relation to the intention of the policy was able to show effects on different stages of the policy cycle, like the adoption of the policy to the legal framework and its specifications, policy implementation in terms of different choices in target groups and approaches, and lastly, policy evaluation/ termination in terms of what metrics were the policy evaluated upon. The author also suggests the relevance of further research on stakeholder influence in i-voting policymaking could utilise this governance policy concept broader, showing its comprehensive applicability. Moreover, a better understanding of what exact implications the change in government had in Norway’s case could tell us more about the political costs and associated risks that (at the time) the newly elected government did not intend to take and why
Shewanella pealeana sp. nov., a member of a microbial community associated with the accessory nidamental gland of the squid Loligo pealei.
No full textA new, mesophillic, facultatively anaerobic, psychrotolerant bacterium, strain ANG-SQ1T (T = type strain), was isolated from a microbial community colonizing the accessory nidamental gland of the squid Loligo pealei. It was selected from the community on the basis of its ability to reduce elemental sulfur. The cells are motile, Gram-negative rods (2.0-3.0 microns long, 0.4-0.6 micron wide). ANG-SQ1T grows optimally over the temperature range of 25-30 degrees C and a pH range of 6.5-7.5 degrees C in media containing 0.5 M NaCl. 16S rRNA sequence analysis revealed that this organism belongs to the gamma-3 subclass of the Proteobacteria. The closest relative of ANG-SQ1T is Shewanella gelidimarina, with a 16S rRNA sequence similarity of 97.0%. Growth occurs with glucose, lactate, acetate, pyruvate, glutamate, citrate, succinate, Casamino acids, yeast extract or peptone as sole energy source under aerobic conditions. The isolate grows anaerobically by the reduction of iron, manganese, nitrate, fumarate, trimethylamine-N-oxide, thiosulfate or elemental sulfur as terminal electron acceptor with lactate. Growth of ANG-SQ1T was enhanced by the addition of choline chloride to growth media lacking Casamino acids. The addition of leucine or valine also enhanced growth in minimal growth media supplemented with choline. The results of both phenotypic and genetic characterization indicate that ANG-SQ1T is a Shewanella species. Thus it is proposed that this new isolate be assigned to the genus Shewanella and that it should be named Shewanella pealeana sp. nov., in recognition of its association with L. peale
Dairy industry development project: UNDP/FAO PROJECT UGA 84/023
No full textA report summarising a review of the pasture research and development work carried out in Uganda in the past and elsewhere under similar environmental conditions. The output of the project was meant to help in formulating paster/fodder development plans to enhance milk production on small, medium and large scale diary farms
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