9,076 research outputs found
E-book : Industrial Transformation In The Developing World (author: Michael T. Rock & David P. Angel)
No full textArsip Kuliah Online 2010: E-book : Industrial Transformation In The Developing World (author: Michael T. Rock & David P. Angel
E-book : "industrial Transformations In The Developing World (author: Michael T. Rock & David. P Angel)
No full textArsip Kuliah Online 2010: E-book : "industrial Transformations In The Developing World (author: Michael T. Rock & David. P Angel
The Impact of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Crop Agriculture: A Spatial- and Production-Level Analysis
No full textWith the Waxman-Markey Bill passing the House and the administration’s push to reduce carbon emissions, the likelihood of the implementation of some form of a carbon emissions policy is increasing. This study estimates the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the six largest row crops produced in Arkansas using 57 different production practices predominantly used and documented by the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service. From these GHG emission estimates, a baseline state “carbon footprint†was estimated and a hypothetical GHG emissions reduction of 5, 10, and 20 percent was levied on Arkansas agriculture using a cap-and-trade method. Using current production technology and traditional land use choices, results show that the trading of carbon-emitting permits to reduce statewide GHG emissions by 5 percent from the baseline would enhance GHG emissions efficiency measured as net crop farm income generated per unit of carbon emissions created. The 5 percent reduction in GHG emissions does cause marginal reductions in acres farmed and has marginal income ramifications. Beyond the 5 percent reduction target, gains in GHG emissions efficiency decline but remain positive in most counties through the 10 percent GHG reduction target. However, with a 10 percent GHG reduction, acreage and income reductions more than double compared to the 5 percent level. When GHG emissions are reduced by 20 percent from the baseline, the result is a major cropping pattern shift coupled with significant reductions in traditional row crop acreage, income, and GHG emissions efficiency.greenhouse gas emissions, carbon equivalents, sustainability, cap and trade, Environmental Economics and Policy, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
The relationship of pork longissimus muscle pH to mitochondrial respiratory activities, meat quality and muscle structure
No full textThe way the pH falls post-slaughter has an impact on meat quality. Pork longissimus muscles (n = 48) were sorted in fast-(FG) (n = 15) and normal glycolysing (NG) (n = 33) muscles according to the post-slaughter pH 45 min values (FG 6.0). FG muscles (5.84 +/- 0.04) compared with NG muscles (6.27 +/- 0.04) were accompanied with higher temperature, electrical conductivity, lightness and yellowness, and reduced grill loss and shear force values (P < 0.05), but there were no pH-dependent changes of the drip loss and redness results. FG muscles had higher (P < 0.05) percentages of fast-twitch glycolytic and lower proportions of fast-twitch oxidative and slow-twitch oxidative (P < 0.05) muscle fibres. The study confirms the relationship of pH value to meat quality and muscle fibre characteristics also showing that pH values have no impact on intrinsic mitochondrial respiratory function.Ahrberg Foundation, Hannover, German
Correspondence: George Kephart to Michael Frome
No full textThis 1960s correspondence, from George S. Kephart to Michael Frome, discusses what the author considers misinformation about his father, Horace Kephart. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Managing software ecosystems through partnering.
No full textSoftware vendors and owners of software platforms function within a network of actors relevant to their business, called a software ecosystem (Burkard et al 2012; Messerschmitt & Szyperski 2003). A software ecosystem is defined as a set of actors functioning as a unit and interacting with a shared market for software and services, together with the relationships among them (Jansen et al 2009, p.1). Within such an ecosystem, a large software vendor or platform owner has the role of software ecosystem orchestrator (Jansen et al 2009). Since their software product, platform or even the organization as a whole is the binding factor within the ecosystem, these large software vendors or platform owners are the main parties responsible for managing and expanding the ecosystem. Typical types of actors within a software ecosystem are suppliers that supply software or services to the software vendor, system integrators that implement software products or platforms for the customer and partners (Popp & Meyer 2010). Actors within the ecosystem exchange products, services or assets and possibly receive compensation in return. This continuous exchange makes software ecosystems an important part of the business model of software companies (Popp 2011)
They Don't Invent Them Like They Used To: An Examination of Energy Patent Citations Over Time
No full textThis paper uses patent citation data to study flows of knowledge across time and across institutions in the field of energy research. Popp (2002) finds the level of energy-saving R&D depends not only on energy prices, but also on the quality of the accumulated knowledge available to inventors. Patent citations are used to represent this quality. This paper explores the pattern of citations in these fields more carefully. I find evidence for diminishing returns to research inputs, both across time and within a given year. To check whether government R&D can help alleviate potential diminishing returns, I pay special attention to citations to government patents. Government patents filed in or after 1981 are more likely to be cited. More importantly, descendants of these government patents are 30 percent more likely to be cited by subsequent patents. Earlier government research was more applied in nature and is not cited more frequently.
P. Michael Politano
No full textP. Michael Politano, PhD, MPS, ABPP
Dr. P. Michael (Mike) Politano is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the Citadel (Charleston, South Carolina). He holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University, a master’s and PhD from Indiana University in school psychology, a postdoctorate from Indiana University and the Medical College of Virginia in clinical child psychology, and a master’s in religious studies from Loyola, New Orleans. Dr. Politano has taught both undergraduate and graduate research methodology and statistics at various universities for more than 40 years. He also has supervised numerous master’s theses and PhD dissertations.
Dr. Politano has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and presented his work at multiple professional conferences worldwide. He is also the author and illustrator of the children’s book A Pig in a Tree and the novel Tag and Chubs.https://commons.erau.edu/ntas-bios/1017/thumbnail.jp
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No full text[Michael Puff]Impressum: Datum in der Vorlage erwähnt, Ort und Drucker nach ISTCIn Sack, Freiburg the author is identified as Michael Puff, nicknamed Schrick (H. Walther, Sudhoff's Archiv 54 (1970) p.285)Incunabula: The Printing Revolution in Europe 1455-1500, Unit 15 - Medical Incunabula Part V, MI 62 (Research Publications (Primary Source Media) Reading, 1995
Early Risk, Attention, and Brain Activation in Adolescents Born Preterm
No full textThe relations among early cumulative medical risk, cumulative environmental risk, attentional control, and brain activation were assessed in 15 – 16-year-old adolescents who were born preterm. Functional magnetic resonance imaging found frontal, temporal, and parietal cortex activation during an attention task with greater activation of the left superior-temporal and left supramarginal gyri associated with better performance. Individual differences in early cumulative risk are related to patterns of brain activation such that medical risk is related to left parietal cortex activation and environmental risk is related to temporal lobe activation. The findings suggest that early risk is related to less mature patterns of brain activation, including reduced efficiency of processing and responding to stimuli.This is the accepted version of the following article: Carmody, D. P., Bendersky, M., Dunn, S. M., DeMarco, J. K., Hegyi, T., Hiatt, M. and Lewis, M. (2006), Early Risk, Attention, and Brain Activation in Adolescents Born Preterm. Child Development, 77: 384–394, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00877.x/abstract.Peer reviewe
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