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Stages for the More Sustainable Farm
No full textCurrently, agricultural farm units are faced with a double and most times contradictory challenge, in order to be successful: on the one hand the invested capital has to be profitable and the economic performance has to be maximised. On the other hand, given the socio-environmental situation, it is necessary to preserve and to protect the environment and natural resources. Given the potential conflict of the two aims, since the satisfaction of one implies the underperformance of the other (and vice versa), the question then is: which is the solution to choose? We intend, in this work, to formulate a farm plan with the purpose of reconciling the criteria of environmental sustainability with that of economic competitiveness. For this achievement we proceed to the comparative study of sustainability of different groups of farms identified in the study area (first evaluation cycle) through MESMIS (“Marco para la Evaluación de Sistemas de Manejo de Recursos Naturales Mediante Indicadores de Sustentabilidad” - Framework for Evaluation of Natural-Resource Systems Handling through Sustainability Indicators) methodology, that allowed to select the more sustainable group of farms. Based on the found potentialities and weakness on these production systems, we stepped to the planning of a production unit of bovine meat, which obeys simultaneously to economic and environmental objectives, using Multicriteria Decision. We finished the work with the sustainability evaluation between groups of farms identified previously and the planned farms (second evaluation cycle), based, again, in the MESMIS methodology, to confirm (or not) the greatest sustainability of the last ones. Analyses of the results allow us to confirm the greatest relative sustainability of the planned farm, for the diverse traced scenarios.Decision taking, planning, sustainability, Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management,
Jealous Men but Evil Women: The Double Standard in Cases of Domestic Homicide
No full textIn 1989, Sarah Thornton killed her abusive husband with a knife, after years of abuse and threats to her daughter. She was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Also in 1989, Kiranjit Ahluwalia soaked her husband’s bedclothes with petrol and set them alight. He died from burns 10 days later, and she was subsequently convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
In 1991, Joseph McGrail kicked his alcoholic common-law wife to death whilst she lay unconscious. He walked free from court, the judge telling him that “this lady would have tried the patience of a saint”. In 1992, Les Humes told a court that he “saw a red mist” after his wife admitted loving someone else. He fatally stabbed her whilst their teenage children struggled with him. He was convicted of manslaughter due to provocation and was imprisoned for 7 years.
Double standards in judicial processes are notorious. Chivalric justice is the case in which women are given lighter sentences for similar offences to men. This does not apply in the case of domestic homicide, where women are seen as evil and calculating when killing a spouse, men are seen as provoked beyond reason. Women who kill husbands do so with weapons that they need to acquire, men do it with their hands or weapons that are immediately available. So it is seems the defence of crime passionnel is reserved for men; women, it is implied, premeditate the murder of abusive husbands, and are justifiably punished. This paper explores the double standard in uxoricide vs. mariticide, and why it appears that killing a wife is justified and killing a husband is evi
Teaching empathy and emotions : J. M. Coetzee's "The lives of animals" and human-animal studies
No full textIn "Teaching Empathy and Emotions: J. M. Coetzee's 'The Lives of Animals' and Human-Animal Studies," Alexandra Böhm focuses on one of the most influential novels in the field of HAS. In her article, she delineates the two main difficulties in teaching Coetzee's text: firstly, the text's protagonist, fierce and fearless Australian author Elizabeth Costello, is often less-than-lovable and offers few grounds for identification; secondly, the text's multilayered structure further problematizes the authorial voice. However, by focusing on Costello's reassessment of emotion and empathy, Böhm convincingly demonstrates that Coetzee's text offers possibilities for understanding the key concepts of HAS, such as animal agency, alterity, and the necessity of assuming a non-anthropocentric perspective. In the narrative, Costello employs empathy in her approach to animals, but is this also true of the metadiegetic level of Coetzee's text? Does the text itself suggest how to teach empathy? Alexandra Böhm demonstrates that it is possible to elicit affective responses to these questions through emotion journals and role-playing
Phonological Word and Grammatical Word: a cross-linguistic typology
No full text'Word' is a cornerstone for the understanding of every language. It is a pronounceable phonological unit. It will also have a meaning, and a grammatical characterization - a morphological structure and a syntactic function. And it will be an entry in a dictionary and an orthographic item. 'Word' has 'psychological reality' for speakers, enabling them to talk about the meaning of a word, its appropriateness for use in a certain social context, and so on. This volume is about 'word' in its many guises. It is a logical progression from our earlier volume Word: A Cross-linguistic Typology, edited by R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), incorporating new facts, new insights, and new generalizations.
The volume starts with a typological introduction summarizing the main issues to do with 'word', with special focus on phonological and grammatical word and on their interactions. It is followed by revised versions of papers presented at the International Workshop "'Word": its manifestations and functions' organized by the editors and held at the Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University, 3-4 October 2018. An earlier version of Chapter 1 was circulated to the contributors, with a list of issues to be addressed, so as to ensure that the studies of individual languages within this volume were cast in terms of a common set of parameters. This is the tenth monograph in the series Explorations in Linguistic Typology, devoted to volumes from International Workshops organized by the Language and Culture Research Centre and its predecessors.
The Workshop and subsequent discussions between the editors and the authors were intellectually stimulating, with cross-fertilization of ideas and scholarly debate. Each author has undertaken intensive fieldwork and has firsthand in-depth knowledge of their languages, in addition to experience of working on linguistic typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and language contact and areal diffusion. The analysis is uniformly cast in terms of basic linguistic theory-the cumulative typological framework which provides the foundation for sound empirically-based descriptive and analytic works. We avoid formalisms (which provide restatements rather than explanations, and come and go with such frequency that any statement made in terms of them is likely to soon become inaccessible)
Author Correction: Gap junction protein Connexin-43 is a direct transcriptional regulator of N-cadherin in vivo
No full textCorrection to: Nature Communications (2018); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06368-x, published online 21 September 2018. The original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Alexandra Schambony, which was incorrectly given as Alexandra Schambon. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article
THE OBSESSION OF CONTROL IN THE CHARACTER “EVE BLACKWELL” IN SIDNEY SHELDON’S MASTER OF THE GAME
No full textDalam suatu kelompok masyarakat, terdapat berbagai jenis kepribadian. Meskipun mereka hidup secara berdampingan dalam lingkungan yang sama, kemungkinan akan terjadinya konflik sangatlah terbuka lebar. Dalam skripsi ini, penulis membahas jenis kepribadian narsisistik, konflik – konflik yang dihadapi. dengan orang – orang disekitarnya maupun dengan dirinya sendiri, serta berakhirnya obsesi untuk pengendalian dari tokoh bernama Eve Blackwell dalam novel berjudul Master of the Game karya Sidney Sheldon. Keinginan si tokoh untuk memenangkan perhatian sang nenek dari saudari kembarnya berkembang menjadi keinginan akan kepuasan lahir dan batin dengan mengendalikan orang – orang disekitarnya termasuk dalam hubungan seks. Tujuan penulisan skripsi ini adalah untuk memaparkan usaha – usaha Eve Blackwell, dalam novel Master of the Game karya Sidney Sheldon, untuk mengendalikan orang – orang disekitarnya, konflik – konflik yang dihadapinya dan juga akhir dari obsesi akan kendalinya.
Untuk menganalisis tokoh ini, penulis menggunakan metode pendekatan struktural dan psikologis dengan menggabungkan teori narsisisme dari Joanna M. Ashmun dan teori obsesi dari S. Rachman. Penulis mengumpulkan data – data yang dibutuhkan dengan menggunakan metode penelitian pustaka.
Setelah melakukan analisis yang ditunjang oleh data - data, kita dapat mengetahui bahwa orang berkepribadian narsisistik seperti tokoh Eve Blackwell , yang kekuatan utamanya ada pada parasnya yang cantik, dapat menghalalkan segala cara untuk mewujudkan keinginannya. Namun dalam usaha – usahanya tersebut muncul berbagai bentuk perlawanan yang akan berujung pada konflik, baik internal maupun eksternal. Di bagian akhir analisis, kita juga dapat mengetahui bahwa dominasi orang berkepribadian narsisistik dapat dihentikan oleh kemunculan orang yang tepat seperti Keith Webster, yang berprofesi sebagai dokter operasi plastik, di waktu yang tepat
Lack of Insurance in the Stem Cell Banking Industry
No full textLegislative Proposal to Safeguard Banks and Their CustomersFall 2012 AMAccompanied by video fil
WW Improving Nutrition Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial (WINS)
No full textThis repository contains the Statistical Analysis Plan and Data, Code, and Results for the WW Improving Nutrition Study.
Main study results have been published here:
Ana M Palacios, Alexandra M Lee, Cullun Q Watts, Chelsie Parker, Stephanie Dickinson, Beate Henschel, Grace Anderson, Jing Kersey, Gary D Foster, David B Allison, Michelle I Cardel, Effectiveness of a Digital Weight Management Program on Diet Quality,
Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 8, Supplement 2,2024,103522,ISSN 2475-2991, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.103522.
Deidentified data that can reproduce most of the analysis in the paper are posted here. Variables that are potential identifiers have been removed, such as gender identify which contained small sample counts.
Full data including the multiple imputations are available upon request to Dr. Ana Palacios ([email protected]). We will require a Data Use Agreement (DUA) to ensure that any shared data from our clinical trial is used responsibly, in accordance with participant consent, and with appropriate safeguards to protect privacy and confidentialit
WW Improving Nutrition Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial (WINS)
No full textThis repository contains the Statistical Analysis Plan and Data, Code, and Results for the WW Improving Nutrition Study.
Main study results have been published here:
Ana M Palacios, Alexandra M Lee, Cullun Q Watts, Chelsie Parker, Stephanie Dickinson, Beate Henschel, Grace Anderson, Jing Kersey, Gary D Foster, David B Allison, Michelle I Cardel, Effectiveness of a Digital Weight Management Program on Diet Quality,
Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 8, Supplement 2,2024,103522,ISSN 2475-2991, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.103522.
Deidentified data that can reproduce most of the analysis in the paper are posted here. Variables that are potential identifiers have been removed, such as gender identify which contained small sample counts.
Full data including the multiple imputations are available upon request to Dr. Ana Palacios ([email protected]). We will require a Data Use Agreement (DUA) to ensure that any shared data from our clinical trial is used responsibly, in accordance with participant consent, and with appropriate safeguards to protect privacy and confidentialit
Anxiety Of Alexandra Maria Ellena Delgado In Stuart Gillard’s The Cutting Edge: A Psychoanalytic Approach
No full textThe major problem of this study is how anxiety reflected in the major character’s personality. The aim of this study is to analyze Stuart Gillard’s The Cutting Edge the structural elements and the development of personality of the major character based on Psychoanalytic Approach. This study focuses on major character, namely Alexandra Maria Ellena Delgado. The benefit of this research is to give addition all information to be used by other literature researchers who are interested in analyzing this movie. This study uses two data source, namely primary and secondary data source. The primary data source is the play script itself, while the secondary data are taken from some information needed.The method of data collection is qualitative method. Based on the analysis, the study of this research comes from
the major character problem. It purposes to analyze the movie using individual psychologycal perspective. The steps to conduct this research are (1) determining the type of the study, (2) determining the object of the study, (3) determining the data and data sources, (4) determining the technique of data collection, and (5) determining technique of data analysis. The result of the study found that there is a relationship between The Cuttingedge movie and psychoanalytic approach, first on the structural element of the movie; where the message to The Cuttingedge movie shows that Alexandra Maria Ellena Delgado as the major character that she want to be a beautiful ice skater. The point of view is, the director wants to show the struggle of life of Delgado’s. The theme of the movie is the basic idea of story in which the author portrays through conflicts of characters with other character or with life events. The anxiety of Alexandra related with psychoanalytic approach is that the doubt, fear, and worried of Alexandra makes her brave to take the second chance, and make her dream
comes true namely to be a beautiful ice skater
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