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Editorial : Industrial Crops and Products unlocking the potential of bioeconomy: 32th AAIC International Conference
No full textThis special issue of Industrial Crops and Products includes articles
from authors or co-authors who participated in the International conference
on “Industrial Crops and Products Unlocking the Potential of Bioeconomy”
and the 32th Annual meeting of the Association for the
Advancement of Industrial Crops (AAIC) held in September 2021 in
Bologna, Italy. After the COVID-19 pandemic, which stopped the possibility
to hold our annual meeting in 2020, we were able to organize
again the 2021 AAIC annual meeting on hybrid mode, with about 110
participants, almost equally split between online and on-person. AAIC
encourages and promotes the production, processing, development, and
commercialization of industrial crops and their products. AAIC’s
mission is particularly important nowadays. The transition from a fossilbased
economy to a bio-based economy is crucial for the future world
economic development as well as for its environmental sustainability.
AAIC members belong to many continents, and they represent universities,
research institutions, government agencies, private industries,
and entrepreneurs
Performance of Crambe abyssinica as new crop for non-food uses in North-East Italy
No full textHigh erucic acid oils are a potential source of raw material for some oleochemical transformations as well as for direct use in the production of erucamide – a slip agent for plastic films (Walker, 2004). High erucic acid rapeseed (HEAR) is the common Wgreen” source of erucic acid and it is mainly cultivated in central Europe. Crambe abyssinica Hochst ex R.E. Fries is another interesting crop for such industrial uses, capable of yielding even higher amounts of erucic acid than HEAR (Bondioli et al., 1998; Temple-Heald, 2004). Crambe has been studied for many years (Meijer et al., 1999), but its spread is still limited in our environment, because of its poor adaptability to the European continental climate (Fontana et al., 1998). This crop, native to the Mediterranean regions of North Africa, has positive agronomic traits, such as tolerance to drought and good adaptability to poor sandy soil. Conversely, it does not tolerate cold or waterlogging, so that solely spring sowing must be adopted in central and northern Europe. Aiming at testing the possibility of introducing Crambe abyssinica in the typical crop rotations of North-East Italy and establishing its yield potential, a two-year field trial was set up at the experimental farm of the University of Padova
Prospettive di genere nella didattica delle discipline : l’esperienza formativa di un corso universitario tra urgenze didattiche e costruzione di cittadinanze
No full textIl corso di formazione permanente Prospettive di genere nella didattica delle discipline è stato promosso nell’anno accademico 2016-2017 dal CSGE-Centro Studi sul Genere e l’Educazione dell’Università di Bologna, con l’obiettivo di formare figure professionali nei contesti educativi e scolastici in grado di riconoscere stereotipi e pregiudizi alla base delle differenze di genere e dei ruoli attribuiti loro nella nostra società. Sviluppando riflessioni critiche e strumenti trasversali alle diverse discipline e alle relazioni/rapporti in classe, il percorso ha promosso una formazione e un’educazione al rispetto delle differenze e delle pari opportunità, per sostenere un approccio di genere nella scuola e, più in generale, nel sistema formativo a partire dalla prima infanzia
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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