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Do you love drag but struggle to keep up with the lingo? Are you dying to throw shade but don t know how to? Well, never fear: The Drag Dictionary is here to save you! Featuring bright, fun illustrations inspired by your best-loved queens, as well as over 40 classic phrases explained - from 'body-ody-ody' to 'squirrel friends', 'tuck' and more - this is a tribute to the amazing artists who add sparkle and glitz to our lives.
This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of
Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more
diverse picture to the complex and multidimensional reality of
agrarian production. With a clear transdisciplinary ambition, the
book applies an original and innovative theoretical and
methodological tool, termed Agrarian Social Metabolism, combining
Social Metabolism with an agroecological perspective. This
integrative analysis is especially interesting for environmental
scientists and policy makers being the best way to design
sustainable agroecosystems and public policies capable of moving us
towards a more sustainable food system. Spanish agricultural
production has experienced impressive growth during the 20th
century which has allowed it to ensure the supply of food to the
population and even to transform some crops into important chapters
in foreign trade. However, this growth has had its negative side
since it was based on the injection of large amounts of external
energy, on the destruction of employment and the loss of
profitability of agricultural activity. But perhaps the most
serious part is the strong impact of the current industrialised
agriculture model on Spanish agroecosystems, exposed to the
overexploitation of hydric resources, pollution of the water by
nitrates and pesticides, high erosion rates and an alarming loss of
biodiversity; damage which in the immediate future will end up
reducing production capacity.
This open access book provides a panoramic view of the evolution of
Spanish agriculture from 1900 to the present, offering a more
diverse picture to the complex and multidimensional reality of
agrarian production. With a clear transdisciplinary ambition, the
book applies an original and innovative theoretical and
methodological tool, termed Agrarian Social Metabolism, combining
Social Metabolism with an agroecological perspective. This
integrative analysis is especially interesting for environmental
scientists and policy makers being the best way to design
sustainable agroecosystems and public policies capable of moving us
towards a more sustainable food system. Spanish agricultural
production has experienced impressive growth during the 20th
century which has allowed it to ensure the supply of food to the
population and even to transform some crops into important chapters
in foreign trade. However, this growth has had its negative side
since it was based on the injection of large amounts of external
energy, on the destruction of employment and the loss of
profitability of agricultural activity. But perhaps the most
serious part is the strong impact of the current industrialised
agriculture model on Spanish agroecosystems, exposed to the
overexploitation of hydric resources, pollution of the water by
nitrates and pesticides, high erosion rates and an alarming loss of
biodiversity; damage which in the immediate future will end up
reducing production capacity.
This presentation discusses the work towards a second generation
reusable launch vehicle (RLV). The goals of the second generation
RLV program are reviewed. These include cost, safety, and
propulsion advances. The Fluid dynamics technologies under
development are discussed. These include the altitude compensating
nozzle technology, the Aerospike plume induced base heating, the
inducer testing technology. Pictures of altitude compensating
nozzles Aerospike Plume Induced Base Heating results and Inducer
testing technologies are included. Further goals of the program are
to improve the methodology for optimizing design of the injectors,
to improve the optimization of the turbopump and improvement of the
methodology to analyze the engine performance. This presentation
consists of outline view slides.
Studies on the governance of the firm have been traditionally
grounded in economic theories of the firm. While those theories
have certainly been useful to explain particular aspects of the
governance of corporations in the last century, some voices in the
fields of economics and strategic management have started to
articulate an extended view of the governance of the firm. In the
three papers of this dissertation I contribute to this extended
view of firm governance by providing new theoretical insights and
additional empirical evidence on this topic.
The Semantic Web has been around for some years with recent
advances in mature technologies and applications. Lately, its
development has been demonstrated in its contribution to businesses
through the enhancement of e-commerce. Semantic Web for Business:
Cases and Applications delivers real-life cases that illustrate the
benefits of Semantic Web technologies as applied to e-business and
e-commerce scenarios. Covering topics such as business integration,
organizational knowledge management, and Semantic Web services,
this book provides academic research libraries with a comprehensive
reference to the commercial capabilities of Semantic Web
technologies, as well as practical applications for the benefit of
IT professionals, business executives, consultants, and students.
The contribution of this work is to apply a semantic approach based
on web ontologies to Digital Rights Management. The main result is
the development of a copyright ontology. It models the copyright
core concepts for creations, rights and the basic kinds of actions
that operate on them through their value chain. The set of actions
operating on content are the building blocks that combined cope
with the complexity of the copyright domain. At the same time,
their simplicity guarantees a high level of interoperability and
evolvability. The resulting copyright modelling framework is
flexible and complete enough to model many copyright scenarios, not
just those related to the economic exploitation of content.
Additionally, the ontology design and the selection of tools result
in a straightforward implementation. Rights are modelled as classes
of actions, action patterns are modelled also as classes and
concrete actions are modelled as instances. Then, to check if some
right or license grants an action is reduced to check for class
subsumption and instance classification, which are the main
functionalities of Description Logic reasoners.
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