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In the wine industry, sustainability is an extremely important
issue for two main reasons: Firstly, the industry faces serious
threats as a consequence of climate change, as well as water and
energy scarcity. Secondly, proper sustainable management of
wineries can mean obtaining a competitive advantage by allowing
them to increase market share and organizational innovation
processes. In this sense, previous work has shown that customers
tend to select wines that have been developed following sustainable
practices, despite not knowing what this means in practice.
Sustainability Challenges in the Wine Industry serves as a guide
for study, reflection, and critique to understand sustainability in
the wine industry in its triple aspect (economic, social, and
environmental). The book sheds light on the new trends and
challenges of the wine industry, making it a must-read for
academicians and managers who want to deepen their knowledge of the
wine industry as well as its link with sustainability. Covering key
topics such as wine tourism, green innovation, and consumer
behavior, this premier reference source is ideal for industry
professionals, business owners, managers, entrepreneurs,
researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors,
and students.
Ever since Harts The Concept of Law, legal philosophers agree
that the practice of law-applying officials is a fundamental aspect
of law. Yet there is a huge disagreement on the nature of this
practice. Is it a conventional practice? Is it like the practice
that takes place, more generally, when there is a social rule in a
group? Does it share the nature of collective intentional action?
The book explores the main responses to these questions, and claims
that they fail on two main counts: current theories do not explain
officials beliefs that they are under a duty qua members of an
institution, and they do not explain officials disagreement about
the content of these institutional duties. Based on a particular
theory of collective action, the author elaborates then an account
of certain institutions, and claims that the practice is an
institutional practice of sorts. This would explain officials
beliefs in institutional duties, and officials disagreement about
those duties.
The book should be of interest to legal philosophers, but also
to those concerned with group and social action theories and, more
generally, with the nature of institutions."
This book describes for first time the synthesis and intensified
process design in the production of top biofuels. The production of
biofuels is not new. In 2019, global biofuel production levels
reached 1,841 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day, in stark
comparison to the 187 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day
that was produced in 2000. Growth has largely been driven by
policies that encourage the use and production of biofuels due to
the perception that it could provide energy security and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions in relevant sectors. From a technical
point of view, almost all fuels from fossil resources could be
substituted by their bio-based counterparts. However, the cost of
bio-based production in many cases exceeds the cost of
petrochemical production. Also, biofuels must be proven to perform
at least as good as the petrochemical equivalent they are
substituting and to have a lower environmental impact. The low
price of crude oil acted as a barrier to biofuels production and
producers focussed on the specific attributes of biofuels such as
their complex structure to justify production costs. Also, the
consumer demand for environmentally friendly products, population
growth and limited supplies of non-renewable resources has now
opened new windows of opportunity for biofuels. The industry is
increasingly viewing chemical production from renewable resources
as an attractive area for investment. This book uniquely introduces
the application of new process intensification techniques that will
allow the generation of clean, efficient and economical processes
for biofuels in a competitive way in the market.
Double bill of documentary-style horror films. 'The Blair Witch
Project' (1998) follows three students from Burkittsville - Heather
(Heather Donahue), Josh (Joshua Leonard) and Michael (Michael
Williams) - as they head into the woods to investigate the local
legend of the Blair Witch, a spirit blamed for the deaths of
various children. After trekking deep into the forest, the group
lose their map, quickly become lost and are forced to spend extra
days trying to find their way back out. Confronted by terrifying
noises and with strange artefacts appearing around their camp,
panic sets in as the students are driven further into the woods by
an unseen and sinister force. In 'Blair Witch' (2016), college
student James Donahue (James Allen McCune), accompanied by a group
of friends, ventures into Maryland's Black Hills Forest in search
of his missing sister who disappeared 20 years earlier while
searching for evidence of the Blair Witch. After an uneventful hike
deep into the woods, the group begin to feel a menacing presence in
their camp as the night draws on. When a number of mysterious
figures then appear in the trees around the camp, the panicked
group begin to realise that the legend is real and more sinister
than they could have imagined...
Improvements in Bio-Based Building Blocks Production Through
Process Intensification and Sustainability Concepts discusses new
information on the production and cost of bio-based building
blocks. From a technical point-of-view, almost all industrial
materials made from fossil resources can be substituted using
bio-based counterparts. However, the cost of bio-based production
in many cases exceeds the cost of petrochemical production. In
addition, new products must be proven to perform at least as good
as their petrochemical equivalents, have a lower environmental
impact, meet consumer demand for environmentally-friendly products,
factor in population growth, and account for limited supplies of
non-renewables. This book outlines the application of process
intensification techniques which allow for the generation of clean,
efficient and economical processes for bio-based chemical blocks
production.
Ever since Harts The Concept of Law, legal philosophers agree
that the practice of law-applying officials is a fundamental aspect
of law. Yet there is a huge disagreement on the nature of this
practice. Is it a conventional practice? Is it like the practice
that takes place, more generally, when there is a social rule in a
group? Does it share the nature of collective intentional action?
The book explores the main responses to these questions, and claims
that they fail on two main counts: current theories do not explain
officials beliefs that they are under a duty qua members of an
institution, and they do not explain officials disagreement about
the content of these institutional duties. Based on a particular
theory of collective action, the author elaborates then an account
of certain institutions, and claims that the practice is an
institutional practice of sorts. This would explain officials
beliefs in institutional duties, and officials disagreement about
those duties.
The book should be of interest to legal philosophers, but also
to those concerned with group and social action theories and, more
generally, with the nature of institutions."
Evolutionary computing, inspired by the biological world, is one of
the emergent technologies of our time. Being essentially a software
activity, it has been successfully applied, e.g. for optimization
and machine learning in various areas. The tremendous increase in
computational power and, more recently, the appearance of a new
generation of programmable logic devices allow for a new approach
to designing computing machines inspired by biological models: it
is now possible to make the hardware itself evolve.
This book is based on a workshop on evolvable hardware, held in
Lausanne, Switzerland, in October 1995. It reports the state of the
art of research in this field and presents two introductory
chapters, written with the novice reader in mind.
Community service work is rapidly becoming a defining factor in how
individuals interact with each other, and more importantly, how
people define and achieve meaning within their own lives. This text
addresses the power of community service work and its guiding
principles to bridge cultural divides, facilitate inter ethnic
group development, and reduce ethnocentrism and ethnic conflict.
Simply stated, it defines ways in which people of different
cultures and ethnicity can learn to appreciate their diversity
while using that strength to improve their communities. Each
chapter explores different ways in which inter ethnic group
relationships can be improved through community service work,
exploring such topics as how community service work can foster
cultural tolerance and interdependency; the ways in which primitive
group work has always been a necessary factor in human evolution
and survival; the dynamic relationship between collaborative
learning and community service work; the influences of technology
on the quality of interpersonal and group service relationships;
reducing hate crimes via community service work in multi ethnic
student populations; and the role of community service work in
promoting collectivist rather than individualist cultural mindsets.
Advances and Developments in Biobutanol Production is a
comprehensive reference on the production and purification of
biobutanol, from the fundamentals to the latest advances. Focusing
on selection of biomass, choice of pretreatments, biochemistry and
design of fermentation, purification and biofuel application, the
book also provides details on biorefinery design, lifecycle
analysis, and offers perspectives on future developments. Through
detailed analysis, chapters show readers how to overcome the
challenges associated with the correct selection of raw material
and adequate biomass pretreatment, the selection of microorganisms
for fermenting biomass sugars, the purification of effluent coming
from fermentation, and the high energy demands of production.
Solutions are supported by step-by-step guidance on methodologies
and processes, with lab and industry-scale case studies providing
real-world examples of their implementation. This book provides
readers with a unique and comprehensive reference on the production
of biobutanol for biofuel that will be of interest to graduates,
researchers and professionals involved in bioenergy and renewable
energy.
El sistema opioide endogeno participa en la regulacion del
crecimiento y diferenciacion neural desde etapas tempranas del
desarrollo del sistema nervioso central. Ademas se ha propuesto
como regulador trofico inhibitorio. Nuestro grupo demostro la
existencia y distribucion anatomica de los peptidos opioides en el
cerebro e hipofisis del axolotl Ambystoma mexicanum. Este libro
presenta un estudio ontogenetico de tres peptidos opioides
derivados de la proteina precursora Preproencefalina A: Leu-,
Met-encefalina y el octapeptido Met-Arg-Gli-Leu. Se utilizaron
tecnicas de inmunolocalizacion, en cortes histologicos del sistema
nervioso central del A. mexicanum, en diferentes etapas del
desarrollo embrionario y larvario. Se determino la etapa
ontogenetica en la que inicia la presencia de estos peptidos
opioides que fue a partir del dia embrionario 12 y su distribucion
anatomica. Se demostro que estos peptidos estan presentes en etapas
tempranas del neurodesarrollo y tienen una distribucion anatomica
amplia en el sistema nervioso central, lo que apoya su
participacion en diferentes funciones relacionadas con el
crecimiento y diferenciacion del sistema nervioso central de este
anfibio.
Desde su aparicion, los objetos de aprendizaje han contribuido a la
integracion de diversos contenidos digitales para su aplicacion en
el proceso de aprendizaje y asi desarrollar nuevas metodologias de
intercambio de conocimiento. Sin embargo, cada vez es mas frecuente
que los desarrolladores de objetos de aprendizaje hagan uso erroneo
de contenidos digitales creados previamente por terceros y los
distribuyan como propios, con esto provocando violacion a las leyes
federales de derechos de autor.Para apoyar en la atencion a este
problema, se presenta un modelo para la aplicacion de derechos de
autor en objetos de aprendizaje, que a traves de metodos de
generacion, aplicacion e interpretacion de metadatos relacionados
con derechos de autor."
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