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Hebridean rye (Secale cereale), a high-yield landrace grown by crofters in Scotland's Highlands and Islands, has traditionally been used as livestock feed. This multi-author study presents and analyses findings into the crop's potential as the raw material for locally produced flour, bread and beer, offering new opportunities in sustainable seed saving, small-scale agriculture, food production and eco-enterprise. The authors—part of the project's multidisciplinary team of researchers, artisanal food producers and crofters—explicate aspects of the pioneering project, from conditions on Uist's coastal machair where the rye originates, to testing seasonal varieties in mainland Lochaber and assessing nutritional qualities and consumer acceptance of novel products. They conclude that Hebridean rye, with its potential for crofters in remote locales and local businesses, could help in preserving agrobiodiversity, traditional knolwedge and practices, crofting culture and economic resilience in the north and north-west of Scotland. ; The project is an output of Crofters Diversity Pays! (CDP), a partnership involving the Scottish Crofting Federation, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA), funded by the European Social Innovation Funds and the Scottish Government under project number SIF-R5-S2-HI-004. ; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89405-4 ; pub ; pub

Reflexión acerca de los daños a la economía nacional por los hechos violentos acontecidos en Ayotzinapa, hace exactamente 5 meses al día de hoy, 26 de febrero de 2015, que se realizó el programa.

Dentro de la emisión se habló de los acontecimientos ocurridos en Ayotzinapa, Iguala Guerrero el 26 de septiembre de 2014, las invitadas contextualizaron puntualmente el problema y hablaron de la violencia que impera en el país, así como de los trastornos que este tipo de acontecimientos generan a la sociedad mexicana contemporánea.

Exploiting spatial and temporal variations in the number of seizures from criminal organizations, I estimate regional fixed effects models of the increase in the number of properties confiscated on the main crime rates. From 2002 security strategies chang

<p>O experimento foi conduzido no Núcleo de Produção Animal (NUPRAN) da Universidade Estadual do Centro Oeste (UNICENTRO), com o objetivo de avaliar o efeito da colheita da planta de milho em diferentes estádios reprodutivos e com diferentes processamentos de grãos sobre a digestibilidade da matéria seca, digestibilidade da fibra em detergente neutro e desempenho animal. O delineamento experimental foi inteiramente casualizado, composto por 4 tratamentos com 4 repetições, onde cada repetição constou de uma baia contendo dois novilhos, totalizando 16 unidades experimentais. Durante a confecção da silagem, foram coletadas amostras homogêneas e representativas das plantas picadas, parte destinada a análise bromatológica antes de sofrer fermentação e outra parte foi inserida em silos "bags", acomodando estes no perfil de cada silo, sendo considerados como unidades experimentais. O experimento teve duração de 84 dias após abertura dos silos, sendo 14 dias para adaptação dos animais, seguidos de 4 períodos de 21 dias. Assim, silagens colhidas em estádio de grão pastoso apresentaram melhores valores de digestibilidade <em>in vitro </em>da matéria seca e digestibilidade da fibra em detergente neutro. A utilização da silagem de milho colhida em estádio R5 possibilitou maior desempenho animal com consequente melhor transformação da matéria seca consumida em ganho de peso diário.</p>

El invitado presentó su tesis posdoctoral que consiste en conocer a profundidad el sector agrícola mexicano y la utilidad que debería de tener la inversión extranjera en este sector de nuestro país.

Pereira atraviesa por un momento decisivo para el futuro de su población. Aunque la economía de la ciudad y la de Risaralda han venido creciendo, durante los últimos años lo han hecho más lentamente que el resto del país. Dentro de las mayores dificultades que enfrenta la ciudad están el alto desempleo, el aumento de la pobreza y la desigualdad y la limitada dotación de espacio público planificado. Como parte de las oportunidades y retos de las autoridades locales se puede mencionar al sector de infraestructura y el de turismo. El primero debe contribuir a través del aumento de la cobertura de los servicios básicos para toda la población y la construcción de vivienda acompañada de una mayor dotación de espacio público efectivo y planificado. El segundo a través de un mejor aprovechamiento de las características geográficas, climáticas y riqueza medioambiental. Todo esto contribuirá a mejorar la dinámica económica de la ciudad, reducir el desempleo y aumentar la calidad de vida de la población. ; Pereira is currently going through a turning point for the future of its population. Although its economy and the one of Risaralda have been growing, it has been slower than the national average. Among the major difficulties faced by the city are: high unemployment rates, the recent increase of poverty and inequality, and the poor provision of planned public space. As part of the challenges and opportunities for the city to consider in the near future are infrastructure and tourism. The former sector is expected to contribute by increasing the basic services' coverage and by building new housing together with the supply of proper and planned public space for the whole community. The task for the tourist sector is making a better utilization of the environmental resources, such as location, climate and wealth of wildlife. All these will help the economy to improve the economic indicators as well as reducing the unemployment and increasing the population quality of life.

This article contributes to the rapidly expanding academic literature on sports and politics over the past two decades by examining the case of Saudi Arabia. It discusses the policy of King Selman of Saudi Arabia, which aims to rebuild the country's international image through sports diplomacy, and the strategic gains targeted by this approach. The central argument of the article is that, in a conflict-prone region and with an economy still heavily reliant on oil revenues, sports diplomacy helps Saudi Arabia reshape its image in the West. This, in turn, enables the country to align global actors with its economic and security interests while promoting its own alignment with those actors' agendas. As Saudi Arabia seeks to establish strategic partnerships with the West, it uses sports diplomacy to mitigate normative mismatches with the centers of global power while simultaneously becoming a power actor itself by providing significant economic benefits to Western stakeholders through its investments. Domestically, the government leverages the hosting of major sports events to offer citizens broader entertainment options as a means of consumer engagement, while also boosting its popularity among the population. By fostering pride in Saudi Arabia's emergence as a global power player, the leadership strengthens its public support.
Key words: spor diplomacy, international politics, reconstruction of image, Saudi Arabia, Vision 2030
Jell Codes: A14, R5, O53

La seguridad de la información (SI) ha pasado de utilizarse netamente para fines de protección de datos clasificados del gobierno en cuestiones militares, a convertirse en un bien de vital importancia para las organizaciones de cualquier sector económico. El objetivo del presente estudio es elaborar una herramienta que permita evaluar la madurez de la seguridad de la información en centros de datos. Para esto, se analizaron los controles de los estándares ISO27002 y NIST 800-53 r5 que aplican al objetivo mencionado, con los controles seleccionados se obtuvo un instrumento que consta de 80 ítems, distribuidos en Aspectos Organizativos de seguridad de la Información (9), Control de Accesos (20), Seguridad Física y Ambiental (28), Seguridad Operativa (14), Seguridad en Telecomunicaciones (9).
Por otra parte, para evaluar el nivel de madurez se tomó como referencia el estudio "Una metodología de múltiples perspectivas para la evaluación de la Madurez de seguridad de centros de datos", donde se realizan 3 análisis (tradicional, ponderado y contextual) con el objetivo de personalizar el instrumento a las necesidades de la organización considerando la ponderación y relevancia que el auditado le asigna a cada control. Con los resultados obtenidos se analizarán ambas perspectivas y su relación de pertinencia para la empresa donde se aplicará el instrumento, dado que el auditado otorgará la relevancia a los controles y evitar brechas en la seguridad de la información.

Department of Chemistry, Anna Adharsh College for Women, Chennai-600 040, India P.G. & Research Department of Chemistry, Dr. Ambedkar Government Arts College, Chennai-600 039, India E-mail: sembanuran@gmail.com Manuscript received online 01 September 2018, accepted 10 October 2018 The ternary solid mixture of transition metal oxides [nickel(II), manganese(IV) and copper(II)] NMC were prepared with different mole ratios of their component oxides and sintered at 850 K in the form of cylindrical disks. The humidity sensing is described by experimental results on NMC. The transition metal oxide mixtures were subjected to dc resistance measurement as a function of relative humidity in the range of 5–98% RH, achieved by different water vapour buffers thermo stated at room temperature. The sensitivity factor (Sf = R5%/R98%) measured at 298 K revealed that NMC-121 metal oxide mixture has the highest humidity sensitivity factor 2705. The sample having highest sensitivity factor NMC-121 is characterized by powder XRD and FT-IR data. The same has been subjected to dc conductance measurements in the temperature range from 318 K to 623 K and hence the activation energy is calculated. The activation energy value was found to be 0.327 eV. These ternary solid mixtures of transition metal oxides can be used as commercial thick film humidity sensor because of their humidity sensing factors.

AbstractThe application of biomass energy is one of the important ways to achieve carbon neutrality and deal with global warming. The study on the combustion mechanism of anisole, an oxygen-containing fuel, is helpful for biofuel large-scale application. In this study, the soot formation and laminar combustion characteristics of anisole were analyzed by reactive force field molecular dynamics (ReaxFF MD) and kinetic simulation, respectively. ReaxFF MD simulation studies had shown that soot formation of anisole combustion occurred in three stages, stage 1 (0–1 ns), stage 2 (1–2.5 ns), stage 3 (2.5–6 ns). The three stages represented the pyrolysis of the fuel, the developmental stage of the soot, and the graphitization stage of the soot, respectively. During the combustion of anisole, primary mechanisms for the soot formation were as follows: H-abstraction-C2H2-addition, carbon-addition-hydrogen-addition, internal ring formation and long carbon chain link. The formation of soot graphitization exhibited different morphologically behaviors: from flakes to onions to spheres with fewer branched chains. From the study of the laminar combustion characteristics of anisole, it can be found that the laminar burning velocities increased along with the increase of temperature, while the opposite trend was shown along with the increase of pressure. The sensitivity coefficient of naphthalene, the main soot precursor, revealed that the main promotional reactions for soot formation were R5 (O2 + H <  =  > O + OH), R36 (CO + OH <  =  > CO2 + H).

Public support to firm-level investments in innovation is one of the main mechanisms through which the European Union promotes socioeconomic convergence among regions and the creation of quality jobs is considered a necessary condition for the convergence of disadvantaged regional economies. This paper exploits the availability of natural experiment conditions and linked employer-employee microdata in Portugal to offer empirical evidence on the impact on relevant job-quality outcomes of a large EU-cohesion-policy program to support SMEs' innovation investments. The analysis is implemented by means of stratification/coarsened exact matching model, combined with a difference in difference scheme, suitable to the specific impact identification conditions. Our results indicate that the policy intervention in Portugal had a positive impact on job-quality outcomes, with each supported firm generating an average of 4.9 additional standard-working-time jobs, +2.9 skilled jobs, and +2.0 permanent-contract jobs, compared to a counterfactual scenario of no public support. These impacts were at a cost of about 16,100€, 27,100€ and 39,400€ in public subsidies per additional job, respectively. We also estimate that the program impact was responsible for a 2.20€ (+17.8%) increase of the per-hour remuneration. These findings are robust to sensitivity analysis, in terms of alternative matching procedures and comparison groups, and they highlight the fact that increasing job-quality is a policy goal that can be pursued, at a reasonable cost, also by means of cohesion-policy support to innovation aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs. JEL classification: O1; R5; C23

The main goal of this study is to evaluate Mishrif Reservoir in Abu Amood oil field, southern Iraq, using the available well logs. The sets of logs were acquired for wells AAm-1, AAm-2, AAm-3, AAm-4, and AAm-5. The evaluation included the identification of the reservoir units and the calculation of their petrophysical properties using the Techlog software. Total porosity was calculated using the neutron-density method and the values were corrected from the volume of shale in order to calculate the effective porosity. Computer processed interpretation (CPI) was accomplished for the five wells. The results show that Mishrif Formation in Abu Amood field consists of three reservoir units with various percentages of hydrocarbons that were concentrated in all of the three units, but in different wells. All of the units have high porosity, especially unit two, although it is saturated with water.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of having minor children on parents' life satisfaction. Given the demands on working parents in terms of their time and financial resources, the authors suspect a complex interaction between employment and parenthood and explore the effect of parenthood on life satisfaction of mothers and fathers, working parents and those with children of various ages.Design/methodology/approachData from three rounds of the European Social Survey (R3 2006/07, R5 2010/11 and R8 2016/17) are used to account for Ireland's changing economic landscape. Three ordered probit models are estimated examining parents, and mothers and fathers separately.FindingsThe findings indicate that any life satisfaction benefits derived from having children appear to be eroded for working parents. There is a negative association between life satisfaction for working mothers with child(ren) aged between 5 and 12 years. Furthermore, when both parents are working, mothers' life satisfaction is also significantly reduced.Practical implicationsFamily policies and supports can shape the effects of parenthood on individual wellbeing and decisions regarding parenthood. Such policies need to be purposeful for working parents of school going children and consistent with economic strategy and labour market goals.Originality/valueMuch of the existing economic research on individual wellbeing and parenthood are focused on the fertility decision rather than examining the factors affecting the life satisfaction of different cohorts of parents thus leading to more targeted and informed policies. Contemporary weighting methodology is employed.

We report a study of the effect of hydrostatic pressure (P) on the Griffiths-like phase in selected compounds of the R5(SixGe1 ? x)4 family of alloys (Tb4.925La0.075Si2Ge2 and Gd5Ge4) which present either the Gd5Si2Ge2-type (monoclinic, M) or the Sm5Ge4-type [orthorhombic-II, O(II)] structural phases at room temperature. The downward deviation in the inverse low-field dc susceptibility ??1 dc from the Curie-Weiss law below a characteristic temperature TG indicates that the Griffiths-like phase exists at pressures up to 10 kbar. From the obtained T-P phase diagrams, the pressure coefficient of the Griffiths-like temperature, dT G/dP, has been determined. These results are compared with those obtained in Dy5Si3Ge in a previous work. The dT G/dP coefficient is strongly dependent on the nature (first or second order) of the long-range order (FM or AFM) transition. This effect can be ascribed to a different structural character of the clusters within the Griffiths phase. A ratio of ?0.5 between the dT G/dP and the pressure coefficient of long-range magnetic ordering temperatures, dTC,N/dP (TC, ferromagnetic; TN , antiferromagnetic), is found in all the studied compounds. ; Work at the University of Zaragoza is supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades through Project No. MAT2017-82970-C2-2-R and the Aragon Regional Government (Grant No. E28_20R). Work at the University of Cantabria is supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades through Project No. MAT2017-83631-C3-R.