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Asset management (AM) focuses on the life cycle of assets and provides a systematic process for developing and maintaining an organisation's assets using a set of asset-related planning and control activities. Chiang Mai University (CMU) is a public university in Thailand founded in 1964. The university was the first provincial university in Thailand and aims to be the university of prototyped innovation for sustainable development in communities. CMU's AM planning process is a critical aspect of its mission to develop the university. This study developed an asset management framework (AMF) based on IDEF0 functional modelling – a modelling process that facilitates the decisions, actions and activities of an organisation or system. Moreover, the study used an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to perform pairwise comparison, produce matrices and calculate priorities for CMU's assets. The researchers employed a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis to evaluate the organisation's competitive position and support its strategic planning. This study presents the resulting of CMU's AMF (AMF-CMU), the development of which contributed to prioritising and managing the university's assets.

Se evaluó económicamente la en-gorda de toretes en dos sistemas de alimentación: uno bajo el sistema silvopastoril intensivo (sspi) y otro bajo un sistema tradicional de confinamiento (stc). Se usaron 78 toretes, divididos equitativamente en los sspi y stc, en Apatzingán, Michoacán, México. Para la evaluación se utilizaron los indicadores del van, la tir, el prc, y la r=b/c. Los indicadores económicos obtenidos para el sspi fueron positivos y para el stc resultaron negativos. Se observó que no fue rentable la engorda de toretes en el trópico Michoacano bajo el stc; sin embargo, fue viable económicamente bajo un sspi.

The Tocantins Fossil Trees Natural Monument ("Monumento Natural das Árvores Fossilizadas do Tocantins") is a Fully Protected Conservation Unit (CU), which has 16 years of activities, since October 2016. In order to contribute to improving the management of the unit we present a synopsis of the actions developed by the staff, infrastructure, challenges and researches carried out in the CU. The provided information was collected from the report of the Unit´s supervisor and also obtained from literature. The developed investigations covered different areas of knowledge. The history of the CU was marked by some progress since 2013. Social-environmental activities are carried out inside the Conservation Unit and its buffer zones. In order to guide the conservation of the CU are performed courses and anti-fire measures, which are held periodically, directed to the Unit staff and local duelers from the MNAFTO. However, the latest survey evidences that the situation of the CU is far from ideal and a revision of the management plan is required.

The existence of an adequate infrastructure for the transport of cargoes can boost the business activities and provide a better quality of life in a region. Thus, this study presents an analysis of the demand for rail transport in the microregion of Toledo/PR, in order to identify favorable products to the use of this modal, considering relations of transported quantity, traveled distance and sensitivity to the value of the freight. The used methodology consists of the collection of primary data through unstructured interview and observation, followed by documentary research to collect secondary data, aiming to describe the economic scenery of the microregion and to understand how the cargo movement occurs nowadays. It was found that there isdemand for rail transportation in several products, given economic dynamism, the regional characteristics geared to agribusiness, as well as the lack of investment in this modality, both for the outflow of production and for the arrival of products that dynamize the local and regional economy.

Se realizó una caracterización del proceso productivo de amaranto de Temoac, Morelos, para conocer por qué la superficie se está reduciendo. Se utilizó una encuesta dirigida a 64 productores (mayo-septiembre de 2013). En promedio siembran 2.7 ha, son minifundistas y 92% cultivan en ejidos. No cuentan con crédito y seguro agrícola. Su producción es de temporal, con 1.5 toneladas por hectárea; 47% de los productores disminuye-ron la superficie sembrada en los últimos años. Existe un desarrollo de economías familiares, con uso de mano de obra familiar. Los costos por hectárea tienen como rubro importante los gastos de labores manuales (49%), sólo 15% de los productores tiene tractor. La baja productividad y mecanización son los principales problemas que influyen para que se abandone la producción.

The paper presents a new concept in Geography, with
debates about the analyzed entities on many ways, such as journalistic or political. In the present case, I wish to adjust it to the geographic plan and to incorporate social-geography elements,
elements relating to environmental issues, location being the most important component. Practically, complaints made by the capital`s citizens against stray dogs, that are being received by the Animal
Protection and Surveillance Authority (ASPA) in Bucharest, are standardised, brought to a common form and are introduced under a punctual form on a map at that address. From all this complaints, a
data base with lots of information is built. Through processing, thematic and analytical maps result, which will represent the cartographic support of this research and all information will be examined both qualitatively and quantitatively.

El Área de Protección de Flora y Fauna Nevado de Toluca presenta una constante fragmentación de sus bosques. El objetivo de la investigación fue identificar los procesos de deterioro de sus bosques y el rol de los actores locales en su conservación. Se utilizaron los sistemas de información geográfica como base para la generación de mapas temáticos, además de la aplicación de un diagrama de flujo que define los problemas del bosque y otro que los describe y analiza para la búsqueda de soluciones. Los resultados muestran que los principales factores que inciden en el deterioro son incendios forestales, tala in-moderada, plagas y enfermedades. Finalmente se plantean estrategias y escenarios de manejo de los bosques a partir de la articulación de los actores locales.

Considering the role of the veterinarian in public health activities, and their inclusion in multidisciplinary teams from the Family Health Center, this research aimed to present the challenges of this health professional and his role and importance in this area. For preparation of this paper, we conducted a bibliographic study on the subject in question. The broad professional field comprises from management and health planning to the more traditionally known epidemiological surveillanceand environmental health. They act even in prevention, control and eradication of diseases transmitted by several factors, among which include: food-borne, parasitic, infectious, among others. Thus, the strategic role of the veterinarian in the prevention and control of diseases should be constant enough to allow the sharing of experiences among other health professionals in order to safeguard the lives of animals and especially of the human population.

Water is fundamental to life maintenance, being your distribution and quality control of great importance to the population, however, a part of the population do not have access to water with adequate quality. The present work has as objective evaluate theadequacy of the Water and Sewage Company of Ceará State (CAGECE) to the physicochemical and microbiological quality standards for public water supply in the municipality of Juazeiro do Norte, CE. Samples were collected in the years 2014 and 2015 by CAGECE and the monitoring was performed with 53 monthly samples, divided into two collections. It was done analyses of turbidity,free residual chlorine, total coliforms and Escherichia coli. The results of study show a worrisome situation about the quality of distributed water by the above-mentioned organ, mainly the results of microbiologic analysis. It shows the necessity of intensification in the monitoring and supervision of the conditions of water distribution in the city of Juazeiro do Norte, CE.

Over the past few decades, Total Quality Management (TQM) gurus have been developed certain theories in the area of business quality improvement, which caused a huge paradigm shift in improving the quality of products and services. The main aim of this paper was to discuss regarding the key roles of TQM gurus such as Deming, Crosby, Juran, Feigenbaum, Ishikawa, and others in improving business quality within different organizations in 20th Century. Thus, a systematic literature review was performed to specify the concept of TQM principles and philosophies from the aforementioned TQM gurus. However, the literature review was provided invaluable insight on the understanding of the main ideas and philosophies proposed by these TQM gurus.

Physiological rhythms are the basis of life. Rhythmic processes interact with each other and with the environment. To understand the mechanisms of physiological rhythms and the functioning of the most vital organs and systems of man particularly relevant is the use of nonlinear dynamics

Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals critically depends on well-functioning food systems which can provide sufficient and healthy food for all in an environmentally sustainable, economically viable and socially equitable manner. However, current food systems are failing on all of these dimensions. In fact, food systems are generating substantial amounts of environmental, health-related, social, and economic externalities negatively affecting the well-being of present and future generations of people, particularly that of the poorest and most vulnerable. True cost accounting approaches, a research frontier in sustainability sciences, seek to comprehensively measure these so far unaccounted externalities from food systems to propose solutions for addressing their negative social welfare effects. Contributing to discussions on true costs of food, this paper traces the environmental costs of ecosystems degradation due to cropland expansion during the period of 2001 to 2009 at the global level. The results show that cropland expansion caused by growing food demands has led to the degradation of 511 million hectares of higher value forest, woodland, shrubland and grassland ecosystems globally, with the total economic costs equaling 435 billion U.S. dollars. This means that each year the global community is incurring 54 billion U.S. dollars of externality costs from food systems because of cropland expansion alone. Addressing this problem requires a flexible government regulation combining incentive mechanisms such as payments for eco-system services and carbon pricing, with legislative deterrents, e. g., environmentally friendly cadastral planning, fines, and taxes. Current research on true cost accounting is primarily focused on identifying the extent of externalities from food systems. However, knowledge does not always automatically translate into action. The key impetus for future actions for true pricing of food would come from closing knowledge gaps on transaction costs for the implementation of true pricing and the development of innovative solutions for reducing them.

The present study analyses the taylorian concept of irreducibly social goods. Besides that, aims to evaluate the possibity of existence of intrinsically social goods, or if all the goods, ultimately, shoud be understood only as goods originally formulated as individual goods. If there are intrinsically social goods, what consequence does this point of view have for the treatment of collective rights? The treatment of these questions is carried out by Taylor's article Irreducibly Social Goods, where the Canadian philosopher states that there are convergent goods and irreducibly social goods. Convergent goods would be those that can be broken down into individual goods, that is, those that only individual can access; on the other hand irreducibly social goods are those shared by a human group or having a common meaning given by a background, this goods have not be broken down into individual goods. Finally, the study aims to present the consequences of this discussion in relation to the concept of collective rights.

The present study aimed to conduct a census of toxic species in the family Euphorbiaceae present in Araguaína, TO and assess the number locations of poisoning cases by toxic plants. The survey was conducted in 35 randomly selected neighborhoods. Of these 35 sectors found in 77.14 % Jatropha curcasand 22.86% Euphorbia milii. The three sectors where more individuals of J. curcas, in Loteamento Jorge Martins were found (51.8%), São Miguel (55.5%) and Céu Azul (70.37%). The values of E. miliiwere in m2, greater occurrence of this species in Manoel da Cunha (2.05 m2) and Palmas sector (0.05m2). In period 2009 -2015 were 37 cases of poisoning, 30 of these cases are city dwellers of Araguaína, these kinds J.curcaswas responsible for 53.33% of poisoning, other cases was caused by Dieffenbachia picta(10%), 36.66% the cause of the poisoning species was not identified. The majority of the cases registered (96.29%) is associated with children aged from one to 10 years old. The results may help in the preparation of informative material about the poisoning cases, as well as species related with the highest occurrence, alerting the population about the dangers of eating poisonous plants.