It's Time for the World to Get Realistic about Meat

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis T. Avery
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forests ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Population Growth Rate ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
First Century ◽  
Meat Demand ◽  
World Markets ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Population

Raising more grain and meat per hectare of land is now more important to the world's future than further lowering the global population growth rate. That's because the human population is already stabilizing rapidly, but global meat demand is soaring. Will the additional meat be produced by ploughing up the world's tropical forests and other wildlands, or by increasing yields from existing fields and pastures? Will land-deficient Asia's workers be priced out of world markets by high food costs? These are vital questions for the twenty-first century, both for people's quality of life and for saving the environment. The real food danger for the future is not famine, but the potential that millions of square miles of wildlife habitat will be ploughed up for low-yield crops and livestock.

scholarly journals Organizational Structure and the Internationalization of Companies: A Case Study in Brazil’s Sugar and Alcohol Sector

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-65
Author(s):  
Heidy Rodriguez Ramos ◽  
Maria Soledad Etchebarne ◽  
Valeska Geldres
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Energy Company ◽  
World Markets ◽  
Global Demand ◽  
The World ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Large Groups

In today's scenario of accelerated globalization, an outstanding case is that of Brazil's sugar and alcohol sector which, quite deregulated, has received considerable foreign investment motivated by the large global demand for ethanol as a source of fuel and by the competitive quality of the domestic product. It is important to underline that even when this sector shows good prospects, these enterprises should have a consistent strategy to enter the world markets with a solid internationalization plan. By using the Case Study Methodology at Brenco, the Brazilian Renewable Energy Company, this paper sought to outline the organization chart of this entity, regarded as an international project, with the aim of identifying the existence of an advanced innovative business model within this sector, characterized by large groups of local enterprises, directed toward the domestic market. Among the main results obtained it is notable that the organization chart is in line with the goal of being a global enterprise and with the target of becoming, by 2015, one of the sector's five largest enterprises.

Spotrebiteľská gramotnosť a falšovanie medu. Časť II.

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-10
Author(s):  
Frantisek Olsavsky
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Value ◽  
Slovak Academy ◽  
Shopping Behavior ◽  
Consumer Decisions ◽  
Conscious Decision ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
World Markets ◽  
The World ◽  
World Organization

In the process of shopping behavior, consumer decisions are influenced by a wide range of factors as well as the decisions of the consumer himself. In this article, attention is paid to consumer literacy. It interacts in the range of psychographic factors of motivation, perception, learning, belief and attitudes to the extent that the consumer makes a conscious decision about the preferences of the product, its quality or brand. Cultivating consumer literacy enables the consumer to make informed choices. There are not only benefits on the site of the consumer, but also on the site of the producer, or even the whole industry. The aim of the paper is to identify the importance of consumer literacy in the purchase of bee honey in the context of its fraud. The article identifies unfair practices of honey fraud and devaluing its nutritional value. These are currently a common practice, reflected in the reduced quality of honey offered on the Slovak and world markets. The paper is based on the findings of a honey quality survey carried out by the Institute of Molecular Biology of the Slovak Academy of Science and the measures of the world organization of beekeeping associations Apimondia on honey fraud. Subsequently, measures are proposed to increase consumer literacy when buying bee honey.

scholarly journals The global population of SARS-CoV-2 is composed of six major subtypes

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivair José Morais ◽  
Richard Costa Polveiro ◽  
Gabriel Medeiros Souza ◽  
Daniel Inserra Bortolin ◽  
Flávio Tetsuo Sassaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Structure ◽  
First Century ◽  
Spike Protein ◽  
World Health ◽  
Clustering Methods ◽  
Confounding Effect ◽  
Robust Clustering ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Global Population

Abstract The World Health Organization characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic in March 2020, the second pandemic of the twenty-first century. Expanding virus populations, such as that of SARS-CoV-2, accumulate a number of narrowly shared polymorphisms, imposing a confounding effect on traditional clustering methods. In this context, approaches that reduce the complexity of the sequence space occupied by the SARS-CoV-2 population are necessary for robust clustering. Here, we propose subdividing the global SARS-CoV-2 population into six well-defined subtypes and 10 poorly represented genotypes named tentative subtypes by focusing on the widely shared polymorphisms in nonstructural (nsp3, nsp4, nsp6, nsp12, nsp13 and nsp14) cistrons and structural (spike and nucleocapsid) and accessory (ORF8) genes. The six subtypes and the additional genotypes showed amino acid replacements that might have phenotypic implications. Notably, three mutations (one of them in the Spike protein) were responsible for the geographical segregation of subtypes. We hypothesize that the virus subtypes detected in this study are records of the early stages of SARS-CoV-2 diversification that were randomly sampled to compose the virus populations around the world. The genetic structure determined for the SARS-CoV-2 population provides substantial guidelines for maximizing the effectiveness of trials for testing candidate vaccines or drugs.

The Impact of the Pandemic (COVID-19) on the Change of Business Models on the Example of the Banking Industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 208-224
Author(s):  
Przemyslaw Jacek Sawicki
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
World Markets ◽  
The World ◽  
Low Interest Rates ◽  
The Impact

Due to the fundamental digitization of social/economic life, it takes on an “on” and “offline” scale image of the world. While analyzing the impact of the ongoing pandemic on the segmentation of world markets, the disruptions in the functioning of some industries, sectors, and entire economies are becoming deeper. The spread of COVID-19 has led to the dysfunction of a known ecosystem, and the destructive force of human isolation and the lockdown of economies have significantly influenced the behavior of societies and governments. Many customer-centric companies have reactively redefined their strategies, and the financial sector, especially banks, was to play an important role in absorbing the shock by providing the necessary credit to businesses and households. Meanwhile, the same institutions have experienced capital and liquidity destabilization due to increased risk reserves created and an operating in conditions of historically low interest rates. Unexpectedly, the pandemic has become another determinant of the new quality of processes, phenomena, and business models.

scholarly journals Studying The Classification And Quality Of Food

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Kurbonkul Mavlankulovich Karimkulov ◽  
◽  
Ikromjon Esanboyevich Uzohkov ◽  
Madraim Khasanovich Sarikulov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Food Products ◽  
World Markets ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Methods ◽  
Quality Of Food

This article examines the analysis of the quality of food products in the world markets. The negative impact of low-quality goods on the health of the population and the economy of the country is substantiated, as well as issues of studying modern methods for determining the composition of low-quality goods.

scholarly journals A Linguistic Discursive Analysis of Techno-Colonialism Through the Post-cyberpunk Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Saba Zaidi ◽  
Mehwish Sahibzada ◽  
Saman Salah ◽  
Anisa Tul Mehdi ◽  
Durdana Rafique
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
First Century ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cultural Constructions ◽  
Century Literature

Technological advancement has made the world a complex arena of day to day transforming phenomenon. In such a complex and technologically progressive world nothing is static instead things have become technology oriented. The socio-historical phenomena like orientalism and imperialism are also not free from technological progress. Similarly, literature of the contemporary times has become Postmodernist for it now aims to represent the current human experiences. The quality of the Postmodernist literature is to represent and dismantle the socio-cultural constructions that use to perpetuate control and power. The objective of this research is twofold; it has projected the world of technological progress and innovation through the analysis of the selected Post-cyberpunk novel Accelerando (2005) by Charles Stross, The Windup Girl (2009) by Paolo Bacigalupi and The Rapture of the Nerds (2012) by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross. Socio-Cognitive analysis (van Dijk, 2008) has projected the linguistic discursive analysis of techno-colonialism in order to answer the research questions. The study has also introduced Post-cyberpunk as the genre of Postmodernist twenty-first century literature. The findings of the research have suggested that the selected Post-cyberpunk novels have not only represented techno-colonialism but they have also characterized the impact and influence of the techno-colonizers throughout the world.

Beyond Lambeth 2008 and ACC14: Tuning a Polity of Persuasion to the Twenty-first Century

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-211
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Driver
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Central Control ◽  
Require Time ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century

AbstractRecent tensions within Anglicanism have brought about an intense re-visiting of some of the debates that surrounded its emergence as a worldwide Communion in the nineteenth century. Then, as now, there were a number of suggestions for stronger structures at the centre. With Lambeth 2008 and the recent ACC 14 (Anglican Consultative Council 14), the Anglican Communion has effectively reaffirmed its commitment to a voluntarist, relational way of being together; dealing with differences through mutual self-limiting rather than by central control. Beyond specific proposals, such as that for an Anglican Covenant, this continued commitment to a ‘polity of persuasion’ will require time and patience as well as a quality of ongoing engagement to succeed. What is at stake is more than Anglican unity. It is the capacity for Anglicanism to witness with integrity to the world about living under God in community, sharing power, and co-existing interdependently on a tiny and increasingly conflicted planet.

Spotrebiteľská gramotnosť a falšovanie medu. Časť I.

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 46-51
Author(s):  
Frantisek Olsavsky
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Value ◽  
Slovak Academy ◽  
Shopping Behavior ◽  
Consumer Decisions ◽  
Conscious Decision ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
World Markets ◽  
The World ◽  
World Organization

In the process of shopping behavior, consumer decisions are influenced by a wide range of factors as well as the decisions of the consumer himself. In this article, attention is paid to consumer literacy. It interacts in the range of psychographic factors of motivation, perception, learning, belief and attitudes to the extent that the consumer makes a conscious decision about the preferences of the product, its quality or brand. Cultivating consumer literacy enables the consumer to make informed choices. There are not only benefts on the site of the consumer, but also on the site of the producer, or even the whole industry. The aim of the paper is to identify the importance of consumer literacy in the purchase of bee honey in the context of its fraud. The article identifes unfair practices of honey fraud and devaluing its nutritional value. These are currently a common practice, reflected in the reduced quality of honey offered on the Slovak and world markets. The paper is based on the fndings of a honey quality survey carried out by the Institute of Molecular Biology of the Slovak Academy of Science and the measures of the world organization of beekeeping associations Apimondia on honey fraud. Subsequently, measures are proposed to increase consumer literacy when buying bee honey.

Slavery and the Trumpocene: It's Not the End of the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
Claire Colebrook
Keyword(s):  
Living System ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
First Century ◽  
The West ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Geological Period

There is something more catastrophic than the end of the world, especially when ‘world’ is understood as the horizon of meaning and expectation that has composed the West. If the Anthropocene is the geological period marking the point at which the earth as a living system has been altered by ‘anthropos,’ the Trumpocene marks the twenty-first-century recognition that the destruction of the planet has occurred by way of racial violence, slavery and annihilation. Rather than saving the world, recognizing the Trumpocene demands that we think about destroying the barbarism that has marked the earth.

Correction of functional constipation in patients with limited mobility after stroke

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 53-55
Author(s):  
M. S. Turchina ◽  
M. V. Bukreeva ◽  
L. Yu. Korolyova ◽  
Zh. E. Annenkova ◽  
L. G. Polyakov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Chronic Constipation ◽  
Functional Constipation ◽  
Cerebrovascular Diseases ◽  
Medical Rehabilitation ◽  
Stroke Patients ◽  
Limited Mobility ◽  
Complete Restoration ◽  
The World

Currently, the problem of early rehabilitation of stroke patients is important, since in terms of the prevalence of cerebrovascular diseases and disability after suffering a stroke, Russia is one of the first places in the world. The complex of medical rehabilitation of such patients should provide for the early and most complete restoration of all body functions, patient education for lost skills, re-socialization of the patient and improvement of the quality of life. One of the factors contributing to a significant reduction in the quality of life after a stroke is the development of chronic constipation. The article reflects the modern methods of correction of chronic constipation in patients with limited mobility.

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