scholarly journals Quinoa in Ecuador: Recent Advances under Global Expansion

Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 298
Author(s):  
Leonardo Hinojosa ◽  
Alex Leguizamo ◽  
Carlos Carpio ◽  
Diego Muñoz ◽  
Camilo Mestanza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State University ◽  
Andean Region ◽  
Washington State University ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Participatory Breeding ◽  
Tropical Areas ◽  
The Impact ◽  
A Current

Quinoa is a highly diverse crop domesticated in the Andean region of South America with broad adaptation to a wide range of marginal environments. Quinoa has garnered interest worldwide due to its nutritional and health benefits. Over the last decade, quinoa production has expanded outside of the Andean region, prompting multiple studies investigating the potential for quinoa cultivation in novel environments. Currently, quinoa is grown in countries spanning five continents, including North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Here, we update the advances of quinoa research in Ecuador across different topics, including (a) current quinoa production situation with a focus on breeding progress, (b) traditional seed production, and (c) the impact of the work of the nongovernment organization “European Committee for Training and Agriculture” with quinoa farmers in Chimborazo province. Additionally, we discuss genetic diversity, primary pests and diseases, actions for adapting quinoa to tropical areas, and recent innovations in quinoa processing in Ecuador. Finally, we report a case study describing a participatory breeding project between Washington State University and the Association of Andean Seed and Nutritional Food Producers Mushuk Yuyay in the province of Cañar.

scholarly journals Evaluating the efficacy of technical measures: a case study of selection device legislation in the UK Crangon crangon (brown shrimp) fishery

2008 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom L. Catchpole ◽  
Andrew S. Revill ◽  
James Innes ◽  
Sean Pascoe
Keyword(s):  
Brown Shrimp ◽  
Crangon Crangon ◽  
Shrimp Fishery ◽  
The North ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Technical Measures

Abstract Catchpole, T. L., Revill, A. S., Innes, J., and Pascoe, S. 2008. Evaluating the efficacy of technical measures: a case study of selection device legislation in the UK Crangon crangon (brown shrimp) fishery. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65: 267–275. Bycatch reduction devices are being introduced into a wide range of fisheries, with shrimp and prawn fisheries particularly targeted owing to the heavy discarding common in these fisheries. Although studies are often undertaken to estimate the impact of a technical measure on the fishery before implementation, rarely have the impacts been assessed ex post. Here, the efficacy of the UK legislation pertaining to the use of sievenets in the North Sea Crangon crangon fishery is assessed. Three impacts were evaluated: on fisher behaviour (social), on the level of bycatch (biological), and on vessel profitability (economic). An apparent high level of compliance by skippers was identified despite a low level of enforcement. The estimated reduction in fleet productivity following the introduction of the legislation was 14%, equalling the mean loss of Crangon landings when using sievenets calculated from catch comparison trawls. Sievenets did reduce the unnecessary capture of unwanted marine organisms, but were least effective at reducing 0-group plaice, which make up the largest component of the bycatch. Clearly the legislation has had an effect in the desired direction, but it does not address sufficiently the bycatch issue in the Crangon fishery.

scholarly journals Outreach at Washington State University: a case study in costs and attendance

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Bernhardt ◽  
Viktor Bollen ◽  
Thomas M. Bersano ◽  
Sean M. Mossman
Keyword(s):  
Washington State ◽  
State University ◽  
Washington State University

Professional Identity

2020 ◽  
pp. 227-246
Author(s):  
Aaron Ackerley
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Newspaper Industry ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
British Press ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

This chapter surveys changing notions of professional identity in the twentieth-century British press. The term ‘journalist’ is highly contested, covering a wide range of figures with different forms of experience and training as well as a wide range of roles within and beyond news organisations. Journalism has also lacked the clearly defined rules of practice and established pathways into the occupation evident in other careers that are classed as professions, such as medicine and law. By exploring key topics such as continuities from the nineteenth-century press, the rise of professionalism and journalists’ associations and unions, the myth of the ‘Fourth Estate’ and struggles over press regulation, and the impact of digitisation, this chapter explains how notions of professional identity within journalism have changed in response to wider social and cultural changes and changes within the newspaper industry itself. These topics are also explored in short case study, focused on the Guardian.

scholarly journals Sensitivity of Characterizing the Heat Loss Coefficient through On-Board Monitoring: A Case Study Analysis

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 3322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marieline Senave ◽  
Staf Roels ◽  
Stijn Verbeke ◽  
Evi Lambie ◽  
Dirk Saelens
Keyword(s):  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Heat Loss ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Loss Coefficient ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Board Monitoring ◽  
The Impact

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the development of an approach to characterize the as-built heat loss coefficient (HLC) of buildings based on a combination of on-board monitoring (OBM) and data-driven modeling. OBM is hereby defined as the monitoring of the energy consumption and interior climate of in-use buildings via non-intrusive sensors. The main challenge faced by researchers is the identification of the required input data and the appropriate data analysis techniques to assess the HLC of specific building types, with a certain degree of accuracy and/or within a budget constraint. A wide range of characterization techniques can be imagined, going from simplified steady-state models applied to smart energy meter data, to advanced dynamic analysis models identified on full OBM data sets that are further enriched with geometric info, survey results, or on-site inspections. This paper evaluates the extent to which these techniques result in different HLC estimates. To this end, it performs a sensitivity analysis of the characterization outcome for a case study dwelling. Thirty-five unique input data packages are defined using a tree structure. Subsequently, four different data analysis methods are applied on these sets: the steady-state average, Linear Regression and Energy Signature method, and the dynamic AutoRegressive with eXogenous input model (ARX). In addition to the sensitivity analysis, the paper compares the HLC values determined via OBM characterization to the theoretically calculated value, and explores the factors contributing to the observed discrepancies. The results demonstrate that deviations up to 26.9% can occur on the characterized as-built HLC, depending on the amount of monitoring data and prior information used to establish the interior temperature of the dwelling. The approach used to represent the internal and solar heat gains also proves to have a significant influence on the HLC estimate. The impact of the selected input data is higher than that of the applied data analysis method.

scholarly journals Impact probability under aleatory and epistemic uncertainties

2020 ◽  
Vol 132 (11-12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Tardioli ◽  
Davide Farnocchia ◽  
Massimiliano Vasile ◽  
Steve R. Chesley
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Orbital Evolution ◽  
Upper Bounds ◽  
Force Model ◽  
Statistical Distributions ◽  
Unknown Parameters ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Parametric Families ◽  
The Impact

AbstractWe present an approach to estimate an upper bound for the impact probability of a potentially hazardous asteroid when part of the force model depends on unknown parameters whose statistical distribution needs to be assumed. As case study, we consider Apophis’ risk assessment for the 2036 and 2068 keyholes based on information available as of 2013. Within the framework of epistemic uncertainties, under the independence and non-correlation assumption, we assign parametric families of distributions to the physical properties of Apophis that define the Yarkovsky perturbation and in turn the future orbital evolution of the asteroid. We find $${\mathrm{IP}}\le 5\times 10^{-5}$$ IP ≤ 5 × 10 - 5 for the 2036 keyhole and $${\mathrm{IP}}\le 1.6\times 10^{-5}$$ IP ≤ 1.6 × 10 - 5 for the 2068 keyhole. These upper bounds are largely conservative choices due to the rather wide range of statistical distributions that we explored.

Guest Editor's Introduction to Symposium

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-26
Author(s):  
Jill J. McCluskey
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Agricultural Economics ◽  
State University ◽  
Wine Quality ◽  
Washington State University ◽  
Competitive Firm ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Competitive Forces ◽  
Special Symposium ◽  
Wine Markets

The articles in this symposium analyze the economics of evolving international wine markets, including issues associated with taxes, measures of quality, reputation, consumer preferences, globalization, and emerging markets in China. This special symposium consists of peer-reviewed papers presented at the “Competitive Forces Affecting the Wine and Winegrape Industries: An International Conference on World Wine Markets,” sponsored by the Washington State University Impact Center, the Center for Wine Economics and Business of the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Sciences and the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, University of California, in Davis, California, August 8–10, 2007, and the American Association of Wine Economists in Portland, Oregon, August 14–16, 2008.The first paper, by Rachael Goodhue, Jeffrey LaFrance and Leo Simon, provides a theoretical analysis of the impact of taxes on the quantity and quality produced by a competitive firm of goods like wine for which market value. They consider the effects of various tax systems on wine quality and quantity distortions.

scholarly journals DAMPAK E-MEDIA TERHADAP KENAKALAN PERILAKU SEKSUAL PADA REMAJA DI BATULICIN

Jurnal Ecopsy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robby Adrianie ◽  
Hemy Heryati Anward ◽  
Neka Erlyani
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Genital Organ ◽  
Descriptive Case Study ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Media Data

ABSTRAK Remaja dengan berbagai masalahnya dapat memunculkan berbagai perilaku berupa kenakalan remaja. Kenakalan remaja mengacu kepada suatu rentang perilaku yang sangat luas, salah satu bentuk kenakalan remaja adalah kenakalan perilaku seksual. Perkembangan e-media seperti terbukanya informasi memungkinkan mengakses berbagai macam informasi pornografi, yang tidak layak dikonsumsi oleh remaja. Bentuk informasi ini sulit dikontrol dan mudah didapat bahkan dikota kecil seperti Batulicin. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui dampak e-media terhadap kenakalan perilaku seksual pada remaja di Batulicin dan mengetahui bentuk-bentuk kenakalan perilaku seksual akibat e-media pada remaja di Batulicin. Metode yang digunakan adalah pendekatan kualitatif, dengan teknik studi kasus deskriptif yang bertujuan mengetahui dampak dan bentuk-bentuk e-media terhadap kenakalan perilaku seksual pada remaja di Batulicin. Subjek penelitian adalah 2 orang remaja SMA di Batulicin dan 1 orang remaja MA di Batulicin, berusia 15 sampai 21 tahun dan memiliki akses untuk menggunakan e-media. Teknik pengumpulan data penelitian ini menggunakan teknik observasi, wawancara, dokumentasi dan tes grafis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ketiga subjek telah melakukan hubungan seksual diluar nikah. Penyebabnya karena beberapa faktor internal dan eksternal. Tidak adanya norma yang dimiliki untuk menyaring informasi menjadikan subjek terjerumus dan melakukan kenakalan perilaku seksual. Informasi yang didapat melalui teman dan e-media seperti HP, laptop dan TV untuk memutar video porno. Bentuk kenakalan perilaku seksual ketiga subjek adalah berpegangan tangan, necking (berciuman sampai daerah dada), meraba payudara dan alat kelamin, petting (saling menempelkan alat kelamin), membaca atau menonton berbau pornografi, melakukan hubungan seksual. Kata kunci: E-Media, Kenakalan Perilaku Seksual, Remaja ABSTRACT  Adolescents with a variety of problems can bring a variety of behaviors such as delinquency. Juvenile delinquency refers to a very wide range of behaviors, one of which is sexual behavior delinquency. The development of e-media information such as the open information enable the access to various kinds of pornography, which is not suitable for adolescents. This kind of information is difficult to control and easy to obtain even in a small town like Batulicin. The purpose of this study was to find out the impact of e-media on sexual behavior delinquency, and the forms of sexual behavior delinquency as a result of e-media in adolescents in Batulicin. The method used in this study was a qualitative approach, with a descriptive case study technique aimed at knowing the impact and forms of e-media on sexual behavior delinquency in adolescents in Batulicin. The subjects were 2 adolescents in SMA at Batulicin and 1 adolescent in MA at Batulicin, aged 15 to 21 years and having an access to e-media. Data were collected using techniques of observation, interview, documentation and graphical test. The results showed that all three subjects had sexual relations outside marriage. It was caused by several internal and external factors. The absence of norms to filter information made the subject fall in sexual behavior delinquency. The information were obtained through friends and e-media such as HP, laptop and TV playing porn videos. The forms of sexual behavior delinquency in three subjects were holding hands, necking (kissing up to the chest), touching breast and genital organ, petting, reading or watching pornography, and sexual intercourse. Keywords: E-Media, Sexual Behavior Delinquency, Adolescent

scholarly journals Higher education institutions as a driver of sustainable social development: Polish experience for Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inna Khovrak
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Environmental Status ◽  
Polish Experience ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Economic Technology ◽  
The Impact

The basis for sustainable and environmentally friendly development is gradually becoming aware of the importance of working more ethically and transparently and in a more humanistic way, as well as addressing the needs of people and society. In this case, the key challenge for higher education institutions (HEIs) is to train the conscious and responsible citizens who can take care of the country’s future. This article focuses on comparing the ability of HEIs in Poland and Ukraine to promote sustainable development (SD) by implementing the concept of social responsibility (SR). The research is based on the methods of statistical analysis, sociological survey, case study, abstract-logical, tabular and graphical method. The paper argues that HEIs have a wide range of tools to promote SD. These tools should be divided into three groups, namely: 1) including SD issues in educational programs; 2) developing knowledge and solutions for SD; 3) creation and participation in SR initiatives. The proposed mechanism of the impact of HEIs on SD through the implementation of the concept of SR will allow HEIs to take an active part in the life of the region and the country, namely: identify the needs, engage the stakeholders, facilitate the interaction, disseminate the effective practices, and develop SD strategies. The practical value of the obtained results is that the implementation of SR initiative by HEIs will promote the environmentally friendly development of the country and regions. As a result, it will increase the impact of HEIs on economic, technology and cultural development, human capital formation, solving social problems, building civil society, improving the environmental status.

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