scholarly journals Yield and Nutritional Characterization of Thirteen Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) Varieties Grown in North-West Europe—Part I

Plants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 2689
Author(s):  
Phara De Bock ◽  
Filip Van Bockstaele ◽  
Hilde Muylle ◽  
Paul Quataert ◽  
Pieter Vermeir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chenopodium Quinoa ◽  
Amino Acid Profile ◽  
North West ◽  
Protein Levels ◽  
Growing Seasons ◽  
Saponin Content ◽  
End Use ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Degree ◽  
West European

The cultivation of quinoa has gained increasing interest in Europe. Different European varieties exist, but more research is required to understand the individual variety characteristics for end-use applications. The objective of this study is to evaluate the agronomic performance of 13 quinoa varieties under North-West European field conditions during three growing seasons (2017–2019). Furthermore, seeds were qualitatively characterized based on characteristics and composition. Yield differed among varieties and growing seasons (0.47–3.42 ton/ha), with lower yields obtained for late-maturing varieties. The saponin content varied from sweet to very bitter. The seeds contained high protein levels (12.1–18.8 g/100 g dry matter), whereas varieties had a similar essential amino acid profile. The main fatty acids were linoleic (53.0–59.8%), α-linolenic (4.7–8.2%), and oleic acid (15.5–22.7%), indicating a high degree of unsaturation. The clustering of varieties/years revealed subtle differences between growing seasons but also reflected the significant interaction effects of variety and year. Most varieties perform well under North-West European conditions, and their nutritional content is well within the values previously described for other cultivation areas. However, optimal yield and quality traits were not combined in one variety, illustrating the importance of breeding for adapted quinoa varieties.

scholarly journals 742 PB 070 NUTRITIONAL ANALYSIS OF CHENOPODIUM QUINOA GROWN IN CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT. HYDROPONIC CULTURE

HortScience ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 539d-539
Author(s):  
Greg Schlick ◽  
David Bubenheim
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acid ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Chenopodium Quinoa ◽  
Protein Composition ◽  
Amino Acid Profile ◽  
Field Trials ◽  
Hydroponic Culture ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Protein Levels ◽  
Mineral Concentrations

Chenopodium quinoa is being considered as a “new” crop for Contolled Ecological Life Support Systems(CELSS) due to the unique protein composition and high mineral values of the seeds and leaves. Quinoa is known to have very high protein levels (12-185 reported from field trials), with desirable amino acid proportions, and mineral concentrations suitable for a balanced human diet. Contolled environment, hydroponic culture has increased the nutritional value and has the potential of increasing the yield. Protein and mineral values have increased substantially and will be discussed in more depth. The high concentration of protein, unique amino acid profile, high mineral values, versatility in preparation and the potential for increased yields make quinoa a useful crop for CELSS and long-term space missions

Semiology of the Pain Syndrome - Identifying the Ideal Methods of Locoregional Anesthesia Based on Their Rationale and Features

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (10) ◽  
pp. 2373-2377
Author(s):  
Mihaela Monica Scutariu ◽  
Vlad Danila ◽  
Corina Ciupilan ◽  
Oana Elena Ciurcanu
Keyword(s):  
Maxillofacial Surgery ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Pain Syndrome ◽  
Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery ◽  
Structuring Element ◽  
Technical Accuracy ◽  
Locoregional Anesthesia ◽  
Special Approach ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Degree

Anesthesia and the degree of control over the perception of pain depends on the personality of the individual, the socio-economic conditions, potential previous painful experiences and, last but not least, on fatigue and fear of the dentist. The perception of pain in patients is closely connected to their mental state. Pain is defined as a sensation of discomfort, with wide variations, both in quality and intensity, for different people in seemingly identical conditions; an unpleasant sensitive and emotional phenomena connected to the threat of a wound or caused in the tissues or described in the terms of this disease. The essential element of any type of anesthesia is analgesia, an effect which in some cases cannot be achived, due to the patient�s particularities or the physician�s lack of experience in anesthesia. Locoregional anesthesia (LRA) represents the blocking of the nociceptive sensitive and sympathetic autonomic afferents as well as that of motor efferents at the level of peripheral nerves� axons, by means of local anesthetic. To achieve the set purpose, we carried out a study on a representative human sample comprised of 10.123 patients treated in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic (Ambulatory) from the County Clinic Emergency Hospital St. Spiridon Iasi, between 01.01.2015-31.12.2016. The reason for the exclusion of certain categories of patients in the reseach was: the patients with a special conditions background require individual pre-anesthesia schemes, personalised for the nature of the pre-existing general condition, which must be further approved by the attending specialist physician : cardiologist, internist, diabetologist; children under 18 years old, with a high degree of anxiety; a high precentage of elderly patients, over 60 years old, possess a combination of general issues, thus requiring a special approach. The thoroughness lying at the core of the anesthetic practice, most especially the safegurading of a technical accuracy in the performance of anesthesia [12,], instead of improvisations, the lack of anatomical and stomatological training in general and the resulting inefficiency as such, is the underlying in-depth structuring element of this paper.

scholarly journals Territories of state-led aquaculture risk management: Thailand’s Plang Yai program

2020 ◽  
pp. 239965442096524
Author(s):  
Mariska JM Bottema ◽  
Simon R Bush ◽  
Peter Oosterveer
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
Financial Risks ◽  
Shared Resources ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Farmer Behavior ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Degree

The Thai aquaculture sector faces a range of production, market and financial risks that extend beyond the private space of farms to include public spaces and shared resources. The Thai state has attempted to manage these shared risks through its Plang Yai (or ‘Big Area’) agricultural extension program. Using the lens of territorialization, this paper investigates how, through the Plang Yai program, risk management is institutionalized through spatially explicit forms of collaboration amongst farmers and between farmers and (non-)state actors. We focus on how four key policy instruments brought together under Plang Yai delimited multiple territories of risk management over shrimp and tilapia production in Chantaburi and Chonburi provinces. Our findings demonstrate how these policy instruments address risks through dissimilar but overlapping territories that are selectively biased toward facilitating the individual management of production risks, whilst enabling both the individual and collective management of market and financial risks. This raises questions about the suitability of addressing aquaculture risks by controlling farmer behavior through state-led designation of singular, spatially explicit areas. The findings also indicate the multiple roles of the state in territorializing risk management, providing a high degree of flexibility, which is especially valuable in landscapes shared by many users, connected to (global) value chains and facing diverse risks. In doing so we demonstrate that understanding the territorialization of production landscapes in a globalizing world requires a dynamic approach recognizing the multiplicity of territories that emerge in risk management processes.

A comparison of the compressibilities of some gases with that of nitrogen at pressures below one atmosphere

1950 ◽  
Vol 200 (1061) ◽  
pp. 201-218 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Differential Method ◽  
Linear Extrapolation ◽  
Volume Changes ◽  
Pure Nitrogen ◽  
Molecular Weights ◽  
Nitrous Oxide Oxygen ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Straight Lines ◽  
High Degree

A differential method for comparing the compressibilities of gases at pressures below 1 atm. has been developed in which many of the errors inherent in methods employed previously have been to a large extent eliminated, especially those due to meniscus volume changes and capillary depression. Using pure nitrogen as a standard the low-pressure isothermals of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, oxygen, ethylene and propane have been determined at a temperature of 22-05° C. The deviations of the individual points from straight lines do not in most cases exceed 2 parts in 100,000. In no case, even with propane, was any curvature in the isotherms detectable. The contention of Moles and other recent workers that the molecular weights of liquefiable gases can be determined to a high degree of accuracy by linear extrapolation is rendered highly probable by this fresh evidence.

scholarly journals The distribution of auks and Procellariiformes in north-west European waters in relation to depth of sea

Bird Study ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Stone ◽  
A. Webb ◽  
M. L. Tasker
Keyword(s):  
North West ◽  
West European

scholarly journals Responses of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) seeds stored under different germination temperatures

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andressa Strenske ◽  
Edmar Soares de Vasconcelos ◽  
Vanessa Aline Egewarth ◽  
Neusa Francisca Michelon Herzog ◽  
Marlene De Matos Malavasi
Keyword(s):  
Room Temperature ◽  
Storage Time ◽  
Chenopodium Quinoa ◽  
Seed Vigor ◽  
Continuous Darkness ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Growing Seasons ◽  
Germinating Seeds ◽  
Germinated Seeds ◽  
Plot Design

In this experiment, we assessed the germination and vigor of quinoa seeds packed in paper bags and stored at room temperature for 36, 85, 119, 146, 177 and 270 days. The seeds were harvested under experimental conditions in Marechal Candido Rondon, Paraná, during the 2012/13 growing seasons. Four replicates of 100 seeds each were established for each storage time, and the seeds were evaluated, on paper, based on the BOD under the following experimental temperature conditions: alternating temperatures of 20 and 30°C and a constant temperature of 25°C. The seeds from both treatments were subject to seven-hour photoperiods and 25°C under continuous darkness. The germinated seeds were counted daily for eight days after sowing, and we evaluated the percentages of normal and abnormal seedlings and the germination index. The experimental design was completely randomized using a split-plot design. Increasing the storage time decreased the percentage of germinated seeds and seed vigor due to the increased number of abnormal seedlings. Over the 430-day study period, quinoa seed germination completely declined under the experimental conditions. The final number of germinating seeds should be evaluated 7 days after the beginning of the germination test. 

RADIOCARBON DATING OF MESOLITHIC OPEN-AIR SITES IN THE COVERSAND AREA OF THE NORTH-WEST EUROPEAN PLAIN: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

Archaeometry ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
PH. CROMBÉ ◽  
E. ROBINSON ◽  
M. VAN STRYDONCK ◽  
M. BOUDIN
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
West European

scholarly journals Success-Driving Business Model Characteristics of IaaS Providers – Towards a Quantitative Evaluation

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Sebastian Floerecke ◽  
Florian Felix Röck ◽  
Franz Lehner
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Quantitative Evaluation ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Business Success ◽  
Minor Importance ◽  
Competitive Situation ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Degree

Despite the highly competitive situation within the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market and the resulting pressure and uncertainty for the involved providers, only little knowledge is available about business model characteristics (BMCs) related to success. Merely few qualitative studies are existing that propose hypotheses on success-driving business model characteristics (SDBMCs), however, a general and comparative quantitative evaluation and thus an evidence for their impact on business success is still missing. But this knowledge is essential for IaaS providers as it would allow them to focus their limited resources and efforts on the truly decisive BMCs and, at the same time, save costs by avoiding activities and investments of minor importance. Aiming to reduce this gap, a web-based survey was carried out, in which representatives of IaaS providers of different size rated the level of relevance of the proposed SDBMCs. As this study is still going on, this paper focuses on presenting the study design and an analysis of the data collected so far. As a preliminary result, nearly 80 % of the SDBMCs were rated as extremely important or important, meaning that the existing qualitative research results were confirmed to a high degree. The relevance of the individual SDBMCs varies greatly depending on the IaaS provider’s size

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