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Po, Chung Yam. "Westerners in Li Hongzhang's mufu : with references to Gustav Detring and Hosea Ballou Morse." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2010. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1107.
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Huapaya, Navarro Cesar Ernesto Benjamín, Alvarado Luz Medali Pitot, Villarroel Angela Carol Rodriguez, and Pomalaza Ana Beatriz Rozas. "Muru café." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/652226.
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La tendencia del consumo saludable está generando que más personas opten por las bebidas más naturales, la cual es una tendencia en el consumo a nivel mundial. Así mismo, en el mundo existe una alta preferencia en el consumo del café (95%), cuyos subproductos como la cascarilla del café no han sido bien aprovechados y en la actualidad se desperdicia más del 80% generando contaminación medioambiental y en otros casos se usa como abono, solo en algunos países del mundo y Latinoamérica están innovando con los subproductos y están usando la cascarilla para producir nuevos productos como infusiones, mermeladas, yogurt, etc.
El Perú no está exento de ello, por eso nace Muru Café, una bebida natural a base de la cascarilla de café, cero azúcares, con altos contenidos de carbohidratos, proteínas y minerales, 500 veces más antioxidante que la misma vitamina C, con ligera dulzura y beneficiosa para la salud por su valor nutricional.
En el mercado peruano existe este tipo de bebida natural, pero no ha sido industrializado para la comercialización en el mercado, por lo que representa una oportunidad para incursionar en el negocio. Además, por la investigación de mercado, se logró validar el público objetivo y los canales de distribución indirectos para vender las bebidas en minimarkets, tiendas por conveniencia, naturistas y supermercados.
Así mismo, el equipo de trabajo está altamente capacitado y con experiencia en producción, ventas, administración y finanzas, lo que nos permite desarrollar un proyecto viable, rentable y sostenible en el tiempo.The trend of healthy consumption is generating more people opt for more natural beverages, which is a trend in consumption worldwide. Likewise, in the world there is a high preference in the consumption of coffee (95%), whose by-products such as coffee husk have not been well used and currently more than 80% are wasted generating environmental pollution and in other cases use as fertilizer, only in some countries of the world and Latin America are innovating with by-products and are using the husk to produce new products such as infusions, jams, yogurt, etc. Peru is not exempt from this, that is why Muru Café is born, a natural drink based on coffee husks, zero sugars, with high carbohydrate, protein and mineral content, 500 times more antioxidant than vitamin C, with light sweetness and beneficial to health due to its nutritional value. In the Peruvian market there is this type of natural beverage, but it has not been industrialized for commercialization in the market, so it represents an opportunity to venture into the business. In addition, through market research, it was possible to validate the target audience and the indirect distribution channels to sell beverages in minimarkets, convenience stores, naturists and supermarkets. Likewise, the work team is highly trained and experienced in production, sales, administration and finance, which allows us to develop a viable, profitable and sustainable project over time.
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Yuen, Jeanne Y. Y. "Computer Go-Muku." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=64063.
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Ccora, Camayo Diego Andrés, Arroyo Rosa Cristal Pareja, Tavara Nicole Annette Seperak, Robles Bryan Manuel Stewart, and Martínez Jaime Tacuchi. "Línea de útiles ecoamigables Muru." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/651782.
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El presente proyecto muestra la viabilidad de la ejecución del negocio de línea de útiles ecoamigables Muru, en base a la investigación realizada en Lima Metropolitana a ciudadanos de los niveles socioeconómicos A y B. Esta investigación permitió detectar que existe un segmento de consumidores que buscan poder adquirir útiles ecoamigables, hechos de materiales reciclados o que tengan un impacto negativo reducido en el medio ambiente, los cuales no encuentran con facilidad pues suelen ser vendidos al por mayor a clientes corporativos.
Con el fin de que este proyecto se ponga en marcha el siguiente año (2020), se procuró analizar la industria a detalle, considerando las tendencias clave, las fuerzas de mercado, las fuerzas macroeconómicas, entre otras. Además, para lograr tener una mejor y más estructurada planificación, se desarrolló la estructura de la empresa, dividida de la siguiente forma: Plan de Marketing, Plan Financiero, Plan de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial, Plan de Recursos Humanos y Plan de Operaciones. Dentro de cada uno de ellos se contemplan las estrategias, actividades y recursos necesarios para que este proyecto sea viable cuando inicie sus operaciones. Se tuvo especial énfasis en el desarrollo del Plan Financiero para que las proyecciones contempladas en este sean lo más acertadas posible. Como resultado de lo mencionado, se obtuvo que para que el proyecto inicie su etapa operativa se necesita una inversión de 31,000 soles. Asimismo, luego de la inversión, las utilidades netas proyectadas son de 35,696.77; 93,400.48 y 136,959.96 soles para el primer, segundo y tercer año respectivamente.The present project shows the viability of the execution of the Muru eco-friendly tool line business, based on the research carried out in Metropolitan Lima to the NSE "A" and "B" citizens. This investigation made it possible to detect that there is a segment of consumers who are looking to purchase eco-friendly tools, whether they are made from recycled materials or have a reduced impact on the environment, which consumers do not find easily because those are usually sold to corporate customers. In order to launch this project the next year (2020), it was attempted to analyze the industry in detail considering the key trends, market forces, macroeconomic forces, among others. In addition, in order to achieve a better and more structured planning, the company structure was developed, divided as follows: Marketing Plan, Financial Plan, Corporate Social Responsibility Plan, Human Resources Plan and the Operations Plan. Within each of the plans, the strategies, activities and resources that are needed for this project to be viable when in runs into operation are contemplated. Special emphasis was placed on the development of the Financial Plan so that its projections are as accurate as possible. As a result of the aforementioned, it was obtained that for the project to begin its operational phase an investment of 31,000 soles is needed. Also, after the investment, the projected net profits are 35,696.77; 93,400.48 and 136,959.96 soles for the first, second and third year respectively.
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Smith, Nicole R. "Wangechi Mutu: Feminist Collage and the Cyborg." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/51.
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Wangechi Mutu is an internationally recognized Kenyan-born artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. She creates collaged female figures composed of human, animal, object, and machine parts. Mutu’s constructions of the female body provide a transcultural critique on the female persona in Western culture. This paper contextualizes Mutu’s work and artistic strategies within feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial narratives on collage, while exploring whether collage strategies are particularly useful for feminist artists. In their fusion of machine and organism, Mutu’s characters are visual metaphors for feminist cyborgs, particularly those outlined by Donna Haraway. In this paper, I examine parallels between collage as an aesthetic strategy and the figure of the cyborg to suggest meaningful ways of approaching differences between women and how they experience life in contemporary Western culture.
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Cerna, Cédric. "MUNU : étude de la diffusion neutrino-électron." Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000GRE10197.
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Munu est une experience dediee a l'etude de la diffusion neutrino-electron de laquelle peut etre deduite une limite sur le moment magnetique du neutrino. L'experience est situee aupres d'un reacteur de la centrale nucleaire de bugey (france). La detection est basee sur une chambre a projection temporelle (tpc) immergee dans 10 tonnes de scintillateur liquide agissant comme blindage actif anti-compton. La signature d'une diffusion neutrino-electron est un unique electron de recul completement contenu dans la tpc. L'interet physique d'une telle recherche est decrit dans une premiere partie, ainsi que la conception generale du detecteur. Les principes de la calibration de l'anti-compton ainsi que leurs resultats sont exposes. Ils incluent le controle en ligne de la reponse des photomultiplicateurs ainsi que le suivi de la transparence du scintillateur. Les performances attendues et observees de la tpc fonctionnant avec du cf4 sont passees en revue. La discrimination des evenements est faite en utilisant l'emission de lumiere et la collection des charges ainsi que la topologie des traces. Une estimation de l'activite des materiaux basee sur des evenements alpha et beta est donnee. Ces evenements sont aussi ulitises pour mesurer certains parametres de la tpc comme la carte de gain de l'anode, la longueur de derive ou la longueur d'absorbtion des electrons. Il est montre dans quelle mesure les electrons simples partiellements contenus peuvent etre rejetes. Une premiere analyse dans une gamme d'energie sub-mev des electrons simples totalements contenus est faite en terme de section efficace faible et en terme de moment magnetique du neutrino. Enfin une estimation preliminaire de l'activite du detecteur apres sa remise a niveau
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Määttä, P. (Pekka). "Leikki ja lasten muu toiminta päiväkotiympäristöjen suunnittelussa." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201805311995.
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Diplomityöni on tutkielma, jossa perehdyn lasten leikkiin ja muuhun toimintaan päiväkotiympäristöissä. Pyrin löytämään keinoja, kuinka päiväkotiympäristöjen suunnittelussa voitaisiin ottaa huomioon leikki ja lasten muu toiminta. Viitekehyksenä työssäni on erityisesti varhaiskasvatusta käsittelevä kasvatustieteen alan kirjallisuus, sekä Rakennustietosäätiön ohjekortiston ohjekortti. Paneudun myös lasten toiminnallisuutta käsittelevään arkkitehtuurin kirjallisuuteen. Käsittelen kasvatustieteen kirjallisuudesta esille nousevia teemoja kolmen esimerkkikohteen kautta, sekä esitän konseptiluonnoksissani lasten omaehtoista toimintaa tukevia ratkaisuja. Kirjallisuudessa painottuu ympäristön toiminnallisuus ja lasten toiminta. Lasten maailmankuva perustuu paljolti toiminnan kautta ympäristöön tutustumiseen. Voidaankin todeta, että ympäristön luominen on enemmän kuin pelkän fyysisen ympäristön luomista. Se on kulttuurin luomista. Koska toiminnallisuus on lasten kokemusmaailmassa ensisijainen vaikuttamisen väylä, olen jättänyt materiaalit ja tilojen visuaalisuuden työssäni vähemmälle huomiolle, jotta katse kiinnittyisi vahvemmin toiminnallisuuteen ja kokemuksellisuuteen. Suurin yksittäinen esiin nouseva teema on leikki ja leikin alalajina erityisesti pitkäkestoinen leikki. Etsin leikkiä edesauttavia ilmiöitä ja pyrin niiden pohjalta löytämään luonnosmaisissa konseptiesityksissäni ratkaisuja laadukkaan leikkiympäristön syntymiseksi. Työssäni esitän ratkaisuja myös pitkäkestoisen leikin turvaamiseksi ja leikkimaailman säilyttämiseksi katkojen ajaksi. Terminä paljon esillä on ’tarjouma’, joka tarkoittaa ympäristön tarjoamia virikkeitä lasten leikille ja muulle toiminnalle. Teemana esille nousee myös minuutta tukeva ympäristö, joka edellyttää usein ympäristöltä persoonallisuutta. Kuten nuoren omassa huoneessa tila tehdään oman näköiseksi julisteiden avulla, tulisi vastaavan tapainen toiminta mahdollistaa myös pienille lapsille heidän päivähoitoympäristöissään. Perinteisesti tämä on mahdollistettu esimerkiksi valokuvilla lasten omien paikkojen, kuten päiväunivuoteiden yhteydessä. Havaintojeni mukaan personoinnin voisi mahdollistaa jo rakennuksen suunnitteluvaiheessa ja kytkeä sen näin aidosti osaksi ympäristöä. Lasten oma toiminta voidaan näin nähdä ympäristölle mahdollisuutena, ei uhkana. Muita tärkeitä esille nousseita teemoja ovat ympäristön moniaistillisuus, tilojen jäsentelyn vaikutus lasten toimintaan, ympäristön vaikutus päiväkodin hierarkiaan, sekä lasten näkökulma. Teemojen pohjalta olen suunnitellut konseptitasoisia luonnoksia, joissa esittelen ideoita leikkiä ja lasten muuta toimintaa tukevan päiväkotiympäristön aikaansaamiseksi. Konsepteissa painottuvat lasten toiminta ja päiväkodin tapahtumat. Esitän mahdollisuuksia liikkuvien leikkien lisäksi myös rauhoittumista ja lepoa tukevien ratkaisujen löytämiseksiIn my Master’s Thesis my focus is on children’s play and other activities in daycare centre environments. My aim is to find out means of design how to better take into account children’s activities at daycare centre environments. The literary framework for my Thesis lies on studies concerning theory about early childhood education. Also, The Rules and Information File concerning Daycare environments of Finnish Building Information Group’s (RT) targeted for designers is one of my main sources. In addition, I will focus on architectural literature about children’s activity in environments. The themes pointed out in educational literature I will discuss through three architectural case studies. Further, I will present my design concepts demonstrating solutions supporting children’s spontaneous activities. In the literature, environments’ functionality and childrens activities are widely emphasized. Child’s worldview is mainly based on exploring the environment through actions. Therefore, creating the environment is more than just creating the physical environment, but it is about creating culture. Since, the emphasis in my Thesis is on actions and activities in children’s environments, I have left material studies and the overall spatial visuality to a smaller role. Hence, my aim is to focus on functionality and experiential aspects. The biggest single theme in my Thesis is childrens play, especially long lasting play. My aim is to find phenomena to foster play and further, to find design solutions for high quality children’s play environments through conceptual design proposals. Affordance is often referred concept, meaning cues inspiring the play and other children’s action offered by the environment. As a theme there also child’s selfdom supporting environment is emphasized, meaning that environment has to be personal or be personalized in some way. Similarly, youngsters have posters in their room, should also the little children be able to personalize their environments. Usually in Finland personalization has been made possible by placing pictures of children or their family nearby their own places like beds. According to my findings, personalization could be taken into consideration already in the architectural design phase and thereby, it could be genuine feature of the whole environment. Hence, children’s action would be seen as an opportunity, not a threat. Other important themes in my Diploma Thesis are ’using all the senses’, ’the impact of space orientation on childrens activity’, ’the impacts of the environment on the daycare centre’s hierarchy’ and ’children’s view’. Based on the aforementioned themes I have designed conceptual sketches to support play and other children’s activities in daycare centre environments. The focus is on design concepts for children’s actions and other activities in the daycare centre environments. In addition to design solutions for children’s independent moving plays, I will also offer proposals for design concepts concerning rest and relax
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Chung, Ki Yong. "Metabolic and genetic regulation in adipose tissue of Angus and Wagyu steers raised to U.S. and Japanese endpoints." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3909.
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We hypothesized that carcass and fatty acid composition of Angus and Japanese Black (Wagyu) steers would not differ if the steers were fed to a typical U.S. final weight, but that Wagyu steers fed to a typical Japanese endpoint body weight would have greater quality grades and softer fat than Angus steers. Sixteen Angus and 16 Wagyu 8-month-old, weaned steers were assigned to a corn-based diet for 8 or 16 months (n = 4 per breed type and time) or hay-based diet for 12 or 20 months (n = 4 per breed type and time) in a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial arrangement. USDA yield grade was greater at the Japanese endpoint than at the U.S. endpoint in Angus steers (breed x endpoint, P = 0.03). Intramuscular (i.m.) lipid continued to increase to over 20% in the Wagyu steers (P = 0.05), but attained a plateau (14.7%) by 16 months on feed in the Angus steers. These results confirm that Wagyu cattle must be raised to greater physiological maturity before they differ from Angus cattle in M. longissimus thoracis i.m. lipid concentration. Subcutaneous adipose tissue concentrations of oleic (18:1n-9) was greater in Wagyu steers than in Angus steers (P = 0.05). All monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) increased between the U.S. and Japanese endpoint, whereas slip points of lipids in s.c. adipose tissue were 10°C lower in Japanese endpoint steers than in U.S. endpoint steers (P = 0.01). Angus adipose tissue exhibited peak SCD enzyme activity at 16 months (corn-based diet) but activity in Wagyu adipose tissue was greatest at 20 months (hay-based diet) (breed x diet x endpoint, P = 0.08). However, SCD gene expression in Angus adipose tissue was maximal at 12 months (hay diet), whereas Wagyu adipose tissue had peak expression at 16 months (corn diet) (P < 0.03). Trans-10, cis-12 CLA has been reported as a potent inhibitor of adipocyte differentiation. CLA (40 µM) strongly decreased SCD and PPARγ expression in bovine adipocytes, even in the presence of 5 mM arginine. It can be concluded that arginine up-regulates bovine preadipocyte differentiation, and CLA antagonizes this effect.
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Krutelyov, Vyacheslav. "Search for supersymmetry using rare B to mumu decays at CDF run II." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3347.
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A search for rare B0
s -> µ+µ- and B0d -> µ+µ- decays has been performed in pp
collisions at sqroot(s) = 1.96 TeV using 364 pb-1 of data collected by the CDF II experiment
at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The rate of each decay is sensitive to contributions
from physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). No events pass the optimized selection
requirements, consistent with the SM expectation. The resulting upper limits on the
branching ratios are B(B0s -> µ+µ-) < 1.5 x 10-7 and B(B0d -> µ+µ-) < 3.8 x 10-8
at the 90% confidence level. The limits are used to exclude some parameter space for
several supersymmetric models.
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Swami, Kara. "Destabilizing the Sign:The Collage Work of Ellen Gallagher, Wangechi Mutu, and Mickalene Thomas." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367942466.
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Cui, Zhiying. "Denim Fiberboard Fabricated from MUF and pMDI Hybrid Resin System." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1505281/.
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In this study, a series of denim fiberboards are fabricated using two different resins, malamine urea formaldehyde (MUF) and polymeric methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (pMDI). Two experimental design factors (1) adhesive content and (2) MUF-pMDI weight ratio, were studied. All the denim fiberboard samples were fabricated following the same resin blending, cold-press and hot-press procedures. The physical and mechanical tests were conducted on the fiberboard following the procedures described in ASTM D1037 to obtain such as modulus of elasticity (MOE), modulus of rupture (MOR), internal bond (IB), thickness swell (TS), and water absorption (WA). The results indicated that the MOE was significantly affected by both factors. IB was affected significantly by weight ratio of different glue types, with 17 wt% more MDI resin portion in the core layer of the denim boards, the IB for total adhesive content 15% fiberboard was enhanced by 306%, while for total adhesive content 25% fiberboard, enhanced by 205%. TS and WA, with higher adhesive content used in denim boards' fabrication, and more pMDI portion in the core layer of the boards, the boards' TS and WA was reduced by up to 64.2% and 78.8%, respectively.
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Lamblin, Jacob. "Performances du détecteur MUNU et Perspectives en vue de la détection des Neutrinos Solaires." Phd thesis, Grenoble INPG, 2002. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00001532.
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Le détecteur MUNU, destiné à l'étude de la diffusion neutrino sur électron à l'aide des antineutrinos émis par un réacteur nucléaire, est constitué d'une chambre à projection temporelle (TPC) contenant du gaz CF4. L'objectif de la thèse était de déterminer si un détecteur basé sur le même principe pouvait être envisagé pour mesurer le spectre en énergie des neutrinos solaires de basse énergie. Pour cette étude, trois aspects étaient essentiels : la résolution en énergie, la résolution angulaire et le bruit de fond du détecteur. Les deux premiers car l'énergie du neutrino est reconstituée à partir de l'énergie et de la direction initiale de l'électron de recul. Le troisième car le faible nombre d'interactions attendu impose un niveau de bruit de fond très bas. Dans un premier temps, une revue détaillée de la physique des neutrinos solaires du point de vue théorique mais aussi expérimental est réalisée puis les caractéristiques du détecteur MUNU et son principe de fonctionnement sont exposés. Ensuite, les performances du détecteur sont abordées successivement : les méthodes d'étalonnage en énergie développées et la résolution en énergie qui en découle ; la détermination de la direction initiale des électrons et la résolution angulaire associée ; et enfin les différentes sources de bruit de fond rencontrées ainsi que les taux d'événements induits. Finalement, les résultats de la simulation de la détection des neutrinos solaires sont présentés. Ils mettent en évidence les améliorations nécessaires et les points exigeant des études supplémentaires.
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Hang, Bao-Hien [Verfasser], and Ralf [Akademischer Betreuer] Junker. "Auswirkungen einer MUFA-reichen Diät auf das Hämostasesystem / Bao-Hien Hang. Betreuer: Ralf Junker." Münster : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1017849307/34.
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Mitchell, C. "A narrative inquiry of women's lives in Mugu, Nepal : identities, power relations and education." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579756.
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This study questions assumptions around universal understandings of gender and education. Using a narrative inquiry approach it focuses on the life-narratives of five women from the remote Himalayan district of Mugu, Nepal. It aims to examine the complexities of lived experience by gaining insight into how understandings of education are embedded in women's multiple and uniquely intersecting identities, and in doing so, it challenges singular definitions of gender and education. Influenced by postcolonial feminist theory, this inquiry applies an intersectional analysis to consider how identities (including gender, ethnicity, caste, position in the family, role in the household, age and economic status) interlock to create unequal power relations, and how the meanings and values that the women attach to education are embedded in these relations. As a narrative analysis this study foregrounds the five women's voices and experiences, challenging assumptions about whose experiences are valued and whose voice can be heard. Other voices have been interwoven with the women's stories and presented as a multi-layered narrative; these include the local expressive tradition of 'deuda' singing, interviews with educational stakeholders, and reflexive journaling. In keeping with narrative inquiry approaches, I use a more personal voice to reflect on concerns about power dynamics and ethical challenges involved in the research process. Issues of representation, as well as struggles relating to voice and positionality, are at the core of the study and reflexively considered throughout. By using a narrative inquiry approach; taking a postcolonial feminist perspective; and applying an intersectional analysis, this study refuses to rely on essentialist and homogenising constructions of women. It attempts to be an example of ethical and respectful research and claims to increase understanding of how identities, power relations and education intersect in women's lives in Mugu, Nepal.
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Wincrantz, Christian. "Finger-jointing of acetylated Scots pine using a conventional MUF resin." Thesis, KTH, Byggnadsmaterial, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-240655.
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Acetylation of wood is a modification technique that chemically alters the wood substance and enhances several properties of wood. The basic principle is to impregnate wood with acetic anhydride to react and replace OH-groups with acetyl groups in the wood cell wall. In this way, the hygroscopicity of the modified wood is significantly reduced resulting in increased dimensional stability and durability compared with unmodified wood.The objective of this work was to study finger-jointing of acetylated Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) using a conventional melamine urea formaldehyde (MUF) adhesive. Two different types of acetylated pine specimens were investigated, acetylated pine sapwood (APS) and acetylated juvenile pine (AJP), the latter originating from young forest thinning trees (ca 20-30 years). The goal was to evaluate the bending strength, i.e. modulus of rupture (MOR), of such finger-jointed samples, in particular when the acetylated wood was combined with unmodified wood, in this case, Norway spruce (Picea Abies L. Karst) (US). The finger-jointing were performed at Moelven Töreboda by applying their existing industrial procedures. In total, five different of finger jointed sample groups were prepared combining the different specimens: APS-APS, AJP-AJP, US-US, APS-US, and AJP-US. Standardized procedures were used to determine the MOR of the finger-jointed samples, both unexposed at the factory condition state and after a water-soaking-drying cycle. In addition, the experiments also included determination of the moisture content (MC), density, and modulus of elasticity (MOE) (in bending along the grain) of the individual specimens.At the unexposed state, the APS-APS samples showed the highest MOR of 63,1 MPa, while those of the AJP-AJP showed the lowest value of 42,4 MPa. The corresponding values for the US-US, AJP-US and APS-US samples was 56,7, 47,5 and 46,9 MPa, respectively. In contrast to a typical wood failure for the US-US samples, a low amount of wood failure was observed in all cases involving the acetylated wood, indicating a low adhesive anchoring in the wood substrate at the finger-joint, although a surprisingly high strength was obtained for the APS-APS samples. A significantly lower MC content of 4,9 % and a remarkably low value of 1,7 %, was found for the APS and AJP, respectively, compared with 9,2% for the US. The significantly lower MC combined with an assumed increased hydrophobicity of the acetylated wood possible causes a less effective MUF-wood bonding, or adhesion, compared with that of the unmodified wood. Possible, so-called over penetration of the MUF resin in the acetylated wood could also be an explanation for the poor wood-adhesive anchoring. The MOE of the individual APS, AJP and US specimens was 12,6, 8,3 and 11,4 GPa, respectively, indicating a significantly lower mechanical performance of AJP, and hence also of finger-joints of AJP, despite its very low MC, possible due to a higher microfibril angle in the cell walls in juvenile wood compared with mature wood. No clear correlation was found between the MOR and density of the acetylated samples.For the samples exposed to a water-soak-drying cycle, the highest MOR, and lowest reduction of 14 % compared with the unexposed state, was obtained for the US-US samples, whereas all samples involving the acetylated wood showed a distinctly higher reduction. The MOR of the AJP-AJP and AJP-US samples were reduced with 47 % and 50 %, respectively, while the MOR of the APS-APS and APS-US samples were reduced with 43 % and 23 %, respectively. It should be emphasized, however, that after the standard drying-time, which was the same for all samples, the acetylated samples, compared with the untreated ones, did not dry out to the same level as for the dry unexposed state, i.e. the acetylated samples had a high MC of ca 30-40% in these MOR tests. This high MC level could be the main reason for the dramatic strength losses. Furthermore, a less efficient wood-MUF adhesion as well as the drying under acidic conditions may also be possible causes for the reduced bending strength of the finger-jointed samples with acetylated wood.
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Magnusson, Angelica. "Syntes av nya MUF-limmer och analys av dessas härdning i limfog." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för kemivetenskap (CHE), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-172977.
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In this project, different MUF resins were synthesized with varying melamine content, F/NH2 molar ratio, number of addition steps and with varying addition order of the reactants during synthesis. Further, it was investigated how these synthesis parameters influenced resin properties including storage stability and free formaldehyde content. Additionally, NMR spectroscopy was used in order to study the resulting chemical structure of the resins and their molecular size and molecular size distribution were examined by SEC and MALDI-TOF-MS. The curing kinetics of the resins were studied by Raman spectroscopy. From the resins, cured glue joints were prepared and the mechanical properties and water resistance of these were tested through tensile shear testing after different pretreatments of the glue joints. It was confirmed that synthesis under both alkaline and acidic conditions resulted in a higher amount of ether bridges in the resin in comparison to synthesis under acidic conditions. Furthermore, a high melamine content and fewer urea additions resulted in resins with a higher amount of methylol groups and less substituted functional groups. Comparatively, when the F/NH2 molar ratio was increased or when formalin was added in two steps, a resin with higher amount of substituted groups and structures of higher degree of condensation was obtained. From the synthesis procedure it was concluded that a long condensation time at alkaline conditions was the most efficient way to achieve a low free formaldehyde content, while a high F/NH2 molar ratio resulted in the highest amount of free formaldehyde. Furthermore, a high amount of flexible ether bridges, low amount of methylol groups, low melamine content, high F/NH2 molar ratio and a high degree of branched chains seem to be important structural parameters for achieving resins with a long shelf life. Additionally, from the SEC-analysis it was found that the resins had an average molecular weight (Mn) between 1000-1600 g/mol and a broad molecular weight distribution, which were further verified by MALDI-TOF-MS. The resins with a high melamine content had shorter chains, and the molecular weight distribution was most significantly increased when the number of addition steps were changed. Through analysis of the curing process it was found that a higher hardener-to-resin mixing ratio resulted in a faster curing process and a higher final degree of cross-linking. Additionally, it appeared as the reaction of methylol groups was less pH-dependent than the reactions of ether bridges and methylene bridges, which both were favored at lower pH. From the kinetic profiles it was observed that the resin with a higher amount of ether bridges and lower amount of methylol groups had a more prolonged curing process. Furthermore, the mechanical testing of the resulting cured glue joints showed no significant difference in tensile strength between the resins when tested in the dry state. However, a reduced tensile strength were observed for the resin with higher melamine content when tested in the wet state, hence indicating that the increased melamine content used in this project is not enough in order to significantly improve the mechanical properties or water resistance of the cured glue joint observable with the used method.I detta arbete har MUF-hartser syntetiserats med varierande melaminhalt, F/NH2 molkvot och satsningsförfarande av reaktanter under syntes. Vidare undersöktes det hur dessa syntesparametrar påverkar hartsernas egenskaper så som lagringsstabilitet och fri formaldehyd innehåll. Dessutom tillämpades NMR spektroskopi för att studera hartsernas kemiska struktur medan SEC och MALDITOF-MS analyser utfördes för att få en uppfattning om hartsernas molekylvikt samt molekylviktsfördelning. Vidare analyserades hartsernas härdningskinetik med Raman spektroskopi. Från de syntetiserade hartserna förbereddes härdade limfogar vars mekaniska egenskaper och vattenbeständighet studerades genom dragprovstestning efter olika förbehandlingar av fogarna. Från hartsernas kemiska struktur kunde det bekräftas att då syntes utfördes under både basiska och sura betingelser erhölls en högre mängd eterbryggor i hartserna i jämförelse med syntes under endast sura betingelser. Vidare konstaterades det att hartserna med högre melaminhalt samt hartset som tillverkades med färre ureasatsningar bestod av en högre mängd metylolgrupper och en mindre andel substituerade grupper på melamin och urea. Jämförelsevis resulterade en högre F/NH2 molkvot samt två formalinsatsningar under syntes i en större mängd substituerade grupper och i en högre andel större molekylstrukturer. Från den erhållna mängden fri formaldehyd i hartsen kunde det konstateras att en lång kondensationstid under basiska betingelser var det mest effektiva sättet att sänka detta värde. Jämförelsevis hade hartserna med hög F/NH2 molkvot det högsta innehållet av fri formaldehyd. Då hartsernas lagringstabilitet undersöktes visade det sig att en hög andel flexibla eterbryggor, en låg andel metylolgrupper, en låg melaminhalt, en hög F/NH2 molkvot och en hög andel grenade kedjor resulterade i förbättrad lagringsbeständighet. Från SEC-analysen erhölls hartsernas molekylvikter (Mn) i området 1000-1600 g/mol samt en bred molekylviktsfördelning. Resultaten var vidare bekräftade med MALDI-TOF-MS. Det observerades att hartserna med högre melaminhalt hade lägre molekylvikt samt att hartserna tillverkade med olika antal satsningar hade högst dispersitet. Då hartsernas härdningsförlopp studerades kunde det konstateras att ett högre bladningsförhållande av härdare/harts resulterade i en snabbare härdningsprocess samt i en större andel tvärbindningar i systemet. Dessutom visade det sig att reaktionen med metylolgrupper är mindre pH-beroende än omlagringen av eterbryggor och bildandet av metylenbryggor. De två sistnämda reaktionerna gynnas vid lägre pH. Då de kinetiska profilerna av hartserna jämfördes noterades det att hartset med en högre mängd eterbryggor och en lägre andel metylolgrupper hade en långsammare härdningsprocess. Från resultaten av de mekaniska analyserna på de härdade limfogarna kunde det konstateras att ingen signifikant skillnad i dragstyrka fanns mellan de olika fogarna då de testades i torrt tillstånd. Däremot observerades en minskad dragstyrka för hartset med högre melaminhalt då fogarna undersöktes i vått tillstånd. Detta visar på att den ökade melaminhalten som används i hartserna i detta projekt inte är tillräcklig för att resultera i en, med den använda metoden observerbar, förbättrad dragstyrka eller vattenbeständighet hos den motsvarande härdade limfogen.
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Ward, John D. "Implementing the Defense Business Operations Fund, the case of the Naval Air Reserve at Point Mugu." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1993. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA278048.
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Thesis (M.S. in Financial Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 1993.Thesis advisor(s): R.D. Milligan ;Gregory G. Hildebrandt. "December 1993." Bibliography: p. 60-61. Also available online.
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Muff, Stefanie [Verfasser]. "Die Rolle von Calcineurin und Nuclear Factor of Activated T cells in der kolorektalen Karzinogenese / Stefanie Muff." Kiel : Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1155760832/34.
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Kaverén, Pär, Robert Nilsson, and Patrik Nilsson. "Poked av politiker : En studie om MUF och SSU:s politiska kommunikation på Facebook." Thesis, Jönköping University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-1268.
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The new media landscape is growing by the minute with blogs, web pages and different communities. The latest phenomenon that has grown rapidly throughout the world is Facebook. This is at new platform for communications where individuals can meet and socialise. Even political actors have started to appear on this community to work and spread their opinions. Several of the Swedish political parties are represented with different group, among them we have the two biggest political youth organisations: MUF (Young conservatives) and SSU(Young socialists).
This study examines how Facebook can be used as a tool to create opinion. The authors of this thesis have chosen to emphasise their study on the above mentioned political youth organisations SSU and MUF and how these two actors and there members chose to use this community as a communications tool.
This study is conducted by the use of qualitative interviews with representatives from the organisations and creators of the groups. The authors have also done an observation of the groups
The research shows that there are differences between the MUF and SSU both in the increase of members but also in activity.
The study shows that the involvement of the two organisations in their groups have no importance set in correlation to the amount of activity ad increase of members. Facebook is a good tool for creating opinion if used in the right way. Something that both SSU and MUF have great knowledge of, even though they use it differently.
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Zanetti, Michela. "Technologies pour résines MUF de haute performance avec un taux faible de mélamine." Nancy 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003NAN10063.
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Nous avons cherché à améliorer les caractéristiques des résines aminoplastiques utilisées dans la fabrication des panneaux de particules. Le mécanisme d'action de certaines molécules a pu être explicité, c'est le cas notamment du sulfate d'hexaméthylènetétramine, du méthylal et de l'acétate de mélamine. Nous avons testé de nouveaux additifs comme la monoéthanolamine et le complexe acide para-toluène sulfonique/morpholine. L'effet des additifs sur les propriétés physico-chimiques et mécaniques a été étudié à travers l'analyse thermomécanique, la résonance magnétique nucléaire, la diffusion à la lumière et en fabriquant des panneaux. Il apparaît que le type de formulation des résines MUF influe sur le comportement de l'additif. Certains composés comme les acétals augmentent la solubilité de la mélamine et détruisent les associations des particules colloi͏̈dales. D'autres, comme l'hexaméthylènetétramine ont un pouvoir tampon qui permet d'optimiser l'équilibre durcissement-dégradationThe characteristics of aminoplastic resins for particleboard applications have been improved throught a number of technologies. It was explained how some molecules, such as hexamethylenetetramine, methylal and melamine acetate, improve the performances of the adhesives. New additives were also tested : para-toluene sulphonic/morpholine, acetals, The effect of additives onto physical, chemical and mechanical properties was investigated by thermomechanical analysis, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, low angle light laser scattering, polarized light optical microscopy and by manufacturing wood particleboards. It appears that the process used to synthesize melamine- urea-formaldehyde resins has some influence on the effect of additives on the behaviour of the resin. Some compounds as acetals increase melamine solubility and disrupt colloidal aggregations. Other compounds, as hexamethylenetetramine, have a buffering effect which allows to improve " hardening-degradation " equilibrium
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Properzi, Milena. "Sviluppo e applicazioni di nuove resine melammina-urea-formaldeide (MUF) per del legno." Nancy 1, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002NAN10014.
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Cette recherche se situe dans le cadre d'une collaboration franco-italienne visant à développer les connaissances sur les adhésifs pour usages structurels. La recherche a été conduite en intégrant l'étude de nouveaux systèmes d'agents collants par le biais de la formulation, de la synthèse et de la caractérisation des résines MUF. Voici les quatre lignes de recherche abordées : 1. Formulation, synthèse et caractérisation de nouvelles résines aminoplastiques MUF à hautes performances et faible impact sur l'environnement. 2. Développement d'une nouvelle technique de collage bi-composant et durcissement rapide à température ambiante, permettant pour la première fois l'emploi de résines MUF pures. 3. Test de nouveaux additifs capables d'augmenter les performances et de diminuer le degré de toxicité des résines MUF de production industrielle. 4. Évaluation des performances des trois différentes techniques de collage utilisées pour l'assemblage du bois caractérisé par une haute humiditéThis report concerns the research focused on the study of structural wood adhesives properties. The research was conducted on four levels namely; Formulation, synthesis and characterization of new MUF wood adhesives. Development of a new honeymoon MUF adhesive system for exterior grade glulam and finger-joints. Experimentation of new chemical additives able to improve the bonding properties of commercial adhesives. Bonding of high moisture content wood. Comparative performances of fast-setting single and separate application wood adhesives for structural glulam
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Zhang, Muyu [Verfasser], Bernd [Akademischer Betreuer] Markert, and Rüdiger [Akademischer Betreuer] Schmidt. "Auto-correlation-function-based damage index for damage detection and system identification / Muyu Zhang ; Bernd Markert, Rüdiger Schmidt." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1130327329/34.
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Zapata, Julinho. "Los cerros sagrados: panorama del Periodo Formativo en la cuenca del Vilcanota, Cuzco." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113363.
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The Sacred Mountains: A Formative Period’s Overview of the Vilcanota Basin, CuzcoThis paper presents new data of the Formative Period in the Vilcanota Basin, accumulated during surface surveys and excavations of the Archaeological Project Huaro. The sites distribution varies in time during the Middle and Late Formative fertile areas when maize and potatoes are preferred by terracing hills and mountains. The excavations at Batan Urqu and Muyu Urqu revealed the existence of sunken courts as part of an ideological-religious system with sacred mountains as connection points, as part of a cognitive map. These new data also point at close connections with the Titicaca area.Este trabajo presenta nuevas evidencias del Periodo Formativo en la cuenca del río Vilcanota, a raíz de prospecciones y excavaciones dentro del Proyecto Arqueológico Huaro. La distribución de los sitios varía en el tiempo. En el Formativo Medio y Tardío se ubican en las zonas productoras de maíz y papas, sobre colinas y cerros que fueron transformados. Las excavaciones efectuadas en Batan Urqo y Muyu Urqo revelaron restos de patios hundidos como vestigios de un sistema ideológico religioso, en el cual los cerros sagrados fueron sus puntos de conexión, como parte de un mapa geográfico cognitivo. Estas nuevas evidencias descubiertas para la región del Cuzco indican contactos y relaciones estrechas con la región del Titicaca.
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Mbungu, Mutu Joseph [Verfasser] [Mitwirkender]. "Ökologische Ethik und Das Prinzip Verantwortung : Ein Beitrag zur Aktualität der ethischen Theorie von Hans Jonas / Joseph Mbungu Mutu." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1042407002/34.
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Mbungu, Mutu Joseph [Verfasser]. "Ökologische Ethik und Das Prinzip Verantwortung : Ein Beitrag zur Aktualität der ethischen Theorie von Hans Jonas / Joseph Mbungu Mutu." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2013093014252.
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Zhou, Xiaojian. "Évolution des colles à panneaux bois extérieurs synthétiques (MUF), aux colles naturelles et soudage sans colles." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LORR0035/document.
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Lors de cette étude, j'ai effectué des recherches sur trois sortes d'assemblages du bois : les colles naturelles, les colles synthétiques et le soudage sans colles, ceci dans le but d'améliorer les performances de fabrication des panneaux de particules, des panneaux contreplaqués, des lamellés-collés et des composites. Dans ce travail, le contenu d'étude inclut les éléments suivants : 1) L'assemblage des panneaux semi-extérieurs ou extérieurs par les colles naturelles : Trois types différents de tannins (les tannins hydrolysables de châtaigniers, les tannins condensations de pin radiata et les tannins condensations de mimosa) sont étudiés. 2) L'assemblage des panneaux extérieurs par les colles synthétiques : Différents types d'additifs (le nanoargile, des précurseurs oligomériques de poly (amine-ester) et glutaraldéhyde) pour améliorer leurs performances. La résine MUF (Mélamine-Urée-Formaldéhyde) est obtenue sous forme de poudre par séchage d'atomisation ainsi sa durée de vie est potentiellement infinie.3) L'assemblage des panneaux extérieurs par soudage sans colles : Deux matériaux (l'huile et la lignine acétylée) pour améliorer les résistances à l'eau. Toutes les propriétés physico-chimiques et mécaniques ont été étudiées en mettant en oeuvre des techniques d'analyse et d'évaluation telles que la thermomécanique TMA, la cristallographie aux rayons X (XRD), la résonance magnétique nucléaire 13C RMN, la spectrométrie de masse MALDI-TOF, et la fabrication des panneaux en laboratoire. Finalement, nous avons amélioré les caractéristiques des panneaux avec les colles ou sans colles et spécifiquement la résistance à l'eau pour une utilisation extérieureIn this studied, wood based composites were assembled with the natural adhesive (tannin adhesive), the synthesis adhesive (MUF) and the welding wood without adhesive. These wood composites include particleboard, plywood and glulam. We focus on these works as follows: 1) Three different types of tannins (chestnut hydrolysable tannins, pine condensation tannins and mimosa condensation tannins) as thermosetting or cold-setting adhesive were studied to assemble particleboard, plywood and glulam for application to semi-exterior or exterior. 2) The characteristics of MUF resins for particleboard applications have been improved through a number of additives (nanoclay, hyperbranched polymer and glutaraldehyde), the powder adhesive of MUF was obtained by spray-drying technologies, and it could be prolonger the shelf-life of MUF adhesive. It also can be application to exterior after enhancing. 3) The blockboard for application exterior was assembling by welded dowels, two differents materials (sun flower oil and acetylated lignin) were used to improve the water resistance. These physical, chemical and mechanical properties of these assemblages was investigated by implementing some techniques such as thermomechanical analysis (TMA), X-ray diffraction (XRD), nuclear magnetic resonance (13C NMR), matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectroscometry (MALDI-TOF), and by manufacturing wood composites. Finally, the performances of these wood composites were apparent improved whether with the tannin adhesive, the MUF adhesive or the welding wood without adhesive, especially improved the water resistance of wood composites for exterior applications
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Cao, Xiaojuan. "Effect of consuming ground beef of differing monounsaturated fatty acid content on atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk factors in healthy men." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-3211.
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Coursey, Andrew Richard. "ALTERNATIVE FEEDING STRATEGIES TO MAXIMIZE MARINE FEEDSTUFF REPLACEMENT IN LARGEMOUTH BASS Micropterus salmoides CULTURE WHILE MAINTAINING PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/648.
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ANDREW R. COURSEY, for the Master of Science degree in Zoology, presented 24 June 2011 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale TITLE: ALTERNATIVE FEEDING STRATEGIES TO MAXIMIZE MARINE FEEDSTUFF REPLACEMENT IN LARGEMOUTH BASS Micropterus salmoides CULTURE WHILE MAINTAINING PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE Advisors: Chris Kohler and Jesse Trushenski Harvest of marine resources for feedstuff production is at its maximum sustainable yield and alternative feedstuffs are needed to supply livestock production for an expanding human population having a growing desire for seafood. Aquaculture is currently the fastest growing sector of agriculture, but the high cost and limited supplies of marine feedstuffs for aquafeeds could ultimately limit production of foodfish. Replacement of marine feedstuffs poses a dilemma, however, as replacement of fish meal can affect animal growth, and replacement of fish oil in aquafeeds leads to altered fillet fatty acid profiles without the maximum benefit of high omega-3 (n-3) and long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA) content. Two feeding trials were conducted to determine if poultry byproducts can replace fish meal and fish oil in diets for largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides without affecting production performance or fillet fatty acid composition. Poultry byproducts were able to replace fish meal and fish oil while maintaining production performance of largemouth bass, however, the altered fatty acid profiles of the feeds were reflected in the fillets. Finishing diets containing high levels of fish oil were implemented to restore n-3 and LC PUFA concentrations in the fillet. Twelve weeks of finishing proved suitable to partially restore n-3 and LC-PUFA concentrations while limiting the overall use of marine resources in the largemouth bass production cycle.
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Maandi, Peeter. "Change and persistence in a reformed landscape : a geographical analysis of land reforms and landscape change in Muhu and Rapla municipalities, Estonia, c. 1840 to 2003 /." Uppsala : Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-5841.
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Chu, Hyun Sik Stephano. "Long Chain n-3 PUFA and Oleic Acid Modification Strategies to Enhance Fillet Quality in Tilapia, Oreochromis species." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/85868.
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Tilapia are freshwater fish that have become important in aquaculture and as a stable global source of seafood due to their ability to thrive in different environments. However, tilapia are sometimes considered nutritionally undesirable due to their high n-6 to n-3 fatty acid ratios. A market study was conducted first to determine fatty acid compositions in tilapia fillets in different US markets. Then a research was conducted to enhance nutritional value of tilapia by improving the n-3 and oleic acid contents in fish fillets without compromising fish growth or feed conversion ratios. Feeds were formulated with combinations of high and low n-6, n-3, and oleic acid levels using soybean oil, fish oil, algae oil, and high-oleic sunflower oil. Then 12 diets, including a commercial diet, were assigned to 24 tanks, each with 25 tilapia per tank. A Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) was used to grow the fish for 8 weeks. Fatty acid compositions of tilapia fillets were determined and samples were vacuum packed and stored at -10oC and -20oC to test oxidative degradation and fatty acid compositional changes. The market survey data showed that there were significant differences in fatty acid composition, lipid content, and n-6:n-3 fatty acid ratios depending on the country of origin. Samples from USA had ideal n-6:n-3 ratios (1.3 ±0.85) while samples from Southeast Asia had higher n-6:n-3 fatty acids ratio (6.6 ±0.54). Algae oil incorporation significantly increased DHA level while fish oil incorporation significantly increased both EPA and DPA. High-oleic sunflower oil based diets improved oleic acid levels and reduced linoleic acid compared to the soybean oil based diets. Sensory evaluation indicated that lipid source did not significantly impact preference or overall fillet quality, including texture. Interestingly, a survey showed people were interested in value-added tilapia, and would pay up to 30% more for nutritionally enhanced fish compared to the $5.00/lb fresh fillet price currently available in supermarkets. There was no observable oxidation during long term frozen storage. The oxidation study proved that value-addition would not be compromised during the long term storage conditions, even under temperature abuse. It is possible to improve tilapia nutritional quality through diet to provide consumers with value-added products that maintain quality during frozen storage.Ph. D.
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Silva, Lilian de Almeida. "Museu e turismo : instrumentos de negociação de cidadania? : estudo de caso do Museu de Favela - MUF/Rio de Janeiro." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2012. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/10206.
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Esse trabalho propõe uma discussão sobre o papel dos museus e da atividade turística como instrumentos de inclusão social de grupos até então marginalizados dos processos de representação, reconhecimento e reivindicação de seus “direitos culturais”. A partir da construção e uso do conceito de “cidadania cultural” nas Políticas Públicas de Cultura no Brasil, e da análise das atividades desenvolvidas pelo MUF – Museu de Favela junto à população dos morros do Cantagalo-Pavão-Pavãozinho na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, este trabalho oferece alguns dados à discussão sobre os processos de musealização de memórias periféricas e inserção de localidades tidas como marginais aos roteiros de turismo. Transformando-se, efetivamente, em arenas de negociação de cidadania e direitos culturais, entendidos como espaços de direitos à participação, informação, fruição, reconhecimento, produção e visibilidade cultural
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Brooks, Matthew Alan. "Carcass characteristics, fatty acids, stearoyl-coa desaturase gene expression and sensory evaluation of calf-fed and yearling-fed angus steers." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2562.
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Casaus, Kevin Ricardo 1969. "Use of GIS for natural and cultural resource management: A computerized rule-based activity planning system on San Nicolas Island, Point Mugu Naval Air Weapons Station." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278674.
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Managing natural and cultural resources on a department of Defense (DoD) facility presents a difficult challenge. Many DoD facilities contain sensitive resources that are protected by a myriad of state and federal laws. Resource protection is complicated further since, while an important endeavor, it often is subjugated to the fulfillment of the military mission. The ability for resource managers to compare, analyze, and integrate complex resource data determines the speed and efficiency in which planning decisions are made. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can help resource managers make informed accurate resource management decisions in an expedient manner. This project expanded a GIS database for San Nicolas Island (SNI), part of the Point Mugu Naval Air Weapons Station CA, and created prototype computer application to assist in resource management. This application, the Point Mugu Computerized Activity Planning System (PM-CAPS), assists managers in selecting locations on SNI for military activities to occur while minimizing the negative impacts on sensitive cultural and natural resources.
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Sjösvärd, Nathalie, and Julia Björkdahl. "Community Resilience and the Vulnerability to Climate Change in the Republic of Fiji : A qualitative field study on Mudu Village’s ability to recover from natural disasters." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-75687.
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The ability to recover from the effects of climate change among communities is acknowledged in previous research, where focus is laid on disaster recovery through adaptive capacities and resilience. The objective of this study was to investigate a rural community’s ability to cope with natural disasters in in the aftermath of Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston, by using the case of Mudu Village in Koro Island, Fiji. The data was based on observations through an ethnographically inspired approach, as well as 20 semistructured interviews with residents in Mudu Village and other relevant stakeholders. The study was based upon the characteristics of the concept of community resilience, which allowed for deeper understanding of disaster recovery and coping mechanisms among rural communities exposed to natural disasters. The result of the thesis has showed that disaster preparedness and social support systems within the community has increased due to the experience from past recovery processes. By using the concept of community resilience, it has further become clear that the dependence on natural resources has decreased the capacity to cope with and recover from natural disasters in Mudu Village, which thus constitutes the main hindrance to community resilience.
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Xu, Da. "Reconstruction and applications of QED final state radiation photons in Z->mumu decays produced in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2265/.
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This thesis presents a method for including the final state radiation (FSR) photon in the reconstruction of Z bosons decaying into pairs of muons (Z ->mumu). An algorithm for the reconstruction of FSR photons has been developed. The FSR photon candidates with ET >1.3 GeV are reconstructed within dR < 0.15 cone about the axis defined by the muon momentum direction at the interaction point, using the liquid argon calorimeter of ATLAS and a special clustering efficient at low energies. Based on an integrated luminosity of 164 pb-'1 , the cross section of the Z->mumu events with at least one FSR photon within fiducial region (ET>1.3 GeV and dR <0.15) is measured: 0.073±0.001(stat)±0.006(sys)±0.002(lum) nb. This is consistent with the expectation from a NNLO QCD calculation including QED FSR. Photons within the fiducial region are reconstructed with a 70% average efficiency which increases to 85% for ET > 4 GeV. Inclusion of these photons in the dimuon invariant mass calculation was shown to lead to improved Z-boson invariant mass resolution and scale: a Gaussian fit shows that the peak of the distribution moves from 89 GeV to 91.31±0.06 GeV with a standard deviation of 2.5±0.07 GeV. A 20% of all inclusive Z->mumu events are corrected in the tail of the invariant mass (M<80 GeV). Moreover, based on a test with simulated Higgs->ZZ()-> 4mu samples, more than 20% of the events are expected to find a reconstructed FSR photon around. The improvement of the Higgs invariant mass resolution and scale by adding the reconstructed FSR photons is presented.
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Chui, Ka Ki. "Secularity and religion : Dietrich Bonhoeffer's later theology and its relevance for Bishop Ting Kuang-hsun's theological construction." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2007. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/886.
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BON, NGUYEN ROMUALD. "Etude de la diffusion Ve-e auprès de la tranche 5 du centre de production nucléaire du Bugey : simulation de l'expérience MUNU de mesure du moment magnétique du neutrino." Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997GRE10173.
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L'experience munu a pour but la mesure du moment magnetique du neutrino grace a l'etude de la diffusion antineutrino electronique-electron aupres d'un reacteur nucleaire. Cette these presente le travail de simulation par la methode monte-carlo de l'experience munu. Cette simulation a permis de mettre en evidence les parametres ayant une influence sur les grandeurs observables de l'experience (moment magnetique, angle de weinberg, parametres decrivant les oscillations de neutrinos) ainsi que de preciser la sensibilite a ces grandeurs. En particulier, il apparait que munu permet d'obtenir une limite sur le moment magnetique du neutrino a hauteur de 2 a 3 10#-#1#1 magnetons de bohr. Cette simulation a egalement permis de mettre au point les methodes statistiques les plus performantes pour l'exploitation des donnees de munu.
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Multasuo, M. (Mikael). "”Ei auta muu kuin opetella, ja kuunnella enemmän, kyllä se siitä”:gymnasieelevers och -lärares åsikter om de största problemen med svenskinlärning och svenska språkets fritidsanvändning." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201606142501.
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Kgwatalala, Patrick M. 1973. "Genetic polymorphisms in the stearoyl-CoA desaturase1 (SCD1) gene and their influence on the conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) content of milk fat of Canadian Holstein and Jersey cows." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115690.
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Stearoyl-CoA desaturase1 (SCD1) catalyzes the synthesis of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and mono-unsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) in the mammary gland of ruminant animals. We hypothesized that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the coding region, 5' and 3' untranslted regions (UTRs) of the SCD1 gene would influence the activity of SCD1 enzyme and consequently account for some within-breed variations in milk CLA and MUFA. Sequence analysis of the coding region of the SCD1 gene of Jerseys and Holsteins revealed c.702A→G, c.762T→C and c.878C→T SNPs in exon 5 in both breeds and c.435G→A in exon 3 in Holsteins. The SNPs resulted in: A (G435A702T 762C878), A1 (A435A702T 762C878), B (G435G702C 762T878) and B1 (A435G702C 762T878) coding variants in Holsteins and only variants A and B in Jerseys. Only SNP 878C→T resulted in a non-synonymous codon change resulting in p.293Ala and p.293Val protein variants or alleles at the SCD1 locus. Subsequent association studies found significantly higher C10 index, C12 index and C14 index and consequently higher concentrations of C10:1 and C12:1 in p.293AA cows compared to the p.293VV cows in both breeds. The SCD1 genotype had no influence on concentrations of C141, C16:1, C18:1 and CLA in both breeds.Sequence analysis of the 5' and 3' UTRs revealed no SNPs in the 5'UTR and a total of 14 SNPs in the 3'UTR of both breeds. The SNPs were in complete linkage disequilibrium resulting in 3 haplotypes or regulatory variants: H1 (G1571G1644C1763C2053A2584 A3007C3107G3208 T3290G 3497G3682A4399C4533G4881), H2 (G1571G1644A1763C2053A 2584G3007 C3107G3208T3290G3497G 3682A4399C4533G4881) and H3 (T 1571C1644A1763 T2053G2584G3007T 3107A3208C3290A3497A3682T 4399T4533A4881) in Holsteins and only H1 and H3 variants in Jerseys. A subsequent association study involving 862 Holstein cows, found the H1 regulatory variant to be associated with higher C10 and C12 desaturase indices and consequently with higher concentrations of C10:1 and C12:1 compared with the H3 variant. The effects of the H2 variant were intermediate to those of H1 and H3. 3'UTR genotype had no influence on the concentrations of C14:1, C16:1, C18:1 and CLA. The concentrations of C10:1 and C12:1 in milk fat could therefore be due to effects of SNPs in the open reading frame and the 3'UTR regions of the SCD1 gene. These results indicate that SNPs in the coding and 3'UTR regions of the SCD1 gene could be used as markers for genetic selection for increased C10:1 and C12:1 contents of milk.
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Badkook, Maha Mohammed. "Effect of a high-MUFA diet alone or with combined vitamin E and C, or lycopene on the oxidative status, glycaemic control and lipid profiles in type II diabetics living in Saudia Arabia." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438740.
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Maccolini, Serena. "Ricerca di una risonanza ad alta massa nello stato finale mu+mu- a sqrt(s)=13 TeV con il rivelatore CMS." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/9415/.
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Il Modello Standard descrive la fenomenologia delle interazioni fondamentali con estrema precisione; tuttavia è incompleto e deve esistere nuova fisica oltre tale modello. Al momento non si è in grado di prevedere come e a che scala di energia tale fisica si manifesti.
Un’eventuale risonanza nello stato finale μ + μ − a masse elevate costituirebbe un segnale di nuova fisica. Un fenomeno di questo tipo viene catalogato come produzione della particella Z' , la quale non rappresenterebbe necessariamente un nuovo bosone vettore sequenziale alla Z_0 .
Questa tesi si colloca nell’ambito della ricerca della Z' nei processi di interazione protone-protone a LHC in termini di una generica risonanza che decade in coppie di muoni di carica opposta. I limiti attualmente fissati stabiliscono che non vi siano segnali di nuove risonanze per il Modello Sequenziale (SSM) al di sotto dei 2960 GeV. In questo lavoro di tesi si effettua un’analisi per un’eventuale Z ', fino a 5 TeV di massa.
A Maggio 2015, LHC ha raggiunto un’energia nel centro di massa di 13 TeV aumentando di un fattore 10 o più il potere di scoperta per oggetti con massa superiore a 1 TeV. In questo scenario, favorevole all’osservazione di fenomeni rari, si inserisce la mia ricerca.
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Gómez, Rubio Constanza Alejandra. "Vejez y cuidados, eso que les pasa a otros(as). Discursos y experiencias comunitarias autogestionadas en personas mayores de Santiago de Chile." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667224.
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La presente tesis se interroga por la vejez pobre y sus cuidados en Santiago de Chile. Particularmente, busca conocer y comprender la vejez y sus cuidados que construyen mujeres y hombres que participan en organizaciones comunitarias autogestionadas de adultos(as) mayores pobres, en la ciudad capital del país. Me aproximo desde la gerontología feminista, el poscolonialismo y elementos del anarquismo de Piotr Kropotkin, siempre considerando las interseccionalidades de género, clase y edad de manera crítica, mediante la visibilización de diferentes discursos e ideologías de la base.
El escrito es un recorrido que comenzó con la pregunta ¿Cómo se construyen la vejez y los cuidados mutuos en dos organizaciones comunitarias autogestionadas de adultos(as) mayores pobres, insertas en un contexto neoliberal?, Sin embargo, en el transcurso de la investigación fueron surgiendo otras interrogantes que abrieron la tesis a temas de gran importancia para responder a la primera: ¿cómo han podido las personas mayores subsistir en condiciones sociales no hegemónicas?, ¿qué papel juega el apoyo mutuo en las estrategias de subsistencia de las personas mayores en comunidades pobres?, ¿cómo se construyen las formas de politicidad en la vejez a partir de los cuidados mutuos y de la autogestión?
Para responder a estas y otras interrogantes inicialmente comencé por describir el contexto neoliberal chileno, para ubicar al/la lector(a) en el marco general de la investigación. Luego doy cuenta de mi posicionamiento como autora, tanto personal como profesionalmente, lo que me lleva a tomar una serie de decisiones ético-teórico-políticas en relación con el estudio. Dichas decisiones se comienzan a vislumbrar en la literatura seleccionada y presentada desde una perspectiva crítica.
Concordante con lo anterior, teórica y metodológicamente utilicé Análisis Crítico del Discurso, con especial énfasis en una perspectiva feminista, que complementé con notas de campo del trabajo en terreno que realicé en dos fases. En la primera, trabajé con una organización autogestionada de corte más cristiano, mientras en la segunda lo hice con otra organización autogestionada de carácter más laico, pero no por eso sus participantes menos creyentes. Desarrollé entrevistas cualitativas abiertas semidirectivas a un total de 22 personas mayores, cinco hombres y 17 mujeres, que además compartían la historia de la constitución del barrio desde más de 50 años.
A partir del Análisis Crítico del Discurso y de las notas de campo, se produjeron tres dimensiones argumentativas: 1. Construcciones discursivas sobre la vejez: “Son los más indefensos, con los niños también”; 2. Cuidados: Del sacrificio y el colonialismo a la ayuda mutua; 3. La autogestión en las organizaciones comunitarias y la relación con las redes de cuidado en la vejez: “...ellos iban a manejar nuestra plata, entonces nosotros dijimos que no”. Estas dimensiones permitieron jerarquizar los discursos y visibilizar las ideologías operantes, como la heteropatriarcal, a la vez que posibilitaron destacar la importancia política de las mujeres mayores en sus cuidados mediante la ayuda mutua, la solidaridad y la reciprocidad que han construido entre ellas, mostrando que los cuidados comunitarios son una potente alternativa ante el Estado, el mercado y la familia.This thesis is questioned by poor old age and his care in Santiago de Chile. In particular, it seeks to know and understand old age and its care that builds women and men who participate in self-managed community organizations of poor older adults in the capital city of the country. I approach from feminist gerontology, postcolonialism and elements of anarchism by Piotr Kropotkin, always considering the intersections of gender, class and age critically, through the visibility of different speeches and ideologies of the base. The writing is a journey that began with the question how do you build old age and mutual care in two self-managed community organizations of poor older adults, inserted in a neoliberal context?, however, in the course of the Research were emerging other questions that opened the thesis to issues of great importance to respond to the first: How have older people survive in non-hegemonic social conditions?; What role does mutual support play in the strategies the livelihood of older people in poor communities; How are the forms of politicity in old age built from mutual care and community self-management? To answer these and other questions initially I began by describing the chilean neoliberal context, to locate the reader in the general framework of the research. Then I realize my position as author, both personally and professionally, which leads me to take a series of ethical-theoretical-political decisions regarding the study. These decisions begin to be glimpsed in the literature selected and presented from a critical perspective. Concordant with the foregoing, theoretically and methodologically, I used critical discourse analysis, with special emphasis on a feminist perspective, which I complemented with field notes from ground work I did in two phases. In the first one, I worked with a more Christian self-managed cutting organization, while in the second I did it with another self-managed organization of a more secular character, but that is not why its less-believing participants. I developed qualitative interviews open semidirective to a total of 22 elderly people, five men and 17 women, who also shared the history of the Constitution of the neighborhood for more than 50 years. From the critical analysis of the discourse and the field notes, three argumentative dimensions were produced: 1. Discursive constructions on old age: "They are the most helpless, with children too"; 2. Care: From sacrifice and colonialism to mutual help; 3. Self-management in community organizations and the relationship with care networks in old age: "... they were going to handle our money, so we said no." These dimensions allowed the hierarchical discourse and visualize of the operating ideologies, such as the heteropatriarcal, while making it possible to highlight the political importance of older women in their care through mutual aid, solidarity and Reciprocity that they have built among them, showing that community care is a potent alternative to the state, the market and the family.
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C?sar, Nayara Rayne. "Efeitos da substitui??o parcial da banha de porco por ?leo de pequi (Caryocar brasiliense) em uma dieta ocidental sobre o metabolismo, a fun??o card?aca e o estado redox celular de ratos." UFVJM, 2015. http://acervo.ufvjm.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/794.
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Funda??o de Amparo ? Pesquisa do estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG)
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico (CNPq)
Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior (Capes)
O padr?o diet?tico ocidental, caracterizado pelo alto consumo de gordura saturada e carboidratos refinados, favorece o ac?mulo de tecido adiposo e o surgimento de v?rias doen?as cardiometab?licas (DCM). Atualmente, tem-se considerado que n?o apenas a quantidade, mas o perfil das gorduras ingeridas pode exercer forte influ?ncia sobre o desenvolvimento dessas doen?as. Nesse contexto, v?rios estudos t?m demonstrado que o consumo de alimentos fontes de ?cidos graxos monoinsaturados (MUFA) est? associado a um menor risco para o desenvolvimento de DCM. Al?m disso, t?m sido tamb?m identificados muitos compostos bioativos presentes nos alimentos vegetais, os quais t?m sido associados a efeitos ben?ficos na redu??o do risco e, ou, no tratamento de DCM. Dentre esses compostos est?o os carotenoides, que apresentam atividade antioxidante. Nessa perspectiva, o ?leo do pequi apresenta-se como um potencial alimento funcional, dado que os MUFA representam aproximadamente 60% dos seus ?cidos graxos, e possui ainda um teor elevado de carotenoides totais. Considerando que o padr?o de consumo alimentar ocidental favorece o desenvolvimento das DCM, e que o ?leo do pequi ? um potencial alimento protetor, mas ainda n?o foi explorado nesse contexto, o objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar os efeitos da substitui??o parcial da banha de porco (rica em ?cidos graxos saturados - SFA) por ?leo de Caryocar brasiliense ? pequi (rico em MUFA e carotenoides) em uma dieta de padr?o ocidental, sobre o metabolismo, a fun??o card?aca e o estado redox celular de ratos. Ap?s uma semana de adapta??o, os animais rec?m-desmamados foram distribu?dos em tr?s grupos (n=12) e tratados durante 12 semanas. Os grupos foram identificados conforme a dieta que receberam: CTRL ? controle, dieta AIN93G; HFS ? dieta alta em gordura e sacarose; HFS-OP ? dieta alta em gordura e sacarose, com substitui??o parcial da banha de porco por ?leo de pequi (27%). O peso corporal e a ingest?o alimentar foram monitorados durante todo o per?odo experimental; a press?o arterial sist?lica (PAS) e a frequ?ncia card?aca (FC) foram aferidas na 3? e 10? semanas; as fezes das ?ltimas 72 horas foram coletadas para avalia??o das concentra??es de colesterol e triglicer?deos (TG) e, ao final do experimento, os animais foram eutanasiados por decapita??o. As cavidades abdominais e tor?cicas foram abertas para coleta de amostras: (A) cora??es: foram retirados imediatamente para avalia??o da fun??o card?aca ex vivo; posteriormente foram avaliados os n?veis de peroxida??o lip?dica e capacidade antioxidante total; (B): tecido adiposo das regi?es epididimal e retroperitoneal, que foi pesado e posteriormente utilizado para avalia??es da adiposidade e histol?gicas; (C) soro: para determina??o das concentra??es de glicose, colesterol e TG; (D) plasma: para determina??o das concentra??es de insulina, leptina e adiponectina, peroxida??o lip?dica e capacidade antioxidante total; (E) f?gados: para avalia??o das concentra??es de colesterol e TG, an?lises histopatol?gicas e peroxida??o lip?dica, capacidade antioxidante total e atividade enzim?tica (super?xido dismutase, catalase e glutationa peroxidase). Observou-se que os pesos corporais dos animais HFS-OP e HFS foram mais elevados que CTRL (p<0,05), no entanto, a deposi??o de gordura na regi?o visceral em resposta ao consumo das dietas ocidentais foi atenuada pela substitui??o da banha de porco por ?leo de pequi (p<0,05). A menor sobrecarga reduziu a deposi??o de TG no tecido hep?tico o que pode estar associado ao retardo do desenvolvimento do diabetes. De um modo geral, a fun??o card?aca foi prejudicada pelas dietas ocidentais em compara??o ao CTRL. Nas avalia??es in vivo n?o foram observados efeitos diferenciais da substitui??o parcial da banha de porco por ?leo de pequi, contudo, quando a fun??o card?aca foi avaliada ex vivo, a ingest?o do ?leo atenuou os danos ? fun??o card?aca (p<0,05), sugerindo que, ainda que modestamente, o ?leo do pequi exerceu um efeito protetor sobre as estruturas card?acas intr?nsecas. Al?m disso, foi observada uma atenua??o da peroxida??o lip?dica no tecido hep?tico para HFS-OP em rela??o ? HFS (p<0,05), sugerindo que o ?leo do pequi pode ter favorecido a incorpora??o dos MUFA e de carotenoides nas membranas dos cardiomi?citos, o que exerceu um efeito protetor. Devido ao papel prim?rio do f?gado no controle metab?lico de todo o organismo, esse efeito de prote??o contra a peroxida??o lip?dica n?o p?de ser observado nos hepat?citos. Contudo, a presen?a dos carotenoides na dieta HFS-OP fortaleceu o sistema antioxidante ex?geno, evitando que a atividade das enzimas super?xido dismutase e glutationa peroxidase fosse prejudicada em HFS-OP como observado para HFS (p<0,05). Essas adapta??es sugerem que a substitui??o parcial da banha de porco por ?leo de pequi foi capaz de atenuar alguns efeitos delet?rios da dieta ocidental sobre o metabolismo lip?dico, a fun??o card?aca e o estado redox celular de ratos.
Disserta??o (Mestrado) ? Programa Multic?ntrico de P?s-gradua??o em Ci?ncias Fisiol?gicas, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2015.
ABSTRACT The Western diet pattern, which means a high saturated fat and refined carbohydrates intake, leads to body fat accumulation and several cardiometabolic diseases (CMD). Currently, it has been considered that, not only the amount, but the fat quality, can exert a strong influence in the development of those diseases. In this context, several studies have shown that consuming foods high in monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) is associated with lower risk for CMD. Moreover, it has also been identified many bioactive compounds in plant foods which are associated with beneficial effects in reducing the risk, or treating DCM. Among these compounds are carotenoids, which have strong antioxidant activity. In this perspective, pequi oil is a potential functional food, since MUFA represent approximately 60% of its fatty acids content, and it is also high in several antioxidant carotenoids. So, considering that western diet pattern promotes CMD development, and pequi oil is a potential functional food, but it has not been explored in this context, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a partial replacement of lard (high in SFA) by pequi oil (high in MUFA and carotenoids), into a Western diet model, on metabolism, cardiac function and cellular redox status of rats. The animals were divided into three groups (n = 12) and treated during 12 weeks: CTRL - control, AIN93G diet; HFS ? high in saturated fat and sucrose; HFS-OP - high in saturated fat and sucrose, with partial replcement of lard by pequi oil (27%). Body weight and food intake were monitored throughout the experimental period; systolic blood pressure (SBP) and heart rate (HR) were measured at the 3rd and 10th weeks; faeces from the last 72 hours were collected for evaluation of cholesterol and triglycerides (TG). At the end of the experiment, all animals were killed by decapitation, the abdominal and thoracic cavities were opened for collection of samples: (A) hearts were taken immediately to evaluate the ex vivo cardiac function; levels of lipid peroxidation and total antioxidant capacity; (B): epididymal and retroperitoneal adipose tissues were harversted, weighed and subsequently used for adiposity and histological evaluations; (C) serum: for glucose, cholesterol and TG determination; (D) plasma: for insulin, leptin and adiponectina determinations, lipid peroxidation, total antioxidant capacity; (E) livers: for cholesterol and TG levels, histopathological analyzes, lipid peroxidation, total antioxidant capacity and enzyme activities. Body weights from HFS-OP and HFS animals were equally higher than CTRL (p<0.05); however, visceral fat deposition in response to consumption of the Western diet was attenuated by replacing lard by pequi oil and it also led to less TG deposition in the liver (p<0.05). In general, cardiac function was impaired by Western diet, promoting a higher blood pressure and heart rate in vivo and a lower cardiac contractility and relaxation efficiency ex vivo (p<0,05). However, although there were no differential effects from the partial replacement of lard by pequi oil on blood pressure and heart rate in vivo, this replacement attenuated the damage to cardiac function compared to HFS (p<0.05), suggesting that, eventhough modestly, pequi oil exerted a protective effect on intrinsic cardiac structures. In addition, the partial replacement of lard by pequi oil reduced lipid peroxidation in cardiomyocytes (p<0.05) compared to HFS, which was not observed in hepatocytes. Moreover, in the hepatocytes, there were an increasing in total antioxidant capacity and catalase and glutathione peroxidase activities compared to HFS (p<0.05). These adaptations suggest that the partial replacement of lard by pequi oil mitigated some deleterious effects of the Western diet on lipid metabolism, cardiac function and cellular redox status of rats.
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Öhnström, Magnus, and Victor Göhlin. "Förbättring av passivdämpande hörselskydd." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-14381.
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Magnus Öhnström och Victor Göhlin studenter på Designingenjörsprogrammet vid Högskolan i Skövde har i samverkan med Hellberg Saftey AB studerat förbättringsåtgärder för passivdämpande hörselskydd. Med mål att skapa en grundkåpa som kan anpassas för olika dämpningsgrader. För att uppnå detta har det gjorts en förstudie med en omfattande konkurrentanalys. Uppdraget har inneburit att testa och utvärdera kåpkonstruktion med kåpskal, volymring, tätningsring och absorbent. Från detta dras slutsatser med hjälp av en Akustisk Test Fixtur (ATF) i Hellbergs ljudlabb. Olika förbättringar kombineras till koncept som slutligen skickats till Tyskland för verifikation. Utifrån de erhållna resultaten sker en viss vidareutveckling av volymringen.Magnus Öhnström and Victor Göhlin are two design engineer students from the University of Skövde. To obtain their bachelor in engineering they have completed a study for Hellberg Safety to improve the sound dampening effect in their passive earmuffs. The goal is a standard shell that can be optimized for different grades of sound dampening. In order to obtain knowledge a pilot study was performed. This included an analysis of one of the major competitor’s products. In order to reach the goal, the shell, absorber and cushion had to be examined. Modifications made were evaluated with an Acoustic Test Fixture (ATF) located in Hellbergs sound lab. Different modifications were combined, evaluated and sent to Germany for further evaluation. From the given results parts of the shell were further developed.
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Arslan, Omer Cagri. "Implementation And Performance Evaluation Of A Three Antenna Direction Finding System." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12611215/index.pdf.
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State of the art direction finding (DF) systems usually have several antennas in order to increase accuracy and robustness to certain factors. In this thesis, a three antenna DF system is built and evaluated. While more antennas give better DF performance, a three antenna system is useful for system simplicity and many of the problems in DF systems can be observed and evaluated easily. This system can be used for both azimuth and elevation direction of arrival (DOA) estimation. The system is composed of three monopole antennas, an RF front end, A/D converters and digital signal processing (DSP) units. A number of algorithms are considered, such as, three channel interferometer, correlative interferometer, LSE (least square error) based correlative interferometer and MUSIC (multiple signal classification) algorithms. Different problems in DF systems are investigated. These are gain/phase mismatch of the receiver channels, mutual coupling between antennas, multipath signals and multiple sources. The advantages and disadvantages of different algorithms are outlined.
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Eskilson, Siri, and Kajsa Pedersen. "Red banderoles and swedish flags - a study in the relationship between politics and visual identity within ten political youth associations." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Medie- och Informationsteknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-115732.
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2014 är det supervalår i Sverige. Det innebär intensiv marknadsföring för de olika politiska intressena i många olika kanaler. För många, men kanske speciellt för unga människor, kan detta bli en förvirrande period av budskap och åsikter som på olika sätt ska värderas och tas ställning till. De politiska ungdomsförbunden riktar sig till personer mellan sex och 25 år, och hör för det mesta till ett så kallat moderparti, men har egna politiska agendor, grafiska profiler och marknadsföring. Den mesta av marknadsföringen sker genom någon slags grafiskt material, och för att de politiska budskapen verkligen ska nå fram till alla unga på bästa sätt, borde det grafiska materialet också rent visuellt tala för innehållet. Den här studien syftar till att undersöka om det finns samband mellan politik och grafiska profiler hos de politiska ungdomsförbunden. Då studier på sambandet mellan politik och grafiskt material visat sig vara ett relativt outforskat område som det är svårt att hitta exakt data om, är detta en kvalitativ tvärsnittsstudie. Tio politiska ungdomsförbund valdes ut för granskning med grund i moderpartiernas storlek i riksdagsvalet 2010. Vidare samlades data om dessa in genom kvalitativa dokument och audiovisuella kanaler, vilket exempelvis innefattar de politiska ungdomsförbundens grafiska manualer och webbsidor. Studien visar på samband mellan politiken och de grafiska profilernas. Dessa uppstod mellan förbunden som ingår i blockpolitiken, men även mellan förbund på skilda delar av skalan som hade andra aspekter än blockpolitik gemensamt.
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Edin, Strukan. "Efekti liderstva na organizacione i poslovne performanse preduzeća." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Tehnički fakultet Mihajlo Pupin u Zrenjaninu, 2019. https://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=108162&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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Disertacija se bavi efektima liderstva, LMX i transformacionog liderstva na razliĉite organizacione i poslovne performanse preduzeća u Bosni i Hercegovini. Od poslovnih performansi su kao kljuĉne posmatrane finansijske i performanse uspješnosti razvoja novog proizvoda, a kao organizacione performanse posmatrani su: zadovoljstvo poslom, organizaciona posvećenost, organizaciona komunikacija i meĊusobno povjerenje na poslu. Pored toga, u disertaciji su obrazloţeni i neki drugi organizacioni ishodi koji su u uzroĉno-posljediĉnoj vezi sa liderstvom: organizaciono ponašanje, organizaciona kultura, motivacija i stres. Istraţivaĉki dio disertacije je zasnovan na podacima koji su dobijeni iz dva istovremeno sprovedena istraţivanja. Prvo istraţivanje je obuhvatilo anketiranje N=334 menadţera srednjeg nivoa iz 103 preduzeća u Bosni i Hercegovini. Od metoda statistiĉke obrade podataka korišteni su: deskriptivna statistika, korelaciona analiza, regresiona analiza i hijerarhijska regresiona analiza za ispitivanje moderatornog dejstva. Osnovni zakljuĉci ovog istraţivanja su: (1) Lideri u B&H preduzećima imaju visoka oĉekivanja u pogledu performansi, a malo podrške i osjećanja za zaposlene. Kazne su ĉešće nego nagrade, LMX je oko prosjeka, distanca moći iznad prosjeka, a organizaciona posvećenost ima nisku prosjeĉnu ocjenu. (2) Zaposleni u B&H preduzećima ne vole visoku distancu moći, preferiraju dobre meĊuljudske odnose, kako sa nadreĊenim tako i sa kolegama. Pored toga, zaposleni visoko cijene nagraĊivanje i strategijske sposobnosti lidera. Insistiranje lidera na visokim performansama, kao i primjena sistema kaţnjavanja, ne daju pozitivne efekte. (3) Zadovoljstvo poslom, zadovoljstvo organizacionom komunikacijom i meĊusobno povjerenje na poslu su oko prosjeka. Zaposleni su više zadovoljni aspektima posla koji su vezani za socijalne odnose u preduzeću nego postojećim i potencijalnim naknadama. Generalno posmatrano,zadovoljni su organizacionom komunikacijom, naroĉito sa onom koju realizuju sa menadţerima srednjeg nivoa, a meĊusobno povjerenje je nešto intenzivnije kada su u pitanju namjere i akcije kolega nego namjere i akcije menadţmenta preduzeća. (4) Vlasniĉka struktura i nacionalno porijeklo preduzeća nisu znaĉajni moderatori posmatranih odnosa. Moderatorni efekat pokazao se samo u malom broju sluĉajeva. (5) Lideri treba da smanje distancu moći, smanje visoka oĉekivanja u smislu performansi, smanje kazne, a da poboljšaju svoj odnos sa zaposlenima, da njeguju dobre odnose meĊu zaposlenima, da povećaju nagrade, i da se usavršavaju u svojim strateškim znanjima, razmišljanjima i akcijama.TakoĊer, da bi disertacija dala sveobuhvatne informacije o efektima liderstva na organizacione i poslovne performanse preduzeća u Bosni i Hercegovini, pored prethodno navedenog istraţivanja menadţera srednjeg nivoa, uraĊeno je i dodatno, uporedno istraţivanje na uzorku od 127 top menadţera u isto toliko preduzeća, po principu jedno preduzeće jedan top menadţer. Uvaţavajući ĉinjenicu da moderno poslovanje nameće liderima potrebu kreiranja i stalnog uvoĊenja promjena u postojeći naĉin poslovanja, što u svojoj suštini predstavlja transformaciono liderstvo, ovo istraţivanje je imalo za cilj da utvrdi obim i intenzitet efekata transformacionog liderstva vrhunskih menadţera na poslovne performanse B&H preduzeća. Kao poslovne performase posmatrane su finansijske performanse i performanse razvoja novog proizvoda. Rezultati ovog istraţivanja pokazuju da transformaciono liderstvo ima pozitivan uticaj na postizanje visokog nivoa finansijskih performansi i performansi razvoja novog proizvoda. TakoĊer, istraţivanje je pokazalo da lideri i top menadţeri najvišeg nivoa u preduzećima u Bosni i Hercegovini imaju veći fokus na zadatke nego na ljude. U tom smislu, preporuka za njih jeste da više paţnje posvećuju kreiranju i uvoĊenju promjenama u postojeći model poslovanja, na budućnost i dugoroĉne planove, ali i na svoje zaposlene kao glavne nosioce svih poslovnih procesa.The dissertation deals with the effects of leadership, LMX and transformational leadership on the various organisational and business performance of enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Of business performance, key financial and success of new product development performance are considered to be key, while as organisational performance we consider: job satisfaction, organisational commitment, organisational communication and mutual trust at work. In addition, the dissertation also explains other organisational outcomes that are in a cause-and-effect relationship with leadership: organisational behaviour, organisational culture, motivation and stress. The research part of the dissertation is based on data obtained from two simultaneously conducted research. The first survey included a survey of N = 334 mid-level managers from 103 enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The statistical methods used are: descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, regression analysis and hierarchical regression analysis for moderate effect testing. The basic conclusions of this research are: (1) Leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina have high expectations in terms of performance, with little support and feelings for employees. The penalties are more frequent than the rewards, the LMX is around the average, the distance of power above the average, and the organisation's commitment has a low average grade. (2) Employees in Bosnia and Herzegovina do not like a great distance of power, preferring good interpersonal relationships, both with their superiors and their counterparts. In addition, employees highly value and reward strategic abilities of leaders. Insistence of leaders on high-performance, as well as the application of the punishment system, do not yield positive effects. (3) Job satisfaction, satisfaction with organisational communication and mutual trust in work are around the average. Employees are more satisfied with aspects of work related to social relations in the companythan the existing and potential benefits. Generally speaking, they are happy with organisational communication, especially with middle-level managers, and mutual trust is more intense when it comes to the intentions and actions of colleagues than the intentions and actions of enterprise management. (4) Ownership structure and national origin of enterprises are not significant moderators of observed relationships. The moderate effect has only been demonstrated in a small number of cases. (5) Leaders should reduce the distance of power, reduce high performance expectations, reduce punishment, improve their relationship with employees, nurture good relations among employees, increase rewards, and improve their strategic knowledge, thinking and action.Also, in order for the dissertation to provide comprehensive information on the effects of leadership on organisational and business performance of enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in addition to the aforementioned research of mid-level managers, an additional parallel study was carried out on a sample of 127 top managers in the same companies, on the principle of one company one top manager. Bearing in mind the fact that modern business imposes on leaders the need to create and permanently introduce changes to existing business practises, which in essence represents transformational leadership, this research was intended to determine the scope and intensity of the transformation leadership effects of top managers on business performance of enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We consider financial performance and performance of new product development as business performance. The results of this research show that transformational leadership has a positive influence on achieving a high level of financial performance and the performance of developing a new product. Also, research has shown that leaders and top managers of the highest level in enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina have a greater focus on tasks than on people. In this regard, the recommendation to them is to pay more attention to the design and implementation of changes in the existing business model, the future and long-term plans, but also to its employees as the main carriers of all business processes.
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Konstantinidou, Valentini. "Molecular mechanisms involved in the protective effect of Mediterranean diet and olive oil consumption in humans." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7208.
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The scope of the present work was to investigate whether the protective role of the traditional Mediterranean diet (TMD), and virgin olive oil (VOO) rich in phenolic compounds (PC), towards cardiovascular disease can be mediated through gene expression changes. Two trials were performed to assess the in vivo nutrigenomic effects of TMD and VOO in healthy volunteers. The results point out: a) significant gene expression changes of those genes related with cardiovascular-risk processes after VOO ingestion; b) a down-regulation in the expression of atherosclerosis-related genes after a 3-month intervention with a TMD; and c) an olive oil PC health-protective nutrigenomic effect within the frame of the TMD. Changes in gene expression were concomitant with decreases in oxidative damage and systemic inflammation markers. Data from our studies provide further evidence to recommend both the TMD and the VOO as a useful tool for the prevention of atherosclerosis.El objetivo de este estudio es investigar si el papel protector de la dieta Mediterránea tradicional (TMD) y del aceite de oliva virgen (VOO), rico en compuestos fenólicos (PC), puede ser mediado a través de cambios en la expresión génica. Se realizaron dos ensayos clínicos para evaluar los efectos nutrigenómicos de la TMD y del VOO, in vivo, en voluntarios sanos. Los resultados mostraron a) cambios en la expresión génica de genes relacionados con el riesgo cardiovascular tras la ingestión del aceite virgen de oliva, b) una infra-expresión en la expresión de genes relacionados con el proceso aterosclerótico tras una intervención con TMD de 3 meses y c) que los compuestos fenólicos del aceite de oliva ejercen un efecto nutrigenómico protector en el marco de la TMD. Los cambios en la expresión génica fueron coherentes.
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Halvarsson, Sören. "Manufacture of straw MDF and fibreboards." Doctoral thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, teknik och matematik, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-11732.
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The purpose of this thesis was to develop an economical, sustainable, and environmentally friendly straw Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF) process, capable of full-scale manufacturing and to produce MDF of requested quality. The investigated straw was based on wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and rice (Oryzae sativa L.). In this thesis three different methods were taken for manufacture of straw MDF; (A) wheat-straw fibre was blowline blended with melamine-modified urea-formaldehyde (MUF), (B) rice-straw fibre was mixed with methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) in a resin drum-blender, and (C) wheat-straw fibre was activated in the blowline by the addition of Fenton’s reagent (H2O2/Fe2+) for production of non-resin MDF panels. The MUF/wheat straw MDF panels were approved according to the requirements of the EN standard for MDF (EN 622-5, 2006). The MDI/rice-straw MDF panels were approved according to requirements of the standard for MDF of the American National Standard Institute (ANSI A208.2-2002). The non-resin wheat-straw panels showed mediocre MDF panel properties and were not approved according to the requirements in the MDF standard. The dry process for wood-based MDF was modified for production of straw MDF. The straw MDF process was divided into seven main process steps. 1. Size-reduction (hammer-milling) and screening of straw 2. Wetting and heating of straw 3. Defibration 4. Resination of straw fibre 5. Mat forming 6. Pre-pressing 7. Hot-pressing The primary results were that the straw MDF process was capable of providing satisfactory straw MDF panels based on different types of straw species and adhesives. Moreover, the straw MDF process was performed in pilot-plant scale and demonstrated as a suitable method for producing straw MDF from straw bales to finished straw MDF panels. In the environmental perspective the agricultural straw-waste is a suitable source for producing MDF to avoid open field burning and to capture carbon dioxide (CO2), the biological sink for extended time into MDF panels, instead of converting straw directly into bio energy or applying straw fibre a few times as recycled paper. Additionally, the straw MDF panels can be recycled or converted to energy after utilization. A relationship between water retention value (WRV) of resinated straw fibres, the thickness swelling of corresponding straw MDF panels, and the amount of applied adhesive was determined. WRV of the straw fibre increased and the TS of straw MDF declined as a function of the resin content. The empirical models developed were of acceptable significance and the R2 values were 0.69 (WRV) and 0.75 (TS), respectively. Reduced thickness swelling of MDF as the resin content is increased is well-known. The increase of WRV as a function of added polymers is not completely established within the science of fibre swelling. Fortunately, more fundamental research can be initiated and likely a simple method for prediction of thickness swelling of MDF by analysis of the dried and resinated MDF fibres is possible.Syftet med denna avhandling var att lägga grunden för en ekonomisk, hållbar och miljövänlig MDF process för halmråvara, kapabel för fullskalig produktion av MDF och goda skivegenskaper. Framställningen av MDF skivor utgick från halm av vete (Triticum aestivum L.) och ris (Oryzae sativa L.). Tre olika metoder användes för att producera MDF av halm; (A) fibrer av vetehalm belimmades i blåsledning med ett melaminmodifierat urea-formaldehydlim (MUF), (B) fibrer av rishalm belimmades i en limblandare med metylen difenyl diisocyanate (MDI), (C) Limfria MDF skivor av vetehalm framställdes med aktivering av fibrer genom tillsats av Fenton´s reagens (H2O2/Fe2+) i blåsledning utan någon tillsats av syntetiskt lim. Sammanfattningsvis kan det understrykas att framställda MDF-skivor av MUF/vetehalm var godkända enligt standard för MDF (EN 622-5, 2006). Dessutom var framställda MDF skivor av MDI/rishalm också godkända enligt krav i standard för MDF ”American National Standard Institute” (ANSI A2008.2-2002). Limfria vetehalmskivor visade på måttliga skivegenskaper och klarade inte kraven i MDF standard. Fiberframställningsprocessen för MDF modifierades till en produktion utgående från halm. MDF processen för halm delades upp i sju primära processoperationer. (1) Storleksreducering och sållning av halm (2) Vätning och uppvärmning av halm (3) Defibrering (4) Belimning av halmfiber (5) Mattformning (6) Förpressning (7) Pressning De viktigaste resultaten från denna studie är att MDF av halm kunde produceras utgående från olika typer av halmsorter och lim. Dessutom utfördes MDF-processen i pilotskala och visade på en lämplig metod för framställning av MDF-skivor från halmbalar till färdiga halmfiberskivor. Det miljömässiga perspektivet på att använda jordbruksavfall till framställning av halmskivor är att undvika förbränning av halm ute på fältet, men det är även möjligt att binda koldioxid (CO2) i halmskivor under längre tid än att omsätta halmråvaran omedelbart som bioenergi eller använda halmfiber som returpapper några få gånger. Dessutom kan MDF återanvändas eller bli omsatt till energi efter användning. Ett förhållande mellan ”water retention value” (WRV), av belimmade halmfiber, tjocklekssvällning för motsvarande MDF av halmskivor och mängden av tillsatt lim vid olika nivåer har undersökts. Med ökande limhalt tilltog WRV fibersvällning, vidare minskade tjocklekssvällning för motsvarande MDF skivor. De framtagna empiriska modellerna var godtagbara och beräknade R2 värden var 0.69 (WRV) och 0.75 (TS). Minskad tjocklekssvällning med ökad limhalt är dokumenterad sen tidigare. Ökad fibersvällning WRV vid tillsats av polymerer (limmer) är inte fullständigt etablerad inom vetenskapen för fibersvällning. Lyckligtvis kan grundläggande forskning initieras och sannolikt föreligger en enkel metod för att prediktera tjocklekssvällning av MDF genom analyser av torkade och belimmad MDF fiber.
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Silva, Gilmar Alves. "Anomalia equatorial de ionização e a propagação de sinais de rádio." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2018. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/3499.
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The ionosphere plays an important role in the propagation of electromagnetic waves, providing valvable opportunity to study its variability and effects on radio signals. The continuous changing in the ionospheric conditions caused by space weather strongly affects the propagation of electromagnetic waves, particularly in high frequency (HF).This work aims to investigate the propagation of radio signals in the equatorial region, between November 2013 to October 2014 in the following frequencies: 1,8 MHz, 14 MHz, 28 MHz and 50 MHz. The study was performed using DPS4 digisonde data, propagation model (VOACAP) and amateur radio receivers. The work consists of radio signals analysis emitted by two amateur radio stations located in Punta Arenas (latitude: 53.15°S; longitude: 70.92°W; dip. latitude: 39.37ºS) and in Nairóbi (latitude: 1.28ºS; longitude: 36.88ºE; dip. latitude: 10.74ºS). These radio signals were recorded at the amateur radio receiving stations located in Boa Vista (latitude: 2.82°N; longitude: 60.76°W; dip. latitude: 15,14ºN), Campo Grande (latitude: 20.5oS; longitude: 54.7oW; dip. latitude: 16.99ºS) and São Luís (latitude: 2.53oS; longitude: 44.30oW; dip. latitude: 3.28ºS) located in the region of the equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA) and at the magnetic equator in the Brazilian sector. It was emphasized the analysis of the maximum usable frequency (MUF) obtained from the foF2 ionospheric parameter and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in each path between radio amateur transmitters (Tx) and the receivers (Rx). Results indicate that the ionosphere response was different in relation to the radio signals that propagate in and out of the equatorial region. According to SNR values measured at the receiving stations, The communications in 1.8 MHz were only possible at evenings of winter months between Punta Arenas and Boa Vista and between Punta Arenas an Sao Luis. The communications in 14 MHz were possible on all routes during the summer months and during equinoxes period at any hour of the day, but during the winter period the transmissions from Punta Arenas were only received in São Luís and Campo Grande during daylight hours. The 28 MHz transmissions from Nairobi were received during the summer months in all stations 24 hours by day, but transmissions at the same frequency from Punta Arenas only were received in São Luís and Campo Grande. At other times of the year the communications over the same frequency were only possible during daylight hours. The communications in 50 MHz were only possible in the summer months coming from Nairobi station.
A ionosfera desempenha um papel importante na propagação de ondas eletromagnéticas, o que proporciona uma oportunidade para estudar sua variabilidade e seus efeitos sobre os sinais de rádio. A mudança contínua nas condições ionosféricas causadas pelo clima espacial afeta fortemente a propagação principalmente em alta frequência (HF), em virtude disso esse trabalho apresenta resultados de investigação sobre a propagação de sinais de rádio realizado durante um ano, entre novembro de 2013 a outubro de 2014 nas frequências 1,8 MHz, 14 MHz, 28 MHz e 50 MHz na região equatorial. O estudo foi realizado usando dados de digissonda, modelo de propagação (VOACAP) e receptores de rádio amador. O trabalho consiste na análise de sinais de rádio emitidos por duas estações transmissoras de rádio amador localizadas em Punta Arenas (53,15°S; 70,92°W; dip. latitude: 39,37ºS) e em Nairóbi (1,28ºS; 36,88ºE; dip. latitude: 10,74ºS), sendo esses sinais de rádio registrados nas estações receptoras de rádio amador localizadas em Boa Vista (2,82°N; 60,76°W; dip. latitude: 15,14ºN), Campo Grande (20,5oS; 54,7oW; dip. latitude: 16,99ºS) e São Luís (2,53oS; 44,30oW; dip. latitude: 3,28ºS), isto é, na região da anomalia equatorial de ionização (EIA) e no equador magnético no setor brasileiro. O estudo enfatizou a análise do parâmetro ionosférico denominado máxima frequência utilizável (MUF), bem como a relação sinal-ruído (SNR) em cada trajeto entre transmissor (Tx) e receptor (Rx). Os resultados indicam que a resposta da ionosfera foi diferente em relação aos sinais de rádio que se propagam dentro e fora da região equatorial. De acordo com valores da SNR medidos nas estações receptoras, as intensidades dos sinais de rádio nas frequências especificadas variam no período de 24 horas. As comunicações em 1,8 MHz só foram possíveis nos enlaces entre Punta Arenas e Boa Vista e São Luís durante os meses de inverno no período da noite. As comunicações em 14 MHz foram possíveis em todos os trajetos durante 24 horas nos meses de verão e nos equinócios, mas no período de inverno as transmissões de Punta Arenas só foram recebidas em São Luís e Campo Grande durante as horas do dia. As transmissões em 28 MHz de Nairóbi foram recebidas durante 24 horas nos meses de verão em todas as estações, as de Punta Arenas só em São Luís e Campo Grande. Nos demais períodos do ano as comunicações só foram possíveis durante as horas do dia. As comunicações em 50 MHz só foram possíveis nos meses de verão e apenas com a estação de Nairóbi.