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Analysis of the Nexus between Structural and Climate Changes in EU Pig Farming

The EU’s ambition to establish economy-wide climate neutrality by 2050 requires challenging transformations in many economic activities. This paper aims to investigate the nexus of structural changes and greenhouse gas emissions (GHGEs) in an important sector of the livestock system, namely pig farming, during the period of 2010–2020 and to discuss the main directions of GHGE reduction. The academic novelty of this contribution is characterised by a combination of the shift-share and cluster analysis that allows for the investigation of the evolution phenomenon, applying the sustainability prism in order to understand the nexus between pig farming and the livestock system, as well as combining the national and EU levels. Results suggest that the steep decline in the number of holdings and a moderate reduction in livestock units (LSUs) on farms do not bring tangible GHGE reduction results. The cluster analysis confirms that pig farming systems in pre-2004 member states, except for Finland and Greece, demonstrated positive developments or a lower decline in holdings with pigs and live swine LSUs compared to other countries, while in the dominant share of post-2003 member states, the GHGE reduction rate was higher. This research identifies a reduction in the pig population, improvement in feed production and the development of related supply chains, and changes in manure management and utilisation as the main directions of GHGE reduction; however, the identified clusters are related with different potentials of GHGE reduction when applying the aforementioned measures. Recommendations include the development and support of actions that focus on GHGE reduction from swine manure and contribute to the establishment of a circular economy in the EU.

“The inventory of possible realities” – Structures seen from above: Contemporary Hungarian literature and the epimodern theory of Emmanuel Bouju

AbstractAfter the fall of Communism a new generation started its career in Hungarian literature. They invented a new literary concept based on the experience that modernity had liquidated the language and postmodernity dispersed meaning. The most important feature of this concept was that realistic and postmodern expectations should not be confronted as opposites. This perspective appears in many books and many articles by Emmanuel Bouju, offering a possibility to link the three consecutive steps of a continuity through six epimodern values that can be perceived as a bridge overarching the different periods of art and literature.Several authors and works of contemporary Hungarian literature show strong parallels with the international literary process. Tranquility by Attila Bartis, The White King by György Dragomán and Pixel by Krisztina Tóth can be linked to Bouju's theory. In my approach the aforementioned novels use different branches of art as a sort of prism in order to understand the “preposterous aspects of the present and the past” (Boym).As Emmanuel Bouju's essay enables us to define the trinity of Modernism, Post-modernism and contemporary After-Postmodernism as a whole in which ruptures may be considered as three steps of the same continuity, the Hungarian books examined here are works that have re-claimed the validity of the coherence of the story whilst, as a heritage of the postmodern, they have also preserved skepticism regarding master narratives.

The Ukraine crisis and India: quandaries and implications

ABSTRACT Since the commencement of the conflict in Ukraine, New Delhi has maintained a constant position on the war, insisting that “dialogue” was the best way to resolve differences and disputes. This article seeks to answer the fundamental question of why New Delhi, in spite of its close relations with the West, continues to take a somewhat cautious stance toward Russia's “special military operation” in Ukraine. The article contends that New Delhi's ambivalence toward the war in Ukraine can be understood via the “lenses” of legacy, strategy, and “muscular” nationalism. This essay compares and contrasts India's relations with Russia and the West via these prisms in order to explain India's multifaceted response to the situation in Ukraine. New Delhi has relentlessly pushed to protect its national interest and sought to engage with the West on its own terms.

Influence of joint thickness and strength of mortars on the compressive behavior of prisms made of normal and high-strength concrete blocks

This work developed compression tests of 120 prisms in order to investigate the influence of joint thickness and compressive strength of job-site mixed and preblended mortars on strength and stiffness of masonry made of normal and high-strength concrete blocks. Experimental results distinguish the effects of joint thickness on the behavior of prisms made of units considerably weaker than mortars and vice versa. Comparisons between the effects of joint thickness on prisms made of job site mixed and preblended mortars were firstly stablished. Results also show that the impacts of joint thickness are significantly greater in elements constructed with high-strength blocks.

Effects of Visual Prompt on Recycling Behavior of Waste Batteries

Visual prompts are a kind of visual stimulation, through vectors such as text, pictures, bar charts, and image data which guide and persuade individuals to implement expected behaviors. In recent years, with the variety of electronic products and home appliances, the types and usage of batteries are constantly increasing, and the number of corresponding waste batteries is increasing. Because some of the waste batteries contain many heavy metals and electrolyte solutions, which will cause harm to the human body and the ecological environment, more and more people are paying attention to the pollution of waste batteries and their disposal. It has been demonstrated that visual prompts have the effects of protecting the environment. This paper attempts to study the effects of visual prompts on the recycling behavior of waste batteries and verify whether visual prompt has a positive effect on the recycling behavior of waste batteries by using a control group and an experimental group to compare the experimental methods. The visual prompts were pasted on the waste battery recycling bin and were carried out by GraphPad Prism in order to find an economic and effective way to promote people’s recycling behaviors.

Justiça fiscal e a cooperativa de crédito mútuo dos membros da magistratura, ministério público, e Defensoria Pública do estado do Maranhão:

Em que pese ter a Constituição Federal de 1988 assegurando inúmeros benefícios legais às Associações Cooperativas – dentre os quais se destacam a autonomia gerencial, a proteção regulatória, e o incentivo fiscal, é imprescindível analisar, a partir do cenário macroeconômico atual, em que medida a isenção tributária dos atos cooperativos se insere no plano específico das Cooperativas de Crédito Mútuo. Neste aspecto, em breve síntese, o objetivo central do presente estudo é apresentar, sob o prisma descritivo/exploratório, o caso COOMAMP vs. Fazenda Nacional a fim de analisar os limites materiais e processuais da isenção tributária dos atos cooperativos, identificando para tanto, as diferenças conceituais entre atos cooperativos próprios e impróprios, e sua relação com o fenômeno do aumento patrimonial mascarado – o intitulado “conduit shell”.

Quantitative Approach for the Analysis of Fusional Convergence Using Eye-Tracking and SacLab Toolbox.

Fusional vergence is a disjunctive movement of the eyes that is made in order to obtain single vision. The aim of the study was to provide a quantitative and objective approach for analyzing the fusional convergence response using eye tracking (ET) technology and automatic data analysis provided by the intuitive SacLab toolbox previously developed by our group. We evaluated the proposed approach in a population of 26 subjects with normal binocular vision, who were tested with base-out prisms (magnitudes 4Δ, 6Δ, and 10Δ) in order to elicit fusional convergence response. Eye movements were recorded using the Viewpoint ET and analyzed using SacLab. Parameters describing both the vergence and the version components of the fusional response (convergence duration, CD; peak convergence velocity, PCV; number of intrusive saccades, NS; and mean saccadic amplitude, MSA) were automatically calculated and provided to clinicians for an objective evaluation. Results showed that the number of subjects achieving fusional convergence decreased with prism magnitude. For subjects achieving fusion CD and PCV increased significantly (p < 0.05) when increasing the prism magnitude. For NS and MSA, there were no significant changes when passing to 6Δ, but a significant increase resulted when passing to 10Δ (p < 0.05). Noninvasive ET associated with the intuitive SacLab toolbox may represent a valid option to objectively characterize the fusional vergence response in clinical setting. The analysis may be extended to patients with vergence disorders.

The life–course formation of teachers’ profession. How emotions affect VET teachers’ social identity.

One of the less developed issues in the sociology of education concerns how the social formation of emotions affects teachers’ collective identities. In this article we outline the ingredients of a conceptual scheme explaining the emotional dynamics which form teachers’ social identities through a life-course perspective. In particular, we show how educational and job experiences related to teachers’ social trajectories create emotional dynamics in their identities which undermine the sense of belongingness to their profession. Our methodology was based on biographical – narrative interviews treated through a Critical Realism prism in order to bring to the fore the causal process through which a specific outcome is formed. By researching the extreme case of VET teachers in Greece who were put into redundancy for two years in the memorandum years, we explore why the threat of job loss, instead of mobilizing collective action, feeds feelings of self-blame and of shame which annul teachers’ social ties.

Design of an ultrasensitive SPR biosensor based on a graphene-MoS2 hybrid structure with a MgF2 prism.

We propose, to the best of our knowledge, a new configuration of a biosensor based on the graphene-MoS2 hybrid structure by adopting the lower refractive index MgF2 prism in order to improve the sensitivity and the figure of merit (FOM). We can obtain an ultrasensitive sensor with values of sensitivity and FOM as high as 540.8°/RIU and 145/RIU, respectively, by modulating the parameters in the configuration and comparatively choosing a different absentee layer material. The proposed structure is applicable in the realization of an integrated device for the surface plasmon resonance biosensor.

Reflexion sur les Interactions entre l'Ethique et la Finance dans le Prisme Islamique

The crisis of subprime combined with the financial scandals without forgetting the spring Arab stimulated an ardent desire for redemption including that of regulation by the and redemption through ethics. This reference to ethics becomes more popular than ever because this requirement is becoming more and more. The emergence and promotion of and societal values is part of this new deal with multiple issues. We intend to reflect beyond the classic theme of ethical finance and taxonomies inferior, by clarifying the notion of ethics which remains unclear, multidimensional, and contingent sources of interpretation. But what does it cover? What claims to accept -it? Moreover, the confrontation of approaches designed to overcome the antiphons types put ethics in finance or moralize finance because such formulas assume that there is no ethics in and that the conceptual and technical tools are ethically neutral. Which brings us to study the interaction between ethics and in the Islamic prism in order to sketch a framework suitable for questioning while suggesting avenues of reflection?

To touch a ghost: Derrida’s work of mourning and haptic visuality in three films

AbstractThis article represents an effort to outline the existence of a fundamental and unremarked-upon relationship between Jacques Derrida’s reconfiguration of the Freudian work of mourning and theorizations of haptic visuality. While Derrida is under-represented in film-theoretical discussions generally, and in discussions of haptic visuality specifically, the author argues that the ethical goal of his work aligns with that of the film-makers in question, and that it should be of key importance for the discourse. Oliver Stone’s JFK, Chris Marker’s La Jetee and Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinema are examined through these twin prisms in order to illustrate how the engagement with this work of mourning and the employment haptic techniques are used in conjunction in order to hasten a new relationship to alterity.

Uji Kemurnian DNA Melon (Cucumis melo L.) Kultivar “Gama Melon Basket” Menggunakan Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Berbasis Nanopartikel Perak

DNA level of purity has been tested by observing the phenomenon of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) in silver film + silver (Ag) nanoparticles system as DNA sensor using Kretschmann configuration. Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) phenomenon observed in the resonance condition of reflectance spectrum vary with incident angle of laser, beamed toward prism. System is built as a model for DNA purity test instrument that give higher accuracy. DNA purity testing was conducted by placing DNA layer with various ratio on prism in order to get the angle shift value in each sample as a result. Purity level of DNA indicates the DNA quality based on the ratio between the amount of pure DNA compared to the amount of impurity materials (protein). After the deposition of DNA in ratio 1,774, 1,838 and 1,916 SPR angle shifted , and respectively. Characteristic differences of DNA with different purity (ratio) are shown by reflectance value that is getting higher at a smaller ratio, indicates that in the higher DNA ratio the angle shift is getting smaller. SPR angle shift which is occurred before and after DNA deposition shows the sensitivity of SPR as DNA sensor.

Are Brand Communities Influencing Brands through Co-creation? A Cross-National Example of the Brand AXE: In France and in Tunisia

In order to build long term relationships with customers, companies involve them more often on their activities. They are now “prosumers” through co-creation process and social media. The primary objective of this study is to identify, by means of a cross-national empirical study, if brand communities influence brand by co-creation. What kind of influence can the virtual brand community have on co-creation? The study begins by a conceptual framework on genesis of concepts of co-creation and brand community. After that clarification, methodology is developed and consequently results are exposed. Conclusions and managerial implications are then withdrawn. And finally limitations of the study and future researches are presented. Theoretical contribution of the study is as follows. Firstly, propose a new classification of co-creation. Secondly the use of Kapferer’s brand identity Prism (1991) in order to create a strong brand seems to be helpful for building brand community. Thirdly a new method, the netnography, applied to “Axe” brand in France and Tunisia.

Neutron transport model based on the transmission probability method

A new project has been started recently at KIT to develop a code able to treat hexagonal-z geometries with low density regions. The mathematical method chosen for that purpose is the Transmission Probability Method (TPM) for solving the integral neutron transport equation. In this model, one hexagonal prism is divided into six or more triangular prisms in order to get accurate flux distributions. Within each triangular prism, the neutron source is assumed to be isotropic, the scalar flux and source being approximated in space with a set of second order orthogonal polynomials. The neutron flux at the interfaces is constant in space and approximated with the simplified P1 approximation in angle. A new code, TPM-HEXZ, based on the described model is developed and some benchmarks are used to verify the code, the results are in good agreement with reference ones.

Unilateral lateral rectus resection for horizontal diplopia in adults with divergence insufficiency

Divergence insufficiency (DI) is an acquired comitant strabismus in aging individuals, characterized by esotropia and diplopia at distance. Treatment options include occlusion, base-out prism glasses, and a variety of surgical procedures to the horizontal rectus extraocular muscles. Here, we present a large cohort of patients with DI who underwent unilateral resection of the lateral rectus muscle. This is a simple procedure, typically performed under regional anesthesia and on the non-dominant eye. Clinical characteristics and complaints were collected from patients with DI who underwent unilateral lateral rectus resection over a 6.5-year period. Treatment success was evaluated in terms of post-operative symptomatic deviation and the need for prisms in order to achieve sensory fusion. The cohort consisted of 57 patients (age 54-89 years). The majority sought surgical care after prism glasses were no longer tolerated, or after onset of a larger symptomatic deviation (typically 10 to 18 prism diopters). After surgery (minimum 6 weeks follow-up; median 10 weeks), 86.0 % showed successful results with no further treatment; an additional 10.5 % stayed free of diplopia with a post-operative prism (horizontal or vertical), and only two patients (3.5 %) required further surgery and were considered failures. Mild DI is usually treated with a base-out prism. Treatment of pronounced DI with unilateral lateral rectus resection was generally successful, with 96.5 % not requiring further surgery. Unilateral lateral rectus resection appears to be a valid option for treatment of DI.

Unilateral lateral rectus resection for horizontal diplopia in adults with divergence insufficiency

Divergence insufficiency (DI) is an acquired comitant strabismus in aging individuals, characterized by esotropia and diplopia at distance. Treatment options include occlusion, base-out prism glasses, and a variety of surgical procedures to the horizontal rectus extraocular muscles. Here, we present a large cohort of patients with DI who underwent unilateral resection of the lateral rectus muscle. This is a simple procedure, typically performed under regional anesthesia and on the non-dominant eye. Clinical characteristics and complaints were collected from patients with DI who underwent unilateral lateral rectus resection over a 6.5-year period. Treatment success was evaluated in terms of post-operative symptomatic deviation and the need for prisms in order to achieve sensory fusion. The cohort consisted of 57 patients (age 54–89 years). The majority sought surgical care after prism glasses were no longer tolerated, or after onset of a larger symptomatic deviation (typically 10 to 18 prism diopters). After surgery (minimum 6 weeks follow-up; median 10 weeks), 86.0 % showed successful results with no further treatment; an additional 10.5 % stayed free of diplopia with a post-operative prism (horizontal or vertical), and only two patients (3.5 %) required further surgery and were considered failures. Mild DI is usually treated with a base-out prism. Treatment of pronounced DI with unilateral lateral rectus resection was generally successful, with 96.5 % not requiring further surgery. Unilateral lateral rectus resection appears to be a valid option for treatment of DI.

Quasi-Mixed-Order Prism Basis Functions for Nyström-Based Volume Integral Equations

Quasi-mixed order prism basis functions for use in Nyström discretizations of volume integral equations are presented. The prism basis function set is easily mixed with other basis function sets such as those defined on hexahedra and tetrahedra. The prism basis functions are applied to solve a magnetostatic volume integral equation for the analysis of magnetic materials. Analytic results for canonical problems are used to corroborate the basis function set and convergence and error data are discussed.

Dislocation core structure and dynamics in two atomic models of α-zirconium

Properties of basal and first order prism plane dislocations with Burgers vector 1/3 〈 1 1 2 ¯ 0 〉 in α-Zr have been investigated by computer simulation. Results for a recent interatomic potential (MA07) are assessed and compared with an older one (AWB95). The elastic constants have been calculated with the inner relaxations allowed for and the energy and vector of metastable stacking faults have been determined and compared with published ab initio estimates. The core of the screw dislocation spreads principally in the prism plane in the MA07 model, in contrast to basal plane dissociation in the AWB95 model, and the prism-to-basal ratio of the Peierls stress for the screw is 0.28 with the MA07 model, compared with 3.31 with the AWB95 model. Simulation of the dynamics of dislocation motion under applied stress reveal how the drag coefficient varies with slip system and temperature. The results for the MA07 model are consistent with the known slip geometry of Zr, suggesting that it offers significant advantages for large-scale atomic simulation of dislocation behaviour.

Design of an optical see-through head-mounted display with a low f-number and large field of view using a freeform prism

It has been a challenge to design an optical see-through head-mounted display (OST-HMD) that has a wide field of view (FOV) and low f-number (f/#) while maintaining a compact, lightweight, and nonintrusive form factor. In this paper, we present an OST-HMD design using a wedge-shaped freeform prism cemented with a freeform lens. The prism, consisting of three freeform surfaces (FFSs), serves as the near-eye viewing optics that magnifies the image displayed through a microdisplay, and the freeform lens is an auxiliary element attached to the prism in order to maintain a nondistorted see-through view of a real-world scene. Both the freeform prism and the lens utilize plastic materials to achieve light weight. The overall dimension of the optical system per eye is no larger than 25 mm by 22 mm by 12 mm, and the weight is 8 g. Based on a 0.61 in. microdisplay, our system demonstrates a diagonal FOV of 53.5 degrees and an f/# of 1.875, with an 8 mm exit pupil diameter and an 18.25 mm eye relief.

General Multiple Order Prism Vector Finite Macroelements for Planar Microwave Circuits and EBGs

We present a class of mixed order prism macroelements, appropriate for an efficient analysis of 3-D planar microwave circuits and electromagnetic bandgaps (EBGs). The multiple order concept used in this context implies arbitrary orders of variation toward different directions and is substantially different, compared to the well-known mixed order property, associated to any tangentially continuous vector element. Prism elements of first order in the planar directions and arbitrary high orders along the prism axis are developed by this approach.