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Novel supramolecular affinity materials based on (−)-isosteviol as molecular templates
2013
The readily available ex-chiral-pool building block (−)-isosteviol was combined with the C3-symmetric platforms hexahydroxytriphenylene and hexaaminotriptycene providing large and rigid molecular architectures. Because of the persistent cavities these scaffolds are very potent supramolecular affinity materials for head space analysis by quartz crystal microbalances. The scaffolds serve in particular as templates for tracing air-borne arenes at low concentration. The affinities of the synthesized materials towards different air-borne arenes were determined by 200 MHz quartz crystal microbalances.
Qualitative Evaluation of the STOEMP Network in Ghent: An Intersectoral Approach to Make Healthy and Sustainable Food Available to All
2020
The STOEMP network is, to our knowledge, one of the first initiatives to bring different sectors together in a municipality so as to increase accessibility to healthy and sustainable foods for all, with particular attention for the disadvantaged population. This qualitative study aimed to gain an in-depth insight into how the STOEMP network aims to reach its goal of making healthy, sustainable food available to everyone, through an intersectoral, collaborative process, exploring the facilitators and challenges of taking a systems-oriented approach to achieving this. Interviews were conducted among 15 stakeholders of the STOEMP network between March&ndash
Intra-Acting Food Citizenship in Community-Supported Agriculture in Finland
2023
Citizens are called upon to become active participants in creating a more sustainable food system. As food citizens, people participate in defining and constructing their food systems according to their needs and values. In food policies, the concept of food citizenship is often left undefined or with reference only to individual activities. In the food citizenship literature, the role of nonhuman agency in constituting food citizenship needs more examination. Here we investigate food citizenship activities in a citizen-led community-supported agriculture group and explore the role of materiality in constituting food citizenship. We ask (1) what is the role of material-discursive arrangemen…
Interpretation of the RAS method : absorption and fabrication effects are incorrect.
1999
The r and s vectors of the RAS method of updating matrices are presented often as corresponding to an absorption effect and a fabrication effect. Here, it is proved that these vectors are unidentified, so their interpretation in terms of fabrication and absorption effect is incorrect..
MODERN TECHNOLOGY IN RURAL CHARACTERISTICS
2012
Electronic business can change the socio-economic life of a people. It can increase knowledge, and employee revenue. In this paper we are focusing on how it promotes improving the structure of economic sectors within the rural areas. Then it can increase the farmers' level of organization. It promotes a career and employment in manufacturing for the village inhabitants. Family life of farmers and the social appearance in the rural environment are greatly improved as well Also it raises the education and social value of the population in the rural areas of the country.
THE PRESENT RURAL SPACE IN SEARCH OF A NEW IDENTITY NEW CHALLENGES - NEW OPPORTUNITIES MĂRGINIMEA SIBIULUI - AGRICULTURAL COORDINATES
2015
Not only fields like auto industry, IT and services constitute resources of the economic progress known in the last years in the County of Sibiu. In its turn, the agricultural sector has considerable potential; reviving agriculture and revitalizing the rural environment represent possible new development engines, important sources of economic increase respectively, both for our County and at regional level. The main purpose of our paper is to inquire into the economic specificities of Mărginimea Sibiului, one of the most representative regions of Sibiu. We are interested in analyzing the structure and the fonctioning of the agricultural exploitations from this area, and also in identifying …
SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN ROMANIA. OPPORTUNITIES AND PERSPECTIVES. CASE STUDY: THE SIBIU COUNTY
2015
The paper below aims at bringing its contribution to outline the Sibiu County's complex agricultural profile. We are interested not only in observing the current economic realities, but also the structural changes experienced in the agricultural sector, our goal being that of highlighting the determining factors underlying the changes experienced. Last but not least, the research paper below seeks to identify the likely opportunities that Sibiu County has in what concerns sustainable rural development and, at the same time, to make a series of recommendations related to a more efficient exploitation of the agricultural potential existing at the level of this county.
Governance of organic cocoa production : An analysis of EU regulation through the framework of multilevel governance
2022
Motivation While organic agriculture is seen as the best way to achieve sustainable agriculture, the question of how actors in the sector can help remains unresolved. This article seeks to contribute to the global determination to resolve environmental challenges through sustainable agricultural practices grounded in multilevel governance. Purpose The article examines existing regulations governing the production and importation of organic cocoa. Methods and approach Multilevel governance is used as a theoretical and methodological tool to examine the discursive and material struggles which challenge the promotion of organic cocoa, using a content analysis of European Union (EU) regulations…
The Lucania Apennines. A Neo-Anthropocene landscape
2019
The contribution offers a cross-section of the situation of the Italian landscape through the reflection about the principle of "landscape as a human right" and looking at the way in which territorial policies are able to create, or deform, landscapes through targeted and specific actions in agriculture or energy policies fields. The specific condition of the Park of the "Appennino Lucano Val d'Agri Laonegrese" in Southern Italy (Basilicata) is used to show how a process of territorial planning of the Park can be an opportunity to rethink the creation of landscapes under the light of conditions related to uses agricultural and energy resources of the territory, in a compatible way with the …
The Lucania Apennines : a Neo-Anthropocene landscape
2019
The contribution explains the specific condition of the Park of the "Appennino Lucano Val d'Agri Laonegrese" in Southern Italy (Basilicata) taking into account the concept of "Right to the Landscape". It is used to show how a process of territorial planning of the Park can be an opportunity to rethink the creation of landscapes under the light of conditions related to uses agricultural and energy resources of the territory, in a compatible way with the protection of nature.