dimensions of sustainability and expanding biofuel production

... production,   EXPANDING BIOFUEL PRODUCTION AND THE TRANSITION TO ADVANCED BIOFUELS 40 Advanced Biofuel: Unspecified Advanced Biofuel: Biomass-Based Diesel 35 Advanced Biofuel: Cellulosic Biofuel Conventional ... services, and local communities?   EXPANDING BIOFUEL PRODUCTION AND THE TRANSITION TO ADVANCED BIOFUELS Context The U.S biofuel industry has grown dramatically in recent years, with production expanding ... environmental, and social impacts of biofuel production and use While a number of studies have examined some of the environmental impacts associated with the expansion of biofuel production and use, most of...

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... the costs of and returns to organic milk production and how they differ from the costs and returns of conventional production However, the prior research is limited in terms of the scope and the ... hope of improving farm profitability Despite the growing number of organic dairy operations there is little information about the relative costs and returns of organic and conventional milk production ... milk production systems rely on ecologically based practices that virtually prohibit the use of antibiotics and hormones in the cow herd and the use of synthetic chemicals in the production of...

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... of VIP, rolipram, and dibutyryl cAMP on the production of TNF-α and IL-10 by monocytes Spontaneous production of IL-10 and TNF-α by monocytes could not be detected; cytokine production was induced, ... presence of VIP (lane 2), and that the combination of VIP and rolipram activates both CREB and ATF-1 upon LPS stimulation (lane 3) α VIP fails to modulate T-cell production of IL-10, TNF-α, γ and ... augments production of IL-10 by PMA/ionomycin-stimulated macrophages The lack of augmentation of IL-10 production by VIP is suggested by a To investigate the role of VIP as a modulator of cytokine production...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... induce production of high levels of chemokines in M-CSF-differentiated human monocytes (macrophages) Levels of both CC chemokines (MCP-1, MIP-1α, MIP-1β and RANTES) and CXC chemokines (IL-8, GROα and ... concentrations of the following: 25 ng/ml TNFα (gift from Dr W Stec, Centre of Macromolecular Studies, Lodz, Poland), 100 ng/ml IL-6 (gift from Dr P Ramage, Sandoz, Pharma Ltd., Basel, Switzerland) and ... differential utilization of NFκB for the expression of CC and CXC chemokines in this system We also examined the role of NFκB in the Tck-cell contactdependent production of chemokines in monocytes...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... phosphorylation of and degradation of CSM regulates phosphorylation of IRAK IRAK in HEK cells CSM regulates phosphorylation of IRAK and degradation of IκB-α by MDMs and phosphorylation of IRAK in ... participated in the design and coordination of the study GF conceived of the study, and participated in the design of the study and supervised the project All authors read and approved the final ... cycle of 50°C for and 95°C for 15 min, followed by 40 cycles of 95°C for 15 s and 60°C for Melting curve analyses were performed after the completion of cycling to control the specificity of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:22

... to assess maturity and fecundity of warm- and cold-water fish and squids Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway Bancroft, J D., and A Stevens 1996 Theory and practice of histological techniques, ... The RFS (CAOs, EVOs, and LVOs) started off with an early production of CAOs already around 180 μm, followed successively by the production of EVOs and LVOs but then leveling off (Figure 9) There ... small and required high magnification to be spotted with a reasonable level of certainty) Numbers of Primary and Secondary Oocytes The numerical production of primary and secondary oocytes was standardized...

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2015, 12:47

... The size of rhizomes and the number of stems growing from rhizomes are also different between this study and the natural environment This means that the ratio of the above-ground part of the reed ... Inamori R., and Kondo T (2009) A simulation model of nitrogen transformation in reed constructed wetlands, Desalination 235(1-3), 93-101 Yalcuk A and Ugurlu A (2009) Comparison of horizontal and vertical ... every day The effects of age and weight of giant reeds on phosphorus uptake were estimated by using one-year-old plants and several-years-old plants The seasonal variation of phosphorus uptake...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... Journal of Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 1, Issue 6, 2010, pp.1009-1016 1011 Kwame Nkrumah University of science and technology (KNUST) generates a colossal amount of waste (solid and liquid) ... estimation of the biogas potential of the sludge the quality of the sludge was analysed and the results is presented below in Table The average litre of biogas produced from a kg of TVS found ... and policy, and CDM proposal development He is also an associate of The Energy Centre, KNUST and a founding member of a not-for-profit organization; Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainable...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... (white and black cement) at the ratio of 1:1:1 (see table 2) The weight of a cement brick is about 3kg of which the ratio of cement and raw material of 1:2 Cement brick produced with high ratio of ... laboratory of Environmental analysis, faculty of Environmental Sciences and department of Environmental analysis, Institute of Environmental Technology 282 N.T Ha et al / VNU Journal of Science, ... October, November and December 2007 In addition, the content of heavy metals and water of sludge samples taken in surveys were relatively consistent 3.2 Reuse of treated sludge in brick production Treated...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 17:20

... releases of produced water and petroleum and the improper disposal of produced water are national issues that concern managers of Federal, and State lands, as well as oil and gas producers and lessees, ... siltstone, and thin sandstone beds The geologic and climatic settings of the Lester and Branstetter leases resemble that of much of the major southern mid-continent oil- and gas-producing area of the ... part of the site is underlain by 1) a surface layer of eolian sand (20-70 cm thick); 2) colluvial apron and alluvial deposits of varying thickness comprised of sandstone pebbles, cobbles, and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, in Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Research Conference: Education and Economic Development (Cleveland, OH: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, 2004); W Steve ... service offered, at least one meal offered and site visits to monitor implementation of quality standards [W Steve Barnett, Jason T Hustedt, Kenneth B Robin, and Karen L Schulman, The State of Preschool: ... Assumes 50% of participating students are poor and receive the full benefit and 50% of participating students are not poor and thus receive only one-half of the total benefit Assumes 80% of participating...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

... implications and potential risks of expanding oil and gas production on public lands and in general For example, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), National Wildlife Federation (NWF), and Oil ... disposal of drilling waste, along with further disturbance of surface areas due to oil and gas production (e.g., through construction of roads and operation of drilling rigs in wilderness and undeveloped ... Standard National Wildlife Federation Oil and gas Outer Continental Shelf Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (EPA) Oil & Gas Accountability Project Office of Policy, Economics, and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... standards/requirements (18.6% vs 8.1%, Labor Standards), and occupational, health, and safety standards (62.9% vs 25.7%, OHS Standards) Finally, High Sustainability Firms make a greater use of ... adoption of these policies reflects a substantive part of corporate culture rather than purely ―greenwashing‖ and cheap talk (Marquis and Toffel, 2011) We show that the group of firms with a strong sustainability ... findings, concludes, and suggests avenues for future research Sample Selection and Summary Statistics To understand the corporate behavior and performance effects of a culture of sustainability, we...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 20:21

... The efficient use of freshwater and control of pollution is often part of sustainability issues addressed by business In the last ten years, initiatives were the foundation of the World Business ... foundation of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI, 2000), and the development of standards for environmental management systems, such as the ISO and EMAS standards (OECD, 2001) At the end of the ... Waste handling Fig Overview of a production system, the output to consumers and waste handling Production processes take place in several business sectors represented by the boxes A series of processes...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... pursuit of the subject’s True nature, the origins of which can be found in Christianity and its hermeneutics of the subject, and on the other hand the constitution of the subject as obedient and ... which both Nietzsche and Foucault can be said to understand philosophy as an art of living www.parrhesiajournal.org 45 THE AESTHETIC AND ASCETIC DIMENSIONS OF AN ETHICS OF SELF-FASHIONING While ... been and to be unwilling and unable to conceive that a life in any way different would be a life of one’s own.41 www.parrhesiajournal.org 49 THE AESTHETIC AND ASCETIC DIMENSIONS OF AN ETHICS OF...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... from H2O2 production during the autoxidation of dopamine following the addition of varying amounts of the diphenol into solutions of NaCl ⁄ Pi (pH 7.4) that lacked catalase (A and B) and those ... tetrahydrobiopterin; GSH, reduced glutathione compounds, and reducing agents, the activities of melanogenic enzymes and competitive oxidases, and the availability of enzyme cofactors The two-step reaction sequence ... given to understanding the role of peroxidase in the early stages of melanogenesis, despite reports of the involvement of peroxidase–H2O2 systems in later stages during the oxidation of indolequinone...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... Oudendijk and their children, and Anneke van Buuren and Rens Ijland They all make me feel a close and beloved friend I am proud to be a daughter of my parents Pham Thong and Huynh Thi Them, and to ... exploitation of the aquatic resources of inshore waters and of shallow waters offshore had reached a maximum and is close to overexploitation The growing human population, lack of enforced regulation, and ... and marine cage farms; (2) the introduction of new exotic species, with risks of diseases and impacts on aquatic biodiversity; (3) significant loss of mangroves and wetlands from conversion of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 18:58

... PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT This is the second and final volume of a manual on hatchery production of seabass and gilthead seabream It is part of the programme of publication of the Inland Water ... complexity of hatchery production of seabass and gilthead seabream The manual has been prepared by the authors under the overall support and supervision of FIRI and direct technical coordination of Mario ... Geometry and structure of seawater intakes on a sandy coast Calculation and design of structures against sea storms Geometry and structure of seawater intakes on a rocky coast Hydraulic section of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:18

... proof by Bowen [Bow79] was in the context of Kleinian groups and involved a finite Markov partition and uniformly expanding conformal maps Using TF he constructed a finite ON THE DIMENSIONS OF ... [Kif96] and later, Crauel and Flandoni [CF98] and also Bogensch¨tz and Ochs [BO99], using time-dependent TF u and Martingale arguments, considered random conformal repellers for certain classes of ... upper and lower box dimensions and is given by a natural generalization of Bowen’s formula For a random uniformly hyperbolic Julia set on the Riemann sphere we show that if the family of maps and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... understanding of the anthropogenic flows and stocks and their potential scarcity The Working Group on Biofuels focuses on the specific topic of biofuels, and their specific implications on land ... Overexploitation of the marine environment and tropical grassland and savannah causes especially severe impacts The exploitation of tropical forests and coastal regions is considerable and increasing Expanding ... of final demand and 23% of total material requirements but only 8–11% of the emissions-based impact Exports account for 29% of final demand but 50% of total materials requirement (TMR), 64% of...

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