Análisis del uso de la mecanización agrícola en el Ecuador

Among the countless activities in the agricultural sector, properly performed mechanized operations significantly help the producer, allowing him to make better use of resources with less effort in the tasks that range from soil preparation to final product transportation. These tasks require human resources, which is why the use of agricultural machinery is necessary. However, in Ecuador, incorporating agricultural machinery basically depends on production system, size of the agricultural production unit (APUs), producer’s socioeconomic situation and topographic conditions. The present study aimed to determine the impact of agricultural mechanization on the development of agricultural production in the country. Most mechanization measures in agriculture are produced for reasons of economy at work: increasing labor productivity (yield per worker) and making work physically easier and less exhausting for the farmer. To achieve sustainable food security, in relation to the identified factors, the necessary recommendations and government support policies in the agricultural sector are imperative from the point of view of increasing mechanization coverage.Among the countless activities in the agricultural sector, properly performed mechanized operations significantly help the producer, allowing him to make better use of resources with less effort in the tasks that range from soil preparation to final product transportation. These tasks require human resources, which is why the use of agricultural machinery is necessary. However, in Ecuador, incorporating agricultural machinery basically depends on production system, size of the agricultural production unit (APUs), producer’s socioeconomic situation and topographic conditions. The present study aimed to determine the impact of agricultural mechanization on the development of agricultural production in the country. Most mechanization measures in agriculture are produced for reasons of economy at work: increasing labor productivity (yield per worker) and making work physically easier and less exhausting for the farmer. To achieve sustainable food security, in relation to the identified factors, the necessary recommendations and government support policies in the agricultural sector are imperative from the point of view of increasing mechanization coverage.Entre las innumerables actividades en el sector agrícola, las operaciones mecanizadas realizadas adecuadamente ayudan significativamente al productor, permitiéndole un mejor aprovechamiento de los recursos con menor esfuerzo en las labores que van desde la preparación del suelo hasta el transporte del producto final. Estas labores demandan de recurso humano, por lo que resulta necesario el uso de maquinarias agrícolas. No obstante, En Ecuador, incorporar maquinarias agrícolas depende básicamente de: sistema de producción, tamaño de la unidad de producción agropecuaria (Upas), situación socioeconómica de los productores y condiciones topográficas de la zona. El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo determinar el impacto de la mecanización agrícola en el desarrollo de la producción agrícola en el país. La mayoría de las medidas de mecanización en la agricultura se producen por razones de economía en el trabajo: aumentar la productividad del trabajo (rendimiento por trabajador) y hacer el trabajo más fácil físicamente y menos desgastante para el agricultor. Para lograr la seguridad alimentaria sostenible, en relación con los factores identificados, las recomendaciones necesarias y las políticas de apoyo gubernamental en el sector agrícola son imperativas desde el punto de vista de aumento de la cobertura de la mecanización

Western Liberal, 09-21-1917

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Iowa USA; International Trade Directory, 1971

Iowa USA I nternational Trade Directory is an index of companies which export their products at t he present time or are interested in export

XVI Colóquio de Outono: conflito e trauma

It has been the main concern of CEHUM, as a Research Centre within the Humanities which operates in an inter and transdisciplinary structure to listen attentively to the “noise of the world” and attempt a global interpretation of the signs of the times issuing from the world around us, as vibrant echoes of many social and cultural pressing issues. Every year each new Colóquio de Outono attempts to give evidence of that concern through the topic chosen for debate, ample enough and challenging enough to trigger a lively multidisciplinary dialogue amongst the diff erent research groups that compose this centre, the participants and our invited guest speakers. Throughout the three days of this 16th Colóquio de Outono we had the privilege to debate the propositions of a vast number of national and international specialists in the manifold fi elds of inquiry here represented, engaging keynote speakers, project advisors, members of research teams and external researchers attached to the various research projects currently running in CEHUM, in the fi elds of literature, linguistics, philosophy, ethics, visual arts, cultural studies, music and performance. Each specifi c fi eld of studies was however never seen isolated, but always embodied in a geo-cultural context and within the scope of a wide variety of critical debates and current theories of knowledge, as a signal of our understanding of the Humanities as a rich and plural territory which engages us all, scholars, researchers, students.FCT, QREN, COMPETE, U

“Otras voces, otros ámbitos”: los sujetos y su entorno. Nuevas perspectivas de la historia sociocultural

Este libro recoge las aportaciones de los investigadores presentadas al IV Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Historia Contemporánea que tuvo lugar en Valencia en septiembre de 2013

Extra studies in Rio Grande Valley history

Vaqueros del Valle, a poem / Manuel Medrano – Matamoros and the Tejanos of Victoria and Goliad in the Texas Revolution: conflicting loyalties and ‘Assiduous Collaborators’ / Craig H. Roell – Antonio Canales Rosillo / James Mills – The origins of Salome Balli McAllen / Thomas Daniel Knight – Sally Skull: the legend / Sondra Shands – The Kawahata Family comes to the Valley / Randall Sakai – The Battle of Reynosa / Jesus Ramos – Los dias siguientes a la toma de Matamoros por los Constitucionalistas / Andres Cuellar – H-E-B: an American and Valley success story / Norman Rozeff – Algunas revistas culturales de Matamoros de 1940 a 1951 / Rosaura Alicia Davila – Valerio Longoria --- for a quarter a song / Manuel Medrano – Hometown hero: technical Sergeant Noe R. Gonzales, B-17 flying fortress radio operator / Noe E. Perez – Hidalgo County jury duty, 1954-1960 / Rene Rios – Little steps by giants: a story of two minority groups working together for racial equality in Edinburg, Texas / Marissa Marmolejo and Thomas De La Cruz – Timeless chaos: Hurricane Beulah’s march through the Lower Rio Grande Valley, September 1967 / Fernando Ortiz Jr. – This one is for the masses: a (re)telling of South Texas and its people / Topacio Santivañez – Migrant children and safe houses in the Tamaulipas-Texas border region / Oscar Misael Hernandez-Hernandez – The inception of the idea of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley / Peter Gawenda – Ephemeral Valley unity and the legislative creation of UTRGV / Anthony Knopp and Alma Ortiz Knopp – The newest university in the 21st Century: the challenges of creating UT-RGV / Michael L. Faubion – Attitudes toward immigration policy partisanship and ethnorace: a view from La Frontera / Jessica Lavariega Monforti and Adam McGlynn – Interview with Patricia Cisneros Young about South Texas tales: stories my father told me / Mimosa Stephenson – The transmigration of popular religion: praxis and renewal of syncretic faith across the U.S.-Texas frontier / Antonio Noe Zavaleta – Creating the Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail / Roseann Bacha-Garza, Christopher L. Miller, and Russel K. Skrowonek – “Raspa man” a poem / Manuel Medrano -- Contributorshttps://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/regionalhist/1013/thumbnail.jp

BINATIONAL FARMING FAMILIES OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIA AND THE MEXICAN BAJIO

Over the last four decades, farming families throughout North America experienced significant transitions due, in part, to the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. This multi-sited dissertation investigates the ways in which a network of binational (Mexican-American) families organize their small- to mid-scale farming enterprises, engage in global networks as food producers, and contribute to rural economies in the southeastern U.S. and the Mexican Bajío. To mitigate difficult transitions that came with the globalizing of agri-food markets, members of this extended family group created collaborative, kin-based arrangements to produce, distribute, and market fresh-market fruits and vegetables in the foothills of southern Appalachia and basic grains in the foothills of the Mexican Bajío. Members of extended binational families regularly negotiate social, economic, and political borders within and across regions, genders, and generations. This study shows how these binational kin use cooperative practices to navigate two distinct, yet interrelated, contemporary agricultural political economic environments in North America. The study counter-constructs stereotypes of Latinx and their roles in southeastern U.S. agriculture by focusing on a vertically integrated, kin group of allied, migrant farming families and theorizing them as binational collective strategists. Their stories and strategies provide insight into the importance of temporalities and practices of kin relatedness to agri-food enterprises and suggest possibilities for alternative distributions of surplus value within the globalized agri-food system

The functional role of the inhibitory control neural networks in the comprehension of sentential negation.

The current doctoral dissertation aims to explore the neurophysiology of linguistic negation by investigating the functional role of the inhibitory control neural networks during negation processing. Through three experiments, the dissertation managed to demonstrate the robustness and generalizability of the Reusing Inhibition for Negation (RIN) hypothesis: confirming some of its predictions with different languages (Spanish and Mandarin), showing the mutual influence of understanding sentential negation and response inhibition tasks (negation preceding or following inhibition) and expanding the scope of domains to which the RIN hypothesis applies (action-related imperatives and existential sentences). The research reported in this doctoral dissertation confirms that the primitive inhibitory control neural mechanisms of human beings are reused for the functional purpose of understanding linguistic negation. 1. Sentential negation in Mandarin modulates the inhibition-related N2 component of the ERPs in inhibitory context (NoGo trials) with an estimated source in the inhibition-related rIPL, confirming a negation-to-inhibition priming effect. 2. The recycling of inhibitory neural resources for negation applies to both alphabetic Indo-European languages and logographic Mandarin, which differ significantly in their neural demands, thus confirming the cross-linguistic generality of the RIN hypothesis. 3. The presetting of an inhibitory state by a NoGo cue before the sentence modulates the ERP waveform of sentential negation, suggesting that negation prolonged the inhibitory state. That is, there is an inhibition-to-negation priming effect. 4. The above inhibition-to-negation priming complements the negation-to-inhibition priming reported in the literature and in this dissertation, allowing the establishment of a bi-directional influence between the two processes which reinforces the RIN hypothesis. 5. Negation in existential sentences also modulates the inhibitory control processes required by a Go/NoGo task as is the case with action-related imperative sentences, which is reflected in the inhibition-related P3 component of the ERPs with the likely generators of such effect localized in the inhibition-related SMA/pre-SMA and mid-cingulate cortex. 6. The applicability of the RIN hypothesis is not constrained to action language or imperative sentences but also extends to purely declarative existential contents, indicating that the reuse of inhibitory control mechanisms for negation comprehension is domain-general rather than content-specific