B\u3e Be greater than.

The written portion of this thesis is designed to accompany the visual portion of this thesis as a didactic product catalog. The written portion of this thesis links consumer experiences to the upholding of a hierarchical definition of human identity that promotes the exceptionalism of specific human individuals over nature (as a broad category and property of things) in order to justify its exploitation. Citing Foucault’s writings on biopower, the early development of the scientific method, the development of consumer culture during the turn of the 20th century, and contemporary examples of consumer culture, I will argue that global consumerism is effective in promoting human exceptionalism at the expense of widespread exploitation (of animals, vegetables, and minerals) because it separates production from consumption and therefore allows products to take on ideological, identity building characteristics that have nothing to with the actual properties of the products. I will conclude that the concept of nature is an ideological tool used to justify the exploitation of everything ‘other’ by specific privileged human individuals and will cite contemporary artists in order to argue that because contemporary consumer culture is the visual culture of the status quo art can be an effective critical tool in counteracting the ideological effects of contemporary consumer/producer culture

Space Bioreactor Science Workshop

The first space bioreactor has been designed for microprocessor control, no gaseous headspace, circulation and resupply of culture medium, and a slow mixing in very low shear regimes. Various ground based bioreactors are being used to test reactor vessel design, on-line sensors, effects of shear, nutrient supply, and waste removal from continuous culture of human cells attached to microcarriers. The small (500 ml) bioreactor is being constructed for flight experiments in the Shuttle middeck to verify systems operation under microgravity conditions and to measure the efficiencies of mass transport, gas transfer, oxygen consumption, and control of low shear stress on cells. Applications of microcarrier cultures, development of the first space bioreactor flight system, shear and mixing effects on cells, process control, and methods to monitor cell metabolism and nutrient requirements are among the topics covered

IoT and Machine Learning for Process Optimization in Agrofood Industry

A indústria 4.0 engloba as principais inovações tecnológicas dos campos de automação, controlo e tecnologia da informação, suportada nos conceitos tecnológicos, Internet das Coisas (IoT), sistemas Cloud e sistemas Cyber-Físicos, tornando os processos cada vez mais eficientes e autônomos. Neste contexto, propomos estudar e otimizar o processo de dessolventização de uma unidade fabril de produção de óleo vegetal, associada a uma cadeia de abastecimento da industria agroalimentar. Esta cadeia contêm um conjunto de dispositivos e sensores que permitem monitorizar o processo em tempo real, dando a capacidade de desenvolver modelos preditivos que otimizem o processo de extração do solvente comercial do produto final.Pretendemos demonstrar que a transformação da operação desta cadeia de abastecimento melhora a eficiência e eficácia dos processos associados, reduzindo os custos operacionais de extração de solvente, obtendo o produto final de acordo com as normas e parâmetros de qualidade e segurança.Orientadores Externos: Vasco Miguel Pires, Raquel Peixoto de Oliveir

The Democratization of Finance through the Banking Revolution and Financial Technologies in Brazil

Every nation requires an adequate financial system to support the flow of funds between savers and borrowers, providing a safe and effective payment system. The Brazilian National Financial System (Sistema Financeiro Nacional - SFN) is recognized as one of the backbones of Brazilian development throughout the years, one of the explicit drivers of the ten largest world economies. Interestingly, institutions that established the country\u27s financial system are vulnerable to structural change driven by continuous development created through new ideas, new challenges, and new opportunities

Aerospace medicine and biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 323)

This bibliography lists 125 reports, articles and other documents introduced into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information System during April, 1989. Subject coverage includes; aerospace medicine and psychology, life support systems and controlled environments, safety equipment exobiology and extraterrestrial life, and flight crew behavior and performance

Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems: Natural and Artificial Ecosystems

The scientists supported by the NASA sponsored Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS) program have played a major role in creating a Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) section devoted to the development of bioregenerative life support for use in space. The series of 22 papers were sponsored by Subcommission F.4. The papers deal with many of the diverse aspects of life support, and with outgrowth technologies that may have commercial applications in fields such as biotechnology and bioengineering. Papers from researchers in France, Canada, Japan and the USSR are also presented

Human factors aspects of control room design: Guidelines and annotated bibliography

A human factors analysis of the workstation design for the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite mission operation room is discussed. The relevance of anthropometry, design rules, environmental design goals, and the social-psychological environment are discussed

Special Libraries, December 1977

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