Greenport greenhouse as a source of inspiration

The Greenport greenhouse in Venlo is a benchmark in greenhouse cultivation. Tomato grower, Joep Raemakers, achieves 10 percent higher productivity and a savings of 35 percent in energy costs with this semi-closed greenhouse. The nearby Health Centre, and the Mytyl School can also rack up large energy savings by using the surplus heat from the Greenport greenhouse

A source of inspiration

This article is by Polis Summer School student Dillon Baker (@dillonaube) on a talk given by Ros Atkins (@BBCRosAtkins) Shedding light not only on how his new BBC News program Outside Source is adapting to the new digital environment, Ros Atkins also spoke about how his job has been impacted by technology’s ability to provide ‘intimacy at a distance’. Figuratively speaking, this means that we can get closer to an event while it is happening than ever before. It has allowed for an unprecedented degree of interactivity between journalist and the viewing public and has allowed the journalist to engage and respond in real-time to what’s going on around them. This drastically changes the dynamics of the relationship between the consumer and the media, with most of us now receiving our information in increasingly non-linear ways

Widespread depolarization during expiration: A source of respiratory drive?

Respiration influences various pacemakers and rhythms of the body during inspiration and expiration but the underlying mechanisms are relatively unknown. Understanding this phenomenon is important, as breathing disorders, breath holding, and hyperventilation can lead to significant medical conditions. We discuss the physiological modulation of heart rhythm, blood pressure, sympathetic nerve activity, EEG, and other changes observed during inspiration and expiration. We also correlate the intracellular mitochondrial respiratory metabolic processes with real-time breathing and correlate membrane potential changes with inspiration and expiration. We propose that widespread minor hyperpolarization occurs during inspiration and widespread minor depolarization occurs during expiration. This depolarization is likely a source of respiratory drive. Further knowledge of intracellular and extracellular ionic changes associated with respiration will enhance our understanding of respiration and its role as a modulator of cellular membrane potential. This could expand treatment options for a wide range of health conditions, such as breathing disorders, stress-related disorders, and further our understanding of the Hering–Breuer reflex and respiratory sinus arrhythmia

Leaf Beetles, a source of inspiration

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Unusual source of inspiration: cooking international law

The editorial is part of a series of contributions concerning "unusual sources of inspiration" for international law scholars. In this piece the author addresses cooking as a source of inspiration and especially the works on "molecular gastronomy" founded by Hervé This. In addition, the author explains the connections between the two disciplines

Transformation of Javanese Marriage Ceremony Text in Bedaya Manten Dance

The symbol influenced by a changing form as a process of transformation. In “bedaya Wiwa Sangaskara”, dancing or “manten” (the bride and the grow) present the source symbol takes from the Javanese wedding ceremony as its inspiration. The Bedaya Manten dance performance represent some important element of the Javanese wedding ceremony, Hopefully the formed symbol in “Bedaya Manten” can be well comprehended by the audience. In “Bedaya Manten”, this transformation is pictured though the dancing style, the stage type, the numbers of dancers, their roles, make up and costumes. As well as the “gamelan music”. During the transformation, the inspiration of Javanese wedding ceremony is diffused and it pictures though the whole ceremony

Damasio's errors: homage to a source of inspiration

The 80´s developed the Sociology of the body and the Sociology of emotions. Both thematized “embodiment” and argues that traditional specialized social theories are not useful to understand body or emotion, as social study objects. My proposal is to consider a review of classic sociological intuitions about embodiment, taking in account the new understanding of cerebral neurobiology of emotions and feelings, personal and social. The present essay refers to a study of the Damasio´s theory applying to social emotions, developing it to look at sociological fields, as politics of modernity. Human beings are mutable beings, according to our genetic special ability to adapt. We adapt, as persons and groups, by conquering Nature but also by transforming our bodies and our minds and souls in adequate manners we feel and we know useful for each occasion. The social study of human feelings (the key of human transformism out of redutionist rational choice theory) is not only a new subject: it is best a proposal for a theoretical turn in Social Theory To do that we can take the same path of neural biology turn proposed by Damasio