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Kultura sitnog voÄa u GrÄkoj
The most important small fruit crop is that of strawberry and all others (raspberries, blackberries, currants, blueberries) are considered minor crops. The strawberry production/year accounts for 25 000 tons and all others produce up to 1000 tones. The main system in strawberry culture is raised beds in walks in tolls (4 rows/toll), for āoff seasonā production and the most important strawberry variety is āCamarosaā. Raspberry and blackberry plants are mostly trained in hedgerow systems. The most important raspberry varieties are: āAutumn Bilssā, Heritage, āMeekerā and āGlen Lionā. Regarding blackberries the most important varieties are: āSilvanā, āKotataā, āChoctawā, āComancheā, āCherokeeā, āBlack Satinā, āHull Thornlessā, āThornless Evergreenā, āChesterā and the hybrid āTayberryā. Most of the planting material is imported. Recently there is increasing interest in blueberry production due to potentially health benefit effects.Najvažnija kultura sitnog voÄa je jagoda a sve druge (malina, kupina, ribiz borovnica) smatraju se manje važnim kulturama. Proizvodnja jagoda/godina iznosi 25.000 tona a sve ostalo iznosi do 1000 tona.Glavni sustav uzgoja jagoda su podignute gredice izmeÄu staza, za proizvodnju "izvan sezone" a najvažniji kultivar je Camarosa. Biljke malina i kupina veÄinom se uzgajaju u sustavu živice. Najvažniji varijeteti maline su Autumn Bliss, Heritage, Meeker i Glen Lion. Najvažniji varijeteti kupina su Silvan, Lotata, Choctaw, Comanche, Cherokee, Black Satin, Hull Thornless, Thornless Evergreen, Chester, te hibrid Tayberry. VeÄina sadnog materijala se uvozi.U zadnje vrijeme poraslo je zanimanje za proizvodnju kupina zahvaljujuÄi moguÄem povoljnom djelovanju na zdravlje
Design Issues for Concrete Reinforced with Steel Fibers, Including Fibers Recovered from Used Tires
Reclaiming the political : emancipation and critique in security studies
The critical security studies literature has been marked by a shared commitment towards the politicization of security ā that is, the analysis of its assumptions, implications and the practices through which it is (re)produced. In recent years, however, politicization has been accompanied by a tendency to conceive security as connected with a logic of exclusion, totalization and even violence. This has resulted in an imbalanced politicization that weakens critique. Seeking to tackle this situation, the present article engages with contributions that have advanced emancipatory versions of security. Starting with, but going beyond, the so-called Aberystwyth School of security studies, the argument reconsiders the meaning of security as emancipation by making the case for a systematic engagement with the notions of reality and power. This revised version of security as emancipation strengthens critique by addressing political dimensions that have been underplayed in the critical security literature
Security (studies) and the limits of critique: why we should think through struggle
This paper addresses the political and epistemological stakes of knowledge production in post-structuralist Critical Security Studies. It opens a research agenda in which struggles against dominant regimes of power/knowledge are entry-points for analysis. Despite attempts to gain distance from the word āsecurityā, through interrogation of wider practices and schemes of knowledge in which security practices are embedded, post-structuralist CSS too quickly reads security logics as determinative of modern/liberal forms of power and rule. At play is an unacknowledged ontological investment in āsecurityā, structured by disciplinary commitments and policy discourse putatively critiqued. Through previous ethnographic research, we highlight how struggles over dispossession and oppression call the very frame of security into question, exposing violences inadmissible within that frame. Through the lens of security, the violence of wider strategies of containing and normalizing politics are rendered invisible, or a neutral backdrop against which security practices take place. Building on recent debates on critical security methods, we set out an agenda where struggle provokes an alternative mode of onto political investment in critical examination of power and order
Decrease in plasma miR-27a and miR-221 after concussion in Australian football players
Introduction: Sports-related concussion (SRC) is a common form of brain injury that lacks reliable methods to guide clinical decisions. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) can influence biological processes involved in SRC, and measurement of miRNAs in biological fluids may provide objective diagnostic and return to play/recovery biomarkers. Therefore, this prospective study investigated the temporal profile of circulating miRNA levels in concussed male and female athletes. Methods: Pre-season baseline blood samples were collected from amateur Australian rules football players (82 males, 45 females). Of these, 20 males and 8 females sustained an SRC during the subsequent season and underwent blood sampling at 2-, 6- and 13-days post-injury. A miRNA discovery Open Array was conducted on plasma to assess the expression of 754 known/validated miRNAs. miRNA target identified were further investigated with quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) in a validation study. Data pertaining to SRC symptoms, demographics, sporting history, education history and concussion history were also collected. Results: Discovery analysis identified 18 candidate miRNA. The consequent validation study found that plasma miR-221-3p levels were decreased at 6d and 13d, and that miR-27a-3p levels were decreased at 6d, when compared to baseline. Moreover, miR-27a and miR-221-3p levels were inversely correlated with SRC symptom severity. Conclusion: Circulating levels of miR-27a-3p and miR-221-3p were decreased in the sub-acute stages after SRC, and were inversely correlated with SRC symptom severity. Although further studies are required, these analyses have identified miRNA biomarker candidates of SRC severity and recovery that may one day assist in its clinical management
From eviction to evicting: Rethinking the technologies, lives and power sustaining displacement
An unnamed shift has occurred in geographies of eviction. While past research focused on the causes and effects of eviction in political economy, state power, and cultural difference, emerging work emphasises the subjective experience and sustaining practices of eviction as it happens. This paper makes the case for this turn away from causes and outcomes of āevictionā, and towards āevictingā as a set of material technologies and practices that sustain displacement, and explores the implications of such a shift. Research into lived durations of eviction, evicting technologies, and eviction enforcement agencies opens up new conceptual and political fields of intervention
Radiocarbon Production Events and their Potential Relationship with the Schwabe Cycle
Extreme cosmic radiation events occurred in the years 774/5 and 993/4 CE, as revealed by anomalies in the concentration of radiocarbon in known-age tree-rings. Most hypotheses point towards intense solar storms as the cause for these events, although little direct experimental support for this claim has thus far come to light. In this study, we perform very high-precision accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) measurements on dendrochronological tree-rings spanning the years of the events of interest, as well as the Carrington Event of 1859 CE, which is recognized as an extreme solar storm even though it did not generate an anomalous radiocarbon signature. Our data, comprising 169 new and previously published measurements, appear to delineate the modulation of radiocarbon production due to the Schwabe (11-year) solar cycle. Moreover, they suggest that all three events occurred around the maximum of the solar cycle, adding experimental support for a common solar origin
Editors' introduction: neoliberalism and/as terror
The articles in this special issue are drawn from papers presented at a conference entitled āNeoliberalism and/as Terrorā, held at the Nottingham Conference Centre at Nottingham Trent University by the Critical Terrorism Studies BISA Working Group (CSTWG) on 15-16 September 2014. The conference was supported by both a BISA workshop grant and supplementary funds from Nottingham Trent Universityās Politics and International Relations Department and the Critical Studies on Terrorism journal. Papers presented at the conference aimed to extend research into the diverse linkages between neoliberalism and terrorism, including but extending beyond the contextualisation of pre-emptive counterterrorism technologies and privatised securities within relevant economic and ideological contexts. Thus, the conference sought also to stimulate research into the ways that neoliberalism could itself be understood as terrorism, asking - amongst other questions - whether populations are themselves terrorised by neoliberal policy. The articles presented in this special issue reflect the conference aims in bringing together research on the neoliberalisation of counterterrorism and on the terror of neoliberalism
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