Defining an Agribusiness Strategic Agenda for 2010-2020

networks, sustainability, supply chains, marketing, agribusiness, agenda, Agribusiness, Marketing,

Coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus

Much of the excess mortality in diabetic subjects is due to cardiovascular disease. Diabetic subjects are at increased risk of developing coronary artery disease and have a higher case fatality after acute myocardial infarction and after unstable angina. Diabetes is associated with microvascular disease, accelerated atherogenesis and left ventricular dysfunction. We review the data on the epidemiology, pathogenesis and management of coronary artery disease in diabetic patients.peer-reviewe

Industry Speaks Strategies for Solving the Food Inflation Problem

This article addresses some of the partial truths and misinformation in media reporting over the booming food prices debate. Many studies are only linking biofuels to the inflation cause, while ignoring several other factors such as the growth of the world population, economic development and income distribution. An overview of the causes is discussed and 10 strategies proposed which policy makers, governments, and organizations can adapt to move the world forward towards long-term sustainability.food crisis, bio-fuels, strategy, sustainability, problem solving, Food Security and Poverty, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy, Q10, Q16, Q27,

Misurazione delle risorse elettroniche in biblioteca

The article aims at presenting a review of standards and current international initiatives on academic libraries evaluation and assessment, with the analysis of indicators related to electronic resources measurement. On electronic resources there are given some definition useful to understand both indicators and measures. The review of the international literature show that the emergent tendency is to collect and evaluate quantitative data related to the "health" of academic libraries together with qualitative data on services offered to library users

Historia y memoria : ¿cómo enseñar la(s) memoria(s) del dolor?

Esta ponencia pretende relacionar las ideas de historia investigada e historia enseñada desde algunas preguntas sobre cómo enseñar el pasado traumático de nuestra historia reciente. El ejercicio de pensar cómo se "enseña" cualquier área del conocimiento debería ser el punto inicial de un ciclo lectivo. Es igual y tal vez diferente hablar de cómo "transmitir" los hechos de la historia argentina reciente. Porque explicar nuestro pasado cercano no es fácil si se quiere ir más allá de reseñar fechas, protagonistas, vencedores y vencidos. El devenir histórico es tan complejo que significa, en última instancia, responder por lo que somos y por qué somos como somos, es decir, es responder por la configuración de nuestra identidadFil: Fava, Claudia. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociale

Il progetto intermedio come luogo dell’empowerment: esempi di nuove pratiche nelle città europee

‘Città in attesa’ sono il risultato fisico e concettuale dei profondi cambiamenti che coinvolgono la nostra società. Nel secolo dell’urbanità, lo spopolamento di molte città occidentali la mancanza delle risorse necessarie al completamento di grandi piani urbani producono un numero crescente di spazi vacanti. Rimandando la sua trasformazione ad un futuro indefinito, la città viene quindi ridotta a un paesaggio amorfo, riflesso dell’altrettanto disagio sociale che investe un’ampia fascia della cittadinanza media. In questo scenario di incertezza il progetto temporaneo diviene strumento efficace ad abilitare lo spazio urbano al suo uso evitandone un ulteriore degrado. Attraverso pratiche intermedie le ‘pause temporali’ in cui è costretta la città possono essere trasformate in momenti di sperimentazione diventando inoltre opportunità di riflessione sui mezzi e sulle modalità del progetto stesso. Questo lavoro propone dunque una riflessione sul concetto di tempo basata sull’idea di durata reale introdotta da Bergson. ‘Attivando’ sequenze temporali solitamente inutilizzate, il progetto intermedio diventa mezzo dinamico di riqualificazione urbana basato sull’’empowerment delle comunità locali. Obiettivo di questo scritto è infine sintetizzare le caratteristiche che rendono il progetto intermedio capace di innescare una trasformazione della città basata su un modo nuovo di partecipare, orientato al rafforzamento delle capacità resilienti degli abitanti coinvolti. A questo scopo vengono raccolti e classificati in quattro categorie dimensionali diversi progetti realizzati in ambito europeo dimostrandone l’adattabilità a tutti i livelli della pianificazione.The physical and conceptual result of the great changes which affect our society is a city in ‘stand-by’. Even if the XXI century is considered to be an ‘urban century’, many Western cities are shrinking and lack the resources which are necessary to complete planned masterplans. By postponing the transformation of the city to an indefinite future, the number of vacant spaces is increasing. This situation reduces the city into an amorphous landscape that also reflects the social problems concerning a wide number of citizens. In this uncertain scenario, the temporary project becomes an effective tool to open the urban space toward its use as well as to avoid a further degradation of the landscape. Through interim practices the 'forced breaks', to which the city is constrained, can be transformed into moments of experimentation, becoming an opportunity to reflect on the means and methods of the project itself. This work proposes a reflection on the concept of time based on the idea of real duration introduced by Bergson. 'Activating' usually unused sequences of time, the interim project works as a dynamic means of urban regeneration based on the empowerment of local communities. Finally, the aim of this paper is to summarize the features that make the intermediate project able to trigger a transformation of the city based on a new way to participate, attempting to strengthen the resilient capacity of the people involved. For this purpose several European projects are collected and classified into four dimensional categories, showing the adaptability of the temporary project at all scales and levels of planning.Peer Reviewe