Application of GIS in potential beekeeping assessment: Case study of Montesinho Natural Park (Portugal)

Planners require solutions that address routine work needs and seems essential to improving efficiency and productivity. There are a great number of different factors related to beekeeper activity as well the quality and productivity of different bee products. The spatial analysis is a powerful tool for overlap and relates various levels of information on a map, and consequently a very useful for beekeeping activity planning. This work proposes and applies a methodology to potential beekeeping assessment in Montesinho Natural Park, a region in the northwest of Portugal. The beekeeping potential maps were developed with the following data sources: legal standards, vegetation, land use, topography, water resources, roads, electromagnetic fields, and some honey physico-chemical analysis. The design and implementation of spatial analysis model based on Geographic Information System (GIS) to beekeeping planning activities has already been described by Anjos et al (2014). Spatial analysis techniques allows to define the potential beekeeper map supporting the beekeeper management in this region. Anjos O, Silva G, Roque N, Fernandez P, 2014. GIS based analysis to support the beekeeping planning. Book of abstracts of the International Symposium on Bee Products 3rd edition – Annual meeting of the International Honey Commission (IHC), Faculty of medicine, University of Rijeka, p:6

PTM-based hybrid error-detection architecture for ARM microprocessors

This work presents a hybrid error detection architecture that uses ARM PTM trace interface to observe ARM microprocessor behaviour. The proposed approach is suitable for COTS microprocessors because it does not modify the microprocessor architecture and is able to detect errors thanks to the reuse of its trace subsystem. Validation has been performed by proton irradiation and fault injection campaigns on a Zynq AP SoC including a Cortex-A9 ARM microprocessor and an implementation of the proposed hardware monitor in programmable logic. Experimental results demonstrate that a high error detection rate can be achieved on a commercial microprocessor

Analiza porównawcza czynników małżeńskich i rodzinnych w związkach mono- i międzykulturowych w Singapurze

The number of intercultural marriages in Singapore has recently been on the rise and research has found that these mixed marriages and relationships tend to have lower levels of marital satisfaction in comparison to monocultural marriages. To determine whether the level of marital satisfaction will be higher for monocultural couples as compared to intercultural couples, a 40-item questionnaire and an 8-item interview was developed based on 8 different factors of couple dynamics and family factors. 10 monocultural couples and 11 intercultural couples were recruited to complete the questionnaire and five monocultural couples, and five intercultural couples from this participant pool participated in an additional interview. It was hypothesized that the marital satisfaction scores, based on both couple dynamics and family factors, will be higher in monocultural couples as compared to intercultural couples. Contrary to that, results showed that intercultural couples demonstrated higher marital satisfaction scores as compared to monocultural couples. Arguably, it may be possible that Singapore and the other parts of the world might differ by having a strong foundation of interethnic ties, which may have made intercultural marriages more widely accepted.3124926614Studia Edukacyjn

The Mediterranean diet: Effects on proteins that mediate fatty acid metabolism in the colon

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Prétraitement des déchets agricoles pour l'optimisation de leur valorisation par méthanisation

Over the last 20 years, the rapid growth of agricultural management by anaerobic digestion in France comes with many questions related to biogas installations profitability. Despite of acquired knowledge through feedback on agricultural biogas sites and developments for process optimization, there are diverse challenges to deal, especially for French livestock farmers. Livestock effluents are 64% of the tons entering into anaerobic digestion, mainly on straw manure form supplemented by other agricultural products such as crop residues, energy culture and other waste from the food industry. However, nowadays majority of French facilities operate wet agitated tank technologies which were developed in Northern Europe and designed to treat livestock residues mainly in liquid form. In France, most of available resources for anaerobic digestion are heterogeneous with a high content of lignocellulosic material. So, they require the use of ration preparation operations using mechanical systems. Although there are many available mechanical pretreatment techniques on the market, the feedback is still limited. Therefore, a scientific approach development in order to link the anaerobic digestion suitability of biomass to the modification of its characteristics during the pretreatment is required. Facing up this challenge, this thesis was structured with the objective of identifying the main functions of mechanical operations for solid agricultural biomass preparation. First, a general approach methodology of bio-physical-chemical characterization has been developed to assess the main effects of mechanical pretreatments before anaerobic digestion. Second, a study of successive mechanical operations at laboratory scale was carried out on different agricultural biomasses such as cattle manure and corn and triticale silage. The functionality of each pre-treatment operation was identified and a correlation between physical and biochemical parameters was proposed. Third, several full-scale mechanical pre-treatment techniques were tested and compared to laboratory scale operations in order to identify their biomass transformation functions and evaluate their energy cost. Thus, several effects have been highlighted: organic matter kinetics and rheological properties improvement. Next challenge to deal is understanding the mechanism of action of mechanical pretreatments on complex and heterogeneous substrates in detail.La croissance rapide de la filière de méthanisation agricole en France depuis une vingtaine d’années s’accompagne de nombreuses questions associées à la rentabilité des installations. Malgré les connaissances acquises par retour d’expérience sur les sites de méthanisation agricoles et les développements pour l’optimisation des procédés, les défis sont encore nombreux, et plus particulièrement pour les éleveurs français : les effluents d’élevage constituent en effet 64% des tonnages entrant en méthanisation, principalement sous la forme de fumiers pailleux complétés par d’autres biomasses agricoles tels que des résidus de culture, produits de cultures intermédiaires à vocation énergétique et autres déchets de l’industrie agro-alimentaire. Or, la grande majorité des installations françaises aujourd’hui sont des technologies de type cuve agitée en voie humide développées principalement en Europe du Nord et conçus pour traiter des résidus d’élevage principalement sous forme liquide. En France, la grande majorité des ressources mobilisables est de caractère hétérogène avec une teneur élevée en matières ligno-cellulosiques, nécessitant le recours à des opérations de préparation de la ration au moyen de systèmes mécaniques. Si les techniques de prétraitements mécaniques disponibles sur le marché sont nombreuses, les retours d’expérience sont encore rares et nécessitent de développer une approche scientifique permettant de relier l’aptitude à la méthanisation d’une biomasse à la modification de ses caractéristiques au cours d’un prétraitement. Pour répondre à cet enjeu, la thèse s’est structurée dans l’objectif d’identifier les principales fonctions des opérations mécaniques de préparation de biomasses agricoles solides. Premièrement, une méthodologie d’approche générale de caractérisation bio-physico-chimique a été développée afin d’évaluer les principaux effets des prétraitements mécaniques avant méthanisation. Dans un deuxième temps, une étude des opérations mécaniques successives à l’échelle laboratoire a été réalisée sur différentes biomasses agricoles telles que les fumiers bovins et l’ensilage de maïs et triticale. La fonctionnalité de chaque opération de prétraitement a été identifiée et une corrélation entre paramètres physiques et paramètres biochimiques a été proposée. Dans un troisième temps, plusieurs techniques de prétraitement mécaniques in situ ont été testées et comparées aux opérations à l’échelle laboratoire pour identifier leurs fonctions de transformation de la biomasse et évaluer leur coût énergétique. Ainsi, plusieurs effets ont été mis en évidence : l’amélioration de la vitesse de bioconversion de la matière et l’amélioration des propriétés rhéologiques. La compréhension en détail du mécanisme d’action des prétraitements mécaniques sur des substrats complexes et hétérogènes est le prochain enjeu