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Consumers’ preferences and willingness to pay for fish products with health and environmental labels: Evidence from five european countries
Seafood products are important sources of protein and components of a healthy and sustainable diet. Understanding consumers’ preferences for fish products is crucial for increasing fish consumption. This article reports the consumer preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for different fish species and attributes on representative samples in five European countries (n = 2509): France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Consumer choices were investigated for fresh fish in a retail market under hypothetical situations arranged by a labelled choice experiment conducted for seven fish species: Cod, herring, seabass, seabream, salmon, trout, and pangasius. The results show the highest premiums for wild-caught fish than farm-raised alternatives. Ready-to-cook products are generally preferred to whole fish, whereas fish fillet preference is more species-specific. The results show positive premiums for a sustainability label and nutrition and health claims, with high heterogeneity across countries and species. With consumers’ preferences and WTP being largely country-and fish-dependent, businesses (fish companies, retailers, and others) should consider the specific market context and adapt their labelling strategies accordingly. Public authorities campaigns should inform consumers about the tangible benefits related with health and environmental labels
Nonradial and nonpolytropic astrophysical outflows IX. Modeling T Tauri jets with a low mass-accretion rate
Context: A large sample of T Tauri stars exhibits optical jets, approximately
half of which rotate slowly, only at ten per cent of their breakup velocity.
The disk-locking mechanism has been shown to be inefficient to explain this
observational fact.
Aims: We show that low mass accreting T Tauri stars may have a strong stellar
jet component that can effectively brake the star to the observed rotation
speed.
Methods: By means of a nonlinear separation of the variables in the full set
of the MHD equations we construct semi- analytical solutions describing the
dynamics and topology of the stellar component of the jet that emerges from the
corona of the star.
Results: We analyze two typical solutions with the same mass loss rate but
different magnetic lever arms and jet radii. The first solution with a long
lever arm and a wide jet radius effectively brakes the star and can be applied
to the visible jets of T Tauri stars, such as RY Tau. The second solution with
a shorter lever arm and a very narrow jet radius may explain why similar stars,
either Weak line T Tauri Stars (WTTS) or Classical T Tauri Stars (CTTS) do not
all have visible jets. For instance, RY Tau itself seems to have different
phases that probably depend on the activity of the star.
Conclusions: First, stellar jets seem to be able to brake pre-main sequence
stars with a low mass accreting rate. Second, jets may be visible only part
time owing to changes in their boundary conditions. We also suggest a possible
scenario for explaining the dichotomy between CTTS and WTTS, which rotate
faster and do not have visible jets
Distrito de transferencia de tecnología - Pamplona : resumen operativo gerencial y programación
El resumen operativo gerencial es una herramienta eficaz para vincular la etapa de formulación de un proyecto con la ejecución del mismo. Se elabora en case a las directrices establecidas en el documento del proyecto y constituye un instrumento operativo ajustado alas condiciones imperantes en el área de influencia al momento de la ejecución, facilitando el seguimiento y la evaluación. Además presenta una visión de conjunto clara y cuantificada de los objetivos y metas que se persiguen, favoreciendo el logro de una adecuada gestión. También es útil para formular proyectos bien diseñados, realistas y evaluables simplificando el proceso de detectar errores de diseño. En este documento se presenta un resumen operativo gerencial y el plan de implementación de los proyectos que conforman el distrito de transferencia tecnológica - Pamplona. A saber: fortalecimiento al sistema de transferencia de tecnología; comercialización; alimentación y nutriciónInstituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura - IIC
Intervención con madera en la cubierta del nuevo edificio de Arte y Cultura
En este reporte, se presentará el proceso que se llevó a cabo en la segunda parte de este PAP. Trabajamos en conjunto con el departamento de encargados de construcción en ITESO para proponer una versión del nuevo edificio de arte y cultura hecho con madera. Nuestro equipo trabajó el tema de la cubierta, con los planos que nos proporcionaron se vio la manera de reemplazar o mejorar el diente de sierra que se tenía propuesto, utilizando como material, la madera
Bosonizing one-dimensional cold atomic gases
We present results for the long-distance asymptotics of correlation functions
of mesoscopic one-dimensional systems with periodic and open (Dirichlet)
boundary conditions, as well as at finite temperature in the thermodynamic
limit. The results are obtained using Haldane's harmonic-fluid approach (also
known as ``bosonization''), and are valid for both bosons and fermions, in
weakly and strongly interacting regimes. The harmonic-fluid approach and the
method to compute the correlation functions using conformal transformations are
explained in great detail. As an application relevant to one-dimensional
systems of cold atomic gases, we consider the model of bosons interacting with
a zero-range potential. The Luttinger-liquid parameters are obtained from the
exact solution by solving the Bethe-ansatz equations in finite-size systems.
The range of applicability of the approach is discussed, and the prefactor of
the one-body density matrix of bosons is fixed by finding an appropriate
parametrization of the weak-coupling result. The formula thus obtained is shown
to be accurate, when compared with recent diffusion Montecarlo calculations,
within less than 10%. The experimental implications of these results for Bragg
scattering experiments at low and high momenta are also discussed.Comment: 39 pages + 14 EPS figures; typos corrected, references update
Cell walls of the dimorphic fungal pathogens Sporothrix schenckii and Sporothrix brasiliensis exhibit bilaminate structures and sloughing of extensive and intact layers
This work was supported by the Fundação Carlos Chagas de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), grants E-26/202.974/2015 and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), grants 229755/2013-5, Brazil. LMLB is a senior research fellow of CNPq and Faperj. NG acknowledged support from the Wellcome Trust (Trust (097377, 101873, 200208) and MRC Centre for Medical Mycology (MR/N006364/1). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Dengue 3 Epidemic, Havana, 2001
In June 2001, dengue transmission was detected in Havana, Cuba; 12,889 cases were reported. Dengue 3, the etiologic agent of the epidemic, caused the dengue hemorrhagic fever only in adults, with 78 cases and 3 deaths. After intensive vector control efforts, no new cases have been detected
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