Diseño de un sistema de gestión para alcanzar la carbono neutralidad plus en la empresa FRUCTA Costa Rica S.A.

Trabajo Final de Graduación (Licenciatura en Ingeniería Forestal) Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal, 2019.Con el objetivo de diseñar un sistema de gestión para alcanzar la carbono neutralidad plus en la empresa FRUCTA Costa Rica S.A. se elaboraron los procedimientos y formularios para un adecuado registro y manejo de la información, una herramienta digital para la cuantificación de las emisiones y remociones, un plan de reducción de las emisiones de GEI, un programa de formación para la unidad de carbono neutro, así como la línea base del inventario de remociones. Se elaboraron trece formularios y siete procedimientos que permitirán la recopilación de la información de manera estandarizada y confiable. Para la elaboración de dichos documentos y del plan de reducción se realizó el inventario de emisiones para el año 2018 bajo la metodología establecida en la norma nacional INTE-ISO 14064-1, el cual obtuvo como resultado que las dos fuentes que mayor cantidad de ton de CO2 emitieron fueron el búnker (4236,78 tCO2e) y la electricidad (651,43 tCO2e). Se confeccionó un plan de reducción que pretende reducir un 0,04% de las emisiones mediante la instalación de paneles en las casas de la empresa. El programa de formación para la unidad de carbono neutro abarca siete temas que pretenden llenar los vacíos de información que presentan los miembros de la unidad; por último, dentro del inventario de remociones las especies que mayor CO2/ha capturan se encuentran: Terminalia amazonia, Dipteryx panamensis, Hyeronima alchorneoides y Hevea brasiliensis.With the objective of designing a management system to achieve carbon neutrality plus in the company FRUCTA Costa Rica S.A. procedures and forms for an adequate record and management of information, a digital tool for the quantification of emissions and removals, a plan to reduce GHG emissions, a training program for the neutral carbon unit, as well as the baseline inventory of removals, were elaborated. Thirteen forms and seven procedures were prepared, it will allow collecting information in a standardized and reliable way. For the elaboration of documents and the reduction plan, an inventory of emissions was made for the year 2018 under the methodology established in the national standard INTE-ISO 14064-1, as a result the two main sources of CO2 emissions were the bunker (4236,78 tCO2e) and the electricity (651,43 tCO2e). A reduction plan was made that aims to reduce 0,04% of total emissions by installing panels in houses of the company. The training program for the neutral carbon unit covers seven topics that aim to fill the information gaps presented by the members of the unit. Finally, in the inventory of removals, the species that capture the most CO2/ha were Terminalia amazonia, Dipteryx panamensis, Hyeronima alchorneoides and Hevea brasiliensis

Vehículos aéreos no tripulados para el monitoreo del estado nutricional y fitosanitario de cultivos forestales

El uso de vehículos aéreos no tripulados (VANTs) en el monitoreo de plantaciones forestales permite obtener información precisa sobre distintos atributos de los árboles. Este trabajo presenta una revisión crítica del uso potencial de los VANTs para el monitoreo del estado nutricional y fitosanitario de plantaciones forestales. Se realizó una búsqueda bibliográfica en las plataformas Google Scholar, Scopus y Science Direct, utilizando palabras claves como estrés, nutrición y forestería. Se encontraron estudios principalmente en el género Pinus y en el continente asiático, que utilizan drones de ala fija y rotatoria para el monitoreo de plagas y enfermedades. Las experiencias en el monitoreo de deficiencias nutricionales son pocas. El uso futuro de VANTs para el monitoreo de estreses en cultivos forestales parece ir dirigido a la automatización en la toma de datos y a combinación de estos con algoritmos de inteligencia artificial

Vehículos aéreos no tripulados para el monitoreo del estado nutricional y fitosanitario de cultivos forestales

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to monitor forest plantations allows obtaining precise information on different tree attributes. This paper presents a critical review of the potential use of UAVs for monitoring the nutritional and phytosanitary status of forest plantations. A bibliographic search was carried out on the Google Scholar, Scopus, and Science Direct platforms, using keywords such as stress, nutrition, and forestry. Studies were found mainly on the genus Pinus and the Asian continent which use fixed and rotary wing drones to monitor pests and diseases. Experiences in monitoring nutritional deficiencies are few. The future use of UAVs for stress monitoring in forest crops seems to be aimed at automating data collection and combining these with artificial intelligence algorithms.El uso de vehículos aéreos no tripulados (VANTs) en el monitoreo de plantaciones forestales permite obtener información precisa sobre distintos atributos de los árboles. Este trabajo presenta una revisión crítica del uso potencial de los VANTs para el monitoreo del estado nutricional y fitosanitario de plantaciones forestales. Se realizó una búsqueda bibliográfica en las plataformas Google Scholar, Scopus y Science Direct, utilizando palabras claves como estrés, nutrición y forestería. Se encontraron estudios principalmente en el género Pinus y en el continente asiático, que utilizan drones de ala fija y rotatoria para el monitoreo de plagas y enfermedades. Las experiencias en el monitoreo de deficiencias nutricionales son pocas. El uso futuro de VANTs para el monitoreo de estreses en cultivos forestales parece ir dirigido a la automatización en la toma de datos y a combinación de estos con algoritmos de inteligencia artificial

Assessment of VINO filters for correcting redgreen Color Vision Deficiency

In our ongoing research on the effectiveness of different passive tools for aiding Color Vision Deficiency (CVD) subjects, we have analyzed the VINO 02 Amp Oxy-Iso glasses using two strategies: 1) 52 observers were studied using four color tests (recognition, arrangement, discrimination, and color-naming); 2) the spectral transmittance of the lenses were used to model the color appearance of natural scenes for different simulated CVD subjects. We have also compared VINO and EnChroma glasses. The spectral transmission of the VINO glasses significantly changed color appearance. This change would allow some CVD subjects, above all the deutan ones, to be able to pass recognition tests but not the arrangement tests. To sum up, our results support the hypothesis that glasses with filters are unable to effectively resolve the problems related to color vision deficiency.The Spanish State Agency of Research (AEI); the Ministry for Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MIMECO) (Grant numbers FIS2017-89258-P and DPI 2015-64571-R); European Union FEDER (European Regional Development Funds)

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Impact of COVID-19 on cardiovascular testing in the United States versus the rest of the world

Objectives: This study sought to quantify and compare the decline in volumes of cardiovascular procedures between the United States and non-US institutions during the early phase of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the care of many non-COVID-19 illnesses. Reductions in diagnostic cardiovascular testing around the world have led to concerns over the implications of reduced testing for cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality. Methods: Data were submitted to the INCAPS-COVID (International Atomic Energy Agency Non-Invasive Cardiology Protocols Study of COVID-19), a multinational registry comprising 909 institutions in 108 countries (including 155 facilities in 40 U.S. states), assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on volumes of diagnostic cardiovascular procedures. Data were obtained for April 2020 and compared with volumes of baseline procedures from March 2019. We compared laboratory characteristics, practices, and procedure volumes between U.S. and non-U.S. facilities and between U.S. geographic regions and identified factors associated with volume reduction in the United States. Results: Reductions in the volumes of procedures in the United States were similar to those in non-U.S. facilities (68% vs. 63%, respectively; p = 0.237), although U.S. facilities reported greater reductions in invasive coronary angiography (69% vs. 53%, respectively; p < 0.001). Significantly more U.S. facilities reported increased use of telehealth and patient screening measures than non-U.S. facilities, such as temperature checks, symptom screenings, and COVID-19 testing. Reductions in volumes of procedures differed between U.S. regions, with larger declines observed in the Northeast (76%) and Midwest (74%) than in the South (62%) and West (44%). Prevalence of COVID-19, staff redeployments, outpatient centers, and urban centers were associated with greater reductions in volume in U.S. facilities in a multivariable analysis. Conclusions: We observed marked reductions in U.S. cardiovascular testing in the early phase of the pandemic and significant variability between U.S. regions. The association between reductions of volumes and COVID-19 prevalence in the United States highlighted the need for proactive efforts to maintain access to cardiovascular testing in areas most affected by outbreaks of COVID-19 infection

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Juxtaposing BTE and ATE – on the role of the European insurance industry in funding civil litigation

One of the ways in which legal services are financed, and indeed shaped, is through private insurance arrangement. Two contrasting types of legal expenses insurance contracts (LEI) seem to dominate in Europe: before the event (BTE) and after the event (ATE) legal expenses insurance. Notwithstanding institutional differences between different legal systems, BTE and ATE insurance arrangements may be instrumental if government policy is geared towards strengthening a market-oriented system of financing access to justice for individuals and business. At the same time, emphasizing the role of a private industry as a keeper of the gates to justice raises issues of accountability and transparency, not readily reconcilable with demands of competition. Moreover, multiple actors (clients, lawyers, courts, insurers) are involved, causing behavioural dynamics which are not easily predicted or influenced. Against this background, this paper looks into BTE and ATE arrangements by analysing the particularities of BTE and ATE arrangements currently available in some European jurisdictions and by painting a picture of their respective markets and legal contexts. This allows for some reflection on the performance of BTE and ATE providers as both financiers and keepers. Two issues emerge from the analysis that are worthy of some further reflection. Firstly, there is the problematic long-term sustainability of some ATE products. Secondly, the challenges faced by policymakers that would like to nudge consumers into voluntarily taking out BTE LEI

Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio

Search for stop and higgsino production using diphoton Higgs boson decays

Results are presented of a search for a "natural" supersymmetry scenario with gauge mediated symmetry breaking. It is assumed that only the supersymmetric partners of the top-quark (stop) and the Higgs boson (higgsino) are accessible. Events are examined in which there are two photons forming a Higgs boson candidate, and at least two b-quark jets. In 19.7 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV, recorded in the CMS experiment, no evidence of a signal is found and lower limits at the 95% confidence level are set, excluding the stop mass below 360 to 410 GeV, depending on the higgsino mass