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Optimal management of a flammable forest providing timber and carbon sequestration benefits: an Australian case study

In deciding to keep or fell a forest stand given its age, the risk of loss of timber through wildfire is an important consideration. If trees also have value from sequestration of carbon, another effect of fire is the unplanned loss of stored carbon. Factors affecting the decision to keep or fell trees, and how much to spend on fire protection, are investigated using stochastic dynamic programming, using carbon sequestration in stands of mountain ash in Victoria as a case study. The effect of treating sawlogs as a permanent carbon sink after harvesting is explored.Forest management, timber, carbon, dynamic, programming, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,

Le management de la responsabilité sociétale influence-t-il significativement les missions du contrôleur de gestion ?

International audienceThis contribution is about the impact of corporate social responsibility management on the management accountant’s missions. We analyze this impact from contingency theory point of view. Theoretically, we suggest four profiles of management accountant depending of the type of CSR management (dissociated vs integrated). On this basis, we realize two empirical studies. These qualitative and quantitative studies lead us to reject the hypothesis of a significant modification of the management accountant’s missions by CSR management.Cette contribution s’intéresse à l’effet du management de la responsabilité sociétale sur les missions du contrôleur de gestion. L’objectif est d’examiner cette question dans le cadre théorique de la contingence de la fonction de contrôleur de gestion. Sur le plan théorique, nous proposons des profils de contrôleur en fonction du type de management RSE (dissocié vs. intégré) et formulons une hypothèse devant faire l’objet d’un test empirique. Notre recherche se centre spécifiquement sur les missions du contrôleur, telles qu’exprimées dans la fiche de poste. Un management « dissocié » de la responsabilité sociétale conduirait à une influence faible. A contrario, un management « intégré » conduirait à un déterminisme fort. Deux études empiriques sont menées. Les résultats de ces études qualitative (11 entretiens, 22 documents analysés, 5 organisations) et quantitative (92 contrôleurs de gestion répondants) conduisent au rejet de la proposition relative à une influence significative du management de la responsabilité sociétale sur les missions du contrôleur. Les démarches de responsabilité sociétale, systématiquement dissociées ans notre enquête, ne s’accompagneraient donc pas d’une modification des missions assignées au contrôleur de gestion. Ces résultats suscitent une discussion relative au cadre théorique de la contingence mobilisé

Poverty Reduction—A Vincentian Initiative in Higher Education: The All Hallows Experience

The development of the commitment of All Hallows College to poverty reduction is recounted. From its founding in 1842, All Hallows was focused on training seminarians for ministry in impoverished areas worldwide. Faced with a decline in candidates for the priesthood, it began offering lay ministry training in the early 1980s, with a special emphasis on the home mission in Ireland. It became renowned for its pastoral ministry education. The college instituted a justice/service element in all its courses and has created a postgraduate program in Social Justice and Public Policy The genesis of the latter, its requirements, and goals are described

Libbie & Grove Urban Design Plan

This plan was created for the City of Richmond Department of Planning and Development Review to serve as a recommendation for urban design improvements and suggested changes to zoning ordinances for the Libbie and Grove commercial area located in the Westhampton neighborhood. To begin, an in-depth demographic analysis was conducted for the Westhampton neighborhood. Special attention was paid to socioeconomic factors and trends in census tracts directly surrounding the Libbie and Grove commercial corridor. Based on these analyses and new development occurring in the Libbie and Grove commercial corridor, we were able to allocate six sites or “study areas” as candidates for redevelopment. All of these sites represent valuable areas within the Libbie and Grove commercial corridor. The sites were selected and designed with different intentions, but aim to create a complete streetscape for the commercial area. Based on this analysis and study, it is our recommendation that a new zoning code be implemented for the Libbie and Grove commercial area in order to codify form based design requirements in order to preserve and enhance a village feel at Grove and Libbie and promote compatible future development

Discovering antiviral restriction factors and pathways using genetic screens

Research in the Hughes lab is supported by a grant from the Academy of Medical Sciences (SFB003/1028), a grant from Tenovus Scotland (T20/63), and The Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF). Research in the Gray lab is supported Medical Research Council (MR/N001796/1) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBS/E/D/20002172). C. E. J. is supported by a University of St Andrews Ph.D. scholarship.Viral infections activate the powerful interferon (IFN) response that induces the expression of several hundred IFN stimulated genes (ISGs). The principal role of this extensive response is to create an unfavourable environment for virus replication and to limit spread; however, untangling the biological consequences of this large response is complicated. In addition to a seemingly high degree of redundancy, several ISGs are usually required in combination to limit infection as individual ISGs often have low to moderate antiviral activity. Furthermore, what ISG or combination of ISGs are antiviral for a given virus is usually not known. For these reasons, and that the function(s) of many ISGs remains unexplored, genome-wide approaches are well placed to investigate what aspects of this response results in an appropriate, virus-specific phenotype. This review discusses the advances screening approaches have provided for the study of host defence mechanisms, including CRISPR/Cas9, ISG expression libraries and RNAi technologies.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Decoupling Interrupts From Virtual Machines in Smalltalk

Architecture must work. Given the trends in client-server epistemologies, statisticians dubiously note the evaluation of e-commerce. WIN, our new solution for introspective communication, is the solution to all of these problems

Field Observations on the Effect of a Mannan Oligosaccharide on Mortality and Intestinal Integrity of Sole (Solea senegalensis, Kaup) Infected by Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida

This study was conducted in order to investigate the effect of a mannan oligosaccharide (MOS) on the intestinal morphology of sole (Solea senegalensis, Kaup) reared under commercial conditions. The dietary inclusion rate for MOS was 0.4% and it was used either alone or in combination with a vaccination regime against bacterial diseases (Pasteurella spp. and Vibrio spp.). One week after the start of the experimental period, a natural outbreak of pasteurellosis, caused by Photobacterium damselae subsp.piscicida,occurred in all the groups of fish.A two-way ANOVA showed that only MOS supplementation reduced fish mortality by ca. 8% (P = 0.050). Additionally, light microscopy examination of the intestine revealed that MOS supplementation significantly increased the mucosal folding by 29% (P = 0.016) in the anterior intestinal region and by 33% (P = 0.002) in the posterior intestinal region. Scanning electron microscopy demonstrated that both MOS supplementation and vaccination significantly increased microvilli density on the enterocyte surfaces in the anterior intestinal regionby 13% (P = 0.028) and 30% (P = 0.001) respectively. In the posterior intestinal region neither MOS supplementation nor vaccination significantly affected the microvilli density (P = 0.005).The present study suggests that dietary MOS supplementation protects the intestinal morphology of infected sole and hinders the development of pathogenic infection, possibly by binding with Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida, resulting in reduced mortality of infected fish

Exome sequencing identifies nonsegregating nonsense ATM and PALB2 variants in familial pancreatic cancer.

We sequenced 11 germline exomes from five families with familial pancreatic cancer (FPC). One proband had a germline nonsense variant in ATM with somatic loss of the variant allele. Another proband had a nonsense variant in PALB2 with somatic loss of the variant allele. Both variants were absent in a relative with FPC. These findings question the causal mechanisms of ATM and PALB2 in these families and highlight challenges in identifying the causes of familial cancer syndromes using exome sequencing

Coping with global environmental change, disasters and security : threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks

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