Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2003--Berlin.

abstract: Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) have a polarizing effect in the US. The first commercially viable GMO was Roundup Ready Soy, introduced by Monsanto in 1996, to be used in conjunction with Roundup herbicides. This thesis investigated and delineated the development and deployments of the discourse of Monsanto’s agricultural assemblage of Roundup Ready seeds and Roundup herbicides and its resistant discourses. Monsanto builds its discourse around the safety and necessity of Roundup Ready seeds through federal regulation and toxicology studies. Resistant discourses deployed by Monsanto’s critics problematize Roundup safety and reject Monsanto’s contention that GMOs are necessary for meeting world’s food demands. The discourse analysis pursued in this thesis explored interactions between the dominant discourse and counter discourses and charted their deployments in Colorado’s and Oregon’s 2014 ballot measures that would have required mandatory GMO labeling. Analysis suggested counter discourses were successful in mobilizing people to engage civically. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Communication Studies 2015

Submitted by Helena Bejio (helena.bejio@unioeste.br) on 2018-06-13T00:16:06Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Carine_Cantu_2018.pdf: 977649 bytes, checksum: 41148d5ff61316392a5cc7795d616f39 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-13T00:16:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Carine_Cantu_2018.pdf: 977649 bytes, checksum: 41148d5ff61316392a5cc7795d616f39 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The cultivation of RR (Roundup Ready®) soybean has increased over the past few years and, as a result, changes regarding weed management have been evidenced, with emphasis on the intensification of glyphosate use. However, research results report that in some cases, the herbicide has caused phytotoxic effects on the soybean crop. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the behavior of manganese and of the bioregulator in reversing possible damages caused by glyphosate herbicide in RR soybean. Two experiments were carried out during the 2016/17 crop in Palotina, PR. In the first experiment, the experimental design was a randomized block design in 5 x 4 factorial arrangement with 5 doses of glyphosate (0; 720; 1440; 2160 and 2880 g. e.a. ha-1) and 4 doses of manganese (0; 92,4; 184,8 and 369,6 g ha-1). Glyphosate and manganese were applied together via foliar at V4 stage. The variables evaluated were: chlorophyll index, plant height, insertion height of the first pod, number of pods, 1.000 grain mass and yield. The results showed the glyphosate effect in reducing the number of pods per plant due to the increase of herbicide doses. Regarding the foliar application of Mn, there was an increase in the number of pods per plant and consequently in yield. It was observed that an increase in Mn doses up to 261,64 g Mn ha-1 increased grain yield. In the second experiment, the experimental design was a randomized block design, in 5 x 4 factorial arrangement with 5 doses of glyphosate (0; 720; 1440; 2160 and 2880 g. e.a. ha-1) and 4 management (manganese application; bioregulator application; association of both; no application). The glyphosate, manganese and bioregulator were applied together via foliar at V4 stage. The evaluated variables were phytotoxicity symptoms and others described in the first experiment. Under the environmental conditions of this experiment and for the evaluated genotype, the application of glyphosate in the studied formulation, regardless of the dose used, presented very mild phytotoxicity symptoms in the RR soybean plants and the management applied (bioregulator and Mn) was not effective as phytotoxicant reversers. Therefore, phytotoxicity did not interfere in the evaluated agronomic characteristics and production components. Despite the results verified in these experiments, in general, the cultivar under study showed to be highly tolerant to glyphosate, considering that the herbicide had no effect on the vegetative and reproductive development of soybean plants to the point of reducing grain yield. It is highlighted the need for additional studies in order to evaluate other genotypes, locations and years/crop and to reassess the potential of using manganese and bioregulator in the management with glyphosate in RR2 soybean. / O cultivo da soja RR (Roundup Ready®) tem aumentado nos últimos anos, e em decorrência disso, mudanças no manejo das plantas daninhas têm sido evidenciadas, com destaque à intensificação do uso de glyphosate. Porém, relatos de agricultores apontam que em alguns casos o herbicida tem causado efeitos fitotóxicos na cultura da soja. Assim, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar o comportamento do manganês (Mn) e do biorregulador na reversão dos possíveis danos causados pelo herbicida glyphosate na soja RR. Foram realizados dois experimentos na safra 2016/17 no município de Palotina, PR. No primeiro experimento o delineamento experimental utilizado foi o de blocos casualizados, em arranjo fatorial 5 x 4, sendo cinco doses de glyphosate (0; 720; 1440; 2160 e 2880 g. e.a. ha-1) e quatro doses de manganês (0; 92,4; 184,8 e 369,6 g ha-1). O glyphosate e o manganês foram aplicados em conjunto via foliar no estádio V4. As variáveis avaliadas foram: índice de clorofila, altura de plantas, altura de inserção da primeira vagem, número de vagens por planta, massa de mil grãos e produtividade. Os resultados obtidos demostraram efeito do glyphosate na redução do número de vagens por planta em função do aumento das doses do herbicida. Em relação à aplicação foliar de Mn, houve aumento do número de vagens por planta e da produtividade de grãos, verificando-se que o incremento das doses de Mn até a dose estimada de 261,64 g Mn ha-1, proporcionou aumento da produtividade. No segundo experimento o delineamento experimental utilizado foi o de blocos casualizados, em arranjo fatorial 5 x 4, sendo cinco doses de glyphosate (0, 720, 1440, 2160 e 2880 g. e.a. ha-1) e quatro manejos (aplicação de manganês; aplicação de biorregulador; associação de ambos; sem aplicação). O glyphosate, manganês e o biorregulador foram aplicados em conjunto via foliar no estádio V4. As variáveis avaliadas foram sintomas de fitointoxicação e as demais descritas no primeiro experimento. Nas condições ambientais deste experimento e para o genótipo avaliado, a aplicação de glyphosate na formulação estudada, independente da dose utilizada, apresentou sintomas de fitointoxicação nas plantas de soja RR e os manejos empregados (biorregulador e Mn) não se mostraram efetivamente como reversores da fitointoxicação. Portanto, a fitointoxicação não interferiu nas características agronômicas e nos componentes de produção avaliados. Apesar dos resultados verificados nesses experimentos, de modo geral a cultivar em estudo se mostrou altamente tolerante ao glyphosate, visto que, o herbicida não apresentou efeito no desenvolvimento vegetativo e reprodutivo das plantas de soja de tal modo a reduzir a produtividade de grãos. Ressalta-se a necessidade de estudos adicionais com o intuito de avaliar outros genótipos, locais e anos/safra de cultivo a fim de reavaliar o potencial de utilização do manganês e biorregulador no manejo com o glyphosate em soja soja RR2.

The food industry has an essential role in society and in the global economy. Nowadays, modernlifestyle demands convenience, which is driving the development of the food sector. This isparticularly evident with convenience food, especially ready-made meals, industrially preparedfood, which only requires a short preparation time at home by consumers, but has very complexand diverse supply chains and is associated with a range of sustainability issues. Therefore, theaim of this research is to evaluate the environmental, economic and social sustainability in theready-made meals sector with the focus on the UK market. A life cycle approach has been used forthese purposes, using life cycle assessment (LCA) as the tool for the environmental analysis, lifecycle costing (LCC) for the economic aspects and social sustainability indicators (SI) for the socialissues. Different types of ready-made meal from different cuisines have been considered, includingthe British, Italian, Chinese and Indian. The highest environmental impacts are found for the Italian and Indian cuisines, while Chinesemeals are environmentally most sustainable, followed by the British. At the sectoral level, theresults suggest that from ‘cradle to retailer’ the British ready-made meal sector contributes 4.45 Mtof CO2 eq. annually, which represents ~4% of the GHG emissions of the food and drink sector and~1% of the UK GHG emissions. Of this, 3.16 Mt of CO2 eq. is emitted by chilled and 1.28 Mt of CO2eq. by the frozen ready-made meals. The total life cycle costs at the sectoral level from ‘cradle tograve’ are estimated at £2.1 bn, with the chilled ready-made meals market contributing £1.42 bnand the frozen £676 million. The life cycle costs from ‘cradle to retailer’ are £1.02 bn, with the valueadded of £958 million. The common environmental and cost hotspot for all the meals studied is rawmaterials. In particular, the meat, fish and seafood are the greatest contributors. For theenvironmental impacts, the manufacturing and distribution stages are also important, while theconsumption stage is the largest contributor to the costs. The major social aspects are the foodrelated health issues and food security, in particular food affordability. In the supply chainagriculture, wholesale and retailers show high risk for indicators such as wages and employmentwhile the manufacturing presents high risk in fatal injuries. The study also shows that consumer choices play an important role for the economic andenvironmental impacts; therefore, educational programmes and better communicational strategiesshould be implemented by the industry, the government and consumers groups. Moreover, toensure a sustainable development of the ready-made meals sector, future policies and industrialinitiatives should consider a life cycle approach including relevant economic, environmental andsocial aspects.

This thesis focuses on a progressive packaging technique in retailing which is called Shelf Ready Packaging (SRP). It is concerned with a discussion of characteristics and potential of this method and brings views of key interested parties. Several types of Shelf Ready Packaging are described and their main advantages and disadvantages are analysed. In the thesis there is briefly explained the implementation process of the technology in a supplying firm. Attention is also paid to the role of logistics in retailing and its current trends.

The main objective is to implement integration application for contacts and communication that will meet the Cloud-ready specification, therefore is ready for deployment in a cloud computing environment. The thesis summarizes the recommendations of scientific papers, case studies and documentation from cloud providers for cloud-ready application. It also summarizes the methodology Twelve-Factor app, which brings together a set of recommendations for cloud applications. The second objective is to define specification of application to be implemented on the basis of identified persona and its problems will be transformed to specification and requirements. It is followed by design of the architecture to meet the principles for the run in the cloud environment. The fourth partial objective is to evaluate recovered principles, procedures and actual implementation. The main contribution of this work is implemented in an application that is able to integrate contacts and communication. Another contribution of this work is to summarize and validate basic recommendations on cloud ready application and methodology Twelve-factor app.

La investigación realiza un análisis y un recorrido histórico del término assemblage, relacionándolo con los procesos técnicos conceptuales del arte objetual como: ready-made, objet trouvé, objeto surrealista, montaje, ensamblaje y principio collage. La primera acepción sobre la concepción del objeto como arte, la genera Salvador Dalí, creando el término objeto surrealista (1935). Sin embargo, el assemblage fue acuñado por Jean Dubuffet en 1953 para referirse a su serie de collages "Butterfly wings" y, utilizado para concretar la primera exposición sobre el término "The Art of Assemblage" (1961) organizada por William Seitz para el Museum of Modern Art en Nueva York. Los artistas internacionales que trabajaron el assemblage como una manera de yuxtaponer objetos con formas híbridas y asentaron el término, son Robert Rauschenberg con su combine painting, Jasper Johns con objetos ensamblados en sus lienzos. Arman con acumulaciones de artefactos, Kurt Schwitters con su "Merz" y Edward Kienholz con escenografías objetuales. El primer argumento de la tesis lo esgrime William C. Seitz, Tom Flynn y Thomas Karin, piensan ante el assemblage que el término es genérico. Y otros como André Breton, Timothy Hilton, William Jeffett y Juan Antonio Ramírez, asumen que el assemblage sustentó las vanguardias artísticas del siglo XX. El segundo argumento de tesis lo plantea William C. Seitz, Simón Marchán Fiz, Timothy Hilton, Gerardo Estrada, José de las Casas y Octavio Paz, que ante el ensamblaje piensan que es un método técnico-conceptual. Y otros como Arthur C. Danto, Hal Foster, Francisco Javier San Martín, William Tucker, José de las Casas, Elena Blanch y Anna Maria Guasch, especulan que el ensamblaje es una propuesta vigente en el arte. El marco teórico de la tesis fundamenta el ensamblaje con la estrategia de la deconstrucción, palimpsesto, impulso alegórico, efectos del montaje y el dispositivo de apropiación. En México carecemos de una bibliografía sobre assemblag / Estévez Kubli, PJ. (2012). EL ENSAMBLAJE ESCULTÓRICO: ANÁLISIS Y TIPOLOGÍAS OBJETUALES EN EL ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO MEXICANO [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/16544 / Palancia

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<div>The 1999 Columbine High School shooting was a bold reminder which emphasized the importance of active shooter preparedness for the first responder communities and the general public. Since Columbine, the preparedness for active shooter incidents (ASIs) both in the public and private sectors proactively took place. Currently, the RUN.HIDE.FIGHT.{\textregistered} (RHF) response for unarmed individuals is implemented as part of the emergency response throughout the United States. Despite the RHF's nationwide implementation, there is a lack of literature that supports the effectiveness of RHF to lower casualty rates during ASIs. </div><div></div><div>This thesis examined casualty differences of RHF and the shooters' discharge interval by creating the incidents that have occurred in the library during the 1999 Columbine High School shooting with AnyLogic's agent-based modeling capabilities. Recreating ASI in a virtual environment naturally removes the participants’ physiological and psychological implications. Additionally, the flexibility of agent-based modeling allows validating the model based on the historical events than to run various what-if scenarios. The outcome of this thesis examines the effectiveness of RHF by comparing the output data from the actual event to models with RHF implementation.</div>

ŠEVČÍK, M. Environmental-economic aspects of cultivation of selected genetically modified plants in European Union. Diploma thesis. Mendel University in Brno. Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, 2017. This diploma thesis deals with the topic of cultivation of selected genetically modified crops in the EU. Literature part describes population development and food production in Europe after the Industrial Revolution, while the other parts are focused on the mechanism of genetic modification of crops, the potential impacts of their cultivation, as well as the perception of this issue in the public and interest groups followed by description of the past and current state of GM crop cultivation in the EU, with particular emphasis on the legislative and institutional framework of the issue. The literature part is concluded by comparison of the environmental and economic impacts of growing MON810 maize on the territory of the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, and a subchapter on the potential benefits of growing Roundup Ready Soy in the EU. The practical part of the thesis presents the results of a one-year soybean experiment with the aim of finding the optimum types and dose of fertilizers for the highest yield and nutritional value of the seed. On the basis of these results, the author of the thesis then estimates the potential of introducing genetically modified soybean - Roundup Ready variety, in EU.