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The current U.S food system has managed to provide abundant food at a relatively low cost, even as the population increases. However, this unfettered growth is reaching maximum yields as demand for greater food production competes with other uses of agricultural lands. Extant ecological factors such as water scarcity are reducing food productivity, and competition for resources to produce food is becoming more apparent. This research examines public policy preferences of U.S. west coast citizens for the management of agricultural resources through the use of random household surveys. Results suggest overall support among respondents for food policies using regulatory, tax incentive, and voluntary outreach approaches. Multivariate analyses revealed that some social-demography, knowledge, environmental values, political ideology, and environmental efficacy variables were significant predictors of public opposition and support for food policies.

This study aims to describe the perspective of bureaucratic officials in Bengkulu City Government accepts and understands the concept of entrepreneurship. The method used in this study is descriptive with questionnaire data collection techniques (questionnaires), interviews, observation and documentation. As a source of data and the population is all the structural environment of the City of Bengkulu by using stratifiedrandom sampling. From the analysis and interpretation found that understanding and knowledge of government officials over the city of Bengkulu on the concept of entrepreneurship in general can be said to be still low. This is reflected in the number of officials who do not understand the ideas that are in entrepreneurship such as customer oriented, citizen charters, performance-based budgeting, incentive systems, sunset law, competition among providers, a partnership with the private and profit-orientation for the government.

ASEAN's global competitiveness requires institutional and ASEAN countries appear to be a formidable economic actors in protecting the economic interests and at the same time having an open economic system that indicates the readiness of ASEAN to compete with the economic strength of the entire region in the world. In this case the measurement of global competitiveness factors become important aspects of state enterprises in the face of global competition. This study was conducted to determine how competitive the ASEAN countries with Biplot method of Principal Component Analysis. Results obtained from this study is the ASEAN countries have different advantages in each of the variables related to the global competitiveness index. In addition, the diversity of which can be explained more than 70% which is 90.69% which means that Principal Component Analysis Biplot describes well the overall total

17 USC 105 interim-entered record; under review. ; In a recent article, we noted that MCDP 7, Learning is a useful starting point for explaining why learning is so important to the profession of arms and is a necessary first step to combatting some remnants of anti-intellectualism in the Corps' ranks.3 That was its key purpose, and it successfully began what we hope will be a lasting conversation and broader movement that embraces learning and thinking in the Marine Corps and perhaps even inspires other organizations to start similar initiatives. MCPD 7, however, did not set out to address some fundamental aspects relating to the how that are necessary for improving our learning and thinking capabilities, progressing beyond an industrial era mindset, and preparing ourselves for great power competition. ; U.S. Government affiliation is unstated in article text.

Global competition and climate change are changing the nature of economic activity and impose the urgent need to have environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The paper addresses both desirable and undesirable output to assess technical efficiency and productivity changes, as well as evaluate the importance of an energy input in the production function and productivity change differentials in the European Union (EU) over the period 2000–2018. To that end, it uses output-oriented data envelopment analysis and Malmquist productivity analysis. The results reveal that the EU is facing significant challenges due to a decreasing trend in technical efficiency and slow productivity growth. The absence of major improvements in human resource performance has reduced the benefits of technological innovations which are the main source of productivity growth. Additionally, the results show that energy use did not critically influence efficiency and productivity.

This study aimed to analyze the prisoner's dilemma theory, which is one of the game theories in international relations. In addition, focus on the impact of the theory on the international political events, as well as the prediction of future events in international relations based on intellectual and theoretical foundations. The study also explained game theory in international relations and indicated its importance in the theory of international relations. The study applied the theory of the prisoner's dilemma to one of the current issues in international relations and applied it to the relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran and their competition in the Middle East. The study concluded that the prisoner's dilemma theory explains the mutual concerns between the two countries about many issues between them. Also, the study concluded that the prisoner's dilemma theory has the ability to explain the Saudi-Iranian crisis.

The Philippines has the potential to excel in this field because an athlete's height is not a requirement compared to other sports like swimming, basketball, and the likes. This is qualitative research specifically employs a single case study to explore the narratives of the young aerobic gymnasts in the Municipality of Malay, Aklan. This study utilizes online interviews, observation, and data reviews in gathering the data while Yin's (2003) approached was utilized in the analysis of data. Themes emerged from stories of the participants like Personal Skills and Motivations of Young Aerobic Gymnasts is Foundational in Winning the Competition, Present DepEd Curriculum Lacks Content in Aerobic Gymnastics and Parents, School, Government, and Business Sector Support are Significant Factors for a Gymnast to Succeed. The output of the study is a proposed new Model of Young Aerobic Gymnastics Development

Mediation in Court is regulated in Supreme Court Regulation Number 1 Year 2016 including the exception. This article aims to examine cases with exception of mediation procedure based on PERMA Number 1 Year 2016 and to identify why Bankruptcy Application in Commercial Court is one of cases with exception. This study finds that PERMA (Supreme Court Regulation) Number 1 Year 2016 exempts cases in Commercial Court, Industrial Relation Court, Objection to the Decision of the Indonesia Competition Commission, Decision of Information Commission and Decision of Consumer Dispute Settlement Agency, Application for Annulment of Arbitration Award, Political Party Dispute, Small Claim Court and Cases with time frame. Bankruptcy Application according to Laws of Bankruptcy in Commercial Court is carried on using speedy procedure, a direct legal remedy to the Supreme Court. Its Application and resolution are within limited time period.

We introduce a new collection of data that consolidates information on European Parliament elections into one comprehensive source. It provides information on formal electoral rules as well as national-level and district-level election results for parties and individual politicians (including full candidate lists). The use of existing and new key variables makes it easy to link the data across the different units of observation (country, party, candidate, member of parliament) and join them with external information. Currently, the data cover four elections (1999–2014). Among other aspects, the collection should facilitate research on the European Parliament's allegedly weak electoral connection. In this article, we outline the main features of the datasets, describe patterns of intra-party competition and preference voting and conduct exploratory analyses of individual-level changes in list positions.

This article examines the formation of the first internet exchange point (IXP) in Mexico amid the implementation of telecommunication reforms and asymmetric regulations in a market with low level of competition. An IXP is defined as a shared interconnection facility and a key internet governance arena where players with myriad goals and functions mesh in interlaced technical and political dynamics. The study shows how data centres, passive infrastructure and autonomous system numbers play a critical role that stand out in the context of lack of infrastructure in Mexico. The paper argues that the challenges for an IXP to become stable in such a context in the global South is a result of IXP imagined affordances and the way that infrastructure, the telecommunications incumbent, its competitors, the state regulator, and the IXP operator interact, keeping the initiative in a fragile equilibrium. ; Published version

The contemporary operational environment in which the military carries out its military actions is a complex one and, therefore, requires the completion of an effective training program, a process of continuous education of the physical qualities and motor skills indispensable to the fighters. Therefore, the use of specific and associated means of sports training, customized according to the specific content of the military pentathlon, becomes extremely useful, because it has the role of improving the skills of the military and achieving maximum performance through them. Since its inception, the military pentathlon has been designed to help increase the level of physical training of the military and to capitalize on their ability to perform, a competition that was specifically related to physical, mental, intellectual, practical, creative abilities and leadership required of the military on the battlefield.

Recent decades have seen substantial increases in the average amount of money spent on wedding ceremonies in economically developed countries. This article develops an account of wedding expenditure as a form of positional competition where participation involves purchasing services in a market. The main emphasis is on the role that conspicuously expensive weddings can play in enabling certain kinds of signalling, most notably the signalling of commitment to a personal relationship and a distinct signalling of personal wealth. The analysis seeks to demonstrate how wedding expenditure is both similar to but distinct from the positional consumption associated with markets in other goods and services. While much of the work in this article is descriptive, it aims to complement more normatively engaged work on the moral status of marriage, and on the proper evaluation and response to excessive positional consumption.

EU communications policy has massively changed due to both global competition on the ICT market and technological developments that led to the emergence of Internet technology. This book analyzes the structural and procedural transformation processes inside the EU legislative processes and concludes that EU communications policy struggles to reflect today's internet-enabled communications reality. It provides insights in the institutional conditions that maintained specific patterns of EU communications policy since the beginning of telecommunications regulation and concludes with an outlook on the technological and regulatory challenges ahead. About the author Dr. Simon P. Rinas is a political science scholar with expertise in EU policy-making on digitalization and emerging technologies. He has gained experience in academia, think tanks and the private sector and has lately focused on digital sovereignty and tech geopolitics. .

The aim of this work was to construct a new adsorption-desorption device based on the principle of separation of volatile organic compounds, e.g., ethanol. As an adsorbent, it is possible to use granulated activated carbon (GAC) in the adsorption and desorption process. In this study, two kinds of GACs were used and marked as GAC1 and GAC2. A particle size distribution and water vapour sorption for the selected GACs were measured. An experiment with distilled water was performed as a preliminary study of the new device's functionality. After the determination of the time necessary for the adsorption and desorption, the experiments were carried out with a model mixture (5% v/v ethanol-water mixture), which resulted in a product with the ethanol content of 39.6 %. The main advantage of this device would be the potential competition of conventional distillation.

The field of climate and security has matured over the past 15 years, moving from the margins of academic research and policy discussion to become a more prominent concern for the international community. The practice of climate and security has a broad set of concerns extending beyond climate change and armed conflict. Different national governments, international organizations, and forums have sought to mainstream climate security concerns emphasizing a variety of challenges, including the risks to military bases, existential risks to low-lying island countries, resource competition, humanitarian emergencies, shocks to food security, migration, transboundary water management, and the risks of unintended consequences from climate policies. Despite greater awareness of these risks, the field still lacks good insights about what to do with these concerns, particularly in 'fragile' states with low capacity and exclusive political institutions.