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Natural history collections (NHC) worldwide contain vast amount of valuable data that can be used to answer a wide range of questions by exploring biodiversity and natural resources records, having an immense potential to contribute to science, policy making and legislating, and to public scientific awareness. Likewise, the development and increase of global and regional biodiversity digital databases (e.g., Global Biodiversity Information Facility - GBIF; Fauna Europaea; Naturdata, etc.), scientific literature and all digital information regarding biodiversity, ecological areas and climate records comprise a huge amount of primary and processed digital ecological data (DED) accessible globally that can be readily used, at no cost, and integrated to further study e.g. biodiversity changes, ecological processes, natural habitat distribution, prioritizing ecosystem management and conservation actions, etc. Marine invertebrate biodiversity contributes to the structure and stability of ecosystem processes such as productivity, ecological networks, as well as nutrient and biogeochemical cycling having also an economic importance as a food source for local populations. Mangroves and seagrasses encompass ecological and socio-economic relevance as they have a preponderant role in marine and coastal ecosystem biodiversity and functioning providing a vast number of goods and services to local populations. Although generally pristine, mangroves and seagrasses in Africa are extremely vulnerable to the increased migration of rural populations to urban coastal areas and to extreme climate events. As a result, human activities such as construction, agriculture and food harvesting, provoke habitat degradation and biodiversity loss which will have further devastating consequences. The degradation and unsustainable use of these ecosystems have major drawbacks to the elimination of extreme poverty because this is one of the key factors that drive environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. The main goal of this work is to use ...

Spirulina biomass has great nutritional value, but its proteins are not as well adsorbed as animal ones are. New functional food ingredients and metabolites can be obtained from spirulina, using different selective biodegradations of its biomass. Four enzyme-assisted extraction methods were independently studied, and their best operation conditions were determined. Enzymes were employed to increase the yield of easily adsorbed proteic extracts. A biomass pre-treatment using Alcalase ® (pH 6.5, 1% v / w , and 30 °C) is described, which increased the extraction yield of hydrophilic biocomponents by 90% w / w compared to the simple solvent extraction. Alcalase ® gives rise to 2.5–6.1 times more amino acids than the others and eight differential short peptides (438–1493 Da). These processes were scaled up and the extracts were analyzed. Higher destruction of cell integrity in the case of Alcalase ® was also visualized by transmission electron microscopy. The described extractive technology uses cheap, commercial, food grade enzymes and hexane, accepted for food and drug safety. It is a promising process for a competitive biofactory, thanks to an efficient production of extracts with high applied potential in the nutrition, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical industries. ; This research was partially supported by the Program of I+D Activities of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Spain: Tecnología 2013 (Project INSPIRA1-CM Ref. S2013/ABI-2783 "Aplicaciones industriales de la Espirulina" with co-financiation of the European Structural Found (European Social Found -EFS- and European Found for Regional Development- FEDER-), and by MINECO of Spanish Government (grant Ref. CTQ2017-86170-R). ; We acknowledge support by the CSIC Open Access Publication Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI) ; Peer reviewed

Purpose – to study the causes and consequences of migration processes. The results of the study. This article presents the results of an analysis of the dynamics and current state of labor migration processes in Ukraine. The authors evaluated the impact of international labor migration on the country's economy. The causes of labor migration, its positive and negative consequences are characterized. This study examines and summarizes the global experience in regulating external migration flows to foreign countries. The authors suggested directions for improving the system of regulation of external labor migration, as well as measures to promote its use as an important element of economic development based on the analysis. Practical implications. The results of this paper can become the basis for the formation of the migration policy of Ukraine according to European standards. Originality/Value. This paper is expanded on the concept of the main directions and the principles of state migration policy, which the government of Ukraine must adhere to when forming it, has been. Research limitations/Future research. It is advisable to direct further research towards quantitative analysis of the composition, structure, and national characteristics of labor migrants. Paper type – empirical. ; Цель работы – изучить причини и последствия миграционных процессов в Украине. Результаты исследования. Проведен анализ миграционных процессов в Украине. Представлены результаты анализа динамики и современного состояния трудовых миграционных процессов. Оценено влияние международной трудовой миграции на экономику страны. Охарактеризованы причины трудовой миграции, ее положительные и отрицательные последствия. Рассмотрен и обобщен мировой опыт регулирования внешних миграционных потоков в зарубежные страны. На основе представленного анализа предложены направления совершенствования системы регулирования внешней трудовой миграции, а также меры, способствующие использованию международной трудовой миграции в качестве важного элемента ...

In order to achieve the objectives and goals of our social project, the broad development of the people's political education is essential. The work of the Party School System and especially the Municipal and District Schools contributes to this end. In these schools the effective action of the activist professors as a special type of political educators is decisive, so the improvement of their formative process is of transcendental importance. The objective of the present work is to demonstrate the value of the pedagogical and political thought of Fidel Castro Ruz as a reference for the formulation of methodological proposals that contribute to transform, from a socioeducational approach, the dynamics of the process of training of political educators acting in the institutions education with a political profile, responsible for promoting socio-political management from persuasion and participation. ; Para la consecución de los objetivos y metas de nuestro proyecto social resulta imprescindible el amplio desarrollo de la educación política del pueblo. Contribuye a este fin la labor del Sistema de Escuelas del Partido y especialmente las Escuelas Municipales y Distritales. En estas escuelas es decisiva la actuación eficaz de los profesores activistas como tipo especial de educadores políticos, por lo que el perfeccionamiento de su proceso formativo resulta de trascendental importancia. El objetivo del presente trabajo es demostrar el valor del pensamiento pedagógico y político de Fidel Castro Ruz como referente para la formulación de propuestas metodológicas que contribuyan a transformar desde un enfoque socioeducativo la dinámica del proceso de formación de educadores políticos que actúan en las instituciones educativas con perfil político, encargadas de promover la gestión sociopolítica desde la persuasión y la participación.

Purpose
Empirical evidences support the benefits of environmental innovation to improve performance. However, previous research has not considered the role of resource alignment in green supply chain management. To fill the research gap, this paper aims to identify resource alignment as a potential moderating mechanism and to examine the relationships between environmental innovation strategy, resource alignment and green innovation performance.


Design/methodology/approach
The empirical study uses a questionnaire approach designed to collect data. Regression analysis is used for hypotheses testing.


Findings
The findings indicate that environmental innovation strategy and resource alignment between partners are positively related to green innovation performance. This study also provides considerable support to the key contingent moderator of resource alignment. The positive effect of environmental innovation strategy on green innovation performance is stronger under the conditions of a higher level of resource alignment between partners.


Research limitations/implications
This study provides empirical support of the ecological modernization theory and integrates partner analysis literature and green management literature. Higher resource alignment may facilitate firms to develop environmental innovation strategy to attain green innovation performance.


Practical implications
Environmental innovation strategy enables firms to integrate ecological issues into their business operation. Managers could learn how to execute environmental incentive programs to promote sustainable development of green new product and green process. Managers need to pay attention to resource alignment that may have moderating influence on the performance outcomes of environmental innovation strategy.


Originality/value
This study highlights the importance of environmental innovation strategy and resource alignment in the process of green management and helps scholars and managers to better understand the moderator of resource alignment in quest of environmental innovation and green management.

Purpose
As disaster resilience activities are increasingly occurring at the neighbourhood level, there is a growing recognition in research and in practice of the contributions that community stakeholders can make in assessing the resilience of their communities. The purpose of this paper is to describe the process in deriving a disaster resilience measurement framework by soliciting the perspectives of stakeholders from urban neighbourhoods in two countries. The authors examined their community values, and their perspectives on both the concept of resilience and the essential elements that they believe would contribute to the resiliency of their neighbourhoods.


Design/methodology/approach
The authors used an appreciative inquiry approach to draw out the perspectives of 58 stakeholders from nine focus groups in five urban neighbourhoods in New Zealand and in the USA.


Findings
Results of this research show common values and recurring perceived characteristics of disaster resilience across the study sites. A neighbourhood-based disaster resilience measurement framework is developed that encompasses individual/psychological, socio-cultural, economic, infrastructural/built, and institutional/governance dimensions of disaster resilience. In the process of developing the framework, the authors identified challenges in engaging certain segments of the population and in accounting for wider structural influences on neighbourhood resilience.


Research limitations/implications
Issues relating to inclusive community engagement and linkages to cross-scalar resilience factors need to be addressed in future studies.


Practical implications
Results of this research provide insights and guidance for policy makers and practitioners when engaging communities in the development of resilience metrics.


Originality/value
This study fills the literature gap in evaluating community values and stakeholders' perspectives on disaster resilience when identifying metrics for resilience interventions in urban neighbourhoods. The proposed measurement framework is derived from cross-cultural and diverse socioeconomic settings.

Maluku province is one of the Islands in Indonesia. Seram island is one of the largest islands in the Maluku province lies the Central Maluku Regency. Central Maluku district is one of the priorities regions in the development of paddy fields in the province of Maluku. According to the BPS Maluku province in the year 2015, Government Maluku province was only able to meet the needs of 58% of the rice. Fulfillment needs rice is one of the Government's efforts in food self-sufficiency, it is because of the availability of food is one of the primary needs. Increased agricultural productivity through the extension of new rice fields became one alternative settlement in fulfillment of rice. The increase in rice production through the expansion of rice fields is still possible, because of the potential land is suitable for the expansion of rice fields was still quite spacious. The success of the process of the expansion of paddy fields depend on the expansion of the activities of the mechanism of the rice is done. The process of the expansion of rice fields is preceded by feasibility investigation location. Feasibility study of the site was conducted to find out the feasibility of potential land with the observations in the field which is then processed and spatial dianalis in using ArcGIS software. Results of a survey investigating the Central Maluku district region with a total area of 594.29 achieved ha based on the suitability of the land for the potential expansion of new acres of rice paddies 587.35 ha from 2 (two) subdistricts include North Eastern Seram Subdistrict Kobi m2 170.87 ha and North Seram Subdistrict covering 416.82 ha. Keywords: The Expansion Of New Rice Fields, Agricultural Land Suitability Evaluation, Islands

There is a certain consensus among Argentine contemporary historiansabout the existence of a gradual process of transformation of politicallanguages in the riverplate ́s 19th century. The thesis is that the politicalelites that survived the rosista order justified and contributed to the transferof a social republican moment (1820-1852) to a liberal nationalist one(1852-1880). In this paper we suggest the existence of an intermediatepolitical moment to those two most distal, which we will call Mitre moment(1852-1874). The incorporation of this moment allows our understanding toproperly capture the gradualness and particularity of that political process ofsemantic transformation. In this general context, our specific objectives arethree. In the first place, we will proceed to reconstruct the conceptualdisplacements existing in the second half of the 19th century in threeespecially relevant words: republic, federation and nation, as a politicalcontext of enunciation and justification of the liberal nationalist mitristaorder. Secondly, we will explain the beginning, development andparadoxical decline of that intermediate political moment, stopping us in itsrhetorical contributions to the nationalist liberal turn enunciated. In the thirdplace, we will offer arguments in defense of the hypothesis according towhich the liberal nationalist rhetorical apparatus mitrista allows todemonstrate certain peculiarities and aporias of the riverplate nationalistliberalism of the second half of the 19th century. ; Existe cierto consenso entre los historiadores contemporáneos argentinosacerca de la existencia de un proceso gradual de transformación de loslenguajes políticos en el siglo XIX rioplatense. La tesis es que las elitespolíticas sobrevivientes al orden rosista justificaron y contribuyeron altraspaso de un momento republicano social (1820-1852) a uno liberalnacionalista (1852-1880). En este trabajo sugerimos la existencia de unmomento político intermedio a aquellos dos más distales, el cualdenominaremos momento Mitre ...

BACKGROUND : The indigenous health care system continues in the postcolonial era to be perceived by antagonists as a threat to Western medicine. It has been associated with 'witchcraft', actively discouraged and repressed through official government prohibition laws. Despite that, human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV and AIDS) patients consult both allopathic and indigenous health practitioners. AIM : The study explored a collaboration model between allopathic and traditional health practitioners in the management of patients living with HIV and AIDS in postcolonial South Africa. SETTING : We conducted six combined focus group discussions and four separate group discussions with each category of co-researchers. Methods: Combined and separate focus group discussions were conducted with community members, allopathic and indigenous health practitioners, applying the cyclical method in the decolonisation process. Their perceptions and experiences in the management of HIV and AIDS patients were explored, and finally decolonisation strategies suitable for collaboration in their context were identified. RESULTS : The two health systems were rendering services to the same HIV and AIDS communities. Lack of communication created confusion. Collaboration was long overdue. A change in mindsets, attitudes and practices among practitioners was critical, with an acknowledgement that 'neither health system is better than the other, but the two should be complementary, recognising that the culture and beliefs of patients influence their health-seeking behaviour'. CONCLUSION : Co-researchers were committed to working together in the fight against HIV and AIDS infections. Their model for collaboration addresses the challenges of patients' secrecy, treatment overdose and the abandonment of antiretroviral treatment. Through the application of a decolonisation process, their mindsets, attitudes and practices towards each other were changed, enabling the joint development of a custom model for ...

Biofuels, with potential environmental, social and economic benefits, have obtained significant research and policy attentions worldwide. Research and policy investment in biofuels is disproportionate to the size of the industry. These started abruptly in 2001 and ended in controversy in Australia and were phased out quietly in China. This research aims to enhance the understanding of biofuel policy drivers and evidence-based policy-making by investigating the research-policy interface in Australia and China. With researchers and policymakers' active participation, the study probes rationalities for the governments' intervention in biofuel development, identifies the factors considered by policymakers and efficient channels for policymakers to access biofuel research outputs. Conducting semi-structured interviews and questionnaire surveys with biofuel policymakers and researchers in Australia and China, bilingually, provided multi-perspectives and valuable data. This triangulated with academic and government publications, enabled a comprehensive understanding of a complex and dynamic system, and ensured the research findings' reliability and validity. Comparison provided a deeper understanding of the policy drivers and the barriers to evidence-based biofuel policy-making in practice. In brief, the study found that besides research outputs, biofuels' market performance, lobbying from incumbent industries and the government's short-term policy goals are also influential factors in Australia's biofuel policy-making process. Instead of struggling with the issue of contestability of evidence, centralised Chinese Government appears to provide it simpler, based on its unified policy targets and top-down decision-making process. Researchers complained that ideologies and political factors were the fundamental barriers for evidence-based biofuel policy-making in Australia. While the majority of policymakers in both countries stated biofuel research was not the only input of policy-making. They were concerned about the ...

Today democracy means that almost all adult citizens participate in the exercising of power. In substantive terms, democracy relies on freedom, equality, and majority rule. At the same time, it is also a regime that rests on specific principles and procedures (the procedural perspective). The process of consolidating democratic values and procedures goes through various stages. First, the erosion of a non-democratic regime involves the transfer of power from former elites to new political actors. Next, during the transition stage, the democratic institutional design is introduced into the political system. Finally, during the consolidation stage, the democratic principles of political life become well-established and democratic values accepted and internalised by the society. The most important determinants of the stage of erosion include: the heritage of the past and the influence of the surroundings. The transition is determined by: the structure of the state, national identity, political elites' work on the constitution, the relationship between the organs of government, the party system, the electoral system, lustration, decentralisation of power to a system of local authorities, and external factors. The consolidation stage depends on institutional factors on the one hand. such as the final design of the constitution, a stable model of relations between the organs of government, the development of a pluralistic party system, and solidification of the electoral system, and on behavioural factors on the other, such as acceptance and internalisation of democratic values by the society. The process of democratisation can be analysed and evaluated with the use of quantitative and qualitative indicators. This study employs indices used by Freedom House, The Economist Intelligence Unit, and The Bertelsmann Foundation. [fragm. tekstu]

The subject of the study is peculiarities of statistical provision of processes of management of objects of state property and institutional support of the national producer at the expense of the state order. The purpose of the article is the author's vision of the peculiarities of statistical provision of management of state–owned objects and the implementation of state orders in the economy of Ukraine, as well as directions for its improvement. Methodology of the work – is the position of the institutional theory, the theory of governance, the Keynesian concept. On the basis of a systematic approach using methods of analysis and synthesis, the deficiencies of statistical provision in the field of management of state–owned objects and the execution of state orders in the Ukrainian economy were identified, and proposals were made for its improvement. The results of the work is the strengthening of the role of the state in the conditions of the rapid development of globalization processes and the necessity of proper statistical provision of management activity is argued. The estimation of the state and the shortcomings of the statistical provision of management of state–owned objects and state orders in the economy of Ukraine was made, measures were identified to improve it. Conclusions – for proper statistical, informational and analytical support for the management of state–owned objects and the execution of a state order, it is necessary to carry out a complex of measures for streamlining the current legislation in the field of public procurement and public procurement, clarifying the methodological provisions in the field of management of objects located in the state and communal property, increasing attention to the statistical monitoring of the functioning of objects involved in the field of public–private partnership.

The implementation of innovative sustainability technologies often requires far-reaching changes of the macro environment in which the innovating firms operate. The chances of a successful diffusion and adoption of an innovative technology in society are increased if the firms wanting to commercialize this technology collaborate in networks or industry clusters to build a favorable environment for their technology. Entrepreneurs can strategically collaborate in networks of other technology producers, complimentary businesses, customers and government actors. By bundling their forces, they can accelerate the building up of a supportive innovation ecosystem or business ecosystem, in which their innovation can flourish. Combining the transition literature with insights from the strategic management literature, the concept of strategic collective system building has been formed. To underpin the theoretical analysis empirically, a case study in the Dutch smart grid field has been conducted. Based on this, a set of systemic strategy frameworks for system-building entrepreneurship have been developed. This is not only useful for a better theoretical understanding of collective action in emerging innovation ecosystems but also as guidance to entrepreneurs in building a supportive innovation ecosystem for their radical sustainability technologies. The term 'collective system building' describes processes and activities that networks of actors can strategically engage in to collectively build a favorable environment for their innovative sustainability technology. First, a strategy framework for collective system building is presented, which focuses on the processes and important activities for system building. The strategy framework consists of four key areas: technology development and optimization, market creation, socio-cultural changes and coordination. Each of these key strategic areas is composed of a set of system-building activities. This framework can be used as tool for strategy making by system-building ...

In the article attention is concentrated on the actual aspects of quality of preschool education; the basic tasks of the system of preschool education are certain: creation of the proper terms for the receipt of preschool education children, providing of effectiveness of the personality oriented educational system, realization of principles of democratization, humanizing and individualization, integrativity of pedagogical process in establishment of preschool education; the normatively-legal providing is described; modern scientifically-pedagogical looks are reflected to the investigated problem; it is set that quality of preschool education is a system concept, that embraces all aspects of activity of establishment of preschool education and it is related to the estimation of health of pupils, their intellectual, moral and aesthetic development; the criteria of estimation of quality of preschool education are described: quality of terms, quality of educational process, quality of results of education; the ways of providing of quality of preschool education are exposed on the modern stage: increase of role of playing activity in life of child, providing of the following between preschool and initial education, removal of displays of authoritarian pedagogics, implementation of the complex program of establishment of preschool education, to adhere to maximum the possible educational loading on a child, optimization of terms of work of teachers, study and introduction of perspective pedagogical experience, providing in establishment of preschool formation of close cooperation of family and medical-psychological-pedagogical service, grant of additional educational services, accordance of personality and educational achievements of child state standard preschool education and others like that. ; У статті зосереджено увагу на актуальних аспектах якості дошкільної освіти; визначено основні завдання системи дошкільної освіти; описано нормативно-правове забезпечення; висвітлено сучасні науково-педагогічні погляди на ...

The sphere of public administration urgently needs highly qualified specialists capable to realize the set strategic tasks of social, economic and innovative development of Russia. The article views the main problems connected with process of training personnel for work with youth as one of the most important sources of personnel potential formation for youth policy implementation. The importance of the theme is connected with the lack of the effective system for personnel training in this branch. During the analysis of personnel structure of the government departments engaged in youth policy implementation it has turned out that employees with non-core education and, consequently, with weak competences demanded in this sphere prevail. According to the requirements imposed on such experts stated in educational and professional standards, the paper proposes the directions of training process optimization, formulates new tasks for youth work organizers. The unified system of training and retraining personnel engaged in state youth work is to solve the designated problems of youth policy staffing and ensure successful implementation of the youth policy in the Russian Federation. ; Сфера государственного управления остро нуждается в высококвалифицированных специалистах, способных реализовывать поставленные стратегические задачи социально-экономического и инновационного развития России. В статье рассмотрены основные проблемы, связанные с процессом подготовки кадров для работы с молодёжью как одного из наиболее важных источников формирования кадрового потенциала для реализации молодёжной политики. Актуальность данной темы связана с задачей совершенствования профессиональных компетенций служащих этой отрасли. В ходе анализа кадрового состава органов по делам молодёжи оказалось, что среди них преобладают сотрудники с непрофильным образованием и вытекающей из этого их слабой компетентностью. Исходя из требований, предъявляемых к такого рода специалистам образовательным и профессиональным стандартами, предложены ...