Promoting Entrepreneurship through a Community Learning Model – Case Study: Green Businesses

This article presents a community learning model formulated by Engineers Without Borders Colombia with the aim of providing communities with tools to create sustainable productive solutions which have relevancy for members and for potential customers. The goal of this formulation is to promote learning processes that are guided by decisions made by community members to propose sustainable and replicable initiatives. The model applicability is evidenced through a case study devoted to strengthening community-led green businesses in the Guavio Province, Colombia by collecting lessons and conclusions. Ultimately, this collection will prove useful in replicating the learning model in other similar rural communities.

     

Photon emission of phagocytes in relation to stress and disease.

Phagocytes, the first-line cells of the body's defence mechanisms against invading pathogens, kill microorganisms by means of lysosomal degradative enzymes and highly toxic reactive oxygen intermediates. The reactive oxygen compounds are produced, in a process called the 'respiratory burst', by the NADPH oxidase complex in plasma membranes, and by myeloperoxidase in phagolysosomes after degranulation. These processes generate electronically excited states which, on relaxation, emit photons, giving rise to phagocyte chemiluminescence (CL). This paper describes the conditions for the measurement of CL, and reviews the activity of phagocytes from individuals undergoing stress or disease. The capability of phagocytes to emit photons reflects remarkably well the pathophysiological state of the host. In many cases even the magnitude of the stress, the presence of a pathogen in the body, or the activity of the disease can be estimated. Physiological changes, e.g. in the reproductive cycle, can also be predicted.     

小波分析在证券分析中的应用

传统股市投资分析中的证券分析方法之一———MACD法 ,利用DIF的移动平均值以确定证券的买卖时机 ,存在着时滞性 ,对非平稳的股市信息分析不能及时、较好地刻画股市的基本变化趋势 .作者根据证券投资理论 ,建立了相应的证券投资分析数学模型 ,根据小波分析多尺度分析能力强的特点 ,利用小波分解提取反映股市基本变化趋势的低频信息 ,改进了传统分析方法 ,建立了改进后的数学模型Ⅲ .该模型求解方便 ,同时与实际模型较好地逼近 ,具有时效性 .此外 ,以路桥建设股票 14 0个交易日的DIF和MACD值作为原始数据 ,用Matlab作为工具进行计算 ,求解模型Ⅲ .结果表明 :与传统分析方法相比 ,从模型Ⅲ中能得到更多的买卖点信息 ,而且价差更大 ,效果显著 ,充分显示了小波分析在股市技术分析中的强大生命力     

A propos d'antibiotiques insolubles

Summary The authors show the antibiotic activity of water-insoluble salts of hydrosoluble antibiotics in the case of penicillin G (salts of iron, copper, silver, gold, and uranium) and streptomycin (oleate).     

New Membranes Based on Polybenzimidazole for Polymer Fuel Cells

1 Results Acid-doped polybenzimidazoles[1] are particularly appealing because of high proton conductivity with no or low humidification and promising fuel cells performances. PBI, in fact, contains basic functional groups which can easily interact with strong oxo-acids, such as H3PO4 and H2SO4. The acid partially protonates the polymer and partially is freely dispersed in the polymer backbone, so allowing proton migration via Grotthuss mechanism along the anionic chains[2]. Anyway, a technological limit...