... from biomass, a renewable material. Biomass feedstocks refer to a wide range of biological, renewable materials that can be used or converted into fuels, such as ethanol, biodiesel, oil, etc. Food crops are examples of first generation feedstocks, such as corn and wheat. The second-generation feedstock include rice straw, switch grass and other forms of non ... characteristics of microalgae include: high photosynthetic efficiency value, high lipid content, ability to survive stresses from photobioreactors, capable of withstanding varying temperatures and seasonal conditions, short cell cy...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and new forms of multinational production. Whether or not such developments are ... . However, governments are not interested only in the procurement of cheap goods for their citizens " from a security perspective, it may be more prudent to produce weapons, and perhaps food, domestically. From a politica...

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... tests, it wound up costing the lives of 100 Americans, while another 5,000 people fell gravely ill (Goodyear-Smith, 2001) . The incident triggered a congressional hearing, as well as a Food and Drug Administration investigation on the matter that has been criticized for paying little to no attention to the genetic engineering aspect of the L-tryptophan epidemic. While evidence remains scant ... raw data. Additionally, the umbrella of green criminology allows for the inclusion of human victimization as a result of environmental offenses, which are related to several practices within the GM...

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... arousal, such as sitting relaxing, our brains still show fairly high levels of activity, with the EEG recording a mix of beta and alpha wave activity. The presence of these "fast" and irregular wave patterns suggest that many neurons in the brain are firing at different intervals, different times and at various degrees of strength (Greene & Siegel, 2004). Sleep on ... energy expenditure. Mammals, for instance, must constantly expend energy maintaining a warm body temperature on top of the energy they already use to survive in their environment, for example, foraging for food and reprodu...

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