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Monitoring wildlife trade dynamics is an important initial step for conservation action and demand reduction campaigns to reduce illegal wildlife trade. Studies often rely on one data source to assess a species' trade, such as seizures or the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) trade data. Each database provides useful information but is often incomplete. Combining information from multiple sources helps provide a more complete understanding of trade. A recent rapid increase in demand for helmeted hornbill (Rhinoplax vigil) casques (a brightly colored, solid keratinous rostrum) led to its uplisting to critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List in 2015. However, there is little current information on what factors influence trade trends and what current levels of demand are. We combined data from CITES, seizure records, and previously underused, yet abundant, art and antique auction data to examine the global trade in helmeted hornbill casque products (HHPs). Three decades of auction data revealed that 1027 individual HHPs had been auctioned since 1992; total auction sales were over US$3 million from 1992 to 2021. The number of HHPs auctioned was greatest from 2011 to 2014, just after the global art boom (2009–2011), followed by a decline in volume and price. The auction data also revealed 2 possible markets for HHPs: true antique and speculative, defined by era, price, and trade patterns. Trends in illegal trade matched those of the auction market, but legal trade remained consistently low. Combining data sources from legal, illegal, and gray markets provided an overview of the dynamics of illegal trade in an endangered species. This approach can be applied to other wildlife markets to provide a more complete understanding of trade and demand at the market level to inform future demand reduction campaigns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Population growth has led to an exponential demand for agricultural products, to meet this demand it is necessary to improve management and achieve efficient use of resources without compromising the sustainability of ecosystems, particularly agricultural ones. One of the technologies that facilitate these tasks is precision agriculture (PA), which focuses on the optimization of resources and inputs based on the compilation of precise and timely geo-information of variables of agricultural interest with high spatio-temporal variability, obtained through remote sensors of three types: images captured by satellites or airplanes, images obtained from manned and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and specific information with sensors mounted on machinery or in the field. These limitations were overcome by using multispectral images, which has increased applications for agricultural purposes. Currently, multispectral images allow quantifying soil moisture, monitoring the presence of droughts and the degree of crop water stress, estimating the temporal and spatial variability of evapotranspiration, monitoring phenology, detecting nutritional deficiencies, estimating the degree of weed infestation. and insects, calculate organic carbon and soil salinity, and estimate yields and agricultural production. The use of geospatial technologies in the PA has changed the paradigm of agriculture and today constitutes a viable alternative to face the challenges that food production demands in a world with high climate variability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Tourism has gained vital importance in recent times as it is one of the economic activities that brings the greatest benefits to a country, both in the social, economic and environmental spheres. Consequently, demand forecasting models in the sector are adequate tools that support decision-making. In this sense, several authors have made important contributions in the field of science that help improve tourism management. This leads to the objective of analyzing current trends in tourism forecasting models using the R bibliometrix tool, covering 254 research articles published between 2017 and 2021. The main results show that the models for forecasting tourism demand they are constantly evolving and there is no single model that works well for all situations. It can also be seen that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the forecast models for that year were unusable; however, it was the year with the most publications. Similarly, this research allowed to identify the main countries, scientific journals and authors who address the study of tourism demand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The banana (Musa x paradisiaca) is a species in great demand as part of the food supply because it provides many nutrients such as a high content of sucrose, fructose, glucose and fiber; as well as potassium and vitamin B6, it is classified as a fruit of high energy value. Taking this into account we can say that it has a high demand in its production as an export product, the banana contributes decisively to the economy in our country, but can be affected in plants during their stages of development by various pathologies and pests such as Bacteriosis, Black Sigatoka and Black Weevil. Some of these pests are vectors of diseases that spoil the presentation and quality of the fruit for consumption. That is why this work has been developed seeking to represent through GIS tools which will give us the help to plot the pests and diseases in the banana crop delimited to a specific area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As a crucial concept of Lacanianoriented psychoanalytic theory, fantasy is an element of transcendental relevance to the understanding of neurosis. This paper aims to develop the fantasmatic particularity in obsessional neurosis through a theoretical review of Jacques Lacan's works between 1954 and 1960. Lacan outlines fantasy as a structural matrix intrinsic to the psyche, which reveals the particular relation of the subject with the object (a) that constitutes the cause of their unconscious desire. Grosso modo, fantasy can be conceptualized as a response to the enigma of the desire of the Other; hence, fantasy is the place where ethics is decided and where the function of the symptom in the treatment is established. Fantasy becomes the north in the direction of the treatment and can be approached through the interpretation since the analyst, by means of the transference's intertwining, is part of the fantasy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the work is to offer an evolutionary and updated analysis of the tourism reality of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia (Spain). The proposed study is based on the use of the traditional quantitative variables (supply and demand) in their projection on a specific territorial space (Andalusia), of exceptional tourist relevance, but also of great complexity and diversity. It reflects on the value and representativeness of these variables for the territorial-tourist study, based on the official sources of information available, offering a proposal for specific indicators. For the case study, the important quantitative weight and general growth of tourism activity during the period analysed (2008-2022) is confirmed, which is accompanied by some certainly significant and interesting processes of change and restructuring, both in the internal conformation of supply and in certain patterns of demand behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present work consisted in the design of a tourism development plan in the Cantagallo community and has the purpose of contributing to the positioning of the town within thw Spondylus Route. The procedure consisted of a tourism diagnosis, potencial demand of this community and the design of a tourism development plan. Relevant methods and techniques were used, both descriptive, bibliographic, field, study, direct observation, files, survey, among others. As a result, relevant information on the site, natural and cultural resources was collected, it was obtained that the capacity, potential and predisposition to meet the requirements of the demand in terms of rural tourism activities. As a consequence the proposed tourism development plan for the spondylus route is designd which is directed into three programs for the improvement of tuorismo in the sector that is; the elaboration of a program for the improvement of the tourist infraestructura preparation in the tourist field to the native guides and proposal of promotional communication strategies for the diffusion of the tourist attractions of the Cantagallo community, where the implementation and diffusion of the same is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El RD 853/2021, de 5 de octubre, por el que se regulan los programas de ayuda en materia de rehabilitación residencial y vivienda social del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia, ha puesto a disposición de los propietarios de viviendas y edificios completos una potente herramienta de financiación de actuaciones de rehabilitación energética. Toman estos por tanto protagonismo dentro del proceso rehabilitador para hacer frente al reto energético establecido por la Unión Europea siendo vital poner el foco en la denominada “Activación de la demanda”, que se puede realizar de diversas formas atendiendo a aspectos sociales o económicos que hagan ver al usuario que obtiene un beneficio propio y/o común realizando la actuación. Siendo necesaria la implicación de todos para acometer con éxito esta Ola de Renovación, desde el Consejo General de la Arquitectura Técnica de España se ha creado una herramienta de carácter gratuito cuyo uso permite a cualquier usuario tener una orientación de los aspectos más relevantes económicos al acometer una actuación de rehabilitación energética. El usuario o comunidad de propietarios obtiene fácilmente de esta herramienta sus potenciales gastos o beneficios mensuales que a largo plazo va a provocar este tipo de actuación en su edificio. Se parte primeramente de la introducción de datos básicos. A continuación, se pasa a una fase de elección de soluciones comunes constructivas de mejora de eficiencia energética para que, al final, se incluya si el edificio con las actuaciones que ha elegido el usuario es susceptible de recibir una subvención dentro de los programas del RD 853/2021 y su cuantía. Abstract Royal Decree 853/2021, of 5 October, which regulates the aid programmes for residential refurbishment and social housing under the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, has provided home and building owners with a powerful tool for financing energy refurbishment actions. They therefore play a leading role in the refurbishment process to meet the energy challenge set by the European Union, and it is vital to focus on the so-called "demand activation", which can be carried out in various ways, taking into account social or economic aspects that make the user see that he/she is obtaining a personal and/or common benefit by carrying out the action. As the involvement of everyone is necessary to successfully undertake this Wave of Renewal, the General Council of Technical Architecture of Spain has created a free tool whose use allows any user to have an orientation of the most relevant economic aspects when undertaking an energy refurbishment action. The user or community of owners can easily obtain from this tool their potential monthly costs or benefits that this type of action will cause in the long term in their building. The first step is the introduction of basic data. Then, a phase of choosing common constructive solutions to improve energy efficiency is followed, so that, at the end, it is included whether the building with the actions chosen by the user is susceptible to receive a subsidy within the programmes of RD 853/2021 and its amount.

Objective: To analyze the components that determine the egg market, identifying the main determining variables of supply, demand, and price transmissions. Methodology: A model of simultaneous equations was formulated with information from the period 1975-2020. The estimation was carried out using two-stage least square method, with SYSLIN procedure of the SAS (Statistical Analysis System, v.9.4.) computer package. The main economic and technological variables that affect the functions of the model were accounted. Results: The econometric model that represents the egg market is composed of five functional relationships and one identity function. There is an inelastic supply (0.15) to changes in the producer price and an inelastic demand (-0.54) to the consumer price. The producer price for pork was a weak competitor for egg production (-0.25). The consumer price of pork is a strong complement (-1.16) and that of beef is a close substitute (1.12), both quantities demanded. Limitations: The period of analysis of the egg market in Mexico. Conclusions: The variables that determine the egg supply in Mexico are the real producer prices of egg, pork, balance feed, and technology or feed conversion. The egg demand in Mexico is determined primarily by the real consumer prices of eggs, pork, beef, and the real national disposable income per capita. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a characterization of the consumer of sheep meat in the center of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. The information was obtained through semi-structured online surveys. The results indicate that consumers have a good perception of sheep meat (quality, flavor, forms and moments of consumption), they buy it directly from the field (informal slaughter) and show interest in the traceability of the product. They prefer animals raiced in the outdoor grazing, they demand healthy meat, a brand or a quality mark, and they are willing to pay more for quality attributes. The identified aspects are key when defining the business model or the strategies to be used to achieve competitive and sustainable sheep meat production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting in the 1990s, tourism became a strategic sector of the Cuban economy, however, over the years, limitations due mainly to the economic policy of the United States towards Cuba have prevented its full development. Together with this, the paralysis of tourism in the world due to the effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, causes a situation of uncertainty and instability in the numbers of international tourist arrivals in the country, which is why the study of your behavior. In this sense, the objective is to design a methodology that integrates the forecast of tourist demand with prospective scenarios to help improve decision-making in the tourism sector in Cuba. The designed methodology, based on theoretical and statistical methods, can be applied to situations that require forecasting demand in different scenarios through the time series. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Agriculture has prevailed over thousands of years, thanks to it a great diversity of products is obtained, which meet the demands of society, but for this it has needed various factors, to be able to transform this type of materials into products, which is done through industrialization, whose task is to process this raw material obtained through agriculture to transform it into a product and with this adding value, with which it will generate resources for both parties, the union of this type of activities is known as agribusiness. This work will be done through a small analysis of the agro-industrial sector in Mexico in a comparison of the years 2020 and 2021, with the aim of describing the changes that have arisen in these years, through a descriptive and exploratory methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this study is to compile recent data about housing in Paraná, in order to offer a panoramic and prospective view of the sector to, additionally collaborate with subsidies to the planning of public policies in the state. The first part presents the set of information collected by the annual housing supplement of the National Survey by Sample of Continuous Households (PNADC), of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) a survey about general characteristics of Brazilian households; afterwards come the results from the study on housing deficit and household inadequacy in Brazil, from the João Pinheiro Foundation (FJP) in which the main housing needs of the country are systematized; in the third part are highlighted the projections by stock and demand for future housing elaborated in a publication resulting from a partnership between the federal government and the Fluminense Federal University. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: this article studies the main job search channels in Neiva, a city characterized by the highest unemployment rate in Colombia. The main purpose is to analyze the factors related to the use of formal and informal job search channels in Neiva. Methodology: to achieve this, an econometric model with a limited Probit dependent variable was estimated, considering demographic, labor, and socioeconomic characteristics that may affect the choice of job search methodologies. Results: among the main results, the higher the educational level, the higher the probability of finding a job through a formal job search channel; likewise, the higher the socioeconomic strata, the lower the probability of finding a job through formal channels. Conclusion: individuals with more favorable socioeconomic conditions are generally part of wider contact networks, which allow them to access the labor market more easily through informal job search channels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Production is a daily activity carried out by companies, making the most of available resources, depending on the production capacity of the production plant to deliver a final product that generates customer satisfaction. The objective of this article is to evaluate the productive capacity of a footwear company in Ambato, Ecuador. The applied methodological procedure considers the calculation of the productive capacities in the four productive processes (Cutting, Setting, Assembly and Finishing) that the company has. Through the study of 51 operations that the production plant has in its entirety, the limiting point is found in the Aparado process. Based on the results, alternative solutions are proposed such as: mobilizing personnel from other areas where demand exceeds or, in turn, outsourcing in order to meet monthly demand. These strategies allow the company to meet its demand and increase the productivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The tourism industry is considered a key factor for economic development and has gained importanc e in national, regional and global economies. As a result, it represents one of the vital sources of income in many developing countries, mainly in the Caribbean area. Added to this is the trend of an increasingly uncertain and dynamic world. Therefore, it is necessary to plan by means of tourism demand forecasting. Cuba, as a developing country, has one of the main economic activities: the tourism industry. However, there are no exhaustive studies in the specialized literature on demand forecasting methods in the country. Therefore, the main objective is to review the general trends and the evolution of tourism demand forecasting methods in a historical perspective and to trace the development of demand forecasting methods in Cuba to serve as a starting point for future research, as well as to carry out a large-scale search using as keywords: "forecasting", "demand" and "tourism". As main results, four classifications of the methods for tourism demand forecasting that have been implemented in Cuba and the existence of few demand forecasting studies in the tourism sector are determined; this makes it difficult to make decisions in forecasting the behavior of outbound markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: To classify the type of product demand placed on the market by auto parts companies in Mexico focusing on the assembly and sale of auto parts at national and international level, which is the basis for the adequate provision of materials in the studied supply chain. Methodologyical design : From a total of 14,895 products, 326 components were selected through the ABC method to perform the demand pattern analysis which was carried out according to the average demand interval and the square coefficient of variation using the monthly demands of each product. Results: The probabilistic analysis of the demand for the 14,895 products shows smoothed (63.80%), erratic (19.94%), lumpy (11.35%) and intermittent (4.91%) demand patterns from which it is concluded that the demand patterns for these companies are mainly of the smoothed type. Research limitations: The probabilistic analysis conducted is based on the data provided by three autoparts companies in México, of which, after the ABC analysis, only the articles of category A were considered for the results obtained. Proposing a different technique other than ABC analysis is limited by the type of data provided by companies. Findings: Due to the number of factors involved in demand variability, it is vital to rely on tools that aid in reaching trustworthy demand forecasts, maintaining companies competitive in customer service quality. Further, the complexity of forecasting automotive spare parts is a challenge which the automotive industry is currently facing. The classification of demand patterns resulting from the study allows for the selection of an appropriate forecasting method for each pattern and improvement of supply conditions of the different companies. This type of study and data analysis permits better decision-making by those responsible for the supply components. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we analyze the way in which a part of modern historiography and classical authors approached the popular modes of collective action in the crisis of the Roman Republic. Protests, agitations and riots, along with other ways of struggling were attributed —by writers such as Cicero—to a natural predisposition to debauchery as well as a tendency to manipulation and irrationality of the mob that expressed itself with excessive violence. We understand that this discursive configuration responded to an undervaluation of the people as a political subject that questioned the legitimacy of those behaviors that transgressed the desirable limits for the ruling class. Consequently, we propose to identify the way in which the plebeian praxis, in the process of subjectivation fostered by the demand for public land, indicates a different orientation that challenges this scheme, affirming the status of the people in the field of litigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rice cultivation is part of the economy of the Mojana subregion, the seed is a basic input, produced by farmers who have maintained the genetic material year after year. The literature does not report a production characterization study, for this reason this research was aimed to characterize the seed production of regional rice materials in this region. With data from a formal structured survey applied to 95 farmers selected by simple random sampling. Techniques such as frequencies, contingency tables, and basic statistics were used. In addition, an econometric model to estimate the functions of supply and demand of seeds was formulated. The results showed that producers are small growers with 1 hectare planted, on average, with a low education level, 71% of the surveyed attended elementary school. Age average of farmers was 52 years old. 57% of the farmers obtain seeds from the previous harvest. More than 90% of farmers are likely to increase the cultivated area, and it is estimated could grow up to 60 hectares. It is concluded that demand for seeds may increase since 66% of the growers plant twice a year, which allows us to infer that seeds are required throughout the year with highest demand in December, January, February. and March taking advantage of the dry season with the so-called serene crops. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the topic of identifications in Ernesto Laclau's theory of hegemony, focusing on the crosses between the leader and the function of Lacan's object a. Based on a reading of On populist reason, the paper proposes an innovative typology with three modes of social identification for discourse analysis: direct identification with the political leader; indirect identification around the leader mediated through a partial object that becomes an empty signifier and function by a nodal point; and the identification with certain values, principles, demands or shared ideals by the group or organization that function as objects cause of desire. In the second part, it deploys some useful theoretical-methodological tools to deepen and strengthen the social investigation of contemporary sociopolitical identities and processes from the political theory of discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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One of the main challenges in commercial chains is to assess what their customers want and need, where uncertainty and risks sometimes become a limitation in the process of decision-making in an integrated way among the chain actors. Hence, the need for collaboration between the actors of a chain arises to mitigate the bullwhip effect, and the fact that the end customer finds himself at the center of it. This article aims to systematize a methodology for the study of the demand in a collaborative way in a Cuban commercial chain. The study is carried out in three stages: the demand management is analyzed, the demand is diagnosed and its calculation; and the demand is exchanged. This work presents a methodological value, for being a proposal of tools for the demand in the chain and a practical value for the application of the methodology in a practical case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Telecommunications companies have great demands of work and seek to provide services with agility and quality in order to meet their consumers. However, there may be variations in requests, the concentration of services can occur in different periods, with no regularity in the number of services at certain times, however, in other situations there is an accumulation of services or the need to carry out activities with a greater degree of urgency. These fluctuations in attendance are substantially fueled by external factors. In this perspective, it is essential to adjust the service schedule of providers in order to meet the needs of the consumer, observing the deadlines agreed by ANATEL. In this sense, he worked at a telecommunications company located in the northwest of RS, study with the purpose of identifying and analyzing demand variations, proposing through the application of queuing theory, parameters for decision making in order to identify idle periods and overload of teams. As a problem, we tried to verify how seasonality and the action of external factors interfere in the waiting time, in the variability of demand, in the manpower needed to ensure service excellence within a time frame suited to the customer's needs. The necessary data collection took place through documentary research and consultations with the company's ERP system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper initially addresses the problem of the drive order as proposed by Freud in 1915, taking as an excuse his own dream of the Fates published in "The Interpretation of Dreams" (1986/1900), approximately fifteen years before the text "Instincts and Their Vicissitudes" (1915). Likewise, it will articulate the relationship between the drive and the Oedipus complex as well as its outcomes. The hypothesis is that, in the productions of the unconscious specified in the 1900 publication, it was already there the fantasmatic configuration later explained theoretically not only by Freud but also by Lacan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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