Rapid determination of total CLA concentration in beef fat

[EN]Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) has many potential healthful properties, and beef is naturally enriched with CLA. Simple and rapid methods to measure total CLA were investigated to enable sorting of beef carcasses with potential enhanced economic value. Direct alcohol extraction combined with measuring absorbance was simple, accurate and perhaps the most viable method for rapid carcass sorting compared to methods using saponification or methylation followed by extraction.

Institutional designs to face the dark side of total allowable catches

Setting total allowable catches (TACs) is an endogenous process in which different agents and institutions, often with conflicting interests and opportunistic behaviour, try to influence policy-makers. Such policy-makers, far from being the benevolent social planners many would wish them to be, may also pursue self-interest when making final decisions. Although restricted knowledge of stock abundance and population dynamics, and weakness in enforcement, have effects, these other factors may explain the reason why TAC management has failed to guarantee sustainable exploitation of fish resources. Rejecting the exogeneity of the TAC and taking advantage of fruitful debate on economic policy (i.e. the rules vs. discretion debate, and that surrounding the independence of central banks), two institutional developments are analysed as potential mechanisms to face up to misconceptions about TACs: long-term harvest control rules, and a central bank of fish.

Apoyo de la Contabilidad de Dirección Estratégica a la fidelización de la clientela a través de la motivación de los recursos humanos y de la gestión de la calidad total

El tema que vamos a desarrollar se orienta a la satisfacción y fidelización de la clientela como objetivo esencial de la empresa, lo que pemitirá aumentar la competitividad y pilotar la organización por la senda de la máxima eficiencia posible, en un enfoque sistématico de mejora continua hacia la excelencia empresarial.

The economics of hydro-meteorological disasters: approaching the estimation of the total costs

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Recompensa total en España : Implantación y evolución

Análisis de los componentes de Recompensa Total, así como su implantación a nivel nacional.