Abstract As part of the roundtable, “Ethics and Future Global Food System,” this essay discusses some major challenges we will face in feeding world 2050. A first challenge is nutritional: 690 million people (9 percent world's population) are currently undernourished, while 2.1 billion adults (28 overweight or obese. The current global food system insufficient ensuring that nutritious foods mak...

Research summary:Awards are a valuable strategic resource.Motivation theory and the emerging body of empirical literature suggest that awards can have a significant effect on employee motivation and corporate performance, though not always in the intended direction. Awards can also destroy value. The organizational award literature has so far largely neglected this important issue. We develop a...

The author reflects on the possibility of implementing idea sustainable development in environment human life various areas and between them. He begins by answering question what is living environment, presents typology that make up this indicates role destroying it. Then, he analyzes selected pairs are opposite to each other (genuine – artificial, external internal, natural social, real virtua...

The production of new generation of wood preservatives (without addition of a co-biocide) in combination with an exchange of wood poles on identical sites with high fungal inoculum, has resulted in an increase of premature failures of wood utility poles in the last decades. Wood destroying basidiomycetes inhabiting sites where poles have been installed, have developed resistance against wood pr...

We study the emergence of objective properties in open quantum systems. In our analysis, the environment is promoted from a passive role of a reservoir selectively destroying quantum coherence to an active role of amplifier selectively proliferating information about the system. We show that only preferred pointer states of the system can leave a redundant and therefore easily detectable imprin...

At present, intelligent planning in the Graphplan framework is a focus of artificial intelligence. While the Creating or Destroying Objects Planning (CDOP) is one unsolved problem of this field, one of the difficulties, too. In this paper, we study this planning problem and bring forward the idea of transforming objects to propositions, based on which we offer an algorithm, Creating or Destroyi...