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UNINA9910464683803321 |
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Biofuels : from microbes to molecules / / Edited by Xuefeng Lu |
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Norfolk, England : , : Caister Academic Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (259 p.) |
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Biomass conversion |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Current Books of Interest; Contributors; Preface; 1: Metabolic Engineering: Key for Improving Biological Hydrogen Production; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Metabolic engineering of bacterial systems for hydrogen production by dark fermentation; 1.3 Metabolic engineering of green algae, cyanobacteria, and bacteria for improving hydrogen production; 1.4 Future directions; 2: Biogas-producing Microbes and Biomolecules; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Biogas microbiology; 2.3 Biomethane; 2.4 Molecular methods for the study and control of biogas production; 2.5 Biogas from unconventional substrates |
2.6 Future trends: algae2.7 Conclusions; 3: Engineering Recombinant Organisms for Next-generation Ethanol Production; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Overview of all microbial technologies for first- (1G) and second-generation (2G) ethanol production; 3.3 Xylose fermentation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae; 3.4 Hardening of S. cerevisiae against inhibitors formed during lignocellulose pretreatment; 3.5 CBP application to soluble and insoluble (raw, uncooked) starch fermentation; 3.6 Conversion of cellulose to ethanol by S. cerevisiae in a CBP configuration |
3.7 Mining microbial diversity for novel enzymes for CBP application to starch and lignocellulose, including genomic and metagenomic and/or transcriptomic libraries as sources of novel enzymes/activities3.8 Process configurations for integration of 1G and 2G processes; 3.9 Discussion and conclusions; 4: Production of Biobutanol, from ABE to |
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Syngas Fermentation; 4.1 Butanol - commodity chemical and advanced biofuel; 4.2 Classic acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation with solventogenic clostridia; 4.3 Engineering of non-natural butanol producers and synthetic pathways |
4.4 Future trends - butanol production from greenhouse gases CO2 and/or CO5: Higher Chain Alcohols from Non-fermentative Pathways; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Steps to production; 5.3 Fermentative alcohol production; 5.4 2-Keto acid-based alcohols; 5.5 Conclusion; 6: Isoprene-derived Biofuels from Engineered Microbes; 6.1 Classes of isoprenoid compounds; 6.2 Metabolic pathway and host engineering to optimize isoprenoid-precursors biosynthetic pathways; 6.3 Conversions of isoprenoid precursors to fuel compounds; 6.4 Future trends in isoprene-derived biofuels |
7: Engineering Microbial Fatty Acid Biosynthetic Pathways to Make Advanced Biofuels7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Current status of biodiesel production; 7.3 Motivation for engineering fatty acid metabolism; 7.4 Brief review of fatty acid metabolism; 7.5 Regulation of fatty acid synthesis and degradation; 7.6 Genetic engineering of bacteria to improve free fatty acid production; 7.7 Genetic engineering to improve fatty alcohol production; 7.8 Genetic engineering to improve fatty acid methyl/ethyl ester production; 7.9 Genetic engineering to improve fatty alkane/alkene production |
7.10 Future perspectives |
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The increasing worldwide demand for energy, combined with diminishing fossil fuel reserves and concerns about climate change, have stimulated intense research into the development of renewable energy sources, in particular, microbial biofuels. For a biofuel to be commercially viable, the production processes, yield, and titer have to be optimized, which can be achieved through the use of microbial cell factories. Using multidisciplinary research approaches, and through the application of diverse biotechnologies (such as enzyme engineering, metabolic engineering, systems biology, and synthetic |
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UNINA9910781954303321 |
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Fostering technology absorption in Southern African enterprises. |
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Washington, D.C. : , : The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank, , 2011 |
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1-283-30942-4 |
9786613309426 |
0-8213-8886-X |
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xviii, 201 pages : illustrations ; ; 24 cm |
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Directions in development : private sector development |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GoldbergItzhak |
KuriakoseSmita |
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Technology transfer - Africa, Southern |
Technological innovations - Africa, Southern |
Investments, Foreign - Africa, Southern |
Africa, Southern Economic policy |
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"This study was carried out by a team jointly led by Itzhak Goldberg (Consultant) and Smita Kuriakose (Economist, the World Bank) and comprised of David E. Kaplan (Professor, University of Cape Town), Krista Tuomi (Lecturer, American University), Reza Daniels (Lecturer, University of Cape Town) and Peter Draper (Senior Research Fellow, SAIIA)." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Technology absorption and its determinants: an introduction -- 2. Channels of and constraints to technology absorption -- 3. Policy options for greater technology absorption. |
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While economic theory considers technological progress to be a key factor for sustained long-term economic growth and job creation, technology absorption is particularly an important driver for 'catch-up growth.' This study seeks to identify channels of technology transfer and absorption for Southern African enterprises, constraints to greater technology absorption, and discuss policy options open to governments and the private sector in light of relevant international experience. It has been done based on sector and enterprise case studies carried in four countries: South Africa, Mauritius, |
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UNINA9910792187803321 |
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Agency through teacher education [[electronic resource] ] : reflection, community, and learning / / [edited by] Ryan Flessner ... [et al.] |
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Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2012 |
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1-299-31860-6 |
1-61048-919-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 p.) |
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Teachers - Training of |
Critical pedagogy - United States |
Community and school - United States |
Educational change - United States |
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"Published in partnership with the Association of Teacher Educators"--T.p. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents; More Praise for Agency Through Teacher Education; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I: Agency as Critical Reflection; 1 Teacher Learners' Oral History Projects; 2 Photovoice as a Critical Reflection Methodology; 3 "Questions and Answers Can Mean Something"; 4 Teacher Leadership; Commentary; Section II: Agency as Contextualized Activism; 5 Understanding Community Voices as a Force in Teacher Education; 6 Enhancing Educator Agency through the Development of Boundary-Spanning Capacities |
7 Knowledge of Community and Technology as Parallel Tools of Agency in Teacher Preparation8 Community Engagement as Catalyst for Reflection and Agency within a Professional Development School Clinical Setting; Commentary; Section III: Agency as Learning in Systems; 9 Building Administrator as Teacher Educator; 10 "I Want to Test My Own Unique Ideas"; 11 Teacher Shared Leadership for Educating English Learning Students; 12 Systemic Educational Change; Commentary; 13 What We Learned about Agency in Teacher Education; About the Authors |
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Agency through Teacher Education: Reflection, Community, and Learning addresses the ways that agency functions for those involved in twenty-first-century teacher education. This book, commissioned by the Association of Teacher Educators, relies on the voices of teacher education candidates, in-service teachers, school leaders, and university-based educators to illustrate what agency looks like, sounds like, and feels like for people trying to act as agents of change. |
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