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Driving forces of grassland vegetation changes in Chen Barag Banner, Inner Mo...
Inner Mongolia is an important ecological zone of northern China and 67% of its land area is grassland. This ecologically fragile region has experienced significant vegetation... -
Pricing methods in outcome-based contracting: δ2: Willingness-to-pay-based pr...
Aims: Six Delta is a six-dimensional independent platform for outcome-based pricing/contracting. The second dimension (δ2) estimates prices on the basis of four... -
Anticipatory witnessing: military bases and the politics of pre-empting access
As part of their newsgathering process, journalists often seek access to places owned or controlled by the government, such as military bases. In the United States, the military... -
Do voluntary certification standards improve yields and wellbeing? Evidence f...
Cocoa and oil palm production are major agricultural activities in Ghana, contributing substantially to the national economy and rural livelihoods. Even though smallholders... -
The purse-seine fishery for small pelagic fishes off the Madeira Archipelago
Small pelagic fishes constitute a valuable food resource for human consumption and are also important components of marine food webs. At Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago in the... -
Smallholder tree-farmers and forest certification in Southeast Asia: alternat...
The smallholder tree-farm resources of Southeast Asia are generating substantial benefits for growers and support many successful domestic wood processors. They could provide... -
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Toward an attempt to limit the global warming to 2 °C, there has been an increasing emphasis on devising suitable policies and practices for entrapment and storage of... -
Advanced oxidation processes for waste water treatment: from laboratory-scale...
A process combining three steps has been developed as a tertiary treatment for waste water in order to remove micropollutants not eliminated by a conventional waste water... -
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The paper studies the determinants of air connectivity in European regions. It takes into account the spatial effects among regions, the different regional characteristics in... -
School Quality and Peer Effects: Explaining Differences in Academic Performan...
In China, parents have a choice to either send their children to private migrant schools in urban areas or to keep them in their own county. It is unclear whether the academic... -
Ceric ammonium nitrate/acetic anhydride: A tunable system for the O-acetylati...
Esterification of a wide range of partially protected carbohydrate derivatives was achieved using acetic anhydride and a catalytic amount of ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN).... -
Development and Initial Evaluation of the Craving Metacognition Scale
Objective: Recent craving research has focused on individuals' beliefs about cravings. Yet, measures about craving beliefs have rarely been compared with other craving belief... -
Application of hydrogeochemistry and isotopic characterization for the assess...
In the eastern region of central Costa Rica, land use in the sub-basins of the Maravilla-Chiz and Quebrada Honda rivers (47 km2) is dominated by agricultural and livestock... -
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This study provides a new insight into the impact of knowledge flows for renewable energy (RE) technologies. With patent data for the European regions in the period 2000–10, we... -
Wastewater infrastructure for sustainable cities: assessment based on UN sust...
Among the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), SDG #11 aims to make future cities resilient and sustainable while, SDG #6 aims to ensure availability and... -
Effect of vegetable waste extract on microstructure, morphology, and photocat...
Environment friendly and cost-effective structure-directing agents (SDAs) are highly desirable for the development of purposely designed functional nanomaterials. To comply, we... -
Seasonal distribution and diversity of ground-active arthropods between shrub...
We examined the ground-active arthropods using pitfall trapping beneath Hammada scoparia and Zygophyllum dumosum shrubs and in adjacent open spaces in wet winter, short spring,... -
Contamination of 15+1 European Union polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in vari...
The purpose of this research was to determine the occurrence of 15 + 1 European priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (EUPAHs) in various types of tea purchased on Hangzhou... -
Modeling landfill gas potential and potential energy recovery from Thohoyando...
The increase in solid waste generation has been a major contributor to the amount of Greenhouse gases (GHGs) present in the atmosphere. To some extent, a great chunk of these... -
Recording skeletal completeness in cases of fragmentary human remains: a pilo...
Documenting skeletal completeness is an essential element of the physical anthropology examination. Methods available to calculate skeletal completeness, that is how much of the...
