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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... -
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).... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Determination of phthalate esters in breast milk before and after frozen stor...
This study describes the migration of 20 phthalates from breast milk storage bags to breast milk after storage frozen for 1 to 6 months. Analysis of the investigated phthalates... -
Gelatin-based coating enriched with blueberry juice preserves the nutraceutic...
To preserve quality and extend the shelf life of tomato, a bioactive edible coating was prepared using gelatin wastes from pharmaceutical industry and lyophilised blueberry... -
Landscape dynamics on insular environments of South-east mediterranean Europe
Mediterranean islands are characterized by high biodiversity and cultural value. As the human demand for natural resources increases, the need for assessing the future landscape... -
Collapsing Categories is Often More Advantageous than Modeling Sparse Data: I...
When questionnaires include Likert scales, items endorsed by relatively few respondents may result from characteristics of examinees or the constructs under study. Researchers... -
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Freight trains between Europe and China (China Railway Express) are a central component of the Belt and Road Initiative. In recent years, the service has experienced significant... -
Habitat changes over 45 years on the small Mediterranean archipelago of the M...
The small islands in the Mediterranean basin play an important role in its diversity because they have very unique natural habitats. They are very vulnerable to the direct and...
