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The world’s road to water scarcity: shortage and stress in the 20th century and pathways towards sustainability

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2016
Water scarcity is a rapidly growing concern around the globe, but little is known about how it has developed over time. This study provides a first assessment of continuous sub-national trajectories of blue water consumption, renewable freshwater ...
M. Kummu   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Futures of Portugal in and beyond Europe

open access: yesDebater a Europa, 2016
https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-6336_15 ...
Álvaro de Vasconcelos
doaj   +1 more source

The early 20th century warming: Anomalies, causes, and consequences

open access: yesWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2018
The most pronounced warming in the historical global climate record prior to the recent warming occurred over the first half of the 20th century and is known as the Early Twentieth Century Warming (ETCW).
G. Hegerl   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Unexpected Resurgence of Weyl Geometry in late 20th-Century Physics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Weyl’s original scale geometry of 1918 (“purely infinitesimal geometry”) was withdrawn by its author from physical theorizing in the early 1920s. It made a surprising comeback, however, in the last third of the 20th century in several different contexts:
E. Scholz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Janka Hescheles’ 'Locomotive' (to Bełżec)

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2016
This article concerns the influence of the most famous Polish poem for children: Lokomotywa by Julian Tuwim, particularly in three “Holocaust” paraphrases of this work, written by children in the ghetto and the concentration camps – the poems Lokomotywa ...
Arkadiusz Morawiec
doaj   +1 more source

Global socioeconomic material stocks rise 23-fold over the 20th century and require half of annual resource use

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017
Significance A large part of all primary materials extracted globally accumulates in stocks of manufactured capital, including in buildings, infrastructure, machinery, and equipment. These in-use stocks of materials provide important services for society
F. Krausmann   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bio‐inspired functional coacervates

open access: yesAggregate, Volume 3, Issue 6, December 2022., 2022
Bio‐inspired functional coacervates have diverse functions. Natural and synthetic coacervates are a new class of materials that have great potential for various biomedical applications, including medical adhesives, drug delivery, and tissue engineering.
Shujun Chen, Qi Guo, Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Tuwim’s Dialogues with Banality

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2016
The article examines the relation between Tuwim’s poetry and modern colloquial language. The avant-garde artists for whom in the beginning of the 20th-century art was an elite occupation, treated every-day speech as a mass form of communication.
Tomasz Bocheński
doaj   +1 more source

Two editions of Sny i kamienie by Magdalena Tulli

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2022
The author offers a juxtaposition of two editions of Sny i kamienie [Dreams and Stones] by Magdalena Tulli in the context of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and urbanology.
Piotr Jakub Wąsowski
doaj   +1 more source

A Brief History of Industrial Robotics in the 20th Century

open access: yesAdvances in Historical Studies, 2019
Industrial robotics is a branch of robotics that gained paramount importance in the last century. The presence of robots totally revolutionized the industrial environment in just a few decades. In this paper, a brief history of industrial robotics in the
A. Gasparetto, L. Scalera
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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