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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Timbres amphoriques inédits du Secteur Acropole Centre-Sud (ACS) d’Histria (2013-2018) [PDF]

open access: yesPeuce, 2018
Our paper deals with the amphora stamps (from Rhodos, Sinope, Thasos and Tauric Chersonesus; all unpublished) discovered during several excavation campaigns at Histria, the ACS (Acropolis Center-South) sector.
Alexandra LIȚU   +3 more
doaj  

Flexible Memory: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Flexible memory technology is crucial for flexible electronics integration. This review covers its historical evolution, evaluates rigid systems, proposes a flexible memory framework based on multiple mechanisms, stresses material design's role, presents a coupling model for performance optimization, and points out future directions.
Ruizhi Yuan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Origami to Bistable and Laminate Structures: A Review for Multifunctional Applications from Structural Perspective of Shape‐Changing Structures

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This review explores how shape‐changing structures—origami, bistable, and laminate structures—enable multifunctionality in soft robotics and metamaterials. Starting from structural design, it examines core principles, real‐world applications, and ongoing challenges.
Lingchen Kong, Yaoyao Fiona Zhao
wiley   +1 more source

New Evidence for Early Silk in the Indus Civilization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Silk is an important economic fiber, and is generally considered to have been the exclusive cultural heritage of China. Silk weaving is evident from the Shang period, though the earliest evidence for silk textiles in ancient China dates to more than a ...
Irene L. Good   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Polymerase Chain Reaction. Perturbation Theory and Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence‐Experimental Microbiome Analysis: Applications to Ancient DNA and Tree Soil Metagenomics Cases of Study

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR).Perturbation Theory and Machine Learning framework integrates perturbation theory and machine learning to classify genetic sequences, distinguishing ancient DNA from modern controls and predicting tree health from soil metagenomic data.
Jose L. Rodriguez   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Review of Trans‐Dimensional Kirigami: From Compliant Mechanism to Multifunctional Robot

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This review outlines recent advancements in the geometric design and mechanical properties of kirigami. The kirigami is classified into two categories from a compliant mechanism perspective, highlighting their applications in metamaterials and robotic systems. Finally, the future research directions, is explored focusing on the potential of integrating
Yang Yu   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Persuasive discourse and language planning in Ireland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Colonial language discourse typically consists of evaluations concerning the respective merits of two or more languages, and the cultures they represent. This can serve as a warrant for imposing a ‘superior’ language.
Gray G, Mazzon G
core  

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