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Fish Scales: A Multifunctional Biomaterial from Nature

open access: yesENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
Fish scales demonstrate nature's solution to impact protection through overlapping multilayered architecture. This biological design combines mineralized surfaces with collagen networks to achieve both flexibility and fracture resistance. The structural principles inspire advanced protective materials and biomedical implants, where damage tolerance ...
Liyao Dong, Xiaojie Sun, Xiguang Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review: The Rights International Companion to Criminal Law & Procedure: An International Human Rights & Humanitarian Law Supplement [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
This Book Review provides a compact supplement to teaching criminal law and procedure by providing materials on the sources and application of international human rights and humanitarian law to criminal law. Part One reviews the sources and principles of
Zagaris, Bruce
core   +1 more source

The “Magic” of Conflict: How Participatory Governance Can Enable Transformative Climate Adaptation

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In many cases, addressing climate risks requires transformative climate adaptation (TCA) that goes beyond small adjustments to existing systems. While scholars increasingly argue that participatory governance is key and should embrace conflict rather than push for consensus to enable TCA, this assumption remains underexplored.
Dore Engbersen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Within the Constraints of Carbon Budgets: Regional Insights From Sweden

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Staying within the limits of a rapidly shrinking global carbon budget while avoiding dependency on negative emissions technologies and carbon dioxide removal remains a significant challenge in a multi‐level governance system, where resources and responsibilities are dispersed among different actors.
Paula Lenninger, Magdalena Kuchler
wiley   +1 more source

International Convention for the Unification of Cerain Rules relating to the Arrest of Sea-going Ships, 1952 (''The Arrest Convention'') : Review of certain provisions

open access: yesUporedno pomorsko pravo, 1995
This paper expresses the author's critical view on certain provisions of the Arrest Convention 1952, particularly in respect of lack of uniformity in application of the Convention's Rules by the Courts in member countries, inconsistency in implementation
Zoran Tasić
doaj  

Design of a Hydroelectronic Solar‐Tracking System for Solar Panels

open access: yesEnergy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
A prototype of a passive solar‐tracking system utilizing buoyant force based on water level was developed, and its MATLAB/Simulink model was implemented. This study is expected to encourage researchers to design solar‐tracking mechanisms using metals with different thermal expansion coefficients, air, oil, and other fluids. ABSTRACT This study presents
Ufuk Süğürtin, Türker Fedai Çavuş
wiley   +1 more source

MITOGENIC EFFECTS OF PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ (PHA-P) AND LIPOPOLYSACHARIDE EXTRACTED FROM E.COLI ON CULTURED LYMPHOCYTE OF THE CASPIAN SEA SHIP STURGEON (ACIPENSER NUDIVENTRIS)

open access: yes‬‭Majallah-i ̒Ilmī-i Shīlāt-i Īrān, 2008
The present study was designed to obtain the most effective dose for phtytohemagglutinin (pHA-P) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) extracted from E. coli to optimize the lymphocyte culture method, the highest mitotic index (MI) and metaphase plates number of ...
M. Noroz fashkhami; Sh. Safaeian; M. Bahmani; F. Chobian
doaj  

Direct and Spatial Effects of Carbon Emission Trading System on Carbon Emissions in the Logistics Sector—Evidence From the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China

open access: yesEnergy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
(1) A theoretical framework for examining the impact of the CETS on carbon emissions in the LS of the YREB is developed based on Porter's hypothesis and synergy theory. (2) Assessing the Effects of a CETS through DID Modeling. (3) The spatial correlation of carbon emissions within the LS is examined through the development of a SDM.
Zhaoyang Zhao, Chong Ye, Jing Huang
wiley   +1 more source

Resource allocation and growth strategies in a multi‐plant firm: Kanegafuchi Spinners in the early 20th century

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Research Summary Using detailed plant‐ and individual‐level data from a major Japanese cotton spinning company in the early 20th century, we examine the within‐firm allocation of skilled human capital in conjunction with investment in physical capital, accompanying the firm's evolving strategic priorities.
Shotaro Yamaguchi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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