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ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Information disclosure and questionnaires in public tenders
Abstract Public tenders typically involve uncertainty and unforeseen costs, which might not be fully known to the bidders themselves. This uncertainty may also concern adaptation costs to the procurer after the delivery, and information about such adaptation costs may influence the bidding strategies, even though the cost is paid by the procurer ...
Thomas Greve, Hans Keiding
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SCADET: A detection framework for AI-generated artwork integrating dynamic frequency attention and contrastive spectral analysis. [PDF]
Zhang X, Yu Z, Zhao J.
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Abstract Most business students are not interested in becoming lawyers. Therefore, business law and legal environment instructors must convey why students should study business law. To assist instructors (especially first‐time ones), this teaching note presents interrelated pedagogical questions to introduce the first week of class.
Jason R. Hildebrand
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The New Economics of Cape Slavery
ABSTRACT In this survey, I argue that the Cape Colony has become one of the most useful settings for studying the economics of unfree labour. The Cape offers a distinctive combination: a slavery regime linking the Indian Ocean and Atlantic worlds, an urban and agrarian economy, overlapping labour regimes and archives rich enough for linked micro‐data ...
Johan Fourie
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ABSTRACT This study explores environmental justice issues in coastal food systems, focusing on conflicts between small‐scale fisheries and the energy sector due to differing goals in managing food and energy sources. It does so by examining the interdependence between institutions, policies, and different types of knowledge; key elements in building ...
Mateus Henrique Amaral +6 more
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ABSTRACT Indonesia's responses to Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing (IUUF) shifted from assertive measures such as publicly bombing and sinking illegal ships to legal, educational, and cooperative measures. The changes in policies undertaken are puzzling, given that Indonesian policymakers' perception of IUUF has remained the same between ...
Bama Andika Putra, Abdul Razaq Cangara
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Forecasting second-hand house prices in China using the GA-PSO-BP neural network model. [PDF]
Wang J, Ji H, Wang L.
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