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Shock and Resilience: Southeast Asia’s Food Retail Environment in the Time of COVID‐19 Pandemic

open access: yesAdvances in Public Health, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Introduction The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has profoundly impacted the food environment, affecting consumer’s behavior, retailer strategy, and subsequently dietary and nutritional outcomes. While existing research has explored these effects globally, few studies have focused on Southeast Asia, a region with unique food systems and ...
Hafizah Jusril   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid Geothermal and PV Installations for Cooling and Heating Systems: Synergy for Sustainability in Tertiary and Industry Sectors

open access: yesInternational Journal of Energy Research, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Recent studies confirm the potential efficiency of geothermal resources for maintaining comfortable building temperatures through cooling and heating solutions. In addition, a variety of initiatives have been promoted to effectively reduce both environmental concerns and energy crisis by the integration of renewables.
Agustín Sánchez-Del Rey   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The War Against Chinese Restaurants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Chinese restaurants are a cultural fixture—as American as cherry pie. Startlingly, however, there was once a national movement to eliminate Chinese restaurants, using innovative legal methods to drive them out.
Chin, Gabriel J., Ormonde, John
core   +1 more source

Curating connections: Exploring a British national park with young asylum seekers

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 2, December 2025.
Abstract This article reflects upon the authors' involvement with a walking project in the New Forest, a national park in the United Kingdom, for which we collaborated with a group of young male asylum seekers, community partners, and multimodal artists.
Heidi Armbruster, Marie‐Anne Mansfield
wiley   +1 more source

Management and drivers of change of pollinating insects and pollination services. National Pollinator Strategy: for bees and other pollinators in England, Evidence statements and Summary of Evidence [PDF]

open access: yes
These Evidence Statements provide up-to-date information on what is known (and not known) about the status, values, drivers of change, and responses to management of UK insect pollinators (as was September 2018). This document has been produced to inform
Baldock, K.C.R   +10 more
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Doing Business in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
[Excerpt] This brochure illustrates important features of doing business in South Africa. The legal system within which business operates is closely based on overseas, particularly English, models.
Deneys Reitz Attorneys
core   +1 more source

“The breakfast for real toilers”: Commodification practices and the enregisterment of local language in the post‐industrial Ruhr Area

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.
Abstract This article examines how commodification practices of Ruhrdeutsch, a formerly stigmatized variety, contribute to local language awareness and enregisterment. Following the decline of the Ruhr Area's heavy industry and the shift from the secondary to the tertiary economic sector, companies have discovered the value of local marketing ...
Nantke Pecht
wiley   +1 more source

Feature Selection Based on Artificial Bee Colony and Gradient Boosting Decision Tree for Hotel Reservation Cancellation Prediction Using Random Forest

open access: yesMATICS: Jurnal Ilmu Komputer dan Teknologi Informasi (Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology)
This study focuses on predicting hotel booking cancellations using machine learning to improve accuracy and operational efficiency. The methods used include Random Forest, Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), and Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT). ABC, which excels in optimization but is prone to local optima, is combined with GBDT for feature selection ...
Hamida Maulana Lailatal Baroah   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Consumer Behaviour in the Metaverse: Empirical Insights From a Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 6, Page 2845-2871, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Metaverses are rapidly expanding, yet the complexities inherent in these virtual environments remain insufficiently understood, which, in turn, limits the ability to anticipate potential challenges and capitalize on emerging opportunities.
Wagner Junior Ladeira   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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