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The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 439-451, March 2026.Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Anne Osbourn
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Alcohol Advertising Bans and Alcohol Abuse: An International Perspective [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the effect on alcohol abuse of banning broadcast advertising of alcoholic beverages. The effect of a ban cannot be studied using data from one country because the adoption of new advertising bans is an ...
Henry Saffer
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'Country life'? Rurality, folk music and 'Show of Hands' [PDF]
, 2009 This paper examines the contribution of folk music to understanding the dynamic, fluid and multi-experiential nature of the countryside. Drawing from literature on the geographies of music, it examines the work of 'Show of Hands', a contemporary folk ...
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Pollution to Solution: Understanding and Addressing Microplastic Contamination in the Environment
Environmental Quality Management, Volume 35, Issue 3, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT In general, plastic pollution results from the unintentional release of macroplastic materials into the environment as well as the deliberate production and usage of small plastic particles (micro‐ and nano‐sized plastic particles) in a variety of consumer products micro and nanoplastics in filtrate freshwater and marine environments because ...
Lavanya Mulky +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 28-48, March 2026.The Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia once pursued eminence through warfare and vision quests. While vision quests have been retained, today – settled in villages – they seek eminence through economic success and political leadership. This article examines an apparent paradox: whilst envy suspicions pervade public life, they legitimize rather than level ...
Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoullière
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Alcohol Advertising and Advertising Bans: A Survey of Research Methods, Results, and Policy Implications [PDF]
This chapter surveys the literatures on advertising bans and alcohol consumption or abuse, and advertising expenditures and alcohol consumption. Studies of state-level bans of billboards are examined as well as studies of international bans that cover ...
Nelson, Jon P.
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Brewing cultures in early modern towns : an introduction [PDF]
, 2010 Since Antiquity, fermented drinks have played an important role in European culture. In eastern and northern areas, ale - and from the close of the Middle Ages hopped beer - formed part of people's diets, provided livelihoods for rural alewives as ...
Kümin, Beat A.
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, 2020 Cornell University, 1968 PhD Cornell University, 1967 MA University of Oregon, 1965 MA University of Oregon, 1963 BShttps://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/erfa_bios/1303/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 85-103, March 2026.The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
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THE BEER BRANDS ON THE MACEDONIAN MARKET: HOW ARE THEY PERCEIVED? [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to present the perceived position of the beer brands (domestic and foreign) on the Macedonian market. There are lots of beer brands offered on the Macedonian market which indicates that the competition is quite big.
Assist. Prof. Ph.D Anita Ciunova-Suleska
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