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Pesticide Supply Chains From China to Australia: Examining Paraquat Amid the Global Pesticide Complex

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following recent calls to deepen understanding of the Global Pesticide Complex, this article delves into the China‐to‐Australia supply chain of a single herbicide—paraquat. First released in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, acutely toxic paraquat is now primarily produced in China.
Sarah Rogers, Yue Zhao, Sonia Graham, Brooke Wilmsen, Ju‐Han Zoe Wang   +4 more
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Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
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Satire and Silence Under Authoritarian Rule: Cotton and Pesticide Perceptions in Tajikistan

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 70 years, agricultural chemicals have become a mainstay of cotton farming in Central Asia. This growing reliance on agrochemicals has not remained uncontested. This article analyses the politics of pesticides in Soviet and post‐Soviet Tajikistan by examining how, and to what extent, pesticides have featured in graphic satire, an ...
Irna Hofman, Flora Roberts
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Complexity Navigation and Dual Enablement: Business Model Innovation at the Intersection of AI and the Circular Economy

Journal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) has emerged as a promising paradigm to address environmental challenges through resource efficiency, product life cycle transformation, and business model innovation. Yet, implementing circular business models remains challenging due to the complexity of coordinating stakeholders and managing large volumes of data ...
Konstantin Remke, Sönke Mestwerdt, Matthias Mrożewski, Maximilian Tigges, René Mauer   +4 more
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Feasibility and usability of three consecutive nights with self‐applied, home polysomnography

Journal of Sleep Research, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 2025.
Summary In‐laboratory polysomnography, the gold‐standard for diagnosing sleep disorders, is resource‐demanding and not conducive to multiple night evaluations. Ambulatory polysomnography, especially when self‐applied, could be a viable alternative. This study aimed to assess the feasibility and reliability of self‐applied polysomnography over three ...
Dimitri Ferretti, Anna S. Islind, Kristín A. Ólafsdóttir, Sigridur Sigurdardottir, Kamilla R. Jóhannsdóttir, Jan Hedner, Ludger Grote, Erna Sif Arnardottir   +7 more
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Are Age‐Related Differences in Sleep Associated With the Different Trajectories of Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence Across the Lifespan?

Journal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A common misconception is that, with age, cognition deteriorates across all domains. Instead, certain aspects are negatively impacted, while others are relatively spared, or, continue to improve. Specifically, fluid intelligence (i.e., problem‐solving skills) peaks in early adulthood and declines, whereas crystallized intelligence (i.e ...
Anna M. Momy, Daniel Baena, Laura B. Ray, Adrian Owen, Stuart M. Fogel   +4 more
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The Effects of Nasal and Multi‐Level Upper Airway Surgery on Upper Airway Collapsibility and Non‐Anatomical Endotypes in People With Obstructive Sleep Apnoea—A Pilot Study

Journal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nasal breathing is the preferred route of breathing during sleep. Indeed, nasal blockage can cause obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in otherwise healthy people. Whilst multi‐level pharyngeal surgery reduces OSA severity, efficacy varies and changes in OSA pathophysiology post‐surgery have not been well characterised.
Amal M. Osman, A. Simon Carney, Himani Joshi, Phuc Nguyen, Peter Catcheside, Eng H. Ooi, Danny J. Eckert   +6 more
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Experimental Sleep Restriction Blunts Positive Emotions and Aesthetic Experiences When Viewing Artwork

Journal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sleep loss influences basic emotional and cognitive processes, but its impact on higher‐order naturalistic cognition, such as aesthetic judgements, is less understood. The current study primarily investigated whether experimental sleep restriction altered aesthetic evaluations of abstract artwork, and secondarily tested whether these ...
Ariadne D. Godinho, Chenlu Gao, Michelle R. Hebl, Michael K. Scullin   +3 more
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A Hidden History of Unhappiness

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Joe Moran
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
wiley   +1 more source