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A Misleading Promise? Rethinking European Support for Biofuels. College of Europe EU Diplomacy Papers, 2009/2, June 2009 [PDF]
, 2009 Over the past few years, biofuels made from organic crops have been widely touted by European leaders as a solution for reducing dependency on oil and gas in transportation and for mitigating climate change, arguably this century’s greatest challenge. In
Carthane, Quinlan.
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Optimizing the implementation of biofuels in the Swiss energy and transport sector [PDF]
, 2022 Starting from Swiss available biomass potential, different pathways for producing biofuels in the Swiss territory have been analyzed. Furthermore, also the production of biofuels starting from algae cultivated abroad has been taken into account.
Calabretta, Saverio
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Chronic Disease Monitoring Using Advanced Compliant Materials for Bioelectronics
Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.Compliant bioelectronic systems enable continuous monitoring of chronic disease through soft, stretchable materials and tissue‐conformal designs that support stable electrophysiological, mechanical, and biochemical sensing. Integration of diverse sensing modalities with thoughtful material selection, device architectures, and advanced fabrication ...
Han Kim +7 more
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang +2 more
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Wheat flour-derived amyloid fibrils for efficient removal of organic dyes from contaminated water
Bioresources and BioprocessingAmyloid fibrils derived from different proteins have been proved as a promising material for adsorption of various pollutants from wastewater, which showed advantages of low cost and eco-friendliness.
Dan-Dan Yang +3 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross +2 more
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Characterization of a Salt-Tolerant and Cold-Adapted Xylanase from Bacillus cellulosilyticus
BioResources, 2016 A xylanase (Xyn10A) gene from the saline-alkali-tolerant microorganism Bacillus cellulosilyticus DSM 2522 was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3).
Jianzhong Sun +5 more
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Communications Biology, 2023 Nervonic acid benefits the treatment of neurological diseases and the health of brain. In this study, we employed the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica to overproduce nervonic acid oil by systematic metabolic engineering.
Hang Su +11 more
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Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
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