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Bio-Fertilizers via Co-Digestion: a Review [PDF]

, 2019
In diversifying the economies of most oil producing countries especially in regions with arable lands, Agriculture becomes the next choice aside mineral deposits.
Abdulkarim, Abdulwadud Yusuf, Abdulsalam, Surajudeen, El-Nafaty, Usman Aliyu, Muhammad, Idris Misau   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Venture Funding: Signals of Environmental Orientation and Their Interplay With Investor‐ and Country‐Level Characteristics

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmentally oriented ventures pursue a dual mission: to create both environmental and financial value. This dual mission adds complexity and can influence ventures' funding prospects, as investors mostly pursue financial motivations.
David Flore, Corinna Vera Hedwig Schmidt, Steffen Strese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Engineered Zymomonas mobilis tolerant to acetic acid and low pH via multiplex atmospheric and room temperature plasma mutagenesis

Biotechnology for Biofuels, 2019
Background Cellulosic biofuels are sustainable compared to fossil fuels. However, inhibitors, such as acetic acid generated during lignocellulose pretreatment and hydrolysis, would significantly inhibit microbial fermentation efficiency.
Bo Wu, Han Qin, Yiwei Yang, Guowei Duan, Shihui Yang, Fengxue Xin, Chunyan Zhao, Huanhuan Shao, Yanwei Wang, Qili Zhu, Furong Tan, Guoquan Hu, Mingxiong He   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Options for Climate-Smart Agriculture at Kaptumo Site in Kenya [PDF]

, 2014
This report identifies and assesses climate-smart agricultural practices through participatory appraisal tools with experts and farmers, as part of the MICCA pilot project in Kaptumo, Kenya.
Charles Wambugu, Janie Rioux, Steven Franzel   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Green Innovation and Firm Efficiency: The Role of Institutional Quality in Italian High‐Tech Manufacturing Sectors

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino, Sandro Rondinella, Marianna Succurro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

MOF-Confined Sub-2 nm Stable CsPbX₃ Perovskite Quantum Dots

Nanomaterials, 2019
The metal halide with a perovskite structure has attracted significant attention due to its defect-tolerant photophysics and optoelectronic features. In particular, the all-inorganic metal halide perovskite quantum dots have potential for development in ...
Zhenxing Li, Chengcheng Yu, Yangyang Wen, Zhiting Wei, Junmei Chu, Xiaofei Xing, Xin Zhang, Mingliang Hu, Miao He   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Applying a Systems Thinking Approach to Circular Economy Transitions: Insights From the Use of a Sociotechnical Systems Approach Within the UK Hospitality Sector

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite more than 20 years of research into sustainable tourism, the environmental impact of the UK hospitality sector remains high. A growing body of research into the concept of a circular economy (CE) demonstrates that transitioning to this way of working has significant benefits both for the environment and business outcomes.
Danielle Farrow, Hannah Collis, Fiona Charnley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heterologous production of 3-hydroxypropionic acid in Methylorubrum extorquens by introducing the mcr gene via a multi-round chromosomal integration system based on cre-lox71/lox66 and transposon

Microbial Cell Factories
Background and aim Reprogramming microorganisms to enhance the production of metabolites is a part of contemporary synthetic biology, which relies on the availability of genetic tools to successfully manipulate the bacteria.
Liping Zhu, Yazhen Song, Shunan Ma, Song Yang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Energy balance of different organic biogas farming systems [PDF]

, 2008
The ecological impact of biogas plants depends on their integration into a given farming system. Therefore only farm-specific and no general statements are possible. In this paper, two different concepts of biogas production for an organic cash crop farm
Helbig, S., Hülsbergen, K.-J., Küstermann, B.   +2 more
core  

Taxonomy of anaerobic digestion microbiome reveals biases associated with the applied high throughput sequencing strategies [PDF]

, 2018
In the past few years, many studies investigated the anaerobic digestion microbiome by means of 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. Results obtained from these studies were compared to each other without taking into consideration the followed procedure for ...
Angelidaki, Irini, Campanaro, Stefano, Kougias, Panagiotis G., Treu, Laura, Zhu, Xinyu   +4 more
core   +3 more sources