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Climate change and perennial crop production: Evidence of yield impact and adaptation in California

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Perennial crops are economically important. They contribute to food security, providing essential nutrients that are often lacking in annual crops, and provide additional environmental benefits compared with annual crops. Despite their importance, empirical research on the impacts of climate change and adaptation on perennial crops remains ...
Yuanyuan Wen, Wei Zhang, Julian M. Alston   +2 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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Os fast-foods, uma homogeneidade contestável na globalização cultural [PDF]

Horizontes Antropológicos
Resumo Os restaurantes fast-food - nascidos no fim dos anos 50, hoje instalados em mais de 70 países - são tomados aqui como um exemplo do processo de globalização no mundo contemporâneo.
Carmen Silvia Moraes Rial
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An Empirical Analysis of the External Finance Premium of Public Non-Financial Corporations in Brazil [PDF]

Our objective in this paper is to analyze empirically the relationship between the external finance premium of non-financial corporations in Brazil with their default probability and with their demand for inventories.
Alberto Ronchi Neto, Fernando N. de Oliveira   +1 more
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Nineteenth-Century Bahia\u27s Passion for British Salted Cod: From the Seas of Newfoundland to the Portuguese Shops of Salvador\u27s Cidade Baixa, 1822-1914 [PDF]

, 2015
Dried cod has played a similar role to sugar in the international chain of commerce. It became a major traded commodity between British North America (Newfoundland, Nova Scotia Gaspe) in the nineteenth century.
Herold, Marc W.
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Effect of carrot puree edible films on quality preservation of fresh-cut carrots [PDF]

, 2015
peer-reviewedFinancial support from the high level talent fund of Henan University of Technology Science and Technology (No. 2012BS024) is gratefully acknowledged.The effect of edible films based on carrot puree, chitosan, corn starch, gelatin, glycerol ...
Kong, D., Ma, Z., Wang, Xichang, Zhao, R.   +3 more
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Truelo de tipologias estratégicas na arena das franquias de fast food no Brasil

Revista Eletrônica de Estratégia & Negócios, 2010
Este estudo tem por objetivo testar as tipologias de estratégias de Porter, Miles & Snow e Mintzberg nas franquias de fast food que operam no Brasil, destacando o impacto da resolução do trade-off clássico poder explanatório versus parcimônia na capacidade descritiva das alternativas.
openaire   +4 more sources

An ultra‐processed food‐based cafeteria diet induces obesity, metabolic dysfunction, and tissue‐specific gene dysregulation in C57BL/6 mice

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
This schematic figure illustrates the experimental design and key findings of the study. Forty male C57BL/6 mice were assigned to either a standard diet control group or a cafeteria diet (CAFD) group for 16 weeks. CAFD induces obesity, insulin resistance (HOMA‐IR), hepatic steatosis, and dysregulation of a number of genes in visceral and subcutaneous ...
Guilherme Coutinho Kullmann Duarte, Daisy Crispim, Shiva Cerutti Wittée, Joana Raquel Nunes Lemos, Natalia Emerim Lemos, Mayara Souza de Oliveira, Melissa Daniele Alves, Eloísa Toscan Massignam, Tais Silveira Assmann, Felipe Mateus Pellenz   +9 more
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Organic Animal Husbandry in South America and Caribbean [PDF]

, 2014
In the last decade, organic livestock has undergone major developments, especially in southern Latin America. The control of parasites and pathogenic microorganisms presents good results with actions that include adequate management, rustic breeds and ...
ESCOSTEGUY1, ANGELA
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Integrated Assessment of Lipid Oxidation and Off‐Flavor Formation in Plant Protein Powders

Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, EarlyView.
Impact of residual lipids on oxylipin and off‐flavor formation in commercial plant proteins: A detailed analysis of precursor‐product relationships by GC‐FID, LC‐MS/MS, and GC‐MS. ABSTRACT The widespread adoption of plant proteins is hindered by their inherent off‐flavors, often linked to lipid oxidation products.
Fernanda Furlan Goncalves Dias, Wellington da Silva Oliveira, Stanislau Bogusz Junior, Ameer Y. Taha   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source