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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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Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how media usage trends of Roma people intersect with urban peripherality and structural inequalities. The study designed as a two‐stage comparative ethnographic field study and conducted in 2016 and 2025 on a Roma community living in Izmir Province of Türkiye, focuses on the ongoing deprivations of the Roma population in ...
Mehmet Işık, Şakir Eşitti
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Cargo-bicycle with a Polymeric Frame: The Development of a Low-cost Multifunctional Cargo Bicycle
U.Porto Journal of Engineering, 2016 Since the beginning of the 21st century, human-powered vehicles are increasingly seen as an attractive alternative to solve some of the problems associated with mobility in major cities.
Oliver Fonseca, Carlos Relvas
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Could the next generation of bike-sharing with autonomous bikes be financially sustainable?
Journal of Urban MobilityThe field of transportation has undergone changes due to the advancements in technology and the pressing need for mobility solutions. As cities worldwide struggle with the challenges posed by population growth and environmental sustainability, it becomes
Imen Haj Salah +4 more
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Mix Sustentável, 2015 O projeto Container Bike consiste no desenvolvimento de um conceito que contempla a bicicleta como alternativa de transporte para a mobilidade urbana, por meio de um sistema simples e acessível de aluguel de bicicletas, adequado às características ...
Felipe Oliveira Arruda +3 more
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Journal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Academic Abstract Innovations designed to address grand challenges within the social innovation sector can have unintended consequences, particularly where organizations pursue triple‐bottom‐line objectives under resource constraints. Yet research on coupling responsible innovation (RI) and sustainable business model innovation (SBMI) largely ...
Matthew Snell +2 more
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Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study introduces predictabilityBERT, a novel metric for assessing second language (L2) proficiency based on the predictability of word choices in learner language production. Using BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), we calculated the conditional probability of each word in a text given its surrounding context.
Langdon Holmes +3 more
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Future TransportationHydrogen-powered cargo bikes are gaining increasing attention in the framework of urban logistics, thanks to their enhanced agility to travel and park in congested areas, low carbon footprint, and extended traveling range. Nevertheless, deploying a fleet
Stavros Skarlis +4 more
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Time, place, person: Field epidemiology as a political practice
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Five years after the end of the Ebola epidemic, a district in Sierra Leone received a measles alert. This article tells the story of the epidemic that followed and the response that was mounted in the context of the new global epidemic preparedness and biosecurity paradigms that govern the management of health emergencies.
Luisa Enria
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