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Biochar‐based fertilizers increase crop yields in acidic tropical soils

open access: yesBiofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.
Abstract Depletion of soil organic carbon and nutrients creates mounting challenges for agricultural production in tropical regions, putting livelihoods and food security at risk. Biochar‐based fertilizer (BBF) has been suggested as a tool to maintain yields while concurrently improving soil organic carbon content and related soil functions. This study
Betelhem Mekonnen   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Copyright and Authorship for Non-Biological Intelligence Self-Creation in Algerian Legislation

open access: yesدراسات: علوم الشريعة والقانون
Objectives: Logarithms have enabled artificial intelligence to enter fields once exclusive to humans, allowing it to compete in creativity. AI now produces original works that raise questions among intellectual property scholars regarding whether to ...
Bouzidi Ahmed Tidjani
doaj   +1 more source

‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source

Credit Risk Assessment From a Strategic Sustainability Perspective: The Case of the Nordic Banking Sector

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The financial sector plays an important yet ambivalent role in society's sustainability transition. Credit decisions have a substantial impact as they determine the allocation of large amounts of financial resources. This study applies the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development as a lens to review literature and investigate practices ...
Jesko Schulte   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

New DWC Syllabus Using Nonwestern Sources [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This project presents a new, annotated syllabus for the Development of Western Civilization (DWC) curriculum at Providence College. The syllabus follows most of the same topics discussed in 3rd semester DWC, but instead uses almost all nonwestern sources
Moore, Aubrey
core   +3 more sources

Evaluating the ability of the Wind Erosion Prediction System (WEPS) to simulate near-surface wind speeds in the Inland Pacific Northwest, USA

open access: yesScientific Reports
Wind speed is one of the main control factors of wind erosion and dust emissions, which are major problems in arid and semiarid regions of the world.
Xiuli Zhang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Renal function and lipid metabolism are major predictors of circumpapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness—the LIFE-Adult Study

open access: yesBMC Medicine, 2021
Background Circumpapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness (cpRNFLT) as assessed by spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) is a new technique used for the detection and evaluation of glaucoma and other optic neuropathies.
Franziska G. Rauscher   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Narratives and Pathways towards an Ecological Civilization in Contemporary China

open access: yesThe China Quarterly, 2018
Since the United States committed to withdraw from the UN Paris Agreement on climate change, international observers have increasingly asked if China can take the lead instead to raise global ambition in the context of a world leadership vacuum.
Sam Geall, A. Ely
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nonconventional Techniques in Plant Alkaloid Extraction: A Decade of Progress (2014–2023)

open access: yesChemistry &Biodiversity, EarlyView.
This figure seeks to represent the evolution of the different unconventional approaches that were adopted for the extraction of plant‐derived alkaloids during the decade from 2014 to 2023. ABSTRACT Plant metabolism encompasses primary and secondary pathways, with secondary metabolism yielding diverse natural products crucial for plant adaptation and ...
Victor Menezes Sipoloni   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Christian View Of Vocation For Librarians

open access: yes, 2000
Like two brothers, western civilization and Christianity grew up together. Christianity gave the civilization its virtues, its view of work, and its view of service.
Delivuk, John Allen
core   +1 more source

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