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Circularity, Sustainability, and the Quality of Coffee Sold via Vending Machines: What Do Italian Consumers Prefer?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vending is an important sector in the daily lives of many people, and coffee is the most frequently consumed product in the European market. Like many other sectors, vending is responding to the challenge of sustainable development by taking various actions, such as offering increasingly ecologically sound coffee while maintaining/improving ...
Alberto Bertossi, Stefania Troiano, Francesco Marangon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 and Remote Learning: Experiences of Parents Supporting Children with Mathematical Learning Disabilities in Israel

Education Sciences
Background: Over the last three years, many studies have explored the effect of pandemic closures on learning. However, in Israel, the perspectives of parents on the short- and long-term effects of the lockdowns on students with mathematical learning ...
Sarit Ashkenazi, Sonia Hassoun
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The Influence of Regret Proneness, Evidence Strengthening, and Perceived Responsibility on Verdict Preference [PDF]

, 2011
In the present study, we investigated perceived responsibility, evidence strengthening, and defendant gender in the context of a criminal trial involving DNA.
Oglesby, Stephanie L.
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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Equivalence relations as an analysis criterion of scientific relevance of analytical categories

Acta Colombiana de Psicología, 2017
The aim of this paper is to propose equivalence relations as a structural criterion or analytical order, through which the functions of knowledge required in a scientific activity are delimited.
Tiberio Pérez Manrique, Ernesto L. Ravelo C.   +1 more
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török, Gréta Maró, Zsófia Jámbor, Zalán Márk Maró, Barbara Tocco, Péter Balogh, Péter Czine   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Testing the Marketing Performance of German Wheat Farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Germany. Wheat sales data from 465 individual farms over a 12‐year period are used to test against different market benchmarks. Market benchmarks are constructed by simulating passive trading agents using regional wheat prices.
Franziska Potts, Jens‐Peter Loy
wiley   +1 more source

Selenium‐Containing Polyurethane Thermo‐Sensitive Hydrogel Accelerates Diabetic Wound Healing by Activating Unfolded Protein Response

Aggregate, EarlyView.
The selenium‐containing polyurethane (SePU) thermo‐sensitive hydrogel (SePU/HBC) was constructed by incorporating SePU into hydroxybutyl chitosan (HBC). This hydrogel alleviates endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS) and inhibits cell apoptosis by activating the unfolded protein response (UPR), thereby promoting diabetic wound healing.
Mo Zhai, Zilun Huang, Banruo Xianyu, Xiaoqiang Bai, Zhuqing Wan, Yang Fu, Huaping Xu, Longwei Lv, Yongsheng Zhou   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Education and the Covid-19 pandemic: lessons derived from practice in defense of Public Schools in the Countryside

Revista Brasileira de Educação do Campo
This article deals with the deepening of educational inequalities in rural schools after the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in the closure of schools, downgrading of curricula and teacher training, reforms in educational policies and legislation that ...
Celi Nelza Zulke Taffarel, Selidalva Goncalves, Sicleide Gonçalves Queiroz   +2 more
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Victims, “Closure,” and the Sociology of Emotion [PDF]

, 2008
Bandes discusses the polarizing function of victim impact statements used in the context of the death penalty. The use of victim impact statements is justified in order to promote closure for the victim, but it\u27s unclear what psychological closure can
Bandes, Susan A.
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