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Climate Action Impacts on Steelmaking Emissions of Persistent Organic Pollutants Highlight a Gap Between the Paris Agreement and the Stockholm Convention

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Emissions of unintentionally produced persistent organic pollutants (UPOPs) and global warming are two major environmental challenges. But their governance has largely evolved in parallel, leaving the toxicity implications of climate‐driven industrial transitions poorly understood.
Yuxiang Sun, Qiuting Yang, Jianghui Yun, Yujue Yang, Junhao Tang, Qian Liu, Minghui Zheng, Guorui Liu   +7 more
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A new commercial boundary dataset for metropolitan areas in the USA and Canada, built from open data

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The purpose of this study is to define the geographic boundaries of commercial areas by creating a consistent definition, combining various commercial area types, including downtowns, retail centres, financial districts, and other employment subcentres ...
Byeonghwa Jeong, Jeff Allen, Karen Chapple   +2 more
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Oil‐Coated Nanoplastics Induce Rapid Membrane Disruption and Severe Intestinal Injury

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Oil‐rich food contact dramatically amplifies MNP release from plastic takeout containers, producing oil‐coated nanoplastics with altered surface properties and rapid membrane‐disruptive effects. These particles cause severe intestinal barrier damage and immune dysfunction in mice, and risk modeling suggests that long‐term gastrointestinal burdens may ...
Ruwen Xie, Gulimire Yilihan, Qiong Chen, Dachuan Lin, Zhen Liu, Mengyi Yuan, Yujia Wang, Haoteng Xu, Weishang Zhou, Wanxin Gong, Yueer Li, Chen Peng, Tong Yang, Peng Gao, Qing Liu, Xin‐Hua Feng, Mu Xiao, Chao Jiang   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Banking Geography and Cross-Fertilization in the Productivity Growth of US Commercial Banks [PDF]

The US banking industry offers a unique, natural and fertile environment to study geography's effects on banks' behavior and performance. The literature on banks' operating performance, while extensive, says little about the influence of spatial ...
A. Basak Tanyeri, Dogan Tirtiroglu, Ercan Tirtiroglu, Mehmet Kenneth N. Daniels   +3 more
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Study of Free‐Space Optical Quantum Network: Review and Prospectives

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Free from the constraints of fiber connections, free‐space quantum network enables longer and more flexible quantum network connections. This review summarizes and comparatively analyzes free‐space quantum network experiments based on ground stations, satellites, and mobile platforms.
Hua‐Ying Liu, Zhenda Xie, Shining Zhu
wiley   +1 more source

Wine production in Denmark Do the characteristics of the vineyards affect the chances for awards? [PDF]

By the end of the former century there were less than 10 commercial vintners producing wine in Denmark. There was widespread acceptance of the view that commercial production of wine in the most northern parts of Europe was impossible.
Bentzen, Jan, Smith, Valdemar
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Different ways of dealing with tensions: practices of (re)negotiation in local social economies [PDF]

, 2017
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a nuanced understanding of the diverse practices social enterprises engage in to fulfil their commitments of delivering social/environmental goods and/or services while earning income to sustain their ...
Mazzei, Micaela
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Engineering Approaches to Modify Immunomodulatory Functions of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs): Tissue Regeneration and Clinical Application

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) show promise for treating immune‐related disorders through immunomodulation and tissue regeneration. This review gives a brief overview of current clinical approval of MSC therapies. It also discussed how bioengineering, including genetic modification, biomaterial delivery, extracellular vesicles, and iPSC‐derived MSCs,
Sichen Yang, Kejia Li, Ning Wang, Zhen Li, Zhiyong Zhang, Rocky S. Tuan, Yangzi Jiang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indonesia's cultural economy: an economic geography using two secondary data sources

Indonesian Journal of Geography, 2013
Economic geographers have become increasingly interested in the importance of the 'cultural economy' to cities and regions, but rarely have results been sought or discussed for Southeast Asia or nations in the developing world.
Chris Gibson, Iwona Wiszniewski
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Exploring the Dynamics of Building Supply: A Duration Model of the Development Cycle [PDF]

A noticeable omission in the existing body of applied real estate research is the lack of empirical analysis of the commercial development process. We address this shortcoming by utilizing a large panel database of individual building projects that in ...
Mark S. Coleman, Ralph Gentile
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