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Enzymatic degradation of biopolymers in amorphous and molten states: mechanisms and applications

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This review explains how polymer morphology and thermal state shape enzymatic degradation pathways, comparing amorphous and molten biopolymer structures. By integrating structure–reactivity principles with insights from thermodynamics and enzyme engineering, it highlights mechanisms that enable efficient polymer breakdown.
Anđela Pustak, Aleksandra Maršavelski
wiley   +1 more source

From ethical consumerism to political consumption

open access: yes, 2008
This article reviews some of the recent literature in geography and related disciplines on ethical consumerism and political consumption. Many geographers began their engagement with questions of ethics, politics, consumption and consumerism inspired by ...
Clarke, Nick
core   +1 more source

Understanding bio‐based polymers: A study of origins, properties, biodegradation and their impact on health and the environment

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This review provides an overview of bio‐based polymer sources, their unique functional properties and their environmental impact, and addresses their role as sustainable alternatives. It discusses end‐of‐life options, including composting and anaerobic digestion for renewable energy.
Sabina Kolbl Repinc   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Ideology of Consumerism in Five Star Billionaire

open access: yesInsaniyat: Journal of Islam and Humanities, 2019
The last decades, people can calculate other people’s worth only through what they are wearing or their appearances. It makes the phenomenon of commodification and consumerism emerges in the society. This phenomenon might not harm the bourgeoisie, but it
Nina Farlina   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Representation of the Ideal Society in Advertisements of the Islamic Republic of Iran Television [PDF]

open access: yesاسلام و مطالعات اجتماعی, 2017
An attempt to describe a desirable and ideal society and ways to achieve it by the mass media is one of their missions. In addition to introducing goods and services, the mass media also illustrates the ideal of human life as an implicit implication.
Mahdi Montazer Ghaem, abbas hoseini
doaj   +1 more source

BOOK REVIEW OF FIGHT CLUB WRITTEN BY CHUCK PALAHNIUK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The main purpose of this writing is to review Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. The writer will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this novel . The writer decided to choose Fight Club as final project because it is his favorite novel.
Nugroho , Adityo Widhi
core   +1 more source

Living for the weekend: youth identities in northeast England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Consumption and consumerism are now accepted as key contexts for the construction of youth identities in de-industrialized Britain. This article uses empirical evidence from interviews with young people to suggest that claims of `new community' are ...
Badiou, A.   +54 more
core   +1 more source

Variably Protease‐Sensitive Prionopathy: Two New Cases With Motor Neuron‐Dementia Syndrome

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We describe two patients with variably protease‐sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr) who developed progressive upper motor neuron symptoms, insomnia, behavioral and cognitive decline, compatible with primary lateral sclerosis associated with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
María Elena Erro   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building a Sustainable Society: The Necessity to Change the Term 'Consumer'

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, 2017
The profit-seeking system leads to many negative environmental impacts. Within this economic system, consumption reflects an important relationship between humans and nature.
Sabrina Chakori
doaj   +1 more source

Beauty Both Ubiquitous and Exclusive: Emmeline Stuart-Wortley and the Great Exhibition

open access: yes19, 2023
This brief article focuses upon Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley’s response to the Great Exhibition of 1851, both her celebration of luxury goods in her poetry and her poetry as such a consumer good.
Daniel Brown
doaj   +2 more sources

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