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Household waste recycling: national survey evidence from Italy [PDF]
The paper analyses the determinants of household recycling in Italy with particular emphasis on social behaviour. The econometric analysis is based on two waves - 1998 and 2000 - of the Multipurpose Household Survey conducted annually by the Italian ...
Fiorillo, Damiano
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Porous Bodies in Mumbai: An Analysis of the Urban Landscape in Rohinton Mistry’s Novels
Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, 2018 Rohinton Mistry’s work mainly focuses on the life of the marginalized and their struggle to survive against human ambition and political corruption, and Mumbai is frequently the meeting point of many of his characters. In this paper, I analyze the writer’
María-Luz González-Rodríguez
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Pollution Haven Hypothesis and the Role of Dirty Industries in Turkey’s Exports [PDF]
Pollution haven hypothesis argues that the industries that are highly pollution intensive i.e. dirty industries, have been migrating from developed economies to the developing world. It is argued that the environmental concerns of the developed economies
Elif Akbostanci +2 more
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Classifying system for façades and anomalies [PDF]
, 2016 Façades play an important role in buildings’ energy demand, and their state of conservation obviously influences thermal performance. The energy performance gap in existing residential buildings due to façade conservation status has not been analyzed in ...
Casals Casanova, Miquel +2 more
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Demographic Transition Environmental Concern and the Kuznets Curve [PDF]
In an endogenous growth model with pollution and abatement we characterize the socially optimal solution. We find that the rate of growth depends negatively on the weight of environmental care in utility and positively on the population growth rate.
J., AZNAR-MARQUEZ +1 more
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Visual Imagery in Deductive Reasoning: Results from experiments with sighted, blindfolded, and congenitally totally blind persons [PDF]
, 2004 We report three experiments on visual mental imagery in de-ductive reasoning. Reasoning performance of sighted partici-pants was impeded if the materials were easy to envisage as visual mental images.
Knauff, M., May, E.
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Animal, 2012 Dirty udders and teats result in a higher workload in terms of cleaning before milking and may constitute a risk for udder health. The aim of this prevalence study on 23 farms with very low within-farm variation in cubicle measures and other cubicle ...
G. Plesch, U. Knierim
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Uniqueness and Indeterminacy of Equilibria in a Model with Polluting Emissions [PDF]
Is pollution a dirty word? To answer this question we develop an endogenous growth model à la Rebelo (1991) where dirtiness becomes a fundamental choice variable for the economy to grow.
Giovanni Bella
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Quality and quantity: The role of social interactions in individual health [PDF]
The public health literature focusing on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that the quantity of social connections is positively correlated with individual health.
Fiorillo Damiano, Sabatini Fabio
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Enhanced Integrated Scoring for Cleaning Dirty Texts
, 2008 An increasing number of approaches for ontology engineering from text are gearing towards the use of online sources such as company intranet and the World Wide Web.
Bennamoun, Mohammed +2 more
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