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2023
In this chapter, the focus is on the recommodification of wastes in historical and global perspective. It begins by looking at textile recycling in historical and contemporary perspective. Taking the historical long view shows the importance of certain economic conjunctures if markets in goods containing a large proportion of recycled content are to ...
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In this chapter, the focus is on the recommodification of wastes in historical and global perspective. It begins by looking at textile recycling in historical and contemporary perspective. Taking the historical long view shows the importance of certain economic conjunctures if markets in goods containing a large proportion of recycled content are to ...
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Predicting Liver Allograft Discard
Transplantation, 2018An index that predicts liver allograft discard can effectively grade allografts and can be used to preferentially allocate marginal allografts to aggressive centers. The aim of this study is to devise an index to predict liver allograft discard using only risk factors available at the time of initial DonorNet offer.Using univariate and multivariate ...
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Abstract What kind of fossils will we leave, as relics into the far future? A blizzard of new objects has suddenly appeared on Earth: plastic bottles, ballpoint pens, concrete flyways, outsize chicken bones, aluminium cans, teabags, mobile phones, T-shirts. The number of our constructions has exploded, to outweigh the whole living world.
Sarah Gabbott, Jan Zalasiewicz
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Sarah Gabbott, Jan Zalasiewicz
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Fair packet discard as improvement of early packet discard
IEEE GLOBECOM 1998 (Cat. NO. 98CH36250), 2002Previous papers have described and evaluated the performance of the early packet discard technique for maintaining packet integrity during overload in ATM switches. In this paper a packet discard scheme is proposed with the goal to provide both good performance in terms of throughput and fairness in terms of bandwidth exploitation of the output link ...
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This chapter highlights the reuse of abandoned houses as garbage dumps. It shows how mundane-seeming tasks, such as rubbish disposal, could evoke powerful feelings of guilt, shame, or regret. The emphasis on domestic emotions and sensations points toward one way in to connect household studies to broader calls for a more multisensory, experientially ...
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Sydney Review of Books, 2018
A review essay on Chris Kraus's biography of Kathy ...
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A review essay on Chris Kraus's biography of Kathy ...
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2018
This chapter analyzes the Japanese social critique of overconsumption by way of addressing how the issue of food waste was linked to broader concerns, such as environmental degradation and the low rate of national food self-sufficiency. It describes how bureaucrats, citizens, corporations, and social critics are mobilized to dissuade the consuming ...
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This chapter analyzes the Japanese social critique of overconsumption by way of addressing how the issue of food waste was linked to broader concerns, such as environmental degradation and the low rate of national food self-sufficiency. It describes how bureaucrats, citizens, corporations, and social critics are mobilized to dissuade the consuming ...
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