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A metaphorical history of DNA patents [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to retrace the history of genetic patents, analyzing the metaphors used in the public debate, in patent offices, and in courtrooms.
Silvestro, Ivo
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The Oedipal Logic of Ecological Awareness [PDF]
The Anthropocene is the radical intersection of human history and geological time. Humans have belatedly realised that they have become a geophysical force on a planetary scale.
Morton, Timothy
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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
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ABSTRACT Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a prevalent chronic condition that significantly impacts patients' quality of life and poses challenges to effective management. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) offers a holistic approach, emphasizing syndrome differentiation, individualized care, and natural treatment strategies.
Qin‐Wei Fu +74 more
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Linking collective action to non-timber forest product market for improved local livelihoods: Challenges and opportunities [PDF]
"The paper draws on findings from research in South Sulawesi and Jambi Provinces, Indonesia, looking at the role of collective action in helping two local community groups enhance their bargaining power vis a vis other market players (such as collectors,
Komarudin, Heru +2 more
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The red resin of Dracaena cochinchinensis (Lour.) S.C. Chen, known as Chinese dragon’s blood, is formed through metabolic reprogramming following trunk injury, during which the original steroidal saponins are depleted and transformed.
Bin Dai, Li Wang, Li-Hua Su, Hai-Zhou Li
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Why is Bilbo Baggins Invisible?: The Hidden War in The Hobbit [PDF]
Why is Bilbo Baggins invisible? This study suggests that Tolkien’s knowledge of philology, theology, philosophy, literature, history, and his own life experience all contribute to the development of the symbolic, moral, and psychological significance of ...
Beal, Jane, PhD
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The precarious conviviality of water mills [PDF]
Social institutions such as the water-powered grain mills of Ottoman Cyprus are elaborately interconnected with a wide range of human and non-human players, from millers and villagers to water, gradient, stone and climate.
Given, Michael
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Beowulf and archaeology: Megaliths imagined and encountered in early medieval Europe [PDF]
This is the author's version of a book chapter published in The lives of prehistoric monuments in Iron Age, Roman and medieval Europe by Oxford University Press, 2015.The dragon’s lair in the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf has been widely interpreted to ...
Williams, Howard
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To Mars through LEO: How commercial space travel will change exploration‐enabling research
Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Christopher Puhl, Michail Magkos
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