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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are nearing their end in 2030, and it is highly unlikely that many of the SDGs would be met by the target date. This calls for the urgent need for an upgraded approach or a new strategy from the “development‐goals” model.
Funom Theophilus Makama
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Post-Moratorium EU Regulation of Genetically Modified Products: Triffid Flax [PDF]
The regulatory regime for contamination permits the imposition of import bans with neither a scientific justification nor a risk assessment. No scientific assessment of Triffid flax was done prior to the import ban. The import regime put in place to deal
Kerr, William A. +2 more
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Small Structures, EarlyView.This review examines the emerging role of cellulose‐derived carbon in postlithium energy storage technologies, with a focus on its structural and electrochemical properties. In addition to its high surface area, porosity, and conductivity, the material is environmentally friendly, making it a promising alternative to conventional carbon sources.
Vimukthi Dananjaya +9 more
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Cell wall gene expression in two sub-species of flax
The EuroBiotech Journal, 2017 In this work, we attempted to elucidate mechanisms of flax fiber biogenesis by measuring, using qPCR, expression of the cellwall related genes (cellulose synthase, cellulose synthase-like and chitinase-like genes) in stems of two contrasting fiber ...
Galinousky Dmitry, Padvitski Tsimafei
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ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LINUM USITATISSIMUM L.
Труды по прикладной ботанике, генетике и селекции, 2018 A complete cyclic crossing between representatives of different taxa of cultivated flax (Linum usitatissimum L.), including its primitive forms, and the wild spccies L. angustifolium Huds. was carried out, and hybrid progeny was studied.
S. N. Kutuzova +2 more
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Monte Carlo method applied to the mechanical dating of the Turin Shroud [PDF]
, 2015 Alternative dating methods to radiocarbon have been recently developed to study the Turin Shroud (TS), the linen sheet that according to the tradition enveloped the dead body of Jesus Christ; among them, a mechanical one is based on the study of five ...
Basso, Roberto +2 more
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Market regulation and productivity: The case of the Canadian Wheat Board
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Changes to regulatory environments influence firm‐level incentives, which can move the productivity frontier or reposition firms within an existing frontier. Estimating causal effects of policy changes requires a credible counterfactual for productivity in the absence of policy change.
Ryan Cardwell, Pascal L. Ghazalian
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RESULTS OF OPTIMIZATION OF PARAMETERS AND OPERATING MODES OF THE DISK PNEUMATIC SOWING DEVICE
Сельскохозяйственные машины и технологии, 2015 Technological effectiveness and qualitative characteristics of pneumatic sowing devices are higher than ones of lots produced rollers for a number of reasons, caused by decrease in number of doubles, increased evenness of seeds in a row.
V. V. Golubev, A. S. Firsov, D. M. Rula
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Fiber Flax Breeding in China and Europe
Journal of Natural Fibers, 2018 In Western Europe fiber flax breeding was started in the Netherlands in 1816, and pedigree selection was introduced in 1900 in the Netherlands also. Therefore, the commercial breeding of fiber flax started at the end of the 19th century. Flax breeding in
Yu-Fu Wang +10 more
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