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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag +3 more
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Politics and Governance, 2019 Existing discussions of food democracy focus on people’s freedom to choose healthy, sustainable, or otherwise ‘good’ foods. Such foods are supposed to be unrestrained by oligopolistic structures of food supply, economic inequality, misinformation, or the
Jan-Peter Voß, Michael Guggenheim
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Sweet talking: Food, language, and democracy [PDF]
Language Teaching, 2009 At a time of diminishing resources, the sum of apparently minor personal decisions about food can have immense impact. These individual choices are heavily influenced by language, as those with vested interests seek to persuade individuals to act in certain ways.
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Public Schooling for Democracy. A Book Review of \u3cem\u3ePublic Education: Defending a Cornerstone of American Democracy\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
This essay is a book review of Public Education: Defending a Cornerstone of American ...
Reid, Ellis E, V
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD) remains highly lethal with limited treatment options. This study demonstrates that coixenolide, a bioactive compound from Coix lacryma‐jobi L. and a key component of the clinically approved Kanglaite injection, exhibits enhanced antitumor efficacy in high‐fat diet (HFD)‐induced obese mice bearing PAAD tumors compared to
Kaidi Chen +20 more
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Politics and Governance, 2019 As the deleterious impacts of conventional food systems on areas including public health, environmental sustainability, and farmers’ livelihoods are progressively unveiled, citizen-led initiatives have ubiquitously sprouted, collectively building what is
Paula Fernandez-Wulff
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) show promise for treating immune‐related disorders through immunomodulation and tissue regeneration. This review gives a brief overview of current clinical approval of MSC therapies. It also discussed how bioengineering, including genetic modification, biomaterial delivery, extracellular vesicles, and iPSC‐derived MSCs,
Sichen Yang +6 more
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Food Democracy for All? Developing a Food Hub in the Context of Socio-Economic Deprivation
Politics and Governance, 2019 This article proposes a localised and differentiated understanding of food democracy, or rather a plurality of localised food democracies. Based on the experiences of developing a local food hub in an area of socio-economic deprivation in the UK using a ...
Sebastian Prost
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The demand for off‐the‐shelf biocompatible bone substitutes has driven the development of numerous independent in vitro technologies to generate products resembling physiological tissues. Due to technical challenges and overly simplified cultivation approaches/niches, the end‐products are often uniformly shaped and inferior to native bone ...
Franziska Braun +10 more
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Editorial: New directions in governance of urban food systems transitions
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 Sofia Nikolaidou +3 more
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