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The Fast, the Steady and the Tenacious: Funding Pathways for Circular Start‐Ups

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular start‐ups (CSUs) are critical for unlocking the circular economy, yet they face persistent barriers in accessing finance. Despite growing interest from policymakers and financing institutions, little empirical evidence explains how these ventures pursue and secure funding.
Pilar Mejía‐Vélez, Wim Van Opstal, Christina Bidmon, Saskia Manshoven, Julian Kirchherr   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development and Field Validation of a Bivalve-Inspired Nonprehensile End-Effector for Citrus Harvesting. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Chen YH, Liang J, Chen B, Zhai J, Ban Y, Nie Z, Li H, Wu Y, Zheng J.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Achieving Immanent Organizational Ethics: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in Packaging

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms face strategic tensions in packaging materials through their conflicting but complementary social, environmental and economic goals in achieving sustainability. Reducing and repurposing plastics, glass, paper and cardboard in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture is proving a challenge.
Sitong Michelle Chen, Ralph J. Bathurst
wiley   +1 more source

Silicon and Water Deficit Assessment on the Cultivation of Mini Watermelon cv. Sugar Baby in Greenhouse Cultivation. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Mesquita M, Santos VCD, Brandão AL, Correia CS, Garcia JAQ, Verjel MLJ, Flores RA, Moraes MG, Bandeira LN, Moreira ANH, Oliveira HFE, Battisti R.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sustainability Certification Adoption in Small and Medium Enterprises' Food Supply Chains: Using a Complexity Approach to Build up Foundations

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adopting certifications in food supply chains (FSCs) is a common practice for sustainable management, including among small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This study investigates how SMEs in FSCs navigate the complexities of certification adoption for sustainable supply chain management (SSCM).
Belinda Borrello, Verónica León‐Bravo, Minelle Silva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comprehensive effects of plastic film mulching and combined application of water and nitrogen on photosynthetic characteristics, yield formation, and water-nitrogen use efficiency of citrus. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Gu H, Li P, Deng M, Zhong Y, Fu Y, Wang S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Orchestration Up Close: Sustainable Business Model Innovation Through the Experiences and Activity Patterns of Secondary Stakeholders

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While much research stresses the importance of stakeholder involvement and inter‐organizational collaboration in sustainable business model innovation, less is known about the dynamics and actor roles of these collaborative processes. This article investigates one particular role in the process: the orchestrator, a role taken by secondary ...
Leonie Schlüter
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of the MTHFR C677T Genotype Polymorphism on the Efficacy of Folic Acid Treatment for Hyperhomocysteinemia and Cardiovascular Endothelial Function

Chronic Diseases and Translational Medicine, EarlyView.
Flowchart of patient enrollment. ABSTRACT Background Cardiovascular disease remains a major public health burden. This study aimed to investigate the effect of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T genotype on folic acid treatment response and cardiovascular endothelial function in patients with hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy).
Xiaohui Dou, Xijuan Zhang, Liang Zeng, Liheng Zeng, Xiaoyan Hu, Xuhong Jiang, Yahui Wan, Mingxia Ge, Xiaoyan Huang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genome-wide association study of yield and yield-related traits in pepper (<i>Capsicum annuum</i> L.). [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Chen X, Zhang X, Sun S, Yang H, Qin C, Zhou D, Peng D, Li Q, Gou X, Wang A.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Antimicrobial Peptides and Peptidomimetics in Foods – A Synthetic Foray

ChemFoodChem, EarlyView.
This Review discusses AMPs in foods and their syntheses. It espouses facile methods to make them accessible and suggests their utility in the mitigation and eradication of the burgeoning maladies of antimicrobial and multidrug resistance (AMR and MDR).
Josephat U. Izunobi, Adejoke D. Osinubi, Abosede A. Badeji   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source