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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of carbon free gaseous ammonia induction on combustion, performance and emissions in an agricultural diesel engine operated on dual fuel mode. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Khayum N, Suraya S, Nandakishora Y, Shaik JH, Barik D, Dennison MS, Dinesh A, Rajendran S.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Winston Churchill and South Africa: An Enduring, yet Debatable Connection, 1899–1955

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The article traces Churchill's engagement with South Africa, from his time as a newspaper correspondent during the Anglo‐Boer War to his services in both Liberal and Conservative cabinets as well as, ultimately, his premiership. The discussion highlights three phases in this relationship.
LUVUYO WOTSHELA
wiley   +1 more source

Landscape-level effectiveness of fuel treatments in a forest-dominated ecosystem in the Southern United States. [PDF]

PLoS One
Choi J, Lagos T, Segundo B, Villa-Zapata LM, Prokopyev OA, Ntaimo L, Stripling CW, Gan J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
wiley   +1 more source

Numerical Simulation to Study the Effect of Oxygenated Fuels on the Combustion and Emission Characteristics of Engines. [PDF]

ACS Omega
Shao K, Cao T, Wu H, Huang B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Experimental Study on Ignition Characteristics of Fuels and Lubricants

, 2011
Yudai Nakashima, Masaru Honjyo, Yasushi Ogasawara, Hajime Yoshida, Nobukazu Shimada   +4 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Parametric evaluation of ducted fuel injection in an optically accessible mixing-controlled compression-ignition engine with two- and four-duct assemblies

, 2023
Boni Yraguen, Adam M. Steinberg, Christopher William Nilsen, Drummond Edward Wengrove, Charles J. Mueller   +4 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Insurance and the “Irrationalization” of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
wiley   +1 more source

Advanced Nanomaterials and Energetic Application: Experiment and Simulation. [PDF]

Nanomaterials (Basel)
Pang W, Trache D, Zhang K.
europepmc   +1 more source