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CCESC: A Crisscross-Enhanced Escape Algorithm for Global and Reservoir Production Optimization. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Zhao Y, Li X.
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‘CLOSING THE CARBON LOOP’: Climate Policy Discourses and the Material Politics of Municipal Waste‐to‐Biofuel Programs

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Waste‐to‐biofuel (WTB) programs have gained popularity as a municipal circular economy and an emissions reduction strategy. The upgrading of biofuels to renewable natural gas (RNG) has drawn particular interest, as RNG can displace conventional fossil fuels in any existing natural gas end use and be delivered through existing pipeline ...
Taylor Davey
wiley   +1 more source

Zebra stripes: the questions raised by the answers. [PDF]

Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc
Ireland HM, Ruxton GD.
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Criminal Records as Classification Situations

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy developed the notion of “classification situations” to describe how ordinal schema that sort and rank individuals, like credit scores, are used to differentiate opportunities, prices, and services in ways that structure life chances while masking inequality as meritocratic.
Lindsay Bing, Sarah Esther Lageson
wiley   +1 more source

The case for contextually grounded executive function measurement. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Mazzaferro MM, Obradović J, Doebel S, Wolf S, Munakata Y, Thorell LB, Willoughby M, Howard SJ.   +7 more
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Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina, Jonathan Kwangulero, Jonathan Òlal Ogwang, Natalie Boyd Williams, Elizabeth Tilley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental and structural risk factors for mycetoma in the White Nile State, Sudan: an ethnographic study. [PDF]

Int J Equity Health
Alnoor B, Nahar P, Abu Zied O, Fairhead J.   +3 more
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Antimicrobial Use in Livestock: The Economic Cost of Action or Inaction

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper quantifies the economy‐wide consequences of two independent global stress‐tests in livestock production. The first assesses the effects of phasing out antimicrobial growth promoters (AGPs), and the second evaluates the long‐term impacts of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) progression.
Alejandro Acosta, Wondmagegn Tirkaso, Marco Artavia, Francesco Nicolli, Thomas Chatzopoulos, Sergio René Araujo‐Enciso, Martin Cicowiez, Shaikh Eskander, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Junxia Song   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efficiency, Shadow Pricing and Regime Switching in Multi‐Ware Technologies: Evidence From Regulated Livestock Farms

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We develop a framework for regulated production systems where output generation and pollution abatement impose competing technological demands. Using a multi‐ware technology, we model the production set as the intersection of two input requirement frontiers, one for production and one for abatement, each reflecting distinct trade‐offs.
Youpei Yan, Robert G. Chambers
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Reconstructing the historical decline of lichen cover across the reindeer fence of the Finnish-Norwegian border. [PDF]

Ambio
Wallenius T, Bjerke JW, Erlandsson R, Kolari THM, Räsänen A, Tahvanainen T, Tømmervik H, Winquist E, Virtanen T.   +8 more
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