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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on legitimacy theory, the aim of this study is to answer the research question: ‘How does corporate climate identity construction enable firms to make legitimacy claims while managing tensions between the economic imperatives and climate goals?’ The research design relies on a discourse analysis of 252 corporate reports published ...
Hang Pham
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Nematicidal activity of essential oils from Lavandula hybrida
, 2014 Phytoparasitic nematodes can be strongly destructive and extremely difficult to manage due to their poliphagy and worldwide spread. Plant-derived compounds can represent an environmentally sustainable alternative to chemicals for the control of these ...
Sebastiano Laquale +3 more
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Secure Enough? Sufficiency and Security in the New Geological and Geopolitical Reality
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article advances sufficiency theorizing by examining its relationship with security in the contemporary geopolitical context. It engages three contextually situated discourses: sustainable development, ecological civilization, and degrowth, to explore how concerns over ecological limits intersect with emerging geopolitical and security ...
Pasi Heikkurinen +3 more
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PlantsHumulus lupulus, or hops, is a vital ingredient in brewing, contributing bitterness, flavor, and aroma. The female plants produce strobiles rich in essential oils and acids, along with bioactive compounds like polyphenols, humulene, and myrcene, which ...
Marcos Edgar Herkenhoff +2 more
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Antimicrobial activities of essential oils of plants species from Morocco against some microbial strains [PDF]
Background Essential oils have important antibacterial activities and can successfully replace antibiotics, which show their inefficiency, especially against fungi and multi-resistant bacteria.
Mohammed Abdessadek +13 more
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“Touching the Tarmac”: Conjuring the Urban Frontier on a Remote Periphery
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Anthropologists have demonstrated how the creation of land markets as “frontiers” for global capital requires practices of “conjuring”—the narrative construction of place as desirable for large‐scale investment. This article emphasizes the contingency of this conjuring process in an urbanizing Kenya where land‐selling companies have emerged to
Peter Lockwood
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Negative Chemotaxis of Urease‐Functionalized Polymeric Microcapsules
Small, EarlyView.Urease‐functionalized PLGA microcapsules exhibit negative chemotaxis in urea gradients, migrating from high to low substrate concentrations. Increasing gradients enhance chemotaxis until a plateau, while increasing average substrate concentration in a fixed gradient reverses chemotactic behavior.
Amanda Hopkins +2 more
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev +2 more
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Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Focusing on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this study investigates how national security drives the coevolution of China's political risk management support for multinationals and competing countries' reactions. A competing country is a nation‐state that is neither the home nor host country of a multinational but perceives the ...
Shuang Li, Xueli Huang, Fuming Jiang
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Fractional hydrodistillation and biological evaluation of essential oils from Crithmum maritimum L.
, 2014 In some previous studies, it has been demonstrated that the final composition of the essential oils can be influenced by the distillation time and some biological activities increased according to the proportion of some types of compounds such as ...
Ben Jannet, H. +5 more
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