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The different dimensions of livelihood impacts of Payments for Environmentals Services (PES) schemes: A systematic review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Through a systematic review of peer-reviewed and grey literature, this paper analyzes evidence of the livelihood impacts of Payments for Environmental Services (PES). Forty-six studies assessed PES livelihood impacts.
Bax, Vincent   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Trends in best-in-class energy-efficient technologies for room air conditioners

open access: yesEnergy Reports, 2021
Improving the efficiency of room air conditioners (RACs) could provide significant energy and associated emissions savings, particularly in emerging economies with hot climates where the cooling demand is expected to increase dramatically.
Nihar Shah, Won Young Park, Chao Ding
doaj   +1 more source

What Does the Rise of China Do for Industrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
China's rapid growth and deepening global presence in Africa creates a major challenge for the conventional wisdom of industrialisation as a core component of development strategy.
Kaplinsky, Raphael
core   +1 more source

Impact Printing

open access: yes3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, 2022
This article introduces the concept of Impact Printing, a new additive manufacturing (AM) method that aggregates malleable discrete elements (or soft particles) by a robotic shooting process. The bonding between the soft particles stems from the transformation of kinetic energy, gained during the acceleration phase, into plastic deformation upon impact.
Coralie Ming   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Very High Resolution Projections over Italy under different CMIP5 IPCC scenarios

open access: yesScientific Data, 2023
This paper introduces VHR-PRO_IT (Very High-Resolution PROjections for ITaly), an open access hourly climate projection with a resolution of ≃2.2 km (i.e., Convection Permitting Scale) up to 2050, covering the Italian peninsula and some neighbouring ...
Mario Raffa   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact beyond the impact factor [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Comparative Physiology A, 2013
The journal impact factor is an annually calculated number for each scientific journal, based on the average number of times its articles published in the two preceding years have been cited. It was originally devised as a tool for librarians and publishers to provide information about the citation performance of a journal as a whole, but over the last
openaire   +2 more sources

Downwelling surface solar irradiance in the tropical Atlantic Ocean: a comparison of re-analyses and satellite-derived data sets to PIRATA measurements [PDF]

open access: yesOcean Science, 2018
This paper assesses the merits and drawbacks of several data sets of solar downwelling radiation received at the horizontal surface of the tropical Atlantic Ocean where the magnitude of this radiation and its spatial and temporal variability are not ...
M. Trolliet   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Carbon emission from Western Siberian inland waters

open access: yesNature Communications, 2021
Rivers and lakes are thought to be a major conduit of loss for the massive amounts of carbon locked away in high-latitude systems, but such losses are poorly constrained.
Jan Karlsson   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

In vitro antioxidant and antimicrobial potential of Sterculia urens Roxb. root extract and its bioactive phytoconstituents evaluation

open access: yesFuture Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2020
Background The plant Sterculia urens Roxb. of Malvaceae family is comparatively understudied. Genus Sterculia is widely recognized by its phytomedicinal and ethnomedicinal attributes.
Anjali Shukla   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

LivWell: a sub-national Dataset on the Living Conditions of Women and their Well-being for 52 Countries

open access: yesScientific Data, 2022
Measurement(s) human living conditions Technology Type(s) data ...
Camille Belmin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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