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Views from the hill: Deer stalkers' perspectives on land‐use change in the Scottish Highlands
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Land‐use and wildlife management are changing globally as part of efforts to address contemporary environmental challenges. In the Scottish Highlands, the hunting—or ‘stalking’—of deer has entered a period of considerable flux primarily because of national policy changes to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss.
Callum Leavey‐Wilson +2 more
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Impact of the Agricultural Sector on the Arkansas Economy in 2003 [PDF]
, 2007 Agriculture and associated agricultural activities are major contributors to the Arkansas economy. Agriculture is defined as the sum of agricultural production and processing activities, unless otherwise specified, and includes crop and animal production
Kemper, Nathan +2 more
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From 0D to 3D liquid crystal elastomers architectures: Fabrications and applications
Responsive Materials, EarlyView.This review presents a dimension‐oriented overview of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), highlighting their molecular alignment, fabrication strategies, and programmable deformations from 0D particles to 3D architectures. Emphasis is placed on how dimensionality guides design principles, enables diverse actuation modes, and bridges fundamental ...
Mingxuan Liu +8 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Regulations and the collective influence of the value chain compel business‐to‐business (B2B) actors within the nonwoven (NW) manufacturing industry to drive sustainable development. However, the literature rarely addresses how B2B actors aim to align with sustainable development to co‐create value and what challenges they face.
Virpi Rämö +3 more
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The expansion of textile and clothing firms of China to Asian Least Developed Countries: The Case of Cambodia [PDF]
Since the 1990s, the rapid expansion of China’s textiles and clothing enterprises to Cambodia has been closely linked to the phenomenon of industrial clustering of textiles and clothing firms at the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and Bohai Rim ...
Jiebing Wu, Jinmin Wang, Xianguo Yao
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Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
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Major European Companies Sourcing at Collapsed Bangladesh Factory [PDF]
, 2005 The Clean Clothes Campaign reports on the major European companies sourcing from a nine-story factory that collapsed and left 350 people buried alive in Savar, about 30 km northwest of Dhaka. The building housed Spectrum Sweater Industries Ltd.
Clean Clothes Campaign
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Model checking embedded software of an industrial knitting machine
International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence, 2011 Model checking is a promising approach for the verification of embedded systems software. The [mc]square approach for verification of binary code provides several improvements compared to other existing methods: the system model is automatically derived from the binary code using dedicated microcontroller simulators and state spaces are reduced by ...
Thomas Reinbacher +4 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
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