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Bold Claims, Low Wages: Why Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) Struggle to Implement Living Wages

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS)—such as Fairtrade International and the Forest Stewardship Council—aim to improve sustainability in global supply chains by setting high social and environmental standards and certifying businesses that adopt them.
Elizabeth A. Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

‘No Dumping!’ Threshold Work in Voluntary Sector Mental Healthcare in Inner‐City London

open access: yesSociology of Health &Illness, Volume 48, Issue 8, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the sociomaterial dynamics of mental healthcare by following metaphors circulating among voluntary sector providers that they were becoming ‘dumping grounds’ within a system in crisis. In the United Kingdom, the voluntary sector has long been called upon to deliver flexible, community‐based care that reduces pressure on ...
Natassia Brenman
wiley   +1 more source

REVIEW: VARIOUS TREATMENTS NAOH, SEA WATER, FUMIGATION, LIQUID SMOKE TO IMPROVE TENSILE STRENGTH AND SURFACE MORPHOLOGY OF NATURAL FIBER

open access: yesRekayasa Mesin
This article is a literature review of several studies oriented toward the treatment of natural fiber to improve the surface morphology and tensile strength of the fiber.
Mukhlis Muslimin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Bibliometric Review and Visualization of Research Progress in Computational Modeling for Biofuels

open access: yesApplied Research, Volume 5, Issue 5, October 2026.
This bibliometric mapping of biomass‐to‐biofuel computational modeling research (2003–2025) traces the field's rapid growth, key contributors, and international collaboration networks, revealing a decisive shift toward multiscale, hybrid, and AI‐enabled modeling as the field's next frontier for sustainable biofuel production. ABSTRACT The conversion of
Rana Sohaib Ahmad   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Design Specifications Template for Wearable Haptic Interfaces: A Case Study for Robotic Gripper Applications

open access: yesJournal of Field Robotics, Volume 43, Issue 7, Page 4549-4569, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Wearable haptic interfaces are increasingly important for enhancing human robot collaboration, particularly in decision critical tasks that require intuitive and reliable interaction. Despite advances in wearable systems, existing designs often lack a structured framework that systematically integrates sensing, actuation, control, and user ...
Amr M. El‐Sayed
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancement of chilling stress tolerance in ornamental chilli by exogenous application of salicylic acid and ascorbic acid revealed through transcriptomic profiling

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science
Ornamental Chillies are valued for their potential to be marketed as potted plants, given their diversity in color and fruit shape. Despite their market value, Chillies are highly susceptible to chilling stress. Salicylic acid (SA) and ascorbic acid (AA)
Anam Zahid   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of Wind‐Farm‐Atmosphere Interactions at the Sørlige Nordsjø II Large Offshore Wind Farm: A Comparative LES and Analytical Wake Study

open access: yesWind Energy, Volume 29, Issue 10, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Sørlige Nordsjø II (SNII) is a planned large‐scale offshore wind farm in the Southern Norwegian North Sea near the Danish border, with phased development targeting a total installed capacity of up to 3 GW. For projects of this scale, site assessments are typically performed using computationally efficient analytical models.
Mostafa Bakhoday Paskyabi, Xu Ning
wiley   +1 more source

On the Destruction and Humanitarianisation of the Health System in Gaza and the Need for a Biopolitical Bioethics

open access: yesBioethics, Volume 40, Issue 8, Page 793-807, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Israel's destruction and ‘humanitarianisation’ of Palestinian health systems, arguing that this should be understood as an instance of ‘necropolitics,’ as conceived by Achille Mbembe. We review the extensive, long‐term destruction of health systems in Palestine before 7 October 2023 and the catastrophic acceleration of that
Mohammad Salaymeh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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