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Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

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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Structural influence of knitting patterns on mechanical, electrical and durability characteristics of conductive fabrics. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Park SY, Lee J, Lee S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Hydrodynamics and Film Formation Mechanism Studies on Aqueous Polyurethane Coatings in Printing. [PDF]

ACS Omega
Liu Y, Zhao X, Jiang G, Ma J, Xie K, Feng J, Zheng C, Wang S.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Knit. Aesthetics of knit fashion.

Sen'i Kikai Gakkaishi (Journal of the Textile Machinery Society of Japan), 1998
openaire   +2 more sources

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Enhancing hand function in patients with hematologic malignancies: a novel knitted glove approach. [PDF]

J Phys Ther Sci
Mori H, Mano T, Nakajima S, Sei M, Masuda T.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Improving Population Health Through Housing Policy: Lessons From the Public Housing Program

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Housing is a fundamental social determinant of health and is particularly amenable to policy intervention. Policies that seek to improve health should improve housing quality, affordability, and stability. The public housing program has improved health across the life course, but the structure of the program currently limits its ...
ANDREW FENELON
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Integrating Biomimetic Reasoning Into Early-Stage Design Thinking for Sustainable Textile Development. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Gerolimos N, Kiskira K, Sfyroera E, Tsoumas J, Alevizos V, Plakantonaki S, Foka M, Priniotakis G.   +7 more
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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