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Towards Water, Food and Energy Security: The Global Challenges and Possible Solutions for a Holistic Vision of Sustainability

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This invited paper gives an overview of the challenges the world is facing and offers a possible solution for water and food security within the holistic integrated concept of the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus. The paper summarizes the experience the author gained through working on various research projects at national and international ...
Ragab Ragab
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Analysis of Late Antique and Medieval Glass from Koper (Capodistria, SI): Insights into Glass Consumption and Production at the Turn of the First Millennium CE. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Šmit Ž, Milavec T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Impact of Geography on Institutions in Agricultural and Nomadic Societies

International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How geography affects the choice of institutions is studied in a theoretical model. In this model, nations are located around a circle. Rulers compete through choosing tax rates, the level of military spending, and the degree of formality of institutions. Geographic condition is captured by population density.
Haiwen Zhou
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‘Pre‐Technologies’ and the Lifeworld: Assistive Technologies as ‘Pre‐Technologies’ for Self‐Formation as Freedom

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article identifies assistive technologies (ATs) as ‘pre‐technologies’ mediating access to other technologies for disabled subjects (DSs). The motivation is to show that without ATs, DSs cannot be said to have the same level of access to freedom and self‐forming activities as able‐bodied subjects.
Sarel Marais
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Materials in Cultural Heritage: Analysis, Testing, and Preservation. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Šmit Ž, Menart E.
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Calpain Proteases and the Evolving Signaling Network in Insect Embryonic Patterning

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, EarlyView.
Insect embryonic Dorsal‐Ventral (DV) patterning relies on the BMP and Toll pathways to different extents. Calcium‐dependent cystein proteases of the Calpain family also exert an important function to pattern the DV axis. In Drosophila, Calpain A cleaves the Cactus/IkappaB inhibitor and modifies Toll signals in ventral regions of the embryo. In Rhodnius
Alison Julio, Helena Araujo
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Late Antique-Early Byzantine urban transformation in Mid-Northern Anatolia: A multiproxy approach from Pompeiopolis. [PDF]

PLoS One
Uzdurum M, Tatbul MN, Mentzer SM.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Role of Intellectual Virtues in the Practice of Humanistic Mental Health Counseling

The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The function of intellectual virtues as a foundation for the development of excellence in the humanistic practice of clinical mental health counseling is explored. First, the unique characteristics of intellectual virtues are described. Second, 10 specific intellectual virtues are identified and briefly defined.
Mark S. Gerig
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On the history of abortion from antiquity to the present day, with a focus on Central Europe and Germany. [PDF]

Arch Gynecol Obstet
Dienerowitz FM, David M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Festchrift for H. A. Drake:Frakes (R.M.), Depalma Digeser (E.), Stephens (J.) (edd.), The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity: Religion and Power in Byzantium, Europe and the Islamic World. (Library of Classical Studies 2.) Pp. xii + 287, pl. London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2010. Cased, £65. ISBN: 978-1-84885-409-3 [PDF]

, 2012
Marsham, Andrew
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