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Industrial hemp as an agricultural crop in Ghana
Journal of Cannabis Research, 2021 Background Cannabis is one of humanity’s oldest crops with several uses, from food to clothing and medicine. It remains one of the most controversial crops whose production, possession, and usage are regulated differently across jurisdictions.
Nana Osei Owusu +2 more
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Depression Levels of State Functionaries: Empirical Evidence From China
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 This study aimed to explore the depression levels of those serving as state functionaries in China. We used data from the 2016 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey and the ordinary least squares model for the regression analysis.
Li He +10 more
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Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.This review discusses the integrated pathway of CO2 capture and its direct electrochemical conversion. It begins by discussing CO2 capture chemistries and solvent systems, followed by a detailed analysis of various CO2 release mechanisms. Key principles of reactor and catalyst design for direct CO2 electroreduction from capture media are then ...
Behnam Nourmohammadi Khiarak +8 more
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Rethinking Sustainable Batteries
Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.This perspective examines sustainability across the entire battery lifecycle, from mining and manufacturing to use and end of life. Twelve principles for ‘green’ batteries are outlined, and it is argued that joint industrial, academic, and policy efforts are essential to building a truly sustainable energy future. Abstract Batteries will play a pivotal
Heather Au +5 more
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A Critique of Banks’ Failure and Bankruptcy Law in Iran and the Necessity of Its Replacement with the Resolution System to Stabilize the Financial Sector in the Country [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2018 The issue of failure and bankruptcy of financial institutions, especially banks, is one of the most complex legal-economic issues that has generally been addressed within the framework of the usual rules of bankruptcy in private law.
Mohammad Javad Sharifzadeh
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Geographic loan diversification and bank risk: A cross-country analysis
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2020 This study investigates the geographic loan expansion on bank risk using the aggregate data of 53 countries from 2005 to 2016 using the system generalized method of moments.
Tu DQ Le, Van TH Nguyen, Son H Tran
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King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
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Corruption, nonperforming loans, and economic growth: International evidence
Cogent Business & Management, 2020 This paper explores the impact of corruption on both the banking sector and economic growth; we determine the impact using aggregate data from the World Bank covering 120 countries over the period 2004–2017.
Tran Hung Son +2 more
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Prediction of air quality index based on the SSA-BiLSTM-LightGBM model
Scientific Reports, 2023 The air quality index (AQI), as an indicator to describe the degree of air pollution and its impact on health, plays an important role in improving the quality of the atmospheric environment.
Xiaowen Zhang, Xuchu Jiang, Ying Li
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The economics of copyright law: a stocktake of the literature [PDF]
, 2008 This article is a survey of publications by economists writing on copyright law. It begins with a general overview of how economists analyse these questions; the distinction is made between the economics of copying and the economic aspects of ...
Handke, Christian +2 more
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