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Enhanced Activity of Leather Materials Coated with Silver, Copper and Graphene Oxides-Decorated TiO₂ Nanocomposites and Gamma Irradiated. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Gaidau C, Alexe C, Constantinescu RR, Dinca L, Stanculescu I, Cutrubinis M, Cosma D.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
wiley   +1 more source

Gi4SaveLife: a community-led model for sustainable voluntary blood donation in rural Sierra Leone. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
Fernandez Turienzo C, November L, Turay M, Kamara P, Lassie RK, Kamara JS, Kamara MK, Kamara M, Duraman M, Kuhrt K, Leather AJM, Gevao S, Williams PT.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
wiley   +1 more source

Bio-Based and Sustainable Alternatives to Conventional and Synthetic Leather. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Oleksińska-Merida E, Puchalski M, Herczyńska L.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Tannery solid waste generation trend and sustainable management techniques for commercialization. [PDF]

RSC Adv
Sarker D, Shakil SR, Huda N, Roy H, Chowdhury M, Islam MS.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Bane or Boon: The Effects of Daigou (Buying on Behalf) in an Open Economy*

Economic Record, EarlyView.
Prompted by advancements in technology, particularly affordable or complimentary livestream features on mobile applications, a novel form of international trade—termed ‘daigou’—has emerged. In this practice, individual agents in developed countries (the North) purchase domestically produced goods on behalf of customers in developing countries (the ...
Xuan Nguyen, Chi‐Chur Chao, Hong Hwang
wiley   +1 more source

Development of lightweight, environmentally friendly bricks using leather shaving and buffing dust waste. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Mithu MR, Islam MA, Mottalib MA, Haque I, Goni MA.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Ant–aphid mutualism: the influence of Tapinoma ibericum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on Aphis gossypii (Hemiptera: Aphidae) control by commercial and spontaneous natural enemies

Insect Science, EarlyView.
The mutualism between Tapinoma ibericum ants and Aphis gossypii disrupts the biological control exerted by Aphidius colemani in greenhouse peppers. Ant exclusion increased parasitism and the presence of most natural enemies, although Aphidoletes aphidimyza was more abundant with ants.
Jesús Foronda, Estefanía Rodríguez, Mónica González, María del Mar Téllez, Carmen Robles‐Vallet, Pablo Barranco, Felipe Pascual, Francisca Ruano   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source