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Compost amendments up to one inch restore dry rangeland soil health

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Rangelands harbor immense diversity and provide ecosystem services across vast swaths of land while supporting rural economies and the food system, but degraded rangelands may require active management to restore diversity and function. We added varying amounts of compost to understand if there are linear or saturating effects on vegetation and soil ...
Eva Stricker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Funding Science with Science: Cryptocurrency and Independent Academic Research Funding

open access: yesLedger, 2017
Scientific funding within the academy is an often complicated affair involving disparate and competing interests. Private universities, for instance, are vastly outpacing public institutions in garnering large, prestigious, science-related grants and ...
Edward Lehner   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Benchmarking Bitcoin Adoption in Canada: Awareness, Ownership and Usage in 2018

open access: yesLedger, 2020
The Bank of Canada commissioned the Bitcoin Omnibus Survey in 2016 to monitor trends in the adoption and use of Bitcoin and other cryptoassets. This report presents findings from the latest iteration of the survey, which was conducted in 2018.
Kim Huynh   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a physiologically‐based pharmacokinetic model for Ritonavir characterizing exposure and drug interaction potential at both acute and steady‐state conditions

open access: yesCPT: Pharmacometrics &Systems Pharmacology, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 523-539, March 2025.
Abstract Ritonavir (RTV) is a potent CYP3A inhibitor that is widely used as a pharmacokinetic (PK) enhancer to increase exposure to select protease inhibitors. However, as a strong and complex perpetrator of CYP3A interactions, RTV can also enhance the exposure of other co‐administered CYP3A substrates, potentially causing toxicity.
Lien Thi Ngo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sentiment Protocol: A Decentralized Protocol Leveraging Crowdsourced Wisdom

open access: yesLedger, 2018
The wisdom of the crowd is a valuable asset in today’s society. It is not only important in predicting elections but also plays an essential role in marketing and the financial industry.
Anton Muehlemann
doaj   +1 more source

Barter Machine: An Autonomous, Distributed Barter Exchange on the Ethereum Blockchain

open access: yesLedger, 2020
Direct bartering allows for the trading of assets with or without the use of money. In this paper, we introduce a smart contract written in the Solidity language for the Ethereum blockchain that implements a distributed and autonomous direct barter ...
Can Ozturan
doaj   +1 more source

Leveraging Blockchain and Smart Contracts to Combat Greenwashing in Sustainable Development

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Blockchain technology, when combined with smart contracts, enables buyers to distinguish between greenwashed and genuinely eco‐friendly products. The presence of counterfeit items can severely impact supply chains by diminishing brand value, eroding consumer confidence, and undermining market trust.
Ragnhild Silkoset, Arne Nygaard
wiley   +1 more source

Energy-Efficient Mining on a Quantum-Enabled Blockchain Using Light

open access: yesLedger, 2019
We outline a quantum-enabled blockchain architecture based on a consortium of quantum servers. The network is hybridised, utilising digital systems for sharing and processing classical information combined with a fibre-optic infrastructure and quantum ...
Adam J Bennet, Shakib Daryanoosh
doaj   +1 more source

Legitimizing Bitcoin as a Currency and Store of Value: Using Discrete Monetary Units to Consolidate Value and Drive Market Growth

open access: yesLedger, 2020
Cryptocurrency, and especially Bitcoin, has struggled to gain recognition as a legitimate currency from governments, financial institutions, and consumers.
Chad Albrecht   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Normalizing the Shamed Self: Stigma, Neutralization and “Narrative Credibility” in Interviews on White‐Collar Transgression

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top‐tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career,
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

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