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Root cause of groundwater colouration in coastal districts of Bangladesh: findings from a preliminary study

Environmental Pollutants & Bioavailability, 2021
The study characterises the straw-colour in groundwater of coastal areas of Bangladesh. The study design was exploratory to have a better understanding of straw colouration.
Ahammadul Kabir, Alauddin Ahmed, Mizanur Rahman, Ibrahim Md Taimur, Shamsuddin Ahmad, Mohammed Mahmud Khan, Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Abdun Noor   +7 more
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The Permeability Alternation of Shale Fractures due to Sc-CO2 Soaking: Implications for Sc-CO2 Fracturing and Deep CO2 Sequestration in Shale Reservoirs

Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2022
The shale fracture permeability is critical in determining gas production and deep CO2 sequestration performance. Moreover, how shale fracture permeability evolves after interactions with supercritical carbon dioxide (Sc-CO2) should be understood to ...
Zhaohui Lu, Yunzhong Jia, Jiankun Zhou, Pei He, Menglai Li, Zhengyang Song, Xin Cai   +6 more
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Community work programmes as job creation mechanism: A case of Tshwane Metropolitan municipality

Africa’s Public Service Delivery & Performance Review, 2022
Background: To address poverty and unemployment, local government implemented programmes, such as the Community Work Programme (CWP), aimed at empowering the community through the provision of employment and skills to provide a safety net to the poor by ...
Keoagile C. Kobedi, Elana Swanepoel, Marius Venter   +2 more
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How Can Local Government Sustain a Terminated National Development Project?

The Journal of Indonesia Sustainable Development Planning, 2020
The sixth of nine Indonesian national development agendas under the President Joko Widodo administration is to increase productivity and competitiveness, one of which is by the establishment of Techno Parks.
Satya Laksana, Fityan Aonillah, Rubi Azhara   +2 more
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Challenges affecting Mzongwana cattle farmers to commercialise livestock production in Eastern Cape, from a local economic development perspective

Africa’s Public Service Delivery & Performance Review, 2022
Background: Rural cattle farmers in Mzongwana, Matatiele, Eastern Cape, face a scarcity of resources preventing them from commercial farming and contributing to local economic development (LED) and eradicating unemployment.
Mthetheleli Baqwa, Elana Swanepoel, Marius Venter   +2 more
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Agro-morphological diversity of Nepalese naked barley landraces

Agriculture & Food Security, 2018
Background Naked barley is a traditional, climate-resilient and highly nutritious crop of the high mountains of Nepal. Knowledge of agro-morphological diversity among the naked barely genotypes is fundamental for their efficient utilization in plant ...
Ritesh Kumar Yadav, Subash Gautam, Epsha Palikhey, Bal Krishna Joshi, Krishna Hari Ghimire, Rita Gurung, Achyut Raj Adhikari, Niranjan Pudasaini, Rajeev Dhakal   +8 more
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Rhizosphere analysis of field-grown Panax ginseng with different degrees of red skin provides the basis for preventing red skin syndrome

BMC Microbiology, 2022
Background Ginseng red skin root syndrome (GRS) is one of the most common ginseng (Panax ginseng Meyer) diseases. It leads to a severe decline in P. ginseng quality and seriously affects the P. ginseng industry in China.
Ling Dong, Xingbo Bian, Yan Zhao, He Yang, Yonghua Xu, Yongzhong Han, Lianxue Zhang   +6 more
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The Causal Model of Public Acceptance of Genetically Modified Food: An Invariance Analysis

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2021
Measurement invariance refers to the equivalence of measurement instrument in different groups. Research on social science often involves comparing different groups, such as whether the relationship between two variables is the same in male and female ...
Longji Hu, Hui Li, Suqiu Tan, Yi Zhang
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Disappointment or unexpected gain? A survey-based study of the motives and outcomes of inter-municipal cooperation in Poland

Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2019
Based on a survey of inter-municipal unions (IMUs) and inter-municipal companies (IMComs) in Poland, this article identifies the most common motives for launching inter-municipal cooperation and the most frequently reported outcomes. The declared motives
Gendźwiłł Adam, Krukowska Joanna, Lackowska Marta   +2 more
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Local Tax Competition in Poland?

Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2016
The concept of tax competition has been successfully applied in an analysis conducted in several European countries, but so far it has not been systematically tested either in Poland or in other countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Swianiewicz Paweł, Łukomska Julita
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