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“I Paid A Bribe”—Lessons and Insights From Crowdsourced Corruption Reporting in India

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Preventing and reducing corruption has proven to be an enormous challenge. An important step in this process is to produce and use good metrics to identify where anti‐corruption resources would be most beneficial. Most measures of corruption, however, rely on surveys of perceptions or bribery incidence.
Ina Kubbe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source

Stratifying the shoreline: a modified OSPAR framework to monitor event-driven beach litter. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Monit Assess
Teixeira Z   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Bed‐scale quantitative discrimination of hyperpycnites from intrabasinal turbidites—Results from a channelised slope system in the Upper Carboniferous Westward Ho! Formation, United Kingdom

open access: yesSedimentology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Features considered indicative of hyperpycnites and intrabasinal turbidites overlap. Outcrop study presented here suggests that the Westward Ho! Formation forms an 800 m high deepwater‐slope system dominated by hyperpycnites. Taking this unit, and other successions where hyperpycnites have been described, as having been deposited solely from ...
Tony Reynolds
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Data Agency: Intra‐Active Knowledge Production Between the Human and Non‐Human World

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract In this intervention, we engage with Karen Barad's agential‐realist concept of intra‐action to explore how knowledge about climate emerges from the intra‐active entanglements between climate scientists and nature through processes of data collection, representation and interpretation.
Stefan Brönnimann, Jeannine Wintzer
wiley   +1 more source

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