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Rethinking plastic waste: innovations in enzymatic breakdown of oil‐based polyesters and bioplastics

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Plastic pollution remains a critical environmental challenge, and current mechanical and chemical recycling methods are insufficient to achieve a fully circular economy. This review highlights recent breakthroughs in the enzymatic depolymerization of both oil‐derived polyesters and bioplastics, including high‐throughput protein engineering, de novo ...
Elena Rosini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic analysis of medal markets at the Winter Olympics: Introducing an index to analyse the market potential of sports disciplines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Purpose This paper aims to propose the concept of market potential analysis, which is commonly applied in economics, as a method to enable these investment decisions to be based on sound evidence.
Andreas Christoph Weber   +14 more
core   +1 more source

Evaluation of in vitro toxicity of common phytochemicals included in weight loss supplements using 1H NMR spectroscopy

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
We investigated the toxicity of 12 active compounds commonly found in herbal weight loss supplements (WLS) using human liver and colon cell models. Epigallocatechin‐3‐gallate was the only compound showing significant toxicity. Metabolic profiling revealed protein degradation, disrupted energy and lipid metabolism suggesting that the inclusion of EGCG ...
Emily C. Davies   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competition and Productivity Evolutions in Industry Sector [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2012
The importance of productivity has made it to be one of the most serious discussions in industrial organizing. In economic literature, however, there are some arguments on the role of market structure in productivity changes.
Vahid Mehrbani
doaj  

TRADING CHANNEL PATTERN OF CASSAVA COMMODITY: DOUBLE ROLES FOR THE FARMERS – IS IT A BENEFIT? [PDF]

open access: yesRussian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2018
The results of presented study showed that farmers in addition to being producers also become a trading agency where they sell commodities directly to the nearest factory.
Kusumah E.P.
doaj   +1 more source

Market structure and market access [PDF]

open access: yes
The authors examine an issue at the nexus of domestic competition policy and international trade, the interaction between goods trade and market power in domestic trade and distribution sectors.
Francois, Joseph, Wooton, Ian
core   +3 more sources

“After End-2008 Structural Changes in Containership Market” and Their Impact on Industry’s Policy

open access: yesInternational Journal of Financial Studies, 2018
The inability of carriers to forecast “demand for containerships„ led them to order larger ships. Maritime economists were also unable to forecast it.
Alexandros M. Goulielmos
doaj   +1 more source

Emergence of time-horizon invariant correlation structure in financial returns by subtraction of the market mode [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
We investigate the emergence of a structure in the correlation matrix of assets' returns as the time-horizon over which returns are computed increases from the minutes to the daily scale.
C. Coronnello   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

The effect of business cycle on the relationship between market structure and industrial performance in the Indonesian food and beverage industry

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance
The Indonesian food and beverage industry contributes significantly to the economy of the country. However, previous studies have shown that the industry has a high industrial concentration and price-cost margin (PCM).
Hurriyah   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Agricultural Market Structure, Generic Advertising, and Welfare

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2003
This analysis begins with a definition and discussion of productive advertising. Then, following Dixit and Norman, persuasive advertising is used to study the welfare effects of generic advertising by marketing orders. The study first examines horizontal
James H. Cardon, Rulon D. Pope
doaj   +1 more source

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