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Cyclic Olefin Copolymers as Versatile Materials for Advanced Engineering Applications

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Cyclic olefin copolymers (COCs) are presented as highly versatile materials combining tunable synthesis, excellent optical properties, and mechanical robustness. Their potential spans microfluidics, bioengineering, and advanced electronics, while emerging self‐healing and sustainable solutions highlight future opportunities.
Giulia Fredi, Norma Mallegni, Andrea Dorigato, Mario Milazzo   +3 more
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General Authorisations as a Tool to Promote Water Allocation Reform in South Africa [PDF]

Law, Environment and Development Journal, 2007
South Africa faces significant inequities in access to and use of water for productive purposes. The National Water Act seeks to address these inequities and introduced a public rights system where water is owned by the people of South Africa and held in
A. Anderson, G. Quibell, J. Cullis and N. Ncapayi
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First Nations Woodlands Licence : reviewing the effectiveness of aboriginal-based forest tenure for BC First Nations

, 2015
After years of being refused recognition from the federal and provincial governments of Canada, First Nations are now playing a prominent role in the forest industry. Nearly most of the land in British Columbia remains unceded territory, and continues to create a challenge for statutory decision-makers.
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Public Regulators and CSR: The ‘Social Licence to Operate’ in Recent United Nations Instruments on Business and Human Rights and the Juridification of CSR [PDF]

Journal of Business Ethics, 2015
The social licence to operate (SLO) concept is little developed in the academic literature so far. Deployment of the term was made by the United National (UN) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the UN ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework, which apply SLO as an argument for responsible business conduct, connecting to social ...
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Coagulative Granular Hydrogels with an Enzyme Catalyzed Fibrin Network for Endogenous Tissue Regeneration

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Coagulative granular hydrogels are composed of packed thrombin‐functionalized microgels that catalyze the conversion of fibrinogen into a secondary fibrin network, filling the interstitial voids. This bio‐inspired approach stabilizes the biomaterial to match the robustness of bulk hydrogels without compromising injectability, mimicking the initial ...
Zhipeng Deng, Camila B. Tovani, Simona Bianco, Gianni Comandini, Aya Elghajiji, Mina Aleemardani, Roxana Moscalu, Jeremie Zappia, Bianca Fernandes, Olivia Annett, Chrissy L. Hammond, Jason Wong, Dave J. Adams, Fabrizio Scarpa, Michael R. Whitehouse, Annela M. Seddon, James P. K. Armstrong   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Licence to Control: Implications of Introducing Administrative Water Use Rights in South Africa [PDF]

Law, Environment and Development Journal, 2011
In recent years, there has been a prevalent trend towards implementing administrative water use rights in a number of countries. South Africa was one of the pioneers in this respect, implementing a progressive new water law in 1998, which introduced the ...
Synne Movik and Fieke de Jong
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Is Offshore Commercial Fishing a Prospect in the Pitcairn Islands? [PDF]

, 2013
Past studies in the Pitcairn Islands exclusive economic zone concur that fish stocks are low and that large-scale commercial fishing is not economically viable.

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Small Extracellular Vesicles from Neural Cells: Physiological and Pathological Roles, and Potential in Neurodegenerative Therapy

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Neural cell–derived small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are emerging as pivotal mediators in neurodegenerative diseases, exerting both pathogenic and therapeutic functions. This review synthesizes current evidence on how sEVs from distinct neural cell types regulate neurodegeneration, neuroprotection, biomarker discovery, and targeted drug delivery ...
Muhammad Waqas Salim, Wei Zhang, Lyndsey Collins‐Praino, Yuling Wang, Andrew Care   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

ASSESSMENT OF THE INVESTMENT ATTRACTIVENESS OF THE UKRAINIAN LOTTERY MARKET FOR FOREIGN LOTTERY OPERATORS IN THE CONTEXT OF RECENT LEGISLATIVE CHANGES

Baltic Journal of Economic Studies
The lottery market has always been interesting for investors, because unlike the gambling business, the lottery business is always socially responsible and socially useful.
Zoriana Toporetska, Mykola Pohoretskyi, Volodymyr Vazhynskyi   +2 more
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Economics of Copyright Collecting Societies and Digital Rights: Is There a Case for a Centralised Digital Copyright Exchange? [PDF]

, 2012
Copyright collecting societies have attracted economists’ attention for over 30 years and the attention of government regulators for even longer. They have typically been accepted by economists and by courts of law as necessary for reducing transaction ...
Towse, Ruth
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