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Identifying and tracking climate change mitigation strategies with a cluster-based assessment

npj Climate Action
To guide climate change mitigation efforts, we identify and characterize the different types of mitigation strategies countries adopted over the last two decades.
Filippo Maria D’Arcangelo, Tobias Kruse, Mauro Pisu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Relationship Between Global Value Chains and Productivity [PDF]

International Productivity Monitor, 2017
We review the evidence linking Global Value Chains (GVCs) and productivity. GVCs are a key feature of the world economy, with production increasingly fragmented across borders.
Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan Timmis
doaj  

Advancing SafeWax, A Bio‐Inspired Superhydrophobic Coating, Toward Sustainable and Climate‐Resilient Crop Protection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study advances SafeWax, a bio‐inspired, fatty‐acids‐based superhydrophobic coating, by identifying an agriculturally compliant solvent and revealing how solvent‐controlled Fatty acid crystallization governs the coating's microscopic structure and performance.
Niv Ben‐Arie, Iryna Polishchuk, Franziska Tauber, Coralie Schneider, Elena Prudnikov, Alessia Calora, Silvia Milita, Simona Fermani, Mireia Alejandra Ibanez Revert, Ilaria Filippetti, Claudio Ratti, Matthias Kellermeier, Markus Rueckel, Boaz Pokroy   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Changing Structure of Global Value Chains: Are Central Hubs Key for Productivity? [PDF]

International Productivity Monitor, 2018
This article uses “centrality” metrics reflecting position within Global Value Chains (GVCs) to identify central hubs and peripheral European economies and sectors.
Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan Timmis
doaj  

A meeting report: cross-cultural comparability of questionnaire measures in large-scale international surveys

Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 2019
The value of cross-country comparisons is at the heart of large-scale international surveys. Yet the validity of such comparisons is often challenged, particularly in the case of latent traits whose estimates are based on self-reported answers to a small
Francesco Avvisati, Noémie Le Donné, Marco Paccagnella   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advances in Solution‐Processed Textile Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Ink Formation, Processing Strategies, Applications, and Challenges

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Advanced ink systems for solution‐processed textile triboelectric nanogenerators are systematically summarized, spanning conductive, tribo‐negative, and tribo‐positive layers. By connecting ink chemistry, deposition methods, and device function, the present review reveals the key governing principles of solution development and highlights practical ...
Xinlong Sun, Stephen Beeby
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Benchmarking and validation activities within JEFF project

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017
The challenge for any nuclear data evaluation project is to periodically release a revised, fully consistent and complete library, with all needed data and covariances, and ensure that it is robust and reliable for a variety of applications.
Cabellos O., Alvarez-Velarde F., Angelone M., Diez C.J., Dyrda J., Fiorito L., Fischer U., Fleming M., Haeck W., Hill I., Ichou R., Kim D. H., Klix A., Kodeli I., Leconte P., Michel-Sendis F., Nunnenmann E., Pecchia M., Peneliau Y., Plompen A., Rochman D., Romojaro P., Stankovskiy A., Sublet J.Ch., Tamagno P., Marck S. van der   +25 more
doaj   +1 more source

Photo‐Switchable Molecular Module Programming PET Biodegradation in Aquatic Environments

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We address the plastic durability paradox by integrating an itaconic acid–derived pyrrolidone module into polymer backbones. Sunlight in water triggers Norrish Type I ring‐opening and hydrophilization, enabling rapid biodegradation into nontoxic minerals.
Mohammad Asif Ali, Jixin Zheng, Satoshi Wakai, Jie Liu, Hidetaka Nomaki, Misato Tsukatani, Noriyuki Isobe, Jingcheng Sang, Yuriko Aoki, Hideo Okamura, Daisuke Sasaki, Chiaki Ogino, Yuzo Yamazaki, Takashi Nishikaze, Kenji Takada, Maiko K. Okajima, Tatsuo Kaneko   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organic Materials of Tomorrow: Horizons of Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines machine learning techniques accelerating the discovery of organic semiconductors by linking molecular structure to properties. Key methods include graph neural networks, generative models, and active learning. Applications to organic photovoltaics demonstrate practical impact.
Harold Mena, J. Terence Blaskovits, Kun‐Han Lin, Denis Andrienko   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source