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Heavily polluted mechanic workshop soil and its phenanthrene-degrading Bacillus thuringiensis
The MicrobeMechanic workshops in residential areas are sites referenced for small-scale chronic contamination with petroleum hydrocarbons (HC) and associated pollutants like heavy metals.
Oluwafemi Sunday Obayori +6 more
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Leverage Ratios and Basel III: Proposed Basel III Leverage and Supplementary Leverage Ratios [PDF]
, 2013 The Basel III Leverage Ratio, as originally agreed upon in December 2010, has recently undergone revisions and updates – both in relation to those proposed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision – as well as proposals introduced in the United ...
Ojo, Mariane.B.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between financial inclusion, institutional quality, and female labor force participation in sub‐Saharan Africa over the period 1990–2023. Using panel data for 43 countries and employing OLS, FGLS, and dynamic GMM estimators, the analysis examines whether access to financial institutions and financial markets ...
Joshua Chukwuma Onwe +3 more
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effects of two greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation practices—minimum tillage and mid‐season drainage—on rice farmers' farm performance (e.g., crop yield and risk) and economic outcomes (e.g., income and vulnerability).
Hongyun Zheng, Wanglin Ma
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Філософія освітиFollowing the removal of fuel subsidy in Nigeria on 29th of May 2023, residents of Lagos State have witnessed a significant spike in cost of living.
Мохаммед Акінола Акомолафе +1 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Proposals for a new audit liability regime in Europe [PDF]
, 2009 The past few years have seen a growing trend towards the focus on audit liability. In the UK, the Company Law Reform Bill which became the Companies Act 2006, has removed the previously existing limits on auditor liability and compelled an agreement ...
Ojo, Marianne
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Una iconografía del ojo en Un chien andalou
Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2014 Este artículo tiene como objeto realizar un análisis del motivo visual del ojo en Un chien andalou. El ojo, que en esta película es rasurado con una cuchilla, tiene una función simbólica que recorre toda la filmografía de su director.
Ainamar Clariana Rodagut
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