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Old Norse nicknames [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. April 2015. Major: Germany Studies. Advisors: Anatoly Liberman, Kaaren Grimstad. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 273 pages, appendix p.
Peterson, Paul R.
core  

Food Waste Applications Beyond the West: Archetypes and Insights From China

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food waste is a major challenge for sustainable development, but digital solutions designed to reduce it remain unevenly distributed globally. Food waste mobile applications (FWMAs) have emerged as promising tools for reducing food surpluses through redistribution and improved household food management.
Jiequan Hong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study questions the received wisdom that surviving Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish are fewer than 50 in number and are mostly shipping-related.
Farren, Robert
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Forecasting Airport Passenger Flows Using Mobile Network Data: Insights for Sustainable Mobility and Strategic Infrastructure Planning

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Airports are strategic and environmental nodes in global transport systems where rapid passenger growth challenges capacity, sustainability, and resilience. This study uses anonymized mobile network data to analyze and forecast passenger dynamics at Lisbon Airport, Portugal, linking data‐driven insights to sustainable mobility and ...
João Carlos Ferreira   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond sorrow and swords: gender in the Old Norse Volsung legend and its British rewritings

open access: yes, 2014
This thesis explores male and female identity in Old Norse and British iterations of the Völsung legend, focusing on the Poetic Edda and Völsunga saga, William Morris's The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, J. R. R.
Hancock, Jessica Clare
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Corporate Environmental Innovation and Environmental Decoupling: International Evidence

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether environmental innovation reduces environmental decoupling, defined as the mismatch between a company's environmental disclosures and its actual environmental performance. Drawing on legitimacy theory, we argue that environmental innovation represents a substantive organizational response that reduces companies ...
Rasmi Meqbel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

National Context and STEM Career Expectations: Social Comparison and Gender Differences Across 72 Economies

open access: yesThe Career Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adolescents’ career expectations play a pivotal role in shaping identity and future opportunities, yet little is known about how national‐level comparisons influence these expectations. Drawing on social comparison theory, this study examines how relative standing in science achievement, socioeconomic status (SES), and math self‐efficacy is ...
Luyang Guo
wiley   +1 more source

The Epidemiological Landscape and Burden of Chronic Disease in Australia: Contextualizing the Distinct Profile of Tasmania

open access: yesChronic Diseases and Translational Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Chronic diseases are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide and impose a substantial and long‐lasting burden on individuals, families, communities, and healthcare systems. In Australia, more than 47% of the population had at least one chronic condition in 2018, and the prevalence rose sharply with age: approximately 80% of ...
Getahun Kebede Beyera
wiley   +1 more source

The recurring collocation of vreiðr and vega in Old Norse poetry

open access: yesManuscript and Text Cultures
Poetry in early Germanic vernaculars exhibits variations on a metrical form predicated on a pattern of alliterating stressed syllables linking two halves of a line (in contrast to syllabic metres in which scansion requires a fixed number of syllables ...
James Parkhouse
doaj   +1 more source

Peroxodisulfate‐Enhanced Leaching of Deep‐Sea Manganese Crusts and Sulfides

open access: yesChemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.
Ammonium peroxodisulfate enables efficient leaching of deep‐sea manganese crusts and massive sulfides while offering electrolytic recycling. High leaching yields for V, Mn, Co, Mo, Sn, and W, along with complete leaching of As and Sb, highlight its potential as a powerful and sustainable oxidant for marine resource processing.
Bastian Hansel   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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