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From Inaction to Action: The Cognitive Liberation of Amazon Workers in North Carolina

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the mechanism by which workers move from inaction to collective action, focusing on cognitive liberation, the awareness that change is possible, as it unfolded among workers at an Amazon warehouse in North Carolina who contributed to the emergence of an independent, worker‐led union during a period of renewed growth in organising ...
Carla Lima Aranzaes, Destiny Blackwell
wiley   +1 more source

Current use of peat, plastic and fertiliser inputs in organic horticultural and arable crops across Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The use of contentious inputs linked to plant protection, and the use of peat, plastic and fertilisers used in growing have been mapped in selected organically produced crops in 10 countries across Europe.
Caceres, Rafaela   +12 more
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‘Talk to Us, Not About Us’: Children's Understandings and Experiences of Participation in Australian Family Law

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A hive of recent policy and legislative activity in Australian family law has emphasized the importance of children's right to participate in decision‐making following parental separation. Yet a powerful tension persists between supporting children's right to participation and protecting children from parental conflict.
Georgina Dimopoulos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Control of Bactrocera oleae by low environmental impact methods: NPC methodology to evaluate the efficacy of lure-and-kill method and copper hydroxide treatments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The NonParametric Combination (NPC) methodology is proposed to verify the influence of the lure-and-kill method, using Ecotraps (Vioryl SA), on the distribution of Bactrocera oleae (Rossi) (Diptera Tephritidae) infestation in olive groves, and the ...
RAGUSA, Ernesto   +2 more
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NAADF: Globally Illuminated Voxel Worlds Accelerated with Nested Axis‐Aligned Distance Fields

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Achieving realistic rendering of 3D scenes in real time using path tracing is challenging due to the high sample count required, with ray tracing as the bottleneck. Focusing on voxels as a geometry representation offers significant opportunities for optimizations, especially for tracing the rays, but also for computing the samples.
A. Ulschmid   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Olive Fruit Fly (Bactrocera oleae) Population Dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean: Influence of Exogenous Uncertainty on a Monophagous Frugivorous Insect.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Despite of the economic importance of the olive fly (Bactrocera oleae) and the large amount of biological and ecological studies on the insect, the factors driving its population dynamics (i.e., population persistence and regulation) had not been ...
Mariano Ordano   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pests and Agricultural Commodity Losses: Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Damage Function Estimation [PDF]

open access: yes
Estimating the economic impact of a pest requires linking biological and economic systems via a damage function. The most common damage function approach links exogenous pest populations to cumulative commodity yield losses at harvest.
Cobourn, Kelly M.   +3 more
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Entomofauna associated with the olive tree in southern Portugal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Since 2004 several studies have been carried out in order to identify the main insect species that usually inhabiting the olive ecosystem. The field trials have taken place in two olive groves, one situated in Olhão and the other one in Loulé, both in ...
Andrade, Laura, Gonçalves, Maria
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