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Nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications for the sotol plant (Asparagaceae, Convallarioideae): A review

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Sotol (Dasylirion spp.) is a resilient desert plant that sustains ecosystems, cultures and livelihoods in Chihuahua Desert. Our review highlights its nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications in food, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and water remediation. By synthesizing evidence across disciplines, we show how sotol can
Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda Barrios, Antonio Martínez Ruiz, Marisela Calderón Jurado, Ramón Saúl Luján Aguirre, Juan Luis Jacobo Cuellar, Oscar Sariñana‐Aldaco, María Teresa Martínez Damián, Oscar Cruz Alvarez   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Série histórica secular de brilho solar e suas relações com os modos de variabilidade ENOS e ODP em Santa Maria-RS [PDF]

Engenharia Agrícola, 2015
Os objetivos neste trabalho foram testar a homogeneidade, recalcular a média climatológica e determinar possíveis tendências e variabilidade interanual e interdecadal na série histórica secular mensal e sazonal de brilho solar, em Santa Maria - RS.
Gizelli M. de Paula, Nereu A. Streck, Josana A. Langner, Daniele C. Barbosa, Arno B. Heldwein, Simone E. T. Ferraz, Galileo Buriol   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Does Carbon Intensity Affect the Cost of Equity? An Empirical Study From Mexico

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change poses significant risks for companies, particularly in emerging countries like Mexico, where sustainability perceptions are evolving. This study analyzes how carbon emissions affect the cost of equity capital (CoE) for Mexican firms.
Guillermo Pérez‐Elizundia, Ricardo Cristhian Morales Pelagio, Jesús F. Lampón   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Stripping Method for X‐Ray Spectral Correction in ISO 4037‐1 Narrow Spectra Series (N10‐N150)

X-Ray Spectrometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Spectrometry is an important tool for the characterization of X‐ray beams in ionizing radiation metrology. However, the use of solid‐state spectrometers for accurate measurements requires correction of spectral distortions caused by the interaction between photons and the detector.
Matheus Rebello do Nascimento, Josilene Cerqueria Santos, Eric Matos Macedo, Leonardo de Castro Pacífico, Luís Alexandre Gonçalves Magalhães   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Misalignment in Carbon Credit Programmes: Insights From Producer Preferences for Cover Crop and No‐Till Contracts

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the factors influencing producer adoption of cover cropping and no‐till farming, two key carbon sequestration practices, within the context of voluntary carbon credit programmes (CCPs) in Kansas. Using a mixed‐methods survey that combines discrete choice experiments with farm‐level data from 370 producers, we estimate ...
Grant Edward Gardner, Gabriel S. Sampson, Shuoli Zhao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Em louvor ao almirante Tamandaré, patrono da Marinha de Guerra do Brasil

Revista de História, 1968
13 de dezembro, dia de Santa Luzia, é urna data predestinada nos fastos da História Pátria . No ano de 1519, nesse dia, tocava no Bra-sil, de passagem pela baía do Rio de Janeiro, Fernão de Magalhães, o imortal nauta português, então a serviço dos reis ...
Edgard de Cerqueira Falcão
doaj   +1 more source

Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

Peripheral κ opioid receptor in pain and inflammation: From molecular signalling and gene expression to drug discovery

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
The κ opioid receptor (κ receptor, KOR) is a G protein‐coupled receptor with well established roles in analgesia and immune modulation. Although historically studied primarily in the central nervous system (CNS), growing evidence indicates that κ signalling in peripheral tissues plays an important role in regulating pain, inflammation and immune ...
Rumsha Khan, Elena C. A. Becker, Boglarka B. Bata, Christian W. Gruber   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional drought in the southern of South America: physical aspects Seca regional no sul da América do Sul: aspectos físicos

Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia, 2010
From the indices of monthly and annual climatic drought in six regions in southern South America and their associations with seventeen predictors, the probable physical causes of droughts are analyzed.
Juan Leonidas Minetti, Walter Mario Vargas, Arnobio German Poblete, Maria Elvira Bobba   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Oral Health Care Services, Barriers and Enablers to Maintaining Good Oral Health in Motor Neurone Disease: A Scoping Review

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives The objective of this scoping review was to map existing literature on oral health and related care in individuals with Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Specifically, the review aimed to identify barriers and facilitators to maintaining oral hygiene, summarise available clinical guidelines and patient‐facing resources, and examine how ...
Mariam A. Khokhar, Lucy A. O'Malley, Anne‐Marie Glenny, Xiaohui Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source