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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 +7 more
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Territorios, 2014 Desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX, en México, se ha presentado un crecimiento acelerado de las ciudades y una reducción importante de la población rural producto de la migración a los principales centros urbanos.
Osvaldo Ascencio López +2 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King +2 more
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Venezuela: efectos nutricionales de los cambios alimentarios, 1980-2005
Agroalimentaria, 2007 El artículo presenta las características más resaltantes de los efectos nutricionales que han tenido los cambios ocurridos en Venezuela en la disponibilidad de alimentos para consumo humano (DCH) durante el período 1980-2005.
Elvira Ablan, Edgar Abreu Olivo
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of green certifications on attributed improvements in corporate water efficiency in Bangladesh, considering the moderating roles of regulatory pressure and consumer awareness. Data from 311 respondents were analyzed to test the hypotheses.
Pinki Debnath +3 more
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Morphological patterns in landscape design
EGA, 2013 In this paper we propose a typology of patterns -or composition systems- for the morphological definition of horizontal surfaces in landscape design. Specifically, we state that the basic ways to define such horizontal surfaces in landscape design fit ...
Javier Pérez Igualada
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Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
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Integrating multimodal data and machine learning for entrepreneurship research
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Extant research in neuroscience suggests that human perception is multimodal in nature—we model the world integrating diverse data sources such as sound, images, taste, and smell. Working in a dynamic environment, entrepreneurs are expected to draw on multimodal inputs in their decision making.
Yash Raj Shrestha, Vivianna Fang He
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