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Nutrient Transport Driven by Microbial Active Carpets. [PDF]

open access: yesPhysical Review Letters, 2018
We demonstrate that active carpets of bacteria or self-propelled colloids generate coherent flows towards the substrate, and propose that these currents provide efficient pathways to replenish nutrients that feed back into activity.
A. Mathijssen   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for ESG Reporting: A Case Study in the European Fashion Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The fashion industry in Europe has increasingly recognized the importance of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting as a key driver for sustainable development and transparency. As consumer awareness grows and regulatory frameworks evolve, companies are pressured to disclose their sustainability practices, ethical labor ...
Serena Strazzullo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Micropatterned Surfaces with Unidirectional Wetting Properties for Liquid Transport

open access: yesSmall Structures, EarlyView.
Micropatterned surfaces that guide droplets in a single direction are gaining attention for their role in liquid transport. This review explores how surface designs enable such behavior, from gravity‐driven flow to stimulus‐responsive movement. It also discusses fabrication techniques, design challenges, and emerging strategies to advance directional ...
Elham Lori Zoudani   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Private Lives and Interior Spaces: Raja Ravi Varma\u27s Scholar Paintings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Between 1900 and 1904, the celebrated Indian academic painter Raja Ravi Varma painted two depictions of men reading (plate 1 and plate 2). The works are unusual, so much so, as to be quite unrecognizable from the mythological paintings and princely ...
Dinkar, Niharika
core   +1 more source

Estimating red deer Cervus elaphus population density using drones in a steep and rugged terrain

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Precise and accurate information about population density, crucial for wildlife management, is difficult to obtain for elusive species living in dense forests or steep and inaccessible terrain. Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), we developed a method for obtaining absolute population estimates of ungulates living in steep, rugged, and partly ...
Julie Bommerlund   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

Tracking Chart 2005 Eddie Bauer, Sri Lanka 02027085D [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Fair Labor Association
core   +1 more source

Church, A Sacred Event and the Visual Perspective of an Etic Viewer: an 18th century Western-Style Chinese Painting held in the Biliothèque nationale de France [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper deals with an 18th century oil painting produced by non-court painter(s) using Western techniques that conveys an etic viewer’s (an outsider’s)perspective of the depicted events.
Wang, Lianming
core   +1 more source

Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Pattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975-1985 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This illustrated catalogue accompanied an exhibition at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York (October 27, 2007-January 20, 2008). It is the first extended discussion of the Pattern and Decoration movement.
Anne Swartz   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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