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Dollars for Drops: Abatement Cost of Water for Irrigation in the Colorado River Basin

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Colorado River is a lifeline for more than 40 million people in the western United States. However, with climate change diminishing snowpacks in the Rocky Mountains and increasing demands from agriculture and urban areas, the river's flow has become insufficient to meet all the competing needs.
Shahin Bahrami   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Telling Objects’ – Miniatures as an Interactive Medium in Eighteenth-Century Female European Court Portraits

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2019
Miniatures were a popular medium of early modern material court culture and representation, symbolising social, dynastic or political affiliation while, at the same time, evoking a special bond between wearer and object.
Karin Schrader
doaj   +1 more source

Social Enterprise: A Portrait of the Field [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Social Enterprise Alliance recently partnered with Community Wealth Ventures and Duke University's Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship to assess the state of social enterprise in the nonprofit sector in the United States and Canada.

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Current Landscape: Use of Supercritical CO2 in the Wood Industry

open access: yesAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
The application of supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) to successfully dewater as well as extract resin from wood is becoming increasingly popular due to its greener and less energy‐intensive approach. With world focus shifting to developing methods with greater efficiency while decreasing harm to the environment, scCO2 applications have begun to set ...
Anthony Dahdah, Subashani Maniam
wiley   +1 more source

A National Portrait of Domestic Violence Courts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A growing number of criminal courts nationwide handle domestic violence cases on separate calendars, termed domestic violence courts. There are now 208 confirmed domestic violence courts across the U.S. (Center for Court Innovation 2009).
Chris S. O'Sullivan   +4 more
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Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
wiley   +1 more source

Chipkin makes sense of Jo'burg's complex Vision [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article gives critical praise to the published work of architect & architectural historian Clive Chipkin on Johannesburg, arguing that his embedded position allows for an intimate portrait of the city and the complexities involved in the making and ...
Lagae, Johan
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Portraits choisis, portraits subis

open access: yesCalenda, 2020
L’idée force est de croiser des phénomènes de domination (sans limites géographiques ni temporelles) à la technique du portrait photographique (1840-2000). Comment ce type d’image personnelle et, dans certains cas, intime peut-il être marqué (dans ses thèmes ou mises en scène) par des contextes de colonisation, d’occupation, par des rapports de classe,
openaire   +1 more source

Farmers’ Protests in Germany: Media Coverage and Types of Bias

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The German farmers’ protests of 2024 sparked widespread media coverage and public debate. Yet, media coverage was not always positive, reflecting the media's attention‐seeking and selective focus. Occurrences of farmers blocking media outlets reflected distrust in how their concerns were portrayed.
Felix Schlichte, Doris Läpple
wiley   +1 more source

Kazakh, Abay and Sufi

open access: yesӘл-Фараби Атындағы Қазақ Ұлттық Университеті хабаршы шығыстану сериясы, 2016
Kazakh people did not see the difference between Sufism and Islam. The mentality of  Kazakh perceived Sufism, which spread in the Kazakh land is connected with the name of the  Ahmed Yasawi as the highest spiritual Islam.
A Ахметбекова   +1 more
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