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Children and adolescents across 23 communities learn about animals in diverse environments and through multiple activities

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's interactions with animals shape their understanding of the biological world and humans' place in it. Understanding where children report they encounter and gain their knowledge of animals can provide insight into the early experiences that help shape human attitudes and connections to nature. To date, there is limited information on
Karri Neldner   +47 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Long Trajectory of Rubber Physics: 3500+ Years and Counting

open access: yesJournal of Polymer Science, EarlyView.
Natural rubber's trajectory is traced from Mesoamerican use of Castilla elastica through vulcanization and the pneumatic tire to macromolecular physics and modern solid‐state refrigeration. Illustrations of C. elastica and an H. brasiliensis plantation frame the historical progression from indigenous material, then industrial crop and on to advanced ...
Gregory B. McKenna
wiley   +1 more source

WorldCuP: A database of checklists documenting the World's Cultivated Plants and their distributions

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Human life would be unrecognizable without the benefits of cultivated plants, including crops, ornamentals, or plants with other uses. Despite their importance in daily life and prevalence across landscapes, we know surprisingly little about global cultivated plant distributions.
Nicole L. Kinlock   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recognized and Realigned: A Veteran Teacher's Moves to Leverage Familiar Forms of Epistemic Agency While Using Next Generation Science Standard Inspired Materials

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For 3 days, Amy, a veteran middle school science teacher, struggled to engage students in using Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)‐aligned curriculum designed to facilitate scientific argumentation. Amy consistently used productive framing bids or cues to redirect students from “doing school” toward sensemaking and “doing science ...
Christine Hirst Bernhardt, Andy Elby
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Management Literature of Sustainable Healthcare: A Bibliometric and Content Analysis

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of sustainable healthcare from the perspective of the management literature. Relevant publications were retrieved from the Scopus database. A total of 85 publications from 1997 to July 2024 were analyzed using the R bibliometrix package. Findings suggest this is a nascent area of study in the
Donna V. Jones   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Achieve Sustainability by Easing Population to 4 Billion by 2200

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The past century of massive increases in human population and resource use has seen many undesirable environmental effects, ranging from biodiversity loss to climate change. But a research gap exists, as the ultimate causes are often not described with precision or mentioned at all.
Mark Keegan   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Islamic Perspective on the Sustainable Development Goals: Exploring Key Challenges From the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Projects are typically viewed as mechanisms for delivering products and services; however, this study examines projects from the distinct perspective of grand challenges (GCs). The selected case is the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project in Lahore, Pakistan—a grand challenge project (GCP).
Rehab Iftikhar, Syed Nayyer Abbas Kazmi
wiley   +1 more source

Criteria Quality of Graphic in Printed Book

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science
Large institutions and entities resort to product evaluation using various measures of production quality standards, which are considered one of the fundamental pillars in improving organizational performance.
Prof. Hamdi Abu Al-Maati   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Operationalising Circular Economy Through Social Innovation: A Systems Thinking‐Based Model for Sustainability Transitions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social innovation (SI) is increasingly recognised as an important enabler of circular economy (CE) transitions. However, existing research offers limited explanation of the processes through which SI operationalises CE principles, as SI and CE have largely evolved in parallel and existing conceptualisations remain predominantly descriptive ...
Souresh Cornet   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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