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Shifting Marijuana Laws and Policies: Implications for Alaska [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Marijuana regulation continues to be a pressing criminal justice and social policy issue both in Alaska and across the nation. A ballot measure that would legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana in Alaska will be before the state’s voters at the November ...
Brandeis, Jason
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Becoming a Nun, Becoming a Man: Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns’ Gender Transformation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper explores apparent contradictions in the gender identifications of Taiwanese Buddhist nuns. Because the texts and teachings of their tradition provide conflicting messages about women\u27s spiritual abilities, the nuns create a complex gender ...
Crane, Hillary
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Engineered Microfluidic Organoid Systems: New Paradigms for Menopause Mechanism Research and Personalized Medicine

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review explores the integration of microfluidic technology with organoid systems as an innovative platform for studying menopausea complex multi‐organ condition. By enabling precise simulation of inter‐organ communication and hormone responses, microfluidic organoids offer a physiologically relevant model for investigating menopausal syndrome and ...
Qianyi Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial intelligence and protected cultivation

open access: yes, 2023
This chapter, focuses on the role of sensing, AI and digital twins for protected cultivation. It forms part of the study “Artificial intelligence in the agri-food sector: Applications, risks and impacts” written by Josse De Baerdemaeker and co-authors at the request of the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) and managed by the ...
Chauhan, A.   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Property Claims in GM and Non-GM crops [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Conceptualising the ongoing conflict over GM versus non-GM crops in the frame of property rights one can see that economic valorisation dynamics and aspirations are working on both sides, within two differently evolving agri-food paradigms, with ...
Gill, Bernhard
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The value of wildlife tourism: perspectives from sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Various authors have used different categories to estimate the value of wildlife, e.g. direct and indirect use values, option values, ethical values, etc. ln this paper, the authors address the value of wildlifebased tourism.
Chardonnet, Philippe, Le Bel, Sébastien
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The combined effects of cover design parameters on tomato production of a passive greenhouse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the need of a multiple design parameter approach to greenhouse design. To illustrate this need, we determined the combined effects of cover design parameters on tomato production of a passive greenhouse, that
Gazquez, J.C.   +3 more
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