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The obsolescence of protected area categories in a polycrisis world

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Current global conservation models face significant limitations in addressing the global polycrisis, and the constraints of the International Union for Conservation of Nature protected area (PA) classification system are part of the issue. The principles of the new conservation paradigm—governance, equity, and interculturality—are not viable ...
Pamela Esther Degele
wiley   +1 more source

The bread of Toledo: Prices and political economy, 1535–1800

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266‐year‐long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread‐for‐wheat contracts of large institutions. Our data are strongly consistent with fragmentary evidence on retail price regulation, as well as with shorter series from other ...
Mauricio Drelichman   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Learning nanotechnology through experimentation: carbon nanotube manufacturing using an electric discharge machine

open access: yesNanotechnology Reviews, 2012
A novel nanotechnology laboratory experiment for a required junior/senior undergraduate engineering course, Engineering of Manufacturing Processes, is described and implemented.
Jaksic Nebojsa
doaj   +1 more source

Sensitivity of the Flow Number to Mix Factors of Hot-Mix Asphalt

open access: yesInfrastructures, 2019
In the design of pavement infrastructure, the flow number is used to determine the suitability of a hot-mix asphalt mixture (HMA) to resist permanent deformation when used in flexible pavement.
Md Rashadul Islam   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neuroliderazgo como estrategia para el fortalecimiento de la gestión directiva en instituciones educativas

open access: yesActualidades Investigativas en Educación, 2020
Comprender la gestión directiva en instituciones educativas a la luz de la neurociencia, ha dado origen al abordaje de las potencialidades del cerebro a favor del ejercicio del liderazgo como estrategia emergente, por lo cual, este estudio censal, se ...
Eduardo Alfonzo Atencio Bravo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Social Justice to Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Continuities and (Re)framings in Ejido Property Claims in Yucatán, Mexico

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how long‐standing local conflicts concerning the nature of common property, the distribution of access and administrative rights associated with it, and more broadly the nature of the community and the forms of citizenship that organise its governance shape demands for justice regarding land transfers to outside investors
Eric Léonard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrated photonic polarization synthesizer and analyzer

open access: yesLight: Science & Applications
Polarization-resolved control and measurement of optical fields are essential for a wide range of photonic systems, including coherent communication, polarimetric sensing, and quantum information processing.
Carson G. Valdez   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Civilizing’ Smallholders Through Oil Palm: The Politics of Subsumption Across Southern Mexico's Commodity Frontiers

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
wiley   +1 more source

Sugar-sweetened beverages and water intake among Indigenous youth in the United States and Canada: a scoping review of interventions

open access: yesInternational Journal of Circumpolar Health
The objectives of the scoping review were to: (1) conduct a systematic search for published literature focused on American Indian/Alaskan Native/Indigenous (AI/AN/I) youth, (2) identify current interventions that are focused on reducing sugar-sweetened ...
Renée Goldtooth-Halwood   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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