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How Does Cultural and Colonial Heritage Affect Optimal Branding Strategies? Evidence From the Rice Sector in Senegal

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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ROCK CUTTING BY LASER

Proceedings of Fall Meeting of the Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME, 1971
Introduction A recent study of laser-assisted mechanical rock tunneling, conducted at the United Aircraft Research Laboratories under Department of Transportation sponsorship, had as a goal the investigation of laser-assisted mechanical rock fracture for use in tunneling machines boring in extremely hard rock.
Jeffrey P. Carstens, Clyde O. Brown
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Linear Rock Cutting with SMART*CUT Picks

Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2013
The short life due to heavy wear is a bottleneck that limits the usage of mechanical excavators for hard rock cutting. Thermally stable diamond composite (TSDC) tipped cutting tools have the main advantages of good thermal stability, high wear resistance and ability to mine harder deposit compared to the conventional tungsten carbide (WC) tipped ...
Shao, W., Li, X.S., Sun, Y., Huang, H.
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