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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The macroeconomic consequences of Scottish fiscal autonomy: inverted haavelemo effects in a general equilibrium analysis of the tartan tax

open access: yes, 2007
In 1997 the Scottish people voted both for the creation of a legislative Parliament and to endow the Parliament with tax-varying powers. The establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 2000 heralded the most radical innovation in the regional fiscal ...
Swales, J. Kim   +2 more
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Riverine Migration Success of Salmonid Smolts Following Their Entrainment in a Hydropower Off‐Channel Diversion in an Upland River

open access: yesRiver Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Salmonid fishes typically express anadromy. During their juvenile riverine emigration, their downstream movements can be inhibited by hydropower schemes that entrain fish in their intakes. Here, the riverine migration success of smolts of brown trout Salmo trutta (“trout smolt”) and Atlantic salmon Salmo salar smolts (“salmon smolt”) was ...
Bertram I. C. Warren, J. Robert Britton
wiley   +1 more source

European Union law tracker: a report for the Scottish Parliament Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee: Report No. 2

open access: yes
This report is the second of a series of EU Law Tracker Reports commissioned by the Scottish Parliament Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee to support scrutiny of parliamentary committees into the commitment on the part of the ...
Whitten, Lisa Claire; id_orcid
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Intergovernmental relations in Scotland post-devolution

open access: yes, 2002
Central-local relations in Scotland pre-devolution were different to a degree, but the overall substance and rationale behind them tended to be very similar to those in England. This article outlines post-devolution developments in Scotland.
McGarvey, Neil
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Programmed unmanned aerial vehicles show great potential for monitoring marine megafauna in specific areas of interest

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Targeted conservation measures are contingent on robust knowledge of spatio‐temporal animal distribution in areas of interest. We explore unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) transect monitoring as a novel method for standardized digital aerial surveys of marine megafauna by investigating the fine‐resolution spatio‐temporal distribution of harbour porpoises ...
Dinah Hartmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Scottish Parliament, Same Old Interest Group Politics?

open access: yes, 2009
First paragraph: The run-up to devolution was accompanied by an optimism that a new Parliament would institute change in the quality of democracy in Scotland.
Cairney, Paul
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Pathways for Value Chains to Strengthen Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions: A European Cross‐Case Analysis Based on Stakeholders' Perceptions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mountain areas are hotspots of high natural and cultural value, but they face sustainability challenges. This research offers a quantitative cross‐case analysis of 21 case studies from mountain regions across 14 European countries, examining how local stakeholders perceive the contribution of mountain value chains to sustainable development ...
María Mar Delgado‐Serrano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post-legislative scrutiny in the Scottish Parliament - committee recommendations

open access: yes
This dataset contains the outputs from the quantitative content analysis of 253 committee recommendations from across ten post-legislative scrutiny inquiries during Session 5 of the Scottish ...
Caygill, T
core   +1 more source

Memristors Based on Ferroelectric Cu‐Deficient Copper Indium Thiophosphate for Multilevel Storage and Neuromorphic Computing

open access: yesSmall, EarlyView.
Different from CIPS with threshold switching behaviors, Cu‐deficient CIPS* shows stable non‐volatile digital and analog RS. Owing to the formation of metallic IPS at the LRS, CIPS* memristors demonstrate high ON/OFF ratio and endurance stability, which can be utilized to implement multilevel storage.
Mengdie Li   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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