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Barriers to Steel Decarbonization
steel research international, EarlyView.Main identified barriers to steel decarbonization Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are a leading contributor to global climate change, necessitating urgent mitigation strategies. While various metrics—such as total national emissions, per‐capita output, and historical contributions—define responsibility, determining accountability remains complex ...
Pasquale Cavaliere
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Cities Under Pressure: Evidence on Tourism Growth and Neighbourhood Change in Europe
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Across European cities, the rapid growth of tourism is reshaping urban life in increasingly contested ways. While the sector continues to support local economies, it is also increasingly associated with the sense that neighbourhoods are becoming less liveable for residents.
Mafalda Batalha
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Overview of Electric Ship Propulsion and Fuel Consumption
Marine Engineering, 2019 Kifune, Hiroyasu, Zadeh, Mehdi Karbalaye
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Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Firearm safety policy in the United States cannot succeed through legislation alone; effective interventions must also address the social, economic, and infrastructural conditions that shape perceptions of safety. Evidence suggests that place‐based investments can reduce violence and firearm deaths while strengthening social cohesion and ...
JONATHAN M. METZL
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Budgeting fuel consumption of container ship over round-trip voyage through robust optimization
, 2016 A proposed practical fuel budget problem aims to determine a group of bunker fuel budget values for a liner container ship over a round-trip voyage under uncertainties caused by severe weather conditions. According to research collaboration with a global
Yuquan Du (14735608) +2 more
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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The influence of ship operational parameters on fuel consumption
, 2013 The paper discusses the influence of the main vessel operational parameters on fuel consumption. These parameters are the speed trough the water, mean draft and trim. The focus is set to the flow phenomena around certain elements of hull geometry as they
Abramowicz-Gerigk, T. +2 more
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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, 2014 This study is part of a larger project on ship performance, monitoring systems and route planning. The aim is to reduce the fuel consumption and the fatigue damage accumulation by smarter ship routing, and it should also consider the sailing time and ...
Ringsberg, Jonas, Mao, Wengang
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