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Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Pectinase‐Based Bioprocesses for Circular Bioeconomy and Sustainable Industrial Development

Biotechnology and Bioengineering, EarlyView.
This picture demonstrates a unified strategy for sustainable pectinase production, focusing on microbial bioproduction, innovative strategies in enzyme engineering (Protein engineering, rational enzyme design, directed evolution and heterologous expression) and various applications in industry, including food, textiles, pulp and paper, agriculture and ...
Nisha Sharma, Dimple Tanwar, Usha Grewal, Murugesan Mohana Keerthi, Yogesh K. Ahlawat, Nitin Pandey, Chirag G. Makvana   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigation of the tissue displacement through textile pressure on soft avatar in Browzwear’s VStitcher software [PDF]

Nowadays, soft avatars are used in various fields to simulate the behavior of human soft tissues in different applications. Likewise, they are also utilized in the garment industry in order to achieve a realistic testing of the fit and functionality of ...
Brake, Elena, Kyosev, Yordan, Rose, Katerina   +2 more
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Sharing and Managing Sustainability Information and Data in Collaborative Ecosystems—Insights From Testing a Novel Assessment Method With the Automotive Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The manufacturing industry is under pressure from upcoming legislation and societal expectations to design sustainable solutions, requiring improved intraorganizational and interorganizational collaboration to ensure sustainability is integrated throughout the product's lifecycle.
Adam Mallalieu, Ola Isaksson, Sophie Isaksson Hallstedt, Matilda Sandgren Watz, Giliam Dokter, Lars Almefelt   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Dynamics‐of‐Value‐in‐Consumption of Recycled Textile Materials

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate how the perceived value of recycled textile materials evolves across the consumption cycle, a key issue for recycling‐based strategies seeking to close the loop in the fashion industry. We employ a qualitative design combining an exploratory study and a longitudinal study with three interview waves, in which participants ...
Edith de Lamballerie, Valérie Guillard
wiley   +1 more source

Circular Economy in Crisis Contexts: An Assessment Framework for Post‐Disaster Building Stock Toward Strategic Autonomy

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Post‐disaster contexts generate large volumes of damaged building stock with significant, yet often unquantified, circularity potential. Through the lens of strategic management, the circular economy emerges as a transformative pathway to strengthen systemic resilience by reducing dependencies on external resources and mitigating supply chain ...
Tetiana Shevchenko, Julian Kirchherr, Meisam Ranjbari, Bernard Yannou, Michael Saidani   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Engineering Halide Perovskites With Chalcogen‐Based Compounds: Insights Into Stability, Interfaces, and Device Integration

Carbon Energy, EarlyView.
Chalcogen‐based compounds are explored as versatile tools to enhance the stability and performance of halide perovskites. Their roles in defect passivation, ion migration suppression, and interface engineering are analyzed, along with impacts on device efficiency.
Atanu Jana, Deblina Das, Sourav Mal, Tarak Nath Mandal, Sangeun Cho   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Controlling Structures and Properties of NaCl‐Containing Alginate/Polyacrylamide Tough Hydrogels via a One‐Pot Process

Chemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.
NaCl‐incorporated alginate/polyacrylamide tough hydrogels are prepared through a facile one‐pot strategy that enables direct ion incorporation during network formation. Compared with conventional soaking, this approach reduces diffusion‐limited ion gradients and provides a more spatially consistent ion distribution.
Taeuk Eom, Hyunseung Kim, Jihun Choi, Soon Joo Yoon, Yoon Kyeung Lee, Kwi‐Il Park, Chang Kyu Jeong   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seats at the Table, Shifts in the Actions: Board Gender Diversity and Climate Activism

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As regulatory and stakeholder pressures intensify, firms are increasingly expected to move beyond symbolic sustainability commitments towards corporate climate activism. This concept refers to the active institutionalisation of climate‐focused mechanisms such as external assurance, board oversight and climate‐linked incentives.
Md Tanvir Hamim, Rasim Simsek
wiley   +1 more source

Soft thought (in architecture and choreography) [PDF]

, 2012
This article is an introduction to and exploration of the concept of ‘soft thought’. What we want to propose through the definition of this concept is an aesthetic of digital code that does not necessarily presuppose a relation with the generative ...
Portanova, Stamatia, PARISI L., Parisi, Luciana, Parisi, L.   +3 more
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