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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

What can lithics tell us about hominin technology's ‘primordial soup’? An origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract The use of stone hammers to produce sharp stone flakes—knapping—is thought to represent a significant stage in hominin technological evolution because it facilitated the exploitation of novel resources, including meat obtained from medium‐to‐large‐sized vertebrates. The invention of knapping may have occurred via an additive (i.e., cumulative)
Metin I. Eren, Stephen J. Lycett, Michelle R. Bebber, Alastair Key, Briggs Buchanan, Emma Finestone, Joseph Benson, Rebecca Biermann Gürbüz, Adela Cebeiro, Roman Garba, Anne Grunow, C. Owen Lovejoy, Danielle MacDonald, Erica Maletic, G. Logan Miller, Joseph D. Ortiz, Jonathan Paige, Justin Pargeter, Tomos Proffitt, Mary Ann Raghanti, Teal Riley, Jeffrey I. Rose, David M. Singer, Robert S. Walker   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Olive Variety Classification and Prediction From 3D Morphology of Fruit and Stone: A Study Case on Five South Italy Autochthone Cultivars. [PDF]

Food Sci Nutr
Gargiulo L, Napolitano AG, Marsala SM, Di Salle A, Mele G.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Medicine for the Material World

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
wiley   +1 more source

Oil from Cornelian Cherry Kernels. [PDF]

Molecules
Bieniek A, Szot I, Łysiak GP.
europepmc   +1 more source

Wages and Working Conditions in Global Value Chains: The Relevance of Foreign Ownership in New Sourcing Countries

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The debate on the relationship between labour conditions in manufacturing sectors and global value chain (GVC) participation takes a new turn with the emergence of sub‐Saharan African (SSA) economies as important sourcing destinations. With lower levels of economic development, and significantly lower wages than most other exporting countries,
Luc Fransen, Khadija van der Straaten, Ans Kolk, Victor Hartman, Kea Tijdens   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Report on a mission to the Yemen for BAFY, from 07 to 15 December 1991, on supplemental irrigation for hill coffee plantations [PDF]

, 1991
Quideau, P.
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Morphological diversity assessment in date palm (Phoenix dectylifera L.) germplasms grown under hot arid region of India. [PDF]

BMC Plant Biol
Meena R, Chaudhary MK, Gurjar PS, Rane J, Singh AK, Yadav LP, Kumawat KL, Singh D, Chaudhary BR, Jatav MK, Singh RS, Siddiqui MH, Alamri S, Khan S.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Bathroom of One's Own: Intimacies of Austerity and Austerities of Intimacy in Barbara Pym's Fiction

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘I have to share a bathroom’, I had so often murmured, almost with shame, as if I personally had been found unworthy of a bathroom of my own. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952) For a single woman of a certain age, living alone in postwar London, austerity was more than a set of political and economic imperatives.
Charlotte Charteris
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical Characteristics and Biological Potential of <i>Prunus laurocerasus</i> Fruits. [PDF]

Life (Basel)
Todorova M, Petkova N, Ivanov I, Tumbarski Y, Yanakieva V, Vasileva I, Barakova Y, Cherneva E, Nikolova S.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source