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Bamboo scraps and hardwood chips biochar derived from a cone-truncated open fire kiln for use as a nutrition medium for agricultural purpose [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
An experiment on the production of biochar from bamboo scraps and hardwood chips for use as materials to improve soil was done by burning the biomass of the bamboo scraps and hardwood chips in Pyrolysis conditions at a temperature range of 500 - 700C ...
Kasantikul Benya   +2 more
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Sufficiency and transformation–A semi-systematic literature review of notions of social change in different concepts of sufficiency

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability, 2022
Sufficiency is an indispensable strategy for sustainable development that is gaining growing attention in both the scientific and the political sphere. Nevertheless, the question of how sufficiency-oriented social change can be shaped by different actors
Jonas Lage
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Sufficiency as trend or tradition?—Uncovering business pathways to sufficiency through historical advertisements

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability, 2023
Climate change and dwindling resources underline that we need to bring production and consumption levels in line with planetary boundaries. Consumption, particularly in high-income communities, needs to be reduced and stabilized at sustainable levels ...
Laura Niessen   +3 more
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How to make more of less: Characteristics of sufficiency in business practices

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability, 2022
Sustainable transformation toward a circular society, in which all ecosystems and livelihoods are protected and sustained, requires the integration of sufficiency in circular production and consumption practices.
Laura Beyeler, Melanie Jaeger-Erben
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Case Law: A Review of Selected Pharmaceutical Patents in the UK Courts During 2020

open access: yesBritish Journal of Pharmacy, 2021
Patents lie at the interface between technology and law. This article provides a critical review of four high profile cases from 2020 in which patents relating to pharmaceuticals were litigated in the UK Courts. The selected cases in this review involved
Sarah-Jane Crawford   +2 more
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Prosuming – energy sufficiency and rebound effects: Climate impact of changing household consumption patterns in Germany

open access: yesTATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 2022
Changes in energy consumption patterns after becoming a prosumer household are rarely associated with negative environmental effects, as prosuming is intuitively assumed to be emission-reducing.
Nesrine Ouanes   +6 more
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Multi-Regression Analysis to Enhance the Predictability of the Seismic Response of Buildings

open access: yesInfrastructures, 2022
Several methodologies for assessing seismic risk extract information from the statistical relationship between the intensity of ground motions and the structural response.
Yeudy F. Vargas-Alzate   +2 more
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Causal Exclusion without Causal Sufficiency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Some non-reductionists claim that so-called ‘exclusion arguments’ against their position rely on a notion of causal sufficiency that is particularly problematic.
Vaassen, Bram
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Coherent random permutations with record statistics [PDF]

open access: yesDiscrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, 2007
A two-parameter family of random permutations of $[n]$ is introduced, with distribution conditionally uniform given the counts of upper and lower records. The family interpolates between two versions of Ewens' distribution.
Alexander Gnedin
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Quantum Sufficiency in the Operator Algebra Framework [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The paper is devoted to the investigation of the notion of sufficiency in quantum statistics. Three kinds of this notion are considered: plain sufficiency (called simply: sufficiency), Petz’s sufficiency, and Umegaki’s sufficiency.
Łuczak, Andrzej
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