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Frontiers in Sustainability, 2022 Can the voluntary reduction of working hours as a sufficiency practice promote more environmentally sustainable forms of consumption along with human well-being?
Marlyne Sahakian, Clémentine Rossier
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Towards sufficiency and solidarity: COP27 implications for construction and property
Buildings & Cities, 2022 With COP27 being held in Egypt, a non-Western country, poorer and adversely impacted societies will demand a stronger say in negotiations. There is increased pressure on the rich to dramatically reduce their emissions, provide reparation for past damage ...
David Ness
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Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2016 Economic egalitarianism, i.e., the view according to which equality of resources is a social value, has two different forms: the intrinsic and the instrumental.
Wojciech Załuski
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Frontiers in Sustainability, 2022 This article analyzes Christian, Muslim, and Hindu-based discourses and practices in relation to sufficiency, materialism, and the good life in the context of the European Union.
Hannah Klinkenborg, Anica Rossmoeller
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A note on sufficiency in coherent models
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 1981 Partly of an expository nature, this article brings together a number of notions related to sufficiency in an abstract measure theoretic setting. The notion of a coherent statistical model, as introduced by Hasegawa and Perlman [6], is studied in some ...
D. Basu, S. C. Cheng
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TeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2023 The concept of urban life quality, which comes to the fore with urbanization and evaluates the effects of environmental variables on the well-being of the citizens in every respect, is directly related to the quality, quantity, and sufficiency of the ...
Elvan Ender Altay, Diba Şenay
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Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and associated risk factors among adults in Chandigarh
International Journal of Advanced Medical and Health Research, 2020 Background: Vitamin D deficiency is a global health concern affecting individuals across all the age groups in both the genders. Aims and Objectives: The present study intends to assess the prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency and associated risk factors ...
Divesh Dik, Maninder Kaur
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A Vicious Tenacity: The Efficiency Strategy Confronted With the Rebound Effect
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2018 Studies of the phenomena known as the “rebound effect,” “backfire,” and the “Jevons Paradox” have cast doubt on the effectiveness, in terms of reduction of energy use, of measures based on efficiency gains.
Osman Arrobbio, Dario Padovan
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Selection of Optimal Intensity Measure for Seismic Assessment of Steel Buckling Restrained Braced Frames under Near-Fault Ground Motions [PDF]
Journal of Rehabilitation in Civil Engineering, 2019 Buckling restrained braces (BRBs) have a similar behavior under compression and tension loadings. Therefore, they can be applied as a favorable lateral load resisting system for structures. In the performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) framework,
Elham Javadi, Masood Yakhchalian
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Evidence of the Financial Audit
Buhalterinės Apskaitos Teorija ir Praktika, 2020 Evidence is an argument that justifies the truth or falsity of a subjective opinion or assertion. Characteristics of audit evidence directly impact the obtaining process of sufficient audit evidence as well as determine the final audit decision regarding
Daiva Raziūnienė, Uršula Adaškevič
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