Agricultural Expansion, Openness to Trade and Deforestation at the Brazilian Amazon: A Spatial Econometric Analysis [PDF]
The Brazilian Amazon is a large piece of land that hosts only 12% of Brazilian population. Even this low figure and people mostly living in urban areas, the overexploitation of the forest resources driven by economic activities seems to be out-of-control.
Alexandre Almeida, Weslem Faria
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Paraquat at 63-the story of a controversial herbicide and its regulations: It is time to put people and public health first when regulating paraquat. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthUtyasheva L, Amarasinghe P, Eddleston M.
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The Potential Applications of Reinforced Bioplastics in Various Industries: A Review. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel), 2023 Kong U, Mohammad Rawi NF, Tay GS.
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The Bright Side of MAUP: an Enquiry on the Determinants of Industrial Agglomeration in the United States [PDF]
Using county employment data for US and two appositely developed zoning algorithms, I compare the industrial concentration of manufacturing sectors calculated following the standard metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas definition with two ...
Carlo Menon
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Recent Progress in Microalgal Squalene Production and Its Cosmetic Application. [PDF]
Biotechnol Bioprocess Eng, 2022 Yarkent Ç, Oncel SS.
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Attributes of small-scale sugarcane contractors that influence their service quality in KwaZulu-Natal [PDF]
The productivity of small-scale sugarcane contractors affects not only their own profitability and sustainability, but that of other stakeholders as well, such as the small-scale sugarcane farmers they contract to and the sugar mills they supply with ...
Meyer, E. +2 more
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The use of humanure for cereal production under conventional and regenerative farming models - findings from a three-year grassland-to-arable transition. [PDF]
PLoS OneAllen K +3 more
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The Use of Lactide Polymers in Bone Tissue Regeneration in Dentistry-A Systematic Review. [PDF]
J Funct Biomater, 2023 Rajewska J +4 more
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Where is the hard-to-reach population? Spatial analysis from a cross-sectional study on the access to bed net and malaria vaccine in the Lake Victoria Region, Kenya. [PDF]
Malar JKo YK +11 more
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Development of Livelihood Index for Different Agro-Climatic Zones of India [PDF]
A livelihood index has been developed for different agro-climatic zones of India, based on the secondary data for TE 2003. Six different sub-indices obtained are indicators of Infrastructure Status, Agricultural Status, Nutritional Status, Economic ...
Malhotra, P.K. +3 more
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