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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Surgical Efficiency and Cost‐Effectiveness With TaTME‐Combined Robot‐Assisted Surgery for Lower Rectal Cancer

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Robot‐assisted rectal surgery (RAS) offers improved dexterity and visualization; however, the high cost of equipment and consumables remains a major challenge for hospital management. At our institution, we have adopted a combined approach using transanal total mesorectal excision (TaTME) for lower rectal cancers, aiming to shorten ...
Takeru Matsuda   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Modernizing Russian Culture. The reopening of the Bolshoi Theater

open access: yesBaltic Worlds, 2014
This article analyzes the official discourses surrounding the reopening of the theater and its relevance to the process of Russian cultural “modernization”. It attempts to highlight the paradoxes of this process, its ambivalence and ideological ambiguity.
Irina Kotkina
doaj  

Case report: Successful treatment of human diabetic foot ulcer using low-intensity diagnostic ultrasound combined with microbubbles: Two cases

open access: yesFrontiers in Endocrinology, 2022
BackgroundDiabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is one of the serious complications of diabetes, which has high disability rate and mortality. Low-intensity ultrasound combined with microbubbles in blood circulation can enhance the blood perfusion effect of local ...
Xiaojuan Zhang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predicting theater chair absorption from reverberation chamber measurements - comment [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
The relationship between the measured acoustic absorption coefficient of an array of theater chairs and the ratio of the perimeter length to plan area of the array is considered.
Davies, WJ, Lam, YW, Orlowski, RJ
core   +2 more sources

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

NLRP3 inflammasome in peripheral blood monocytes as a risk factor for early -onset preeclampsia

open access: yesBMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023
Introduction As a leading cause of pregnancy and fetal mortality, pre-eclampsia impacts about 5–8% of pregnancies globally. To date, few studies have focused on the role played by (NOD)-like receptors protein 3 (NLRP3) in peripheral blood in early-onset ...
Hong Yang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

UNH Faculty Abroad Series; Spring 2015 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Spring 2015 - UNH Faculty Abroad Series Tuesday, February 24, MUB Theater I, 12:40-2:00 pmFlyer \u3e\u3e Wildlife Conservation and Agricultural Development in Eastern and Southern Africa DREW CONROYProfessor of Applied Animal Science Tuessday, March 24,
Center for International Education
core   +3 more sources

Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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