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Does Productivity Growth Promote Environmental Sustainability? The Role of Financial Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether total factor productivity (TFP) promotes environmental sustainability and examines the moderating and mediating roles of financial development in shaping this relationship. Using balanced panel data for 92 countries from 2000 to 2023, the analysis employs dynamic two‐step Generalised Method of Moments (GMM ...
Olivier Joseph Abban
wiley   +1 more source

Boron-based fire retardancy for natural polymeric materials. [PDF]

Front Chem
Wang X, Shi SQ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Contribution of the Baobab Value Chain to Equitable Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Alleviation in Ghana

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Non‐timber forest products (NTFPs) are central to income diversification and livelihood resilience in Sub‐Saharan Africa. However, the welfare implications of baobab commercialisation remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap by analysing the contribution of the baobab value chain to household income, poverty reduction, and income ...
Frederick Frimpong, Emmanuel Donkor, Victor Owusu, Dietrich Darr   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Application of CO₂ fracturing blasting in mountain tunnel construction adjacent to existing structures. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Li Z, Yuan J, Xie W, Wu H, Xiao J, Wu Y, Pan C.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Income Mobility, Automation, and Occupational Licensing

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Technological change has long been tied with distributional concerns due to displacement against certain skills on labor markets. Short‐run dislocations could create scarring in the long run. For example, shifts against less skilled workers with children could limit their ability to improve the inter‐generational income mobility of their ...
Vincent Geloso, Alicia Plemmons, Pradyot Sharma   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Upcycling of regular wood trunks and logs using wave function collapse (WFC), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) technologies for circular design. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Luo J, Yu B, Jiang Y, Fingrut A, Holloway A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Monitoring of historical structural materials with computed tomography

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract Computed tomography (CT) is an excellent tool to solve certain engineering problems connected to material science (such as sulfate swelling, internal degradation due to freezing, and alkali silicate swelling) and to understand specific processes (frost peeling, acid action).
Kristóf Csorba, Kristóf Kapitány, Zsolt Cimer, Viktor Hlavička, András Biró, Éva Lublóy   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The zero-emissions resource pool: construction materials compatible with a realistic view of delivering zero-emissions in the UK by 2050. [PDF]

Archit Struct Constr
Taylor C, Allwood JM, Watari T, Hawkins W.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Possibilities of establishing export industries in the Associated African and Malagasy States. Processing of wood and manufacture of articles of wood: First stage of processing; sawing, peeling, rotary cutting, slicing; Second stage of processing: profiles, mouldings, plywood, panels; finished products: for building purposes and furniture. Summary report. VIII/227/(74)-E [PDF]

, 1974
Abeels, Pierre, Colleaux, Jacques, De Mot, Michel, De Wandeleer, René, Lahaye, André, Lancksweirt, Fernande, Van De Steen, Jacques   +6 more
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Early use of the reinforced concrete in the architecture of the Historicism in Austria–Hungary

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract The study examines the early incorporation of reinforced concrete in the architecture of Historicism in Austria–Hungary. Spanning the late 19th to early 20th centuries, the research illuminates the period's stylistic pluralism and the transformative impact of reinforced concrete.
Éva Lovra, Zoltán Bereczki
wiley   +1 more source