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History, EarlyView.Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ACTIVITY OF RUP “MINSK TRACTOR WORKS” IN BLANK PRODUCTION
Литьë и металлургия, 2009 .
E. A. Komissarova
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Self‐Description and the Agro‐Industry's Response to Environmental Crises
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how self‐descriptions can orient organisations towards trajectories that sustain activities that contribute to environmental crises while simultaneously acknowledging both the crises themselves and the need for transformative responses.
Sharon Kishik, Morten Knudsen
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Reflections on Adoption of New Agricultural Practices
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on adoption of new practices, technologies and systems in agriculture has generated thousands of publications over the past 70 years, covering uptake of agricultural practices spanning more than 100 years. This paper contains selected key lessons from the results of this enormous research effort, drawn from numerous reviews of the ...
David J. Pannell
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Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We utilize Chinese provincial data to explore how government policies affected grain production between 1952 and 2008. We adapt the Caselli‐Coleman framework to allow multiple inputs including fertilizer, land and capital as well as skilled and unskilled labour.
Yulong Chen, Peter F. Orazem
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Литьë и металлургия, 2011 Advantages of technology of hardening by inert gases are considered. It is shown that use of unit ModulTherm7/1 at RUP «MTZ» allows to improve quality of chemical thermal processing of details and to provide decrease of expenses for manufacture.
I. V. Firsov
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Vehicle‐assisted suicidal strangulation: A case report and literature review
Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Vehicle‐assisted suicidal strangulation is an unusual method of suicide where the victim completes suicide by pulling a ligature tied around their neck using the acceleration of the vehicle they are driving. This report describes a case of a 48‐year‐old man who completed suicide by tying a rope to his neck and to a parked tractor, then using ...
Marcello Seligardi +4 more
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Technical re-equipment of metallurgical production for the year 2000
Литьë и металлургия, 2000 .
E. G. Shvarts
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