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eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropicsThis special issue entitled “Queering the Tropics” explores how queering as a methodology and gender and sexuality as a critical rubric complicate the study of the tropics and conceptions of tropicality. It also engages with how the tropics as a worldly
Christian Jil R. Benitez +3 more
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Tropical Materialisms: Toward Decolonial Poetics, Practices and Possibilities
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 Tropical Materialisms concur on at least three things: humans are always entangled with non-human/material agents; such entanglement is necessary for any creative act to take place; and these same entanglements allow us to interrogate and re-evaluate ...
Christian Jil R. Benitez, Anita Lundberg
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Genetic improvement of breeding materials in tropical and sub- tropical maize [PDF]
Hereditas (Beijing), 2011 In the present study, 122 maize local cultivars and adapted exotic germplasm from Thailand were used to develop open pollinate varieties (OPVs) using modified ear-to-row scheme, top-cross or test-cross programmes. Ten new maize OPVs with distinct characters were created based on the precise breeding objectives and directional design.
Sansern Jampatong, Chaba Jampatong
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eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 While toxic substances continue increasingly, and unevenly, infiltrating the world, the new materialist turn invites us to examine the relationalities emerging between pollution and literature.
Ysabel Muñoz Martínez
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Black Seed Dreaming: A Material Analysis of Bruce Pascoe’s “Dark Emu”
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 Indigenous Australians are outstanding for the way their ontologies and practices do not rely on a Western dichotomy that opposes material and spiritual realms.
Barbara Glowczewski +1 more
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Evolutionary optimization of material properties of a tropical seed [PDF]
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2011 Here, we show how the mechanical properties of a thick-shelled tropical seed are adapted to permit them to germinate while preventing their predation. The seed has evolved a complex heterogeneous microstructure resulting in hardness, stiffness and fracture toughness values that place the structure at the intersection of these competing selective ...
Peter W, Lucas +6 more
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Housing materials and methods for tropical Africa [PDF]
Batiment International, Building Research and Practice, 1976 How traditional, and some new, resources are used and might economically be used in future — as seen from the National Housing and Building Research Unit in Tanzania.
J. P. Moriarty, T. I. Svare
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Recycling of Tropical Natural Fibers in Building Materials
, 2022 This chapter deals with the reuse and recycling of tropical natural fibers and their potential valorization in construction materials in a context of circular economy and sustainable development. These fibers constitute large volumes of fibrous waste resulting from various agro-food industries worldwide.
Huyen Bui +2 more
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Investigation of recycled materials for radiative cooling under tropical climate
Nanophotonics, 2023 Abstract As a sustainable alternative to using virgin polymer, we propose the use of recycled polymer for the fabrication of passive radiative cooling materials to tackle both the increasing demand for cooling systems and to upcycle plastic waste. Using recycled acrylic sheets as the binder for BaSO
Di Han +4 more
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Bagay: Articulating a New Materialism from the Philippine Tropics [PDF]
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2022 Keeping in time with the new materialist turn that aspires to respond to the common disregard to matter in Euro-Western tradition of thought while at the same time insisting the imperative to decolonize such turn, this essay attempts to articulate a Philippine rendition of new materialism, through the notion of bagay, nominated here as a thing whose ...
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