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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Deformation Characteristics and Energy Evolution Rules of Siltstone under Stepwise Cyclic Loading and Unloading

open access: yesBuildings
Uniaxial step cyclic loading and unloading tests on siltstone were conducted to investigate the mechanisms and evolution characteristics of rock deformation, including elastic, viscoelastic, and plastic aspects.
Shengjun Miao   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Changing Publicness of Urban Spaces

open access: yes, 2012
Public spaces have long been the main element of the urban structure.However, the social and spatial configuration of the contemporary city haveradically altered the role of public space and inherent public sphere in the set ofurban dynamics. Privatization schemes have created new arenas for public life,distorting the traditional urban public spaces ...
Sara Santos Cruz   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

The Generation of value in Urban Spaces

open access: yesEquilibri, 2020
The transformation of capitalism over the centuries has assigned a variety of roles to the city as a place to attract economic activity and produce wealth. The third wave of globalization is driven by the knowledge economy, where creativity and talent are generators of innovation and urban competitiveness.
openaire   +2 more sources

[Assessment of urban location factors from remote sensing]

open access: yes, 2006
Highly-dynamic, explosively and unmanageably growing megacities arise throughout the world. This rapid alteration within the urban environment often results in a lack of reasonable information for city planning, risk management or site selection.
Taubenböck, Hannes, Roth, Achim
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Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a holistic approach of urban design.

open access: yes, 2009
Urban design is primarily and essentially three-dimensional design (Gosling and Maitland 1984), concerned with the shape, the surface and its physical arrangement of all kinds of urban elements; the basic components that make up the built environment at ...
Horne, Margaret   +2 more
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The Geography of Success: A Spatial Analysis of Export Intensity in the Italian Wine Industry

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the paradox of how Italy's fragmented, SME‐dominated wine industry achieves global export success. Moving beyond purely firm‐centric explanations, we test whether export intensity is spatially dependent, clustering geographically in regional ecosystems.
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Jonas Di Vita
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of nitrogen sources on MICP-related metabolic mechanism of Sporosarcina pasteurii and soil reinforcement

open access: yesJournal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Sporosarcina pasteurii (S. pasteurii) is widely used in microbial-induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) due to its high urease activity. In this paper, the effects of nutrients on the metabolic mechanism and mineralization ability of S.
Shiyu Liu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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