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Effect of using vegetable oils as quenching media for pure commercial aluminium [PDF]
, 2012 This paper presents the effects of rate of heat extraction by groundnut, melon, palm kernel, shea butter and palm oils on the mechanical properties of various samples of pure commercial aluminium heat treated at 200°C, 250°C, 300°C and 350°C.
Adekunle, A. S +2 more
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Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.Abstract Guaraná (Paullinia cupana) is a fruit native to the Amazon region. Due to its widespread use, primarily in beverages, its production has grown over the years. The seed is the only commercially valuable part of the fruit so the guaraná production chain generates byproducts, including peel, husk, and spent seed.
Leiliane do Socorro Sodré de Souza +9 more
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Pesticide Use on Fruit and Vegetable Crops in Ohio 1990 [PDF]
, 1992 PDF pages ...
Etzkorn, David S. +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The role of business towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been well established. However, SDG contextualization continues to pose a conundrum, particularly for firms operating in multiple contexts. This becomes even more problematic in the case of SDG 11, the only goal in the sustainable development agenda directly
Andreas Georgiou
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper contributes to venture‐creation research by examining how sustainable startups can overcome market constraints to drive transformative change through their business development. Conceptually, we address this question by identifying venture‐creation narratives in the learning and experimental phases of sustainable startups that ...
Ville‐Veikko Piispanen +2 more
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Circular Economy Pathways for Airport Climate Change Mitigation
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Airport operators face growing climate‐change pressures; the circular economy offers pathways to reduce impacts and recover resources. We examine how airport operators apply the circular economy in practice. We use an exploratory qualitative multicase design based on practitioner‐generated documents (e.g., press releases and sustainability ...
Michele Oppioli +3 more
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Blends of Nitrile Butadiene Rubber/poly (Vinyl Chloride): the Use of Maleated Anhydride Castor Oil Based Plasticizer [PDF]
, 2016 Recently, much attention has been focused on research to replace petroleum-based plasticizers, with biodegradable materials, such as biopolymer which offers competitive mechanical properties.
Dewi, I. R. (Indiah) +2 more
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Advances in Triboelectric Nanogenerators With Rotating Structure
Carbon Energy, EarlyView.The rotating TENG has been widely studied for its superiorities of simple structure, high efficiency, and stable output. This review introduced the four different principles of rotating TENG and offered a thorough summary for performance and application research through three‐level classification. Importantly, the current existing problems, challenges,
Chuguo Zhang +4 more
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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher +2 more
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Extent and Impact of Vegetable Oils Import Surges in Cameroon [PDF]
The trade liberalization has resulted in massive food imports into Cameroon and this is affecting the livelihoods of the farmers, industries, traders, and service providers of the imported foods. Cameroon was selected by FAO as one of the 12 country case
Pingpoh, David Puewoh, Senahoun, Jean
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