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A Study on the Use of Nichrome Wire to Ease the Flow of Heavy Crude Oil in Pipelines

open access: yesPlatform, a Journal of Engineering
Production of waxy crude oil poses significant challenges due to high wax contents, which negatively affects the production rate. Several techniques have been adopted to ensure the flow of heavy crude oil during production.
Wafaa Rashid Al-Mahrooqi, Girma T. Chala
doaj  

A Perspective on Transportation of Waxy Crude Oil

open access: yesPetroleum & Petrochemical Engineering Journal, 2017
openaire   +1 more source

THE TERRITORIALIZATION OF ANGOLA'S REAL ESTATE FRONTIER: How Private‐led Housing Developments are Reshaping the Outskirts of Luanda

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Africa is recognized as the final frontier for urbanization and capitalism. Following a long wave of massive loans to promote state‐led developments, small private foreign and local developers are transforming the urban landscape on the outskirts of Luanda, forging partnerships with Angola's national and local governments and developing an ...
Higor Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Do Global Reporting Initiative Reports Capture Planetary Boundaries‐related Information? An Empirical Investigation

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has become a widely adopted sustainability reporting framework. This study aims to examine whether GRI reports can, should, and do address planetary boundaries. To do so, the study develops a framework and method to assess the extent to which planetary boundaries‐related information is captured in firms’ GRI ...
Georgina Ge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Show Me Your Circle! A Typology of Circular Economy Disclosure Strategies by Multinationals

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
The circular economy (CE) is featuring more prominently in emerging regulations, codes of best practice, and corporate policies. Yet, accounting research offers limited insight into how circularity is currently conceptualized and communicated in corporate reports.
Warren Maroun   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The law of AI knowledge distillation

open access: yesAmerican Business Law Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Knowledge distillation—the practice of training a compact student model on the outputs of a larger teacher model—has emerged as the fastest‐growing technique for replicating and disseminating frontier artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Taorui Guan
wiley   +1 more source

CEO Tenure, CEO Gender Diversity, and the Quality of Carbon Reporting: Empirical Evidence From New Zealand

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study examines whether and how Chief Executive Officer (CEO) tenure and gender diversity influence the quality of carbon reporting (QCR), an increasingly significant dimension of non‐financial reporting in the era of climate change risk.
Muhammad Nurul Houqe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Yield Stress Measurements of Waxy Crude Oil

open access: yesJournal of Applied Sciences, 2014
Jaspreet Kaur, Azuraien Jaafar
openaire   +1 more source

Which Decolonization? Theorizing Decolonization beyond Decoloniality and its Critics

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The debate on decolonial thought has reached an unhelpful stalemate. A core problem in assessing decolonial thought is that the term ‘decolonization’ has been stretched so widely that it now allows for many competing uses. For some critics of decolonial thought such as Nigerian philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, this overuse points to conceptual ...
David Myer Temin
wiley   +1 more source

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