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Two essential aminoacids obtained from the Turda 250L and Fundulea 345L corn seeds, recommended for consumption
Jianu, Sorin; Buruiană, Daniela Laura; Tănasie, … - 2015
This paper is a continuation of studies made in 2011 ["Maize contains tryptophan and methionine - two acids essential for human health" Olimpia Pandia, I.Saracin, Magazine Metalurgia International, nr.5, 2013], to determine the amounts of protein in corn and especially some of the essential...
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Modellierung von Mikroplastikeinträgen und Migrationspfaden im Einzugsgebiet der Weser : MOMENTUM – Weser
Brandes, Elke; Henseler, Martin; Kreins, Peter; … - 2023
Die Relevanz der unterschiedlichen landseitigen Mikroplastikeinträge für die Verschmutzung der Meere ist bisher noch weitgehend unklar. Trotzdem hat die Kontamination der terrestrischen Umwelt erhebliches öffentliches Interesse erlangt. Besonders die deutliche Medienpräsenz dieses...
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Future-proofing the plastics value chain in Southern Africa
Mofo, Liako - 2020
South Africa suffers from the high cost of polymers as inputs. Mozambique is endowed with large natural gas deposits. This …
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Luminescent materials as spectral converters: Power dependent profiling of solid NaYF4:Yb3+, Er3+ UCNP reveals highly efficient UVA-Blue emission
Bujjamer, Juan M.; Marchi, M. Claudia; Barja, Beatriz C.; … - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020) 4, pp. 63-69
nanoparticles, well known for the green-red emission, can also emit efficiently in the UVA-blue range. These bands are often …
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Trade and migration with renewable natural resources: Out-of-steady-state dynamics
López, Ramón; Schiff, Maurice - 2010
is more likely to be subject to a natural resource curse and complete (irreversible) NR depletion; ii) the latter …, and may prevent complete NR depletion; and v) the latter may also be prevented through capital inflows (foreign aid) and …
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The importance of the cognitive environment for intertemporal choice
Kuhn, Michael A.; Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2013
We experimentally manipulate two aspects of the cognitive environment, cognitive depletion and recent sugar intake, and …
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Self Control and Intertemporal Choice: Evidence from Glucose and Depletion Interventions
Kuhn, Michael A.; Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2014
Recent developments in economic theory model intertemporal choice decisions as problems of restraining one's natural impulse to consume today. We use interventions that have been shown in the psychology literature to affect impulse control to examine whether this is indeed the case for...
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Tradeoffs between self-interest and other-regarding preferences cause willpower depletion
Fromell, Hanna; Nosenzo, Daniele; Owens, Trudy - 2014
In this paper we show that making choices that involve conflicts between self-interest and otherregarding concerns may deplete cognitive resources and willpower and thus reduce individuals' ability to exert self-control. In a lab experiment we use a series of modified dictator games to...
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The tug-of-war between resource depletion and technological change in the global oil industry 1981 - 2009
Lindholt, Lars - 2013
the effect of ongoing depletion on the cost of finding additional reserves of oil in eight global regions. We introduce a … production, measuring technological change and depletion, respectively. For all our regions we find significant effects of both … depletion and technological change on oil finding costs from 1981 to 2009, barring cyclical variations in finding costs that …
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Altruism, fast and slow? Evidence from a meta-analysis and a new experiment
Fromell, Hanna; Nosenzo, Daniele; Owens, Trudy - 2018
Can we use the lens of dual-system theories to explain altruistic behavior? In recent years this question has attracted the interest of both economists and psychologists. We contribute to this emerging literature, by reporting both the results of a meta-study of the literature and a new...
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