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On the palm oil-biodiversity trade-off: Environmental performance of smallholder producers
(2024)Journal of Environmental Economics and ManagementOil palm remains an important source of rural income in South East Asia. At the same time, Indonesia has become a hotspot for large-scale species extinction and a loss of biodiversity in favor of agricultural production. The present study sets out to assess the environmental performance of smallholder oil palm production with respect to biodiversity. Using a panel dataset that combines conventional farm data together with an account of ...Journal Article -
Farm‐level responses to weather trends: A structural model
(2024)American Journal of Agricultural EconomicsAssessing the effects of weather and climate on agricultural production is crucial for designing policies related to climate change adaptation and mitigation. A large body of literature has identified the detrimental effects of climate change on crop yields worldwide, and farm-level adaptation has been shown to mitigate the adverse effects on agricultural production. In this study, we employ a structural model to examine farm production ...Journal Article -
Development of water management strategies in southern Mesopotamia during the fourth and third millennium BCE
(2024)GeoarchaeologyThe last two decades witnessed increasing scholarly interest in the history of water management in southern Mesopotamia. Thanks to many geoarchaeological research projects conducted throughout the central and southern Iraqi floodplains, a general understanding of the macrophases of anthropogenic manipulation of this vast hydraulic landscape has been achieved. However, current narratives mostly rely on studies at a regional scale and are ...Journal Article -
Childhood poisonings: Effects of ambiguous product characteristics on preschool children's categorization of household chemicals
(2024)Risk AnalysisThis study investigated preschool children's categorization and risk perception of products with ambiguous product characteristics (e.g., food-like packaging). These characteristics make it difficult for preschool children to categorize household chemicals correctly. This, therefore, increases the risk of unintentional poisoning. We hypothesized that ambiguity arises from different product characteristics, such as the type of packaging, ...Journal Article -
Valuation entrepreneurship through product-design and blame-avoidance strategies: How Tesla managed to change the public perception of sustainable innovations
(2024)Journal of Product Innovation ManagementDeveloping innovative, eco-friendlier products that gain traction in the mass market remains a persistent challenge for many firms. To bring consumers to choose “greener” alternatives over conventional products, firms need to overcome prevailing product evaluations that favor traditional solutions. Research on valuation entrepreneurship examines the strategies that actors apply to induce changes in established evaluations. Adding to the ...Journal Article -
Gender and reactions to speeches in German parliamentary debates
(2024)American Journal of Political ScienceAre nonverbal reactions during parliamentary debate gendered? Do male and female members of parliament (MPs) experience applause or jeering differently? In short, yes, and the gendered nature of a speech matters. Using an original corpus of over 544,000 speeches given in German state parliaments, we first estimate the gendered nature of parliamentary speeches and then examine how reactions to speeches given by male and female MPs differ. ...Journal Article -
Was H₂O₂ generated before oxygenic photosynthesis?
(2024)Redox BiologyWe obviously agree with Wu et al. that H₂O₂ might accumulate in the Archean land waters devoid of Fe²⁺. We do disagree on the topic of the half-life of H₂O₂, as the work cited in support for a longer half-live is not relevant to the conditions in the Archean ocean. While the existence of radicals in quartz is not in doubt, we do question the hypothesis that these radicals oxidize water to HO• and H₂O₂.Journal Article -
Different responses of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in leaf and tree-ring organic matter to lethal soil drought
(2024)Tree PhysiologyThe oxygen and hydrogen isotopic composition (δ18O, δ2H) of plant tissues are key tools for the reconstruction of hydrological and plant physiological processes and may therefore be used to disentangle the reasons for tree mortality. However, how both elements respond to soil drought conditions before death has rarely been investigated. To test this, we performed a greenhouse study and determined predisposing fertilization and lethal soil ...Journal Article -
Controls and relationships of soil organic carbon abundance and persistence vary across pedo-climatic regions
(2024)Global Change BiologyOne of the largest uncertainties in the terrestrial carbon cycle is the timing and magnitude of soil organic carbon (SOC) response to climate and vegetation change. This uncertainty prevents models from adequately capturing SOC dynamics and challenges the assessment of management and climate change effects on soils. Reducing these uncertainties requires simultaneous investigation of factors controlling the amount (SOC abundance) and ...Journal Article -
A structure-preserving machine learning framework for accurate prediction of structural dynamics for systems with isolated nonlinearities
(2024)Mechanical Systems and Signal ProcessingThe nonlinearities present in structural systems are often found in isolated regions within the structure, such as those containing joints or interfaces. However, despite the localized nature of these nonlinearities their presence serves to couple together the modes of the underlying linear system and significantly complicate the development of appropriate reduced-order models; the localized nonlinearities have a global effect on the ...Journal Article