WORKING LESS FOR MORE? A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF WORKING TIME REDUCTION POLICIES IN THE GLOBAL NORTH

Working less for more? A systematic review of the social, economic, and ecological effects of working time reduction policies in the global North

AbstractThe increasingly studied effects of working time reductions (WTR) on social, economic, and ecological sustainability depend on how these reductions are conceptualized in terms of implementation level, form, extent and accompanying wage compensation.Very little research on WTRs considers more than one sustainability dimension or explores dif

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Traditional knowledge of medicinal plants on Gau Island, Fiji: differences between sixteen villages with unique characteristics of cultural value

Abstract Background Traditional resource management (TRM) systems develop depending on local conditions, such as climate, culture, and environment.Most studies have focused on the TRM system itself, excluding the people who manage the system, and the relationship between the system and the people.The use of resources and people is intimately linked

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PRONAME: a user-friendly pipeline to process long-read nanopore metabarcoding data by generating high-quality consensus sequences

BackgroundThe study of sample taxonomic composition has evolved from direct observations and labor-intensive morphological studies to different DNA sequencing methodologies.Most of these studies leverage the metabarcoding moen rothbury faucet approach, which involves the amplification of a small taxonomically-informative portion of the genome and i

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Distribution of phytoliths in plants: a review

Phytoliths are ergastic siliceous substances present abundantly within intercellular spaces as well as inside the cells of numerous plants.Being made up bostik universal primer pro of silica, they are nondegradable and hence found preserved as microfossils in various substrata.This property of phytoliths extends its significance in the field of pal

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