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Planned Obsolescence in the Context of a Holistic Legal Sphere and the Circular Economy
Jurgita Malinauskaite and Fatih Buğra Erdem
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 41, Issue 3, Autumn 2021, Pages 719–749, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqaa061
Published: 07 February 2021
... might have to, which is commonly known as planned obsolescence. While employing a holistic approach and exploring planned obsolescence from three different angles—the demand side, supply side and environmental side—the article argues that the current measures in the fields of unfair competition...
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R&D Capital, R&D Spillovers, and Productivity Growth in World Agriculture
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Keith Fuglie
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 40, Issue 3, September 2018, Pages 421–444, https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/ppx045
Published: 03 November 2017
... countries appear to have benefitted more from private and international R&D spillovers than developing countries. Agricultural total factor productivity R&D elasticities R&D lags technological obsolescence Because positive externalities (spillovers) from R&D lead to undervaluation...
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The Significance of Focal Glomerular Sclerosis in Children Who Have Nephrotic Syndrome
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Edward C. Kohaut and others
American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Volume 66, Issue 3, 1 September 1976, Pages 545–550, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/66.3.545
Published: 01 September 1976
... of the 29 had focal glomerular obsolescence. The paraffin blocks were serially sectioned and examined. Following this procedure, seven of the 29 biopsies had focal segmented hyalinosis and 16 of the 29 had focal glomerular obsolescence. The percentages of focal segmental hyalinosis and focal glomerular...
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The residue of modernity: Technology, Anachronism, and Bric-à-Brac in India
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Alexander Bubb
Published: 05 December 2016
... residue is used to critique and cast doubt on the imperial project. India obsolete technology Verne Jules Kipling Rudyard Steel Flora Annie Candler Edmund Gissing Alice India colonial technology material culture obsolescence rubbish railway telegraph gramophone Kipling The eighty-day...
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Why Do Computers Depreciate?
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Michael J. Geske and others
Published: 15 November 2007
... price q Age-related (δv ) Age-zero (δ0) Obsolescence (δs ) Cumulative change in value (log levels) Average −2.19 −1.46 −0.73 −0.08 −0.23 −0.42 1 −0.70 −0.42...
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Nineteenth-Century Literary History in a Web 2.0 World
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Augusta Rohrbach and others
Published: 01 November 2018
... Jacques remix culture Tumblr social media platform Dickinson Emily digital humanities pedagogy visual literacy Emerson design thinking argument rhetoric graduate education collaborative archive Omeka obsolescence digital sustainability in “the american scholar,” Ralph Waldo Emerson...
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Greening Intimate Publics
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Larissa Hjorth and others
Published: 24 June 2016
... Chiyoda Airline Route Takada and Takada Intimate engagement mobile publics for Mobile publics Suda Yoshihiro Sheller Mimi Galloway Anne Weeds Suda Climate change Politics of waste digital materiality obsolescence iPhone factory intimate public mobile intimacy mobile publics In this chapter...
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Coelacanth History: Uncle Buddy’s Phantom Funhouse and the Cybertext of Things
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Stuart Moulthrop
Published: 07 April 2017
... game world, the chapter argues for an understanding of digital culture that moves beyond the harsh binaries of obsolescence. As McDaid says: “We win by losing.” Cybertext Eastgate Systems Inc HyperCard “Hypermedia writing novel fiction ” Macintosh computer Bogost Ian “Ethics of things ” Meme...
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The Antiquities of Fairyland and Ireland
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Judith H. Anderson
Published: 15 May 2008
... cites two instances of negative meaning of these words; they say the negative sense cognates
obsoleteness or obsolescence rather than age. The second negative cognate, the
verb antiquate , is first noted in Spenser's View of the Present State of
Ireland , which...
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The Metropolitan Life in Ruins Architectural and Fictional Speculations in New York, 1893–1919
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Nick Yablon
Published: 01 February 2010
... geography. The skyscraper's lifespan appeared to be limited by economic even more than technological and aesthetic obsolescence. Critics who coined the terms “doctrine of the scrap heap” or “perpetual motion quest,” which anticipate later critiques of creative destruction, remained largely ambivalent about...
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Bloodlines
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Emma Christopher Lirette
Published: 24 August 2022
... oil industry Blood vocation Genetics Inheritance Family business Obsolescence Tharsalio : In this eie I ſee That fire that ſhall in me inflame the Mother And that in this ſhall set on fire the Daughter It goes Sir in a bloud; beleeue me brother, Theſe deſtinies goe euer...
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Desuetude and Obsolescence of Treaties
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Marcelo G. Kohen
Published: 17 February 2011
...This chapter addresses the topics of desuetude and obsolescence of treaties. These grounds for the termination of treaties were not included in the Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties neither at the behest of the International Law Commission nor during the Vienna Conferences. It analyses...
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Published: 21 October 2021
... to spend $14,000 for a house, a defensive Khrushchev replied. As for Nixon s boast about planned obsolescence, Khrushchev was having none of it. The Soviets build for permanence, he insisted, We build firmly. We build for our children and grandchildren. When Nixon pointed proudly at a television monitor...
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Reinventing by Looking Forward
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Mahesh Joshi and others
Published: 30 June 2022
... of new products is increasing dramatically. Everyone and every industry are feeling the heat from the transformations. Obsolescence comes from every angle and without notice. These changes are complex, even for techies themselves. It is hard to keep pace with changes and requires conscious reinvention...
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Remainders: American Poetry at Nature's End
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Margaret Ronda
Published online: 20 September 2018
Published in print: 20 March 2018
..., Gary Snyder, and Juliana Spahr offer representations of remainders, from obsolescent goods to waste products and toxic matter, that explore the lingering consequences of productive relations. In their attention to these material forms, these poems explore unresolvable affects and sensations of living...
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Language Contact and Endangered Languages
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Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Published: 05 February 2020
..., and fully understand it. As a consequence, an endangered language will gradually become obsolescent. The process of language obsolescence ultimately leads to language shift and language loss. The impact of the increasingly dominant language onto an endangered language tends to involve a massive influx...
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3 The sounds of Amazonia
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Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Published: 03 May 2012
... in the two languages as the result of advanced language obsolescence. This takes us to our next section. Tone systems in Amazonian languages appear to be relatively simple, if compared to those in languages of South-East Asia and Africa. There are typically two tones; just a few languages have three. We...
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Consumerism and Obsolescence
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Peter Townsend
Published: 22 December 2016
...The Dark Side of Technology. First Edition. Peter Townsend.
© Peter Townsend 2016. Published in 2016 by Oxford University Press. Obsolescence and decay occur naturally by wear and tear, or by advances in technology. In the case of improvements this is desirable. However, commercial pressure drives...
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History and the flux of time
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Lynda Mugglestone
Published: 01 August 2015
... as innovation, obsolescence, and lexical death. The interconnectedness of time and change emerges as a salient theme in Johnson’s approach to language, poised between images of decay and mutability on one hand, and the natural and ineluctable on the other. English history hope Horace imagination language...
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Decolonization and the End of Empire
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John Darwin
Published: 21 October 1999
..., and cultural aspects. Two familiar explanations for British decolonization need to be dealt with summarily. The first has sentimental charm: the disintegration of the British Empire as a case of ‘planned obsolescence’. It is stated in this chapter that even if the international setting played a key role...
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