BLOCKCHAIN IS NOT A SILVER BULLET FOR AGRO-FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN SUSTAINABILITY: INSIGHTS FROM A COFFEE CASE STUDY

Blockchain is not a silver bullet for agro-food supply chain sustainability: Insights from a coffee case study

Information sharing lies at the core of most governance interventions within agro-food commodity supply-chains, such as certification standards or direct trade relationships.However, actors have little information available to guide sustainable consumption decisions beyond simple labels.Blockchain technology can potentially alleviate the numerous s

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Patient Safety Culture in a maternity

Objective: assess the culture of patient safety from the perspective of a multiprofessional maternity team.Method: transversal, quantitative study, through the questionnaire Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture.62 professionals from a hospital in Rio Grande do Sul participated.The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics.Results: the team d

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Evaluating Barriers, Enablers and Opportunities for Closing the Loop through ‘Waste Upcycling’: A Systematic Literature Review

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals aim to ‘do more and better with less’, with numerous calls to action arising from the business sector concerning the substantial reduction of targeted types of commercial and industrial waste.Emanating from the original work on closing material loops by McDonough and Braungardt in the 199

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Recurrent pulmonary nocardiosis due to Nocardia Otitidiscaviarum in a patient with isolated CD4 lymphocytopenia: a case report

Abstract Background Idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia (ICL) is an underdiagnosed immunodeficiency syndrome characterised by persistent low CD4 counts in the absence of HIV and other causes of lymphocytopenia.ICL patients are susceptible to opportunistic infections, with human papillomavirus, cryptococcal, and tuberculosis being the most common infecti

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