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DATABASE ON THE STATE OF THE "SHELTER" OBJECT [PDF]

open access: yesCondensed Matter Physics, 1997
null Kumshayev   +7 more
openaire   +1 more source

Classifying avian drinking behaviour: ecological insights and implications in a changing world

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Water is a fundamental currency of life, and its availability significantly influences animal behaviour, physiology and distributions. However, our knowledge around the dependence on water for drinking and the direct and indirect mechanisms driving related behaviours remains partial in the context of changing climates. Here, we review patterns
Shannon R. Conradie, Marc T. Freeman
wiley   +1 more source

Relative Humidity Protocol [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The purpose of this activity is to measure relative humidity using both a sling psychrometer and a digital hygrometer. Intended outcomes are that students learn to quantify humidity and that there is a limit to the amount of water vapor that the air can ...
The GLOBE Program, UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research)
core  

A neuro‐behavioural model of neophobia

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fear can be defined as the internal neurological state that releases a repertoire of behaviours an animal performs to reduce the effect of an aversive factor. Neophobia, the fear of novelty, is a fundamental behavioural trait observed across a wide range of species from arthropods to humans.
Arik Dorfman, Aziz Subach, Inon Scharf
wiley   +1 more source

How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short‐term tactics and long‐term impacts

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From butterflies to lizards and from sharks to seabirds, wildlife exhibit tactics to survive the impacts of tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes, cyclones, or typhoons depending on where they occur. Some species seek refuge during the storm by moving, some remain in place and ride it out, and others move longer distances, avoiding the ...
Erin L. Koen   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-Objective Shelter Planning Under Earthquake-Induced Demand Uncertainty

open access: yesMulti-Objective Shelter Planning Under Earthquake-Induced Demand Uncertainty
identifier:oai:t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp ...
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Affordance of garden towards restorative process of hospitalized children [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This study investigates sense of affordance attains by hospitalized children participating in a pediatric-ward garden during their restoration in hospital.
Abu Bakar, Mohd. Sarofil, Said, Ismail
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Toward an SDG‐Based Typology for US Nonprofits

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent an emerging institutional logic that nonprofits must navigate alongside existing sector‐specific frameworks. Drawing on institutional logics and organizational hybridity theories, we examine how nonprofits incorporate SDGs into their missions and what this reveals about managing institutional ...
Dominik S. Meier, Elizabeth Searing
wiley   +1 more source

When the Remedy Is Worse Than the Illness: Carbon Performance and Growth Opportunities Under the EU ETS

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how the European Union Emissions Trading System allowance prices reshape the link between corporate environmental performance (CEP) and firms' growth expectations, measured by Tobin's Q. Using a panel of 1370 listed firms across 15 European countries from 2005 to 2024 and high‐dimensional fixed‐effects models, we first ...
Adrián Ferreras
wiley   +1 more source

Maximum, Minimum, and Current Temperature Protocol [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The purpose of this activity is to measure air (and optionally soil) temperature within one hour of solar noon and the maximum and minimum air temperatures for the previous 24 hours. Intended outcomes are that students will learn to read minimum, maximum,
The GLOBE Program, UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research)
core  

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