Beyond Learning from Next Item: Sequential Recommendation via Personalized Interest Sustainability [PDF]
, 2022 Sequential recommender systems have shown effective suggestions by capturing users' interest drift. There have been two groups of existing sequential models: user- and item-centric models. The user-centric models capture personalized interest drift based on each user's sequential consumption history, but do not explicitly consider whether users ...
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Two-Stage Multi-Objective Meta-Heuristics for Environmental and Cost-Optimal Energy Refurbishment at District Level [PDF]
, 2019 Energy efficiency and environmental performance optimization at the district level are following an upward trend mostly triggered by minimizing the Global Warming Potential (GWP) to 20% by 2020 and 40% by 2030 settled by the European Union (EU) compared ...
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Microorganisms, 2021 Soil is one of the key elements for supporting life on Earth. It delivers multiple ecosystem services, which are provided by soil processes and functions performed by soil biodiversity.
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A measure of nature connectedness for children and adults: Validation, performance, and insights [PDF]
, 2019 With benefits to both human well-being and pro-nature conservation behaviors, nature connectedness is emerging as an important psychological construct for a sustainable future.
Barbett, Lea +8 more
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Soil Arthropod Community in Spruce Forests (Picea abies) Affected by a Catastrophic Storm Event
Diversity, 2022 At the end of October 2018, the “Vaia” storm hit the eastern sector of the Italian Alps, causing major damage to forests. The resulting changes in habitat and resource availability are expected to shape the structure and abundance of soil communities. In
Cristina Menta +2 more
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Good Governance: A Framework for Implementing Sustainable Land Management, Applied to an Agricultural Case in Northeast-Brazil [PDF]
, 2019 Land management needs to cope with persistent environmental and societal changes. This requires functional governance systems. The purpose of this research is to develop a good governance framework for the implementation of sustainable land management ...
Guschal, Maike +4 more
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Sustainable intensification? Increased production diminishes omega-3 content of sheep milk [PDF]
, 2020 Intensifying agricultural production alters food composition, but this is often ignored when assessing system sustainability, yet it could compromise consumers’ health and the concept of ‘sustainable diets’.
Atsali, I. +10 more
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Explainable Sustainability for AI in the Arts [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 AI is becoming increasingly popular in artistic practices, but the tools for informing practitioners about the environmental impact (and other sustainability implications) of AI are adapted for other contexts than creative practices -- making the tools and sustainability implications of AI not accessible for artists and creative practitioners.
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The State of Sustainable Research Software: Results from the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1) [PDF]
Journal of Open Research Software, 7(1), 2019, p.11, 2018 This article summarizes motivations, organization, and activities of the Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1) held in Manchester, UK in September 2017. The WSSSPE series promotes sustainable research software by positively impacting principles and best practices, careers, learning, and credit.
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The LED Paradox: How Light Pollution Challenges Experts to Reconsider Sustainable Lighting [PDF]
, 2019 In the 21st century, the notion of “sustainable lighting” is closely associated with LED technology. In the past ten years, municipalities and private light users worldwide have installed light-emitting diodes in urban spaces and public streets to save ...
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