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Shelter Development Through Cooperatives: A Strategy for Poverty Alleviation and Slum Improvement for Asia and the Pacific Region [PDF]

, 2002
The research traces the flow of humanity from the urban areas to the cities thus creating severe economic and social problems in the cities thus leading to homelessness; lack of sanitation; health hazards; crimes; vandalism; drugs; children wandering ...
M. L. Khurana
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Multimodal Human–Robot Interaction Using Human Pose Estimation and Local Large Language Models

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A multimodal human–robot interaction framework integrates human pose estimation (HPE) and a large language model (LLM) for gesture‐ and voice‐based robot control. Speech‐to‐text (STT) enables voice command interpretation, while a safety‐aware arbitration mechanism prioritizes gesture input for rapid intervention.
Nasiru Aboki, Ilche Georgievski, Marco Aiello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Non-crop plant beds can improve arthropod diversity including beneficial insects in chemical-free oil palm agroecosystems

Cogent Food & Agriculture
Conventional oil palm plantations, characterized by monocropping practices, are susceptible to pest infestations due to the lack of diversity in crop composition.
Ahmad R. Norhisham, Muhammad Syafiq Yahya, Sharifah Nur Atikah, Syari Jamian, Oliver Bach, Mona McCord, John Howes, Badrul Azhar   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Household trajectories in rural Ethiopia – what can a mixed method approach tell us about the impact of poverty on children? [PDF]

, 2011
The paper explores the dynamics of child and household poverty in rural Ethiopia using three rounds of household survey and qualitative data collected by Young Lives, a longitudinal study of child poverty.
Camfield, Laura, Roelen, Keetie
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Silicon isotopic signatures of granitoids support increased weathering of subaerial land 3.7 billion years ago

Communications Earth & Environment
The weathering and erosion of emerged land profoundly influences the Earth system, including the composition of the atmosphere and the type of nutrients delivered to the oceans.
Nicolas D. Greber, Madeleine E. Murphy, Julian-Christopher Storck, Jesse R. Reimink, Nicolas Dauphas, Paul S. Savage   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bioenergy Cropping Reduces the Spatiotemporal Scaling of Soil Bacterial Biodiversity

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Consistent with patterns observed in plant and animal communities, soil bacterial communities exhibit significant species–time–area and phylogenetic–time–area relationships independent of nested structure. Bioenergy cropping significantly reduces the spatiotemporal scaling rates, particularly in sandy loam soils.
Zhencheng Ye, Jialiang Kuang, Colin T. Bates, Arthur Escalas, Daliang Ning, Liyou Wu, Suo Liu, Sihang Deng, Jiesi Lei, Xiangwen Chen, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Malay Saha, Lauren Hale, Gangsheng Wang, Renmao Tian, Ying Fu, Yu Tang, Mary Firestone, Jizhong Zhou, Yunfeng Yang   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medical ethnobotany

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
This collection on medical ethnobotany focuses on contributions that explore the invaluable potential associated with the ethnobotanical uses of medicinal plants, their phytochemical profiling, safety, and efficacy studies as well as their cultural and ...
Adeyemi O. Aremu, Binsheng Luo, Sakina Mussarat   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementing Connections: The Benefits for Greater Philadelphia [PDF]

, 2011
This analysis utilizes DVRPC's modeling capabilities to illustrate and quantify the benefits of implementing the policies and goals defined in the Connections Plan, through a Plan scenario, compared to a continuation of our region's business-as-usual ...

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Global Nitrogen Deposition Promotes Carbon Sink Formation in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Nitrogen deposition alleviates ecosystem N limitation and enhances carbon sinks. Using 829 observations, we show 36% of deposited N is retained globally (39.15 Tg N yr−1), with distinct NHx and NOy contributions. This retention drives a terrestrial C sink of 0.88 Pg C yr−1 (25.48%), highlighting the importance of pool‐specific C:N stoichiometry ...
Lei Li, Mingyu Xie, Nan Jia, Li‐Dong Mo, Qiang Yu, Fanjiang Zeng, Xiangyi Li   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source