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Bio‐inspired nanophotonics: Structural color, chirality, and resonance metasurfaces
InfoMat, EarlyView.A butterfly‐wing‐inspired anisotropic plasmonic flatband resonant metasurface. Insets, photo of the butterfly, Sasakia charonda, and the SEM image of its wing scale (above); the SEM image of the metasurface (below). Abstract The dazzling colors of butterfly wings and hummingbird feathers are not painted with pigments, but crafted by nature's invisible ...
Weihan Liu, Yao Liang, Din Ping Tsai
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Interplanetary frontiers: terraforming from an invasion science perspective
Oikos, EarlyView.The pursuit of a multi‐planetary existence represents one of humanity's greatest frontiers. If applied justly, it offers an opportunity to extend its civilization's lifespan amid escalating sustainability crises on Earth. One approach increasingly gaining traction is terraforming, a hitherto theoretical ecological and evolutionary experiment revolving ...
Teun Everts +2 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.Seed dispersal by frugivores is a central process linking plant reproduction, animal foraging, population persistence, and ecosystem resilience. Currently, the spatial template sustaining these interactions is rapidly reconfigured by habitat loss and fragmentation promoted by human activity.
Eliana Cazetta, Paulo R. Guimarães Jr
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Seminar.net, 2007 This article carries out an analysis of a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) in an institution of Higher Education using Actor Network Theory (ANT).
Laurence Habib, Monica Johannesen
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Actor-networks of Northern lights tourism in Iceland, Norway and Finland
, 2014 Ihmiset ovat kautta aikojen matkustaneet pohjoiseen tavoitteenaan nähdä ja kokea revontulet, erityisesti pohjoisilla alueilla näyttäytyvä luonnollinen taivaan valoilmiö.
Kivelä, Tiina
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Greater future range expansions in alien than native ant species
Oikos, EarlyView.There is growing concern that many species may not be able to track suitable conditions under climate change and suffer range contractions as a result. At the same time, alien species introduced to novel geographic ranges are often assumed to benefit from climate change.
Tongyi Liu +2 more
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Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA, 2018 Actor-Network Theory(ANT) has been suggested by Latour in 1980s as a criticism of classical sociology. ANT is an interdisciplinary methodology that handles the heterogeneous rallying of human and non-human actors’ relationships, their effects to each ...
Sedef Başar, Candan Çınar Çıtak
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Narrating the Natural History Unit: institutional orderings and spatial strategies
, 2000 This paper develops a conceptualisation of institutional geographies through participation observation and interviews in the BBC's Natural History Unit (NHU), and the approach of actor network theory.
Davies, G
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Is actor network theory critique?
, 2008 In this essai we debate the extent to which Actor Network Theory (ANT) provides a meaningful contribution to the body of critical theories of organization.
Andrea Whittle +5 more
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Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
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