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Payments for Environmental Services: Past Performance and Pending Potentials

Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2020
We develop a theory of change for payments for environmental services (PES) to review their imminent strengths and weaknesses in light of a growing body of impact evaluation studies. We show that PES are probably at least as environmentally additional as
S. Wunder, J. Börner, D. Ezzine‐de‐Blas, S. Feder, S. Pagiola   +4 more
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An experiment of health services and additional microcredit in 128 villages of Bangladesh

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2022
Background Studies in the literature have found mixed results on the effect of microcredit on health outcomes. Of the five previous experimental studies that included microcredit and a health intervention, three reported no significant changes in health ...
Stan Becker, Ruhul Amin, Nirali Chakraborty, Linnea Zimmerman   +3 more
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UK women’s experiences of breastfeeding and additional breastfeeding support: a qualitative study of Baby Café services

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2015
BackgroundWhilst 81 % of UK women initiate breastfeeding, there is a steep decline in breastfeeding rates during the early postnatal period, with just 55 % of women breastfeeding at six weeks.
Rebekah Fox, S. McMullen, M. Newburn
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Ecosystem services of Earth’s largest freshwater lakes

, 2020
Fresh water is distributed unevenly across the globe. Earth’s 21 largest lakes hold ~2/3 of all global, liquid, surface, fresh water and occupy diverse ecological and social settings.
R. Sterner, B. Keeler, S. Polasky, Rajendra Poudel, Kirsten S. Rhude, Maggie Rogers   +5 more
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Shifting states, shifting services: Linking regime shifts to changes in ecosystem services of shallow lakes

, 2020
Shallow lakes can shift between stable states as a result of anthropogenic or natural drivers. Four common stable states differ in dominant groups of primary producers: submerged, floating, or emergent macrophytes or phytoplankton.
A. Janssen, S. Hilt, S. Kosten, J. D. Klein, H. Paerl, Dedmer B. Van de Waal   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Experiences that matter? The motivational experiences and business outcomes of gamified services

Journal of business research, 2020
Digital service providers are increasingly “gamifying” their services (i.e., enriching non-game services with game elements) to foster additional user value in terms of specific user experiences.
Tobias Wolf, W. H. Weiger, Maik Hammerschmidt   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Local fishermen’s perceptions of the usefulness of artificial reef ecosystem services in Portugal [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Proponents of artificial reef (AR) deployment are often motivated by the usefulness of such structures. The usefulness of ARs is related to their capability of providing ecosystem services/additional functions.
Jorge Ramos, Pedro G. Lino, Amber Himes-Cornell, Miguel N. Santos   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Scalable web services for the PSIPRED Protein Analysis Workbench

Nucleic Acids Res., 2013
Here, we present the new UCL Bioinformatics Group’s PSIPRED Protein Analysis Workbench. The Workbench unites all of our previously available analysis methods into a single web-based framework.
Daniel W. A. Buchan, F. Minneci, Timothy Nugent, Kevin Bryson, David T. Jones   +4 more
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ICGEM – 15 years of successful collection and distribution of global gravitational models, associated services, and future plans

Earth System Science Data, 2019
. The International Centre for Global Earth Models (ICGEM, http://icgem.gfz-potsdam.de/, last access: 6 May 2019) hosted at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) is one of the five services coordinated by the International Gravity Field ...
E. S. Ince, F. Barthelmes, S. Reißland, K. Elger, C. Förste, Frank, Flechtner, H. Schuh   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Features of law enforcement practice in the collection and evaluation of evidence to protect the social rights of police officers

Law and Safety, 2022
The law enforcement practice of judicial bodies, namely administrative courts of different instances, regardless of their territoriality, in resolving administrative disputes concerning the protection of social rights of police officers to receive ...
M. A. Sambor
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