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CODE: description language for wireless collaborating objects [PDF]
, 2005 This paper introduces CODE, a Description Language for Wireless Collaborating Objects (WCO), with the specific aim of enabling service management in smart environments.
Havinga, Paul +2 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 +3 more
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Grasslands-more important for ecosystem services than you might think
Ecosphere, 2019 Extensively managed grasslands are recognized globally for their high biodiversity and their social and cultural values. However, their capacity to deliver multiple ecosystem services (ES) as parts of agricultural systems is surprisingly understudied ...
J. Bengtsson +8 more
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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 +4 more
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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 +3 more
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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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Access to health services in Western Newfoundland, Canada: Issues, barriers and recommendations emerging from a community-engaged research project [PDF]
, 2014 Research indicates that people living in rural and remote areas of Canada face challenges to accessing health services. This article reports on a community-engaged research project conducted by investigators at Memorial University of Newfoundland in ...
Heath, Sara +5 more
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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 +5 more
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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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Regulating Data Exchange in Service Oriented Applications [PDF]
, 2007 We define a type system for COWS, a formalism for specifying and combining services, while modelling their dynamic behaviour. Our types permit to express policies constraining data exchanges in terms of sets of service partner names attachable to each ...
A. Brogi +27 more
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