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Water Losses and Environmental Efficiency in Urban Water Supply Systems: A Comparative Assessment for Spain and Portugal

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Water losses are a critical environmental and operational challenge, especially in regions exposed to increasing water stress. This study assesses the environmental productivity of municipal water supply services in Spain and Portugal during the period 2014–2022, explicitly treating losses as an undesirable output.
Elisabet Zafra Gómez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contrastive ecoacoustic indices: Large‐scale global soundscape characterization with contrastive inference

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecoacoustics mainly aims at monitoring soundscapes by means of non‐invasive protocols. Despite the widespread adoption of machine and deep learning techniques, existing ecoacoustic models predominantly rely on supervised learning and, consequently, face two primary limitations: (1) the necessity of annotated data; and (2) the restriction to ...
Yann Teytaut   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Infectious bacterial keratitis management in a Swedish region: Risk factors, treatment and time‐to‐resolution

open access: yesActa Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To report treatment patterns, time‐to‐resolution (TTR) and aetiologies of bacterial keratitis (BK) infections treated in a specialized hospital‐based cornea clinic in Sweden. Methods Retrospective study based on electronic health records screened during the period 2010–2019. The study included only culture‐confirmed cases of BK.
Jenny Roth   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Civilizing’ Smallholders Through Oil Palm: The Politics of Subsumption Across Southern Mexico's Commodity Frontiers

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
wiley   +1 more source

The invasion of five alien species in the Delta do Parnaíba Environmental Protection Area, Northeastern Brazil

open access: yesRevista de Biología Tropical, 2010
Marine biological invasions have been regarded as one of the major causes of native biodiversity loss, with shipping and aquaculture being the leading contributors for the introductions of alien species in aquatic ecosystems.
Daniel Loebmann   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Palaces for a New Spain Nobility: Between Creole Identity and Academicism

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 75-86, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Mexico City and Havana had a significant number of noble palaces during the eighteenth century. Until now, the dearth of historical documentation on their construction has hampered any approximation, requiring other methodologies. Here, it is intended to establish how a new visual code was defined, consistent both with their local style and ...
Pedro Luengo
wiley   +1 more source

Presencia de Stephanopyxis nipponica Gran y Yendo, 1914 (Stephanopyxidaceae) en el agua de lastre de buques en la Bahía de Santa Marta, Caribe colombiano.

open access: yesIntropica, 2010
Con el objetivo de conocer la microflora presente en las aguas de lastre de la bahía de Santa Marta se realizaron muestreos en 34 buques, de enero a septiembre de 2006.
Luis M. Rangel G., Luis A. Vidal V.
doaj  

Acuerdos, regulaciones, y certificaciones: retos del transporte marítimo para garantizar la sostenibilidad ambiental internacional

open access: yesVeritas & Research
El transporte marítimo enfrenta desafíos significativos en su búsqueda de sostenibilidad ambiental a nivel internacional. Los acuerdos, regulaciones y certificaciones desempeñan un papel crucial en este contexto.
Joanna Granillo-Rodríguez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Colonisation History of Freshwater Snails Across the Atlantic and Mediterranean Islands: Insights From Mercuria (Littorinimorpha, Hydrobiidae)

open access: yesZoologica Scripta, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Islands harbour unique biodiversity, and depending on their geological origin, they have fundamentally different colonisation histories: continental islands may contain relict faunas shaped by vicariance and sporadic gene flow, whereas oceanic islands must have been colonised across open seas, often through long‐distance dispersal events ...
Jonathan P. Miller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

NUEVO REPORTE DE AMPLIACIÓN DE ÁMBITO DE DISTRIBUCIÓN DE CORBICULA FLUMINEA (MOLLUSCA: BIVALVIA: CORBICULIDAE) EN PANAMÁ

open access: yesTecnociencia, 2018
La presencia de la almeja asiática Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774) es reportada en el río Santa María, al norte de Santiago de Veraguas, República de Panamá.
Janzel R. Villalaz   +3 more
doaj  

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