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Mindfulness and resilience: The experiences of global majority students in a mindfulness intervention Programme at a UK university

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Wellbeing in higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom has been increasingly prioritised for many institutions, with a growing demand for student support requests. There are various determinants in life that can influence mental health. As such, protected characteristics, including race, can indicate that students who are Black or Asian ...
Amy Bywater, Helen Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Amazon mollies [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2007
Schlupp, I, Riesch, R, Tobler, M
openaire   +3 more sources

A review of the historic and present ecological role of aquatic and shoreline wood, from forest to deep sea

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing the deforestation of the Amazon through farming system intensification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The Amazon has become the last Far West of the planet. Today, the attention is focused on some sectors in which the region plays a major role: the mineral richness of the soil - especially hydro fuels - biodiversity, climate change and the coca ...
Bommel, Pierre   +5 more
core  

Geological processes shaping freshwater biodiversity: a synthesis of global evidence

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent genomic data highlight the key roles of geological processes in shaping the diversification and biogeography of freshwater lineages. Specifically, physical processes such as tectonic uplift, erosion, glaciation, lake formation, and sea‐level fluctuation contribute extensively to the evolution of biotic diversity within and among ...
Jonathan M. Waters   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Performance Measurements of Supercomputing and Cloud Storage Solutions

open access: yes, 2017
Increasing amounts of data from varied sources, particularly in the fields of machine learning and graph analytics, are causing storage requirements to grow rapidly.
Arcand, William   +12 more
core   +1 more source

Environmental Taxes and Subsidies for Sustainability: Experimental Evidence on Consumer Preferences for Business Strategy

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular textile management is essential to achieving sustainable consumption, as outlined in SDG 12, but consumer behavior and economic factors often hinder its adoption. This study investigates how environmental policies, such as carbon taxes and subsidies, influence consumer choices in the fast fashion sector by examining purchasing ...
Alessandro Cascavilla   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Secondary growth deforestation leakage in the Pará beef cattle purchasing zone [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Deforestation is a major threat to forest conservation in the Amazon, affecting biodiversity, climate balance, and natural resources. The beef cattle market targets deforestation-free products.
L. Oliveira Junior   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Changes in Climate and Land Use Over the Amazon Region: Current and Future Variability and Trends

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2018
This paper shows recent progress in our understanding of climate variability and trends in the Amazon region, and how these interact with land use change.
J. Marengo   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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