Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Computer and communications security, 2011 Cloud Computing is an emerging technology promising new business opportunities and easy deployment of web services. Much has been written about the risks and benefits of cloud computing in the last years. The literature on clouds often points out security and privacy challenges as the main obstacles, and proposes solutions and guidelines to avoid them.
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Environmental Costs of Government-Sponsored Agrarian Settlements in Brazilian Amazonia [PDF]
, 2015 Brazil has presided over the most comprehensive agrarian reform frontier colonization program on Earth, in which ~1.2 million settlers have been translocated by successive governments since the 1970's, mostly into forested hinterlands of Brazilian ...
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Use of babassu cake and pineapple byproduct silage in the diets of feedlot sheep
Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 2021 This study evaluated the use of babassu cake as a replacement for soybean meal and pineapple byproduct silage as roughage in the diets of feedlot sheep. Ten rumen-fistulated sheep were used and distributed in an experimental design consisting of two 5 x ...
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Several large-scale drivers of both anthropogenic and natural environmental changes are interacting nonlinearly in the transition zone between eastern Amazonia and the adjacent Cerrado, considered to be another Brazilian agricultural frontier.
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Early Holocene crop cultivation and landscape modification in SW Amazonia
Nature, 2020 The onset of plant cultivation is one of the most important cultural transitions in human history 1 – 4 . Southwestern Amazonia has previously been proposed as an early centre of plant domestication, on the basis of molecular markers that show genetic ...
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Revista Científica Profundidad Construyendo Futuro, 2023 Se presentan los resultados del Estudio de Factibilidad e Investigación de Mercados para la creación de la Maestría en Innovación Educativa modalidad virtual en la Universidad de la Amazonia.
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Climate change and cultural resilience in late pre-Columbian Amazonia
Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Jonas Gregorio de Souza +2 more
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Fragmentation-Driven Divergent Trends in Burned Area in Amazonia and Cerrado
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 The two major Brazilian biomes, the Amazonia and the Cerrado (savanna), are increasingly exposed to fires. The Amazonian Forest is a fire sensitive ecosystem where fires are a typically rare disturbance while the Cerrado is naturally fire-dependent ...
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
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Evaluación agronómica de genotipos de Theobroma cacao L. en la Amazonia colombiana
Biotecnología en el Sector Agropecuario y Agroindustrial, 2020 Los clones universales de cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) introducidos en la región amazónica de Colombia, presentan bajos rendimientos. El objetivo de este trabajo fue evaluar el comportamiento agronómico de genotipos locales promisorios de T.
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