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Restoring the lost Ericaceae of Botany Bay's scrublands through a paleoecological approach in southeastern Sydney, Australia

open access: yesRestoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction With anthropogenic environmental change accelerating, incorporating long‐term perspectives into ecological restoration is essential. Paleoecological evidence increasingly indicates that many perceived “natural” landscapes under current conservation regimes are, in fact, cultural or modern systems.
Yihan Wang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prediction of entrepreneurship : an ordered regression approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Entrepreneurship is a popular research topic over the last several decades. Various authors study the characteristics that best define future entrepreneur profiles.
Coelho, Hugo   +2 more
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Critical knowledge gaps in the conservation and restoration of cold‐water corals

open access: yesRestoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Critical knowledge gaps hamper effective conservation of threatened cold‐water coral (CWC) ecosystems, facing cumulative anthropogenic and climate pressures. This review provides a strategic roadmap for urgent, informed intervention.
Qian Liu   +33 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pollination services mapping and economic valuation from insect communities: a case study in the Azores (Terceira Island)

open access: yesNature Conservation, 2017
Insect pollinators provide vital ecosystem services through its maintenance of plant biological diversity and its role in food production. Indeed, adequate pollination services can increase the production and quality of fruit and vegetable crops.
Ana Picanço   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

How events can influence in the customer experience at Out of the Blue Hostel: an internship storytelling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The growth of tourism is not an exception to Azores Islands that saw a big increase of tourists after the low cost airlines started flying to the islands in 2015.
Makarova, Anna
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Specialized Committees of International Organizations an Important Source of Organizational Autonomy

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Assigning the preparation of decisions to specialized committees composed of member state representatives is a widespread response to the ‘governor's dilemma’, that is, the tension between competence and control, in international organizations (IOs). We theorize a causal mechanism referring to self‐selection and agenda‐setting effects and show
Michael Giesen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Surface Roughness and Fractal Analysis of TiO2 Thin Films by DC Sputtering

open access: yesEngineering Proceedings
This study examines the effect of oxygen concentration and sputtering power on the surface morphology of TiO2 thin films deposited by DC reactive magnetron sputtering. Surface roughness parameters were obtained using MountainsMap® software(10.2) from SEM
Helena Cristina Vasconcelos   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

NEW SEISMIC SOURCE ZONE MODEL FOR PORTUGAL AND AZORES [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The development of seismogenic source models is one of the first steps in seismic hazard assessment. In seismic hazard terminology, seismic source zones (SSZ) are polygons (or volumes) that delineate areas with homogeneous characteristics of seismicity ...
Arvidsson, R.   +16 more
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On the dispersion theory of $\pi\pi$ scattering [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Recent developments in low energy pion physics are reviewed, emphasizing the strength of dispersion theory in this context. As an illustration of the method, I discuss some consequences of the forward dispersion relation obeyed by the isoscalar component
Leutwyler, H.
core   +2 more sources

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