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Florida's Coastal and Ocean Future: An Updated Blueprint for Economic and Environmental Leadership [PDF]

, 2012
Florida's coastal and marine habitats and numerous ecological and economic resources provide invaluable assetsto the millions of people who live in Florida or visit the state each year. The coast is Florida's economic engine.

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Science Educators and Researchers Must Uphold the Human Rights of Trans, Nonbinary, and Intersex Persons

Science Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Trans, nonbinary, and intersex persons are—and have always been—an integral part of humankind. However, these communities are under attack. We live in a time of growing state repression and the normalization of political violence against trans, nonbinary, and intersex persons throughout much of the world, and we have a responsibility to ...
Quentin C. Sedlacek, A. M. Aramati Casper, Katherine Doerr, Sophia Jeong, Nelly K. M. Marosi, K. Rende Mendoza, Marco Reggiani, Shersingh Joseph Tumber‐Dávila, Jennifer D. Adams, Andrew P. Anderson, Lucy Avraamidou, Charlie K. Blake, Tina Cheuk, Sara J. Dozier, Sarah L. Eddy, Alexander Eden, Rebecka Fingalsson, Michelle Friend, Agustín Fuentes, Heather Haeger, Kathryn L. Kirchgasler, Rishi Krishnamoorthy, Catherine Lemmi, Jeffrey Maloy, Dax Ovid, Kathryn Ribay, Ronan O. Rock, Tatiane Russo‐Tait, Sara Tolbert, Brie Tripp, Maria Varelas   +30 more
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Preliminary Investigations and Analysis of Social Public's Awareness of Rip Currents

Haiyang Kaifa yu guanli
Hainan Province is characterized by deep water, high winds and waves, and a large number of rip currents along the coastal beaches, resulting in frequent drowning accidents.
ZHANG Wanru, ZHANG Yao, XU Zhenshan, WU Congyu, FU Xinyi, GUO Xianze, WU Jiangyue   +6 more
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Oceanic - A Beach Safety App

International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Communication and Technology
Coastal tourism is a rapidly growing sector in India, and ensuring the safety of tourists is crucial. This project aims to develop a mobile application that provides real-time recreational suitability information for various beach locations across India.
null Prof. Chetashri Bhusari, null Sanmitra Pawar, null Neel Gadekar, null Ninad Kadam, null Vedh Poharkar   +4 more
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(In)justice in Smart Cities: Barriers and an Integrative Framework for Solution Pathways From a Global Perspective

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smart city initiatives aim for sustainability and inclusiveness, but recent evidence shows that they often lead to injustices. Although this contradiction has received growing academic attention, a comprehensive understanding of how justice is addressed within smart city practices remains limited.
Md. Nazmul Haque, Emilio Costales, Dominik Beckers, Ayyoob Sharifi, Samar Aad, Luca Mora   +5 more
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Hazardous Waits: CPSC Lets Crucial Time Pass Before Warning Public About Dangerous Products [PDF]

, 2008
Despite a law requiring manufacturers to provide the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) with "immediate" notification of dangerous products, the agency typically delays nearly seven months after learning of dangerous, defective products before ...
Taylor Lincoln
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Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho, Mazen Marouani, Takwa Boughanmi   +2 more
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Seepage stability analysis of geogrid reinforced tailings dam

Scientific Reports
To investigate the influence of a geogrid-reinforced tailings dam on the seepage stability of the dam body, this paper was based on the field test of a reinforced tailings accumulation dam.
Changbo Du, Han Tao, Fu Yi
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A Semi-Automatic Framework for Dry Beach Extraction in Tailings Ponds Using Photogrammetry and Deep Learning

Remote Sensing
The spatial characteristics of the dry beach in tailings ponds are critical indicators for the safety assessment of tailings dams. This study presents a method for dry beach extraction that combines deep learning-based semantic segmentation with 3D ...
Bei Cao, Yinsheng Wang, Yani Li, Xudong Zhu, Zicheng Yang, Xinlong Liu, Guangyin Lu   +6 more
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Public Spending, By The People: Participatory Budgeting in the United States and Canada in 2014-15 [PDF]

, 2016
From 2014 to 2015, more than 70,000 residents across the United States and Canada directly decided how their cities and districts should spend nearly $50 million in public funds through a process known as participatory budgeting (PB).
Carolin Hagelskamp, Chloe Rinehart, David Schleifer, Rebecca Silliman   +3 more
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