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Ecological role of vertebrate scavengers in urban ecosystems in the UK
Ecology and Evolution, 2016 Recent research has demonstrated how scavenging, the act of consuming dead animals, plays a key role in ecosystem structure, functioning, and stability.
Richard Inger +4 more
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Deep Reinforcement Learning‐Based Control for Real‐Time Hybrid Simulation of Civil Structures
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Real‐time Hybrid Simulation (RTHS) is a cyber‐physical technique that studies the dynamic behavior of a system by combining physical and numerical components that are coupled through a boundary condition enforcer. In structural engineering, the numerical components are subjected to environmental loads that become dynamic displacements of the ...
Andrés Felipe Niño +6 more
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A dead giveaway: Foraging vultures and other avian scavengers respond to auditory cues
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Carrion represents an unpredictable and widely distributed primary food source for vultures and other avian scavengers. Avian scavengers in African savanna ecosystems are reported to rely exclusively on visual stimuli to locate carcasses.
Craig R. Jackson +11 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable Business Models (SBMs) reflect the degree to which sustainability principles are embedded across firms' business model architectures. However, the mere adoption of these models does not guarantee improvements in environmental innovation capacity due to internal organizational inertia.
Emma García‐Meca +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate change, political stability, and sustainability are three central factors that interact and serve as key drivers of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Accordingly, this paper aims to fill a vital research gap by examining the impacts of climate change, natural resource ...
Hicham Ayad +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The European Union has adopted a broad climate policy framework under the European Green Deal to support progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 13). However, empirical evidence remains limited regarding how institutional quality, green technological innovation, renewable energy, and trade openness jointly influence CO2 emissions ...
Mu Qiao +4 more
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Brazilian Journal of BiologyThe consumption of the carrion of a tapiti by a reintroduced female Dasyprocta leporina was observed in the wild. Herein, besides describing this event, we reviewed other evidence of vertebrate consumption by agoutis.
L Figueira +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Carrion of large animals is an extremely nutrient rich, ephemeral resource that is essential for many species, but is scarce in the anthropogenic Western-European landscape due to legislative restrictions.
Roel van Klink +3 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In fostering asset‐based literacy and language teaching in classroom and digital spaces, this study draws on OmoBerry, an educational YouTube channel, to demonstrate how educators can enact culturally inclusive digital multimodal language and literacy instructions with African immigrant youth.
Akinkunmi Oseni, Vaughn W. M. Watson
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A check list of necrophagous flies (Diptera: Calyptratae) from urban area in Medellín, Colombia
Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2012 An updated checklist of necrophagous flies (Diptera, Calyptratae) occurring in the urban area of Medellín- Colombia is presented. 27 species belonging to 4 families are reported. Data were obtained from field work and recent bibliography references.
Jorge Alberto Salazar-Ortega +2 more
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