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Addressing environmental misperceptions for nature recovery
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract A poorly understood and systemic challenge to global conservation agreements is shifting baseline syndrome (SBS), wherein people misperceive the extent to which nature has changed. This can diminish societal expectations for nature recovery. We broadened the conceptual framing of SBS beyond the more common elements of nature loss to include ...
Shuo Gao +3 more
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Emmanuel Todd. Familles et sociétés. Toute l’histoire [PDF]
Synergies Pays Germanophones, 2019 L’œuvre d’Emmanuel Todd commence quand s’approche le dernier quart du 20e siècle. L’origine des systèmes familiaux I. Eurasie paraît en 2011. II. Afrique, Amérique, Océanie paraitra avant la fin du 1er quart du 21e siècle. Un demi-siècle de travaux.
Jacques Demorgon
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Hobbyist preferences for pet freshwater turtles
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract The burgeoning pet trade is a primary threat to wild freshwater turtles worldwide. Although the risks from commercial exploitation of turtles have been discussed widely, there is little empirical research on preferences for pet turtles from a hobbyists’ perspective.
Jingjing Zhao +7 more
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Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Consumer demand for ivory perpetuates the unsustainable and illegal killing of African elephants and other wildlife species. Interventions that aim to change consumer behavior are increasingly recognized as a crucial element of demand management. However, poor design and implementation have limited their effectiveness.
Molly R. C. Brown +2 more
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Le concept universel-singulier de L. Porcher et la question des universaux en didactique des langues [PDF]
Synergies Europe, 2015 Louis Porcher proposait, il y a une trentaine d’années, de recourir au concept universel-singulier en vue de réintroduire la notion de civilisation (également désignée culture), alors évacuée dans les cours se réclamant
Claude Germain
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Integrative Medicine in Interventional Oncology: A Virtuous Alliance
Medicina, 2020 This review aimed to identify the potential role of integrative medicine in interventional oncology. The music therapy; stress management techniques; guided imagery, including virtual reality; clinical hypnosis; and digital sedation may all be efficient ...
François H. Cornelis +7 more
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Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the crucial role of human impacts on biodiversity loss, many assessments of this loss focus on single metrics, such as species richness, and overlook the multidimensional effects of human activities. Because of its importance to ecosystem functioning, we investigated the functional diversity of medium‐ and large‐sized mammal ...
Xueyou Li +8 more
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Le vocabulaire s’apprend, le lexique s’acquiert [PDF]
Synergies Portugal, 2016 L’auteur rapporte d’abord l’essentiel des conceptions de Galisson concernant l’apprentissage et l’enseignement du sens des mots, en particulier son concept de pragmatique lexiculturelle .
Claude Germain
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Feature importance for machine learning redshifts applied to SDSS galaxies [PDF]
, 2015 We present an analysis of importance feature selection applied to photometric redshift estimation using the machine learning architecture Decision Trees with the ensemble learning routine Adaboost (hereafter RDF).
Hoyle, Ben +4 more
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China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid‐nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific ...
Alejandra Irigoin +2 more
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