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North Campus Open Space Restoration Project Restoration Plan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This Restoration Plan is the result of a collaborative effort between UCSB’s Cheadle Center for Biological Diversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER) and a team of consultants lead by Environmental Science Associates (ESA).
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration   +1 more
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Food Prices and Inflation Expectations in New Zealand

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food prices are conspicuous, and spending on food constitutes a considerable share of household expenditure. In this study, we use partially identified Bayesian structural vector autoregression models to analyze the effects of food price shocks on core inflation and 1‐ and 5‐year inflation expectations in New Zealand.
Puneet Vatsa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study Based on Bridge Health Monitoring System on Multihazard Load Combinations of Earthquake and Truck Loads for Bridge Design in the Southeast Coastal Areas of China

open access: yesShock and Vibration, 2015
Similar to American LRFD Bridge Design Specifications, the current Chinese bridge design code is fully calibrated against gravity load and live load. Earthquake load is generally considered alone and has its own methodology, however, which is not covered
Dezhang Sun, Bin Chen, Baitao Sun
doaj   +1 more source

Bridging the gap between academia and practitioners: training coastal zone managers [PDF]

open access: yesPlanet, 2005
This article describes how a Masters Coastal Zone Management (CZM) course has been designed to ensure the gap between academia and practitioners has been bridged to develop students who are well-equipped for the workplace. The course has a robust underpinning of science, but it is strongly vocational to ensure students develop a wide range of knowledge
Shah, Anita, Treby, Emma
openaire   +2 more sources

North Campus Open Space Restoration Project Annual Monitoring Report: Year 2 (2019) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Born out of a vision shared by the local community, students, faculty, researchers and state and federal agencies, the North Campus Open Space (NCOS) restoration project is recreating more than 40 acres of estuarine and palustrine wetlands that ...
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration   +2 more
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Gate‐Align‐SED: Semi‐Supervised Sound Event Detection via Adaptive Feature Gating and Cross‐Task Alignment in Situation Awareness

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Overview of the proposed Gate‐Align‐SED, including two stages of training: (1) Mean‐Teacher SSL Training; and (2) Enhancer Model Training. In complex real‐world environments such as disaster monitoring, effective sound event detection (SED) is often hindered by the presence of noise and limited labeled data.
Jieli Chen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implementation and validation of a coastal forecasting system for wind waves in the Mediterranean Sea [PDF]

open access: yesNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2012
A coastal forecasting system was implemented to provide wind wave forecasts over the whole Mediterranean Sea area, and with the added capability to focus on selected coastal areas. The goal of the system was to achieve a representation of the small-scale
R. Inghilesi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementation of Youth Empowerment Services (YES) juvenile justice diversion program: A first‐person account

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Santa Barbara County, the Youth Empowerment Services (YES) Program brought together several government and community‐based organizations, as well as a university‐based evaluation team, to provide pre‐adjudication diversion to youth ages 12 to 17.
Angela Pollard   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental investigations on protection effects of vegetation on coastal bridges against extreme waves

open access: yesAdvances in Bridge Engineering
Coastal bridges play a vital role in supporting transportation and economic activities in coastal regions but are increasingly vulnerable to extreme wave events, exacerbated by climate change and rising sea levels. Traditional engineering solutions, such
Deming Zhu, You Dong
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Girder Spacing and Depth on the Solitary Wave Impact on Coastal Bridge Deck for Different Airgaps

open access: yesJournal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2019
Coastal bridge damage has become a severe issue of concern in the recent past with the destruction of a considerable number of bridges under the impact of waves during tsunami and storm surges.
Rameeza Moideen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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