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Outsourcing Control Requires Control Complexity

Artificial Life
Abstract An embodied agent influences its environment and is influenced by it. We use the sensorimotor loop to model these interactions and quantify the information flows in the system by information-theoretic measures. This includes a measure for the interaction among the agent’s body and its environment, often referred to as ...
Langer, Carlotta, Ay, Nihat
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Iowa Population Exposures to Metals and Metalloids in Well Water

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous Iowa studies suggest low levels and chronic arsenic exposures are associated with prostate cancer. The rural Iowa population heavily relies on private wells for drinking water resources and thus is vulnerable to contaminants such as heavy metals found in well water.
Donald L. Simmons, Brian Wels, Alyssa Mattson, Elizabeth M. Miller, Zachary E. Hoggarth, Maya Sternberg, Susie Y. Dai, Dustin May, Michael Schueller, Michael Pentella   +9 more
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Aedes albopictus (S) na região de São José do Rio Preto, SP: estudo da sua infestação em área já ocupada pelo Aedes aegypti e discussão de seu papel como possível vetor de dengue e febre amarela

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2002
Os objetivos deste trabalho foram estudar a evolução da infestação pelo Aedes albopictus na região de São José do Rio Preto, área já ocupada pelo Aedes aegypti e discutir seu papel na transmissão de doenças.
Francisco Chiaravalloti Neto, Margareth Regina Dibo, Angelita Anália Carniel Barbosa, Marcos Battigaglia   +3 more
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Suitability of leguminous cover crop pollens as food source for the green lacewing Chrysoperla externa (Hagen) (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae). [PDF]

, 2006
Diversification of crops with species that provide suitable pollen for predators may reduce pest population on crops by enhancing predator effectiveness.
Euzébio, Denise E., Rosado, Maria C., Schoereder, José H., Souza, Brígida, Venzon, Madelaine   +4 more
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Scaling from microsite to landscape to resolve litter decomposition dynamics in globally extensive drylands

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Decomposition is the transformation of dead organic matter into its inorganic constituents. In most biomes, decomposition rates can be accurately predicted with simple mathematical models, but these models have long under‐predicted decomposition in globally extensive ...
Heather L. Throop, Jiwei Li, Daryl L. Moorhead, Sasha C. Reed, Katherine E. O. Todd‐Brown, Alexi C. Besser, Dellena Evelyn Bloom, Thomas C. Ingalls, Alejandro Cueva   +8 more
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Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe Changer le monde, ferme par ferme : le soin moral de l'audit et le paradoxe des contrôles du bien‐être animal en Europe

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In European animal welfare inspection on farms and at slaughter, inspectors encounter moral challenges that reveal the paradox at the heart of animal welfare. Against the harsh realities of industrial agriculture, not only are their idealized notions of animal wellbeing unrealizable, but inspectors are instrumental in perpetuating standards of welfare ...
Eimear Mc Loughlin
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Resultados do controle de desenvolvimento ponderal - Raça Gir - 1976/1984. [PDF]

, 2015
A Raça Gir. Controle de desenvolvimento ponderal. Considerações sobre os resultados do controle de desenvolvimento ponderal das Raças Gir e Gir variedade Mocha. Controle ponderal das Raças Gir e Gir variedade mocha a nível nacional.
EUCLIDES FILHO, K., GUIMARAES, D. R., MARIANTE, A. da S., MATTOS, S. de, NOBRE, P. R. C., ROSA, A. do N.   +5 more
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Controlling Internal Controls

Public Administration Review, 2006
Two recent examinations of management practices in three federal departments provide contemporary evidence of the need to incorporate procedures like those of the Sarbanes‐Oxley Act in the public sector. Although each department established what appeared to be well‐designed internal controls, all lacked sufficient monitoring and assessment of the ...
Nancy Roberts, Philip J. Candreva
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‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine « Vitamines », courts‐circuits et citoyenneté sportive en Éthiopie et au Cameroun : l’éthique du sport, au‐delà de la biomédecine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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Controle integrado de moscas em avicultura intensiva de postura. I. Controle da criação de moscas no esterco. [PDF]

, 2015
Medidas de controle mecanico; Medidas de controle biologico; Medidas de controle quimico.bitstream/item/59444/1/CUsersPiazzonDocuments7 ...
PEDROSO DE PAIVA, D.
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