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Managing uncertainty in decision‐making for conservation science

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Science‐based decision‐making is the ideal. However, scientific knowledge is incomplete, and sometimes wrong. Responsible science‐based policy, planning, and action must exploit knowledge while managing uncertainty. I considered the info‐gap method to manage deep uncertainty surrounding knowledge that is used for decision‐making in ...
Yakov Ben‐Haim
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating larval connectivity into the marine conservation decision‐making process across spatial scales

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 3, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Larval dispersal connectivity is typically integrated into spatial conservation decisions at regional or national scales, but implementing agencies struggle with translating these methods to local scales. We used larval dispersal connectivity at regional (hundreds of kilometers) and local (tens of kilometers) scales to aid in design of ...
Dominic Muenzel   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Special pension schemes for workers in arduous and hazardous jobs: Functions and conditions to ensure equal treatment

open access: yesInternational Social Security Review, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 109-126, January/March 2023., 2023
Abstract Most jurisdictions grant differentiated and more beneficial treatment – usually in the form of early retirement, and commonly under special pension schemes – to workers in arduous or hazardous jobs. Several justifications for such treatment have been advanced, including i) compensating the worker for the hardship, ii) protecting the worker ...
Sergio Mittlaender
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive empathy across the lifespan

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, Volume 64, Issue 12, Page 1524-1531, December 2022., 2022
What this paper adds Cognitive empathy is a late‐developing ability and changes across the lifespan. Cognitive empathy increases during childhood but with potentially altered abilities during adolescence. Cognitive empathy matures during early adulthood and gradually declines in older age.
Liam Dorris   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making Friends, Building Roads: Chinese Entrepreneurship and the Search for Reliability in Angola

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 123, Issue 2, Page 343-354, June 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT Based on fieldwork conducted in 2013–2014 with a provincial‐level Chinese state‐owned construction firm in Luanda, this article examines how Chinese businesses attempted to expand in the aftermath of a booming period of Angolan postwar reconstruction. Chinese entrepreneurs found that business could only be done with the help of local mediators
Cheryl Mei‐ting Schmitz
wiley   +1 more source

The bean method as a tool to measure sensitive behavior

open access: yesConservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 722-732, April 2021., 2021
Abstract Conservationists need to measure human behavior to guide decisions and evaluate their impact. However, activities can be misreported and reporting accuracy may change following conservation interventions, making it hard to verify any apparent changes.
Sorrel Jones   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Las tiendas de conveniencia y su configuración sociotécnica. Insumos conceptuales a partir de un caso de estudio

open access: yesPsicología, Educación & Sociedad, 2023
Las tiendas de conveniencia representan en la actualidad un esquema organizacional que une en un solo ámbito la venta de servicios financieros y de abasto.
Eduardo Luna Ruiz   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

EVALUACIÓN ECONÓMICA Y FINANCIERA DE LA IMPLEMENTACIÓN DE UN BIODIGESTOR EN UN TAMBO DE LA CUENCA LECHERA SANTAFESINA

open access: yesFave: Sección Ciencias Agrarias, 2020
El objetivo del trabajo es evaluar la factibilidad técnica y conveniencia económica de la instalación de un biodigestor para la obtención de biogás y biofertilizante como alternativa para el tratamiento de efluentes en un tambo de la cuenca lechera ...
M. N. ROSTAGNO   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Edition of Ambrosio Nieto’s Paradise Lost: A Drama in Four Acts (c. 1920–50)

open access: yes, 2023
Milton Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 59-88, October 2023.
Angelica Duran
wiley   +1 more source

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