Understanding the coupled natural and human systems in Dryland East Asia
Environmental Research Letters, 2012 Stressors including regional climate change, economic development effects upon land use and an increasing demand for food production have resulted in significant impacts on the dryland ecosystems in the East Asia (DEA) region. Ecosystem services, such as its provisional services in providing forage for grazing as well as its functional services in ...
Jiaguo Qi +3 more
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Pathways to the Future: Community Dialogues on Adaptive Environmental Management Through Scenario Projection in Google Maps [PDF]
This paper presents research on the potential of interactive media for regional community dialogues on future uncertainties and complexities in coupled human and natural systems.
Janssen, R. +4 more
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The Self-Organization of Speech Sounds [PDF]
, 2005 The speech code is a vehicle of language: it defines a set of forms used by a community to carry information. Such a code is necessary to support the linguistic interactions that allow humans to communicate. How then may a speech code be formed prior to
Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves
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Energy efficient homes for rodent control across cityscapes
Environmental Research LettersCities spend millions of dollars on rodent mitigation to reduce public health risks. Despite these efforts, infestations remain high and distressing. Rodents thrive in the built environment in part due to reduced natural predators and their exploitation ...
Gabriel I Gadsden +2 more
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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2017 Introduction: As challenges to biodiversity mount, land-use policies have been implemented to balance human needs and the integrity of ecological systems.
Rebecca L. Lewison, Li An, Xiaodong Chen
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Coupled human and natural systems: The evolution and applications of an integrated framework : This article belongs to Ambio's 50th Anniversary Collection. Theme: Anthropocene. [PDF]
Ambio, 2021 Liu J +10 more
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β-Barrel scaffolds for the grafting of extracellular loops from G-protein-coupled receptors [PDF]
, 2017 Owing to the difficulties in production and purification of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), relatively little structural information is available about this class of receptors.
Kleinschmidt, Jörg H. +3 more
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Earth as a Hybrid Planet - The Anthropocene in an Evolutionary Astrobiological Context
, 2017 We develop a classification scheme for the evolutionary state of planets based on the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of their coupled systems, including the presence of a biosphere and the possibility of what we call an agency-dominated biosphere (i.e ...
Alberti, Marina +2 more
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Frontiers in socio-environmental research: components, connections, scale, and context
Ecology and Society, 2018 The complex and interdisciplinary nature of socio-environmental (SE) problems has led to numerous efforts to develop organizing frameworks to capture the structural and functional elements of SE systems. We evaluate six leading SE frameworks, i.e., human
Simone Pulver +6 more
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Global aging: emerging challenges [PDF]
, 2009 This repository item contains a single issue of The Pardee Papers, a series papers that began publishing in 2008 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
Crampton, Alexandra
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