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SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN HISTORIC CITIES OF ARID REGIONS WITH THE REVIVAL OF QANAT (YAZD CITY) [PDF]

open access: yesGeo Journal of Tourism and Geosites, 2021
Qanat is one of the cultural and geological attractions in arid regions. Iran's Qanat has become the 20th UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016. Since the Qanat is a cultural, historical, and ecological heritage in addition to its tectonic features, it can ...
Saeedeh MOAYEDFAR, Mehran FATEMI
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Cristóbal Nonato de Carlos Fuentes : Une esthétique du chaos au service du Mexique profond

open access: yesAmerika, 2021
It will be a question of showing, through some significant narratological samples taken from the novel Cristóbal Nonato by Carlos Fuentes, how the author, through writing his poetics of chaos, resecrate the Mexican hypermodern man in the diplomatic ...
Gérald Désert
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Temporal and Spatial Variations in NDVI and Analysis of the Driving Factors in the Desertified Areas of Northern China From 1998 to 2015

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2021
China faces some of the most serious desertification in the world, leading to many problems. To solve them, large-scale ecological restoration projects were implemented.
Xuyang Wang   +13 more
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Sterba’s Problem of Evil and a Penal Colony Theodicy

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Sterba argues that God would be ethically bound to implement a set of exceptionless evil prevention requirements. However, he argues that the world as we know it is not as it would be if God were applying them.
Gerald Harrison
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Cultivating Microalgae in Desert Conditions: Evaluation of the Effect of Light-Temperature Summer Conditions on the Growth and Metabolism of Nannochloropsis QU130

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
Temperature and light are two of the most crucial factors for microalgae production. Variations in these factors alter their growth kinetics, macromolecular composition and physiological properties, including cell membrane permeability and fluidity.
Hareb Al Jabri   +5 more
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Responses of Ephemeral Plants to Precipitation Changes and Their Effects on Community in Central Asia Cold Desert

open access: yesPlants, 2023
In the context of global climate change, changes in precipitation patterns will have profound effects on desert plants, particularly on shallow-rooted plants, such as ephemeral plants.
Xiaohan Mu   +4 more
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Validation of FY-4A Temperature Profiles by Radiosonde Observations in Taklimakan Desert in China

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2023
The atmospheric temperature profiles (ATPs) retrieved through the geostationary Interferometric Infrared Sounder (GIIRS) onboard the FY-4A satellite (GIIRS/FY-4A) can effectively fill the gap of the scarce conventional sounding data in the Taklimakan ...
Yufen Ma   +4 more
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Activity of tjakura (great desert skinks) at burrows in relation to plant cover and predators

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2023
Increased predation where ground cover is reduced after severe wildfire is increasingly implicated as a factor causing decline of vulnerable prey populations. In arid central Australia, one species detrimentally affected by repeated wildfire is the great
Jenna C. H. Ridley   +1 more
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Risk of Facilitated Invasion Depends Upon Invader Identity, Not Environmental Severity, Along an Aridity Gradient

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Positive interactions can drive the assembly of desert plant communities, but we know little about the species-specificity of positive associations between native shrubs and invasive annual species along aridity gradients.
Jacob E. Lucero   +5 more
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La démocratisation autrement ? Le paradigme de la modernisation à l’épreuve des réalités post-socialistes

open access: yesILCEA, 2010
The purpose of this study is to understand the representations which back the critic of the model of “liberal transition” in the post-Soviet space. It is based on a discourse analysis in intentionally radically different cases (Russia and the former East
Myriam Désert
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