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David and Karin Pfennig introduce character displacement, the divergent evolution of traits in overlapping species.
David W, Pfennig, Karin S, Pfennig
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There are now an estimated 114 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, some 88% of whom are in low- and middle-income countries. For governments and international organizations to design effective policies and responses, they require comparable and ...
Patrick Michael Brock +1 more
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Climate change is leading to more extreme weather hazards, forcing human populations to be displaced. We employ explainable machine learning techniques to model and understand internal displacement flows and patterns from observational data alone.
Michele Ronco +8 more
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Improved procedure for determining the ductility of buildings under seismic loads [PDF]
Displacement ductility is a parameter that characterizes the seismic response of structures. Moreover, displacement ductility can be used in order to determine whether a structural design, performed according to a specific seismic code or not, may ...
Mulder, María M. +1 more
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Increasing conflicts between farmers and pastoralists continue to be a major challenge in the Sahel. Political and social factors are in tandem important underlying determinants for conflicts in the region, which are amplified by the variability and ...
Maximilian Schwarz +6 more
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A Vibrational Approach to Node Centrality and Vulnerability in Complex Networks [PDF]
We propose a new measure of vulnerability of a node in a complex network. The measure is based on the analogy in which the nodes of the network are represented by balls and the links are identified with springs.
Barthelemy +31 more
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Housing, Land and Property in Conflict and Displacement Settings
La vivienda y el suelo son las primeras cosas que las personas desplazadas pierden cuando son obligadas a abandonar sus lugares de origen. Una vez recuperada la paz y asentada la seguridad en el país las PDI, a menudo, tienen dificultades para recuperar ...
Barbara McCallin
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Defining and measuring displacement: is relocation from restructured neighbourhoods always unwelcome and disruptive? [PDF]
Current regeneration policy has been described as ‘state-led gentrification’, with comparisons made with the ‘social disruption’ caused by slum clearance of the 1950s and 1960s.
Ade Kearns +39 more
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Internet-based IDP network [PDF]
“Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world. Indeed, they are the only ones who ever can.” (Margaret Mead)
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
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Background: There are about 55 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), and some live in camp settlements, often for protracted periods. However, there is limited evidence on camp management and self-management strategies adopted by camp-dwelling IDPs.
Winifred Ekezie
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