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Understanding the drift of Shackleton's Endurance during its last days before it sank in November 1915, using meteorological reanalysis data [PDF]
History of Geo- and Space Sciences, 2023 On 5 December 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew set sail from South Georgia aboard the wooden barquentine vessel Endurance, beginning the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition to cross the Antarctic continent.
M. de Vos +5 more
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City, Territory and Architecture, 2022 This explorative paper introduces the idea of radical transitions as a necessary starting point for policy and governance. The urgency to achieve transformative change facing climate change and biodiversity loss is now broadly shared, but the dominant ...
Derk A. Loorbach
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Encapsulation: A Strategy to Deliver Therapeutics and Bioactive Compounds?
Pharmaceuticals, 2023 There is a growing demand for efficient medical therapies without undesired side effects that limit their application. Targeted therapies such as deliveries of pharmacologically active compounds to a specific site of action in the human body are still a ...
Iveta Klojdová +3 more
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Facing the Adaptive Management Challenge: Insights from Transition Management
Ecology and Society, 2007 Recent research suggests that transitions toward adaptive water management regimes are needed because current water management regimes cannot adequately respond to uncertainty. The pivotal question is how to understand and manage such transitions.
Rutger van der Brugge, Roel van Raak
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Game-changers and transformative social innovation
Ecology and Society, 2017 This editorial introduces the special feature on the role of game-changers, broadly conceptualized as macro-trends that change the "rules of the game," in processes of transformative social innovation. First, the key concepts are introduced together with
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Conceptualizing, Observing, and Influencing Social-Ecological Transitions
Ecology and Society, 2009 This article creates a meeting ground between two distinct and fairly elaborate research traditions dealing with social "transitions": the Dutch societal transitions management approach, and the Viennese sociometabolic transitions approach.
Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Jan Rotmans
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Performance Research, 2018 “Road Drift” has been conceived as a counterpart to “Road Rumour: Ground Plans for the Sky Blue City” which appeared in Performance Research journal's centenary edition (23.4/5, 2018). This fictional piece presented an anonymous document – a text + image montage – entitled ‘Bare City: We’ll Live and Die in These Towns’ which envisaged the fantasy of ...
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A New Relationship to Determine Fundamental Natural Period of Vibration for Irregular Buildings in Height Using Artificial Neural Network [PDF]
Journal of Rehabilitation in Civil Engineering, 2021 One of the most important structural features is fundamental vibration period which depends significantly on the inherent characteristics of structures.
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Journal of Econometrics, 2022 Drift and volatility are two mainsprings of asset price dynamics. While volatilities have been studied extensively in the literature, drifts are commonly believed to be impossible to estimate and largely ignored in the literature. This paper shows how to detect drift using realized autocovariance implemented on high-frequency data. We use a theoretical
Laurent, Sébastien +2 more
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Ecology and Society, 2016 Continuing economic turbulence has fuelled debates about social and political reform as much as it has stimulated actions and initiatives aimed at a more fundamental transition of dominant economic systems.
Derk Loorbach +6 more
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