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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
Flor Avelino +3 more
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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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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.
Adel Loghmani +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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Beyond Cultural History? The Material Turn, Praxiography, and Body History
Humanities, 2014 The body came to be taken seriously as a topic of cultural history during the “corporeal” or “bodily” turn in the 1980s and 1990s. Soon, however, critique was raised against these studies’ conceptualization of the body as discursively shaped and socially
Iris Clever, Willemijn Ruberg
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Machine Learning, 1999 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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