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Precautionary Regulation in Europe and the United States: A Quantitative Comparison [PDF]

, 2005
Much attention has been addressed to the question of whether Europe or the United States adopts a more precautionary stance to the regulation of potential environmental, health, and safety risks.
Blomquist W., Breyer S., Brickman R., Englander T., Goszczynska M., Haward S. F., Hohenemser C., Jasanoff S., Jasanoff S., Kagan R. A., Kelman S., King G., Kolluru R. V., Koren H., Kraus N. N., Lazarus R., Levy D. L., Lynch D., McDaniels T., Rehbinder E., Reitz J. C., Renn O., Rose-Ackerman S., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Vig N., Vogel D., Vogel D., Wiener J. B., Wiener J. B.   +28 more
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Visual search in ecological and non-ecological displays: Evidence for a non-monotonic effect of complexity on performance [PDF]

, 2012
Copyright @ 2013 PLoSThis article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Considerable research has been carried out on visual search, with single or multiple targets. However, most studies have used artificial stimuli with
A Schwaninger, Adrian G. Dyer, EM Reingold, EM Reingold, F Gobet, F Gobet, F Gobet, Fernand Gobet, HA Simon, ID Gilchrist, J Shen, JD Milojkovic, M Bilalic, MB Neider, N Lavie, P Saariluoma, Philippe Chassy, WG Chase   +17 more
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Unveiling connectivity patterns of categories in complex systems: an application to human needs in urban places [PDF]

, 2016
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of mathematical sociology on 06/09/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0022250X.2016.1219855We present a methodology based on weighted ...
Papachristou, Ioanna Anna, Rosas Casals, Martí   +1 more
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Coastal Wetlands Play an Important Role in the Ecological Security Pattern of the Coastal Zone

Land, 2022
The construction of an ecological security pattern can effectively overcome the contradiction between regional human exploitation and ecological protection in the coastal zone.
Qingchuan Yang, Congying He, Yuankai Xu, Yunqi Ye, Hong Guo, Shu Zhang, Fan Li, Kui Liu   +7 more
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Affordances and Safe Design of Assistance Wearable Virtual Environment of Gesture [PDF]

, 2015
Safety and reliability are the main issues for designing assistance wearable virtual environment of technical gesture in aerospace, or health application domains.
Fass, Didier
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Construction of an Ecological Security Structure in Fuzhou City of Jiangxi Provicne Based on an MCR Model

Shuitu baochi tongbao, 2022
[Objective] An urban ecological security pattern were constructd to identify the main ecological corridors in order to provide a scientific reference for optimizing the ecological pattern in urban land spatial planning.
Chen Qun, Liu Pinghui, Zhu Chuanmin
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Reviving egalitarianism in the Global Transformation: Building occupational security [PDF]

, 2008
The world is in the midst of a Global Transformation, reflecting the painful creation of a global market society. Globalization was the disembedded phase, in which inequalities and insecurities multiplied as national systems of regulation, social ...
Standing, Guy
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Identification of Land Use Conflicts in Shandong Province from an Ecological Security Perspective

Land, 2022
Accurate identification of land use conflicts is an important prerequisite for the rational allocation of land resources and optimizing the production–living–ecological space pattern.
Guanglong Dong, Zhonghao Liu, Yuanzhao Niu, Wenya Jiang   +3 more
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Linking ecosystem services and circuit theory to identify ecological security patterns [PDF]

Science of The Total Environment, 2018
The rapid process of urbanization, accompanied by the sharp increase of urban population and expansion of artificial surface, has resulted in the loss of natural ecosystems and the degradation of ecosystem services. Identifying and protecting key places that have high importance for ecological sustainability are great challenges.
Peng, J., Yang, Y., Liu, Y., Hu, Y., Du, Y., Meersmans, Jeroen, Qiu, S.   +6 more
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Construction of ecological security pattern of national ecological barriers for ecosystem health maintenance

Ecological Indicators, 2023
The National Ecological Barrier Zones are an important part of China’s ecological security strategy. The construction of a scientific and reasonable ecological security pattern (ESP) is important for the healthy development of national ecological barrier zones.
Chen Li, Yingmei Wu, Binpin Gao, Kejun Zheng, Yan Wu, Mengjiao Wang   +5 more
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