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Ecology and Society, 2013 Cultural landscapes are appreciated for the plethora of ecosystem services that they provide to society. They are, however, subject to rapid and fundamental transformations across Europe, mainly as a result of intensification or abandonment of land uses.
Tobias Plieninger +5 more
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, 2019 Ecosystem services evaluation refers to the quantification of the benefits that Nature provides to people. It includes a series of evaluation methods largely derived from environmental economics techniques. These methods allow consideration of the role of the environment for society and the economy, in terms of direct and indirect uses, as well as in ...
Coscieme, Luca, C Stout, Jane
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Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.Cornus mas L. seeds are transformed into a high‐performance biosorbent through chemical modification, effectively removing methylene blue from aqueous solutions. Comprehensive characterization and optimization reveal a maximum biosorption capacity of 71.71 mg g−1, establishing this sustainable, cost‐effective material as a promising solution for ...
Hakan Yıldız +2 more
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Manufacturing Service Innovation Ecosystem [PDF]
, 2013 Due to the increasing global commercial competition, the current economic crisis and globalization, enterprises would like to shift from a pure product sales structure towards after-sales services and related activities. It is noteworthy that “profit generated by after-sale service is often higher than the one obtained with sales; the service market ...
TAISCH, MARCO +2 more
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3D Printing of Soft Robotic Systems: Advances in Fabrication Strategies and Future Trends
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Collectively, this review systematically examines 3D‐printed soft robotics, encompassing material selections, function integration, and manufacturing methodologies. Meanwhile, fabrication strategies are analyzed in order of increasing complexity, highlighting persistent challenges with proposed solutions.
Changjiang Liu +5 more
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Land, 2021 Ecosystem services are benefits that the natural environment provides to support human well-being. A thorough understanding and assessment of these services are critical to maintain ecosystem services flow through sustainable land management to optimize ...
Yang Bai +3 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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The Malware as a Service Ecosystem
The goal of this chapter is to illuminate the operational frameworks, key actors, and significant cybersecurity implications of the Malware as a Service (MaaS) ecosystem. Highlighting the transformation of malware proliferation into a service-oriented model, the chapter discusses how MaaS democratises access to sophisticated cyberattack capabilities ...
Patsakis, Constantinos +2 more
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, 2016 Wetlands provide important and diverse benefits to people around the world, contributing provisioning, regulating, habitat, and cultural services. Critical regulating services include water-quality improvement, flood abatement and carbon management, while key habitat services are provided by wetland biodiversity.
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Service Selection in Business Service Ecosystem [PDF]
, 2009 A world-wide community of service providers has a presence on the web, and people seeking services typically go to the web as an initial place to search for them. Service selection is comprised of two steps: finding service candidates using search engines and selecting those which meet desired service properties best. Within the context of Web Services,
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