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Cascading Drought‐Heat Dynamics During the 2021 Southwest United States Heatwave

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, 2022
In June of 2021 the Southwest United States experienced a record‐breaking heatwave. This heatwave came at a time when the region was in severe drought.
M. Osman, B. F. Zaitchik, N. S. Winstead
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Describing complex interactions of social-ecological systems for tipping point assessments: an analytical framework

open access: yesFrontiers in Climate, 2023
Humans play an interconnecting role in social-ecological systems (SES), they are part of these systems and act as agents of their destruction and regulation.
Rebecca Froese   +38 more
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A prototype Earth system impact metric that accounts for cross-scale interactions

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2021
Human activities are disrupting the Earth system’s biophysical processes, which underlie human wellbeing. The planetary boundary framework sets ‘safe’ global limits on these pressures, but a sub-global assessment of these pressures, their interactions ...
Steven J Lade   +3 more
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An assessment of the effectiveness and perception of the doodle – Video reinforced teaching method

open access: yesBLDE University Journal of Health Sciences, 2023
BACKGROUND: Today, doodle videos are employed as a teaching tool in contemporary education, and they are known to aid in the development of attention and likelihood of increase in the memory.
Anita Teli   +3 more
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Effect of scavenging on predation in a food web

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2021
Scavenging can have important consequences for food web dynamics, for example, it may support additional consumer species and affect predation on live prey. Still, few food web models include scavenging.
Jarad P. Mellard   +5 more
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THE USE OF PARABOLIC SPLINEES IN CAD OF LINEAR STRUCTURES

open access: yesРоссийский технологический журнал, 2018
The article continues studying the problem of the calculus of variations that occurs in line structures routing, in particular, roads. The task is to find a line that satisfies all technical constraints and gives a minimum of a given functional, for ...
V. I. Struchenkov
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Information and entropy theory for the sustainability of coupled human and natural systems

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2014
For coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), sustainability can be defined operationally as a feasible, desirable set of flows (material, currency, information, energy, individuals, etc.) that can be maintained despite internal changes and changes in ...
Audrey L. Mayer   +2 more
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Long term impacts of transitions in charcoal production systems in tropical biomes

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2021
Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions through transitions to biomass-based renewable energy may result in higher land needs, affecting ecosystem services and livelihoods.
Hanneke van ‘t Veen   +3 more
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Land-use change in a telecoupled world: the relevance and applicability of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Laos

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2017
Land-use change is increasingly influenced by complex socioeconomic and environmental interactions that transcend spatial, institutional, and temporal scales.
Cecilie Friis   +1 more
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