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Collection statistics provide valuable evidence against which to judge the development or decline of live plant collections. At the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) a recent audit of the collections and review of key indicators have proved very ...
David Rae
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Maintaining systems-of-systems fit-for-purpose [PDF]
The objective of this research is to create a method and process for the engineering of system characteristics so that composing Systems-of-Systems (SoS) that have experienced unpredictable changes in operation, composition or external factors can be ...
Michael Henshaw (1248246) +2 more
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Greening the UK financial system - a fit for purpose approach [PDF]
The transition to a low-carbon economy consistent with the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement represents the greatest challenge of our time. It requires structurally re-aligning our financial sector with the challenges and risks posed by climate change.
Nikolaidi, Maria +3 more
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As a nation with highly variable and limited availability of water resources, Zimbabwe relies on a vast and aging water infrastructure stock that requires prompt rehabilitation to better support the water, food, and energy sectors. The country has limited water resources, with much of its area classified as semi-arid with highly variable rainfall ...
Jan Wouter Vasbinder, Jonathan Y H Sim
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Colorectal cancer may be asymptomatic, and abdominal symptoms are a poor indicator of neoplasia. Early diagnosis is fundamental to improving survival and the current 2-week-wait (2WW) lower gastrointestinal pathway has had minimal impact on early diagnosis, as the number of cancers detected in ...
William, Howson +2 more
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This conference report summarized a full-day workshop, “best practices for the development and fit-for-purpose validation of biomarker methods,” which was held prior to the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) PharmSci360 Congress ...
Joel Mathews +14 more
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One of the most difficult types of land-related conflict is that between Indigenous peoples and third parties, such as settler farmers or companies looking for new opportunities who are encroaching on Indigenous communal lands.
Laura Becerra +5 more
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Air pollution measurement errors: is your data fit for purpose? [PDF]
When making measurements of air quality, having a reliable estimate of the measurement uncertainty is key to assessing the information content that an instrument is capable of providing, and thus its usefulness in a particular application.
S. Diez +10 more
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A discussion of the assumptions that underlie efforts to register land enables us to not only evaluate their validity across different contexts, but most importantly, to further understand how the low incidences of land registration might derive from ...
Zaid Abubakari +2 more
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In recent years, the use of crowdsourcing has positively transformed the way geographic information is collected, stored and analyzed. Many countries have promoted and funded research into the potential of using crowdsourcing in various fields of ...
Efthimios Bakogiannis +3 more
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