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Improving Indonesia's Forest and Land Governance: Using a Delphi Approach to Identify Efficacious Interventions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
It is now recognized that addressing deforestation and forest and peatlands degradation and destruction in Indonesia requires improvements to land and forest governance. It is also accepted that further research is required into this large field of study

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Toward Predictable Nanomedicine: Current Forecasting Frameworks for Nanoparticle–Biology Interactions

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Predictive models successfully screen nanoparticles for toxicity and cellular uptake. Yet, complex biological dynamics and sparse, nonstandardized data limit their accuracy. The field urgently needs integrated artificial intelligence/machine learning, systems biology, and open‐access data protocols to bridge the gap between materials science and safe ...
Mariya L. Ivanova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Large acquisition of rights on forest lands for tropical timber concessions and commercial wood plantations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The recent attention given to the growing large-scale acquisition or leasing of public and private lands by commercial investors fails to pay attention to the extensive practice of and current trends in the leasing of industrial-scale forest concessions ...
Barney, Keith   +9 more
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Accelerating Discovery of Organic Molecular Crystals via Materials Informatics and Autonomous Experiments

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Materials informatics and autonomous experimentation are transforming the discovery of organic molecular crystals. This review presents an integrated molecule–crystal–function–optimization workflow combining machine learning, crystal structure prediction, and Bayesian optimization with robotic platforms.
Takuya Taniguchi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Timber Rotation on Multiple Stands with an Asymmetric Externality [PDF]

open access: yes
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/28/05.forest economics, multiple stands, non-timber goods, flood risk, spatial externality, additivity properties, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy, Q23, Q57,
Uchida, Emi
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Scientifically based biodiversity management in timber concessions: contribution to conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
During the past 25 years, forest laws in Central African countries have undergone major changes. Management plans were made mandatory: nearly 19 million hectares of timber concessions (38% of total granted concessions) were subject to a management plan ...
Bayol, Nicolas   +4 more
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Integrating Artificial Intelligence With Droplet‐Based Microfluidics: Advances, Challenges, and Emerging Opportunities

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Droplet‐based microfluidics enables precise, high‐throughput microscale reactions but continues to face challenges in scalability, reproducibility, and data complexity. This review examines how artificial intelligence enhances droplet generation, detection, sorting, and adaptive control and discusses emerging opportunities for clinical and industrial ...
Junyan Lai   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financing CFM through REDD [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The Technology and Sustainable Development section of the Clean Technology and Environmental Policy Group, University of Twente, is working on a project financed by Netherlands Development Cooperation entitled “Kyoto: Think Global, Act Local” which will ...
Skutsch, Margaret
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Deep Reinforcement Learning Approaches for Sensor Data Collection by a Swarm of UAVs

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This article presents four decentralized reinforcement learning algorithms for autonomous data harvesting and investigates how collaboration improves collection efficiency. It also presents strategies to minimize training times by improving model flexibility, enabling algorithms to operate with varying number of agents and sensors.
Thiago de Souza Lamenza   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

FOREST POLICY [PDF]

open access: yesThe Forestry Chronicle, 1942
openaire   +1 more source

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