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Certification Systems as Tools for Natural Asset Building: Potential, Experiences to Date, and Critical Challenges [PDF]

, 2005
Certification systems are becoming important tools to encourage and reward social and environmental responsibility. This paper explores whether these systems, which generally have not been designed for the explicit aim of poverty reduction, can assist ...
Michael E. Conroy
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The forester\u27s dilemma : paradoxes in the criteria and indicators for sustainable forestry [PDF]

, 2001
Since sustainable forestry is a complex endeavor, paradoxes naturally exist in the certification criteria and indicators. There are different ways to establish the sustainability horizon and alternative harvest profiles that, although sustainable, may ...
Howard, Theodore E.
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Preparation, Physicochemical Characteristics and Rheological Properties of Forster (Trachiocephalus myops) Scale Collagen

Shipin gongye ke-ji
Fish collagen has significant market application potential, however, current fish collagen products do not meet the consumer demand. To develop new sources of collagen, Forster scales were utilized as raw material to prepare Forster scale collagen (FSC ...
Cong KE, Jianlin HE, Yushuang LI, Yan ZHENG, Xiyuan GAO, Hetong LIN, Junde CHEN   +6 more
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The Foreign Sales Corporation: Reaching the Last Act? [PDF]

Some trade disputes--like long Russian novels--never seem to end. The United States, Europe, and other trading nations have disputed the taxation of export earnings since the 1970s. To understand why the Foreign Sales Corporation (FSC) dispute is so hard
Gary Clyde Hufbauer
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On the immunological evaluation of potato variety “Askol’d”

Овощи России
Relevance. Plant breeding for resistance to pests is the most radical and effective method for decreasing the enormous yield loss caused by leaf-eating, sucking, and mining insects.
N. V. Matsishina, M. V. Ermak, P. V. Fisenko, I. V. Kim   +3 more
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Feasibility and effectiveness of global intact forest landscape protection through forest certification: the conservation burden of intact forest landscapes

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Intact Forest Landscapes (IFLs) are defined as forested areas of at least 500 km2 that show no signs of remotely sensed human activity. They are considered to be of high conservation value due to their role in maintaining biodiversity and mitigating ...
Joeri A. Zwerts, Chaia M. van der Linde, Gijsbert J. Praamstra, Joep Schipper, Franck Trolliet, Patrick O. Waeber, Patrick O. Waeber, Claude A. Garcia, Claude A. Garcia   +8 more
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Straightening FSC curves

AbstractThe Fourier Shell Correlation (FSC) is traditionally calculated in resolution shells and plotted as a function of the inverse resolution. To ensure consistent statistics, these resolution shells should ideally contain an equal number of Fourier coefficients, at least approximately.
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Exploring the Links Between Forest Stewardship Council Certification and Biodiversity Outcomes at a Global Level

Land
Forests contain just under 58% of all known species globally, with approximately 61% of these found in countries with Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified forests.
Parag Kadam, Puneet Dwivedi
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Практика FSC-сертификации

, 2013
Знак FSC – показатель того, что продукция происходит из леса, в котором ведется экологически и социально ответственное лесное ...
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Self Fourier shell correlation: properties and application to cryo-ET

Communications Biology
The Fourier shell correlation (FSC) is a measure of the similarity between two signals computed over corresponding shells in the frequency domain and has broad applications in microscopy.
Eric J. Verbeke, Marc Aurèle Gilles, Tamir Bendory, Amit Singer   +3 more
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