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Mapping the Sustainable Development Goals Relationships
Sustainability, 2020 Sustainable development addresses humanity’s aspiration for a better life while observing the limitations imposed by nature. In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly approved the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the aim to foster the ...
L. Fonseca +2 more
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IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote SensingForests are vital carbon sinks, with tree height and biomass critical for carbon research. NASA's GEDI spaceborne LiDAR enhances vegetation monitoring through 3D structure analysis.
Bo Zhang +5 more
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Higher education and the Sustainable Development Goals
Higher Education, 2020 This special issue of Higher Education focuses on higher education and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 SDGs adopted by all United Nations member states in 2015 cover a broad range of issues related to socio-economic, environmental and ...
M. Chankseliani, T. McCowan
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Land, 2023 Land use and land cover (LULC) changes are of vital significance in fields such as environmental impact assessment and natural disaster monitoring. This study, through an analysis of 1432 papers over the past decade employing quantitative, qualitative ...
Caixia Rong, Wenxue Fu
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Grit, self-efficacy, achievement orientation goals, and academic performance in University students
International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 2020 The current study investigated the relationships between grit, self-efficacy, achievement orientation goals, and academic performance in parallel and serial mediation models.
Amal Alhadabi, Aryn C. Karpinski
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Soccer: is scoring goals a predictable Poissonian process? [PDF]
, 2000 The non-scientific event of a soccer match is analysed on a strictly scientific level. The analysis is based on the recently introduced concept of a team fitness (Eur. Phys. J. B 67, 445, 2009) and requires the use of finite-size scaling.
Chamblin, A. +3 more
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A high temporal resolution global gridded dataset of human thermal stress metrics
Scientific DataThe human thermal stress indices and datasets are vital for promoting public health and reducing negative environmental impacts as global climate change and extreme meteorological events increase.
Hongdeng Jian +12 more
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, 1981 Cost goal activities for the point focusing parabolic dish program are reported. Cost goals involve three tasks: (1) determination of the value of the dish systems to potential users; (2) the cost targets of the dish system are set out; (3) the value ...
Hoag, J.
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada
Population Ecology, EarlyView.We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
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Scientific DataThe coastline reflects coastal environmental processes and dynamic changes, serving as a fundamental parameter for coast. Although several global coastline datasets have been developed, they mainly focus on coastal morphology, the typology of coastlines ...
Jian Zuo +8 more
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