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Disturbance ecology in human societies

People and Nature, 2023
AbstractWe define societal disturbances as discrete events that abruptly disrupt the functioning of human societies. There is a variety of such events, including hurricanes, floods, epidemics, nuclear accidents, earthquakes and wars, among others. These disturbances can interact, further increasing their impacts.
Pausas, Juli G., Leverkus, Alexandro B.
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An Adaptive Management Model for Brown Bears in Hokkaido: Based on Total Population and the Number of Nuisance Bears

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
Bear management changes management actions according to the horizontal axis of the population size and the vertical axis of the number of nuisance bears. Aiming for the target population size of Ntar, Actions I and II protect the bears, and Action IV reduces the population.
Hiroyuki Matsuda, Akira Maki, Tsutomu Mano, Hifumi Tsuruga, Hino Takafumi, Shinichi Horino   +5 more
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The importance of human ecology to the understanding of women´s homelessness

Forum Sociológico
This article draws on part of my research on women´s homelessness, which was conducted for my PhD in human ecology, to explain the importance of a human ecological lens for a broader understanding of this phenomenon.
Sónia Nobre
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Estimation of risk to health of the population of mining territories of bashkortostan connected with quality of drinking water supply

Analiz Riska Zdorovʹû, 2016
The ecology-hygienic problems connected with quality of drinking water supply of the settlements, located on territories with the developed mining industry are considered in this article.
R.A. Suleimanov, A.B. Bakirov, T.K. Valeev, N.R. Rakhmatullin, Z.B. Baktybaeva, R.A. Daukaev, N.N. Egorova   +6 more
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Speciation Through the Lens of Population Dynamics: A Theoretical Primer on How Small and Large Populations Diverge

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
Population size and dynamics fundamentally shape speciation by influencing genetic drift, founder events, and adaptive potential. Small populations may speciate rapidly due to stronger drift, whereas large populations harbor more genetic diversity, which can alter divergence trajectories. We highlight theoretical models that incorporate population size
Ryo Yamaguchi, Hidaka Kubo, Tokuya Ogawa, Hayate Omura   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Robot rights? Towards a social-relational justification of moral consideration \ud [PDF]

, 2010
Should we grant rights to artificially intelligent robots? Most current and near-future robots do not meet the hard criteria set by deontological and utilitarian theory. Virtue ethics can avoid this problem with its indirect approach.
A MacIntyre, A MacIntyre, B Latour, B Whitby, C Breazeal, C Ess, C Gilligan, C Taylor, D Levy, DA Dombrowski, DJ Calverley, Eva F Kittay, J Clark, J Hacker-Wright, JR Searle, JR Searle, L Floridi, L Floridi, M Coeckelbergh, M Coeckelbergh, M Coeckelbergh, M Midgley, MA Warren, Mark Coeckelbergh, MC Nussbaum, MC Nussbaum, NE Sharkey, P Singer, P Singer, PL Berger, PM Asaro, R Hursthouse, R Kurzweil, R Nordahl, S Ruddick, S Torrance, T Regan, W Wallach   +37 more
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Microbial exopolysaccharide production by polyextremophiles in the adaptation to multiple extremes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Polyextremophiles are microorganisms that endure multiple extreme conditions by various adaptation strategies that also include the production of exopolysaccharides (EPSs). This review provides an integrated perspective on EPS biosynthesis, function, and regulation in these organisms, emphasizing their critical role in survival and highlighting their ...
Tracey M Gloster, Ebru Toksoy Öner
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Revealing the structure of land plant photosystem II: the journey from negative‐stain EM to cryo‐EM

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Advances in cryo‐EM have revealed the detailed structure of Photosystem II, a key protein complex driving photosynthesis. This review traces the journey from early low‐resolution images to high‐resolution models, highlighting how these discoveries deepen our understanding of light harvesting and energy conversion in plants.
Roman Kouřil
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Pluralism, Resilience, and the Ecology of Survival: Case Studies from the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan

Ecology and Society, 2010
As resilience is observed under circumstances of systemic stress, the various ecological zones of the Pamir Mountains of Afghanistan and the cultural diversity contained within this milieu provide an appropriate setting from which to ask "How can a ...
Karim-Aly S. Kassam
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Ecological Approaches to Human Nutrition [PDF]

Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2011
Background Malnutrition affects a large number of people throughout the developing world. Approaches to reducing malnutrition rarely focus on ecology and agriculture to simultaneously improve human nutrition and environmental sustainability. However, evidence suggests that interdisciplinary approaches that combine the knowledge bases of these ...
DeClerck, Fabrice A.J., Fanzo, J.C., Palm, Cheryl A., Remans, R.   +3 more
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