A Note on Extending Taylor's Power Law for Characterizing Human Microbial Communities: Inspiration from Comparative Studies on the Distribution Patterns of Insects and Galaxies, and as a Case Study for Medical Ecology [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 Many natural patterns, such as the distributions of blood particles in a blood sample, proteins on cell surfaces, biological populations in their habitat, galaxies in the universe, the sequence of human genes, and the fitness in evolutionary computing, have been found to follow power law.
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Human macroecology: linking pattern and process in big‐picture human ecology
Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2012 Humans have a dual nature. We are subject to the same natural laws and forces as other species yet dominate global ecology and exhibit enormous variation in energy use, cultural diversity, and apparent social organization.
William R. Burnside +5 more
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Impact of nutrition education on nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and practices among adolescent girls in Bogor, Indonesia [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesNutrition education is a potentially effective intervention for improving adolescent’s nutritional status. This study aims to analyze the effects of nutrition education on the scores of nutrition knowledge, attitude, and practice of adolescent girls at ...
Widya Azhari Salma +9 more
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Structure, Function and Diversity of the Healthy Human Microbiome
Nature, 2012 Studies of the human microbiome have revealed that even healthy individuals differ remarkably in the microbes that occupy habitats such as the gut, skin and vagina. Much of this diversity remains unexplained, although diet, environment, host genetics and
C. Huttenhower +247 more
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L’hospitalité urbaine : une lecture croisée des approches de Park et Joseph
Sociologies, 2018 This article examines the contours of urban hospitality in Park and Joseph works. Joseph draws inspiration from the work of human ecology to consider urban hospitality from the point of view of public spaces and civic order. Human ecology, however, shows
Louise Carlier
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Spatial Explorations and Digital Traces: Experiences of Legal Blindness through Filmmaking
Societies, 2016 Descriptions of legal blindness, as lived experience—involving continual movement between the world of sightedness and blindness—are largely absent within medical models of disability.
Adolfo Ruiz, Megan Strickfaden
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In-plant noise as occupational risk factor at petrochemical plants
Analiz Riska Zdorovʹû, 2017 The article summarizes the data obtained in long-term research on working conditions estimates and studying damages to hearing organs in workers employed at petrochemical plants. We chose workers employed at five basic organic synthesis productions as an
A.D. Volgareva +4 more
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Bridging Ecology and Cloud: Transposing Ecological Prespective to Enable Better Cloud Autoscaling [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Elastic autoscaling is the fundamental mechanism that enables the cloud-based services to continually evolve themselves - through changing the related software configurations and hardware resource provisions - under time-varying workloads. However, given the increasingly complex dynamic, uncertainty and trade-offs related to the runtime QoS and cost ...
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Environmental Ecology versus Human Ecology
Kwartalnik Naukowy Fides et Ratio, 2021 A collation of environmental ecology with human ecology was the essence of the article. The field of the research included the topics: blending the range of care for ecosystem with the responsibility for our own human nature; presenting a connection between sexuality and procreation concentrated on the gift of marital unity yet protecting the dignity ...
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Spatial panorama of malaria prevalence in Africa under climate change and interventions scenarios
International Journal of Health Geographics, 2018 Background Malaria is highly sensitive to climatic variables and is strongly influenced by the presence of vectors in a region that further contribute to parasite development and sustained disease transmission.
Francois M. Moukam Kakmeni +5 more
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