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The impacts of climate change on fish growth: A summary of conducted studies and current knowledge
Global climate change is increasingly and profoundly threatening fishes, resulting in an uncertain future for both wild fish diversity and global fisheries.
Minrui Huang +4 more
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Responses of ecosystem water use efficiency to drought in the Lancang–Mekong River Basin
The ecosystem water use efficiency (WUE), a crucial indicator of how climate change will affect terrestrial ecosystems, depicts the coupling of the carbon gain and water loss in terrestrial ecosystems.
Xuan Luo +5 more
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Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2011 [PDF]
[Excerpt] This fourth issue in the current four-volume series of Social Security Programs Throughout the World reports on the countries of the Americas.
International Social Security Association +1 more
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Human Security: Undermining Human Rights? [PDF]
This article warns that the human security discourse and agenda could inadvertently undermine the international human rights regime. Insofar as human security identifies new threats to well-being, new victims of those threats, new duties of states, or ...
Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.
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Quantitative Assessment of Cropland Exposure to Agricultural Drought in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Accurate and reliable information on the spatiotemporal characteristics of agricultural drought is important in understanding complicated drought processes and their potential impacts.
Wenting Ming +6 more
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Just and sustainable? : examining the rhetoric and potential realities of UK food security [PDF]
The dominant discourse in 20th century UK food and agricultural policies of a liberal, free trade agenda was modified at the turn of the 21st to embrace ecological sustainability and "food security." The latter term has a long international history; the ...
Dowler, Elizabeth, MacMillan, Tom
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Morphological changes in the lower Lancang River due to extensive human activities [PDF]
Background Morphological changes in river beds determine the risk for soil erosion within floodplain areas. At present, little is known about river morphological changes in high-altitude mountainous area influenced by extensive human activities.
Peijia Wang +4 more
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Arctic security in international security
Peace and war in the Arctic security is driven by international systemic forces of great power conflict. Since the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763) the geostrategic role of and thinking about the North Atlantic Arctic has been stable. The Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War, World War I and II and the Cold War affected the Arctic for geostrategic reasons. Current
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Complexity in International Security
Leading international security expert Peter Sapaty introduces a new, high-level distributed processing and control approach capable of finding real-time solutions for irregularities, crises, and security problems emerging any time and in any part of the ...
P. Sapaty
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Unconditional security at a low cost [PDF]
By simulating four quantum key distribution (QKD) experiments and analyzing one decoy-state QKD experiment, we compare two data post-processing schemes based on security against individual attack by L\"{u}tkenhaus, and unconditional security analysis by ...
C. H. Bennett +9 more
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