A new species of Amphitecna (Bignoniaceae) endemic to the mountain karst forests of southern Mexico [PDF]
Amphitecna brevicalyx (Bignoniaceae), a new tree species endemic to Mexico is described and illustrated. Its cauliflorous inflorescences, featuring a single flower per shoot and funnelform corollas without a transverse fold in the throat, place it within the Amphitecna macrophylla group.
Leopoldo Hurtado-Reveles +3 more
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In recent years, deep karst caves are commonly met in deep resource exploration and engineering construction. However, the deep-buried caves lead to the insufficient research on the genesis and development mechanism of deep karst caves.
Hongqi DONG +6 more
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Weighing the Benefits and Risks of Medical Marijuana Use: A Brief Review
Despite federal prohibition of medical marijuana possession, sale, and use, marijuana use continues to escalate as state legalization persists and expands.
Allison Karst
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Sustainability of the karst environment - Dinnaric karst and other karst regions
The objective of the international interdisciplinary scientific conference “Sustainability of the karst environment - Dinaric karst and other karst regions”, organized by Centre for Karst, Gospić, Croatia, was to give a theoretical and practical contribution to the concept of sustainable development in karst regions, with a special emphasis on the ...
Bonacci, Ognjen, Juračić, Mladen
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Generic skills in higher education
Background At the Faculty of forestry sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, we have actively worked to outline a strategy for implementing generic skills in our programmes. It started out as a project in March 2010, but was made
Nicolette Karst
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Recent advances in karst research: from theory to fieldwork and applications [PDF]
Karst landscapes and karst aquifers, which are composed of a variety of soluble rocks such as salt, gypsum, anhydrite, limestone, dolomite and quartzite, are fascinating areas of study.
Gabrovsek, Franci +3 more
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Trial comparison of the medieval malt-kilns from Polish and Czech territories on selected examples
Malt kilns with complex and specialized construction became popular in Central Europe in the XIVth century. They consisted of two basic elements: heating unit and supported on it the grid (drying floor). Depending on the kind of the construction of these
Dobiesław Karst
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Predicting floods in a large karst river basin by coupling PERSIANN-CCS QPEs with a physically based distributed hydrological model [PDF]
In general, there are no long-term meteorological or hydrological data available for karst river basins. The lack of rainfall data is a great challenge that hinders the development of hydrological models. Quantitative precipitation estimates (QPEs) based
D. Yuan +7 more
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Vulnerability assessment of the karst aquifer feeding the Pertuso Spring (Central Italy): comparison between different applications of COP method [PDF]
Karst aquifers vulnerability assessment and mapping are important tools for improved sustainable management and protection of karst groundwater resources.
DE FILIPPI, FRANCESCO MARIA +2 more
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Road and bridge construction across gypsum karst in England [PDF]
Gypsum karst problems in the Permian and Triassic sequences of England have caused difficult conditions for bridge and road construction. In Northern England, the Ripon Bypass crosses Permian strata affected by active gypsum karst and severe subsidence ...
Anthony H Cooper +20 more
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