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Growing Pebbles and Conceptual Prisms: Understanding the Source of Student Misconceptions About Rock Formation [PDF]

This study investigates misconceptions held by students about how rocks form. It involved analyzing narrative essays on rock formation written by pre-service elementary school teachers, most of whom had completed a college-level course in earth science ...
Judi Kusnick
core  

THE URBAN METABOLISM OF FLOOD PROTECTION INFRASTRUCTURE IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Investments in large‐scale climate infrastructures are central to emerging forms of climate urbanism. In Jakarta, flood protection infrastructures seek to protect the city from devastating flood events in anticipation of future catastrophes.
Sophie Webber, Wahyu Kusuma Astuti
wiley   +1 more source

300 Years of Degradation in Wales Estuaries and Coasts

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The world's oceans are in a severe state of degradation, yet our understanding of that degradation is often based on changes observed only in the past 20–50 years. This narrow view leads to marine conservation efforts that aim to preserve already degraded ecosystems, shaped by shifted ecological baselines.
Richard K. F. Unsworth, Blaise Bullimore, Leanne C. Cullen‐Unsworth, Benjamin L. H. Jones   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

Airborne geophysical imaging of freshwater reservoir beneath the eastern margin of Great Salt Lake. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Zhdanov MS, Jorgensen M, Cox L, Johnson WP, Solomon DK.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Collective Contracts as a Risk‐Sharing Mechanism for Result‐Based Agri‐Environmental Payments: Experimental Evidence

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Linking payments from agri‐environment schemes to ecological results or to collective outcomes is viewed as a promising way to increase the effectiveness of agri‐environmental conservation. However, the two approaches are rarely combined.
Thomas Rellensmann, Stefanie Engel, Jens Rommel, Fabian Thomas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geomechanical models of impact cratering: Puchezh-Katunki structure [PDF]

Impact cratering is a complex natural phenomenon that involves various physical and mechanical processes. Simulating these processes may be improved using the data obtained during the deep drilling at the central mound of the Puchezh-Katunki impact ...
Ivanov, B. A.
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Characteristic Evaluation of an Intensifier Detector for SMILE UVI. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Wang Y, Liu X, Li P, Mao J, Huang W, Du G, Wang Z, Zhang Z, Vey S, Berlich R, He F.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Genetic and phenotypic variation in wood tiger moths from the Caucasus: insights into male warning color variation

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Coloration serves several fitness‐related functions, including thermoregulation, immunity, social signaling, sexual selection, and predator avoidance. Consequently, color polymorphism can have a significant impact on a species’ interactions with its environment, including its relationships with predators, prey, and potential mates. The wood tiger moth (
Juan A. Galarza, Ossi Nokelainen, Melanie N. Brien, Cristina Ottocento, Bibiana Rojas, Janne K. Valkonen, Tamar Chunashvili, Tõnis Tasane, Chris D. Jiggins, Johanna Mappes   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microscopic magnetic-field imaging of a single lunar dust grain. [PDF]

Fundam Res
Yang Y, Xing L, Zhou Z, Zhou Y, Zhu K, Lyu S, Wang Y, Tang X, Li J, Feng J.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source