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Live Projects-Live Practice

Live Projects - Live Practice critically documents the social, pedagogical, and physical dimensions of Live Projects. Through essays, interviews with external peers and partners, and detailed case studies, the volume explores Live Projects as a mode of ...
Dean, C., Williams, J., Kamvasinou, K., Cioboata, S., Pivaro, A., Golzari-dodaran, N., Charrington, H., Clarke, C., Papa, E., Kramer, M., Saleem, S., Sharif, Y.   +11 more
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Silvopastoral systems and remnant forests enhance carbon storage in livestock-dominated landscapes in Mexico

Scientific Reports, 2022
A large area of the terrestrial land surface is used for livestock grazing. Trees on grazing lands provide and can enhance multiple ecosystem services such as provisioning, cultural and regulating, that include carbon sequestration.
Deb Raj Aryal, Danilo Enrique Morales-Ruiz, Susana López-Cruz, César Noe Tondopó-Marroquín, Alejandra Lara-Nucamendi, José Antonio Jiménez-Trujillo, Edwin Pérez-Sánchez, Juan Edduardo Betanzos-Simon, Francisco Casasola-Coto, Alejandra Martínez-Salinas, Claudia Janeth Sepúlveda-López, Roselia Ramírez-Díaz, Manuel Alejandro La O Arias, Francisco Guevara-Hernández, René Pinto-Ruiz, Muhammad Ibrahim   +15 more
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Designing a Living Snow Fence for Snow Drift Control [PDF]

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2009
Abstract Blowing and drifting snow continues to be a transportation and safety hazard with significant economic costs. Critical design criteria for the construction of a living (vegetated) snow fence are reviewed and presented using the most currently available design equations.
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The Elusive American Dream: An Ecofeminist Reading of Race and Identity in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street (1984)

Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, 2019
Everyone knows the story of the big brick house with the white picket fence and the quiet subdivisions of identical houses and families. Regardless of race, class, religion, or gender, the lure of the ideal home appeals to the masses.
Taylor O’Kelley
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Growth and yield models for Centrolobium ochroxylum Rose ex Rudd in silvopastoral systems of Ecuadorian western lowlands

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Centrolobium ochroxylum Rose ex Rudd, known as Amarillo Guayaquil (AG), is a tropical tree species found in secondary vegetation or the wild in the western lowland region of Ecuador (WLRE). AG has heavy (0.78 g/cm3) and durable wood, with whitish sapwood
Álvaro Cañadas-López, Paul Gamboa-Trujillo, Christian Wehenkel   +2 more
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Picket-Fences

, 1874
Patent for improvement for picket fences composed of zig zag settings with their upper ends brought in line and are connected and supported by wires and ...
McGinty, Robert H.
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DISTRIBUTION OF ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGI IN SOILS OF CATTLE FARMS AND FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THEIR PRESENCE IN THE MEXICAN TROPICS

Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 2020
Background. Ticks are one of the main threats that affect cattle production in Mexico. In the ecosystems, these parasites are naturally regulated by microorganisms such as entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) and bacteria, wich are capable of causing them ...
A. Fernandez-Salas, R.A. Alonso-Morales, Miguel Ángel Alonso-Díaz   +2 more
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USERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF SAFETY IN LOW-INCOME SOCIAL HOUSING – THE CASE STUDY OF “RESIDENCIAL PORTO”, PELOTAS, RS

Gestão & Tecnologia de Projetos, 2010
The subject of safety in low-income social housing challenges architectural and urban planning researches when related with the study of the relationship between environment and behaviour with the following aspect: the benefits that physical and spatial ...
Mateus Treptow Coswig, Anelise Anapolski, Nirce Saffer Medvedovski   +2 more
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From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth’s great animal migrations [PDF]

, 2019
Both of these enormous fences were intended to repel rabbits and other “vermin” such emus, kangaroos and dingoes that were considered threats to crops or livestock.
Laurance, William F., Van Oosterzee, Penny   +1 more
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Rat infestation associated with environmental deficiencies in an urban slum community with high risk of leptospirosis transmission

Cadernos de Saúde Pública
: We analyzed environmental factors that provide food, water and harborage to rodents and the risk of household rodent infestation in a slum community with a high risk of leptospirosis transmission.
Norlan de Jesus Santos, Erica Sousa, Mitermayer G. Reis, Albert I. Ko, Federico Costa   +4 more
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