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Women and water management in times of climate change: participatory and inclusive processes [PDF]

, 2013
This paper focuses on community engagement, and particularly the inclusion of women, in water management as a response to climate change. Addressing water-related problems is central to climate change adaptation, and civil society, marginalized ...
Figueiredo, P., Perkins, Patricia E. (Ellie)   +1 more
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Spin‐Crossover Confinement in Mesoporous Matrices Enables Tunable Porosity for Molecular Sensing

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
The integration of hierarchically organized porous frameworks with spin‐crossover nanodomains enables cooperative interactions across multiple length scales. This hybrid design merges dynamic molecular switching with tunable porosity, yielding materials whose structural and functional responses are actively modulated by confinement and guest uptake ...
Lucia B. Pizarro, Matias Rafti, Annette Andrieu‐Brunsen, Marcelo Ceolín   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optical Diversity and Nanostructural Organization in the Colored Scales of Sternotomis

Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.
Vivid colors in Sternotomis beetles originate from nanoscale photonic architectures embedded within individual scales. Here, we provide a comparative optical and structural analysis of 57 scale types that reveal how ordered, quasi‐ordered, and disordered 3D networks tune color, saturation, and angular response.
Viola Bauernfeind, Viola V. Vogler‐Neuling, Ilja Gunkel, Primož Pirih, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dark local knowledge: the yet-to-be scientifically discovered and locally acknowledged aspects of local knowledge systems

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
This essay brings forward the idea that there is more than meets the eye in local knowledge systems than what science can show us now. To comprehend this, we need to make a conceptual jump and look for the “dark matter” (the notion borrowed from ...
Renata Sõukand
doaj   +1 more source

Microbial Contribution to Soiling and Its Impact on Photovoltaic Module Soiling in Arid Zones of the Atacama Desert

Advanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.
Microorganisms colonizing photovoltaic surfaces in the Atacama desert form biofilms that enhance particle adhesion and reduce energy yield. This study identifies UV‐resistant bacteria and carotenoid‐producing strains that interfere with PV performance.
Douglas Olivares, Ricardo Ortíz, Luis Rojas‐Araya, María Teresa Mata, Felipe Galleguillos, Jaime Llanos, Carlos Portillo, Valentina Escobar, Aitor Marzo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Divergent Responses of Bacterial Communities to Permafrost Degradation and Their Associations With Carbon Across Vertical Profiles

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Bacterial α‐diversity decreases, but stochasticity and community stability increase across the 15 m‐depth vertical profiles and along the degraded gradient within the active layer. The abundance and interaction of core taxa mainly control community stability in the active and permafrost layers, respectively.
Shengyun Chen, Yuzheng Gu, Ali Bahadur, Enyan Liu, Tonghua Wu, Xiaofan Zhu, Yuanqiang Zou, Hewei Liang, Peijie Wei, Linwei Wu, Qingbai Wu, Peizhi Yang, Hongyan Yu, Yunfeng Yang   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid Knowledge: Place, Practice, and Knowing in a Volunteer Ecological Restoration Project

Ecology and Society, 2011
Wide community participation in ecological restoration projects is encouraged because of the multiple values generated. However, it is often assumed that volunteer projects cannot contribute to the production of generalizable ecological knowledge ...
Karen A. Reid, Kathryn J H. Williams, Mark S. Paine   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heuristically Adaptive Diffusion‐Model Evolutionary Strategy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Building on the mathematical equivalence between diffusion models and evolutionary algorithms, researchers demonstrate unprecedented control over evolutionary optimization through conditional diffusion. By training diffusion models to associate parameters with specific traits, they can guide evolution toward solutions exhibiting desired behaviors ...
Benedikt Hartl, Yanbo Zhang, Hananel Hazan, Michael Levin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linking well-being with cultural revitalization for greater cognitive justice in conservation: lessons from Venezuela in Canaima National Park [PDF]

, 2017
Across the globe, conservation policies have often suppressed nonscientific forms of knowledge and ways of knowing nature, along with the social practices of the groups that are informed by such knowledge. Reversing this process of epistemic supremacy is
Rodriguez, Iokiñe
core   +3 more sources

MGM as a Large‐Scale Pretrained Foundation Model for Microbiome Analyses in Diverse Contexts

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We present the Microbial General Model (MGM), a transformer‐based foundation model pretrained on over 260,000 microbiome samples. MGM learns contextualized microbial representations via self‐supervised language modeling, enabling robust transfer learning, cross‐regional generalization, keystone taxa discovery, and prompt‐guided generation of realistic,
Haohong Zhang, Yuli Zhang, Zixin Kang, Jiayun Xiong, Ronghua Yang, Kang Ning   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source