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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Huánglóngbìng (HLB) is a bacterial disease of citrus that has significantly impacted Brazil and the United States, although citrus production in the Mediterranean Basin remains unaffected. By developing a mathematical model of spread in Spain, we tested surveillance and control strategies before any future HLB entry in the EU.
John Ellis +9 more
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Disability:between political-discursive formality and in-bodied experience
Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Cuerpos, Emociones y Sociedad, 2017 Conceptions on disability are developed from two main oposite models: the medical one and the social one. The first one defines the body as a fisiological substrate which must be subjected to rehabilitation practices, while the second one simply avoids ...
Miguel Ferreira
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Modelos de vulnerabilidade social a desastres [PDF]
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2011 This paper discusses the bases of theory in the evaluation of social vulnerability to disasters. Vulnerability is shown to be the vital component of risk and the principal element of disaster impacts. Perception is a key process in decision making in disasters. It is affected by culture and symbolism, which are analyzed in the context of disaster risk.
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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.We analyzed the effects of fire on secondary forests' vertical structure in different successional stages using lidar metrics. Our results show that independently of the successional stage, secondary forests that experienced fire were more degraded than unburned secondary forest areas. Overall, our results show that forests in early successional stage (
Laura B. Vedovato +12 more
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La discapacidad dentro del enfoque de capacidades y funcionamientos de Amartya Sen
Araucaria, 2008 En este artículo se describen primeramente los tres modelos tradicionales que a lo largo de la Historia han servido a la sociedad como marco para el tratamiento de la discapacidad: el modelo de prescindencia, el modelo medico-rehabilitador (o asistencial)
Mario Toboso Martín +1 more
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The Growing Tide of Antiscience Sentiment: A Global Concern
World Medical &Health Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing tide of antiscience sentiment represents a critical global challenge, with particularly visible manifestations in the United States. This viewpoint examines how the rejection of scientific consensus threatens academic institutions, public health, and technological progress worldwide.
Thorsten Rudroff
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Wildlife Monographs, EarlyView.We found variable spatial and temporal patterns and predictability of plant phenological progression across 8 pronghorn ranges in Montana. We sampled potential exposure to phenology values for migrants and residents along spring movement paths and summer ranges and found that within herds and years the resident and migrant movement strategies conferred
Kelly M. Proffitt +4 more
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Los modelos de la discapacidad: un recorrido histórico
Revista Empresa y Humanismo, 2012 El 13 de diciembre de 2006, la Organización de Naciones Unidas promulgó la Convención Internacional sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad (CDPD).
Valentina Velarde Lizama
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Quantifying phenotypic plasticity: A call for consistency
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract The interest of evolutionary, functional and applied ecologists in the study of phenotypic plasticity has grown considerably in recent decades. From being considered irrelevant in the mid‐20th century, phenotypic plasticity is now considered ubiquitous and essential for
Jose M. Gómez +3 more
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Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Decomposition is the transformation of dead organic matter into its inorganic constituents. In most biomes, decomposition rates can be accurately predicted with simple mathematical models, but these models have long under‐predicted decomposition in globally extensive ...
Heather L. Throop +8 more
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