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Changes in plant species richness distribution in Tibetan alpine grasslands under different precipitation scenarios [PDF]
, 2020 Species richness is the core of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) research. Nevertheless, it is difficult to accurately predict changes in plant species richness under different climate scenarios, especially in alpine biomes.
He, Yongtao +5 more
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Rise of the Zombie Papers: Infecting Germany’s Local and Regional Public Media Ecosystem
Media and Communication, 2023 Germany’s public broadcasters, along with local newspapers, have consistently ranked among the top three most trusted news sources in Germany. Yet growing criticism of mandatory fees and recent revelations about public broadcasters’ misuse of funds have ...
Karin Assmann
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The News Crawler: A Big Data Approach to Local Information Ecosystems
Media and Communication, 2023 In the past 20 years, Silicon Valley’s platforms and opaque algorithms have increasingly influenced civic discourse, helping Facebook, Twitter, and others extract and consolidate the revenues generated.
Asma Khanom +3 more
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Local Journalism With State Support
Media and Communication, 2023 In Sweden, the system of press subsidies was expanded in 2019 to give special support for “weakly covered areas.” This new support has had positive effects, but changes in the system also introduced new demands on the content concerning democratic values
Gunnar Nygren
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Dealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democracies
Media and Communication, 2023 This article reports findings from an in-depth, autoethnographic study of local communities in Denmark and England left behind by local journalism. The study was conducted during—and is thematically framed by—the Covid-19 pandemic, and it investigates ...
Steen Steensen
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Are our actions aligned with our evidence? The skinny on changing the landscape of obesity. [PDF]
, 2013 Recent debate about the role of food deserts in the United States (i.e., places that lack access to healthy foods) has prompted discussion on policies being enacted, including efforts that encourage the placement of full-service supermarkets into food ...
Collins, Rebecca L +4 more
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New lakes in the Taklamakan Desert [PDF]
Geophysical Research Letters, 2012 At the beginning of this century, some new lakes unexpectedly appeared in the Taklamakan Desert – one of the largest and driest deserts in the world. The origin of the water in the new lakes, however, has been a matter of debate. We test the hypotheses by analyzing water samples collected from the new lakes, the Bosten Lake and the foothills of the ...
Jiansheng Chen +5 more
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The Affordable Care Act and Beyond: Opportunities for Advancing Health Equity and Social Justice [PDF]
, 2013 In 2010, the most monumental health care legislation in forty-five years was enacted. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( ACA ) makes changes great and small in virtually every important component of the American health care system.
Bowser, Rene
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“News Desertification” in Europe: Highlighting Correlations for Future Research
Journalism and MediaThe Local Media for Democracy (LM4D) project is the first project that explores news deserts in Europe comprehensively. Its final report highlighted challenges and opportunities for local and community media and identified the level of risk of news ...
Jan Kermer +2 more
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New Technology for Desert Locust Control [PDF]
Agronomy, 2021 Locust outbreaks usually begin in remote unpopulated areas following higher than average rainfall. The need to survey such areas has suggested that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), often referred to as drones, might be a suitable means of surveying areas with suitable detection devices to survey areas and detect important locust concentrations.
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