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The importance of expert selection when identifying threatened ecosystems
Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 6, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Identifying threatened ecosystem types is fundamental to conservation and management decision‐making. When identification relies on expert judgment, decisions are vulnerable to inconsistent outcomes and can lack transparency. We elicited judgements of the occurrence of a widespread, critically endangered Australian ecosystem from a diverse ...
Samantha K. Travers +6 more
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Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 5, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Fisheries bycatch is a critical threat to sea turtle populations worldwide, particularly because turtles are vulnerable to multiple gear types. The Canary Current is an intensely fished region, yet there has been no demographic assessment integrating bycatch and population management information of the globally significant Cabo Verde ...
Michael J. Roast +9 more
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The influence of equine hoof conformation on the initiation and progression of laminitis
Equine Veterinary Journal, Volume 55, Issue 5, Page 862-871, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Background The health and performance of horses are significantly affected by diseases associated with the hoof. Laminitis is a critical hoof disease that causes pain and, potentially, severe hoof and bone pathology. Objective To generate an equine hoof finite element (FE) model to investigate the impact of normal and toe‐in hoof conformations
Naeim Akbari Shahkhosravi +3 more
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Ruin lust in George Gissing's Veranilda
Literature Compass, Volume 19, Issue 3-4, April 2022., 2022 Abstract Ruinenlust (‘ruin lust’) or ruin aesthetics is a prominent feature of George Gissing's unfinished historical novel, Veranilda (1904), which is set in sixth‐century Italy and contains many memorable images of ruins. Drawing on the work of Georg Simmel, Rose Macaulay, Brian Dillon, and others, this article argues that, by examining these images ...
Gareth A. Reeves
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American Anthropologist, Volume 122, Issue 4, Page 771-783, December 2020., 2020 ABSTRACT The accumulated copying error (ACE) model exploits the fact that limits to human visual perception introduce proportional copying errors during cultural transmission of a continuous trait, such as the length of a tool. Archaeologists have used ACE to infer the mechanisms of cultural transmission employed in the past.
L. S. Premo
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Журнал Белорусского государственного университета: История, 2019 Статья представляет собой ряд небольших эссе о Микеланджело, в которых затрагиваются различные вопросы, касающиеся его творчества, – взаимосвязь поэзии и скульптуры, проблема незаконченности (non finito) поздних скульптурных работ (особое внимание ...
Павел Алексеевич Алешин
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Festival dell'Architettura MagazineIl progetto del monumento-memoriale Per fantasmata esplora il concetto di non finito nelle sue intersezioni tra architettura e arte relazionandosi al non finito inteso sia come caratteristica del progettare di Vittoriano Viganò sia come termine in grado
Riccardo Rapparini, Pinuccia Bernardoni
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Festival dell'Architettura MagazineL’occasione di progetto per un monumento al non finito d’autore introduce al dibattito molti temi a differenti scale: questo testo vuole accompagnare il processo di ideazione lungo il suo svolgersi, da un campo più generale di ragionamento – la ...
Silvia Binetti +2 more
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Six Common Mistakes in Conservation Priority Setting
Conservation Biology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 480-485, June 2013., 2013 Abstract A vast number of prioritization schemes have been developed to help conservation navigate tough decisions about the allocation of finite resources. However, the application of quantitative approaches to setting priorities in conservation frequently includes mistakes that can undermine their authors’ intention to be more rigorous and scientific
EDWARD T. GAME +2 more
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