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Noosphere : an activity-centric infrastructure for distributed interaction
, 2013 Distributed interaction is a computing paradigm in which the interaction with a computer system is distributed over multiple devices, users and locations.
Houben, Steven +3 more
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Detailed Characterization and Zoning of Landfills to Reduce Their Environmental Impact in Armenia
RecyclingThe research aims to develop methodologies for the detailed characterization and spatial zoning of landfills as a means of assessing their environmental impact.
Andrey Medvedev +3 more
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Rethinking the relation between human and nature: Insights from science fiction
Business and Society Review, Volume 130, Issue S1, Page S53-S67, Spring 2025.Abstract Facing the accumulation of data that suggest near‐future dramatic changes in our way of life, current visions of transition are anchored in an incremental paradigm that excludes radical change. Using science fiction literature and cinema, this article aims to build such drastic change hypotheses and explore the political–ecological features of
Corinne Gendron, René Audet
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WIREs Climate Change, Volume 7, Issue 5, Page 682-692, September/October 2016., 2016 Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko (1920–2001) was a Soviet climatologist perhaps best known in the West for his contribution to understandings of climate change. He acted as director of the Main Geophysical Observatory (named after A.I. Voeikov) in Leningrad (St Petersburg) from 1954 and played an active role in advancing Soviet climate agendas within an ...
Jonathan D. Oldfield
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Optical Engineering, 1998 When I was an undergraduate student in physics at the University of Akron, I had a job as a page at the univer-sity library. Since I had served as a page at the Firestone branch of the Akron Public Library located across from the main gate of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, my campus position was both familiar and invigorating.
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
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Water as the Earth’s Buffer and Immune System
Journal of Chemistry, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 A comprehensive review on water as a buffer of the planet and its immune system is presented. The relationship between the quality of drinking water, the level of development of human intelligence, and its health is highlighted. The problems of obtaining cytogenetically and physiologically safe high‐quality drinking water are discussed along with the ...
Vladyslav V. Goncharuk +1 more
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Cephalization of the Noosphere: Socio-Philosophical Aspects [PDF]
, 2019 The article investigates a phenomenon of cephalization of noosphere. Cephalization is presented as a process of the brain development unfolding on numerous forms of living matter; as an adaptation way of the cosmic organism of the Universe. Modern global
Dmitry Smirnov, Grigory Smirnov
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The knowledge society – noosphere thinkin
, 2015 У статті дана характеристика та розкрито особливості суспільства знань, показана роль освіти на сучасному етапі історичного розвитку. Акцентується увага на ноосферному мисленні в суспільстві знань.This article describes the peculiarities of knowledge ...
Брацун, Інна Леонідівна
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The influence of cosmism on the development of social hope
Cхід, 2021 This paper reveals philosophical aspects of the cosmism’s influence on social hope formation. The relevance of the topic of this work is the need to study the impact of space and its interpretations on the future of the geosocial organism of our planet ...
Oleh Masiuk
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