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Evaluating synthetic substitutes to reduce illegal harvesting and support species recovery

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Providing synthetic substitutes is a widely promoted strategy to shift consumer demand away from wildlife products derived from threatened species. Yet, there is little evidence on whether product substitution prevents illegal or unsustainable harvesting and contributes to the recovery of threatened populations.
Aditya Shekhar Malgaonkar   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sensitivity of the Flow Number to Mix Factors of Hot-Mix Asphalt

open access: yesInfrastructures, 2019
In the design of pavement infrastructure, the flow number is used to determine the suitability of a hot-mix asphalt mixture (HMA) to resist permanent deformation when used in flexible pavement.
Md Rashadul Islam   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating traditional practices, livelihoods, and conservation with Indigenous‐led furbearer camera trapping

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Contemporary conservation goals have a greater chance of success when practitioners collaborate with Indigenous communities. The importance of such collaborations has spurred calls by Western and Indigenous researchers to engage in equitable coproduction of ecological research that integrates multiple ways of knowing.
Kathleen A. Carroll   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Learning nanotechnology through experimentation: carbon nanotube manufacturing using an electric discharge machine

open access: yesNanotechnology Reviews, 2012
A novel nanotechnology laboratory experiment for a required junior/senior undergraduate engineering course, Engineering of Manufacturing Processes, is described and implemented.
Jaksic Nebojsa
doaj   +1 more source

Neuroliderazgo como estrategia para el fortalecimiento de la gestión directiva en instituciones educativas

open access: yesActualidades Investigativas en Educación, 2020
Comprender la gestión directiva en instituciones educativas a la luz de la neurociencia, ha dado origen al abordaje de las potencialidades del cerebro a favor del ejercicio del liderazgo como estrategia emergente, por lo cual, este estudio censal, se ...
Eduardo Alfonzo Atencio Bravo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Twelve principles for successful governance of community‐based coastal marine restoration

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Global agreements, such as the Global Biodiversity Framework, call for urgent, large‐scale action to halt biodiversity loss through a whole‐of‐society approach. Community‐based restoration can play a crucial role in achieving this goal, yet there remains limited understanding of what makes these projects effective and sustainable.
Michelle M. Holian   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Selenium Speciation in the Fountain Creek Watershed (Colorado, USA) Correlates with Water Hardness, Ca and Mg Levels

open access: yesMolecules, 2017
The environmental levels of selenium (Se) are regulated and strictly enforced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) because of the toxicity that Se can exert at high levels. However, speciation plays an important role in the overall toxicity of Se,
James S. Carsella   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

¡El pueblo ayuda al pueblo!

open access: yesAnthropologica
Nos preguntamos ¿cómo fue posible que el Comando Matico lograra una respuesta tan rápida y eficaz en un contexto de confusión y miedo ante la muerte? Planteamos comprender la manera en que Comando Matico logró manejar la crisis de la pandemia, como una instancia de afirmación cultural y política desde la cual actualizaron los saberes ancestrales ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The bread of Toledo: Prices and political economy, 1535–1800

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266‐year‐long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread‐for‐wheat contracts of large institutions. Our data are strongly consistent with fragmentary evidence on retail price regulation, as well as with shorter series from other ...
Mauricio Drelichman   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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