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Balancing tracks and trees: Assessing railroad impact on Brazilian biodiversity
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.The Brazilian West–East Integration Railway (FIOL) aims to boost the national economy by improving commodity transport; however, it crosses three of Brazil's most biodiverse and fragile regions: the Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. Using digitised plant records and land‐use analyses, our study reveals significant vegetation loss within the ...
Ana Luiza Silva Rocha +3 more
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Thirty years of glyphosate‐resistant crops and weeds: Current situation and future prospects
Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Since 1996, when the first glyphosate‐resistant crop was commercialized and the first resistant weed was reported, resistance has expanded globally. This review analyzes emergence patterns across weed species, crops, regions, resistance mechanisms, and herbicides.
Ricardo Alcántara‐de la Cruz +7 more
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Techniques for railway restructuring [PDF]
This report was sponsored by the Union of African Railways, as part of a Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Project task aimed at defining what is involved in restructuring railways so that they behave more like market driven enterprises.
Huff, Lee W., Thompson, Louis S.
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River Research and Applications, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Knowledge of habitat availability is critically important for the management and recovery of freshwater species. Quantifying habitat availability often requires fine‐scale sampling at point‐based locations across a large geographic extent, which can be laboursome.
Karl A. Lamothe +2 more
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“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing
Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
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Restructuring of the Romanian Railways. The impact on the financial structure [PDF]
The restructuring process has defined the basis for developing a sustainable and modern railway system. Nevertheless, a long list of challenges has still to be addressed: difficulties to finance the maintenance of the assets and investment capabilities ...
Anduena FIRTAT
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Science Education, EarlyView.Abstract Trans, nonbinary, and intersex persons are—and have always been—an integral part of humankind. However, these communities are under attack. We live in a time of growing state repression and the normalization of political violence against trans, nonbinary, and intersex persons throughout much of the world, and we have a responsibility to ...
Quentin C. Sedlacek +30 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Displacing people to make way for development projects is contentious. Empirical research demonstrates that neither human rights guidelines nor multilateral lenders' standards guarantee positive, sustainable outcomes for displaced people. With multiple new displacing projects proposed globally, including for renewable energy, we propose a new ...
Eddie Smyth +2 more
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Mumbai Urban Transport Project—Development and Challenges [PDF]
The Suburban Railway system in Mumbai is perhaps the most complex, densely loaded and intensively utilized system in the world. Due to the magnitude of the project and the need for continuous assistance and involvement of the Government of Maharashtra, a
Deepak Kumar, P Nair
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Government food procurement investment offers significant potential to advance health and sustainability goals; yet, integrating these dimensions into policy design has proved challenging. We mapped and analysed 38 food procurement and catering‐specific policies in Australia to identify ways to strengthen policy design: 20 governing ...
Carolina Venegas Hargous +3 more
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