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Light is a key driver of forest biodiversity and functioning. Light regimes beneath tree canopies are mainly driven by the solar angle, topography, and vegetation structure, whose three‐dimensional complexity creates heterogeneous light conditions that ...
Florian Zellweger +6 more
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Snow Particle Fragmentation Enhances Snow Sublimation
Abstract. Fragmentation of snow particles, where dendritic snowflakes transform into spherical shapes upon impact with surface and other particles during drifting and blowing snow events, plays a critical role in shaping snow dynamics. This phenomenon is important because it influences the size distribution and concentration of snow particles ...
Ning Huang +3 more
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ABSTRACT Global climate change has elevated the strategic importance of corporate climate risk disclosure, yet the role of industry peer effects in shaping such disclosure remains underexplored. Grounded in social learning theory, this study proposes an “observation–imitation–reinforcement” framework and empirically tests it using panel data on Chinese
Huer Shuang +3 more
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Optical determination of snow density via sub-surface scattering
The physical properties of snow, such as its stiffness, reflectivity, and thermal conductivity, are critical components in feedback processes of the Earth’s system and useful proxies for various applications in environmental science, ranging from ...
Lars Mewes +3 more
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Vegetation, topography and snow melt at the Forest-Tundra Ecotone in arctic Europe: a study using synthetic aperture radar [PDF]
This research was conducted as part of DART (Dynamic Response of the Forest-Tundra Ecotone to Environmental Change), a four year (1998-2002) European Commission funded international programme of research addressing the potential dynamic response of the ...
Dean, Andrew Mark
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Five Decades of Research on Rape Myths and Victim Interpretation
ABSTRACT Over the past 5 decades of social science research, scholars have examined false narratives and beliefs associated with rape and sexual assault (often called “rape myths”). This scoping review employs an innovative technique to sample and describe a large cohort of scholarly articles that investigate sexual assault victim interpretation and ...
Elizabeth Trudeau, Ruth Carmi
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Digitizing tools for post introduction evaluation of rotavirus vaccine introduction in India
Background and aims: The Rotavirus vaccine (RVV) introduction is a landmark event in the history of Indian public health as for the first time a novel, low-cost indigenous vaccine was introduced in a short timeline between 2016 and 2019.
Pawan Kumar +10 more
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ABSTRACT While personality traits often influence individuals' willingness to engage in prosocial and pro‐environmental behaviours, psychological entitlement tends to undermine such actions. Although extensive research has highlighted the negative social consequences of entitlement, including its impact on pro‐environmental behaviours, its potential to
Alexandra Polyakova
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