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The impacts of biological invasions

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock   +42 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anthropology and the City. Street Art in Medellín’s Comuna 13: A City-Making Practice and an Ethnographic Tool

open access: yesAntípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
Urban anthropologists are shifting from traditional approaches that treated the city merely as the “object” or “context” of research, focusing instead on the city as a dynamic process, shaped and reshaped by city-making practices implemented by its ...
Claudio Riga
doaj   +1 more source

Super farmers' market [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
'Super Farmers’ Market' was the second in a series of group shows that tease at the possible proximity of two forms of specialist consumption: fine food and fine art.
Francis, Mary Anne, Heyward, Lucy
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Public-making in a pandemic: The role of street art in East African countries. [PDF]

open access: yesPolit Geogr, 2022
McEwan C   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

From the Wall to the Pavement and Back. Murals in the Epoch of Drones. [with an interview with the artist Giulio Vesprini]

open access: yesDisegnare con, 2020
Two phenomena undoubtedly represent our times: drones and street art. Both hit the headlines, are viral, versatile; ignoring them is impossible. In recent years, as flagships of technology and contemporary art, they have experienced points of contact and
Marta Magagnini
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Le street art a-t-il toujours / n’a-t-il jamais existé ?

open access: yesCahiers de Narratologie, 2016
To give a definition of what one calls « street art » today is a very complex issue because one ranks under this name some art (or no-art ?) forms that ultimately just had in common the fact of being produced in situ, « in the street ».
Christian Gerini
doaj   +1 more source

Street Art Hunting

open access: yesUser Experience & Urban Creativity, 2020
The large scale and public nature of murals are quick and easy social media subject matter for visitors to broadcast their discoveries to the world and claim an authentic experience of a special time and place. Wide access to digital photography and social media—Instagram in particular—delivers a game‑like social experience of “hide‑and‑seek” for ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Think Global, Act Local? Fortune 500 Business Strategies for Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11)

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of business towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been well established. However, SDG contextualization continues to pose a conundrum, particularly for firms operating in multiple contexts. This becomes even more problematic in the case of SDG 11, the only goal in the sustainable development agenda directly
Andreas Georgiou
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-digit Number Recognition from Street View Imagery using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Recognizing arbitrary multi-character text in unconstrained natural photographs is a hard problem. In this paper, we address an equally hard sub-problem in this domain viz. recognizing arbitrary multi-digit numbers from Street View imagery.
Arnoud, Sacha   +4 more
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