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Evaluating synthetic substitutes to reduce illegal harvesting and support species recovery

Conservation 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, Gareth Whittington‐Jones, Tristan Dickerson, Maswabi Lishandu, Sarah Davies, Zoe Woodgate, Xia Stevens, Choolwe Mulenga, Gift Mulenga, Mathew Phiri, Lucky Mulenga, Manyando Mukela, Gryton Kasamu, Willem A. Nieman, Gareth Mann, Abishek Harihar, Diogo Veríssimo, Rob Pickles   +17 more
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Otimização geométrica de placas com enrijecedores submetidas à flexão [PDF]

, 2012
As placas enrijecidas são muito utilizadas em estruturas navais. Quando estas estruturas estão sob forte ação de cargas de flexão, é necessário que os reforços contribuam para a redução da deflexão da placa.
Isoldi, Liércio André, Silva, Caio César Cardoso da, Santos, Elizaldo Domingues dos, Silveira, Thiago da, Real, Mauro de Vasconcellos, Correia, Anderson Luis Garcia, Rocha, Luiz Alberto de Oliveira   +6 more
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Psychometric framework for coexistence with large carnivores

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Human–carnivore coexistence is essential for biodiversity conservation, yet measuring the attitudes and behaviors that support it remains methodologically challenging. We developed psychometric scales to assess willingness to coexist with carnivores and the underlying beliefs of this coexistence through an iterative expert elicitation process ...
Benjamin Ghasemi, Gerard Kyle, Tara Teel, Rebeca Niemiec, Kevin Crooks, Jenny Anne Glikman, Neil H. Carter, John A. Vucetich, Michelle L. Lute, Stewart Breck, Beatrice Frank, Dana Hoag, Jonathan Salerno, Lily M. van Eeden, Jeremy T. Bruskotter   +14 more
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Otimização Geométrica da Forma e Estrutura em um Problema de Transferência de Calor Aplicando a Teoria Constructal e o Simulated Annealing [PDF]

, 2015
Nesta pesquisa é estudada a aplicação do algoritmo Simulated Annealing (SA) associada à Teoria Constructal para a otimização geométrica da forma e estrutura em problemas de transferência de calor.
Gonzales, Gill Valleda
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Behavioral interventions to reduce demand for threatened freshwater turtles as pets

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Growing demand for freshwater turtles as pets has fueled illegal trade and accelerated wild population declines, underscoring the need for theory‐based demand‐reduction interventions. We conducted a three‐part randomized controlled trial with active turtle keepers (n = 1800) in China to test conservation‐ and legality‐framed messages by ...
Wuji Zheng, Beilu Duan, Anita Kar Yan Wan, Alexander Clark, Toby Park, Kristina Londakova, Freddy Parker, Xiaoxi Zhang, Lishu Li, Tien Ming Lee   +9 more
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Caring as a Generative Principle: Reconfiguring the Metaparadigm and Operative Mechanisms in Nursing Theory

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim(s) To develop a comparative meta‐theory of nine caring theories by explicating their assumptions, operative mechanisms and consequences for nursing. Design Qualitative meta‐theoretical document analysis. Methods Canonical texts were analysed using an intra‐source strategy.
Aarón Muñoz Devesa, Juan Ignacio Rico Becerra   +1 more
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How Different Patterns of Policy Attention Drive Policy Diffusion: Evidence From China's River Chief System

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on policy diffusion, the ways in which policy attention influences this process remain underexplored. This study addressed this gap by distinguishing between three types of policy attention—political speeches, policy issuance and field visits—and investigating their differential impacts when delivered by central and ...
Xiangning Chen, Yahua Wang
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How Do Policy Narratives Evoke Emotions? An Appraisal‐Theoretic Approach

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on policy narratives acknowledges the crucial role that emotions play within communication and sense‐making. Especially the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has placed emotion at the center of attention and stressed that affect‐imbued stories are key for how individuals make sense of the world and navigate through the policy process ...
Sonja Blum, Johanna Kuhlmann, Nora Habelitz   +2 more
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Beyond Groups? Consociational Culture and the Representation of Cross‐Segmental Interests

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In deeply divided societies, consociational power‐sharing ensures representation for ethnonational groups but raises questions about cross‐segmental interests. This paper explores “consociational culture,” arguing that consociational systems create a form of political culture which incentivises the use of group‐based categories and identities ...
Patrizia John
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