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Learning about social-ecological trade-offs [PDF]

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2017
Trade-offs are manifestations of the complex dynamics in interdependent social-ecological systems. Addressing trade-offs involves challenges of perception due to the dynamics of interdependence.
Diego Galafassi   +5 more
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Compatibility and trade-off between performance: an alternative view [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
An issue on which opinions still differ concerns the presence or absence of trade-offs between different types of manufacturing performance. In an attempt to provide some empirical evidence to resolve this argument, a recent conference paper examined ...
Mapes, John
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Biophysical mechanisms that maintain biodiversity through trade-offs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Trade-offs are thought to arise from inevitable, biophysical limitations that prevent organisms from optimizing multiple traits simultaneously. A leading explanation for biodiversity maintenance is a theory that if the shape, or geometry, of a trade-off ...
Justin R. Meyer (12102370)   +2 more
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Accuracy-speed-stability trade-offs in a targeted stepping task are similar in young and older adults

open access: yesFrontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2023
IntroductionStepping accuracy, speed, and stability are lower in older compared to young adults. Lower stepping performance in older adults may be due to larger accuracy-speed-stability trade-offs because of reduced ability to simultaneously fulfill ...
Wouter Muijres   +5 more
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Trade-offs among cost, integration, and segregation in the human connectome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The human brain structural network is thought to be shaped by the optimal trade-off between cost and efficiency. However, most studies on this problem have focused on only the trade-off between cost and global efficiency (i.e., integration) and have ...
Zhengjia Dai   +5 more
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Calling a trade-off a trade-off in arguments for cat confinement [PDF]

open access: yesAnimal Welfare
Abstract In different parts of the world the claim is increasingly being made that continuous confinement of pet cats ( Felis catus ) is beneficial for both wildlife conservation and cat welfare.
Carmen Glanville   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Environmental variability affects optimal trade‐offs in ecological immunology

open access: yesEcosphere, 2021
The costs of mounting and maintaining an immune response lead to trade‐offs with investment in (or maintenance of) other organ systems or functions such as reproduction, as has been observed in several taxa, including birds, insects, and mammals.
Devin Kirk   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coupling trade-offs and supply-demand of ecosystem services (ES): A new opportunity for ES management

open access: yesGeography and Sustainability, 2021
The trade-offs and supply-demand relations of ecosystem services (ES) are at the frontier of geographical and ecological studies. However, previous studies have focused on either trade-offs or the supply-demand aspects, while ES conflicts and supply ...
Qiang Feng   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Making Trade-Offs Visible: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations about the Relationship between Dimensions and Institutions of Democracy and Empirical Findings

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2018
Whereas the measurement of the quality of democracy focused on the rough differentiation of democracies and autocracies in the beginning (e.g. Vanhanen, Polity, Freedom House), the focal point of newer instruments is the assessment of the quality of ...
Hans-Joachim Lauth, Oliver Schlenkrich
doaj   +1 more source

A conceptual framework for understanding ecosystem trade-offs and synergies, in communal rangeland systems. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Communal rangelands are a global resource of significant benefit to society through the provision of critical ecosystem goods and services such as carbon sequestration, water and livestock forage.
Mapiye, Cletos   +23 more
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