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Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) in selected heritage mosques of Malacca, Malaysia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The art of mosque architecture gives a way of understanding about the relationship between Islam and local people’s culture. This study aims to discover environmental philosophy of heritage mosques in Malacca with the main objective of the study is to ...
Harun, Rosta, Othman, Fadhilah
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Plant Robotics for Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Robots: Insights from Actuation Characteristics

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Plants are promising materials for building sustainable and eco‐friendly robots due to their inherent multifunctionality, with actuation playing a crucial role. This article focuses on the physical movements of plants and, from the perspective of actuation characteristics, explores representative plant species and their behaviors, the current state of ...
Kazuya Murakami   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Use of game fauna by Fulni-ô people in Northeastern Brazil: implications for conservation

open access: yesJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020
Background Due to the influence of several factors on the hunting of game meat, we investigated how the seasonality of the environment, the abundance, and the biomass of wild animals, as well as the proximity to these resources, can affect the hunting ...
Josivan Soares da Silva   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Participatory Geographic Information Systems as an Organizational Platform for the Integration of Traditional and Scientific Knowledge in Contemporary Fire and Fuels Management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Traditional knowledge about fire and its effects held by indigenous people, who are connected to specific landscapes, holds promise for informing contemporary fire and fuels management strategies and augmenting knowledge and information derived from ...
Borrie, WT   +6 more
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MGM as a Large‐Scale Pretrained Foundation Model for Microbiome Analyses in Diverse Contexts

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
We present the Microbial General Model (MGM), a transformer‐based foundation model pretrained on over 260,000 microbiome samples. MGM learns contextualized microbial representations via self‐supervised language modeling, enabling robust transfer learning, cross‐regional generalization, keystone taxa discovery, and prompt‐guided generation of realistic,
Haohong Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introducing a new special section—Indigenous Science and Practice in Ecology and Evolution

open access: yesEcology and Evolution
Editorial introducing a new special issue in the journal.
Emily A. McKinnon, Arley F. Muth
doaj   +1 more source

A department of methodology can coordinate transdisciplinary sport science support [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In the current sporting landscape, it is not uncommon for professional sport teams and organizations to employ multidisciplinary sport science support teams.
Davids, Keith   +6 more
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Transitions of social-ecological subsistence systems in the Arctic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Transitions of social-ecological systems (SES) expose governance systems to new challenges. This is particularly so in the Arctic where resource systems are increasingly subjected to global warming, industrial development and globalization which ...
Clark, Douglas A.   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Quantitative Proteomics and CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Reveal UPR‐Mediated Control of Immunoglobulin Homeostasis in Hybridomas

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
BCR sequencing and subclone analysis correlated immunoglobulin (Ig) chain loss in dysfunctional hybridomas with disrupted monoclonal antibody homeostasis. Proteomics‐guided CRISPR/Cas9 editing revealed that the unfolded protein response (UPR) regulates aberrant Ig synthesis.
Rubing Zou   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Homem e natureza em um parque nacional do Sul do Brasil: meios de vida e conflitos nos arredores da Lagoa do Peixe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper assesses the legitimacy of National Park as the most appropriate category of protected area for the Lagoa do Peixe region, in Southern Brazil. The livelihoods, ecological knowledge and culture of the traditional fishers have been threatened by
Daniela Coswig Kalikoski, Tiago Almudi
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