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“Reconciliation” in undergraduate education in Canada: the application of Indigenous knowledge in conservation

FACETS, 2021
Both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) explicitly emphasized the role of educators in “reconciliation.” Alongside this, conservation practitioners are ...
Danika Billie Littlechild, Chance Finegan, Deborah McGregor   +2 more
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Fruit bats adjust their foraging strategies to urban environments to diversify their diet

BMC Biology, 2021
Background Urbanization is one of the most influential processes on our globe, putting a great number of species under threat. Some species learn to cope with urbanization, and a few even benefit from it, but we are only starting to understand how they ...
Katya Egert-Berg, Michal Handel, Aya Goldshtein, O. Eitan, Ivailo M. Borissov, Y. Yovel   +5 more
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Source Areas as a Key Factor Contributing to the Recovery Time of Controlled Feral Pigeon (Columba livia var. domestica) Colonies in Low-Density Urban Locations

Animals, 2022
Today, governments and administrations strive to minimise issues associated with Feral Pigeon (Columba livia var. domestica) colonies in urban areas.
Miguel Ángel Farfán Aguilar, Jesús Duarte, Francisco Díaz-Ruiz   +2 more
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UAV Target Tracking in Urban Environments Using Deep Reinforcement Learning [PDF]

International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, 2020
Persistent target tracking in urban environments using UAV is a difficult task due to the limited field of view, visibility obstruction from obstacles and uncertain target motion.
Sarthak Bhagat, P. Sujit
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Evaluating urban freight transport policies within complex urban environments [PDF]

, 2018
Urban Freight Transport (UFT) entails significant advantages for the economic growth of cities, but can also hamper population quality of life, obstructing vehicles and people movements while exacerbating environmental problems.
Benedito Benet, Ernest, Domenech Léga, Bruno, Pastor Moreno, Rafael, Sanz, Guillem   +3 more
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Deterioration of the Urban Heritage Fields : Case study of Bordj Zemmoura City -Algeria [PDF]

Ziglôbitha
: The paper deals with the issue of the deterioration of the urban heritage fields of the city of Bordj Zemmoura, which negatively affected the social and economic characteristics of the population and the identity and privacy of the field, which ...
Bakhta Degdagui & Khalfallah Boudjemaa
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Explanation of Water Indices and Criteria in the Urban Landscape in Order to Improve the Quality of Urban Environments [PDF]

تحقیقات کاربردی علوم جغرافیایی, 2023
Water as one of the most essential natural elements of landscape and consequently urban landscape from yesterday till today has had a great impact on the formation and effectiveness of urban spaces and its various effects have always stimulated human ...
Zeynab khaleghi, Farah Habib, Hossein Zabihi   +2 more
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Field Evaluation and Calibration of Low-Cost Air Pollution Sensors for Environmental Exposure Research

Sensors, 2022
This paper seeks to evaluate and calibrate data collected by low-cost particulate matter (PM) sensors in different environments and using different aggregated temporal units (i.e., 5-s, 1-min, 10-min, 30 min intervals).
Jianwei Huang, Mei-Po Kwan, Jiannan Cai, Wanying Song, Changda Yu, Zihan Kan, Steve Hung-Lam Yim   +6 more
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Georeferenced Analysis of Urban Nightlife and Noise Based on Mobile Phone Data

Applied Sciences, 2023
Urban environments are characterized by a complex soundscape that varies across different periods and geographical zones. This paper presents a novel approach for analyzing nocturnal urban noise patterns and identifying distinct zones using mobile phone ...
Luís B. Elvas, Miguel Nunes, Joao C. Ferreira, Bruno Francisco, Jose A. Afonso   +4 more
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PM₁₀-Bound Sugars: Chemical Composition, Sources and Seasonal Variations

Atmosphere, 2021
The presence of anhydrosugars and sugar alcohols in airborne articulate matter
Cátia Gonçalves, Ismael Casotti Rienda, Noela Pina, Carla Gama, Teresa Nunes, Oxana Tchepel, Célia Alves   +6 more
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