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A Camera-Based Target Detection and Positioning UAV System for Search and Rescue (SAR) Purposes

Sensors, 2016
Wilderness search and rescue entails performing a wide-range of work in complex environments and large regions. Given the concerns inherent in large regions due to limited rescue distribution, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based frameworks are a ...
Jingxuan Sun, Boyang Li, Yifan Jiang, Chih-yung Wen   +3 more
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Collaborative Multi-Robot Search and Rescue: Planning, Coordination, Perception, and Active Vision

IEEE Access, 2020
Search and rescue (SAR) operations can take significant advantage from supporting autonomous or teleoperated robots and multi-robot systems. These can aid in mapping and situational assessment, monitoring and surveillance, establishing communication ...
Jorge Pena Queralta, Jussi Taipalmaa, Bilge Can Pullinen, Victor Kathan Sarker, Tuan Nguyen Gia, Hannu Tenhunen, Moncef Gabbouj, Jenni Raitoharju, Tomi Westerlund   +8 more
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Developing a Wilderness Quality Index for Continental Europe

Land
This paper presents an updated wilderness quality map, WQI 2.0, for Europe, which extends the existing map (WQI 1.0) to include non-EU states in Eastern Europe.
Iurii Strus, Stephen Carver
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Testing planetary urbanisation: Siberia’s trans-scalar spatial regime of oil production

City, Territory and Architecture, 2022
This paper analyses the extended urbanization of oil production in Siberia in order to test Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid’s theory of planetary urbanization.
Roi Salgueiro Barrio, Conor O’Shea
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« Naturalité » : concepts et méthodes appliqués à la conservation de la nature

Cybergeo, 2018
In the current context of an increasing human encroachment on landscapes, the identification and cartography of the last remaining wild areas are increasingly challenging in the field of nature conservation.
Adrien Guette, Jonathan Carruthers-Jones, Laurent Godet, Marc Robin   +3 more
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Organoids in pediatric cancer research

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Organoid technology has revolutionized cancer research, yet its application in pediatric oncology remains limited. Recent advances have enabled the development of pediatric tumor organoids, offering new insights into disease biology, treatment response, and interactions with the tumor microenvironment.
Carla Ríos Arceo, Jarno Drost
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Global conservation significance of Ecuador's Yasuní National Park.

PLoS ONE, 2010
BackgroundThe threats facing Ecuador's Yasuní National Park are emblematic of those confronting the greater western Amazon, one of the world's last high-biodiversity wilderness areas.
Margot S Bass, Matt Finer, Clinton N Jenkins, Holger Kreft, Diego F Cisneros-Heredia, Shawn F McCracken, Nigel C A Pitman, Peter H English, Kelly Swing, Gorky Villa, Anthony Di Fiore, Christian C Voigt, Thomas H Kunz   +12 more
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Protein pyrophosphorylation by inositol pyrophosphates — detection, function, and regulation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Protein pyrophosphorylation is an unusual signaling mechanism that was discovered two decades ago. It can be driven by inositol pyrophosphate messengers and influences various cellular processes. Herein, we summarize the research progress and challenges of this field, covering pathways found to be regulated by this posttranslational modification as ...
Sarah Lampe, Tanmay Kumar Mohanty, Rashna Bhandari, Dorothea Fiedler   +3 more
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Research on wilderness area identification and distribution of spatial characteristics based on Boolean-multi-indicator evaluation approach —a case study of wilderness areas in Henan Province, China

Frontiers in Environmental Science
Under the background of global anthropocene and climate change, as a key spatial unit to maintain the function of native ecosystems, the study of precise identification and spatial distribution of wilderness is of great scientific value to enhance the ...
Yaping Ren, Shuyi Wang, Bifeng Cui, Yu Ding, Runxiang Cao   +4 more
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Mapping the concept, content and outcome of wilderness therapy for childhood cancer survivors: protocol for a scoping review

BMJ Open, 2019
Introduction Long-term childhood cancer survivors are at risk for frailty and have significant health-related issues in adulthood. Various health promotion interventions have been proposed to enhance quality of life including wilderness therapy, which ...
Miek C Jong, Anne Lown, Winnie Schats, Heather Rose Otto, Mats Jong   +4 more
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