Building Coastal Dunes with Sea Oats and Surrogate Wrack by Natalie Hooton, Debbie L. Miller, Mack Thetford, Sean Claypool

“…Managers have tried commercial fertilizers and water-absorbing gels to ensure planted sea oats survive and thrive, but these products are not always effective and can be expensive. Removal of natural beach litter, called “wrack” and defined as “algae, grasses, driftwood, fruits, seeds, and carrion, along with cultural litter,” has frequently had the undesired effect of weakening the establishment and growth of sea oats. …”
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Short Data-Based Output-Only Identification for Time-Varying Systems with Fast Dynamic Evolution by Zhi-Sai Ma, Qian Ding

“…Comparative results confirm the advantages of the proposed method in terms of achievable natural frequency and power spectral density tracking, accuracy, and resolution of TV systems with fast dynamic evolution, when the response data length is relatively short.…”
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Feasibility of Output-Only Modal Identification Using Wireless Sensor Network: A Quantitative Field Experimental Study by Wen-ai Shen, Ying Lei, Liang Hu, Yang Wang

“…The comparison shows close match in natural frequencies and mode shapes, although relatively large difference in damping ratios exists between results from wireless and tethered sensing data. …”
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Structure, Mechanical Performance, and Dimensional Stability of Radiata Pine (Pinus radiata D. Don) Scrimbers by Jinguang Wei, Fei Rao, Yuxiang Huang, Yahui Zhang, Yue Qi, Wenji Yu, Chung-Yun Hse

“…Natural wood has certain advantages such as good processability and high specific strength and thus has been used for millennium as a structural material. …”
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MOŽNOSTI POSUZOVÁNÍ EFEKTIVITY INVESTIC DO MODRO-ZELENÉ INFRASTRUKTURY V URBANIZOVANÉM ÚZEMÍ by Jan Kopp, Pavlína Hejduková, Michaela Hejplíková

“…On the cost side, it is advisable to include not only the cost of building the water management infrastructure in the optimization of the solution, but also the contributions of natural capital, which is reflected in the provision of ecosystem services. …”

Dynamic Mechanical Analysis of Banyan/Ramie Fibers Reinforced with Nanoparticle Hybrid Polymer Composite by T. Raja, V. Mohanavel, M. Ravichandran, S. Suresh Kumar, Munirah D. Albaqami, Reham Ghazi Alotabi, Mohanraj Murugesan

“…Natural fibers are an increasing potential alternative to synthetic fibers in recent research, due to their unique properties and weight ratio in composite materials. …”
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AMPK Activation Mediated by Hinokitiol Inhibits Adipogenic Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells through Autophagy Flux by Ju-Hee Lee, Jae-Kyo Jeong, Sang-Youel Park

“…Background and Purpose. Hinokitiol, a natural monopenoid present in the essential oil of Calocedrus formosana heartwood, exerts potent anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and neuroprotective effects on various cells. …”
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Genomics Reveal Population Structure and Intergeneric Hybridization in an Endangered South American Bird: Implications for Management and Conservation by Marisol Domínguez, Larissa S. Arantes, Pablo D. Lavinia, Nicole Bergjürgen, Agustin I. Casale, Pablo A. Fracas, Darío A. Lijtmaer, Pablo Tubaro, Sarah Sparmann, Susan Mbedi, Camila Mazzoni, Bettina Mahler, Ralph Tiedemann

“…This study uses genomic data to provide new insights to aid conservation and management of endangered species, using as a case study the Yellow cardinal (Gubernatrix cristata), a bird endemic to southern South America severely affected by illegal trade and the transformation of its natural habitat. We explore population structure within the Yellow cardinal, delimiting management units and describing connectivity among them. …”
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Geoconservation Initiatives in the State of Paraná (Brazil) by Luiz Alberto Fernandes, Fernanda Caroline Borato Xavier, Kimberlym Tábata Pesch Vieira, Liliane Maia Tcacenco-Manzano

“…Regrettably, geodiversity and geoconservation remain the least known components of the state's natural heritage. A long-standing concern has been the absence of geological content in the curriculum of the Brazilian basic education system. …”
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Advanced Piezoelectric Materials, Devices, and Systems for Orthopedic Medicine by Jingkai Zhang, Chang Liu, Jun Li, Tao Yu, Jing Ruan, Fan Yang

“…Known for its highly oriented and hierarchical structure, collagen in natural bones produces local electrical signals to stimulate osteoblasts and promote bone formation, inspiring the application of piezoelectric materials in orthopedic medicine. …”
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La fauna silvestre en los discursos de la Ley General de Vida Silvestre, su reglamento y de los inspectores ambientales de México by Jesu\u0301s Ignacio Castro Salazar, Brenda Araceli Bustos Garci\u0301a

“…El derecho ambiental saca al derecho de su discurso tradicional positivista y lo expone en el diverso y complejo escenario natural. Las leyes ambientales se encuentran entre la paradoja de la ecología y la postura legal. …”
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Biophysical Insights into Cancer Transformation and Treatment by Jiří Pokorný, Alberto Foletti, Jitka Kobilková, Anna Jandová, Jan Vrba, Jan Vrba, Martina Nedbalová, Aleš Čoček, Andrea Danani, Jack A. Tuszyński

“…A therapeutic strategy of targeting dysfunctional mitochondria for restoration of their physiological functions makes it possible to switch on the natural apoptotic pathway blocked in cancer transformed cells. …”
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Defending Against Advanced Persistent Threats Using Game-Theory. by Stefan Rass, Sandra König, Stefan Schauer

“…The diversity and usual stealthiness of APT turns them into a central problem of contemporary practical system security, since information on attacks, the current system status or the attacker's incentives is often vague, uncertain and in many cases even unavailable. Game theory is a natural approach to model the conflict between the attacker and the defender, and this work investigates a generalized class of matrix games as a risk mitigation tool for an advanced persistent threat (APT) defense. …”
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Strengthening social capital as a strategy for edutourism development of Kampoeng Soesoe Randuacir Salatiga municipality by Lasti Nur Satiani, Suryo Sakti Hadiwijoyo

“…Educational tourism development is not only related to strengthening human capital, physical capital, financial capital and natural capital, but also requires social capital as an integrated part of the five livelihood assets. …”
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Synoptic analysis of the most severe flood in Karkheh basin (Flood 1 April 2019) by dana rahimi, Javad khoshhal dastjerdi, Dariush rahimi

“…Among natural disasters, floods have the highest human toll. …”
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Modelo de desarrollo sostenible para tres pequeñas comunidades en Costa Rica by María José Chassoul-Acosta, Claudia Charpentier

“…Incluye el crecimiento y el desarrollo económico, el bienestar social y la conservación del medio natural. En este modelo, la mejora de la condición de vida se consigue mediante la utilización de las capacidades que han desarrollado los habitantes o por la obtención de nuevas competencias, que les permita utilizar los recursos disponibles en la zona. …”
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Emerging Preservation Techniques for Controlling Spoilage and Pathogenic Microorganisms in Fruit Juices by Kamal Rai Aneja, Romika Dhiman, Neeraj Kumar Aggarwal, Ashish Aneja

“…Apart from these emerging techniques, preservatives from natural sources have also shown considerable promise for use in some food products. …”
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A Fractal Analysis of the Size Effect in Quasi-Brittle Materials: Experimental Tests and Peridynamic Simulations by Leandro Ferreira Friedrich, Luis Eduardo Kosteski, Édiblu Silva Cezar, Angélica Bordin Colpo, Caroline Bremm, Giuseppe Lacidogna, Ignacio Iturrioz

“…Moreover, the classical dimensional analysis has been employed to demonstrate that the scale effect can be naturally described by the PD model parameters, allowing to extend the results for scales beyond those analyzed experimentally.…”
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Similarity Measure Learning in Closed-Form Solution for Image Classification by Jing Chen, Yuan Yan Tang, C. L. Philip Chen, Bin Fang, Zhaowei Shang, Yuewei Lin

“…In fact, the distance is the natural measure for dissimilarity. Generally, a pairwise relationship between two objects in learning tasks includes two aspects: similarity and dissimilarity. …”
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Noisy Approach to Intrinsically Mixed-State Topological Order by Ramanjit Sohal, Abhinav Prem

“…Specifically, we show that decoherence, previously interpreted as anyon condensation in a doubled Hilbert space, is more naturally phrased as, and provides a physical mechanism for, “gauging out” anyons in the original Hilbert space. …”
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