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Journal articles on the topic "Human footprint"

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Manickaraj.C, Manickaraj C., and Senthil Murugan.M. "Human footprint Segmentation using Multilayer Perception." Indian Journal of Applied Research 3, no. 7 (October 1, 2011): 154–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.15373/2249555x/july2013/44.

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Barker, S. L., and J. L. Scheuer. "Predictive Value of Human Footprints in a Forensic Context." Medicine, Science and the Law 38, no. 4 (October 1998): 341–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002580249803800411.

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Previous work from the United States has shown close correlation between an individual's size and weight and predetermined measurements taken from his or her footprints. This study investigated the situation in a group of United Kingdom subjects, for which there is at present little data. Walking and standing footprints, fleshed foot measurements and stature were obtained from 105 adult volunteers from the staff and students of the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London. The footprints were measured using predetermined landmarks and the results analysed to investigate the significance of the parameters in a forensic context. Inter-observer and intra-observer errors were within acceptable limits. Regression equations were calculated for foot length from various parameters measured on a footprint. Topinard's finding that foot length represents between 14.9%–18.1% of stature in a given individual was confirmed. Footprint length showed a normal distribution in both sexes but male footprint length was greater than female footprint length for any given height. This study provides a quantitative method that could be used both with partial footprints and in the absence of dermatoglyphics to assist in the identification of an individual in a forensic context.
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Glaze, William H. "The human footprint." Environmental Science & Technology 35, no. 13 (July 2001): 273A. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es0123958.

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Crompton, Robin H., Todd C. Pataky, Russell Savage, Kristiaan D'Août, Matthew R. Bennett, Michael H. Day, Karl Bates, Sarita Morse, and William I. Sellers. "Human-like external function of the foot, and fully upright gait, confirmed in the 3.66 million year old Laetoli hominin footprints by topographic statistics, experimental footprint-formation and computer simulation." Journal of The Royal Society Interface 9, no. 69 (July 20, 2011): 707–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2011.0258.

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It is commonly held that the major functional features of the human foot (e.g. a functional longitudinal medial arch, lateral to medial force transfer and hallucal (big-toe) push-off) appear only in the last 2 Myr, but functional interpretations of footbones and footprints of early human ancestors (hominins) prior to 2 million years ago (Mya) remain contradictory. Pixel-wise topographical statistical analysis of Laetoli footprint morphology, compared with results from experimental studies of footprint formation; foot-pressure measurements in bipedalism of humans and non-human great apes; and computer simulation techniques, indicate that most of these functional features were already present, albeit less strongly expressed than in ourselves, in the maker of the Laetoli G-1 footprint trail, 3.66 Mya. This finding provides strong support to those previous studies which have interpreted the G-1 prints as generally modern in aspect.
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Photopoulou, Theoni. "Human footprint restricts ranges." Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, no. 5 (April 2, 2018): 773–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0538-y.

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Petrov, Alexander Arsenievich. "Human digital informational footprint." Trade policy 2, no. 22 (2020): 62–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/2499-9415-2020-2-22-62-86.

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Chenoweth, J., M. Hadjikakou, and C. Zoumides. "Quantifying the human impact on water resources: a critical review of the water footprint concept." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 18, no. 6 (June 24, 2014): 2325–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-2325-2014.

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Abstract. The water footprint is a consumption-based indicator of water use, referring to the total volume of freshwater used directly and indirectly by a nation or a company, or in the provision of a product or service. Despite widespread enthusiasm for the development and use of water footprints, some concerns have been raised about the concept and its usefulness. A variety of methodologies have been developed for water footprinting which differ with respect to how they deal with different forms of water use. The result is water footprint estimates which vary dramatically, often creating confusion. Despite these methodological qualms, the concept has had notable success in raising awareness about water use in agricultural and industrial supply chains, by providing a previously unavailable and (seemingly) simple numerical indicator of water use. Nevertheless, and even though a range of uses have already been suggested for water footprinting, its policy value remains unclear. Unlike the carbon footprint which provides a universal measure of human impact on the atmosphere's limited absorptive capacity, the water footprint in its conventional form solely quantifies a single production input without any accounting of the impacts of use, which vary spatially and temporally. Following an extensive review of the literature related to water footprints, this paper critically examines the present uses of the concept, focusing on its current strengths, shortcomings and promising research avenues to advance it.
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Chenoweth, J., M. Hadjikakou, and C. Zoumides. "Review article: Quantifying the human impact on water resources: a critical review of the water footprint concept." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 10, no. 7 (July 17, 2013): 9389–433. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hessd-10-9389-2013.

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Abstract. The water footprint is a consumption-based indicator of water use, referring to the total volume of freshwater used directly and indirectly by a nation or a company, or in the provision of a product or service. Despite widespread enthusiasm for the development and use of water footprints, some concerns have been raised about the concept and its usefulness. A variety of methodologies have been developed for water footprinting which differ with respect to how they deal with different forms of water use. The result is water footprint estimates which vary dramatically, often creating confusion. Despite these methodological qualms, the concept has had notable success in raising awareness about water use in agricultural and industrial supply chains, by providing a previously unavailable and (seemingly) simple numerical indicator of water use. Nevertheless, and even though a range of uses have already been suggested for water footprinting, its policy value remains unclear. Unlike the carbon footprint which provides a universal measure of human impact on the atmosphere's limited absorptive capacity, the water footprint in its conventional form solely quantifies a single production input without any accounting of the impacts of use, which vary spatially and temporally. Following an extensive review of the literature related to water footprints, this paper critically examines the present uses of the concept, focusing on its current strengths, shortcomings and promising research avenues to advance it.
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Dietz, Thomas, Eugene A. Rosa, and Richard York. "Driving the human ecological footprint." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5, no. 1 (February 2007): 13–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/1540-9295(2007)5[13:dthef]2.0.co;2.

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KumarNagwanshi, Kapil, and Sipi Dubey. "Biometric Authentication using Human Footprint." International Journal of Applied Information Systems 3, no. 7 (August 13, 2012): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5120/ijais12-450568.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Human footprint"

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Barrett, John Richard. "Sustainability and the ecological footprint : comparing human demand with nature's supply." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2000. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/5529/.

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There is a growing concern that current levels of economic activity have outgrown the physical limits of the planet. In the face of global constraints, humanity continues to deplete nature, through resource harvesting and waste generation, faster than nature can regenerate itself. The UN World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) introduced the idea of sustainable development in 1987, with the release of Our Common Future. Sustainable development has since become a powerful and controversial theme, creating seemingly impossible goals for policy makers. Sustainable indicators can be a key mechanism for encouraging progress in the right direction by providing a measuring tool that gives a clearer understanding as to whether sustainability is being achieved. The ecological footprint has emerged as an innovative technique to measure the ecological dimension of sustainability. The research tests the ecological footprint as a tool for guiding humanity towards sustainability. The research establishes whether or not the ecological footprint provides an effective accounting framework for the biophysical services that a given society requires from nature. With Guernsey as the case study, the research investigates whether or not the ecological footprint is a comprehensive tool for local policy decision-making. Considering the methodology of the ecological footprint, its use for time series analysis and the development of scenarios does this. The ecological footprint is also tested for its ability to act as a tool to communicate the ideas of sustainability. In conclusion, while containing some limitations, the ecological footprint is a tool that can facilitate the comparison of policy choices society inevitably must face. At the local level, the ecological footprint is a valuable part of the sustainable indicator tool kit. The use of the ecological footprint as a communication tool for sustainable development is invaluable. It is an indicator that can be understood by the general public and one that links individual lifestyle choices to global environmental problems. The ecological footprint is only an empirical tool and in itself cannot change anything. It is a first step in a process of change and the political will and desire to change must be the driving force. Its great advantage over other sustainability indicators is that it is holistic and makes connections between different activities and impacts. However, the ecological footprint is based on assumptions as the ratios/equations calculated by others. In conclusion, the ecological footprint demonstrates that intelligent rationalisation of means and prudent moderation of ends is the only solution. By providing common ground, the ecological footprint builds bridges between different worldviews and amplifies the resonance between all disciplines working on sustainability.
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Flores, Panizo Maria Luisa. "Ecological footprint analysis for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25438876.

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Pouder, Jessica Anne. "Using Human Footprint Models and Land-Cover Variability to Predict Ecological Processes." W&M ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626953.

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Brownlie, Will. "Assessing the role of domestic phosphorus emissions in the human phosphorus footprint." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/2782.

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Societal phosphorus (P) use is unsustainable; P is vital for food security and its increase in the ecosphere is the single greatest cause of water quality degradation on the planet. The following thesis focuses on the role domestic P emissions play in the human P cycle with an aim to support management in reducing the individual P footprint. Measurement of the P composition of private sewage system (PSS) effluent was used to assess domestic P emissions from properties located within the Loch Leven catchment, in East Scotland, UK. This thesis shows PSS treatment type (i.e. level of additional treatment further to a single settling tank) does not reduce effluent P concentration, challenging the efficacy of policies aiming to reduce P pollution from PSS by technological solutions. Using a questionnaire, assessment of domestic and PSS maintenance behaviours of 156 PSS users indicated reductions in P emissions may be achieved through behavioural change. To understand the impact of behaviour on the human P footprint, a novel method using 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy was successfully developed to identify P compounds related to human behaviour (e.g. washing machine use) in PSS effluent. An assessment of the impact of behaviours on the human P footprint of ten individual households was conducted. Thesis findings conclude PSS desludging reduces concentrations of orthophosphate in PSS effluent; 85% of the variation in total soluble P in PSS effluent can be explained by ‘desludging frequency’ and ‘washing machine use’. Furthermore, PSS users feel responsible for correctly maintaining their PSS, but are potentially not maintaining them effectively or have poorly installed or inadequate systems, and do not know how to reduce domestic P emissions. A need for better public education on PSS maintenance and how to reduce domestic P emissions is required. This work highlights a critical need to integrate social sciences with natural sciences to tackle unsustainable P use.
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Flores, Panizo Maria Luisa. "Ecological footprint analysis for the Hong Kong Special AdministrativeRegion." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3125455X.

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Tack, Jason Duane. "SAGE-GROUSE AND THE HUMAN FOOTPRINT: IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION OF SMALL AND DECLINING POPULATIONS." The University of Montana, 2010. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-01072010-162544/.

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Implementing conservation in the face of unprecedented landscape change requires an understanding of processes and scales that limit wildlife populations. We assessed landscape-level processes influencing sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), to a migratory population in the Milk River Basin (MRB), northeast Montana, USA, and south-central Saskatchewan, Canada. A regional analysis of leks (e.g., communal breeding sites) documented that populations impacted by the increasing extent of agricultural tillage, roads, and energy development out to spatial scales larger than previously known. Using bird abundance as a novel way to evaluate human impacts revealed relationships that would have been missed had we not incorporated lek size into analyses. For example, large leks are 4.5 times less likely to occur than small leks when agricultural tillage fragments 21% of land within 1.0km of breeding sites. Sage-grouse in the MRB met or exceeded demographic rates of stable or increasing populations, and thus, are not likely the cause for annual declines. Spring and summer survival of radio-marked females was higher in 2008 (0.91), than in 2007 (0.55), the year we documented an outbreak of West Nile virus. Nest sites in the MRB had lower shrub cover (15%) than range-wide estimates (15-56%), and overall shrub cover instead of sagebrush cover, was a better predictor of nest-site selection. Plains silver sagebrush (Artemesia cana cana) made up half of total shrub cover (7.1%) at nest sites, suggesting that other shrubs compensate for lower sagebrush densities in the MRB. We discovered the longest migratory event observed for sage-grouse, with females travelling 40km to120km from breeding to wintering areas in Wyoming big sagebrush (A. tridentata wyomingensis) habitats in Montana. Habitat may be sufficient to maintain a small population in the MRB, but its ability to persist through time and to buffer against stochasticity is depressed now that this once-large population has become small and isolated. For example, impacts of disease are compounded when acting on fewer individuals and working synergistically with fluctuations in growth rates. Consequently, conservation of sage-grouse in the MRB will depend on maintaining the current habitat base, and on restoring sagebrush-dominated grasslands currently occupied by agricultural tillage.
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Wada, Yoshihiko. "The myth of sustainable development, the ecological footprint of Japanese consumption." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0015/NQ46441.pdf.

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Rojas, Cesar Alberto, and Cesar Alberto Rojas. "Sustainable Climate Response Connectors at The University of Arizona to Improve User Performance and Reduce Carbon Footprint." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625286.

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The University of Arizona Main Campus is located in the city of Tucson, Arizona. A place that confronts high air temperatures and extreme solar radiation almost all year around. Currently, more than 38,000 students are enrolled as full-time facing the extreme climate conditions of heat. Thousands of students walk from one place to another experiencing uncomfortable walks causing them heat stress. Campus infrastructure is not capable to interact with the weather conditions of Tucson. The lack of shaded paths, materials with high emissivity of heat, nonnative vegetation, among other factors, make the walks unpleasant. This challenge affects people's health and consecutively the performance of cooling systems once the people enter to buildings overheated. Outdoor human thermal comfort in arid and desert areas is a relevant topic that carries implications and benefits on people and buildings performance. The amount and intensity of activities within individuals affects the level of comfort.
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Sköld, Bore. "Estimating Carbon Footprint : A quantitative analysis of greenhouse gas emission related to human behavior and diet in Västerbotten." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Epidemiologi och global hälsa, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-111972.

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Background and objective: Researchers have been looking for a way to predict future emission rates, and come up with explanations on how to tackle the issue of global warming through changes in individual behavior for decades. The focus of these studies have, on the other hand, focused more on nutritional bases rather than cultural. This study’s objective is to provide a method, as a useful tool in further analysis on GHG-emission based on cultural behavioral factors such as socio-economic status as well as age, sex, etc. with diet as emission prediction factor. This could be a stepping stone toward future research on Co2e related to e.g. physiological factors such as BMI, blood pressure and diseases. Method: With the use of data obtained from the FFQ questionnaire within the VIP-program, combined with estimates of greenhouse gas-emission (Co2e) attributed to specific diets obtained from Röös, estimations of individual Co2e emission-levels were calculated using the software “R”. The dataset contained 159 687 observations and 152 different variables. The data was obtained from the Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine at Umeå University. Portions sizes were mainly collected from the Swedish Food Composition Database. Box-plots and regression analysis were made to illustrate the main findings. Result: The result was a new dataset that could be applied to any population to estimate Co2e-emission on individual level based on an FFQ, given that the FFQ have the same structure as the one in the VIP. The variables that contributed to the highest amount of Co2e were animal products i.e. butter, milk and meat. Chicken, pork and fish were not nearly as Co2e heavy as the meat products containing beef such as “steak”, “minced meat” and “hamburgers”. The regression analysis showed that higher age had a positive effect on reducing emission, as well as being a woman. Education showed an increase in Co2e for higher education. There were some small differences among municipalities. Marital status gave a slight decrease in the regression, meaning married couples emits more than singles. Exercise showed an increase in Co2e for active individuals in the regression analysis. However, the most noticeable result were sex, yielding a relatively big decrease in Co2e-emission for women compared to men. Conclusion: People at younger ages, within the observed age groups 40-60, seemed to reduce their carbon footprint more in relation to the higher age groups over the last 20 years. Overall, the general diet-based carbon footprint in Västerbotten seems to have increased slightly during the last 17 years. A remarkable dip were noticed in 2003, however this might not have been due to any behavioral changes, since the trend broke in 2006 and instantly receded back to the normal levels. This study confirms the fact that meat and dairy products are responsible for a significant amount of the diet-based emission. This topic needs to be studied more, and with this method of applying GHG-emission measures to individual diet-based data, a gate has been opened for a new field of research.
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Girardin, Fabien. "Aspects of implicit and explicit human interactions with ubiquitous geographic information." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7561.

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El uso creciente de dispositivos móviles, infraestructuras inalámbricas e Internet está cambiando nuestra vida diaria, no solo la manera en que nos comunicamos o compartimos información, sino también cómo nos relacionamos con el entorno. A través de nuestras interacciones con estas tecnologías, accedemos y generamos una membrana de información que se cierne sobre los espacios donde vivimos y que visitamos. Sin embargo, esta capa de información solo modela de manera imperfecta la realidad debido a una digitalización tosca y a limitaciones tecnológicas, que hacen peligrar la interacción humana. Por otro lado, la presencia de esta información geográfica ubicua generada por los usuarios abre nuevas perspectivas para la comprensión de las actividades humanas en el espacio y el tiempo. Esta tesis acepta el reto de investigar estos aspectos de las interacciones humanas con la información geográfica ubicua. Con un enfoque cualitativo y cuantitativo, discernimos las implicaciones de la integración de información geográfica ubicua y las resultantes estrategias de los usuarios para hacer frente a la incertidumbre espacial. Entonces, explotamos esta contribución para analizar enfoques novedosos con el objetivo de inferir actividades espacio-temporales de individuos y grupos respetando su privacidad. Demostramos la aplicabilidad de nuestras soluciones en los ámbitos de la investigación de mercados y el urbanismo.
The increasing use of mobile devices, wireless infrastructures, and the Internet is changing our daily lives, not only in the way we communicate with each other or share information but also how we relate to the environment. Through our interactions with these technologies we access and generate an informational membrane, hovering over the spaces we live in and visit. However, this information layer only imperfectly models the reality due to coarse digitization and technological limitations, challenging the human interaction. On the other hand, the presence of this user-generated ubiquitous geographic information opens novel perspectives in understanding human activities over space and time. This thesis takes on the challenge of exploring these aspects of human interactions with ubiquitous geographic information. Through qualitative lenses, we discern the implications of the integration of ubiquitous geographic information and the resulting users strategies to cope with spatial uncertainty. Then, we exploit this contribution to explore novel approaches to infer individuals and groups time-space activities with respect to their privacy. We demonstrate the applicability of our solutions in the domains of market research and urbanism.
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Books on the topic "Human footprint"

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The human footprint: A global environmental history. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2015.

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The human footprint: A global environmental history. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

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Steve, Parker. Industry, population and global footprint. Mankato, Minn: QEB Pub., 2010.

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Brothers, Leslie. Friday's footprint: How society shapes the human mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

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The human footprint on environment: Issues in India. New Delhi: Macmillan Publishers India LTD, 2012.

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Rooney, Anne. Reducing the carbon footprint. Mankato, MN: Smart Apple Media, 2010.

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Sturm, Jeanne. Our footprint on Earth. Vero Beach, FL: Rourke Pub., 2009.

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Wackernagel, Mathis. Our ecological footprint: Reducing human impact on the earth. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 1996.

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The animal manifesto: Six reasons for expanding our compassion footprint. Novato, Calif: New World Library, 2010.

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Bekoff, Marc. The animal manifesto: Six reasons for expanding our compassion footprint. Novato, Calif: New World Library, 2010.

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Book chapters on the topic "Human footprint"

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Bennett, Matthew R. "Prehistoric Human Footprint Sites." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 1–6. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1891-2.

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Bennett, Matthew R., and Sarita A. Morse. "Prehistoric Human Footprint Sites." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 6123–28. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1891.

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Bennett, Matthew R. "Prehistoric Human Footprint Sites." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 8875–79. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_1891.

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Gagnol, Laurent. "Identify, Search and Monitor by Tracks: Elements of Analysis of Pastoral Know-How in Saharan-Sahelian Societies." In Reading Prehistoric Human Tracks, 363–83. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60406-6_19.

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AbstractThis article deals with the knowledge and skills related to tracks in the sand among nomadic and semi-nomadic populations with a predominantly pastoral focus in the Sahara and Sahel. Identifying a sought-after individual, interpreting the associated clues, catching up with it by following the trail – all this is an essentially pastoral know-how. The punctual examination of the footprint aims at identifying the individual who produced it, and the search for clues associated with the footprint enables the tracker to discern other elements interpreting more generally the behaviour of this individual in movement. Through the understanding of the spatial and temporal context, linear tracking of footprints, by implementing a hodological strategy, makes it possible to catch up with the individual in question. Furthermore, this chapter discusses the power structures between the men who are in charge of tracking as well as the confirmation, assurance or subversion of the social order it implies. Finally, the permanence and transformation of this common and essential know-how in the process of becoming sedentary are analysed.
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Lenssen-Erz, Tilman, and Andreas Pastoors. "Reading Spoor." In Reading Prehistoric Human Tracks, 101–18. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60406-6_6.

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AbstractThe spoor of animals and humans alike contain rich information about an individual and about a momentary activity this individual performed. If the – arguably hard-wired – human ability to read spoor and tracks is sufficiently trained, a footprint allows to glean from it various physical, kinetic, medical, social and psychologic data about an individual, as has been observed among various populations across the globe. The Ju|’hoansi San from northern Namibia still today practice traditional hunting so that tracking is a skill that is required and trained on a daily base. For a good tracker, the information she or he gets from spoor is equally rich on animal and human footprints, and it is not necessary that the tracker has been exposed before to the individual whose spoor she/he reads. In order to allow an assessment of how tenable are the interpretations by contemporary hunter-gatherers of prehistoric human footprints, this chapter elucidates methodological aspects of tracking and situates this ability in an epistemological framework.
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Durojaye, Omoniyi, Timothy Laseinde, and Ifetayo Oluwafemi. "A Descriptive Review of Carbon Footprint." In Human Systems Engineering and Design II, 960–68. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27928-8_144.

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Stiner, Mary C., and Steven L. Kuhn. "Tracking the Carbon Footprint of Paleolithic Societies in Mediterranean Ecosystems." In Human Ecology, 109–25. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5701-6_8.

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Ortega, Ana I., Francisco Ruiz, Miguel A. Martín, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, Marco Vidal, Lucía Bermejo, and Theodoros Karampaglidis. "Prehistoric Human Tracks in Ojo Guareña Cave System (Burgos, Spain): The Sala and Galerías de las Huellas." In Reading Prehistoric Human Tracks, 317–42. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60406-6_17.

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AbstractIn 1969, members of Grupo Espeleológico Edelweiss discovered the Sala and Galerías de las Huellas in Ojo Guareña Cave system (Burgos, Spain). These contained hundreds of ancient human footprints, preserved in the soft sediment on the floor. These footprints represent the tracks of a small group of people who walked barefoot through these complex passages in the cave. Owing to the difficult compatibility of the documentation and preservation of these prints, it was not possible to study them before the development of new non-invasive remote sensing techniques. However, since 2012 optical laser scanning and digital photogrammetry have been used in Galerías de las Huellas, in combination with GIS techniques, to obtain a model of the cave floor, where the footprints and their internal morphology can be observed in detail. We have identified over 1000 prehistoric human footprints and at least 18 distinct trackways through the passages, which could have been left by around 8–10 individuals. Since 2016, an archaeological field study has been conducted in this sector, in order to determine and explore its surrounding area and find other archaeological evidence that may be directly associated with these tracks. Numerous remains of torches are preserved on the walls and floor in the immediate surroundings of the footprint sites. Some of them have been dated, which has revealed the intensive use of this underground landscape from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Mesolithic-Neolithic. However, the remains in Sala and Galerías de las Huellas date solely to the Chalcolithic, around 4300 calBP.
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Arce, Guadalupe, Jorge Enrique Zafrilla, Luis-Antonio López, and María Ángeles Tobarra. "Carbon Footprint of Human Settlements in Spain." In Carbon Footprint and the Industrial Life Cycle, 307–24. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54984-2_14.

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Webb, Steve. "An Echo from a Footprint: A Step Too Far." In Reading Prehistoric Human Tracks, 397–412. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60406-6_21.

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AbstractRarely in archaeology do we see the flesh and blood of ancient people living their lives? In Australia, a unique archaeological site discovered in 2006 allowed us to do just that as people went about their daily lives during the last glacial maximum. The site is a palaeofilm of men, women and children, walking, running and meandering across a wet area that was obviously special to them. While hundreds of footprints displayed this unusual but moving life tapestry, details of their behaviour and other marks they left behind were difficult or impossible to interpret. Moreover, were some of the marks made by humans or just artefacts of nature? Perhaps we were not making the right interpretation and not picking up clues to the everyday life of these people as well as we might. We required interpretative skills we did not have. To help us we needed to partner with people who had such skills. Pintubi people from Central Australia were asked to help, and they were some of the last people contacted by White Australia in the early 1960s. They had the vital skills of tracking, skills that had kept them alive in the harsh Tanami and Gibson deserts of Central Australia. It was possible that they would be able to apply those skills in reaching out to their ancient Dreamtime ancestors. They also brought that Dreamtime to us.
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Conference papers on the topic "Human footprint"

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Gouveia, Rúben, and Evangelos Karapanos. "Footprint tracker." In CHI '13: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2481405.

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Kulkarni, Prachi S., and Vinayak B. Kulkarni. "Human footprint classification using image parameters." In 2015 International Conference on Pervasive Computing (ICPC). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pervasive.2015.7087011.

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Wenxia, Bao, Hu Wei, Liang Dong, Wang Nian, and Huang Fuxiang. "Deep Supervised Binary Hash Codes for Footprint Image Retrieval." In 2020 International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Human-Computer Interaction (ICHCI). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ichci51889.2020.00038.

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Wibowo, Dwi Basuki, Gunawan Dwi Haryadi, and Agus Priambodo. "Estimation of foot pressure from human footprint depths using 3D scanner." In SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND ADVANCED MATERIALS : Proceeding of the 4th International Conference and Exhibition on Sustainable Energy and Advanced Materials 2015 (ICE-SEAM 2015). AIP Publishing LLC, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4943451.

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Ornelas, Erick López, and Rocío Abascal Mena. "A mixed methodology to discover what young people know about digital footprint." In CLIHC '19: IX Latin American Conference on Human Computer Interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3358961.3358987.

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Nursanti, Ida, Much Djunaidi, Hafidh Munawir, and Ekalia Yanasari Putri. "Water footprint assessment of Indonesian Batik production." In HUMAN-DEDICATED SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT AND PROCESS DESIGN: MATERIALS, RESOURCES, AND ENERGY: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Industrial Application (ICETIA) 2017. Author(s), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5043012.

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Reddy, Radha, Luis Almeida, Pedro M. Santos, and Eduardo Tovar. "Comparing the Ecological Footprint of Intersection Management Protocols for Human/Autonomous Scenarios." In 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/itsc45102.2020.9294529.

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Ramirez-Bautista, Julian Andres, Antonio Hernandez-Zavala, Jorge A. Huerta-Ruelas, Miklos F. Hatwagner, Silvia L. Chaparro-Cardenas, and Laszo T. Koczy. "Detection of Human Footprint Alterations by Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Trained with Genetic Algorithm." In 2018 Seventeenth Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/micai46078.2018.00013.

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Wibowo, Dwi Basuki, Gunawan Dwi Haryadi, Achmad Widodo, and Sri Puji Rahayu. "Estimation of calcaneal loading during standing from human footprint depths using 3D scanner." In INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY 2016 (ICESNANO 2016). Author(s), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4968316.

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Uhl, J. H., S. Leyk, Yao-Yi Chiang, Weiwei Duan, and C. A. Knoblock. "Extracting Human Settlement Footprint from Historical Topographic Map Series Using Context-Based Machine Learning." In 8th International Conference of Pattern Recognition Systems (ICPRS 2017). Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/cp.2017.0144.

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