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Journal articles on the topic "Making forest accessible"
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Gan, Jianbang, H. Michael Rauscher, C. T. Smith, et al. "The Southern US Forest Bioenergy Encyclopedia: Making Scientific Knowledge More Accessible." Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 32, no. 1 (2008): 28–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sjaf/32.1.28.
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Abstract Production of forest biomass in sustainably managed forests in the southern United States has great potential to improve forest health, make energy supplies more secure, and increase the social and economic welfare of rural communities. The awareness and access of landowners and forestry and natural resource professionals to new knowledge and market development opportunities must be increased, and new technological advances in knowledge dissemination systems can be very useful in this connection. The Encyclopedia of Southern Bioenergy was developed within The Forest Encyclopedia Network (www.forestencyclopedia.net/) to facilitate the transfer of useable knowledge from scientific experts in bioenergy and bio-based products to natural resource professionals, landowners, and the general public. Using the encyclopedia as a base, a team of bioenergy and extension education experts has developed several new educational products. These materials are designed as components of an overall biomass training program for the South that is being disseminated through the Southern Regional Extension Forest network.
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Rusana, Neema Eliya, Felister Mombo, Sayuni Mariki, and Johanna Bergman Lodin. "Assessment of Decentralized Decision-Making on Livestock Management in Miombo Woodlands of Tanga and Morogoro regions, Tanzania: Bridging Acts and Practice." East African Journal of Environment and Natural Resources 7, no. 2 (2024): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajenr.7.2.2266.
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Despite legal reforms such as the Local Government (District Authorities) Act of 1982 and the Forest Act of 2002, which decentralize forest management in Tanzania’s villages, the persistent degradation of Miombo woodland forests, primarily due to livestock activities, raises concerns about the effectiveness of these reforms. This study compares the provisions of these acts with on-ground realities through data from 27 Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and 45 Key Informant Interviews (KIIs). Thematic analysis using NVIVO 12 software identified four key discrepancies: decision-making structures, decision-making processes, gender involvement, and village collaboration. Findings show that villagers often unknowingly delegate legislative power to leaders, decision-making is politicized with minimal stakeholder engagement, gender inclusivity is minimal, and villages manage forests independently rather than collaboratively. These gaps have led to biased decisions, conflicts among user groups, forest encroachment, and the neglect of women's needs, exacerbating forest degradation. To address these issues, the study recommends capacity building through leadership and technical training for village councils, community education on legal rights, and improved transparency via public forums and accessible reporting. These initiatives aim to empower local communities and foster sustainable management of Miombo woodland forests
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Wioletta, Kacprzyk. "The coherence of tourism facilities with the forest landscape." Geography and Tourism 6, no. 2 (2018): 109–17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2144112.
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Organizing tourism and recreation in forested areas requires appropriate facilities to handle tourism flows. It is vital that the facilities be comfortable, fit the needs of tourists but also that they be coherent with the area’s landscape of their location. The objective of this article is to present the issue of matching of not so much the function but the external looks of the facilities to a given place, including their construction, design, colours as well as the material from which they are made. The author’s considerations are based on the analysis of literature and experts’ opinions conducted at the State Forest Enterprise – State Forests (Państwowe Gospodarstwo Leśne Lasy Państwowe, PGL LP). These considerations concern the facilities located in Polish forests, especially the town of Zakopane and its area, and the presented examples refer to the touristically attractive (due to its natural values) area. The conclusion drawn out of the conducted analyses is not optimistic. The facilities are generally not consistent with the local landscape.
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Pokorny, Benno, Juan Carlos Montero Terrazas, James Johnson, Karen Mendoza Ortega, Walter Cano Cardona, and Wil de Jong. "Making Timber Accessible to Forest Communities: A Study on Locally Adapted, Motor–Manual Forest Management Schemes in the Eastern Lowlands of Bolivia." Forests 16, no. 3 (2025): 496. https://doi.org/10.3390/f16030496.
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Forest communities around the world have great difficulties in utilizing the economic potential of their forests, especially timber, under current technical requirements and legal frameworks. The present study examines the feasibility of motor–manual timber management among indigenous Chiquitano communities in Bolivia’s Eastern Lowlands. It evaluates local practices, tests technical optimization options, and assesses their technical, financial, and environmental impacts. Findings reveal that traditional motor–manual timber production is scarcely profitable, exacerbated by burdensome legal frameworks and limited market access. However, motor–manual forest management remains an essential source of income for communities, and it constitutes an important option for rural development. Field tests demonstrate that, with the use of better equipment such as quality chainsaws, and improved maintenance and workflows, productivity and profitability of local logging can be enhanced. Despite a low environmental impact, optimized motor–manual timber management continues to be constrained by governance challenges, logistical limitations, and limited markets for locally produced timber. The study recommends optimizing these aspects, including targeted technical support, market development, simplified legal frameworks, and the setting up of robust local governance structures to replace ineffective centralized command and control approaches. These improvements would enable communities to sustainably use timber from their forests while addressing their socio-economic needs. The findings underscore the potential of logging by local communities as an alternative to large-scale mechanized logging, for Bolivia and in other tropical forest countries.
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Dewnath, N., P. Bholanath, R. Rivas Palma, B. Freeman, and P. Watt. "USING GUYANA’S MONITORING REPORTING & VERIFICATION SYSTEM TO GUIDE NATIONAL FOREST MANAGEMENT & DECISION MAKING." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-3/W11 (February 14, 2020): 43–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-3-w11-43-2020.
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Abstract. The Guyana Forestry Commission’s (GFC) Monitoring, Reporting and Verification System (MRVS) is a combined Geographic Information System (GIS) and field-based monitoring system, which has underpinned the conducting of a historical assessment of forest cover as well as eight national assessments of forest area change to date. The System seeks to provide the basis for measuring verifiable changes in Guyana’s forest cover and resultant carbon emissions from Guyana’s forests, which will provide the basis for results-based REDD+ compensation in the long-term. With the continuous compilation, analysis and dissemination of MRVS results on a typically annual basis, the GFC envisioned a larger role for this data, in informing national processes such as natural resources policy and management. This resulted in a significant broadening of the application of the MRVS data and products for purposes that are aligned or complementary to national REDD+ objectives and forest policy and management. These broader applications have allowed for a beneficial shift towards the increased use of remote sensing data and scientific reporting to inform forest management, governance and decision making on natural resource management across forested land. This has resulted in a transformation in the nature of data available to inform decision making on forest management and governance, and overall environmental oversight, from predominantly social science data and factors to now incorporating remote sensing and scientific observations and reporting. Primary decision makers are turning to scientific based reporting to determine best approaches for developmental initiatives in Guyana. This study shows how Guyana has demonstrated significant progress in making remote sensing products accessible and useful to policy makers in Guyana.
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Nastran, Mojca. "Visiting the Forest with Kindergarten Children: Forest Suitability." Forests 11, no. 6 (2020): 696. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f11060696.
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By providing ecosystem services, urban forests contribute significantly to the well-being of urban populations. Urban forests, along with other urban green spaces, are often the closest natural environment in the city where a child can play. The majority of pre-school children spend a large part of the day in kindergarten, which means that forest visits should have a prominent place in the kindergarten curriculum. Therefore, this study focuses on making the forest more suitable and thus more accessible for visits with children. The first goal of the research is to identify teachers’ preferences for the forest environment they visit with a group of pre-school children. The second goal is to present a forest suitability model for a visit with kindergarten children based on the teachers’ preferences. Based on the research survey conducted among the teachers in Slovenian public kindergartens, we formed and evaluated the criteria for the construction of a model of forest suitability for a visit with children. As the most important requirement for visiting a forest, the teachers note its proximity. They prefer a mature, mixed forest, with a bit of undergrowth, dead wood, and a presence of water and a meadow. Based on the identified criteria, we used the multi-criteria evaluation method in the GIS-environment in order to build a model of urban forest suitability for a visit with kindergarten groups of children in the study area of the City of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The results are useful in urban forest planning and management to ensure better forest suitability and accessibility for visits by children. Suitability maps can be used as one of the spatial foundations necessary for an integrated urban forest planning with emphasis on social functions. The model can be adapted beyond Slovenia to different spatial and social requirements and contexts.
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Chaves, Marcelo Vitor Gualberto Santos, Marcelo Lourençoni Pauletti, Samuel José Silva Soares da Rocha, Lucas Rezende Gomide, and Carolina Souza Jarochinski e. Silva. "Edentree: A web application for optimal rotation age analysis." Revista Árvore 49, no. 1 (2025): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.53661/1806-9088202549263865.
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The R/Shiny package is a tool that allows the creation of interactive web applications, transforming complex analyses into accessible interfaces. In the forestry sector, Shiny’s potential is still little explored, despite its applications in areas such as forest inventory, fire monitoring, LiDAR data analysis, and biomass and carbon estimates in Brazilian forests. This tool has been adopted by researchers and companies for its ability to generate interactive statistical reports and dashboards, contributing to data visualization and supporting forestry decision-making. From this, the objective of this research was to develop a web application in R/Shiny for the forestry field that, through the calculation of biological and financial indicators, would assist the user in making decisions regarding their forestry project. The main packages used to create the web application interface were: Shiny, bs4Dash, and golem, which offer pre-built functionalities and allow the application to be developed with less effort. For validation, data from a Eucalyptus urograndis forest plantation in Alagoinhas, Bahia, collected in 2021, were used, along with Microsoft Excel and Planin® software. As a result, a functional and online web application was obtained for the forestry field, with satisfactory performance in the validation stages, meeting the established criteria. Thus, the developed tool can contribute to support decision-making during the planning and management of forest plantations.
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Aahna, Bandula. "Satellite based estimation of forest biomass for structural resource planning using gaussian processes and sentinel-2 imagery." i-manager's Journal on Structural Engineering 13, no. 3 (2024): 34. https://doi.org/10.26634/jste.13.3.21857.
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This study presents a replicable, cost-efficient method for estimating forest biomass critical for sustainable structural material sourcing using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and Gaussian Process Regression. A simplified inventory method, coupled with spectral data in the visible to mid-infrared bands, enables accurate biomass quantification across diverse forest structures in Mediterranean climates. Compared to traditional LiDAR-based techniques, this approach offers faster, lower-cost deployment without significant trade-off in accuracy, making it suitable for applications in construction timber forecasting, infrastructure planning, and environmental assessments. The method has been validated across several Mediterranean forest types and is packaged in a freely accessible programming tool for direct integration into engineering planning workflows.
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Jain, Pinkal, and Vikas Thada. "Securing the Data Using an Efficient Machine Learning Technique." International Journal of Experimental Research and Review 40, Spl Volume (2024): 217–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.52756/ijerr.2024.v40spl.018.
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More accessible data and the rise of advanced data analysis contribute to using complex models in decision-making across various fields. Nevertheless, protecting people’s privacy is vital. Medical predictions often employ decision trees due to their simplicity; however, they may also be a source of privacy violations. We will apply differential privacy to this end, a mathematical framework that adds random values to the data to provide secure confidentiality while maintaining accuracy. Our novel method Dual Noise Integrated Privacy Preservation (DNIPP) focuses on building decision forests to achieve privacy. DNIPP provides more protection against breaches in deep sections of the tree, thereby reducing noise in final predictions. We combine multiple trees into one forest using a method that considers each tree’s accuracy. Furthermore, we expedite this procedure by employing an iterative approach. Experiments demonstrate that DNIPP outperforms other approaches on real datasets. This means that DNIPP offers a promising approach to reconciling accuracy and privacy during sensitive tasks. In DNIPP, the strategic allocation of privacy budgets provides a beneficial compromise between privacy and utility. DNIPP protects privacy by prioritizing privacy concerns at lower, more vulnerable nodes, resulting in accurate and private decision forests. Furthermore, the selective aggregation technique guarantees the privacy of a forest by combining multiple data points. DNIPP provides a robust structure for decision-making in delicate situations, ensuring the model's effectiveness while safeguarding personal privacy.
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Li, Yang. "Random Forest model-based risk prediction of COVID-19 regional infection." Applied and Computational Engineering 53, no. 1 (2024): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2755-2721/53/20241126.
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The current prevalence of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide has posed numerous challenges and questions. To assist governments, medical institutions, and the public in making informed decisions and minimize the risk of further spread of COVID-19, this paper employs the Random Forest model to predict the infection risk within certain regions. The dataset utilized underwent data cleaning and feature engineering, allowing predictions to be made using publicly accessible data such as local basic climate conditions. After conducting performance comparisons with other common machine learning models, including Linear Regression and Decision Tree Regressor, it was found that the Random Forest Regressor model exhibited superior performance across all evaluation metrics, with all error values below 0.05. Notably, the MAE for the Random Forest model was only 0.001089. This strongly suggests that the Random Forest model outperforms the other models used in this task.
Books on the topic "Making forest accessible"
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Sheared, Vanessa, and Peggy A. Sissel, eds. Making Space. Praeger, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400681691.
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Representative of a wide range of adult education and lifelong learning frameworks and experiences, this book gives voice to emerging perspectives and offers thought-provoking critiques of established practices and accepted theories. Those in the adult education academy, as well as other voices often excluded from the discourse in adult education, offer critiques of the social, political, economic, and historical forms of hegemony in the discipline. They analyze the ways in which these hegemonic norms and practices have affected adult learning environments and the participation rates of varying groups and shed light on how adult education as a field of practice can marginalize individuals based on their ethnicity, race, gender, class, language, age, or sexual orientation. These critiques provide a powerful statement about silence, invisibility, and the marginalization of the other, and suggest that adult educators may complicitly, if not implicitly, marginalize adult learners. This book will provide professors and students, adult literacy teachers, corporate trainers, community-based organizers, and others with alternative ways to think about adult education practice, adult learners, and the multiple, intersecting realities that influence the teaching/learning transaction. In so doing, this book provides practitioners and academicians with a forum to dialog about emerging theories and practices, and through the discourse they can begin to merge theories and practices through language that is accessible and inclusive.
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van den Dool, Huug. Empirical Methods in Short-Term Climate Prediction. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199202782.001.0001.
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This clear and accessible text describes the methods underlying short-term climate prediction at time scales of 2 weeks to a year. Although a difficult range to forecast accurately, there have been several important advances in the last ten years, most notably in understanding ocean-atmosphere interaction (El Nino for example), the release of global coverage data sets, and in prediction methods themselves. With an emphasis on the empirical approach, the text covers in detail empirical wave propagation, teleconnections, empirical orthogonal functions, and constructed analogue. It also provides a detailed description of nearly all methods used operationally in long-lead seasonal forecasts, with new examples and illustrations. The challenges of making a real time forecast are discussed, including protocol, format, and perceptions about users. Based where possible on global data sets, illustrations are not limited to the Northern Hemisphere, but include several examples from the Southern Hemisphere.
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Bye, Louise, Neil Modi, and Miles Stanford. Basic Sciences for Ophthalmology. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199584994.001.0001.
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Part of the Oxford Specialty Training series, Basic Sciences for Ophthalmology is an indispensable and fully comprehensive resource, and the only one that candidates will need to pass the FRCOphth Part 1 exam. Directly linked to the Royal College's exam, presented in a full colour, highly illustrated, and easy-to-read format, making the basic science behind ophthalmology more approachable and accessible to improve understanding.
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Lliteras, Alejandra Beatriz, and Vanessa Agredo Delgado, eds. Decisioning 2022. Facultad de Informática (UNLP), 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35537/10915/158339.
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Sustainable agriculture is one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) proposed by UN (United Nations), but little systematic work on Knowledge Discovery and Decision Making has been applied to it. Knowledge discovery and decision making are becoming active research areas in the last years. The era of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data science, in which linked data with a high degree of variety and different degrees of veracity can be easily correlated and put in perspective to have an empirical and scientific perception of best practices in sustainable agricultural domain. This requires combining multiple methods such as elicitation, specification, validation, technologies from semantic web, information retrieval, formal concept analysis, collaborative work, semantic interoperability, ontological matching, specification, smart contracts, and multiple decision making. Decisioning 2022 is the first workshop on Collaboration in knowledge discovery and decision making: Applications to sustainable agriculture. It has been organized by six research teams from France, Argentina, Colombia and Chile, to explore the current frontier of knowledge and applications in different areas related to knowledge discovery and decision making. The format of this workshop aims at the discussion and knowledge exchange between the academy and industry members.
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Nixon, Anthony, and Sean Prendiville, eds. Surveys in Combinatorics 2022. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009093927.
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This volume contains eight survey articles by the invited speakers of the 29th British Combinatorial Conference, held at Lancaster University in July 2022. Each article provides an overview of recent developments in a current hot research topic in combinatorics. These topics span graphs and hypergraphs, Latin squares, linear programming, finite fields, extremal combinatorics, Ramsey theory, graph minors and tropical geometry. The authors are among the world's foremost researchers on their respective topics but their surveys are aimed at nonspecialist readers: they are written clearly with little prior knowledge assumed and with pointers to the wider literature. Taken together these surveys give a snapshot of the research frontier in contemporary combinatorics, making the latest developments accessible to researchers and graduate students in mathematics and theoretical computer science with an interest in combinatorics and helping them to keep abreast of the field.
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Chen, Melvin. Philosophy and Art in Southeast Asia. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350414204.
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Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aesthetic merit and the role of perception. What each chapter offers is a wealth of examples from Asia: Sonny Liew’s The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, Tan Tai Yong, Kueh Appreciation Day, dragon kiln pottery, the Nanyang style of painting and the Chinese ink tradition. Selected for their boldness and open-endedness, these artworks include graphic comics and classical art forms. They deal with controversies and address central questions including: -When are artworks considered dangerous?-Why does Socrates recommend the banishment of the poets?-What are the problems and challenges posed by forgery?-How do we resolve ambiguity when interpreting and making sense of works of art?-Can there be such a thing as immoral art? A sense of awareness of context and situatedness runs throughout Aesthetics in Southeast Asia. The texture, fabric, and flavour of each example is woven into rigorous philosophical analysis of aesthetic and artistic matters. Making art and aesthetics more relatable, here is a creative and accessible introduction that inspires a love for art and aesthetics. For anyone interested in understanding the cultural underpinnings of aesthetics outside of the traditional canon it is essential reading.
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Simpson, Carol, and Sara E. Wolf. Copyright for Schools. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400632198.
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Copyright for Schoolsmakes legal concepts related to U.S. copyright law understandable to educators. A staple on reference shelves, it has now been updated with new court rulings and technology applications. This updated edition ofCopyright for Schoolsexplains U.S. copyright law as it applies to education settings clearly and concisely for teachers and school librarians. Topics new to this edition include copyright implications related to the use of such streaming services as Netflix™ and Pandora™, links to online tools that teachers can use to assist them in making their own daily decisions regarding the use of copyrighted materials, and implications relating to the use of anonymous internet publishing tools such as Snapchat™ and use of Cloud-based sharing. Other new topics include issues related to disability, how to appropriately respond to cease and desist letters and other legal inquiries, implications of the Music Modernization Act, and expanded discussion of open resources such as Creative Commons licenses. This edition also adds a concordance in a "Scope and Sequence" table format, so all information related to U.S. copyright knowledge is accessible no matter where it resides within the text, and provides links to online tools and resources that can be used to guide users of copyrighted materials in making decisions about how to use them. Still included are the real-world applications and the Q&A sidebars from prior editions.
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Smith, Richard Cándida. Case Study: What is it That University-Based Oral History Can Do? The Berkeley Experience. Edited by Donald A. Ritchie. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195339550.013.0029.
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University-based oral history needs to undergo a transformation. The process of going out and interviewing people for first-hand knowledge of historical events is as old as the historical discipline itself. This article focuses on a case study on what university-based oral history can do when it comes to the study of oral history. Interviews continued to be one of the most important tools for historians studying recent topics, but oral history as practiced today had its beginnings in the early nineteenth century when researchers began compiling and preserving stenographic records of the interviews they carried out. Modern oral history has centered on making the words of the historical informants accessible, so that narrators can continue to speak of their experiences to subsequent generations. Oral sources have been an important part of scholarly life for the past two centuries because they have made visible forms of collective life that are difficult to document in other ways.
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Robins, R. G. Pentecostalism in America. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400695933.
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This book offers a chronological and historical overview the many forms of Pentecostalism within the United States. Pentecostalism is a poorly understood theological movement, despite its recent growth in popularity as well as social and political importance. More and more Americans are encountering neighbors, friends, coworkers, and even political leaders who are aligned with one of the many varieties of American Pentecostalism. In spite of this proliferation, no complete survey of 2lst-century American Pentecostalism exists. In Pentecostalism in America, author R. G. Robins offers an accessible survey of Pentecostalism in the United States, providing a clear, nontechnical introduction and making this complex and rapidly changing movement comprehensible to the general reader. A historical approach to the topic is presented, guiding the reader through the theological, social, and liturgical variants within American Pentecostalism and its major branches, organizations, and institutions; the movement's relation to its offspring; as well as how Pentecostal groups compare to parallel movements in contemporary American Christianity.
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Phethean, Richard. Throwing. Bloomsbury Publishing Pic, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781789942729.
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A concise and accessible introduction to throwing, with step-by-step instructions and tips. Throwing is an important skill for any potter to master, using only a few tools, the guidance of their hands, and the momentum of a wheel. This book is an essential companion for anyone attempting to master the art of forming pots on the wheel. Having spent his life making pots and teaching others to make them, Richard Phethean describes essential techniques for working on the wheel with an eye for the practical. Learn about a range of forms, from simple domestic pots such as mugs, jugs, bowls and teapots to more complex vessels with oval shapes or cut edges, with the aim of building your confidence in throwing techniques. The book features clearly illustrated step-by-step instructions and diagrams for creating each type of vessel. Finally, get some inspiration from the work of contemporary potters discussing their techniques and featuring some of their stunning pieces.
Book chapters on the topic "Making forest accessible"
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Pandeva, Rada, Caroline Johansen, Rhianon Williams, Carolina Carotta, and Giuliana Panieri. "Universally Accessible Marine Science and Ocean Literacy for All Citizens: The Thalassophile Project." In Emotional and Ecological Literacy for a More Sustainable Society. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56772-8_10.
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AbstractThe Thalassophile Project is dedicated to universal accessibility in marine science and ocean literacy, with a focus on the d/Deaf and visually impaired communities. By emphasising accessibility, and illustrating how theory is put into practice, the project brings together a network of cross-sector practitioners, combining marine research, education, and universal accessibility expertise. In this way, the authors propose to foster global awareness of marine sustainability put forward in the Sustainable Development Goals targets. Equally, the Thalassophile Project aims to raise awareness within adult education institutions of the significant number of citizens unable to gain access to information, and a corresponding lack of experience and competence in adult educators in producing barrier-free “Blue Education” resources. The project’s practical initiatives address this gap in educational resources by intertwining SDGs 4, 13, and 14 and aligning with international frameworks such as ESD 2030 and UNESCO guidelines. Activities include creating introductory “episodes” as educational tools, an online resource database, and user-friendly factsheets for specific audiences. The theoretical Common Accessibility Framework forms a baseline for all activities, rooted in Universal Design for Learning. These first pilot activities aim to show how more equitable access for adult learners to high-quality information on ocean sciences and literacy can be effectively achieved and at the same time, inspire and empower people and communities to join forces in making this goal a reality. Finally, this chapter describes outreach efforts, including presentations at international conferences.
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Robinson, Patrick, Che Elkin, and Scott Green. "High Resolution Wildfire Fuel Mapping for Community Directed Forest Management Planning." In Advances in Forest Fire Research 2022. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-2298-9_253.
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Climate change and institutional forest management practices are leading to more frequent and severe wildfire events around the world, a trend that is projected to increase in coming years. Wildfire plays an important role in maintaining ecological systems, but wildfires also pose threats to health, safety, infrastructure, and important ecosystem services. Reactionary response to these threats has predominantly informed management decisions in recent decades and greater focus on mitigation and adaptation is needed. Through a community directed consultation process, the goal of this work has been to provide direct, operational information to aid in local management decision making for a First Nations community in British Columbia, Canada. Here we use a combination of field sampling and high-resolution Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data to assess vertical and horizontal fuel loading at fine resolution (~10m2). Our analysis found a high degree of fuel loading heterogeneity in areas characterized as homogeneous using coarser fuel layers and provided a means of identifying high fire risk areas that may be targeted for ecosystem rehabilitation aimed at reducing current and future fire risk. We discuss how this spatially explicit data can be used to evaluate feedback between forest dynamics and fuel loading; information critical for managing forests for multiple objectives into the future. Following our analysis, we compiled our results for the community into an interactive decision support web mapping platform designed with the goal of user friendly, accessible land managment planning, avoiding the need for technical expertise and internal capacity.
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Keller, Morton, and Phyllis Keller. "Derek Curtis Bok and the Worldly University." In Making Harvard Modern. Oxford University Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195144574.003.0022.
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During the last three decades of the twentieth century, the meritocratic Harvard of Conant and Pusey evolved into the more worldly university of Derek Bok (1971–91) and Neil Rudenstine (1991–2001). This is not to suggest that Harvard sloughed off its intensely meritocratic character, or even its Brahmin antecedents. And of course Harvard faculty at least since World War II had been conspicuously engaged in public affairs. But the prevailing culture shifted. Worldliness—Harvard as a participant in, as much as an observer of, the larger society—became the dominant tone in the late twentieth century. To the social elitism of Brahmin Harvard, and the disciplinary emphasis of meritocratic Harvard, there now was the ever-expanding social engagement of worldly Harvard. After Nathan Pusey announced his intention to leave the presidency in June 1971, Harvard turned to the heady business of deciding who was to be his successor. Students wanted someone young, accessible, sensitive to their educational wants and needs. Faculty members sought an eminent scholar attentive to the life of the (academic) mind. Nor could politics be ignored in this post-1969 age: one professor called for “a man who conveys a sense of sympathy with values from quite far left to somewhat right of center.” Corporation fellow Hugh Calkins later recalled that the search committee “saw Harvard as within a forest of perplexing issues, through which no clear path was visible.” The most troubling problem was an apparent shift in the prevailing view of the university’s purpose. Harvard, he observed, traditionally sought to educate “leaders of high intellectual capacity in scholarly, professional, business and public life.”Now there was a widespread sense that “intellectual capacity is suspect as a confederate of inequality and injustice.” Given these conditions, Calkins and his colleagues were uncertain whether to look for a leader with a clear vision of Harvard’s future or for one without preconceptions.
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Nevle, Richard J., Steven Nightingale, and Mattias Lanas. "Pileated Woodpecker." In The Paradise Notebooks. Cornell University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501762697.003.0017.
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This chapter describes the pileated woodpecker, which approaches the task of roost and nest excavation with great vigor, chiseling out cavernous hollows into the trunks of dead or decaying trees until they can accommodate its crow-sized body along with several nestlings. All of this industrious labor has profound effects on the forest. Numerous species of birds and mammals reside in the cavities abandoned by the woodpeckers. The birds' prodigious foraging and excavation activities introduce fungal spores to dead or dying trees, facilitating their decay and the cycling of their nutrients into the forest soil. Woodpecker foraging also exposes insects, making them both more accessible to other species of birds and more vulnerable to extremes of temperature, all of which help to regulate insect populations. Ultimately, what the pileated woodpecker teaches us is our responsibility to others.
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Kusumo Wardhani, Maulinna. "Mangrove Health Assessment using Hemispherical Photography: A Case Study on Mangrove Ecosystem for Ecotourism at Tajungan-Bangkalan, Madura Island, Indonesia." In Environmental Sciences. IntechOpen, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.110819.
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Mangrove health status indicates sustainable management and efforts to control forest damage. The hemispherical photographic method facilitates the observation and monitoring of forest health. This method is also more accessible, faster, and practical than the conventional method. Data analysis in this method requires Image J software. The selection of research sites aims to determine forest management for mangrove ecotourism. Thus, rehabilitation decision-making is right on target. The research results on the health status of mangroves in Tajungan-Bangkalan, Madura Island, Indonesia, showed moderate-to-good levels. The percentage of cover in the good category is at the MDRT01 station, which is 81.64 ± 3.35%. The MDRT02 observation station has a closing percentage of 64.31% ± 20.41% and is in the moderate category. The suitability of tourism based on the percentage of closure is in the appropriate category at the MDRT02 station and very suitable at the MDRT01 station. The results of this study could be used for planning of mangrove ecotourism and also for education on planting of mangrove seedlings.
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Yalgashev, Olimjon, Arul Kumar Natarajan, and Mohammad Gouse Galety. "Foundations of AI and Machine Learning in Real Estate Valuation." In Advances in Computational Intelligence and Robotics. IGI Global, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-6215-0.ch001.
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This chapter delves into the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) within the field of real estate valuation, utilizing the California Housing Prices dataset to demonstrate practical implementations. By employing and contrasting various regression models, including linear Regression, decision trees, and ensemble methods like Random Forest and Gradient Boosting, this study highlights the capabilities and limitations of these approaches. The research meticulously evaluates each model's performance, offering a comprehensive analysis that underscores the significant potential of AI and ML to enhance predictive accuracy and efficiency in real estate markets. Through detailed data preprocessing, model application, and performance evaluation, the chapter provides valuable insights into the integration of sophisticated AI methodologies in the valuation process, making it accessible and actionable for both practitioners and researchers.
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Mattei, Ugo. "Should Europe Codify Trust?" In Themes in Comparative Law. Oxford University PressOxford, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199258567.003.0016.
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Abstract Among the many contributions that Professor Bernard Rudden has made to comparative law, of no little importance has been that of making English property law accessible and understandable to civil lawyers. I was early exposed to his mastery in clearing the forest for foreign explorers as a student in the property law class that he taught in 1980 at the London School of Economics within the programme chaired by Professor Clive Schmitthoff. Ever since, I have been interested in grasping the basic principles underlying the many technicalities that make property law sound so much of a domestic business In this chapter, I will continue that exploration, and I will try to approach trust law from the perspective of a European legal system considering whether or not to codify it.
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Lim, Kevin, and Peter J. Deadman. "Agent-Based Simulations of Household Decision Making and Land Use Change near Altamira, Brazil." In Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Modeling Techniques for Understanding Social and Ecological Processes. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195143362.003.0018.
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Individuals who influence decisions regarding the use of land, operate within a complex environment comprised of interacting elements that include both natural systems and human institutions. Individually, the elements of the natural and human systems that influence land-use decisions may be very complex. Within natural systems, dynamic processes, such as the hydrological cycle, and the distribution of biophysical resources, such as soil fertility, influence land-use decision making. Elements of an individual’s institutional environment can also influence the options and incentives that are available to an individual, and thus the land-use decisions that thhey make. Understanding the nature of these complex processes and interactions is a nontrivial task. However, agent-based simulation offers researchers a tool to better understand the nature of these complex systems. The recent development of computer simulation technologies by social scientists has provided a tool for not only predicting social phenomena, but also for better understanding the nature of these human systems. Replicative validity is not the goal of many social simulation efforts. Instead, researchers have focused on developing relatively simple simulations as tools for understanding the properties of social systems and the way in which interactions between actors at the local level results in the emergence of behaviors or phenomena at the global level. In this role, simulation becomes a tool for evaluating assumptions and exercising theories of action. Many of the techniques applied to social simulation can be traced back to earlier developments in the physical or natural sciences. For example, computer simulation has a relatively long history in the natural sciences in applications related to fisheries, forest environments, and watersheds. But recent advances in computer hardware and software technologies have made these technologies accessible to social scientists. Recently, we have seen simulation efforts that have included models of not only the natural system in question, but also the human system with which it interacts. In fields such as anthropology and resource management , human systems simulations are being developed which directly address the actions of human individuals or groups as they interact with a natural system. This approach to simulation is pursued in this chapter.
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Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis Thompson. "Just deliberation about health care." In Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195140705.003.0005.
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Abstract What standards should be used to assess the process of making decisions about health-care policy? These decisions are increasingly made not only in governmental institutions such as legislatures, courts, and presidential commissions but also in HMOs, hospitals, ethics committees, review boards, professional associations, and task forces. By focusing on a case study that involves decision makers in a for-profit HMO, we show how a political theory of deliberative democracy can be relevant to institutions that make important decisions concerning health care, even when those institutions are nongovernmental. We propose some generally applicable standards by which such decisions can be evaluated by both participants in the decision-making process and outside observers of that process.1 The guiding principle of deliberative democracy on which we base the standards is reciprocity: Citizens or their accountable representatives seek to give one another mutually acceptable reasons to justify the laws and policies they adopt. Their aim is to justify the policies in question to the people who are bound by them. Reciprocity sets four standards, or criteria, to assess the decision making about health care: The justifications that decision makers give should consist of reasons that are accessible, moral, respectful, and revisable.
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Richardson, Henry S. "Truth and Delegated Deliberation." In Democratic Autonomy. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195150902.003.0010.
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Abstract I have argued that it is naive to think that legislatures can complete the work of settling our collective ends and silly to constrain administrative agencies’ resulting discretion by a normative standard that makes no room for the intelligent refashioning of ends. Accordingly, we should think of agency deliberation as in some sense a continuation of the public’s and the legislature’s broader process of reasoning about what we should do-a process that is not instrumentally confined. This conclusion, in turn, forces us to reconceive the relation between the legislature and the agencies. If it is wrong to think of the legislature as setting the ends and the agencies as determining efficient or cost-effective means to those ends, then how should we think about the division of deliberative labor between the legislature and the agencies? More specifically, how is administrative deference to the legislature’s prior decisions compatible with the open-ended and intelligent orientation to truth that a continuation of our collective, noninstrumental deliberation would seem to entail? Think back, once more, to the 1970s. The Congress has passed the Biaggi Amendment, calling for special efforts to make transportation systems accessible to the disabled. The idea that officials in the Department of Transportation might have confined themselves to figuring out the best causal means to that end I have rejected as naive. I have also rejected the idea of using cost-benefit analysis as the standard of any further decision, on the grounds that an intelligent approach requires flexibility in remaking aims. In fact, the department did employ a flexible and defensible mode of deliberating about ends that extended even beyond the limits of broadly instrumental reasoning. Part of what it did was to specify the aim of making transportation accessible to the handicapped; but as I have shown, it did so on the basis of articulating-with help from HEW and from advocates for the disabled-a new end, that of not discriminating against the disabled. Articulating this end is hardly a way of reasoning instrumentally from the transportation aim, for making transportation accessible to the disabled is a
Conference papers on the topic "Making forest accessible"
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Cumming, Geoff. "Using forest plots to introduce meta-analysis, including simple moderator analysis, early in statistics education." In Statistics Education and Outreach. International Association for Statistical Education, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.52041/srap.11504.
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Meta-analysis is the quantitative integration of empirical studies that address the same or similar issues. It is usually the best way to draw research-based conclusions that can guide evidence-based practice by professionals, and evidence-based decision making by public policy makers. Meta-analysis is so important that students should learn about it very early in their statistics education. The close links between meta-analysis and practical conclusions drawn from bodies of research mean that meta-analysis is a vital element in outreach from statistics education. I describe software that uses forest plots to make the basic ideas of meta-analysis accessible, and my experience using it with beginning students. I use the software to illustrate two major models for meta-analysis, and introduce graphical extensions to forest plots that illustrate how the crucial topic of moderator analysis can be explained and, in simple cases, interpreted visually.
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Shah, Jamari Mohd, Salmi Sansudin, M. Imran M. Fadhil, Ismail Marzuki Gazali, Ahmad Fakrudin Zakeria, and Husiyandi Husni. "Real Time Petrophysics via Artificial Intelligence in Brown Field Development." In International Petroleum Technology Conference. IPTC, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2523/iptc-23561-ms.
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Abstract The paper introduces a novel approach to evaluate well log data in real time during downhole data acquisition. This approach has been successfully implemented in multiple drilling projects. It relies on effective real-time data transmission with the key enabler of the system is development of the well log artificial intelligence module. Time is of the essence during drilling operations. Hence, any efforts towards increasing the operation efficiency can lead to a safer and more optimized well delivery. A machine learning application for real-time petrophysical evaluation during drilling was successfully developed to achieve this ambition. The application which named Well Log Data Artificial Intelligence was tested in a Malaysia complex brownfield infill drilling project, where it proved to promote a seamless decision-making process during drilling and simultaneously lead to financial and operation value creation. The application uses selected key wells in the field as training dataset before the actual drilling operation. Random Forest ensemble was utilized for model learning and correspondent petrophysical evaluation, The module can predict reservoir characteristics in real-time by leveraging on feeder open hole raw curves as inputs with integration of existing trained model and real time data transmission. Moreover, the application provides easily accessible prediction results through the same display interface as the real-time data transmission. This makes it attractive for multi-disciplinary utilization during discussion.
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Pizzagalli, Simone Luca, Yevhen Bondarenko, Baris Cem Baykara, et al. "Forestry Crane Immersive User Interface for Control and Teleoperation." In ASME 2022 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2022-94975.
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Abstract Timber industry is one of the most relevant economic sectors in Estonia. Automatization of forestry management and harvesting processes optimization are realities also in this specific domain. As much as in other industrial fields adopting the Industry 4.0 paradigm and core technologies, forestry management, log harvesting and the wood processing industry make use of state-of-the-art sensors, Digital Twins and advanced interfaces for the operators. The latter include Extended Reality solutions and remote-control making use of immersive head mounted displays (HMD). This works presents an innovative system for hydraulic forestry crane teleoperation making use of HMD and wide-angle camera stream. The system hardware is installed locally while the software, integrated in Unity, supports the operator in using the crane’s native joysticks and controller for the log loading operations. Additional virtual user interface and controls are included in the immersive view and accessible through the same controls and joysticks.
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Ramos-Vidal, Delfina, and Nieves R. Brisaboa. "Efficient Database Evolution in Digital Library Reengineering." In Congreso XoveTIC: impulsando el talento científico (6º. 2023. A Coruña). Servizo de Publicacions. Universidade da Coruña, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.17979/spudc.000024.19.
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With the advancement of internet applications, extensive information systems were created to effectively manage and provide easy access to documents, which coincided with a global initiative to convert physical documents into digital format, making them accessible through the internet. After two decades, these databases are well-structured and organized, although the software used to manage them is gradually becoming outdated. Additionally, once the initial digitization and creation of metadata are completed, it is sensible to enhance the metadata further to provide more detailed information about the documents. In this article we propose a tool to facilitate the evolution of large documentary databases
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Marx, Maximilian, Markus Krötzsch, and Veronika Thost. "Logic on MARS: Ontologies for Generalised Property Graphs." In Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/165.
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Graph-structured data is used to represent large information collections, called knowledge graphs, in many applications. Their exact format may vary, but they often share the concept that edges can be annotated with additional information, such as validity time or provenance information. Property Graph is a popular graph database format that also provides this feature. We give a formalisation of a generalised notion of Property Graphs, called multi-attributed relational structures (MARS), and introduce a matching knowledge representation formalism, multi-attributed predicate logic (MAPL). We analyse the expressive power of MAPL and suggest a simpler, rule-based fragment of MAPL that can be used for ontological reasoning on Property Graphs. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first approach to making Property Graphs and related data structures accessible to symbolic AI.
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Bekbalaeva, Jyldyz. ""Access to Knowledge in the Digital Age: Unlocking Kyrgyzstan’s Collections "." In Global to Local: Diversity & Inclusiveness in Resource Sharing. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, 2024. https://doi.org/10.60119/klpe4883.
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In Kyrgyzstan, libraries have gone through multiple transformations reflecting political, economic and societal changes since the country gained independence. Libraries look to expand the professional network through making the country’s resources available to researchers and academics locally and globally. Multiple digitization projects have been implemented; however, the accessibility and discoverability issues remain and majority of collections are yet not accessible to the public even when converted into digital format. While this presents the technological issue, the cultural aspect also imposes challenges event to a greater extent. The paper examines the access to rare heritage collections in Kyrgyzstan based on the example of the Museum of Rare Books of the Issyk-Kul Oblast Library, located in the eastern part of the country.
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Braga, Julião, Joao Silva, and Nizam Omar. "A set of data bases to support intelligent agents in Internet Infrastructure routing domains." In VI Workshop Pré-IETF. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/wpietf.2019.6579.
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This paper presents a set of three data bases that make up the In- ternet Infrastructure Data Base (IIDB). IIDB has three data bases – iidb.rfc, iidb.person, and iidb.acronym – that are key pieces to support the development of machine learning techniques by the intelligent elements of the Autonomous Architecture Over Restricted Domains (A2RD). The data contained in iidb.rfc and iidb.person were created after processing the contents available at the RFC Index web page. While the data contained in the iidb.acronym was created after processing the contents of the files available at the Request for Comments (RFC) repository, produced and maintained by the RFC Editor. The data format of IIDB data is JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), whose templates are avail- able in the same site where the data bases are deposited, making them accessible through any programming language.
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Ghiotto, Matis, Brett Desbenoit, and Romain Raffin. "Operational theater generation by a descriptive language." In WSCG 2023 – 31. International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision. University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.24132/csrn.3301.19.
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3D landscapes generation is an interdisciplinary field that requires expertise in both computer graphics and geographic informations systems (GIS). It is a complex and time-consuming process. In this paper, we present a new approach to simplify 3D environment generation process, by creating a go-between data-model containing a list of available source data and steps to use them. To feed the data-model, we introduce a formal language that describes the process"s sequence. We propose an adapted format, designed to be human-readable and machine-readable, allowing for easy creation and modification of the scenery. We demonstrate the utility of our approach by implementing a prototype system to generate 3D landscapes with a use-case fit for multipurpose simulation. Our system takes a description as input and outputs a complete 3D environment, including terrain and feature elements such as buildings created by chosen geometrical process. Experiments show that our approach reduces the time and effort required to generate a 3D environment, making it accessible to a wider range of users without extensive knowledge of GIS. In conclusion, our custom language and implementation provide a simple and effective solution to the complexity of 3D terrain generation, making it a valuable tool for users in the area.
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Scriven, Richard. "Podcasts as a tool to engage broader audiences." In Learning Connections 2019: Spaces, People, Practice. University College Cork||National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/lc.2019.40.
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This paper examines how audio podcasts can be deployed by universities and other educational institutions to engage with a broader range of audiences and encourage critical discussion of contemporary issues. Using the case study of a podcast I produced, I consider how the medium is an accessible and user-friendly format that enables the generation of content aimed at a general listenership. Insight into how this approach can bring teaching and research materials to new groups of people is created by reflecting on the process of making and distributing a series (Hacker 2017). Since their emergence in the early 2000s, podcasts - as a form of internet on-demand radio – have been used by universities as an additional dissemination system. Departments and universities were early adaptors to help spread knowledge, research findings, and commentary on topics of public interest (Open Culture 2006). One of the main deployments has been to augment student learning through the recording of podcasts as an alternative or supplement to lectures or as a revision or feedback tool (Fernandez et al. 2015; Kidd 2011; Lonn and Teasley 2009). More recently, within the discipline of geography, podcasts are being recognised as a distinct tools for more inclusive research that can reach groups who do not usually follow academic discourses (Kinkaid, Brain, and Senanayake 2019). Building on these strands, this paper focuses on how a podcast can be used as an educational mechanism both for general audiences and undergraduates, which recognises diverse forms of learning and the importance of accessible materials (Ambrose et al. 2010; Towler, Ridgway, and McCarthy 2015).
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Canon, Javier, Theresa Broussard, Andrew Johnson, Will Singletary, and Lolymar Colmenares-Diaz. "A Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence Approach to Risk Management." In SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. SPE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/210303-ms.
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Abstract This paper details experiences gained while developing a novel technology-driven approach to Risk Assessment methodologies, e.g., Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Hazard Identification (HAZID) and Hazard Operability (HAZOP), in oil & gas. Emphasis has been placed on combining encoded human knowledge with Artificial Intelligence techniques, in a way which fosters safer designs and operations, while maintaining Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) at the center of decision making. Encoding of human knowledge (e.g., Subject Matter Expertise, Industry best practices) in digital applications has traditionally been associated with creating static pieces of information, such as lessons learned documentation and validation activities for hazard analysis. New digital technologies, however, make it possible to create truly dynamic knowledge representations, which capture key concepts and their relationships, creating a new type of "source of truth." As a result, corporate and external knowledge can be made more readily accessible to engineers and operations personnel participating in decision making. Digital corporate knowledge can also be supplemented with Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques which can help uncover latent threats and better guide optimal decision making. This is particularly relevant in Workforce, Health & Safety (WH&S) and Process Safety contexts, where the impact of flawed or suboptimal decisions can lead to catastrophic consequences. Practical examples from an oil & gas major show how the risk assessment domain can be represented in a computational knowledge graph, in a format which is comprehensible not only to software developers, but more importantly, to oil & gas SMEs. A presentation of different AI techniques overlaid on top of this computational knowledge graph, can also offer a glimpse of the possibilities of marrying SME expertise with emerging digital technologies.
Reports on the topic "Making forest accessible"
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Henderson, Tim, Vincent Santucci, Tim Connors, and Justin Tweet. National Park Service geologic type section inventory: National Capital Region Inventory & Monitoring Network. National Park Service, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/2293865.
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Type sections are one of several kinds of stratotypes. A stratotype is the standard (original or subsequently designated), accessible, and specific sequence of rock for a named geologic unit that forms the basis for the definition, recognition, and comparison of that unit elsewhere. Geologists designate stratotypes for rock exposures that are illustrative and representative of the map unit being defined. Stratotypes ideally should remain accessible for examination and study by others. In this sense, geologic stratotypes are similar in concept to biological type specimens, however they remain in situ as rock exposures rather than curated in a repository. Therefore, managing stratotypes requires inventory and monitoring like other geologic heritage resources in parks. In addition to type sections, stratotypes also include type localities, type areas, reference sections, and lithodemes, all of which are defined in this report. The goal of this project is to consolidate information pertaining to stratotypes that occur within NPS-administered areas, in order that this information is available throughout the NPS to inform park managers and to promote the preservation and protection of these important geologic heritage resources. This effort identified 20 stratotypes designated within seven park units of the National Capital Region I&M Network (NCRN): Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (CHOH) contains three type sections, two type localities, one type area, and eight reference sections; George Washington Memorial Parkway (GWMP) contains one type locality; Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (HAFE) contains two type sections, and one type locality/type area; Manassas National Battlefield (MANA) contains two type areas; Monocacy National Battlefield (MONO) contains one type section; National Capital Parks-East (NACE) contains one type locality; Prince William Forest (PRWI) contains one type section. Note that two stratotype designations (for the Harpers and Mather Gorge Formations) are shared amongst multiple park units. Table 1 provides information regarding the 20 stratotypes currently identified within the NCRN. There are currently no designated stratotypes within Antietam National Battlefield (ANTI), Catoctin Mountain Park (CATO), Rock Creek Park (ROCR), and Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts (WOTR). However, CATO, CHOH, and GWMP contain important rock exposures that could be considered for formal stratotype designation as discussed in the Recommendations section. The inventory of geologic stratotypes across the NPS is an important effort in documenting these locations in order that NPS staff recognize and protect these areas for future studies. The focus adopted for completing the baseline inventories throughout the NPS has centered on the 32 inventory and monitoring (I&M) networks established during the late 1990s. Adopting a network-based approach to inventories worked well when the NPS undertook paleontological resource inventories for the 32 I&M networks and was therefore adopted for the stratotype inventory. The Greater Yellowstone I&M Network (GRYN) was the pilot network for initiating this project (Henderson et al. 2020). Methodologies and reporting strategies adopted for the GRYN have been used in the development of this report for the NCRN. This report includes a recommendation section that addresses outstanding issues and future steps regarding park unit stratotypes. These recommendations will hopefully guide decision-making and help ensure that these geoheritage resources are properly protected and that proposed park activities or development will not adversely impact the stability and condition of these geologic exposures.
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Henderson, Tim, Vincent Santucci, Tim Connors, and Justin Tweet. National Park Service geologic type section inventory: Southern Plains Inventory & Monitoring Network. National Park Service, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2293756.
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Type sections are one of several kinds of stratotypes. A stratotype is the standard (original or subsequently designated), accessible, and specific sequence of rock for a named geologic unit that forms the basis for the definition, recognition, and comparison of that unit elsewhere. Geologists designate stratotypes for rock exposures that are illustrative and representative of the map unit being defined. Stratotypes ideally should remain accessible for examination and study by others. In this sense, geologic stratotypes are similar in concept to biological type specimens, however, they remain in situ as rock exposures rather than curated in a repository. Therefore, managing stratotypes requires inventory and monitoring like other geologic heritage resources in parks. In addition to type sections, stratotypes also include type localities, type areas, reference sections, and lithodemes, all of which are defined in this report. The goal of this project is to consolidate information pertaining to stratotypes that occur within NPS-administered areas, in order that this information is available throughout the NPS to inform park managers and to promote the preservation and protection of these important geologic heritage resources. This effort identified two stratotypes designated within two park units of the Southern Plains Inventory & Monitoring Network (SOPN): Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument (ALFL) has one type locality; and Capulin Volcano National Monument (CAVO) contains one type area. There are currently no designated stratotypes within Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site (BEOL), Chickasaw National Recreation Area (CHIC), Fort Larned National Historic Site (FOLS), Fort Union National Monument (FOUN), Lake Meredith National Recreation Area (LAMR), Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park (LYJO), Pecos National Historical Site (PECO), Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site (SAND), Waco Mammoth National Monument (WACO), and Washita Battlefield National Historic Site (WABA). The inventory of geologic stratotypes across the NPS is an important effort in documenting these locations in order that NPS staff recognize and protect these areas for future studies. The focus adopted for completing the baseline inventories throughout the NPS has centered on the 32 inventory and monitoring (I&M) networks established during the late 1990s. Adopting a network-based approach to inventories worked well when the NPS undertook paleontological resource inventories for the 32 I&M networks and was therefore adopted for the stratotype inventory. The Greater Yellowstone I&M Network (GRYN) was the pilot network for initiating this project (Henderson et al. 2020). Methodologies and reporting strategies adopted for the GRYN have been used in the development of this report for the SOPN. This report includes a recommendation section that addresses outstanding issues and future steps regarding park unit stratotypes. These recommendations will hopefully guide decision-making and help ensure that these geoheritage resources are properly protected and that proposed park activities or development will not adversely impact the stability and condition of these geologic exposures.
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Miralles-Wilhelm, Fernando, and Raúl Muñoz Castillo. Climate services: A tool for adaptation to climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: Action plan and case study applications. Inter-American Development Bank, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0009243.
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A variable and changing climate where uncertainties exist regarding its future extremes requires better quantity, quality and accessible information that support planning and decision-making processes, as well as infrastructure that can take changing conditions into account. New advances in science and technology have provided higher reliability in climate information, more resilient infrastructure and better insights into managing climate risks and opportunities. New practices and tailored climate information and adapted infrastructure-Climate Services-would be able to accelerate and strengthen the process in order to meet the growing demands for useful and usable climate information. In the LAC region, a vision for the development and implementation of climate services has been developed with a vision of integrating climate information into decisionmaking in socioeconomic sectors, through an effective dialogue between providers and users on the range, timing, quality, content and delivery format of climate products and services. Developing and effectively deploying climate information and climate-adapted infrastructure is an important challenge for the water sector in the LAC region. An effective response to this challenge must integrate meeting the needs of the users of such climate services and building capacity in the existing and next-generation of scientists, practitioners, managers and policy makers. With this in mind, this paper focuses on information and infrastructure activities within the overall framework of climate services for the LAC region.
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Henderson, Tim, Vincent Santucci, Tim Connors, and Justin Tweet. National Park Service geologic type section inventory: Sonoran Desert Inventory & Monitoring Network. National Park Service, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/2294374.
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Type sections are one of several kinds of stratotype. A stratotype is the standard (original or subsequently designated), accessible, and specific sequence of rock for a named geologic unit that forms the basis for the definition, recognition, and comparison of that unit elsewhere. Geologists designate stratotypes for rock exposures that are illustrative and representative of the map unit being defined. Stratotypes ideally should remain accessible for examination and study by others. In this sense, geologic stratotypes are similar in concept to biological type specimens; however, they remain in situ as rock exposures rather than curated in a repository. Therefore, managing stratotypes requires inventory and monitoring like other geologic heritage resources in parks. In addition to type sections, stratotypes also include type localities, type areas, reference sections, and lithodemes, all of which are defined in this report. The goal of this project is to consolidate information pertaining to stratotypes that occur within NPS-administered areas, in order that this information is available throughout the NPS to inform park managers and to promote the preservation and protection of these important geologic heritage resources. This effort identified six stratotypes designated within four park units of the Sonoran Desert Inventory & Monitoring Network (SODN): Chiricahua National Monument (CHIR) has three type areas; Coronado National Memorial (CORO) has one type area; Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (GICL) has one type area; and Saguaro National Park (SAGU) has one type area. Table 1 provides information regarding the six stratotypes currently identified within SODN parks. There are currently no designated stratotypes within Casa Grande Ruins National Monument (CAGR), Fort Bowie National Historic Site (FOBO), Montezuma Castle National Monument (MOCA), Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (ORPI), Tonto National Monument (TONT), Tumacácori National Historical Park (TUMA), or Tuzigoot National Monument (TUZI). However, CHIR, MOCA, SAGU, and TUZI contain important rock exposures that could be considered for formal stratotype designation as discussed in the “Recommendations” section. The inventory of geologic stratotypes across the NPS is an important effort in documenting these locations so that NPS staff may recognize and protect these areas for future studies. The focus adopted for completing the baseline inventories throughout the NPS has centered on the 32 inventory and monitoring (I&M) networks established during the late 1990s. Adopting a network-based approach to inventories worked well when the NPS undertook paleontological resource inventories for the 32 I&M networks and was therefore adopted for the stratotype inventory. The Greater Yellowstone I&M Network (GRYN) was the pilot network for initiating this project (Henderson et al. 2020). Methodologies and reporting strategies adopted for the GRYN have been used in the development of this report for the SODN. This report includes a recommendation section that addresses outstanding issues and future steps regarding park unit stratotypes. These recommendations will hopefully guide decision-making and help ensure that these geoheritage resources are properly protected and that proposed park activities or development will not adversely impact the stability and condition of these geologic exposures.