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Showing 1 to 20 of 302 for “"Resource use"”.
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Economics of Sustainable Resource Use
… studies the economics of sustainable resource use across biological scales and policy domains. It combines conceptual and quantitative approaches in four parts: the valuation of microbial biodiversity, the development of an indicator framework for SDG 14 in Europe, the analysis of …
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Ranging patterns and resource use in samango monkeys
… species. Understanding how a species uses space in an increasingly fragmented and human-dominated landscape is important to determine the extent to which they can persist in such landscapes. How animals use space is largely determined by the availability of resources and the risk of …
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Habitat Selection and Resource Use by Bighorn Sheep Following Translocation
… Understanding how translocated ungulates select resources and adapt to new habitats is critical for improving long-term outcomes of conservation. Few ungulates epitomize the challenges of reintroduction by translocation than bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis). Bighorn sheep were once extirpated …
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RESOURCE USE RATES: ESTIMATION OF TIME INVARIANT DECISION RULES (EROSION)
… understanding the soil management decision rule used by farmers has become more important. The model developed to analyze the optimal decision rule for soil use rates is essentially a supply response model which assumes rational expectations. It can be characterized as a dynamic optimal control …
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Quantifying Resource Use Among Insectivorous Bat Species with Overlapping Distributions
… overlap. Bat feeding ecology studies have used fecal analysis to identify consumed prey species. Factors such as time of night, season, bat community composition, competition, habitat structure/type, and available prey likely determine feeding behaviors for bat species. This study …
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Chemical Signaling and Resource Use by African Elephants (Loxodonta Africana)
… like the African elephant, Loxodonta africana, resource distribution influences female dispersion, while the location of females shapes male dispersion. Human constriction of viable habitat has affected elephant movements and impact. Elephants travel in matriarchal family groups, as single males …
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Community-based resource use monitoring at the Olifants River Estuary
… approaches. These new approaches to natural resource management advocate the inclusion of resource users in all aspects of management, including monitoring. Research suggests that involvement of local resource users in resource monitoring is beneficial as it promotes local empowerment, …
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Coastal Resource Use, Management, and Marine Protected Areas in the Philippines
This analysis of coastal resource perceptions and behaviors demonstrates that while there are documented successes throughout the Philippines in community-based integrated coastal management projects, opportunities and challenges remain to fully realize the benefits identified by local communities. …
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ETSU Medical Residents' Clinical Information Behaviors, Skills, Training, and Resource Use.
… healthcare for their patients. Information use in the clinic is a skill that must be learned. If medical residency programs fail to impart this skill, then patients will suffer.</p><p>The residents of the ETSU Quillen College of Medicine were surveyed as to their use of clinical information. …
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Scale of farming operations and resource use under alternative land tenure arrangements
… area of land per capita declines and efficient use of natural resources becomes the key to economic growth. Under private ownership, acquisition of rights to use land leads to a mixed pattern of tenure arrangements. Some farmers have legal title to the land they farm and combine capital and …
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Ethnicity and Natural Resource Use in the Western Tarai Region of Nepal
… farmers were similar on 10--11 of 25 natural resource use parameters. On the 14--15 parameters on which the two ethnic groups did differ, 4 differences were due to geographical factors, and 3--4 were due to historical factors. Of the 5--6 differences rooted in culture, 3--4 differences were …
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Resource use in the Chinese building sector : foundations for analyzing urban transition
… change the way that society consumes resources, in terms of both materials and energy. We will need to better understand how resource use changes as development happens in order to focus efforts to reduce that resource use. China is undergoing this transition as it enters the global …
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Total and Disease Specific Resource Use and Healthcare Cost of Patients with Glaucoma
… the overall and disease-related healthcare resource use, including drug utilization, and cost associated with treatment and care provided to glaucoma patients. <bold>Methods</bold> A retrospective analysis of a US commercial claims database was performed. Patients were stratified into vision …
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HEALTH CARE RESOURCE USE, HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURES AND ABSENTEEISM COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH OSTEOARTHRITIS
… Purdue University, December 2015. Health Care Resource Use, Health Care Expenditures and Absenteeism Costs Associated with Osteoarthritis. Major Professor: Joseph Thomas III.
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College Students' Psychological Well-Being & Resource Use in Response to the Las Vegas Shooting
… Scale-Revised (Weiss, 2007). Awareness and use of on-campus resources after the shooting, and perceptions about the most beneficial services were collected as well by use of a survey. Participants who had a relationship to the festival at which the shooting occurred and/or Las Vegas …
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Integrative Complexity of Coastal Resources Management: Examining Tradeoffs Between Ecosystem Protection and Resource Use
The management dilemma of use versus protection is a complex issue, and like most complex issues, it does not lend itself to a simple or simplistic solution. This dissertation research examined the connection between integrative complexity, value orientations, and attitudes toward coastal resource …
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