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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"human ecosystems"”.
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Endless Ecosystems : Designing a World Without Waste
… last century represents a direct threat to both humans and non-humans. While the ethical considerations of non-human conservation are frequently considered in modern discourse on environmental sustainability, the deterioration of non- human ecosystems poses an immediate crisis through the loss of …
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Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG: a versatile probiotic species for foods and human applications
… to restore homeostasis condition in different human ecosystems. To these ends L. rhamnosus H25 strains, belonged to the D3A collection and previously isolated from Pecorino Crotonese cheese, was studied in order to evaluate functional foods feasibility. In addition, to study the usefulness of …
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Comparative Ecological Modeling for Long-term Solution of Excess Nitrogen Loading to Surface Waters and Related Chronic and Systemic Human-Environment Problems
… interdependent symptoms of a single systemic "humans in the environment disorder". This dissertation presents results from three integrated research projects to frame and solve this general human-environmental problem. As an interdisciplinary whole, the projects help define and characterize …
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Public Ecology: Linking People, Science, and the Environment
… in environmental toxicology investigate risks to human health by environmental pollutants, while stud! ies in ecological restoration serve to maximize the integrity of natural systems. Unfortunately, these diverse forms of knowledge offer multiple and often conflicting ways of thinking about the …
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Soils, Symbiosis, and Succession: Eco-centric Care in Eastern Ontario
This thesis explores human relationships to soil in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Through 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork with biologists, ecologists, gardeners, farmers, and natural historians, this thesis is an inquiry into the entanglements between soil and human life. My interlocutors, who I …
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Is AI Good for All? Ethical Concerns for the Training and Implementation of AI-Driven Decision-Making Systems
… in the labor market, and (2) how the process of human decision-making about digital toxicity generates inconsistent data, which is used to train AI systems responsible for determining what information can be shared online. To answer the first question, we investigate how disclosure of the use of …