Journal articles: 'Conservation and Enhancement'

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Showstack, Randy. "Conservation enhancement programs add up." Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 80, no. 24 (1999): 270. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/eo080i024p00270-03.

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James, R. W. "Heat transfer enhancement and energy conservation." Cryogenics 32, no. 4 (January 1992): 414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0011-2275(92)90065-i.

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Zimparov, Ventsislav. "Energy conservation through heat transfer enhancement techniques." International Journal of Energy Research 26, no. 7 (2002): 675–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/er.810.

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Gross, H. R. "CONSERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF ENTOMOPHAGOUS INSECTS —A PERSPECTIVE." Journal of Entomological Science 22, no. 2 (April 1, 1987): 97–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.18474/0749-8004-22.2.97.

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Efforts to consistently and predictably integrate augmented and/or naturally occurring entomophagous insects into conventional management systems for insect pests of row crops continues to be a high priority yet elusive goal of biocontrol specialists. Enduring management systems will depend heavily on the conservation and enhancement of entomophagous insects. Conservation and enhancement strategies are reviewed, with comments on their attributes, limitations, practicality, and probability of successful implementation.

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Gupta, Deepak, Bhaskaran Gopalakrishnan, and Hima Bindu Godavarthy. "Energy Conservation through Productivity Enhancement in Manufacturing Facilities." SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing 1, no. 1 (April 14, 2008): 600–611. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/2008-01-1164.

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H. Kelly, Andrew. "Amenity enhancement and biodiversity conservation in Australian suburbia." International Journal of Law in the Built Environment 6, no. 1/2 (April 8, 2014): 91–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlbe-05-2013-0022.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically explore the historical background and current approach of the most common statutory instrument to maintain green landscapes in private residential gardens in cities and townships in suburban New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Design/methodology/approach – The narrative presents a transdisciplinary study. While its emphasis is on law and town planning, it also encompasses local government and legal history while touching upon environmental management and ecological science. This panoply of areas reflects the sheer complexity of the topic. While the presentation is initially descriptive, it moves on to a critique of the NSW Government's recent statutory approach. Findings – The paper demands that further attention must be paid to improving the design and architecture of statutory plans and underlying policies to not only improve urban biodiversity but also retain, as far as practicable, the visual beauty of the suburban landscape. This means reliance on local government to devise their own acceptable approaches. Flexibility rather than rigidity is warranted. Originality/value – The amount of scholarly material on this topic is relatively rare. The majority of information relies on excellent on-ground research and experience on the part of local experts, namely council employees and consultants. Academic and practical material must be drawn together to improve biodiversity conservation at both the local and regional spheres.

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Braithwaite, VA, and AGV Salvanes. "Aquaculture and restocking: implications for conservation and welfare." Animal Welfare 19, no. 2 (May 2010): 139–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0962728600001391.

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AbstractAs the harvesting of fish through commercial fisheries becomes both harder and less economically viable, the world is becoming increasingly dependent on aquaculture to provide fish for human consumption. The closely related activity of stock enhancement, whereby large numbers of fish are reared and then released, is a common practice aimed at increasing the numbers of fish in rivers and along coasts. Aquaculture and stock enhancement practices raise a number of welfare and conservation issues both for fish that are reared within captivity, and for the local populations and habitats that are influenced by fish-rearing activities. In this review, we illustrate how fish farms and hatcheries have directly affected fish welfare. Examples cover on-farm fish husbandry and healthcare, the interactions between farmed and wild fish, and survival of fish released for stock enhancement. These aspects are often intertwined with important conservation issues. Thus, we also review direct effects that aquaculture-generated pollution can have on local habitats, issues associated with feeding reared fish, and problems created by alien fish (either escapees or intentionally released fish). While awareness of fish welfare is certainly growing, so is the rate at which fish are reared. There is, therefore, a pressing need to understand the welfare and conservation issues that are affected by aquaculture and stock enhancement.

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Romeo, E., and R. Rudiero. "RUINS AND URBAN CONTEXT: ANALYSIS TOWARDS CONSERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XL-5/W2 (July 22, 2013): 531–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-xl-5-w2-531-2013.

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MIYAKOSHI, YASUYUKI. "Improvement of enhancement and conservation techniques for salmon stocks." NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI 80, no. 5 (2014): 674–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2331/suisan.80.674.

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Thayananthan, Vijey, and Ahmed Alzranhi. "Enhancement of Energy Conservation Technologies in Wireless Sensor Network." Procedia Computer Science 34 (2014): 79–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2014.07.052.

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Şengonca, Çetin. "Conservation and enhancement of natural enemies in biological control." Phytoparasitica 26, no. 3 (September 1998): 187–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02981433.

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Ingram, B. A., H. McPartlan, M. Rourke, W. Bravington, N. Robinson, and B. Hayes. "Genetic enhancement of Murray cod for aquaculture and conservation." Aquaculture 272 (2007): S271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2007.07.094.

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Chen, Daqing, Shijian Li, and Ke Wang. "Enhancement and conservation of inland fisheries resources in China." Environmental Biology of Fishes 93, no. 4 (November 30, 2011): 531–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10641-011-9948-2.

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Larkham, Elizabeth A., and Peter J. Larkham. "The Enhancement of Conservation Areas: A Search for Information." Journal of Architectural Conservation 2, no. 3 (January 1996): 47–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13556207.1996.10785171.

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Potdar, Aditee, Richa Gautam, Anju Singh, Seema Unnikrishnan, and Neelima Naik. "Business reporting on biodiversity and enhancement of conservation initiatives." International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management 12, no. 3 (March 28, 2016): 227–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21513732.2016.1145144.

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Zhang, Zhong Qiang. "Research Progress of Energy Conservation Architectural Coatings." Advanced Materials Research 535-537 (June 2012): 1665–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.535-537.1665.

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At present, architectural coatings has been not only decorating for buildings, but also a lot of special functions, such as energy conservation, fire-proofing, self-cleaning, et al. Energy conservation coatings play an important role with the enhancement energy conservation consciousness. Research progress of energy conservation coatings was reviewed in this paper.

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Ismail, Maimunah, Atikah Nadia Abd Rahim, Kim Hou Lee, and Nurul Fariza Mohd Thahrir. "Cultural Values and Career Goal of Gen-x and Gen-y Employees: Evidence From Selected Malaysian Companies." Organizations and Markets in Emerging Economies 7, no. 2 (December 30, 2016): 43–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/omee.2016.7.2.14207.

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This paper seeks to compare the influence of dimensions of cultural values of self-enhancement, self-transcendence, conservation, and openness to change on career goal among Gen-X and Gen-Y employees in selected Malaysian industrial companies. This study used the Social Cognitive Career Theory as its underlying theoretical framework. A total of 264 personnel from oil and gas, information, communication and technology (ICT), as well as banking and insurance companies participated in the study of whom 48 and 216 are Gen-X and Gen-Y employees, respectively. The multiple linear regression analysis found self-enhancement and conservation predicted significantly the career goal of Gen-X; while self-enhancement, self-transcendence, conservation predicted significantly the career goal of Gen-Y, with the explanatory power of the former (33%) being greater than the latter (28%). Recommendations for human resource management and future research are discussed.

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Sethares, William A., Margaret Holben Ellis, and C. Richard Johnson. "Computational Watermark Enhancement in Leonardo’s Codex Leicester." Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 59, no. 2 (March 3, 2020): 87–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01971360.2019.1703483.

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Lorenzen, Kai, Kenneth M. Leber, Neil R. Loneragan, Ryan W. Schloesser, and Matthew D. Taylor. "Developing and integrating enhancement strategies to improve and restore fisheries." Bulletin of Marine Science 97, no. 4 (October 1, 2021): 475–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5343/bms.2021.0036.

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Fisheries enhancements are management approaches involving the use of aquaculture and habitat technologies (in the broadest sense) to enhance or restore fisheries. The technologies most commonly used include hatchery rearing and release of aquatic animals and provision of artificial structures such as artificial reefs. Both are associated with distinct fields of knowledge and communities of practice. Recent calls to expand and broaden the role of aquaculture and habitat enhancements in marine conservation and an increasingly integrated view of living marine resource management have led to an aspirational broadening of concepts in this area. The 10th William R and Lenore Mote Symposium and 6 th International Symposium on Stock Enhancement and Sea Ranching aimed to advance and integrate knowledge across enhancement technologies and practices. Substantial progress was noted in multiple technical areas such as understanding the potential and limitations for rearing organisms fit for release into the wild, and the design of artificial reefs to enhance local fish abundance. Crucial higher-level goals such as effectively enhancing or restoring fish abundance and fisheries at the stock level continue to receive insufficient attention across the enhancement sciences. Integration of enhancement strategies provides opportunities and challenges including a need to recognize, cross-discover, and engage other distinct areas of knowledge and communities of practice. A quick reference guide is provided to facilitate this process.

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Balzani, M., F. Maietti, and B. Mugayar Kühl. "POINT CLOUD ANALYSIS FOR CONSERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-2/W3 (February 23, 2017): 71–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-w3-71-2017.

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Documentation of cultural assets through improved acquisition processes for advanced 3D modelling is one of the main challenges to be faced in order to address, through digital representation, advanced analysis on shape, appearance and conservation condition of cultural heritage. 3D modelling can originate new avenues in the way tangible cultural heritage is studied, visualized, curated, displayed and monitored, improving key features such as analysis and visualization of material degradation and state of conservation. An applied research focused on the analysis of surface specifications and material properties by means of 3D laser scanner survey has been developed within the project of Digital Preservation of FAUUSP building, Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. The integrated 3D survey has been performed by the DIAPReM Center of the Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara in cooperation with the FAUUSP. The 3D survey has allowed the realization of a point cloud model of the external surfaces, as the basis to investigate in detail the formal characteristics, geometric textures and surface features. The digital geometric model was also the basis for processing the intensity values acquired by laser scanning instrument; this method of analysis was an essential integration to the macroscopic investigations in order to manage additional information related to surface characteristics displayable on the point cloud.

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Yuan, LILI, QING Liu, and QINGLIN Liu. "CONSERVATION, EVALUATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF WILD LILY GERMPLASM IN CHINA." Acta Horticulturae, no. 900 (July 2011): 53–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.17660/actahortic.2011.900.4.

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Nishikawa, Kiisa. "Eccentric contraction: unraveling mechanisms of force enhancement and energy conservation." Journal of Experimental Biology 219, no. 2 (January 2016): 189–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.124057.

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Chebanov, M. S., E. V. Galich, and Y. N. Chmir. "Stock enhancement and conservation culture of sturgeons: problems and prospects." Journal of Fish Biology 65, s1 (December 2004): 316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-1112.2004.0559f.x.

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Canteiro, Cátia, Laísa Barcelos, Fabiana Filardi, Rafaela Forzza, Laura Green, João Lanna, Paula Leitman, et al. "Enhancement of conservation knowledge through increased access to botanical information." Conservation Biology 33, no. 3 (February 26, 2019): 523–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13291.

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W. J. Busscher and R. E. Sojka. "Enhancement of Subsoiling Effect on Soil Strength by Conservation Tillage." Transactions of the ASAE 30, no. 4 (1987): 0888–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.13031/2013.30493.

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GANASHAN, P. "BIOTECHNOLOGY IN THE CONSERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES." Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka 22 (January 30, 1994): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/jnsfsr.v22i0.8141.

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Hoyt, G. D., D. W. Monks, and T. J. Monaco. "Conservation Tillage for Vegetable Production." HortTechnology 4, no. 2 (April 1994): 129–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.4.2.129.

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Conservation tillage is an effective sustainable production system for vegetables. No-till planters and transplanters and strip-till cultivation equipment are presently available for most vegetables. Lack of weed management tools (herbicides, cultivators, etc.) continues to be the cultural practice that limits adaptability of some vegetables to conservation tillage systems. Nitrogen management can be critical when grass winter cover crops are used as a surface residue. Advantages of using conservation tillage include soil and water conservation, improved soil chemical properties, reduction in irrigation requirements, reduced labor requirements, and greater nutrient recycling. However, disadvantages may include lower soil temperatures, which can affect maturity date; higher chemical input (desiccants and post-emergence herbicides); potential pest carryover in residues; and enhancement of some diseases.

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Donaldson, Candice D., Lindsay M. Handren, and Andrew Lac. "Applying Multilevel Modeling to Understand Individual and Cross-Cultural Variations in Attitudes Toward Homosexual People Across 28 European Countries." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 48, no. 1 (October 7, 2016): 93–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022022116672488.

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Individual and cross-cultural factors associated with attitudes toward homosexual people were examined in this study. Using cross-sectional data from the sixth biennial European Social Survey, which represents 36,959 individuals nested within 28 European countries, successive nested models were tested using multilevel modeling (MLM). Results found that attitudes varied cross-culturally as a function of people’s country of residence—this clustering effect was controlled for in all subsequent models. Individual-level predictors (Level 1) of male gender, older age, less education, being an immigrant to one’s residing country, conservative political affiliation, high religiosity, perceptions that politics in one’s country were unfair, low openness to change values, low self-transcendence values, high conservation values, and high self-enhancement values were significantly linked with anti-homosexuality attitudes. At the country level (Level 2), a high emphasis on social conservatism and fewer civil rights for homosexuals was connected with more unfavorable attitudes. Findings indicate main effects of predictors at both levels; however, country-level variables tended to yield stronger coefficients than individual-level factors, highlighting the contributions of macro- and microfactors in simultaneously shaping attitudes toward homosexuality. Beyond these effects, interactions of country- and individual-level variables show political affiliation, religiosity, self-enhancement values as stronger predictors in liberal countries, but openness to change values, younger age, and higher education as stronger predictors in conservative countries. Implications are discussed for understanding the wide continuum of views toward homosexuality across people and countries.

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Genovese, Rosa Anna. "Accessibility and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage: Examples of Best Practices in Europe." Protection of Cultural Heritage, no. 13 (January 7, 2023): 69–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.35784/odk.2953.

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Premise. The essay will report on actions promoted at international and national level, to ensure accessibility in different sectors of social life and reduce obstacles in this field in European regulations and in the practices of Member States. The Convention adopted by UNO in 2006, stating that people with different abilities must enjoy fundamental rights and (political, economic, social, cultural) freedoms, constitutes the first great treaty of the twenty-first century concerning the change in attitude and strategies towards people bearing handicaps, to increase respect of their dignity through every possible measure. Intercultural dialogue. In light of a greater awareness on environmental issues and possible solutions, we are, therefore, all called upon to contribute to changes in the relation with our one and only Planet in order to build a new conservation ethics, which may include the values of Cultural Heritage and accept, for its protection and enhancement, the contribution of Communities, favouring intercultural dialogue. Best practices. The essay intends to stress the importance of integrated policies in promoting accessibility and the enhancement of cultural heritage, also through the examination of the best practices implemented in different European Countries. Specifically, it shall highlight how one of the criteria informing the Management Plan of the ‘Archaeological Area of Pompeii and Torre del Greco’ is based on the conservation of the archaeological heritage, with the purpose of making it accessible to the public while conserving the testimonial, formal and material features of the site, and addressing conservation issues as well as the design quality of accessibility improvements. Integrated Conservation. The quality of conservation and restoration interventions on cultural heritage will, therefore, have to be perfected through an aware fact-finding analysis, favouring the application of scientific and digital technologies, paired with a diagnostic approach capable of including the digitalisation of processes, energy efficiency, accessibility, leading to the digital management of anamnesis and control of the restoration project, based on adequate knowledge of the cultural property and its state of conservation.

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O'Neal, Benjamin J., Edward J. Heske, and Joshua D. Stafford. "Waterbird Response to Wetlands Restored Through the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program." Journal of Wildlife Management 72, no. 3 (April 2008): 654–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.2193/2007-165.

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Azerad, Pascal, Afaf Bouharguane, and Jean-François Crouzet. "Simultaneous denoising and enhancement of signals by a fractal conservation law." Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 17, no. 2 (February 2012): 867–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2011.07.001.

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Khayyer, Abbas, Hitoshi Gotoh, Yuma Shimizu, and Kohji Gotoh. "On enhancement of energy conservation properties of projection-based particle methods." European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids 66 (November 2017): 20–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechflu.2017.01.014.

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Lau, On Sun, and Xing Wang Deng. "Effect of Arabidopsis COP10 ubiquitin E2 enhancement activity across E2 families and functional conservation among its canonical homologues." Biochemical Journal 418, no. 3 (February 25, 2009): 683–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bj20081943.

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Arabidopsis thaliana COP10 (constitutive photomorphogenic 10) is a UEV [Ub (ubiquitin)-conjugating enzyme (E2) variant protein] that is required for repression of seedling photomorphogenesis in darkness. COP10 forms a complex {the CDD complex [COP10–DET1 (de-etiolated 1)–DDB1 (DNA damage binding protein 1) complex]} with DET1 and DDB1a in vivo and can enhance the activity of Ub-conjugating enzyme (E2) in vitro. To investigate whether COP10 might act as a general regulator of E2s, we tested the specificity of COP10 E2 enhancement activity across E2 families of Arabidopsis. We found that COP10 is capable of enhancing members of four E2 subgroups significantly, while having a milder effect on another. Surprisingly, we found that close canonical E2 homologues of COP10, such as UbcH5a (human ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme 5), are also capable of enhancing E2s. Furthermore, we detected direct interactions between COP10 and three of the enhanced E2s, hinting at a possible mechanism for the enhancements. The present study suggests that some E2s, including the generic Ubc4/5p families involved in many processes, might possess dual activities: the formation of the classic E2–Ub thiol ester and the previously unknown E2 enhancement activity. Therefore COP10, despite being a catalytically inactive E2, might still enhance a variety of E2s and regulate numerous aspects of plant development.

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Rudnev, Maksim, Vladimir Magun, and Shalom Schwartz. "Relations Among Higher Order Values Around the World." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 49, no. 8 (June 22, 2018): 1165–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022022118782644.

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The circular structure of basic human values is the core element of the Schwartz value theory. The structure demonstrated high robustness across cultures. However, the specific correlations between values and the differences in these correlations across countries have received little attention. The current research investigated the within-country correlations between the four higher order values. We estimated the correlations with meta-analytical mixed-effects models based on 10 surveys, on different value instruments, and on data from 104 countries. Analyses revealed theoretically expected negative relations between openness to change and conservation values and between self-transcendence and self-enhancement values. More interestingly, openness to change and self-transcendence values related negatively with each other, as did conservation and self-enhancement. Openness to change and self-enhancement values related predominantly positively, as did conservation and self-transcendence values. Correlations between the adjacent values were weaker in more economically developed countries, revealing higher value complexity of these societies. These findings were consistent across multiple surveys and after controlling for levels of education and income inequality. We concluded that, across most countries, values tend to be organized predominantly in line with the Social versus Person Focus opposition, whereas the Growth versus Self-Protection opposition is pronounced only in more economically developed countries.

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Sijacic-Nikolic, Mirjana, and Jelena Milovanovic. "Conservation and directed utilization of forest genetic resources." Bulletin of the Faculty of Forestry, no. 95 (2007): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/gsf0795007s.

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Forest genetic resources represent the genetic diversity contained in the thousands of species of forest trees on the earth. their conservation is a set of activities and strategies, which are performed in the aim of ensuring the continued existence, evolution and availability of these resources for the present and future generations. the aim of genetic resource management is the enhancement of conditions for the continual evolution of the species which is the defensive mechanism of the organisms in the struggle with environmental changes.

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Addison Posey, Darrell. "The 'Balance Sheet' and the 'Sacred Balance': Valuing the Knowledge of Indigenous and Traditional Peoples1." Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 2, no. 2 (1998): 91–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853598x00109.

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AbstractIndigenous and traditional peoples, who often attribute a sacred quality to nature, have made major contributions to the enhancement and conservation of the world's biodiversity. Although this is increasingly recognised in international discourse, rights of these peoples to continue their traditional practices are threatened by the globalised economy. Likewise, science implicitly denies their contribution to biodiversity conservation and enhancement by referring to their lands as 'wild' or 'wilderness'. It also effectively undermines their rights by claiming that the biodiversity fostered by their traditional practices is a global resource. In order to counter these threats, we need, not only to strengthen the rights of indigenous and traditional peoples, but also to reverse global trends that substitute economic and utilitarian models for the holistic concept of the 'sacred balance'.

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Puric-Mladenovic, D., and S. Strobl. "Delineating conservation areas on the Oak Ridges Moraine using a systematic conservation planning approach." Forestry Chronicle 82, no. 3 (May 1, 2006): 395–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.5558/tfc82395-3.

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Protected lands form an essential component of landscape planning, and often extend beyond protection of existing natural areas to consider enhancement through restoration to improve existing conditions. We tested an automated conservation science-based methodology and systematic approach to delineate conservation and restoration priority areas on the Oak Ridges Moraine (ORM). The methodology comprised: a) preparing and assembling existing spatial (GIS) information and tessellating the study area to 5-ha hexagon planning units; b) conducting a gap analysis to provide a basis for setting conservation targets that protect, or that through future restoration activities might enhance, under-represented biodiversity elements; and c) applying a simulated annealing procedure (i.e., mathematical algorithm) to find solutions that optimize the set biodiversity targets. The final output of our work is a map of conservation priority area that enables the more than 50 conservation partners in this landscape to coordinate various conservation, stewardship and restoration activities by focusing on those areas that have the highest conservation value. Key words: restoration, settled landscapes, conservation planning, mathematical algorithm

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DZULKIFLI, FAHMI AKMAL. "Identification of Suitable Contrast Enhancement Technique for Improving the Quality of Astrocytoma Histopathological Images." ELCVIA Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis 20, no. 1 (May 27, 2021): 84–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/elcvia.1256.

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Contrast enhancement plays an important part in image processing. In histology, the application of a contrast enhancement technique is necessary since it can help pathologists in diagnosing the sample slides by increasing the visibility of the morphological and features of cells in an image. Various techniques have been proposed to enhance the contrast of microscopic images. Thus, this paper aimed to study the effectiveness of contrast enhancement techniques in enhancing the Ki67 images of astrocytoma. Three contrast enhancement techniques consist of contrast stretching, histogram equalization, and CLAHE techniques were proposed to enhance the sample images. The performance of each technique was compared by computing seven quantitative measures. The CLAHE technique was preferred for enhancing the contrast of the astrocytoma images. This technique produces good results especially in contrast enhancement, edge conservation and enhancement, brightness preservation, and minimum distortions to the enhanced images.

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Van Roy, Nathalie, Els Verstrynge, and Koenraad van Balen. "A preventive conservation approach for historical timber roof structures." Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 8, no. 2 (May 21, 2018): 82–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jchmsd-05-2017-0024.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate the assets of a preventive conservation approach for historical timber roof structures, as a means to improve the quality and durability of maintenance and repair interventions.Design/methodology/approachThe advantages of a preventive approach for historical structures were identified based on two analyses: a study of the structures’ behaviour and an investigation of existing approaches in current practice. The two main identified advantages of the approach, the cyclic process-approach and the potential of knowledge enhancement, were hereafter conceptually implemented in existing approaches.FindingsCurrent practices focus on single curative interventions, and monitoring is often considered redundant. The importance of monitoring and knowledge enhancement is demonstrated based on the theory of complex adaptive systems (CAS). A preventive conservation approach for historic timber roof structures allows integrating these insights.Research limitations/implicationsThe analysis of current practice is a sample survey, and the proposed preventive conservation approach is presented at a conceptual level. Future research foresees a more elaborated study of current practice and detailed validation of the developed approach.Originality/valueThree new contributions to the existing research on preventive conservation are: arguments for the implementation of a preventive approach, based on an analysis of the structures’ behaviour; the identification of limitations of current approaches that can be tackled in a preventive conservation approach; and the integration of the existing international guidelines and the principles of preventive conservation into a conceptual approach for the monitoring and management of these structures. Furthermore, the research paper demonstrates how timber structures can be understood as CAS, which is a novel viewpoint.

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Lou, Shiliang, Xiaodong Chen, Jing Liu, Yu Shi, Hui Qu, Yi Wang, and Huaiyu Cai. "Fast OCT image enhancement method based on the sigmoid-energy conservation equation." Biomedical Optics Express 12, no. 4 (March 2, 2021): 1792. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/boe.417010.

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Wentworth, K. L., M. C. Brittingham, and A. M. Wilson. "Conservation reserve enhancement program fields: Benefits for grassland and shrub-scrub species." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 65, no. 1 (January 1, 2010): 50–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2489/jswc.65.1.50.

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Fanlei Meng, Yue Li, Ning Wu, Yanan Tian, and Hongbo Lin. "A Fractal Conservation Law for Simultaneous Denoising and Enhancement of Seismic Data." IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 12, no. 2 (February 2015): 374–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2014.2342731.

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Wilson, Andrew, Margaret Brittingham, and Greg Grove. "Association of wintering raptors with Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program grasslands in Pennsylvania." Journal of Field Ornithology 81, no. 4 (November 30, 2010): 361–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1557-9263.2010.00292.x.

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Richards, R. Peter, and Garry L. Grabow. "DETECTING REDUCTIONS IN SEDIMENT LOADS ASSOCIATED WITH OHIO'S CONSERVATION RESERVE ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM." Journal of the American Water Resources Association 39, no. 5 (October 2003): 1261–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-1688.2003.tb03707.x.

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Zhu, Dan, Akshay Kumar Jain, Robert Broadwater, and Franco Bruna. "Feeder Voltage Profile Design for Energy Conservation and PV Hosting Capacity Enhancement." Electric Power Systems Research 164 (November 2018): 263–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2018.08.006.

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Billman, Eric J., Joshua D. Kreitzer, J. Curtis Creighton, Evelyn Habit, Brock McMillan, and Mark C. Belk. "Habitat enhancement and native fish conservation: can enhancement of channel complexity promote the coexistence of native and introduced fishes?" Environmental Biology of Fishes 96, no. 4 (May 26, 2012): 555–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10641-012-0041-2.

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Luciani, Michela, Paola Rebora, Emanuela Rossi, Luca Tonoli, Silvia Androni, Enrico Ballerini, Diletta Fabrizi, Barbara Riegel, Davide Ausili, and Stefania Di Mauro. "How Do Basic Human Values Affect Self-Care of Type 2 Diabetes Patients? A Multicentre Observational Study." Clinical Nursing Research 29, no. 5 (January 18, 2019): 304–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1054773818825003.

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In type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients, human values have been identified as having a possible impact on self-care. Despite this, basic human values have never been described in the T2DM population and the association between basic human values and self-care has not been assessed. The aims of this study were to describe basic human values and self-care, and investigate the associations between basic human values and self-care in adults with T2DM. The study was cross-sectional multicentre with T2DM patients ( n = 390). Sociodemographic and clinical data were collected from charts, and two questionnaires were administered. The Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ) measured basic human values and allowed us to group patients into four groups based on the value profile: (A) Openness to Change and Self-Transcendence, (B) Conservation and Self-Transcendence, (C) Conservation and Self-Enhancement, and (D) Openness to Change and Self-Enhancement. The Self-care of Diabetes Inventory measured self-care maintenance, self-care monitoring, self-care management, and self-care confidence, according to the Middle-Range Theory of Self-Care of Chronic Illness. Multiple regression models were used to assess associations between the basic human values and self-care. Group D (Openness to Change and Self-Enhancement) performed significantly lower self-care maintenance ( p = .024) and self-care monitoring ( p = .031) when compared with Group A, and lower self-care monitoring ( p = .008) and self-care management ( p = .018) when compared with Group B. Group D showed significantly lower self-care monitoring ( p = .027) when compared with Group C. People with T2DM who value more self-enhancement and openness to change might be more prone to perform worse self-care compared with those who value conservation and self-transcendence. Clinicians should consider this when designing interventions aimed at improving self-care behaviors in patients with T2DM.

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Kopeliovich, B. Z., J. Nemchik, I. K. Potashnikova, and Iván Schmidt. "Energy conservation in high-pT nuclear reactions." International Journal of Modern Physics E 23, no. 04 (April 2014): 1430006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218301314300069.

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The Cronin effect, which is nuclear enhancement of high-pT hadron production in pA collisions was successfully predicted prior the measurements at RHIC and LHC. The restrictions imposed by energy conservation lead to spectacular effects. Energy deficit becomes an issue for hadron production in pA collisions at large xL and/or large xT toward the kinematic bounds xL, T = 1. It leads to a suppression, which has been indeed observed for hadrons produced at forward rapidities and large pT. Intensive energy dissipation via gluon radiation by a highly virtual parton produced with large pT, makes this process impossible to continue long. Color neutralization and creation of a colorless dipole must occur promptly. When this happens inside a hot medium created in AA collisions, attenuation of dipoles, rather than induced energy loss, becomes a dominant mechanism for suppression of high-pT hadrons.

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Zhao, Jiaxing, Shuzhe Shi, Nu Xu, and Pengfei Zhuang. "Conservational and Sequential Charm Hadronization in Heavy Ion Collisions." EPJ Web of Conferences 202 (2019): 06004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920206004.

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Heavy quarks are almost initially produced and the number is conserved during the evolution of the hot medium produced in Heavy Ion collisions. We firstly take into account the charm conservation effect on charm hadron hadronization via sequential coalescence model. In the frame of sequential coalescence, the charm conservation enhances the earlier hadron production and suppresses the later production. This relative enhancement (suppression) changes significantly the charmed hadron ratios in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC.

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Swaminathan, M. S. "Implementing the Global Biodiversity Convention: IPR for Public Good." Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers 20, no. 4 (October 1995): 3–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0256090919950401.

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Transparent and implementable methods of recognizing and rewarding the contributions of tribal and rural women and men in the conservation of biodiversity have become exceedingly urgent in the context of the provisions of the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) under the World Trade Agreement. In this paper, M S Swaminathan points out how considerations of equity can be integrated with those of ecology and economics in recognizing and rewarding informal innovations in genetic conservation and enhancement.

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