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Neofytos Dimitriou and Ognjen Arandjelovic
Normalization as a layer within neural networks has over the years demonstrated its effectiveness in neural network optimization across a wide range of different tasks, with one of the most successful approaches being that of batch normalization. The con...
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Yongping Yuan, Megan H. Mehaffey, Ricardo D. Lopez, Ronald L. Bingner, Randy Bruins, Caroline Erickson and Michael A. Jackson
The Future Midwest Landscape (FML) project is part of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?s new Ecosystem Services Research Program, undertaken to examine the variety of ways in which landscapes that include crop lands, conservation areas, wetla...
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Darren Thornbrugh, Dana Infante and Yinphan Tsang
The biodiversity of stream fishes is critically threatened globally, and a major factor leading to the loss of biodiversity is anthropogenic land use in stream catchments, which act as stressors to stream fishes. Declines in the biodiversity of stream fi...
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Imen Brini, Dimitrios D. Alexakis and Chariton Kalaitzidis
Soil erosion is a severe and continuous environmental problem caused mainly by natural factors, which can be enhanced by anthropogenic activities. The morphological relief with relatively steep slopes, the dense drainage network, and the Mediterranean cl...
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Konstantinos Stefanidis, Aikaterini Kostara, Eva Papastergiadou
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Lakes in the Mediterranean climate zone experience high variation in rainfall and are vulnerable to changes in climate, land cover and anthropogenically induced effects on water level and salinity. This paper presents the results from the analyses of spa...
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Konstantinos Stefanidis, Aikaterini Kostara and Eva Papastergiadou
Lakes in the Mediterranean climate zone experience high variation in rainfall and are vulnerable to changes in climate, land cover and anthropogenically induced effects on water level and salinity. This paper presents the results from the analyses of spa...
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Rattan Lal
Soil erosion is a selective process which removes the light fraction comprised of soil organic carbon (SOC) and colloidal particles of clay and fine silt. Thus, a large amount of carbon (C) is transported by erosional processes, and its fate (i.e., emiss...
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Pablo Saavedra Briones, Alejandra Sepúlveda-Varas
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Historical studies of land use changes help us to understand the current configuration of the landscape and identify the environmental and social impacts that are associated with these transformations. Several authors describe the transitions as a proces...
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Andrés Velastegui-Montoya, Aline de Lima and Marcos Adami
Hydroelectric energy generates more than 50% of all renewable electricity in the world. The Amazon is home to a large part of these ventures, promoted as a strategy of energy independence in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the countries of th...
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Christine Matindu, Nimalka M. Weerasuriya, Francis N. Muyekho, Irena F. Creed, R. Greg Thorn and Anthony W. Sifuna
The metabarcoding of prokaryotic and fungal (Ascomycota only) ribosomal DNA was used to describe the microbial communities in soils of a remnant equatorial rainforest, maize?bean intercrop, and sugarcane in western Kenya. Cropping systems influenced the ...
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Kamiya Varshney, Maibritt Pedersen Zari and Nilesh Bakshi
Carbon sequestration (CS) and habitat provisioning (HP) through building-integrated vegetation are interlinked approaches that could potentially reduce climate change and biodiversity loss attributed to the built environment. However, a practical approac...
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Christos Karagiannis and Kostas Vergidis
Fighting crime in cyberspace requires law enforcement authorities to immerse in a digital ocean of vast amount of information and also to acquire and objectify the evidence of criminal activity. Handling digital evidence is a complex and multifaceted pro...
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Nikolaos Depountis, Maria Michalopoulou, Katerina Kavoura, Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos and Nikolaos Sabatakakis
In recent decades, wildfires have become a serious threat worldwide, producing disasters in the natural and anthropogenic environment as well as serious economic losses. One of wildfire?s major impacts is soil erosion, as it may cause major problems in b...
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Igor José Malfetoni Ferreira, José Hilário Delconte Ferreira, Paulo Agenor Alves Bueno, Luciane Maria Vieira, Raquel de Oliveira Bueno, Edivando Vitor do Couto (Author)
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Forest fragmentation may negatively impact fauna and flora. An important tool for the development and implementation of research on these effects is the use of a geographic information system (GIS). This paper aims to perform an integrated analysis of th...
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Igor José Malfetoni Ferreira, José Hilário Delconte Ferreira, Paulo Agenor Alves Bueno, Luciane Maria Vieira, Raquel de Oliveira Bueno, Edivando Vitor do Couto
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Forest fragmentation may negatively impact fauna and flora. An important tool for the development and implementation of research on these effects is the use of a geographic information system (GIS). This paper aims to perform an integrated analysis of th...
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Kathleen C. Stosch, Richard S. Quilliam, Nils Bunnefeld and David M. Oliver
Ensuring water, food and energy security for a growing world population represents a 21st century catchment management challenge. Failure to recognise the complexity of interactions across ecosystem service provision can risk the loss of other key enviro...
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Paul M. Van Auken, Elizabeth S. Barron, Chong Xiong, Carly Persson
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We propose and implement a new emplacement framework through exploration of the socio-spatial landscape of the Fox River Watershed (FRW) in Northeastern Wisconsin from a particular cultural perspective. Based primarily upon interviews conducted with 16 H...
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Paul M. Van Auken, Elizabeth S. Barron, Chong Xiong and Carly Persson
We propose and implement a new emplacement framework through exploration of the socio-spatial landscape of the Fox River Watershed (FRW) in Northeastern Wisconsin from a particular cultural perspective. Based primarily upon interviews conducted with 16 H...
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Gasper L. Sechu, Bertel Nilsson, Bo V. Iversen, Mette B. Greve and Mogens H. Greve
Groundwater-dependent terrestrial ecosystems (GWDTE) have been increasingly under threat due to groundwater depletion globally. Over the past 200 years, there has been severe artificial drainage of low-lying areas in Denmark, leading to a gradual loss of...
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Shengchun Tong, Guorong Li, Jinfang Li, Xilai Li, Chengdong Jiang, Jianyun Zhao, Haili Zhu, Yabin Liu, Wenting Chen and Xiasong Hu
The plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) actively contributes to soil erosion and meadow degradation in western China?s Yellow River source zone. This study aimed to elucidate the effects of the pika mound numbers on the hydrodynamic characteristics and soi...
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