scholarly journals Past and Future Earth: Archaeology and Soil Studies on Ambergris Caye, Belize

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Graham ◽  
Richard I. Macphail ◽  
John Crowther ◽  
Simon Turner ◽  
Julia Stegemann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Soil Formation ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Amazonian Dark Earths ◽  
Anthropogenic Deposits ◽  
Ambergris Caye ◽  
Coral Islands

Marco Gonzalez is one of a number of Maya sites on Belize’s coast and cayes (coral islands) that exhibit anomalous vegetation and dark-coloured soils. Like Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs), the soils are sought locally for cultivation and are underlain by anthropogenic deposits. Our research is aimed at assessing the role of the anthropogenic deposits in soil formation processes with a view to developing strategies to quantify the long-term environmental impact of human activities today.

THE ROLE OF SOIL INVERTEBRATES IN THE SOIL FORMATION PROCESSES

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Daniyar Bayyshovich Apyev ◽  
Ashirkan Anarbekovna Inamova ◽  
Р.Т. Muratova
Keyword(s):  
Soil Formation ◽  
Soil Invertebrates ◽  
Formation Processes

scholarly journals The role of gear technologists in supporting an ecosystem approach to fisheries

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (8) ◽  
pp. 1525-1534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Jennings ◽  
Andrew S. Revill
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Ecosystem Approach ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Management Measures ◽  
Equitable Treatment ◽  
Gear Technology

Abstract Jennings, S., and Revill, A. S. 2007. The role of gear technologists in supporting an ecosystem approach to fisheries. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 1525–1534. Central to an ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) is reconciling the short-term need for catches with the long-term need for sustainability of target species and other ecosystem components. We assess the role of gear technology in supporting the objectives and implementation of EAF and identify the circumstances in which investment in the environmental performance of fishing gear provides the greatest benefits. The greatest benefits are usually achieved when gear technologists embed the new technology in the management system and when there are clear incentives to use it. We propose a framework for comparing combinations of management measures that might support EAF, based on knowledge of the environmental impacts of different gears in different areas and management systems. This framework helps us assess when fishing effects “matter” and when gear technologists should contribute to mitigating unwanted effects. Incentives and effective enforcement will be key to introducing gears with lower environmental impact. We expect that future emphasis on marine spatial planning, the use of environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment for fisheries, more equitable treatment of fisheries and other marine sectors, and rising oil prices will lead to greater pressure on gear technologists to support EAF.

scholarly journals Development of expert thinking: The role of goal-oriented practice and practicing

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-240
Author(s):  
Zora Krnjaic
Keyword(s):  
Human Activities ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Creative Products ◽  
Artificial Development ◽  
Systematic Education ◽  
Constant Improvement ◽  
And Training

Exceptional achievements, expert masteries, masterful performances and creative products can be attained only after a number of years of guided and well-devised practice or goal-oriented practicing. We are dealing with a long-term, systematic and carefully guided training which gradually, step by step, leads towards developing expertise and producing supreme achievements and performances in different areas of human activities. This paper explores the role of goal-oriented practice in the development of expert thinking in science, its characteristics and levels of development. Expert thinking in science is defined as the competence developed through learning and practicing of a certain scientific discipline within systematic education and training as an integral part of artificial development. The goal-oriented practice takes place in phases. Its important feature is a gradual and carefully guided progress and enhancement of abilities that is achieved through meaningful tasks and relevant activities suited to age and the level of expertise in a particular domain, along with constant improvement of activities based on feedback provided by mentors. On the path of development of expertise and expert thinking in science, as one of the forms of manifesting giftedness, an individual needs to be ready to invest efforts, set aside the time and be dedicated to work, as well as to have the possibilities and opportunities to pursue scientific research.

scholarly journals Long-term field experiments – museum relics or scientific challenge?

2008 ◽  
Vol 54 (No. 5) ◽  
pp. 219-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Merbach ◽  
A. Deubel
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Climatic Change ◽  
Nutrient Dynamics ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Soil Formation ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Microbial Biodiversity ◽  
Scientific Challenge ◽  
Term Field

By reference to the Eternal Rye trial in Halle, Germany, as an example, it is demonstrated that long-term trials provide indispensable information for contemporary and future land use research. These trials serve as tools for the examination of cultivation measures or the effects of climate on nutrient dynamics and mobilization, microbial biodiversity, mineral composition or soil formation processes. They are therefore essential for the evaluation of land-use strategies or climatic change and, because of that, can provide more accuracy in related political considerations.

Abusive head trauma (AHT) outcome at long-term follow-up and the role of elective neurosurgical approach: A report of 22 cases

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Menegazzo ◽  
Melissa Rosa Rizzotto ◽  
Martina Bua ◽  
Luisa Pinello ◽  
Elisabetta Tono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Head Trauma ◽  
Abusive Head Trauma ◽  
Long Term Follow Up

The Second Start of Transformation in Ukraine?

2014 ◽  
pp. 30-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Grigoryev ◽  
E. Buryak ◽  
A. Golyashev
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Investment Climate ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Personal Consumption ◽  
Governance Quality ◽  
Political Turmoil

The Ukrainian socio-economic crisis has been developing for years and resulted in the open socio-political turmoil and armed conflict. The Ukrainian population didn’t meet objectives of the post-Soviet transformation, and people were disillusioned for years, losing trust in the state and the Future. The role of workers’ remittances in the Ukrainian economy is underestimated, since the personal consumption and stability depend strongly on them. Social inequality, oligarchic control of key national assets contributed to instability as well as regional disparity, aggravated by identity differences. Economic growth is slow due to a long-term underinvestment, and prospects of improvement are dependent on some difficult institutional reforms, macro stability, open external markets and the elites’ consensus. Recovering after socio-economic and political crisis will need not merely time, but also governance quality improvement, institutions reform, the investment climate revival - that can be attributed as the second transformation in Ukraine.

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