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Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus / by Park, Arum

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Healing with Poisons : Potent Medicines in Medieval China / by Liu, Yan, Liu, Yan

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Advanced remote sensing terrestrial information extraction and applications /

Table of Contents: “…Vegetation production in terrestrial ecosystems 17. Precipitation 18. Terrestrial Evapotranspiration 19. …”
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Biocomplexity of plant-fungal interactions

Table of Contents: “…Plett and Francis Martin -- Arbuscular mycorrhizas and grassland ecosystems / R. Michael Miller, Gail W.T. Wilson, and Nancy Collins Johnson -- Mycorrhizal networks and seedling establishment in Douglas-fir forests / Suzanne W. …”
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Assessment of climate change in the southwest United States : a report prepared for the national climate assessment /

Table of Contents: “…Effects of Climate Change in the Southwest. 8. Natural Ecosystems -- 9. Coastal Issues -- 10. Water: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation -- 11. …”
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Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World

Table of Contents: “…Bats in the Anthropocene -- Urbanisation and its effects on bats – a global meta-analysis -- Bats and roads -- Responses of tropical bats to habitat fragmentation, logging, and deforestation -- Insectivorous bats and silviculture: balancing timber production and bat conservation -- Bats in the anthropogenic matrix: Challenges and opportunities for the conservation of Chiroptera and their ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes -- Dark matters: the effects of artificial lighting on bats -- Bats and water: anthropogenic alterations threaten global bat populations -- White-nose syndrome in bats -- Zoonotic viruses and conservation of bats -- Impacts of Wind Energy Development on Bats: a Global Perspective -- Exploitation of Bats for Bushmeat and Medicine -- The conflict between pteropodid bats and fruit growers: species, legislation and mitigation -- Bats and buildings: The conservation of synanthropic bats -- Conservation ecology of cave bats -- The roles of taxonomy and systematics in bat conservation -- Networking networks for global bat conservation -- Cute, Creepy, or Crispy – how values, attitudes and norms shape human behavior toward bats. .…”
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Children, nature and cities : rethinking the connections / by Freeman, Claire, van Heezik, Yolanda

Table of Contents: “…part PART I Children and nature – approaches to nature -- chapter 1 Conceptions of nature, contested defi nitions and approaches -- chapter 2 Children’s views and perspectives -- part PART II Understanding urban biodiversity in a changing environment -- chapter 3 Wild nature, biodiversity, habitats and species -- chapter 4 Human dimensions of urban ecosystems -- chapter 5 The changing city -- part PART III Children and nature interactions -- chapter 6 Children, families, nature and the home -- chapter 7 Children, nature and health: the benefi ts of nature -- chapter 8 Culture and nature, different experiences, different ways of interacting -- chapter 9 Mediated nature -- part PART IV Creating connections, making it happen – biodiverse environments for all children -- chapter 10 Redressing the balance in challenging urban environments: bringing nature back to where children live -- chapter 11 Working for and with children for more biodiverse cities -- chapter 12 Towards better cities for children.…”
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A companion to environmental geography /

Table of Contents: “…Deliberative and participatory approaches in environmental geography / Jason Chilvers -- Pt. IV. Topics -- 25. Ecosystem prediction and management / Robert A. Francis -- 26. …”
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Antarctica the most interactive ice-air-ocean environment /

Table of Contents: “…Lagun -- Effects of UV-B radiations on terrestrial ecosystem of Antarctica and their defense mechanisms / Jaswant Singh, Rudra P. …”
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Climate change and agroforestry systems : adaptation and mitigation strategies /

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Artificial Intelligence and the Environmental Crisis Can Technology Really Save the World?. by Skene, Keith, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Microbial intelligence: Gene-swapping revelry in the quorum -- V.4. Ecosystem intelligence: Systems thinking in the cathedral of thought -- V.5. …”
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Savannas climate, biodiversity and ecological significance /

Table of Contents: “…Translocation of elephants from Moju-Asako to Meru and Aberdare ecosystems / Shadrack Ngene ... [et al.] -- ch. 6. Absorbing roots areas and transpiring leaf areas at the tropical forest and savanna boundary in Brazil / Andre Butler ... …”
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Unmanned aerial remote sensing UAS for environmental applications /

Table of Contents: “…From radio controlled model aircraft to drones -- Aquatic vegetation monitoring with UAS -- Unmanned aerial vehicles for riverine environments -- Low-Cost UAVs for environmental monitoring, mapping, and modelling of the coastal zone -- Unmanned aerial system applications to coastal environments -- UAV image acquisition using structure from motion to visualise a coastal dune system -- Monitoring, mapping, and modelling saltmarsh with UAVs -- Autonomous UAV-based insect monitoring -- UAV imagery to monitor, map, and model a vineyard canopy to aid the application of precision viticulture to small-area vineyards -- Forest ecosystem monitoring using unmanned aerial systems -- Monitoring oil and gas pipelines with small UAV systems -- Drone-based imaging in archaeology : current applications and future prospects -- Unmanned aerial system (UAS) applications in the built environment : towards automated building inspection procedures using drones -- The application of UAVs to inform coastal area management -- From land to sea : monitoring the underwater environment with drone technology -- A question of UAS ground control : frequency and distribution -- Launch and recovery system for improved fixed-wing UAV deployment in complex environments.…”
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Growing greener cities urban sustainability in the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- Community development finance and the green city / Jeremy Nowak -- Growing edible cities / Domenic Vitiello -- Measuring urban greening -- Ecosystem services and the green city / Dennis D. Hirsch -- Metro nature: its functions, benefits, and values / Kathleen L. …”
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Wetlands and habitats /

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Emerging Devices for Low-Power and High-Performance Nanosystems : Physics, Novel Functions, and Data Processing /

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Computational modeling and data analysis in COVID-19 research /

Table of Contents: “…Balabantaray -- Application and progress of drone technology in the COVID-19 pandemic : a comprehensive review / Vasundhara Saraf, Lipsita Senapati, and Tripti Swarnkar -- Smart war on COVID-19 and global pandemics : integrated AI and blockchain ecosystem / Anil D Pathak, Debasis Saran, Sibani Mishra, Madapathi Hitesh, Sivaiah Bathula, and Kisor K Sahu -- Machine learning based text mining in social media for COVID-19 / Tajinder Singh and Madhu Kumari -- Containing the spread of COVID-19 with IoT : a visual tracing approach / Pallav Kumar Deb , Sudip Misra, Anandarup Mukherjee, and Aritra Bandopadhyay -- Crowd-sourced centralized thermal imaging for isolation and quarantine / Sudershan Kumar, Prabuddha Sinha, and Sujata Pal -- Block chain technology for limiting the impact of pandemic : challenges and prospects / Suchismita Swain, Oyekola Peter, Ramasamy Adimuthu, and Kamalakanta Muduli -- A study on mathematical and computational models in the context of COVID-19 / Meera Joshi -- A detailed study on AI-based diagnosis of novel coronavirus from radiograph images / Malaya Kumar Nath and Aniruddha Kanhe -- Data analytics for COVID-19 / Shreyas Mishra.…”
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