This study examines the effects of supplying forest biomass on ecosystem services and goods with a dynamic systems model. unique analysis models trade investments in forestry, thereby capturing price changes from increased demand current future flows natural capital stocks. Forests across globe are interconnected through timber markets, which influence management decisions, land rents, policy r...

This paper examines the relationship between transnationalism, cultural preservation, and transgenerational trauma in United States (US) Indo population. The information being analysed was compiled by author from two separate surveys which took place 2012 2021. data initially intended to act as a census for scattered US community however salient necessitated that be ongoing another survey devel...

We describe several challenging issues related to virtual globe manipulations for GIS that highlight the important interplay between geometric modeling and scientific visualization. We begin by motivating and describing a globe tessellation algorithm designed to avoid singularities at the poles, then discuss other uses of the tessellation that enable certain types of shape modeling on the surfa...

Institutional repositories (IRs) have received substantial consideration from various researchers across disciplines and around the world. Universities considered prioritising IR’s functionality by putting in place measures to make IRs more efficient. This paper focuses on issues of institutional digital preservation South Africa. The study drew secondary source information African context glob...

Between 1992 and 2003, the global area under preservation has increased 52.8%, such that the terrestrial proportion of the globe now protected is 11.5% (Chape et al. 2003). Since some countries protect more forest than others, we wish to explain this variation using a reduced-form model capable of suggesting whether the amount of forest a country preserves is related to economic and ecological ...

PURPOSE Ballistic impact studies and supercomputer modeling were performed to elicit the mechanisms of optic nerve rupture that may accompany blunt ocular trauma. METHODS Paintball ocular impact responses were studied with abattoir-fresh porcine eyes. Physics-based numerical code CTH was used to produce robust geometric and constitutive models of the eye and orbit, providing a comparative 3-D...

OBJECTIVE To report the visual and anatomic outcomes as well as to predict the visual prognosis of combat ocular trauma (COT) during Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. DESIGN Retrospective, noncomparative, interventional, consecutive case series. PARTICIPANTS Five hundred twenty-three consecutive globe or adnexal combat injuries, or both, sustained by 387 United States soldiers treated ...

There are all sorts of things very poor people living in poor countries don’t have. They lack secondary-school educations, usually, and good medical care. They lack steady work and life insurance, bank accounts and competent legal representation, adequate fertilizer for their crops, adequate protein in their diets, reliable electricity, clean water, indoor plumbing, low-interest loans, incubato...