Abstract Scenarios serve science by testing the sensitivity of a system and/or society to adapt future. In this study, we present new land use scenario methodology called ScenaLand. This aims develop plausible and contrasting management (LUM) scenarios, useful explore how LUM (e.g. soil water conservation techniques) may affect ecosystem services under global change in wide range environments. ...

Abstract This article presents the identification of soil use potential for different agropastoral and forest scenarios, using an indicator erosion susceptibility from spatialized Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE). All USLE factors were ArcGis 10.5 software, case study Cachoeira Cinco Veados Watershed-RS. To determine R factor, we used Cassol et al. 2007 equation a 33-year series rain data si...

The Dual Vulnerability Model of seasonal depression posits that seasonal vegetative symptoms are due to a physiological vulnerability, but cognitive and mood symptoms are the result of negative appraisal of vegetative changes. In addition, rumination may be associated with stronger negative attitudes toward vegetative symptoms. This is the first study to examine implicit attitudes toward vegeta...

The main objective of this meeting convened at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences is to discuss the topic of Brain Death. Although in general there is no debate within the scientific community, the concept of Brain Death has been questioned by lay people and in some cases by physicians. For this reason it seemed appropriate to begin this two-day conference discussing ‘What is not Brain Death’, ...

Decision-making in emergency management is a challenging task as the consequences of decisions are considerable, the threatened systems are complex and information is often uncertain. This paper presents a distributed system facilitating better-informed decision-making in strategic emergency management. The construction of scenarios provides a rationale for collecting, organising, and processin...

A critical assumption of studies assessing comparatively waste management options concerns the constant average cost for selective collection regardless the source separation level (SSL) reached, and the neglect of the mass constraint. The present study compares alternative waste management scenarios through the development of a desktop model that tries to remove the above assumption. Several a...

ABSTRACT This study was conducted with the objective of evaluating quantum yield, photosynthetic pigments and biomass accumulation mini watermelon cv. Sugar Baby, under strategies irrigation saline water potassium fertilization. The experiment in a randomized block design, 8 × 3 factorial scheme, three replicates, corresponding to eight applied at different phenological stages crop (control - l...

This paper discusses some of the fundamental considerations when managing mining slopes. The goal of management is to reduce all components that contribute to the geotechnical risk and by doing so reduce the risk to as low as reasonably achievable. The techniques and procedures suggested are not exhaustive; they represent a snapshot of some of the practical techniques the author has found usefu...