Climate change is the main global risk in next 10 years, and international organizations, businesses governments are paying more attention to decarbonization strategies energy transition. In line with general trend, popularity of climate agenda Russia has grown rapidly recent years. Until recently, many Russian companies calculated their carbon footprint, planned development implementation stra...

A key element of the environmental monitoring programme of the International Seabed Authority is the establishment of environmental baselines. Regulation 28, paragraph 2 of the draft Mining Code states: "The Authority shall also develop procedures and guidelines for the establishment of environmental baselines against which to assess the likely effects on the marine environment of activities in...

S uppose that averting dangerous climate change meant limiting the concentration of greenhouse gases (measured in parts per million, or ppm, by volume) in the atmosphere so that the world faced a temperature increase of no more than 2°C—a goal endorsed by the European Union. What would it take to meet this goal? Because of “climate uncertainty,” we cannot be sure. We can meet the goal with prob...

light intensity is considered a limiting factor in greenhouse rose production. the main aim of this experiment was to evaluate the effect of shading treatments (0, 25, 50, and 65% shading) on quality and chlorophyll content of cut rose (rosa hybrida cv. avalanche), under greenhouse conditions. the experiment was planned in randomized completely block design with four replications. all shoots we...

In this work we present an application developed in Derive 6 to compose counterpoints for a given melody (“cantus firmus”). The result is non deterministic, so different counterpoints can be generated for a fixed melody, all of them obeying classical rules of counterpoint. It is also possible that the counterpoint could not be generated, in this case, backtracking techniques have been implement...

Musical scores are some of the most important learning tools for musicians’ acquisition of musical knowledge. However, despite their educational relevance, very little is known about how music students conceive of these cultural external representations. Given that these conceptions might act as mediators of students’ learning approaches, the importance of knowing these conceptions seems eviden...