The systemic nature of risk is increasingly acknowledged within scholarship, policy and practice relating to disaster management.However, a number of conceptual and methodological challenges arise in advancing empirical inquiry in this regard.These challenges relate to how the boundaries of the system are determined both spatially and temporally, h
The rapid development of virtual reality applications continues to urge better compression of 360° videos owing to the large volume of content.These videos are typically converted to 2-D formats using various projection techniques in Belt order to benefit from ad-hoc coding tools designed to support conventional 2-D video compression.Althoug
Numerous Russian laws recognize rights of, and provide for benefits to, Indigenous peoples living within the Russian Federation.Yet in the past two decades, Indigenous persons have faced challenges in accessing these rights, having no way RE WORKS to prove that they are members of an Indigenous people.For almost two decades, Indigenous leaders have
IntroductionBlumea balsamifera, a half-woody plant belonging to the Asteraceae family, is valued as both a medicinal and industrial crop primarily for its phytochemical Hats component, (-)-borneol.Nitrogen (N) is essential for regulating the growth of B.balsamifera and the biosynthesis of (-)-borneol; however, the molecular mechanisms by which N in
The two peaks characteristic of yellow and blue light in the spectrum of dual-wavelength white light emitting diodes (LEDs) introduce distinctive features to the interference signal of white light scanning GRINDERS interferometry (WLSI).The distinctive features are defined as discontinuities, so that the fringe contrast function cannot be modeled a