Economic activity can damage natural systems and reduce the flow of ecosystem services. The harms can be substantial, as our case studies vividly illustrate. Most degraded landscapes have at least some potential to be reclaimed. However, uncertainty plagues decision making regarding degradation and reclamation, in relation to the extent of the damage, the success of reclamation, and how exposur...

This paper conceptualizes the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) as a weapon epistemic violence to kill victims’ knowledge instances misconduct and discrimination in organizations. It is proposed that death this not absolute, it becomes ghostly presence both haunts victim enables reclaim some justice by becoming haunter, warning others threats survive them. proposes new links relation soci...

The reclamation of acid-generating mine tailings typically involves building cover systems to limit interactions with water or oxygen. choice materials is critical ensure long-term performance, and partly determines the environmental footprint strategy. objective this research was evaluate if pre-oxidized on-site could be used in systems. Column experiments were performed assess effectiveness a...

Beginning with Barry Hoffmaster’s charge that we reclaim bioethics from the moral philosopher’s top-down theorizing, I discuss two philosophy contexts offer resources for kind of complex attention Hoffmaster demands: Iris Murdoch and Cora Diamond in Margaret Urban Walker, Hilde Lindeman, Marian Verkerk’s joint take on bioethics. My aim is: 1) to dispel a simplified notion bioethics; 2) unite st...

The loadable kernel modules supported by Linux provide many benefits including a small-sized kernel, on-demand loading, and simpler upgrading of software. However, modules are executed in a privileged mode so that trivial errors in a module may cause a critical system halt or deadlock situations. We introduce a kernel resource protector which shields the kernel from faults generated by modules....

Storage consumption continues to grow rapidly, especially with the popularity of multimedia files. Storage hardware costs represent a small fraction of overall management costs, which include frequent maintenance and backups. Our key approach to reducing total storage management costs is to reduce actual storage consumption. We achieve this in two ways. First, we classify files into categories ...

Service aggregation schemes like batching, caching and rate adaptation can enable large scale interactive multimedia services, such as movies-on-demand and popular television programming. These applications are characterized by a large user population and a high density of access. Rate Adaptation is a dynamic service aggregation technique that can merge streams and reclaim resources at run-time...

As the population of older adults increases, healthy aging has become a global public health issue. Physical activity can help older adults reclaim or maintain a healthy aging process. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between physical activity, physical performance, quality of life and cognition in non-frail adults aged 65 and older. English articles in peer-reviewed...

SSOI substrates were successfully fabricated using He ion implantation and annealing to relax thin (< 500nm) SiGe buffer layers, bonding and layer transfer processes to realize strained-Si layers onto oxide layers. The reduced thickness of the SiGe buffer possess numerous advantages such as reduced process costs for epitaxy and for reclaim of the handle wafer if the layer splitting is initiated...