Wildfires play a key role in the boreal forest carbon cycle1,2, and models suggest that accelerated burning will increase boreal C emissions in the coming century3. However, these predictionsmaybe compromisedbecausebrief observational records provide limited constraints to model initial conditions4. We confronted this limitation by using palaeoenvironmental data to drive simulations of long-ter...

physical explanation of the planets’ place in the heaven is one of the principal questions in the ancient astronomy which the authors of hay?a (cosmology) works tried to find an answer for it. their opinion is in fact a compilation from aristotle’s “fifth element” theory and ptolemy’s “prisms” theory. aristotle’s fifth element theory assumes that the substance of the heavens is different from t...

BACKGROUND The study on the rare earth (RE)-doped layered double hydroxides (LDHs) has received considerable attention due to their potential applications in catalysts. However, the use of RE-doped LDHs as polymer halogen-free flame retardants was seldom investigated. Furthermore, the effect of rare earth elements on the hydrophobicity of LDHs materials and the compatibility of LDHs/polymer com...

This paper reports on an investigation of the critical success factors (CSFs) of knowledge sharing behaviour (KSB) among Malaysian undergraduate students (MUS). The research question considered the question regarding “what makes knowledge sharing behaviour (KSB) successful among two Malaysian undergraduate communities in Manchester, United Kingdom and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?”The overall aim of ...

in aristotle’s view, the explanation of an object or an issue is carried out according to the real form or reasonable essence and the utmost objective (ghāyat) it has and the goal it achieves. for instance, why do objects fall? according to aristotle and his followers, motion is explained as per the innate tendency of anything seeking to return to its natural resting place. the resting place or...

Characterizing changes in landscape fire activity at better than hourly temporal resolution is achievable using thermal observations of actively burning fires made from geostationary Earth Observation (EO) satellites. Over the last decade or more, a series of research and/or operational “active fire” products have been developed from geostationary EO data, often with the aim of supporting bioma...

Fire monitoring and management in Mediterranean countries such as Greece is of paramount importance. Almost every summer massive forest fires break out, causing severe destruction and even human life losses. Thus, European initiatives in the area of Earth Observation (EO), such as GMES SAFER, have supported the development of relevant operational infrastructures. In the context of the European ...