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From Feast to Famine: Managing Mobile Network Resources Across Environments and Preferences
2014
USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
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Mobile devices regularly move between feast and famine-environments that differ greatly in the capacity and cost of available network resources. ...
However, preferences for resource management vary across users, time, and operating conditions, and user and application interests may not align. ...
Today's mobile device network management, with settings spread across apps, has at best an incidental effect on resource usage. ...
dblp:conf/osdi/KieferNF14
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Digital Feast and Physical Famine: The Altered Ecosystem of Anatomy Education due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
2021
Anatomical Sciences Education
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The Covid-19 pandemic presented a major disturbance and disruption to all levels and types of education, including anatomy education. ...
This article constructs a conceptual metaphor between a typical anatomy laboratory and an ecosystem, and considers the affordances, constraints, and changing roles of physical and digital cadavers within ...
The effectiveness of digital resources has been shown to span across varying socioeconomic levels (Kononowicz et al., 2019) . ...
doi:10.1002/ase.2098
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Famine and survival strategies: a case study from Northeast Ethiopia
1991
ChoiceReviews
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I wish to thank here the Social Science Research Council (New York) for its grant which enabled me to finalize the study and prepare the manuscript for publication. ...
Acknowledgements An earlier draft of this work was distributed in the form of a report, and there I expressed my thanks to all the NGOs which provided me financial and logistical support during the research ...
I n both instances, the effort involved collaboration and co-operation as scarce resources were carefully managed, and the potentials of the surrounding environment thoughtfully investigated and put to ...
doi:10.5860/choice.29-1043
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Effect of extended famine conditions on aerobic granular sludge stability in the treatment of brewery wastewater
2017
Bioresource Technology
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Charlene Urfano for always being supportive from one adventure to the next. Micah Devlin for reminding me of my embarrassments and keeping me humble. ...
Towarzyszy broni, Alessandro di Biase and Maciej Kowalski, for being the best of friends and colleagues. You were always able to deal with my cazzate, and you made our office a casa. ...
from feast to famine conditions. ...
doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2016.12.026
pmid:27997869
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Network Strategies for the New Economy
2020
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We decompose the ICT industries into four levels, technology standards, supply chains, physical platforms, and consumer networks. ...
In this paper we argue that the pace and scale of development in the information and communication technology industries (ICT) has had and continues to have major effects on the industry economics and ...
Hence, the demand for the products of the ICT industries continues to grow (in spite of the feast and famine evident in the telecommunications industry reminiscent of the fragility of corporate structures ...
doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.12251558.v1
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Persistent Controversies about the Neolithic Revolution
2017
Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences
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It is widely agreed that the shift from a total reliance on wild resources to the use of domesticated foods led to a number of fundamental and far-reaching changes in human society. ...
The Neolithic Revolution describes the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and then to the onset of agrarian societies. ...
From the Near East, farming spread across Europe between 8,500 and 4,000 years ago. ...
doi:10.15406/jhaas.2017.01.00013
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Temporal Resource (Dis)continuity for Conservation Biological Control: From Field to Landscape Scales
2020
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
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Conservation biological control (CBC) seeks to promote the occurrence of natural enemies of agricultural pests by managing habitat to provide key resources in and around farm fields. ...
Here we review how continuity of trophic (food) and structural (shelter) resources affect natural enemy conservation and pest control outcomes within farm fields and across agricultural landscapes. ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Randy Jackson, Matthew Turner, members of the Gratton Lab, the associate editor, and two reviewers for helpful comments on prior versions of the manuscript. ...
doi:10.3389/fsufs.2020.00127
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Urbanization within a Dynamic Environment: Modeling Bronze Age Communities in Upper Mesopotamia
2007
American Anthropologist
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The examples, drawn from late prehistoric and Bronze Age societies that developed at the onset of urbanization, show how small communities might respond to various resource stresses and environmental fluctuations ...
ABSTRACT Here agent-based models are employed to explore the behavior of small communities and their associated economic systems within an area of climatically marginal environment in northern Syria and ...
Funding was supplied by the National Science Foundation in the form of a five-year award from the "Biocomplexity in the Environment" program (NSF Grant # 0216548) to MASS Group investigators, to support ...
doi:10.1525/aa.2007.109.1.52
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Urbanization within a Dynamic Environment: Modeling Bronze Age Communities in Upper Mesopotamia
2020
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Funding was supplied by the National Science Foundation in the form of a five-year award from the "Biocomplexity in the Environment" program (NSF Grant # 0216548) to MASS Group investigators, to support ...
a research project entitled "Settlement Systems within a Dynamic Environment and Economy: Contrasting Northern and Southern Mesopotamian City Regions." ...
Further, to combat the stress caused by the low rainfall and reduced yields, households made more use of their kin networks to share food resources. ...
doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.13503243.v1
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Farming
2020
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology
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to sit at the end of an evolution from hunting and gathering to pastoralism to farming, but people may choose to avoid agriculture and sedentism in favour of mobility and flexibility. ...
This complex system was managed by an intricate ritual cycle that connected spirits to the physical realities of the environment (Rappaport 1967) . ...
doi:10.29164/20farming
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Provisioning ecosystem services-sharing as a coping and adaptation strategy among rural communities in Ghana's semi-arid ecosystem
2016
Ecosystem Services
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19 As complex challenges linked to changing socio-economic, environmental, political, and cultural 20 conditions continually hamper the delivery of ecosystem services to natural resource dependent 21 communities ...
Adaptive capacity and community-based natural resource management. 36 Environmental Management. 35 (6): 703-715.
. 1975. Gifts and exchanges. ...
and 19 managing ecosystem services.For example, the increased inter-community sharing of common-20 pool resources (Ostrom 1990) ,likewater from small-scale dams in the study area,although driven 21 largely ...
doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.05.002
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Anders Hjort and M. A. Mohamed Salih (eds.), Ecology and Politics: environmental stress and security in Africa. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1989, 255 pp., SEK 140, ISBN 91 7106 295 5 paperback
1991
Africa - Journal of the International African Institute
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Oue to underdevelopment, the state objectives have witnessed double retreat from development to crisis management and from crisis management to bare maintenance of order and compliance. ...
On the Local level we may come doser to resource management and conflicts over access to sparse assets. ...
From a resource potential, there will have to be a reorientation to the north and greater attention and priority given to the marine environment. ...
doi:10.2307/1160275
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Inaugural Lecture Desperately seeking security
2001
Journal of International Development
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Some people live in such precarious environments that they will alter their time-preference behaviour considerably in order to spread their options over more activities and sources of income. ...
One of the ways to seek security is to diversify. The 4 brothers above are well spread across different sectors so that their combined networking is formidable. ...
doi:10.1002/jid.762
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Ritual, Landscapes of Exchange, and the Domestication of Canarium: A Seram Case Study
2019
Asian Perspectives
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It is widely accepted that a major historic pathway to agriculture in the tropics has been via the management of forest and reliance on tree resources. ...
Using ethnographic and ethnobotanical data from Seram in the Moluccas, this article illustrates how this might have happened in one part of Island Southeast Asia. ...
I am indebted to Emily Brennan, Mark Coode, Johan Iskandar, Johannis Mogea, Joeni Setijo Rahajoe, Christel Schollaardt, Hermien Soselisa, and Tim Utteridge for permissions and assistance. ...
doi:10.1353/asi.2019.0016
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Aeta Magbukún of Mariveles: Traditional Indigenous Forest Resource Use Practices and the Sustainable Economic Development Challenge in Remote Philippine Regions
2012
Journal of Sustainable Forestry
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The Aeta's forest resource use practices are discussed from a sustainable Indigenous development context within unique socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental circumstances in Bataan. ...
to adapt to the encroachment of non-Indigenous peoples onto ancestral lands. ...
amounts to feast and famine. ...
doi:10.1080/10549811.2012.704775
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