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The potential for citizen science to produce reliable and useful information in ecology by Brown, Eleanor D., Williams, Byron K.

“…We examined features of citizen science that influence data quality, inferential power, and usefulness in ecology. As background context for our examination,…”
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Adaptive Management: From More Talk to Real Action by Williams, Byron K, Brown, Eleanor D

“…The challenges currently facing resource managers are large-scale and complex, and demand new approaches to balance development and conservation goals. One…”
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Technical challenges in the application of adaptive management by Williams, Byron K., Brown, Eleanor D.

“…Adaptive management is an approach for simultaneously managing and learning about natural resources, by acknowledging uncertainty and seeking to reduce it…”
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Lower Prices for Customers, and Less Charity Care? The Prospects for Mixed-Market Competition With Nonprofit and Hybrid Firms by Brown, Eleanor, Fan, Claire Qing

“…In recent years, the emergence of new legal forms allowing for-profit firms to incorporate with a formal commitment to both profit and social purpose has…”
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Double-Loop Learning in Adaptive Management: The Need, the Challenge, and the Opportunity by Williams, Byron K., Brown, Eleanor D.

“…Adaptive management addresses uncertainty about the processes influencing resource dynamics, as well as the elements of decision making itself. The use of…”
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Managing ecosystems with resist–accept–direct (RAD) by Williams, Byron K., Brown, Eleanor D.

“…In recent years considerable interest has been generated in a new approach known as resist–accept–direct, or RAD, for managing ecosystems in the face of…”
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Sampling and analysis frameworks for inference in ecology by Williams, Byron K., Brown, Eleanor D., McCrea, Rachel

“…Reliable statistical inference is central to ecological research, much of which seeks to estimate population attributes and their interactions. The issue of…”
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Ecological integrity assessment as a metric of biodiversity: are we measuring what we say we are? by Brown, Eleanor D., Williams, Byron K.

“…As the recognition of the importance of biological diversity in biological conservation grows, an ongoing challenge is to develop metrics that can be used for…”
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Environment-friendly treatment to reduce photoyellowing and improve UV-blocking of wool by Chen, Nusheng, Liu, Cheng-Kung, Brown, Eleanor M., Latona, Nicholas

“…•Enzyme mediated modification of wool fabrics at mild condition was conducted.•Better photoprotection was achieved.•Durable protection effects was realized…”
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Resilience and Resource Management by Brown, Eleanor D., Williams, Byron K.

“…Resilience is an umbrella concept with many different shades of meaning. The use of the term has grown over the past several decades to the point that by now,…”
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Four conservation challenges and a synthesis by Williams, Byron K., Brown, Eleanor D.

“…Conservation and management of biological systems involves decision‐making over time, with a generic goal of sustaining systems and their capacity to function…”
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Local origin of excitatory–inhibitory tuning equivalence in a cortical network by Duszkiewicz, Adrian J., Orhan, Pierre, Skromne Carrasco, Sofia, Brown, Eleanor H., Owczarek, Eliott, Vite, Gilberto R., Wood, Emma R., Peyrache, Adrien

“…The interplay between excitation and inhibition determines the fidelity of cortical representations. The receptive fields of excitatory neurons are often…”
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Embodied experiences in international volunteering: power-body relations and performative ontologies by Griffiths, Mark, Brown, Eleanor J.

“…In this paper we debate the interpretation of embodied experience on international volunteering placements. Drawing on six in-depth interviews with volunteers…”
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Practitioner perspectives on learning for social change through non-formal global citizenship education by Brown, Eleanor J

“…This article engages with debates about transformative learning and social change, exploring practitioner perspectives on non-formal education activities run…”
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Scenarios for valuing sample information in natural resources by Williams, Byron K., Brown, Eleanor D., O'Hara, Robert B.

“…Uncertainty is ubiquitous in natural resource systems, science and management. Sample data are obtained in order to reduce uncertainty, thereby increasing…”
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Partial observability and management of ecological systems by Williams, Byron K., Brown, Eleanor D.

“…The actual state of ecological systems is rarely known with certainty, but management actions must often be taken regardless of imperfect measurement (partial…”
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Economic Instability and Household Chaos Relate to Cortisol for Children in Poverty by Brown, Eleanor D., Anderson, Kate E., Garnett, Mallory L., Hill, Erin M.

“…The present study investigated relations among various aspects of economic adversity and cortisol levels for young children facing economic hardship…”
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'It's about not achieving the outcomes that you necessarily expected': Non-formal learning in higher education by Brown, Eleanor J., Dunlop, Lynda, Scally, Jayme

“…This study explores students' experiences of a non-formal living-learning community in a UK higher education institution. The participants were students from…”
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Social Capital and Philanthropy: An Analysis of the Impact of Social Capital on Individual Giving and Volunteering by Brown, Eleanor, Ferris, James M.

“…This article examines the impact of social capital on philanthropy. Based on extensive information on individuals’ embeddedness in various dimensions of social…”
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Why Black Homeowners are More Likely to be Caribbean American than African American in New York: A Theory of How Early West Indian Migrants Broke Racial Cartels in Housing by Marie Lawrence Brown, Eleanor

“…Why are the Black brownstone owners and landlords in Harlem and Brooklyn disproportionately West Indian? For students of housing discrimination, Black West…”
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