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First landscape-scale survey of the background level of COVID-19 face mask litter: Exploring the potential for citizen science data collection during a ‘pollution pilgrimage’ of walking a 250-km roadside transect by France, Robert L.

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a global problem through the cavalier or deliberate disposal of personal protective equipment (PPE) by the general public…”
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From Desk to Field: Countering Agrourbanism’s “Paper Landscapes” Through Phenomenology, Thick Description, and Immersive Walking by France, Robert

“…The primary focus of the urban agriculture literature has been on landscapes as biophysical spaces in which to grow food rather than on them as humanized…”
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Historical anecdotes of fishing pressure: Misconstrued “sea serpent” sightings provide evidence for antecedent entanglement of marine biota in the British Isles by France, Robert L.

“…Marine scholars have come to realize the importance of including historical perspectives as part of comprehensive assessments made of the social–ecological…”
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Models@ run.time by Blair, G., Bencomo, N., France, R.B.

“…Runtime adaptation mechanisms that leverage software models extend the applicability of model-driven engineering techniques to the runtime environment…”
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Minatory Monsters for Turbulent Times: “The devil in the shape of a great fish” that presaged the English Civil War and other piscatorial prodigies by France, Robert

“…Monsters, by the Latin definition of their name, are omens that portend turbulent times. The pamphlet A Relation of a terrible Monster called a Toad-fish,…”
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FAMILIAR: A domain-specific language for large scale management of feature models by Acher, Mathieu, Collet, Philippe, Lahire, Philippe, France, Robert B.

“…The feature model formalism has become the de facto standard for managing variability in software product lines (SPLs). In practice, developing an SPL can…”
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From land to sea: Governance-management lessons from terrestrial restoration research useful for developing and expanding social-ecological marine restoration by France, Robert L.

“…Coastal regions are complex social-ecological systems (SESs) critically important for their diverse and invaluable services for human well-being. The marked…”
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Extreme Climatic Upheaval, Emergency Resource Adaptation, and the Emergence of Folkloric Belief: Geomythic Origin of Sea Serpents from Animals Becoming Entangled in Fishing Gear During New England's Nineteenth-Century Social-Ecological Crisis by France, Robert L.

“…In 1815, the eruption of the Indonesian volcano, Tambora, produced a social-ecological crisis experienced around the world. In New England, the relationship of…”
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Omnivory, vertical food-web structure and system productivity: stable isotope analysis of freshwater planktonic food webs by FRANCE, ROBERT L.

“…Summary 1. The energetic hypothesis proposes that the vertical structure of food webs should increase in height with increasing system productivity. I measured…”
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Density variability of COVID-19 face mask litter: A cautionary tale for pandemic PPE waste monitoring by France, Robert L., Heung, Brandon

“…•Discarded or lost COVID-19 face masks were surveyed in fifty parking lots in a Canadian coastal town over a six-month period.•Litter was found to be…”
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Globalizing Modeling Languages by Combemale, Benoit, DeAntoni, Julien, Baudry, Benoit, France, Robert B., Jezequel, Jean-Marc, Gray, Jeff

“…Coordinating domain-specific modeling languages provides support for language heterogeneity in software-intensive systems' development and runtime management…”
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DNMT1 is required to maintain CpG methylation and aberrant gene silencing in human cancer cells by MacLeod, A. Robert, Robert, Marie-France, Morin, Steves, Beaulieu, Normand, Gauthier, France, Chute, Ian C, Barsalou, Annie

“…Transcriptional silencing by CpG island methylation is a prevalent mechanism of tumor-suppressor gene suppression in cancers. Genetic experiments have defined…”
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Exploring the bonds and boundaries of water management in a global context by France, Robert L.

“…Problems can be solved most effectively through specialists working together in an inter-disciplinary, team building approach. As water transcends physical…”
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Antecedent description and depiction of the recently described cetacean behaviour of trap/tread-water feeding inferred from a nineteenth-century sighting of a ‘sea monster’ in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt by France, Robert L.

“…In 2017 and 2018, two groups of biologists published papers in which they independently described what was referred to as a ‘novel’ or ‘new’ feeding behaviour…”
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MGCD0103, a novel isotype-selective histone deacetylase inhibitor, has broad spectrum antitumor activity in vitro and in vivo by Fournel, Marielle, Bonfils, Claire, Hou, Yu, Yan, Pu Theresa, Trachy-Bourget, Marie-Claude, Kalita, Ann, Liu, Jianhong, Lu, Ai-Hua, Zhou, Nancy Z, Robert, Marie-France, Gillespie, Jeffrey, Wang, James J, Ste-Croix, Hélène, Rahil, Jubrail, Lefebvre, Sylvain, Moradei, Oscar, Delorme, Daniel, Macleod, A Robert, Besterman, Jeffrey M, Li, Zuomei

“…Nonselective inhibitors of human histone deacetylases (HDAC) are known to have antitumor activity in mice in vivo , and several of them are under clinical…”
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An Approach to Checking Consistency between UML Class Model and Its Java Implementation by Chavez, Hector M., Shen, Wuwei, France, Robert B., Mechling, Benjamin A., Li, Guangyuan

“…Model Driven Engineering (MDE) aims to expedite the software development process by providing support for transforming models to running systems. Many modeling…”
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Specification, Validation, and Enforcement of a Generalized Spatio-Temporal Role-Based Access Control Model by Abdunabi, Ramadan, Al-Lail, Mustafa, Ray, Indrakshi, France, Robert B.

“…With the advent of wireless and mobile devices, many new applications are being developed that make use of the spatio-temporal information of a user to provide…”
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Model-driven development using UML 2.0: promises and pitfalls by France, R.B., Ghosh, S., Dinh-Trong, T., Solberg, A.

“…Experience indicates that effective complexity management mechanisms automate mundane development tasks and provide strong support for separation of concerns…”
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Differentiation Between Littoral and Pelagic Food Webs in Lakes Using Stable Carbon Isotopes by France, Robert L.

“…As a result of exposure to low water turbulence, periphyton are enriched in13Ccompared to phytoplankton. Because of this, benthic consumers in marine coastal…”
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A UML-based pattern specification technique by France, R.B., Kim, D.-K., Sudipto Ghosh, Song, E.

“…Informally described design patterns are useful for communicating proven solutions for recurring design problems to developers, but they cannot be used as…”
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