DESIGNING FIT-FOR-CONTEXT CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION TRACKING: TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYZING THE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND USE

Designing fit-for-context climate change adaptation tracking: Towards a framework for analyzing the institutional structures of knowledge production and use

The Paris Agreement encourages countries to monitor and regularly report on their progress in responding to the impacts of climate change.So far, discussions on adaptation tracking have focused on the technocratic reasons for limited progress on adaptation tracking, for example, financial, methodological, and technical capacity gaps.Substantial var

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The Monarch Butterfly as a Model for Understanding the Role of Environmental Sensory Cues in Long-Distance Migratory Phenomena

The awe-inspiring annual migration of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) is an iconic example of long-distance migratory phenomena in which environmental sensory cues help drive successful migration.In this mini-review article, I begin by describing how studies on monarch migration can provide us with generalizable information on how sensory cu

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Abstracts of Presentations to the Working Session on Improving Predictive Modeling of Mycotoxin Risk for Africa Held at the 3rd ASM2022 on 7 September 2022, in Stellenbosch, South Africa

In 2008, the African Postharvest Losses Information Systems project (APHLIS, accessed on 6 September 2022) developed an algorithm for estimating the scale of cereal postharvest losses (PHLs).The relevant scientific literature and contextual information was used to build profiles of the PHLs occurring along the value chains of nine cereal crops by c

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Study on heat transfer enhancing performance of spiral groove tube in phase change heat storage for solar energy

Based on Backpacks the energy storage problems for solar energy utilization and the advantages of spiral groove tube heat exchanger, spiral groove tubes are used in the solar energy phase change heat storage, with numerical simulation of the thermal storage process of heat reservoir.Firstly, the simulation method and the reliability of the used mod

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