SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT OF ALTERNATIVE STRIP CLEAR CUTTING OPERATIONS FOR WOOD CHIP PRODUCTION IN RENATURALIZATION MANAGEMENT OF PINE STANDS

Sustainability Assessment of Alternative Strip Clear Cutting Operations for Wood Chip Production in Renaturalization Management of Pine Stands

In Mediterranean regions, afforested areas were planted to ensure the permanence of land cover, and to protect against erosion and to initiate the vegetation processes.For those purposes, pine species were mainly used; however, many of these stands, without silvicultural treatments for over fifty-sixty years, were in a poor state from physical and

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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on senior dental students in Korea: Examining stress, burnout, and depression

Background/purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound and enduring impact on various aspects of society, including medical education and the training of dental students.The field of dentistry, given its nature, is particularly susceptible to the challenges posed by a pandemic.Prolonged exposure to the pandemic is believed to have increased s

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Economic losses from COVID-19 cases in the Philippines: a dynamic model of health and economic policy trade-offs

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic forced governments globally to impose lockdown measures and mobility restrictions to curb the transmission of the virus.As economies slowly reopen, governments face a trade-off between implementing economic recovery and health policy measures to control the spread of the virus and to ensure it will not overwhelm the h

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A Method for Nearshore Vessel Target Detection in SAR Imagery Utilizing Edge Characteristics and Augmented Global Information Amplification

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which can work normally under various meteorological conditions, has been widely researched and applied in marine vessel target monitoring and identification.Among the many research topics, due to the inconsistency of ship scale in SAR images, susceptibility to vush gloss bullet vibrator sea and land noise and clutte

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