Using automated vegetation cover estimation from close-range photogrammetric point clouds to compare vegetation location properties in mountain terrain by R. Niederheiser, M. Winkler, V. Di Cecco, B. Erschbamer, R. Fernández, C. Geitner, Hannah Hofbauer, C. Kalaitzidis, Barbara Klingraber, A. Lamprecht, J. Lorite, L. Nicklas, P. Nyktas, H. Pauli, A. Stanisci, K. Steinbauer, J.-P. Theurillat, P. Vittoz, M. Rutzinger

“…A total of 249 clusters of nine 1 m2 plots each, arranged in a 3 × 3 grid, were set up on 18 summits in Mediterranean mountain regions and in the Alps to capture images for photogrammetric processing and in-situ vegetation cover estimates. …”
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Santa Maria di Leuca Province (Mediterranean Sea): Identification of Suitable Mounds for Cold-Water Coral Settlement Using Geomorphometric Proxies and Maxent Methods by Annaëlle Bargain, Fabio Marchese, Alessandra Savini, Marco Taviani, Marco Taviani, Marco Taviani, Marie-Claire Fabri

“…Madrepora oculata and Lophelia pertusa, identified as marking sensitive habitats of relevance by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean, have been observed heterogeneously distributed on the summits of several mounds. This particularly patchy and uneven distribution in addition to their importance for regional biodiversity highlights the need to better understand their environmental preferences and predict their distribution. …”
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Assessing spatial and temporal variation in obligate resprouting, obligate seeding, and facultative seeding shrub species in California’s Mediterranean-type climate region by Emma C. Underwood, Quinn M. Sorenson, Charlie C. Schrader-Patton, Nicole A. Molinari, Hugh D. Safford, Hugh D. Safford

“…FS also occurred more frequently on warmer, south facing slopes and summits whereas OR preferred cooler, north facing slopes and valleys (p < 0.0001). …”
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Some Biogeochemical Characteristics of the Trace Element Bioaccumulation in the Benthic Fauna of the Piip Volcano (The Southwestern Bering Sea) by Liudmila L. Demina, Sergey V. Galkin, Elena M. Krylova, Dmitry F. Budko, Aleksandra S. Solomatina

“…Active hydrothermal venting occurring at both summits of the volcano supports diverse biological communities, including animals specific for chemosynthetic habitats. …”
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Relationships between necrotic cactus availability and population size in a cactophilic Drosophila (Diptera, Drosophilidae) located on a sandstone table hill in Brazil by E.M. Moraes, F.M. Sene

“…In southeast Brazil it is found on summits of isolated hills, which apparently are current refugia resulting from climatic changes during the Quaternary Period. …”
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The Morphological Research of the Basalt and Loess Covered Plateaus in the Bakony Mts. (Transdanubian Middle Mts. – Hungary) by Móga János, Róbert Németh

“…Subsidence dolines or alluvial streamsink dolines with a small catchment area were formed on the summits. We studied the processes, forms and occurrence of recent covered karst of Mt. …”
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A New Pathway To Enhance The Nuclear Security Regime by Francesca Giovannini

“…The nuclear security agenda has attracted considerable attention worldwide, galvanized countries and nuclear agencies, and gathered momentum through the Nuclear Security Summits. Yet in parallel to this record of successful achievements, nuclear security has also attracted resistance, skepticism, and overall obstructionism by some countries who have perceived it as a means for the United States to restrict emerging markets from gaining access to nuclear technology. …”
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Concepts associated with health from the perspective of sustainable development Conceptos asociados a la salud desde la perspectiva del desarrollo sostenible by Leonardo Alberto Ríos-Osorio, Walter Alfredo Salas-Zapata, Manuel Ortiz-Lobato

“…For that reason, this paper aims at identifying this renewed concept of health, together with related concepts which are mentioned in the official documents on sustainable development originated in the world summits. Despite the fact that the concepts of health and sustainable development have been understood as being equivalent, none of the aforementioned official documents has provided societies with an explicit concept of health. …”
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GEOMORPHOLOGY OF THE YAMATO (QUEEN FABIOLA) MOUNTAINS by Yoshio YOSHIDA, Kenzo FUJIWARA

“…The massifs were once covered by the inland, ice nearly up to there summits, because erratic boulders and glacially polished surfaces are found at and near the summits. …”
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Counting what counts: assessing quality of life and its social determinants among nursing home residents with dementia by Matthias Hoben, Emily Dymchuk, Malcolm B. Doupe, Janice Keefe, Katie Aubrecht, Christine Kelly, Kelli Stajduhar, Sube Banerjee, Hannah M. O’Rourke, Stephanie Chamberlain, Anna Beeber, Jordana Salma, Pamela Jarrett, Amit Arya, Kyle Corbett, Rashmi Devkota, Melissa Ristau, Shovana Shrestha, Carole A. Estabrooks

“…We will share and discuss study findings with knowledge users in web-based summits with embedded focus groups. This will provide much needed data on knowledge users' interpretations, usefulness and intended use of data on NH residents’ QoL and its health and social determinants. …”
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The extent of windfarm infrastructures on recognised European blanket bogs by Guaduneth Chico, T. Clewer, N. G. Midgley, P. Gallego-Anex, P. Ramil-Rego, J. Ferreiro, E. Whayman, S. Goeckeritz, T. Stanton

“…Their distribution has been mapped across Europe, where they are mainly located on hill summits where wind energy potential is higher, making them attractive sites for windfarm developments. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF ECOLOGICAL CULTURE OF STUDENTS IN THE PROCESS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE by L. M. Andryukhina, N. Yu. Fadeeva, Gérard De Negri

“…Moreover, ecological culture is constantly highlighted in numerous studies, materials and documents of the international forums, summits and conferences of the UN and UNESCO. The aim of this publication is to present the authors’ didactic complex of development tools of ecological culture of students, and to show the potential of teaching foreign languages (on the example of French) for students’ ecological culture formation by means of development of cross-cultural communicative competence.  …”
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Numerical simulations of local circulations and pollution transport over Reunion Island by D. Lesouëf, F. Gheusi, R. Delmas, J. Escobar

“…These air masses may in turn be sucked by anabatic wind systems during daytime (upslope and sea breezes) in the cirques and up to the summits of the island, and especially to Piton Maïdo (2200 m) where a new observatory of the Indian Ocean background atmosphere is being built. …”
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La inteligencia militar ecuatoriana en la sociedad del riesgo/ The ecuadorian military intelligence in the risk society by María Dolores Ordóñez, Galo Cruz

“…The transition from modernity to new forms that would exceed its postulates , in which societies are summited to the logics of market and bureaucracy, as well as the analysis about risks and security are not always related to the conditions that could be considered a threat to human life, but also to governability, economic stability, public opinion, among other problems. …”
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An Evaluation of Graduates\' Theses at Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Yazd by H Mozaffari Khosravi, M.H Ehrampoosh, H Aghili, F Javadianzadeh, T Rahimdel

“…Regarding the presentation of thesis results as an article in magazines or in national or international gatherings, summits, conferences, or a congress, 1.1% were presented in conferences abroad, 9.6% in national seminars, and 28.8% as an article. …”
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Campo rupestre recém-queimado na Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brasil: plantas de rebrota e sementes, com espécies endêmicas na rocha Recently burnt 'campo rupestre' in the Chapada Di... by Sâmia Paula Santos Neves, Abel Augusto Conceição

“…Probably, fire is more frequent in these areas than on hill summits. The main dominant species resprouted from underground buds and from aerial organs. …”
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Learning from co-housing initiatives — Between Passivhaus engineers and active inhabitants by Lidewij Chantal Tummers

“… Following the UN world summits on Climate Change (Paris 2015) and Habitat (Quito 2016), most European cities assume an active role to implement internationally agreed goals related to climate change, translated in the so-called New Urban Agenda. …”
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Recollecting the infinite: refining and defending St Augustine's constructivist account of memory and imagination via contemporary cognitive neuroscience by Fatona, B

“…The thesis ends on the summits of human perceptual experience in Augustine’s and Aquinas’ respective schemata of the human mind. …”

Processes culminating in the 2015 phreatic explosion at Lascar volcano, Chile, evidenced by multiparametric data by A. Gaete, T. R. Walter, S. Bredemeyer, S. Bredemeyer, M. Zimmer, C. Kujawa, L. Franco Marin, J. San Martin, C. Bucarey Parra

“…This study presents the chronology of events culminating in a steam-driven explosion but also demonstrates that phreatic explosions are difficult to predict, even if the volcano is thoroughly monitored; these findings emphasize why ascending to the summits of Lascar and similar volcanoes is hazardous, particularly after considerable precipitation.…”
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A Recent Volcanic Eruption Discovered on the Central Mariana Back-Arc Spreading Center by William W. Chadwick, Susan G. Merle, Edward T. Baker, Sharon L. Walker, Joseph A. Resing, David A. Butterfield, Melissa O. Anderson, Melissa O. Anderson, Tamara Baumberger, Andra M. Bobbitt

“…The pillow lavas have many small glassy buds on the steep flanks of the mounds, locally thick accumulations of hydrothermal sediment near the tops of mounds, and small cones of radiating pillows at their summits. The 2015–2016 observations show a rapidly declining hydrothermal system on the lava flows, suggesting that the eruption had occurred only months before its discovery in December 2015. …”
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