CLIFFS SUPPORT LICHEN COMMUNITIES UNIQUE FROM NEARBY FORESTS

Cliffs support lichen communities unique from nearby forests

Cliffs support rare, endemic, and glacial relict vegetation that may differ from vegetation in surrounding forests.Yet, cliffs are difficult to sample, and rock-dwelling lichens can be challenging to identify; therefore, cliff lichens are often excluded from biodiversity studies.This omission creates fundamental gaps in our understanding of cliff l

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Gust Alleviation of a Large Aircraft with a Passive Twist Wingtip

This paper presents wand-accessories an investigation into the gust response and wing structure load alleviation of a 200-seater aircraft by employing a passive twist wingtip (PTWT).The research was divided into three stages.The first stage was the design and analysis of the baseline aircraft, including aerodynamic analysis, structural design using

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From STEM to STEAM: An Enactive and Ecological Continuum

STEM and STEAM education promotes the integration between science, technology, wand-accessories engineering, mathematics, and the arts.The latter aims at favoring deep and collaborative learning on students, through curricular integration in K-12 science education.The enactive and ecological psychology approach to education puts attention on the ro

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A new species of Nama (Namaceae) from the Vizcaino Desert, Mexico

Background: Although most of the Nama taxa grow on sandy substrates, none of them is restricted to the coastal dune environment.A small population of a unique looking taxon was found on the Pacific coast of the Baja California peninsula, which is here presented as a new species.Question and/or Hypothesis: In the morphological analysis in the indivi

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