Some behavioral aspects of energy descent: How a biophysical psychology might help people transition through the lean times ahead

We may soon face biophysical limits to perpetual growth.Energy supplies may tighten and then begin a long slow descent while defensive expenditures rise to address problems caused by past resource consumption.The outcome may be significant changes in daily routines Goalie - Cages at the individual and community level.It is difficult to know when th

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Quality of Life Philosophy II: What is a Human Being?

The human being is a complex matter and many believe that just trying to understand life and what it means to be human is a futile undertaking.We believe that we have to try to understand life and get a grip on the many faces of life, because it can be of great value to us to learn to recognize the fundamental principles of how life is lived to the

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Improving the modeling of disease data from the government surveillance system: a case study on malaria in the Brazilian Amazon.

The study of the effect of large-scale drivers (e.g., climate) of human diseases typically relies on aggregate disease data collected by the government surveillance network.The usual approach to analyze these data, however, often ignores a) changes in the total number of individuals examined, b) the bias towards symptomatic individuals in routine g

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