Branding Wakatobi: marine development and legitimation by science

Marine protected areas (MPAs) serve as a potential defense against marine degradation, meeting the conflicting priorities and needs of multiple actors.Biodiversity, conservation, and ecotourism constitute a triad of sustainability tropes in tropical MPAs that intersect with and reinterpret local histories of marine interaction, subsistence, and com

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Inverse Kinematics Solution of Articulated Robots Using a Heuristic Approach for Optimizing Joint Displacement

In this work, a new constrained numerical optimization approach is proposed for solving offline the Inverse Kinematics Problem (IKP) of articulated robots, which consists on optimizing the joint displacement while the end effector is positioned and oriented in a desired pose.The novelty of this approach is in the formulation of the optimization pro

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Causality assessment: A casualty of compensation?

Recent Indian rule Building Supplies on compensation for any injury or death of the subject in a clinical trial, has generated a lot of discussion on its impact on clinical trials in India.The legal process in the compensation rule is based on the causality assessment.However, it ignores the scientific basis of causality assessment.This could have

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