"You Know the Pyrenees by Day - Come See Them by Night..." Reflections on in visu Artialisation of Nocturnal Skyscapes in the Pyrenees by Bruno Charlier

“…As in many areas with similar projects either in place (North America, Europe) or emerging (the Cévennes and Mercantour national parks in France, for example), the creation of the Pic du Midi IDSR will have helped to bring a new kind of "landscape object" (Besse, 2009) into being in the Pyrenean region.…”
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A Hybrid Wavelet Transform Based Short-Term Wind Speed Forecasting Approach by Jujie Wang

“…It is important to improve the accuracy of wind speed forecasting for wind parks management and wind power utilization. In this paper, a novel hybrid approach known as WTT-TNN is proposed for wind speed forecasting. …”
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Comment l’exemple des cimetières-jardins interprète la mémoire funéraire québécoise by Manon Cornellier

“…They belong to a transition period in the history of remembering the dead, between the urban cemeteries of the 16th-18th centuries and the contemporary cemetery parks and were at the junction of a management by factories and a support from private companies that offered funeral goods and services in a "all-in-one" formula. …”
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Identification of Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Poison Sumac, and Poisonwood by Sydney Park Brown, Joe Sewards, Patricia Grace, Sherrie Lowe

“… Florida parks and woodlands are favorite places for many people who enjoy outdoor activities. …”
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Advanced Techniques and Antenna Design for Pulse Shaping in UWB Cognitive Radio by Lise Safatly, Mohammed Al-Husseini, Ali El-Hajj, Karim Y. Kabalan

“…In this paper, three different techniques for the generation of adaptive UWB pulses are studied. The Parks-McClellan algorithm is employed, a neural network is trained, and a reconfigurable band stop filter is designed to generate an adaptive waveform with nulls at specific frequencies. …”
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Small mammals of the suburban areas of Warsaw in the diet of the tawny owl Strix aluco by Jerzy Romanowski, Grzegorz Lesiński, Marta Bardzińska

“…Species composition of small mammals of the study area resembled city parks, with several species typical for anthropogenic landscape.…”
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Le rôle fondateur du paysage dans la création des villes coloniales marocaines by Mounia Bennani

“…In Rabat, the open spaces system was conceived in 1913 by Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier, from a “special plan of open spaces” ; while in Marrakesh, the parks and gardens network already existed. Thus, the main urban objective of the protectorate was to preserve the existing landscape heritage and to make it fit into the planning project of the new European districts. …”
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La formation de paysagiste au Chili de 1960 à nos jours. Émergences et évolutions comparatives de deux cursus universitaires de premier cycle by Claudia Márquez Thomas

“…During these six decades, the training of landscape architects evolved from applied landscape design associated with interior decoration and the design of green spaces such as gardens to large urban parks to finally address the domain of large urban, rural and natural landscapes, referred to under the term of landscape architecture. …”
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Five New Species of Pezizales from Northeastern China by Zhengqing Chen, Tolgor Bau

“…As a result of recent research conducted on the distribution of species in sandy areas and some National Forests Parks, five new species belonging to three genera were identified. …”
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« Vous connaissez les Pyrénées le jour, découvrez-les la nuit... ». Réflexions autour de l'artialisation in visu des paysages célestes nocturnes pyrénéens by Bruno Charlier

“…As in many areas with similar projects either in place (North America, Europe) or emerging (the Cévennes and Mercantour national parks in France, for example), the creation of the Pic du Midi IDSR will have helped to bring a new kind of "landscape object" (Besse, 2009) into being in the Pyrenean region.…”
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Numerical analysis of hydrogen-assisted rolling-contact fatigue of wind turbine bearings by J. Toribio, M. Lorenzo, D. Vergara, V. Kharin

“…Offshore wind parks at locations further from the shore often involve serious difficulties, e.g. the maintenance. …”
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À chacun sa biodiversité by Chantal Aspe, Didier Genin

“…Based on examples taken from three contrasted areas (Regional Natural Parks of Luberon and Queyras in Southern France, and High Atlas territories in Morocco), we will show to which extent academic and local approaches differ in the ways of perceiving, managing and shaping territories, as well as biodiversity concerns. …”
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Optimal Tag-Based Cooperation Control for the “Prisoner’s Dilemma” by Rui Dong, Xinghong Jia, Xianjia Wang, Yonggang Chen

“…Our results provide valuable insights for some clusters, for example, logistics parks and government, to regard the decision to promote cooperation.…”
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Review of the matched asymptotic approach of the coupled criterion by Jiménez-Alfaro, Sara, García, Israel García, Doitrand, Aurélien

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L’étalement urbain au péril des activités agro-pastorales à Abidjan. by Kouakou Yao Etienne, Koné Brama, Bonfoh Bassirou, Kientga Sonwouignandé Mathieu, N’Go Yao Alexis, Savane Issiaka, Cissé Guéladio

“…Some pastoral and cattle parks were joined by the city and were moved to other geographical positions. …”
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Des tortues exotiques en ville : évaluation, perceptions et propositions de gestion à Strasbourg, France by Véronique Philippot, Sandrine Glatron, Adine Hector, Yves Meinard, Jean-Yves Georges

“…We studied exotical turtles found in two parks of Strasbourg with a double naturalistic and ethnological approach. …”
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Chaetophiloscia sicula Verhoeff, 1908 (Isopoda, Oniscidea), an invasive isopod currently spreading in North America by Katalin Szlavecz, Nathan T. Jones, Franck Noël, Pepijn Boeraeve, Pallieter De Smedt

“…The affinity of C. sicula to urban environments, including residential areas and urban parks, is reinforced by citizen-science data and is most likely key to its fast spread throughout North America. …”
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„Miasto nigdy się nie kończy…”. Mroczne oblicze miasta w prozie Herty Müller by Estera Głuszko-Boczoń

“…This article also explores the aesthetics of ugliness which affects the understanding of the role of cities in Herta Müllerʼs prose, and analyzes important urban symbols such as asphalt, apartment blocks, parks and the flora and fauna characteristic of communist cities. …”
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Improving Urban Water Environment in Eastern China by Blending Traditional with Modern Landscape Planning by Jiajie Cao, Junjun Yu, Yuan Tian, Cai Zhao, Hao Wang

“…By taking Qinhu Wetland Park as a case, the principles and specific planning methods on macro- and microperspectives were discussed to guide the development of urban landscape in eastern China.…”
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Caractéristiques socio-démographiques et dynamique de la transhumance des bouviers peuls de la Nouhao au Burkina Faso by Sidonie Ouoba-Ima

“…This installing was preceded by several achievements including the development of the pastoral zone with an area of 95,000 hectares, the delimitation of the pastoral zone by two long firewalls 172 Kilomètres, breeders about installing the farmhouses ten hectares and the production of livestock infrastructure (wells and vaccination parks). Despite the availability of these pastoral infrastructures and arrangements, farmers have kept their traditional operating system of grazing resources and livestock. …”
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