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Peter Richard Wilcock - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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toward a Unified Science of the earth s surface opportunities for synthesis among hydrology geomorphology geochemistry and ecology
Water Resources Research, 2006Co-Authors: Chris Paola, Efi Foufoulageorgiou, William E Dietrich, Miki Hondzo, Gary Parker, Mary E Power, Ignacio Rodrigueziturbe, Vaughan R Voller, David Mohrig, Peter Richard WilcockAbstract:[1] The Earth's surface is shaped by the interaction of tectonics, water, sediment, solutes, and biota over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales and across diverse environments. Development of a predictive Science of Earth surface dynamics integrates many disciplines and approaches, including hydrology, geomorphology, ocean and atmospheric Science, sedimentary and structural geology, geochemistry, and ecology. This paper discusses challenges, opportunities, and a few example problems that can serve as pathways toward this integration.
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towards a Unified Science of the earth s surface opportunities for synthesis between hydrology geomorphology and ecology
2005Co-Authors: Chris Paola, Efi Foufoulageorgiou, William E Dietrich, Miki Hondzo, Gary Parker, Mary E Power, Ignacio Rodrigueziturbe, Vaughan R Voller, Peter Richard WilcockAbstract:The Earth’s surface is shaped by the interaction of tectonics, water, sediment, solutes, and biota over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales and across diverse environments. Development of a predictive Science of Earth-surface dynamics would integrate many disciplines and approaches, including hydrology, geomorphology, atmospheric Science, biology, sedimentary and structural geology, and ecology. This paper discusses challenges, opportunities, and a few example problems that can serve as pathways towards this integration.
Jamshid Ghajar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a Unified Science of concussion
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2010Co-Authors: Jun Maruta, Emily F Jacobs, Jamshid GhajarAbstract:The etiology, imaging, and behavioral assessment of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) are daunting fields, given the lack of a cohesive neurobiological explanation for the observed cognitive deficits seen following mTBI. Although subjective patient self-report is the leading method of diagnosing mTBI, current scientific evidence suggests that quantitative measures of predictive timing, such as visual tracking, could be a useful adjunct to guide the assessment of attention and to screen for advanced brain imaging. Magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has demonstrated that mTBI is associated with widespread microstructural changes that include those in the frontal white matter tracts. Deficits observed during predictive visual tracking correlate with DTI findings that show lesions localized in neural pathways subserving the cognitive functions often disrupted in mTBI. Unifying the anatomical and behavioral approaches, the emerging evidence supports an explanation for mTBI that the observed cognitive impairments are a result of predictive timing deficits caused by shearing injuries in the frontal white matter tracts.
Kevin N Laland - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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towards a Unified Science of cultural evolution
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2006Co-Authors: Alex Mesoudi, Andrew Whiten, Kevin N LalandAbstract:We suggest that human culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties, and argue that the structure of a Science of cultural evolution should share fundamental features with the structure of the Science of biological evolution. This latter claim is tested by outlining the methods and approaches employed by the principal subdisciplines of evolutionary biology and assessing whether there is an existing or potential corresponding approach to the study of cultural evolution. Existing approaches within anthropology and archaeology demonstrate a good match with the macroevolutionary methods of systematics, paleobiology, and biogeography, whereas mathematical models derived from population genetics have been successfully developed to study cultural microevolution. Much potential exists for experimental simulations and field studies of cultural microevolution, where there are opportunities to borrow further methods and hypotheses from biology. Potential also exists for the cultural equivalent of molecular genetics in "social cognitive neuroScience," although many fundamental issues have yet to be resolved. It is argued that studying culture within a unifying evolutionary framework has the potential to integrate a number of separate disciplines within the social Sciences.
Chris Paola - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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toward a Unified Science of the earth s surface opportunities for synthesis among hydrology geomorphology geochemistry and ecology
Water Resources Research, 2006Co-Authors: Chris Paola, Efi Foufoulageorgiou, William E Dietrich, Miki Hondzo, Gary Parker, Mary E Power, Ignacio Rodrigueziturbe, Vaughan R Voller, David Mohrig, Peter Richard WilcockAbstract:[1] The Earth's surface is shaped by the interaction of tectonics, water, sediment, solutes, and biota over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales and across diverse environments. Development of a predictive Science of Earth surface dynamics integrates many disciplines and approaches, including hydrology, geomorphology, ocean and atmospheric Science, sedimentary and structural geology, geochemistry, and ecology. This paper discusses challenges, opportunities, and a few example problems that can serve as pathways toward this integration.
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towards a Unified Science of the earth s surface opportunities for synthesis between hydrology geomorphology and ecology
2005Co-Authors: Chris Paola, Efi Foufoulageorgiou, William E Dietrich, Miki Hondzo, Gary Parker, Mary E Power, Ignacio Rodrigueziturbe, Vaughan R Voller, Peter Richard WilcockAbstract:The Earth’s surface is shaped by the interaction of tectonics, water, sediment, solutes, and biota over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales and across diverse environments. Development of a predictive Science of Earth-surface dynamics would integrate many disciplines and approaches, including hydrology, geomorphology, atmospheric Science, biology, sedimentary and structural geology, and ecology. This paper discusses challenges, opportunities, and a few example problems that can serve as pathways towards this integration.
J Tehrani - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the uses of ethnography in the Science of cultural evolution commentary on mesoudi a whiten a and k laland toward a Unified Science of cultural evolution
Behavioural and Brain Sciences 29 (4) pp. 363-364. (2006), 2006Co-Authors: J TehraniAbstract:There is considerable scope for developing a more explicit role for ethnography within the research program proposed in the article. Ethnographic studies of cultural micro-evolution would complement experimental approaches by providing insights into the “natural” settings in which cultural behaviours occur. Ethnography can also contribute to the study of cultural macro-evolution by shedding light on the conditions that generate and maintain cultural lineages.
