Giant waves are those waves which are greater than twice the size of surrounding waves. (Adapted from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2024. What is a rogue wave? https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/roguewaves.html)
Technology adoption describes the acceptance, integration, and use of emerging technology. (Adapted from Chakraborty I, Ilavarasan PV, Edirippulige S. Health-tech startups in healthcare service delivery: A scoping review. Soc Sci Med. 2021 Jun;278:113949. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113949. Epub 2021 Apr 19. PMID: 33901972.)
A change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g. by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. (Agard, J., Schipper, E.L.F., Birkmann, J., Campos, M., Dubeux, C., Nojiri, Y., Olsoon, L. et al. 2014. Glossary. In: IPCC, ed. Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. pp. 1757–1776. Cambridge, UK and New York, USA, Cambridge University Press. www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WGIIAR5-AnnexII_FINAL.pdf)
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Note that the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in its Article 1, defines climate change as: ‘a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods.’ The UNFCCC thus makes a distinction between climate change attributable to human activities altering the atmospheric composition and climate variability attributable to natural causes.
In mathematics, the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation is a mathematical model of waves on shallow water surfaces. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korteweg%E2%80%93de_Vries_equation)
Sand ripples are asymmetrical piles of relatively coarse, homogeneous, essentially structureless sand resting on a smooth platform of much finer, thinly bedded sand. (Sharp, Robert P. "Wind Ripples." The Journal of Geology 71, no. 5 (1963): 617-36. Accessed June 8, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30061128.)
Crop quality refers to phytonutrient and secondary metabolite profiles and associated health and sensory properties that influence consumer buying decisions. (Ahmed, S., & Stepp, J. R. (2016). Beyond yields: Climate change effects on specialty crop quality and agroecological management. Elementa, 4, 000092. https://doi.org/10.12952/journal.elementa.000092)
Southern Anatolian Red (Kilis): Kilis cattle is one of Turkey's indigenous cattle breeds of cattle in the country of South and Southeastern Anatolia Region. (Üniversitesi, Gaziosmanpaşa & Dergisi, Ziraat & Makalesi, Araştırma & Research, & Jafag, Article & Kiliçalp, Numan & Hizli, Hatice. (2019). Some Progeny and Milk Yield Characteristics of Kilis and Holstein Friesian x Kilis Crossbred Cattle. Journal of Agricultural Faculty of Gaziosmanpasa University. 36. 91-96. 10.13002/jafag4590.)
A nonapeptide messenger that is enzymatically produced from kallidin in the blood where it is a potent but short-lived agent of arteriolar dilation and increased capillary permeability. Bradykinin is also released from mast cells during asthma attacks, from gut walls as a gastrointestinal vasodilator, from damaged tissues as a pain signal, and may be a neurotransmitter. (National Library of Medicine. MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Bradykinin MeSH Descriptor Data 2024. https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D001920)
Subsistence is the process whereby people supply themselves with the necessities of life, such as food and shelter. Subsistence relates primarily to self-provisioning by small productive units, often families. (Callan, H. & Coleman, S., eds. 2018. The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Vol 12. New York, John Wiley & Sons Limited.)
Plate counts are based on the use of general or semiselective media, formulated with respect to the demands of the specific microbial groups or organisms. Plate count results reflect the number of colonies that can emerge under the given physical and chemical conditions (atmosphere, temperature, pH, available nutrients, presence of growth inhibitory compounds). (Beatrix W. Alsanius, Walter Wohanka, Chapter 5 - Root Zone Microbiology of Soilless Cropping Systems, Editor(s): Michael Raviv, J. Heinrich Lieth, Asher Bar-Tal, Soilless Culture (Second Edition), Elsevier, 2019, Pages 149-194, ISBN 9780444636966,)
The ability of people to buy foods in their local environment. (FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. 2024. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 – Financing to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cd1254en)
