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A century of trends in adult human height

open access: yeseLife, 2016
Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, and higher education and earnings. We reanalysed 1472 population-based studies, with measurement of height on more than 18.6 million participants to estimate mean height for people born between 1896 and
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC)
doaj   +1 more source

Intratubular germ cell neoplasms of the testis and bilateral testicular tumors: Clinical significance and management options

open access: yesIndian Journal of Urology, 2010
Objectives : Intratubular germ cell neoplasia (ITGCN) is the precursor lesion for invasive testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) of adolescents and young adults.
Michael C Risk, Timothy A Masterson
doaj   +1 more source

An inversion approach for determining distribution of production and temperature sensitivity of soil respiration [PDF]

open access: yesBiogeosciences, 2016
Physical soil properties create lags between temperature change and corresponding soil responses, which obscure true Q10 (temperature sensitivity) values and other biophysical parameters such as depth of production.
R. N. C. Latimer, D. A. Risk
doaj   +1 more source

Credit Risk and Disaster Risk [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011
Credit spreads are large, volatile, and countercyclical, and recent empirical work suggests that risk premia, not expected credit losses, are responsible for these features. Building on the idea that corporate debt, while fairly safe in ordinary recessions, is exposed to economic depressions, this paper embeds a trade-off theory of capital structure ...
openaire   +8 more sources

Methane inventories, but not regulatory submissions, show major variations in methane intensity for Canadian oil and gas producers

open access: yesCleaner Environmental Systems, 2022
In carbon-intensive industries like oil and gas production, ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) reports provide investors with information about carbon intensity performance and there is link between environmental and financial performance. In Canada,
Martin Lavoie   +3 more
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Pest risk assessment of Leucinodes orbonalis for the European Union

open access: yesEFSA Journal
Following a request from the European Commission, the EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a quantitative risk assessment of Leucinodes orbonalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), the eggplant fruit and shoot borer, for the EU.
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH)   +30 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of the first temperate broad host range brucellaphage (BiPBO1) isolated from B. inopinata

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2016
Brucella species are important human and animal pathogens. Though, only little is known about mobile genetic elements of these highly pathogenic bacteria. To date, neither plasmids nor temperate phages have been described in brucellae.
Jens Andre Hammerl   +5 more
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Communicating Food Risk-Benefit Assessments: Edible Insects as Red Meat Replacers

open access: yesFrontiers in Nutrition, 2021
Risk-benefit Assessment (RBA) is an emerging methodology in the area of Food and Nutrition that offers a simultaneous evaluation of both risks and benefits linked to dietary choices. Communication of such research to consumers may present a challenge due
Emilia Boehm   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The RMS US inland flood model

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2016
The RMS US inland flood model provides flood hazard data of up to 10×10m resolution for the Contiguous United States for different return periods. The flood maps were developed using a series of physically based models.
Jankowfsky Sonja   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

A construção de personagens homossexuais em telenovelas a partir do cômico

open access: yesRevista Subjetividades, 2019
O presente estudo teve por objetivo analisar de que modo aspectos cômicos presentes na performance de personagens homossexuais masculinos convencionam formações discursivas sobre homossexualidade em telenovelas brasileiras.
Eduardo Name Risk   +1 more
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