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BMC Complementary Medicine and TherapiesThis collection on medical ethnobotany focuses on contributions that explore the invaluable potential associated with the ethnobotanical uses of medicinal plants, their phytochemical profiling, safety, and efficacy studies as well as their cultural and ...
Adeyemi O. Aremu +2 more
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Household trajectories in rural Ethiopia – what can a mixed method approach tell us about the impact of poverty on children? [PDF]
, 2011 The paper explores the dynamics of child and household poverty in rural Ethiopia using three rounds of household survey and qualitative data collected by Young Lives, a longitudinal study of child poverty.
Camfield, Laura, Roelen, Keetie
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Scientific ReportsAgro-waste management and waste water treatment is one of the major global issues. The present study investigated biochars derived from invasive weeds Calotropis gigantea, Crotalaria burhia, and Tephrosia purpurea for municipal wastewater treatment in ...
Poonam Poonia +8 more
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Assessing the Status of Sustainable Development Goals in Global Mining Area
LandMining is an important industry for the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs), but it results in a significant amount of degraded land worldwide, thereby affecting local social and ecological sustainability. Little is known about the extent
Shurui Zhang +5 more
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Osteoarthritis and Cartilage OpenObjectives: To review evidence for effectiveness of electrophysical therapies (EPTs), used adjunctively with land-based exercise therapy, for hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA), compared with 1) placebo EPTs delivered with land-based exercise therapy or 2 ...
Helen P. French +3 more
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The seven servants of Ham: Labourer’s letters from Wellington in the New Zealand Journal, 1840-1845 [PDF]
, 2010 Several years ago David Fitzpatrick noted that ‘the materials of family history’ had assumed increasing importance in studies of immigration. ‘[O]ld photographs, diaries and letters’, combined with genealogical methods, allow historians to ‘reconstitute ...
Middleton, Sue
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Reading the story of law and embeddedness through a community lens: A Polanyi-meets-Cotterrell economic sociology of law? [PDF]
, 2011 In this article I propose that the role of law in Karl Polanyi’s concept of the “always embedded economy”1 can be enriched by the application of the “lens of community”2developed by Roger Cotterrell.3I begin with Polanyi’s suggestion that ...
Perry-Kessaris, Amanda
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Strategi Hidup Masyarakat Petani di Kelurahan Pandu, Kecamatan Bunaken, Kota Manado [PDF]
, 2016 This study aims to describe how farmers carry out a strategy of life on three groups of farmer: upper layer, middle layer and peasant farmers to finance their family daily life.
Derek, R. R. (Reno) +2 more
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Impacts of commodity prices and governance on the expansion of tropical agricultural frontiers
Scientific ReportsDeforestation in the tropics remains a significant global challenge linked to carbon emissions and biodiversity loss. Agriculture, forestry, wildfires, and urbanization have been repeatedly identified as main drivers of tropical deforestation ...
Javier Miranda +2 more
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The health of Australia's males: from birth to young adulthood (0-24 years) [PDF]
SummaryThe years from birth to young adulthood (ages 0-24) encompass a breadth of life stages in which males undergo major developmental changes and acquire important social and health behaviours. In 2011, 3.7 million males (more than one-third of the
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