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Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century

open access: yesNature Communications, 2017
Water scarcity is rapidly increasing in many regions. In a novel, multi-model assessment, we examine how human interventions (HI: land use and land cover change, man-made reservoirs and human water use) affected monthly river water availability and water
T. Veldkamp   +16 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Child anthropomorphy in the mid-20th century in the Maltese Islands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Background: Childhood obesity is has over the last decades become a major health issue in the Maltese population. A review of the mid-20th century child health concerns in Malta would help elucidate the pathophysiology of this current epidemic and ...
Savona-Ventura, Charles   +1 more
core  

Stimuli‐Responsive Materials for Biomedical Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Stimulus‐responsive materials (SRMs) hold great promise for use in a wide range of biomedical applications. This review covers four stimulus modalities, namely, electrical, optical, magnetic, and ultrasound, and their associated SRMs. It provides a summary of the materials in each modality, their development, and current research perspectives.
Adriana Teixeira do Nascimento   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Camp literature. Introduction

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2017
This article includes a terminological discussion regarding the notion of camp literature. Within Polish literary science, it is usually applied to literature raising the topic of German Nazi camps, particularly concentration camps and death camps, and ...
Arkadiusz Morawiec
doaj   +1 more source

Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles in Biomedicine: Advances and Prospects

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles offer unique properties like high surface area, tunable pores, and functionalization. They excel in drug delivery, tissue engineering, and stimuli‐responsive therapies, enabling targeted and controlled treatments. With roles in cancer therapy and diagnostics, their clinical translation requires addressing challenges in ...
Miguel Manzano, María Vallet‐Regí
wiley   +1 more source

Jaworzno. Invisibility

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2017
The article discussed the literary representations of the communist labour camp in Jaworzno (1945–1956), particularly the short story by Seweryna Szmaglewska entitled Amnestia zastukała dobram (1956), a novel by Kazimierz Koźniewski entitled Bunt w ...
Arkadiusz Morawiec
doaj   +1 more source

Everyman with fangs: The acceptance of the modern vampire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The vampire, an enduring demon from the European middle ages has through the course of the 20th century undergone a journey of transformation. The journey of the beast describes a circle, starting and ending with the depiction of the vampire as a ...
Cardow, Andrew
core  

Advanced Materials in Responsible Electronics: Innovations for Sustainability, Health, and Circularity

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Contemporary electronic devices produce significant waste, harming ecosystems. Innovation in design, consumption, materials, and end‐of‐life management is crucial. This review explores advanced materials for sustainable and responsible electronics, highlighting their potential to reduce environmental and health hazards while improving device ...
Rawan Omar   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bulletins of the Polish censorship office from 1945 to 1956. A reconnaissance study

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2019
The aim of the article is to discuss selected research perspectives offered by the bulletins of the censorship office created in Poland from 1945 to 1956.
Anna Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk
doaj   +1 more source

Optical Chaos Generation and Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Photonics Research, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively examines optical chaos generation via feedback, injection, and optoelectronic methods, emphasizing bandwidth enhancement and time‐delay suppression. Applications include chaos‐synchronized secure communication, physical random number generation, chaotic lidar for cm‐level detection, distributed fiber sensing, and terahertz ...
Wenhui Chen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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