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Development Strategy for Sustainable Solar Home System in the Akha Upland Community of Thailand

open access: yesEnergies, 2018
With the growing effects of global warming and carbon pollution, environmental protection has become an urgent necessity. In addition, solar energy has been accepted worldwide for the generation of electricity.
Pimnapat Bhumkittipich, Hideaki Ohgaki
doaj   +1 more source

A comprehensive checklist of Mediterranean wild edible plants: Diversity, traditional uses, and knowledge gaps

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The use of wild edible plants and the traditional knowledge associated with them are rapidly disappearing across the Mediterranean, with serious consequences for biodiversity, cultural heritage, and regional food security. This study compiles and organizes fragmented information to create the first comprehensive catalogue of these plants across the ...
Benedetta Gori   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epistemic diversity and the politics of knowledge in plant disease management: Insights from the Xylella fastidiosa epidemic in southern Italy

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Xylella fastidiosa is a major plant pathogen affecting crops such as grapes, citrus, almonds, and olives, with potentially severe consequences for agricultural production and rural livelihoods worldwide. This paper examines the conflict around the management of the X. fastidiosa outbreak affecting olive trees in southern Italy.
Fabio Gatti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

TRADITIONAL COSTUME OF THE AKHA PEOPLE IN NORTHERN THAILAND

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2014
At present, the traditional material culture of the Akha people in Northern Thailand is hardly covered in the Russian science. The traditional culture, history and linguistic processes of this nation remain unexplored.
A. A. Adamenko
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Impact of the Addition of a Shading Algorithm in a Physically Based Conceptual River Hydrological–Temperature Model

open access: yesRiver Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Anthropogenic impacts on the thermal regime of rivers include climate change and deforestation. For the latter, developing modelling tools that can account for the impact of varying vegetation cover on river temperatures is essential. This study describes a new addition to the CEQUEAU hydrological and water temperature model: a shading ...
Zouhir Dichane   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Significance and Role of the Chicken in the Akha Worldview [PDF]

open access: yesMANUSYA, 2005
Myth, beliefs and ritual about the chicken reflect the Akha’s world view regarding the chicken will facilitate a better understanding of the link between the chicken and man. And these can be seen as an important connection to domestication.
Sukanya Sujachaya, Chomnard Sitisarn
openaire   +1 more source

Teaching Safety, Saving Skin: Preventing Childhood Hot Water Burns Through Caregiver Education in Soweto, South Africa

open access: yesWorld Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Though preventable, burns are the leading cause of trauma‐related death in children under 4 years in South Africa and account for almost half of all pediatric trauma cases at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital. We investigated the impact of an education‐based pediatric hot water burns prevention program on the knowledge and behavior of caregivers
Nirav Patel   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Doing Item Reviewing in and Through Interaction: What It Takes to Problematize and Revise a Language Test Item

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study brings an interactional perspective to item reviewing (IR) as one of the critical language test construction stages by using conversation analysis. Drawing on video recordings of IR sessions in an English preparatory school at the tertiary level, it examines how EFL teachers problematize and revise syllabus‐based language test items
Hümeyra Can, Çiler Hatipoğlu
wiley   +1 more source

Association of Body Mass Index With Severity and Outcome of COVID-19 [PDF]

open access: yesResearch in Molecular Medicine, 2023
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has presented a global health challenge. Older people and patients with underlying conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity are more susceptible to severe disease outcomes. Obesity or
Negar Javadinasab   +4 more
doaj  

Diabetic ketoacidosis in a patient with acromegaly, a case report [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2007
Although impaired glucose tolerance affects 36% and overt diabetes mellitus can be seen in 30% of cases with acromegaly, diabetic ketoacidosis is rarely reported in patients with this disease.
O. Akha   +3 more
doaj  

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