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Wildfires' Cost for Societal Welfare: Economic Evaluation of Forestry Ecosystem Services Losses in Southern Italy

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Forest ecosystem services (ESs) are garnering increasing public attention as awareness grows regarding society's fundamental dependence on them for well‐being. Forest fires, one of the major disturbances of ESs, are becoming more frequent and destructive, exacerbated in part by climate change.
Emanuele Spada, Giacomo Falcone, Salvatore Praticò, Maria Carmela Benedetto, Giovanni Gulisano, Nathalie Iofrida, Anna Irene De Luca   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Handwritten Character Recognition of South Indian Scripts: A Review

, 2011
Handwritten character recognition is always a frontier area of research in the field of pattern recognition and image processing and there is a large demand for OCR on hand written documents.
Jomy, John, Kannan, Balakrishnan, Pramod, K. V.   +2 more
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On the Transformative Nature of Luxury Consumption and Consumer Well‐Being: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Consuming luxury products and services has received little systematic attention as a potential pathway to consumer well‐being, despite sporadic evidence suggesting that luxury experiences may catalyse self‐transformational processes and happiness‐related outcomes.
Solon Magrizos, Maria C. Voutsa, Minas N. Kastanakis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chess in Mental Health: Therapeutic Potential and Neurocognitive Mechanisms—A Systematic Review

Medicine Bulletin, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Chess is an ancient game with simple rules but high cognitive demands. This review examined chess as a cognitive tool for patients with mental disorders and explored the cognitive mechanisms and neural structures that may underlie its effects. Method A systematic review of studies was conducted following PRISMA guidelines.
Maria Rodrigo‐Yanguas, Fernand Gobet, Marcos Bella‐Fernández, Marina Martin‐Moratinos, Hilario Blasco‐Fontecilla   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Expanding Landscape of Microbiota Medicine: Indications, Therapeutic Modalities, and the Path Towards Integrative Microbiome‐Targeting Healthcare

Microbiota Medicine Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing recognition of the microbiome's role in human health has propelled the emergence of microbiota medicine—a new discipline integrating microbiology, multi‐omics, and clinical science. Advances in sequencing, data integration, and interventions such as fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) have transitioned the field from ...
Min Dai, Yisha Lin, Renyou Gan, Xiaotao Shen, Shin Young Park, Sunjae Lee, Qi Su   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Righting Past Wrongs Through Restorative Justice: Managerial Motivations for Collaboration

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nonprofits are crucial to state collaborations as their embedded nature in communities allows them to gain the trust necessary to facilitate change and enhance strengths. As nonprofits collaborate with the public sector to tackle systemic challenges, understanding managerial motivations for collaboration and implications for social change is ...
Kara L. Lawrence, Nina R. Y. Blau, Paige L. Moore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Review of Bioarcheological Investigations in Iron Age Cambodia

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Archeological research within Cambodia is quite extensive, with significant projects led by both Cambodian archeologists and international researchers alike. Many of these projects have uncovered human skeletal remains. This article reviews archeological human skeletal studies in Cambodia, synthesizing published and unpublished data, primarily
Sophorn Nhoem, Kate Domett, Nigel Chang, Louise Shewan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis Explores Diverse Domestic Goose Management Practices in Medieval and Postmedieval Russia

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying goose domestication through archaeological finds has been challenging due to the similar skeletal morphology of the European domestic goose and its wild progenitor, the greylag goose (Anser anser). We analyzed stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes from bone collagen of subfossil domestic and potentially domestic geese to ...
Johanna Honka, Clément Massé, Arthur O. Askeyev, Igor V. Askeyev, Oleg V. Askeyev, Jouni Aspi, Dilyara N. Shaymuratova, Laura Kvist   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Quantitative Approach to Record Skeletal Manifestations of Leprosy and Its Application to St Mary Magdalen Leprosarium, Winchester

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents and tests a new method for publishing and diagnosing leprosy‐related skeletal lesions while making available the leprosy‐related demographic data and pathology for St Mary Magdalen, Winchester (MMW). This method can facilitate interstudy comparisons of leprosy prevalence and severity by improving data comparability.
A. A. Blom, H. Dawson‐Hobbis, S. Gross, K. White‐Iribhogbe, V. J. Schuenemann, S. A. Inskip   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hallux Valgus and Associated Foot Pathology in Ancient Egyptian Mummies: A Qualitative and Quantitative Computed Tomography Study

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to gain information on the prevalence and manifestation of hallux valgus and associated foot pathology in ancient Egyptian mummies. Additionally, we investigated possible indicators of postmortem deformation of the feet during mummification. For this study, 34 mummies that had undergone whole body computed tomography (
Stephanie Panzer, Peter Augat, Klaus Hergan, Alice Paladin, Stephanie Zesch, Wilfried Rosendahl, Randall C. Thompson, Albert R. Zink   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source