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Multi‐Scale Drivers of Food‐Water‐Energy Related Ecosystem Services in the Context of Land Degradation: Insights From the Beijing‐Tianjin‐Hebei Agglomeration

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Land degradation poses significant challenges to maintaining food–water–energy (FWE) security, particularly in rapidly urbanizing regions. The ecosystem services (ES) related to FWE are critical for sustainable regional development. Yet, rapid urbanization in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region has altered land use and ecological patterns ...
Ke Yang, Qi Han, Dujuan Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Mutual Information Based Analysis for the Distribution of Financial Contagion in Stock Markets

open access: yesDiscrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2017
This paper applies mutual information to research the distribution of financial contagion in global stock markets during the US subprime crisis. First, we symbolize the daily logarithmic stock returns based on their quantiles.
Xudong Wang, Xiaofeng Hui
doaj   +1 more source

Long‐Term Follow‐Up of Patients with Mass Social Media‐Induced Illness Presenting with Functional Tic‐like Behaviors

open access: yesMovement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Only little is known about the prognosis of functional tic‐like behaviors (FTLB), especially in the subgroup of patients with mass social media‐induced illness (MSMI‐FTLB). Objectives To provide data of long‐term follow‐up (FU) of a carefully characterized group of patients with MSMI‐FTLB to identify influencing factors such as ...
L. Kathrin Hartung   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human Cyclophilins—An Emerging Class of Drug Targets

open access: yesMedicinal Research Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cyclophilins are a family of enzymes with peptidyl‐prolyl isomerase activity found in all cells of all organisms. To date, 17 cyclophilin isoforms have been identified in the human body, participating in diverse biological processes. Consequently, cyclophilins have emerged as promising targets for drug development to address a wide array of ...
Katarina Jurkova   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drug Repurposing Investigation for Combating Ebola Virus Disease: Database Mining, Docking Calculations, Molecular Dynamics, and Density Functional Theory Study

open access: yesChemistryOpen, EarlyView.
DrugBank database is mined to hunt prospective Ebola virus (EBOV) VP35 inhibitors utilizing docking calculations, molecular dynamics, molecular mechanics/generalized Born surface area binding energy calculations, and density functional theory computations.
Alaa H. M. Abdelrahman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

More pumas (Puma concolor) does not change perceptions: The mismatched response of ranchers to the presence of a top carnivore

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Human‐wildlife conflicts (HWCs) are one of the most critical conservation challenges worldwide. Large carnivores are frequently at the centre of these conflicts because of the perceived and real threats they pose to livestock and human safety.
Esperanza C. Iranzo   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Interview with Tony David Sampson: Author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks

open access: yesNANO, 2016
Tony D. Sampson is Reader in Digital Culture and Communication in the School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI) at the University of East London, where he directs the EmotionUX lab, supervising research on the cognitive, emotional, and affective ...
Tara Robbins Fee   +2 more
doaj  

The changing values of feathers and their wearers: The transformation of British society's relationship with birds at the turn of the 20th century

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract British people's relationships with birds changed at the turn of the 20th century. Killing birds for food, feathers, collections and sports started to give way to seeing birds as creatures that deserved the right to live their own lives in nature.
Jakub Kronenberg
wiley   +1 more source

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