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Flood inundation mapping in data‐scarce areas: A case of Mbire District, Zimbabwe

open access: yesGeo: Geography and Environment, 2022
Floods are one of the most devastating weather‐related hazards that are affecting millions of people over the world every year. In some poor resource areas such as Mbire District in Zimbabwe, the floods are difficult to anticipate and prepare for.
Tawanda Manyangadze   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wars, disasters and kidneys [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper summarizes the impact that wars had on the history of nephrology, both worldwide and in the Ghent Medical Faculty notably on the definition, research and clinical aspects of acute kidney injury.
Lameire, Norbert
core   +2 more sources

Moderators and mediators of pain and function outcomes in a new service delivery model for management of knee osteoarthritis in primary care (PARTNER): Secondary exploratory analysis of a randomized controlled trial

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective Explore moderators and mediators influenced changes in pain and function in people with knee osteoarthritis (OA) receiving a new model of primary care service delivery (PARTNER), at 12 months (ACTRN12617001595303). Methods Secondary analyses of a cluster randomized controlled trial comparing PARTNER to usual general practitioner‐delivered ...
Abdolhay Farivar   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post-disaster resettlement in urban Bolivia

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2015
Post-disaster resettlement programmes can be unsuitable and ineffective, often exacerbating the vulnerability of people to the effects of climate change.
Gemma Sou
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Retrotransposon Expression Is Upregulated in Adulthood and Suppressed during Regeneration of the Limb in the Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)

open access: yesAdvanced Biology, EarlyView.
The axolotl's remarkable regenerative abilities decline with age, the causes may include the numerous repetitive elements within its genome. This study uncovers how Ty3 retrotransposons and coexpression networks involving muscle and immune pathways respond to aging and regeneration, suggesting that transposons respond to physiological shifts and may ...
Samuel Ruiz‐Pérez   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

'Disaster upon Disaster Inflicted on the Dutch'. Singing about Disasters in the Netherlands, 1600-1900

open access: yesBMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2019
This article focuses on Dutch songs about natural disasters, published roughly between 1600 and 1900, and investigates which functions they fulfilled from a long-term perspective.
Lotte Jensen
doaj   +1 more source

Interventions to support the re‐establishment of breastfeeding and their application in humanitarian settings: A systematic review

open access: yesMaternal and Child Nutrition, 2023
In 1998, the World Health Organisation (WHO) published general guidelines proposing essential measures to achieve relactation. Yet, increased knowledge about the practical set‐up of relactation support interventions in different contexts is needed ...
Nieves Amat Camacho   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acción colectiva y reconstrucción del parque habitacional en Ciudad de México: aproximaciones a partir del sismo del 19 de septiembre de 2017

open access: yesAntípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2021
The withdrawal of collective processes and the strengthening of the individual sphere correspond to a phenomenon that, at territorial level, is evident in multi-family housing buildings where private and common property coexist.
Natalia Fernanda Ponce Arancibia
doaj   +1 more source

,,,Paying for Disasters [PDF]

open access: yesKansas Law Review, 2019
In June and July, 2019, record flooding inundated towns and agricultural land throughout the Mississippi basin, surpassing the Great Flood of 1927, one of the worst disasters in U.S. history. In November, 2018, the Camp Fire in Northern California decimated the town of Paradise and became the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Identification of disaster knowledge factors: preliminary findings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Disasters bring about the loss of lives, property, employment and damage to the physical infrastructure and the environment. The number of reported disasters has increased steadily over the past century and risen very sharply during the past decade ...
Amaratunga, RDG   +3 more
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