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Tibetan Plateau Grassland Protection: Tibetan Herders\u27 Ecological Conception Versus State Policies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The establishment of the “Three Rivers’ Sources Nature Reserve” in 2002 - one of China’s largest ecological protection projects - has had a major impact on the lives of Tibetan nomadic herders.
Cencetti, Elisa
core   +1 more source

Science, governance, and public participation: An analysis of decision making on genetic modification in Aotearoa/New Zealand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The acceptance of public participation in science and technology governance in liberal democratic contexts is evident in the institutionalization of a variety of mechanisms for participation in recent decades.
Kurian, Priya A., Wright, Jeanette Marie
core   +2 more sources

Insights into a long life without cancer: The case of the bowhead whale

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Long‐lived, large‐bodied organisms have evolved powerful anticancer mechanisms that preserve cellular and tissue integrity across extended lifespans. A recent study by Firsanov et al. shows that greater genome stability is a key factor underlying the remarkable longevity and cancer resistance of one such species, the bowhead whale.
Inés Paniagua, Johanna A. Joyce
wiley   +1 more source

Semantic Change within «Ecology» Lexeme and its Derivatives in the English Language Media Discourse

open access: yesИзвестия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2019
The following article is devoted to the issue of semantic change of «ecology» lexeme in media discourse. Being a new type of a discourse media discourse obtains all its peculiarities while acquiring some distinctive features due to the development of ...
Mariya A. Chepurnaya
doaj   +1 more source

BMI‐1 modulation and trafficking during M phase in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
The schematic illustrates BMI‐1 phosphorylation during M phase, which triggers its translocation from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. In cycling cells, BMI‐1 functions within the PRC1 complex to mediate H2A K119 monoubiquitination. Following PTC596‐induced M phase arrest, phosphorylated BMI‐1 dissociates from PRC1 and is exported to the cytoplasm via its
Banlanjo Umaru   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aldo Leopold and us: Person deixis as a rhetorical strategy in Barbara Kingsolver’s introduction to A Sand County almanac

open access: yesCrossroads
This paper focuses on the use of person deixis in the framing of a new edition of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County almanac: And sketches here and there (1949).
Eleonora Gallitelli
doaj   +1 more source

A socioecological discourse of care or an economistic discourse: which fits better with transition?

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2021
Objective: To analyse a ‘socioecological’ health promotion discourse and its relationship to orthodox ‘economistic’ discourse in Australia. Method: In research on health promotion addressing equity and environmental sustainability, we identified a ...
Valerie Kay, Charles Livingstone
doaj   +1 more source

Palm Oil and Natural Disasters: Sociological Meanings of Discourses on the Ecological Impact of Oil Palm Expansion

open access: yesSociety, 2021
Since its inception and until now, oil palm plantations have been controversial in Indonesia. Although there is ample evidence presented by proponents proving that oil palm expansion has made an important contribution to the Indonesian economy, from an ...
Siska Adhariani, Afrizal Afrizal
doaj   +1 more source

Evolutionarily divergent DUF4465 domains have a common vitamin B12‐binding function

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
We show that DUF4465 family proteins, widespread across bacteria from gut microbiomes, hydrothermal vents, and soil, share a common vitamin B12‐binding function. These augmented β‐jellyroll proteins bind vitamin B12 via extended loops. Our findings establish sequence‐diverse DUF4465 proteins as a widespread class of B12‐binding proteins, highlighting ...
Charlea Clarke   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The question of moral marketing and its value in Greta Thunberg's ecological discourse: a new vision of sustainable consumption

open access: yesClío
Well into the 21st century, the systematic deterioration of environmental conditions in the biosphere in general, because of systematic environmental degradation, not only calls into question the long-term viability of all historically existing ...
Iryna Perevozova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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