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Appraising HEI-community Partnerships: Assessing Performance, Monitoring Progress, and Evaluating Impacts

Gateways, 2022
Momentum of the creation of partnerships between higher education institutions (HEIs) and communities is strong. As their significance intensifies, the question of how to judge their value is garnering increasing attention.
Ryan Plummer, Samantha Witkowski, Amanda Smits , Gillian Dale   +3 more
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Unlike rolling stones: not every Myrmecina species actively rolls away from danger (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

The European Zoological Journal, 2022
Actively rolling away is a very rare escape strategy in the animal kingdom, which to date has only been documented in a few arthropod and one vertebrate species.
D. Giannetti, E. Schifani, C. Castracani, F. A. Spotti, A. Mori, D. A. Grasso   +5 more
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Modelling COVID-19 severity in the Republic of Ireland using patient co-morbidities, socioeconomic profile and geographic location, February to November 2020

Scientific Reports, 2021
Understanding patient progression from symptomatic COVID-19 infection to a severe outcome represents an important tool for improved diagnoses, surveillance, and triage.
M. Boudou, C. ÓhAiseadha, P. Garvey, J. O’Dwyer, P. Hynds   +4 more
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Efficacy of plasma activated saline in a co-culture infection control model

Scientific Reports, 2022
Plasma activated liquids have demonstrated antimicrobial effects and receive increasing attention due to the potential to strengthen the armoury of novel approaches against antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Evanthia Tsoukou, Paula Bourke, Daniela Boehm   +2 more
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Mechanistic insights on the mode of action of an antiproliferative thiosemicarbazone-nickel complex revealed by an integrated chemogenomic profiling study

Scientific Reports, 2020
Thiosemicarbazones (TSC) and their metal complexes display diverse biological activities and are active against multiple pathological conditions ranging from microbial infections to abnormal cell proliferation.
Enrico Baruffini, Roberta Ruotolo, Franco Bisceglie, Serena Montalbano, Simone Ottonello, Giorgio Pelosi, Annamaria Buschini, Tiziana Lodi   +7 more
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Origin and significance of the human DNase repertoire

Scientific Reports, 2022
The human genome contains four DNase1 and two DNase2 genes. The origin and functional specialization of this repertoire are not fully understood. Here we use genomics and transcriptomics data to infer the evolutionary history of DNases and investigate ...
Giulia Mori, Danila Delfino, Paola Pibiri, Claudio Rivetti, Riccardo Percudani   +4 more
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Using dialogue to contextualize culture, ecosystem services, and cultural ecosystem services

Ecology and Society, 2021
We propose an alternative methodology for engaging with multifaceted cultural ecosystem services (CES) in the Global South. We explore the use of dialogue as a tool for understanding CES in situ, while developing shared action steps toward CES ...
Karen E. Allen, Celia Castellano, Sophia Pessagno   +2 more
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Priming the Governance System for Climate Change Adaptation: The Application of a Social-Ecological Inventory to Engage Actors in Niagara, Canada

Ecology and Society, 2014
Climate change adaptation presents a challenge to current top-down governance structures, including the tension between provision of public goods and actions required by diverse stakeholders, including private actors.
Julia Baird, Ryan Plummer, Kerrie Pickering   +2 more
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Assessing the Biological Safety of Atmospheric Cold Plasma Treated Wheat Using Cell and Insect Models

Foods, 2020
Atmospheric cold plasma (ACP) is under investigation for an extensive range of biocontrol applications in food biosystems. However, the development of a novel intervention technology requires a thorough evaluation of the potential for negative effects ...
Agata Los, Dana Ziuzina, Robin Van Cleynenbreugel, Daniela Boehm, Paula Bourke   +4 more
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An approach to measuring individual endorsement of social-ecological resilience of water systems

Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 2023
The role of the individual is increasingly a focus in sustainability discourses. We develop and operationalize indicators to measure individual attitudes as they relate to social-ecological resilience, using water systems (or ‘water resilience’) as a ...
Oluseyi Obasi, Julia Baird, Gillian Dale, Gary J. Pickering   +3 more
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