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Biodiversity research requires more motors in air, water and on land

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Human activities have accelerated species extinctions, driving rapid biodiversity decline. Simultaneously, advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems offer transformative potential for biodiversity research. Uncrewed vehicles—drones (aerial systems) and other robots (ground and underwater platforms)—equipped with high ...
Man Qi, Matthew Gadd, Daniele De Martini, Katrina J. Davis, Biao Xiong, Alice Rosen, Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Nick Hawes, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring barriers to the use of formal maternal health services and priority areas for action in Sidama zone, southern Ethiopia. [PDF]

, 2018
In 2015 the maternal mortality ratio for Ethiopia was 353 per 100,000 live births. Large numbers of women do not use maternal health services. This study aimed to identify factors influencing the use of maternal health services at the primary health care
A Abdella, A Austin, A Exavery, A Wolelie, A-A Fikre, A-S Teferra, AKUM Francis Abugri, Aschenaki Z. Kea, AT Jimalo, B Simkhada, BL Sorensen, C Ellis, C Warren, Central Statistical Agency Ethiopia, Daniel G. Datiko, E Ejeta, EP Ndidi, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia CSA, Federal Ministry of Health, Federal Ministry of Health, FK Mwangome, G Andargie, G Mbaruku, Gurmesa-Tura, K Birmeta, LA Lubbock, M Nigussie, M Tetui, Maryse C. Kok, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Health, MR Islam, N Shah, Olivia Tulloch, RC Pacagnella, S Shiferaw, Saad El Gelany, Mohamed G. Mansour, Hassan MM, Sally Theobald, Sidama zone health department, SM Tarekegn, T Gebrehiwot, TM Temesgen, W Awoke, WHO, UNICEF, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank, Y Tsegay, Z Abosse   +46 more
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Farmers' pro‐social motivations and willingness‐to‐accept in markets with public goods

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract To explain how some farmers' decisions may diverge from profit‐maximization, we incorporate proactive social preferences for public goods in an expected utility framework, in addition to reactive risk preferences to uncertainty. We offer empirical evidence that proactive preferences influence farmers' decisions alongside reactive preferences ...
Jill Fitzsimmons, Hikaru Hanawa Peterson, Nathalie Lavoie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do nations have stomachs? Food drink and imagined community in Africa [PDF]

, 2010
This paper takes a rhetorical question posed by Ernest Gellner and reframes it to ask whether a sense of national identity can be forged through everyday acts of consumption – in particular, that of food and drink.
Nugent, Paul
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Beyond health protection: Estimating the impact of public health insurance on home‐based livestock raising in rural China

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Livestock often serves as self‐insurance against health shocks for rural households in developing countries. However, little is known about how public health insurance affects livestock production decisions. This paper fills the gap by examining the impact of China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) on household‐level livestock ...
Ran Li
wiley   +1 more source

Factors impacting antiretroviral therapy adherence among human immunodeficiency virus-positive adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [PDF]

, 2018
© 2018 The Royal Society for Public Health. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Objectives: Eighty-two percent of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–positive adolescents live in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Adejumo, Agwu, AIDS.gov, AIDSinfo, AIDSinfo, Ankrah, Bernays, Bezabhe, Bhattacharya, Bikaako-Kajura, Birungi, Braitstein, Bygrave, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cluver, Cohen, Critical Appraisal Skills Programme, Danford, Deeks, Denison, Fair, Famoroti, Ferrara, Fetzer, Finocchario-Kessler, Fongkaew, Gross, Gulick, Haberer, Habib, Harries, Hodgson, Hogwood, Hudelson, J.M. Corkery, Jaspan, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Katz, Kawuma, Kim, King, Kirk, Klitzman, Krauss, Kunapareddy, Lall, Langat, Lowenthal, Lyimo, Maartens, MacPherson, Manglos, Mavhu, Mbirimtengerenji, Mburu, Mburu, Michaud, Mills, Moon, Murphy, Musumari, Mutumba, Mutwa, N. Ammon, Nabukeera-Barungi, Nachega, Nachega, Nachega, Nachega, National Institutes of Health, Nyogea, Nöstlinger, O'Brien, Park, Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, Reda, Reisner, Remien, Roberts, Ross-Degnan, S. Mason, Scanlon, Simoni, Sithole, Siu, Sivapalasingam, Thomas, Tumwine, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, Vaz, Vreeman, Vreeman, Vyas, Wanyama, Wasti, Watt, Wiener, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, Zou   +102 more
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Rural land rental markets in developing countries: Can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics?

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract A longstanding puzzle in the African land rental market literature is the often‐observed discrepancy between the number of tenants (renters‐in) and the much smaller number of landlords (renters‐out) in survey data. If this discrepancy derives from systematic biases in survey data responses on rental market participation, then the existing body
Gashaw T. Abate, Kibrom A. Abay, Jordan Chamberlin, Samuel Sebsibie   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Early Rule-of-Faith Pattern as Emergent Biblical Theology [PDF]

, 2015
Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Bokedal, Tomas
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Regulating khat - Dilemmas and opportunities for the international drug control system [PDF]

, 2009
Background: The regulation of khat, one of the most recent psychoactive drugs to become a globally traded commodity, remains hotly contested within different producer and consumer countries.
Beckerleg, Susan, Hailu, D. (Degol), Klein, A. (Axel)   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The application of artificial intelligence in blind ultrasound sweep diagnostics for prenatal medicine: A systematic literature review

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, EarlyView.
Artificial intelligence enables the interpretation of blind ultrasound sweeps for prenatal diagnostics. Applications include accurate gestational age estimation, amniotic fluid segmentation, fetal presentation classification, and placental localization.
Johanna Schott, Melanie Wilmes, Adeline Walter, Ruben Plöger, Ingo Gottschalk, Tanja Groten, Florian Recker   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source