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I Had to Go in a Bubble: Investigating the Effects of COVID-19 on Fertility Treatments and Nutrition

open access: yesWomen's Health Reports, 2022
Background: Individuals modify their lifestyles including nutrition to improve fertility. The COVID-19 pandemic limited access to clinical offices or resulted in the closure of fertility clinics.
Elizabeth A. Claydon   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a Quantitative One-Step RT-PCR Method for the Detection of Sabin 2 Virus Contamination in a Novel Oral Poliovirus Vaccine Type 2

open access: yesVaccines, 2021
To control circulating vaccine-derived type 2 poliovirus outbreaks, a more genetically stable novel Oral Poliovirus Vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) was developed by targeted modifications of Sabin 2 genome.
Hasmik Manukyan   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A New Xanthone from the Pericarp of

open access: yesNatural Product Communications, 2013
A new prenylxanthone, garcimangostanol ( 1 ), was isolated from the EtOAc-soluble partition of the ethanol extract of the pericarp of Garcinia mangostana L., along with three known compounds, namely 8-deoxygartanin ( 2 ), 1-isomangostin ( 3 ), and ...
Manqin Fu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Household Food Insecurity Status and Determinants: The Case of Botswana and South Africa

open access: yesAgraris: Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development Research, 2021
This study used a survey questionnaire to investigate the state and determinants of household food security in South Africa and Botswana. In South Africa, 1557 households in two District Municipalities within Eastern Cape Province participated in the ...
Simbarashe Ndhleve   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unplanned Food Access

open access: yesJournal of the American Planning Association, 2022
U.S. suburbs have increasingly diversified in the past 2 decades. Most working-class and lower income immigrant households settle in older suburbs of metro regions, reversing their decline. In this study I examined the multifaceted contribution of immigrant food entrepreneurs toward the wellbeing of a multiethnic, working-class suburb (Upper Darby, PA).
openaire   +2 more sources

Comparing two distance measures in the spatial mapping of food deserts: The case of Petržalka, Slovakia

open access: yesMoravian Geographical Reports, 2017
Over the last twenty years or so, researchers’ attention to the issue of food deserts has increased in the geographical literature. Accessibility to large-scale retail units is one of the essential and frequently-used indicators leading to the ...
Bilková Kristína   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Justice and the Food Environment in Prince George’s County, Maryland: Assessment of Three Communities

open access: yesFrontiers in Built Environment, 2019
Lack of access to a health-promoting food environment can lead to poor health outcomes including obesity which is a problem for African-Americans in Prince George's County, Maryland.
Lucy Kavi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Leveraging Citizen Science for Healthier Food Environments: A Pilot Study to Evaluate Corner Stores in Camden, New Jersey

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2018
Over the last 6 years, a coordinated “healthy corner store” network has helped an increasing number of local storeowners stock healthy, affordable foods in Camden, New Jersey, a city with high rates of poverty and unemployment, and where most residents ...
Benjamin W. Chrisinger   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Agriculture Extension in Florida: Barriers, Needs, and Opportunities

open access: yesJournal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2023
Much of the United States is urbanizing, increasing the importance of developing Extension programs geared toward urban audiences. There has been an increasing interest in urban agriculture (UA) in recent years as an outgrowth of the “local food ...
Catherine G. Campbell   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food Access, Food Deserts, and the Women, Infants, and Children Program

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2017
We examine the shopping behavior of Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program participants located in food deserts in the Greater Los Angeles area relative to peers in GLA located outside of food-desert boundaries.
Qi Wu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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