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Rural Displacement and Its Implications on Livelihoods and Food Insecurity: The Case of Inter-Riverine Communities in Somalia

Agriculture, 2023
This study investigates the phenomenon of forced displacement in Somalia over the past few decades and its implications for the livelihoods and food security of IDP communities.
Alinor Abdi Osman, Gumataw Kifle Abebe
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Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa, Konstantinos Makryniotis, Theofani‐Iosifina Sousani, Evangelos Topakas, Vangelis Daskalakis, Maria Dimarogona   +5 more
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Highly Skilled International Professionals in Exploitative Labour Regimes: How Conditional Entry, Legal Dependency, and Intersectional Wage Penalties Shape Migrant Labour Markets

Social Sciences
This article examines how institutional arrangements shape exploitative labour conditions among highly skilled international professionals, challenging prevailing assumptions that labour exploitation primarily affects low-skilled or irregular workers ...
Ana Nestorovic, Marie-Therese Antoinette Claes   +1 more
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Residual tail twisting in ascidian larvae is stabilized by asymmetric myofibrils that resist bilateral symmetry restoration

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Ascidian Ciona larvae initially show strong clockwise tail twisting, which is largely corrected during development. However, a small residual twist remains. This study shows that organized helical myofibrils in tail muscles mechanically stabilize this residual asymmetry, preventing complete restoration of bilateral symmetry and revealing how embryos ...
Yuki S. Kogure, Misaki K. Nishio, Satoru Okuda, Kohji Hotta   +3 more
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Sexual and reproductive health and maternal welfare among Afghan refugee women in Pakistan: a systematic review

Frontiers in Global Women's Health
IntroductionWomen and children make up over 70% of Afghan refugees worldwide. Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is essential for overall well-being, yet Afghan refugee women living in Pakistan face significant barriers to accessing health services ...
Emily Rotondi, Emily Rotondi, Rashmina J. Sayeeda, Rashmina J. Sayeeda, Carly Ching, David Flynn, Carrie Preston, Carrie Preston, Carrie Preston, Muhammad H. Zaman, Muhammad H. Zaman   +10 more
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Climate Change Migration and Displacement: Learning from Past Relocations in the Pacific

Social Sciences, 2019
It has been projected that the single greatest impact of environmental changes will be on human migration and displacement. Migration has been extensively discussed and documented as an adaptation strategy in response to environmental changes, and more ...
Tammy Tabe
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Modelling stem cell differentiation related processes—A practical overview for biologists

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Stem cell differentiation is complex and difficult to control experimentally. This review introduces suitable computational modelling approaches that can support stem cell research, from mechanistic ODE and abstract models to multiscale and deep learning methods.
Ricco Zeegelaar, Xinqi Yan, Lucas F. Jansen Klomp, Stefano Schivo, Janine N. Post   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microplastics as active modulators of Escherichia coli biofilm characteristics and their implications on the development of antimicrobial resistance

Biofilm
Microplastics are increasingly recognized as substrates that facilitate microbial colonization and may contribute to antimicrobial resistance, yet their role in shaping biofilm physiology remains poorly understood.
Yanina Nahum, Neila Gross, Johnathan Muhvich, Muhammad H. Zaman   +3 more
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Introduction Environmentally Induced Displacement and Forced Migration

Refuge, 2014
Disappearing coastlines, fields and homes flooded by rising waters, lands left cracked and barren by desertification, a snowpack shrinking in circumpolar regions year by year—these are only a few of the iconic images of climate change that have evoked ...
Pablo Bose, Elizabeth Lunstrum
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Large amplitude forced vibrations of Timoshenko beams using coupled displacement field method

Forces in Mechanics, 2022
Forced vibration behaviour of a Timoshenko beam, with a concentrated mass at the centre, subjected to a concentrated harmonic force is investigated using the coupled displacement field method.
K. Meera Saheb, Gopichand Kanneti, Prabhakar Sathujoda   +2 more
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