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Effectiveness of social marketing strategies to reduce youth obesity in European school-based interventions : a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Aceves Martins, Magaly   +6 more
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Methylation biomarkers can distinguish pleural mesothelioma from healthy pleura and other pleural pathologies

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
We developed and validated a DNA methylation–based biomarker panel to distinguish pleural mesothelioma from other pleural conditions. Using the IMPRESS technology, we translated this panel into a clinically applicable assay. The resulting two classifier models demonstrated excellent performance, achieving high AUC values and strong diagnostic accuracy.
Janah Vandenhoeck   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Powering Europe Sustainably: A Discussion Paper on the Potential Role of Biomass in the EU [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Argues for further development of wood-based biomass as a renewable energy source for use in combined heat and power plants as an integral part of EU energy policy.

core  

The basics of sustainable forest management in Forest Promotional Complexes

open access: yesGeographia Polonica, 2012
The intent to create Forest Promotional Complex (FPC) was introducing a new quality to Polish forestry – by taking into account social preference for forests, by embracing local community needs, by compromising forest production with nature protection and to introduce the rules of sustainable and balanced forest development.
openaire   +1 more source

Beavers promote calicioid diversity in boreal forest landscapes [PDF]

open access: yesBiodiversity and Conservation, 2016
Beavers are ecosystem engineers that modify and maintain a range of special habitat types in boreal forests. They also produce large quantities of deadwood that provide substrate for many lignicolous organisms such as calicioid fungi (Ascomycota).
Rikkinen Jouko   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Detection of circulating tumor DNA in colorectal cancer patients using a methylation‐specific droplet digital PCR multiplex

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
We developed a cost‐effective methylation‐specific droplet digital PCR multiplex assay containing tissue‐conserved and tumor‐specific methylation markers. The assay can detect circulating tumor DNA with high accuracy in patients with localized and metastatic colorectal cancer.
Luisa Matos do Canto   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forest owners’ collective action against the risk of forest fire: a game theoretical approach [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper is a follow up on a earlier one (Mendes, 1998) where I proposed a series of models for forest owners associations represented as organisation made up of two groups of strategically interacting players: the forest owners who are members of the ...
Américo Mendes
core   +3 more sources

Learning from conceptual models – a study of the emergence of cooperation towards resource protection in a social–ecological system [PDF]

open access: yesGeoscientific Model Development
Engaging ecological resource users in intervention to protect resources is challenging for governments due to the self-interest of users and uncertainty about intervention consequences.
S. Harati-Asl   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effect of deforestation rate on land tenure in Central Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The CoForTips project aims at the promotion of better management of the forest of the Congo Basin by presenting to the policy makers plausible scenarios of social and ecological systems evolution.
Codina Llavina, Elisabet   +4 more
core  

African botanical heritage for new crop development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The African continent is rather poor in plant biodiversity when compared to other continents on and around the equator. Nevertheless, lots of useful plant species have been domesticated from Sub-Sahara Africa material.
Termote, Céline, Van Damme, Patrick
core   +3 more sources

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