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Mapping Priorities to Focus Cropland Mapping Activities: Fitness Assessment of Existing Global, Regional and National Cropland Maps

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2015
Timely and accurate information on the global cropland extent is critical for applications in the fields of food security, agricultural monitoring, water management, land-use change modeling and Earth system modeling.
François Waldner   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global Challenges, Global Opportunities

open access: yesAnnals of Global Health, 2014
Academia is at an exciting crossroads. The global problems we face are immense, but the good news is we know how to address most of them. Our primary challenge today is not a lack of knowledge but a failure to scale up what we already know works. Some of the skills to implement what we know are medical, many are not.
openaire   +5 more sources

Europe and the Unitary Patent: Progress Towards Reshaping the European Patent Landscape [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
It is surprising that the European Union has failed to create a Unitary Patent which would fully liberalise the flow of ideas as the single market facilitated the flow of capital and people.
Global Policy Institute   +1 more
core  

Identification of functional and diverse circulating cancer‐associated fibroblasts in metastatic castration‐naïve prostate cancer patients

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) promote cancer growth, invasion (metastasis), and drug resistance. Here, we identified functional and diverse circulating CAFs (cCAFs) in patients with metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa). cCAFs were found in higher numbers and were functional and diverse in mPCa patients versus healthy individuals, suggesting their ...
Richell Booijink   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global and local contributions to corneal surface curvature: a simple model

open access: yesAfrican Vision and Eye Health, 2008
Variations in corneal surface powers reflect variations in the geometry of the cornea.  In particular one can regard corneal surface curvature as a combination of local and global effects.
W. F. Harris
doaj   +1 more source

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the Human Rights of Workers to Form or Join Trade Unions and to Bargain Collective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
CCC, industriAll, ITUC, UNI Global Union
core   +1 more source

Surfaceome: a new era in the discovery of immune evasion mechanisms of circulating tumor cells

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
In the era of immunotherapies, many patients either do not respond or eventually develop resistance. We propose to pave the way for proteomic analysis of surface‐expressed proteins called surfaceome, of circulating tumor cells. This approach seeks to identify immune evasion mechanisms and discover potential therapeutic targets. Circulating tumor cells (
Doryan Masmoudi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on vaccine-preventable disease campaigns

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022
: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the widespread disruption of immunization services, including the postponement of mass vaccination campaigns.
Lee Lee Ho   +8 more
doaj  

The Global Epidemic of the Metabolic Syndrome

open access: yesCurrent Hypertension Reports, 2018
Metabolic syndrome, variously known also as syndrome X, insulin resistance, etc., is defined by WHO as a pathologic condition characterized by abdominal obesity, insulin resistance, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.
M. Saklayen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

NH International Seminar, Spring 2017: Migrations, Labor, and Natural Resources [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Nicole ConstableProfessor of Anthropology, University of PittsburghFebruary 7, 2017 Precarious Labor Migrations in Asia: An Anthropologist\u27s Perspective Mary MaloneAssociate Professor of Political Science, UNHMarch 21, 2017 Leaving the Devil You Know:
Center for International Education and Global Engagement
core   +1 more source

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