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Historic herbarium specimens as biocultural assets: An examination of herbarium specimens and their in situ plant communities of the Agulhas National Park, South Africa

People and Nature, 2020
Globally there is a need for protected areas to conserve both biodiversity and heritage. Historic specimen localities, although significant to botanists, are not known or recognized under the global heritage umbrella; yet they form an important component
Carly R. Cowell, Pippin M. L. Anderson, Wendy A. Annecke   +2 more
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On the way to balance of forestry land use of Ukraine: ecological-and-economic aspect

Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2021
Purpose. The purpose of this work is to investigate the ecological-and-economic aspect of certain factors to ensure the balanced use of forest lands; develop proposals for the formation of the basis for the development of sustainable forestry ...
Orest Furdychko, Oksana Drebot, Nina Palianychko, Stepan Dankevych, Yoshihiko Okabe   +4 more
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Towards reviving post-Olympic Athens as a cultural destination [PDF]

, 2012
This paper examines the effects of global change on the status and qualities of the Greek national capital, Athens, focusing on how they affect the development of cultural tourism in the city.
Alevizopoulou M., Apostolopoulos Y., Arksey H., Asprogerakas E., Denzin N. K., Georgios Boustras, Glaser B. G., Graham B., Hall C. M., King N., Koutoulas D., Leontidou L., Leontidou L., Maitland R., McKercher B., Meethan K., Miles M., Morgan N., Nikolaos Boukas, Papageorgiou-Venetas A., Shaw G., Theobald W. F., Van der Borg J., Vassilios Ziakas, Weed M., Wickens E., Yin R. K.   +26 more
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Erythropoietin modulates hepatic inflammation, glucose homeostasis, and soluble epoxide hydrolase and epoxides in high‐fat diet‐induced obese mice

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Erythropoietin administration suppresses hepatic soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) expression, leading to increased CYP‐derived epoxides. This is associated with a shift in hepatic macrophage polarization characterized by reduced M1 markers and increased M2 markers, along with reduced hepatic inflammation, suppressed hepatic lipogenesis, and attenuated ...
Takeshi Goda, Satoru Sugimoto, Chiharu Cho, Madoka Konishi, Nozomi Inoue, Satoshi Miyagaki, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Takuro Okamura, Masahide Hamaguchi, Hisakazu Nakajima, Michiaki Fukui, Masakazu Shinohara, Tomoko Iehara   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

MAM: A zkSNARK-Based Protocol for Privacy-Preserving Cross-Metaverse Asset Interoperability

IEEE Access
The rapid growth of the Metaverse has led to a scattered ecosystem in which digital assets are deployed on different blockchain platforms. This disintegration creates significant challenges for interoperability, as users need secure, decentralized, and ...
Fady Alkhateeb, Adib Habbal
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Place-based perceptions, resilience and adaptation to climate change by smallholder farmers in rural South Africa

International Journal of Agricultural Research, Innovation and Technology, 2020
Unprecedented global climate change caused by human actions is becoming a challenge to agricultural systems’ ability to meet and sustain production demands for food and raw materials for the increasing world population.
WA Tesfuhuney, EH Mbeletshie
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Galileo and EGNOS as an asset for UTM safety and security [PDF]

, 2019
GAUSS (Galileo-EGNOS as an Asset for UTM Safety and Security) is a H2020 project1 that aims at designing and developing high performance positioning systems for drones within the U-Space framework focusing on UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) VLL (Very Low ...
Andrade-Cetto, Juan, Capitan, Carlos, Dontas, Ioannis, Jia, Huamin, Jimenez, Adrian, Kostaridis, Antonis, Oliveres, Enric, Tesfai, Ivan   +7 more
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Carbon portfolio management [PDF]

, 2018
The aim of the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is that by 2020, emissions from sectors covered by the EU ETS will be 21% lower than in 2005.
Afonin, Amin, Bredin, Bredin, Bredin, Börger, Chen, Chevallier, Chopra, DeMiguel, DeMiguel, DeMiguel, Erb, Fabozzi, Huberman, Ibikunle, Jensen, Jobson, Jorion, Jorion, Kan, Labatt, Ledoit, Ledoit, Ledoit, Ledoit, Lucia, Mansanet-Bataller, Markowitz, Memmel, Merton, Michaud, Michaud, Point Carbon, Reboredo, Reboredo   +35 more
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Prognostic Impact of European LeukemiaNet Genetic Risk Stratification System in Adult Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of ELN2017 in predicting survival outcomes and to assess the impact of clinical and molecular factors such as age, FLT3 and NPM1 mutations, and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo‐HSCT).
Mobina Shrestha, Bishwas Mandal, Vishal Mandal, Asis Shrestha, Amir Babu Shrestha   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Implications of Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund investments in Eastern and Central Europe [PDF]

, 2017
Although there has been vivid academic debate as to what extent Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) are motivated by political reasons, it is rather clear that countries can use state-owned investment funds as a tool of their foreign policy. Even Barack Obama,
Urban, Dariusz
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