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Exploring volunteer tourism as a panacea for sustainable poverty alleviation in Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
One of the most intractable menaces that humanity has been battling with several decades ago is poverty. There have been a general consensus about the pervasiveness of poverty and its grave consequences on the well-being of citizens of developing ...
Ayobami, Kayode Ojo   +3 more
core  

An intracellular transporter mitigates the CO2‐induced decline in iron content in Arabidopsis shoots

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This study identifies a gene encoding a transmembrane protein, MIC, which contributes to the reduction of shoot Fe content observed in plants under elevated CO2. MIC is a putative Fe transporter localized to the Golgi and endosomal compartments. Its post‐translational regulation in roots may represent a potential target for improving plant nutrition ...
Timothy Mozzanino   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human/Humanity, Consciousness and Universe: Informational Relation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
From the perspective of the Informational Model of Consciousness elaborated and reported recently on the basis of the last discoveries of the quantum mechanics and astrophysics, the meeting horizon between some ancient coherent empirical
Gaiseanu, Florin
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A Cre‐dependent lentiviral vector for neuron subtype‐specific expression of large proteins

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We designed a versatile and modular lentivector comprising a Cre‐dependent switch and self‐cleaving 2A peptide and tested it for co‐expression of GFP and a 2.8 kb gene of interest (GOI) in mouse cortical parvalbumin (PV+) interneurons and midbrain dopamine (TH+) neurons.
Weixuan Xue   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolution, Evil, Co-Creation and the Value of the World

open access: yesReligions
This article builds on and supplements an earlier one in this journal about theodicy. It focuses on species extinctions and on the possible role of humanity as fallible co-creators.
Robin Attfield
doaj   +1 more source

United Humanity: from "UN 2.0" to "UN 3.0" The conceptual model of the United Nations for the XXI century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The conceptual model of United Nations reform - "UN 3.0" includes the General Program of Action on UN Reform, consisting of two stages. The first stage for 2020-2025 envisages the transformation of the main organs of the UN - the General Assembly and the
Rogozhin, Vladimir
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Human Rights, Human Needs, Human Development, Human Security: elations ships between Four International ‘Human’ Discourses

open access: yesForum for Development Studies, 2007
Human rights, human development and human security form increasinglyimportant, partly interconnected, partly competitive and misunderstood ethicaland policy discourses. Each tries to humanize a pre-existing and unavoidablemajor discourse of everyday life, policy and politics; each has emerged withinthe United Nations world; each relies implicitly on a ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Cultural Dynamics for Sustainability: How Can Humanity Craft Cultures of Sustainability?

open access: yesCurrent Directions in Psychological Science, 2020
Humanity faces twin problems of adaptation—natural environmental challenges of climate change and global humanitarian challenges of ensuring well-being for all—that pose a dilemma for sustainable development.
Y. Kashima
semanticscholar   +1 more source

By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
Devons Mo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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