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Recent pace of change in human impact on the world's ocean. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep, 2019
Humans interact with the oceans in diverse and profound ways. The scope, magnitude, footprint and ultimate cumulative impacts of human activities can threaten ocean ecosystems and have changed over time, resulting in new challenges and threats to marine ...
Halpern BS   +7 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Microbial Communities in Permafrost Soils of Larsemann Hills, Eastern Antarctica: Environmental Controls and Effect of Human Impact [PDF]

open access: yesMicroorganisms, 2020
Although ice-free areas cover only about 0.1% of Antarctica and are characterized by harsh environmental conditions, these regions provide quite diverse conditions for the soil-forming process, having various physical and geochemical properties, and also
Ivan Alekseev   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Linked Administrative Data’s Role in Victoria’s First Social Impact Investment – Journey to Social Inclusion – Working to End Chronic Homelessness

open access: yesInternational Journal of Population Data Science, 2020
The Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI) Social Impact Investment (SII) is Victoria’s first social impact investment. It has two outcome payments, for stable housing and reduction in hospital bed days.
Sharon Williams   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the Social Validity of the SAFMEDS Strategy From the Perspective of Teachers and Children

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2021
The Say-All-Fast-Minute-Every-Day-Shuffled (SAFMEDS) strategy promotes fluency across several skills and contexts. However, few studies have reported the social validity key stakeholders associate with using the strategy in schools.
Kaydee Owen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Income-related health inequalities associated with the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa: A decomposition analysis

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in an enormous dislocation of society especially in South Africa. The South African government has imposed a number of measures aimed at controlling the pandemic, chief being a nationwide ...
Chijioke O. Nwosu, Adeola Oyenubi
doaj   +1 more source

Hope, agency, and adolescents' sexual and reproductive health: A mini review

open access: yesFrontiers in Reproductive Health, 2023
Availability of and access to services that promote sexual and reproductive health (SRH) amongst adolescent girls have become a global priority. Yet, while researchers have explored factors that influence the uptake of SRH services in low-and-middle ...
Candice Groenewald   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human abnormal behavior impact on speaker verification systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Human behavior plays a major role in improving human-machine communication. The performance must be affected by abnormal behavior as systems are trained using normal utterances.
Ilk, Hakki Gokhan   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Human capital in economic development: from labour productivity to macroeconomic impact [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Micro-econometric evidence reveals high private returns to education, most prominently in low-income countries. However, it is disputed to what extent this translates into a macro-economic impact.
Abel   +42 more
core   +2 more sources

Aerial and surface rivers: downwind impacts on water availability from land use changes in Amazonia [PDF]

open access: yesHydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2018
The abundant evapotranspiration provided by the Amazon forests is an important component of the hydrological cycle, both regionally and globally. Since the last century, deforestation and expanding agricultural activities have been changing the ecosystem
W. Weng   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Political Regimes [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
It is often argued that internationally recognized human rights are common to all cultural traditions and adaptable to a great variety of social structures and political regimes. Such arguments confuse human rights with human dignity.
Donnelly, Jack   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

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