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Editorial Volume 12

Journal of Human Security, 2016
Dear Reader,As I write this first official reports confirm the existence of gravitational waves which Albert Einstein predicted a century ago. Ground breaking scientific discoveries such as this reaffirm to me the spatial relationships between the ...
Sabina Lautensach
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ORBITaL-Net: A labeled training library for large-scale building feature extraction

Scientific Data
Over the course of several years, nearly 1.5 million building outlines have been created from approximately 128,000 training tiles covering roughly 7,000 km 2 of very high-resolution multispectral overhead imagery, primarily dated between 2010 and 2020 ...
Benjamin Swan, Joe Pyle, Darrell Roddy, H. Lexie Yang, Amy Rose, Melanie Laverdiere   +5 more
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Ecosystem and disaster risk: A review of ecological indicators in the context of disaster risk assessments and discussion of their usefulness to inform ecosystem health

Nature-Based Solutions
Ecosystems play a critical role in reducing disaster risk by providing ecosystem services (ESS) that influence all components of risk. The capacity to deliver ESS depends on the health of the ecosystem itself. Thus, it is key to consider ecosystem health
S. Janzen, L. Narvaez, A. Ortiz-Vargas, J. O‘Connor, Y. Walz, Z. Sebesvari   +5 more
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Building morphologies of the USA structures database; a gauntlet feature set

Scientific Data
In recent years there has been a proliferation of methods and data to extract building footprints from satellite imagery. However there has been very little effort to provide additional insight about these buildings beyond their spatial location and ...
Taylor Hauser, Clinton Stipek, Nagendra Singh, Jessica Moehl   +3 more
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Editorial Volume 14

Journal of Human Security, 2018
Dear Reader, “Are we nuts?“ asked recently one of my favourite bloggers. She was referring to human behaviour that contravened the actor’s own explicit interests, as routinely reported in a cross-section of the average daily news.
Sabina Lautensach
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Redefining Human Security The Case of Albania [PDF]

, 2016
This paper offers a critical study of the concept and issues of human security. Its usage, definition and applicability may differ since different authors explain issues related to security differently.
Farruku, Eglantina
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Mindset shifts and sustainability transformation journeys across Urban Labs in Latin America

Urban Transformations
Cities are at the forefront of the climate crisis, requiring innovative approaches to foster sustainability transformations. Urban Labs offer a promising avenue for engaging diverse stakeholders and driving transformative change, yet the role of mindset ...
Flávia Guerra, Sneha Roy, Lionel Muñoz Rosas, Simone Sandholz   +3 more
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Generation of SARS-CoV-2 escape mutations by monoclonal antibody therapy

Nature Communications, 2023
COVID-19 patients at risk of severe disease may be treated with neutralising monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). To minimise virus escape from neutralisation these are administered as combinations e.g.
Manon Ragonnet-Cronin, Rungtiwa Nutalai, Jiandong Huo, Aiste Dijokaite-Guraliuc, Raksha Das, Aekkachai Tuekprakhon, Piyada Supasa, Chang Liu, Muneeswaran Selvaraj, Natalie Groves, Hassan Hartman, Nicholas Ellaby, J. Mark Sutton, Mohammad W. Bahar, Daming Zhou, Elizabeth Fry, Jingshan Ren, Colin Brown, Paul Klenerman, Susanna J. Dunachie, Juthathip Mongkolsapaya, Susan Hopkins, Meera Chand, David I. Stuart, Gavin R. Screaton, Sakib Rokadiya   +25 more
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Women's autonomy and food security: Connecting the dots from the perspective of Indigenous women in rural Colombia

SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2022
There is a growing consensus that women's autonomy is positively related to food security. However, the evidence is inconsistent, and the nature of the pathways connecting the two factors remains unclear.
Kate Sinclair, Theresa Thompson-Colón, Alexandra Milena Bastidas-Granja, Sara Eloísa Del Castillo Matamoros, Eucaris Olaya, Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez   +5 more
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Moving towards a comprehensive evaluation of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction: The example of agroforestry for flood risk reduction

Nature-Based Solutions
Nature-based solutions (NbS) have received increased interest as cost-effective contributors to addressing societal challenges, with ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) being the specific approach for reducing disaster risk under the NbS ...
S. Janzen, J. Balzer, F. Merk, C. Eberle, A. Chabi, Y. Walz   +5 more
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