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A vulnerability perspective on loss and damage: evidence from urban informal settlements

npj Urban Sustainability
The scientific evidence on climate-related losses and damages is steadily increasing. However, the experiences of people living in urban areas, including informal settlements, are largely absent from research and policy.
Douwe van Schie, Simone Sandholz, Lucas Turmena, Nabiyya Perennia, Syed Muhammad Jaffar Abbas, Philip Bonera Bananayo, Magdalena Mirwald, Kees van der Geest   +7 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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Determinants of child anthropometric indicators in Ethiopia

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Malnutrition is one of the major contributors to child mortality in Ethiopia. Currently established, child nutrition status is assessed by four anthropometric indicators.
Davod Ahmadi, Ekta Amarnani, Akankasha Sen, Narges Ebadi, Patrick Cortbaoui, Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human Security or National Security: the Problems and Prospects of the Norm of Human Security

Journal of Politics and Law, 2008
The emergence of the norm of human security prioritizes individuals’ security over national security and conceptualizes poverty as the real threat to the security of individuals. Therefore, it urges for more attention to sustainable development as the functional strategy to ensure human security.
Hasan Mahmud, Muhammad Mahbub Quaisar, Md. Abdus Sabur, Sharmin Tamanna   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Dammarenediol II enhances etoposide‐induced apoptosis by targeting O‐GlcNAc transferase and Akt/GSK3β/mTOR signaling in liver cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Etoposide induces DNA damage, activating p53‐dependent apoptosis via caspase‐3/7, which cleaves PARP1. Dammarenediol II enhances this apoptotic pathway by suppressing O‐GlcNAc transferase activity, further decreasing O‐GlcNAcylation. The reduction in O‐GlcNAc levels boosts p53‐driven apoptosis and influences the Akt/GSK3β/mTOR signaling pathway ...
Jaehoon Lee, Byung‐Cheol Han, Gi‐Bang Koo, Jihye Park, Mijin Kwon, Young Bin Park, Jae‐Mun Choi, Seung‐Ho Lee, Sangho Roh   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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Synergies and trade-offs in the management objectives forest health and flood risk reduction

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023
While healthy forest ecosystems deliver various services that can reduce flood risk, they can also contribute to flooding by providing wood that potentially contributes to the clogging of waterways and associated backwater effects.
Fabian Rackelmann, Fabian Rackelmann, Zita Sebesvari, Rainer Bell   +3 more
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Artificial intelligence and UK national security: Policy considerations [PDF]

, 2020
RUSI was commissioned by GCHQ to conduct an independent research study into the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for national security purposes. The aim of this project is to establish an independent evidence base to inform future policy development ...
Babuta, Alexander, Janjeva, Ardi, Oswald, Marion   +2 more
core   +1 more source

EDNRB‐dependent endothelin signaling reduces proliferation and promotes proneural‐to‐mesenchymal transition in gliomas

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Glioma cells mainly express the endothelin receptor EDNRB, while EDNRA is restricted to a perivascular tumor subpopulation. Endothelin signaling reduces glioma cell proliferation while promoting migration and a proneural‐to‐mesenchymal transition associated with poor prognosis. This pathway activates Ca2+, K+, ERK, and STAT3 signalings and is regulated
Donovan Pineau, Leonor Garcia, Hugo Arnold, Antonija Hanžek, Maialen Arrieta, Laurent R Gauthier, Christine Granotier‐Beckers, François D Boussin, Amaury Herbet, Marie Hautière, Valentin Asei‐Ceschino, Clémentin Jacques, Laura Brard, Thomas Harnois, Valérie Coronas, Bruno Constantin, Aurélien Chatelier, Jean Chemin, Serge Urbach, Martial Seveno, Szimonetta Hideg, Chantal Ripoll, Kasandra Aguilar‐Cázarez, Min Zheng, Guo‐Hao Huang, Sheng‐Qing Lv, Lei Zhang, Philippe Rondard, Laurent Prezeau, Jean‐Philippe Pin, Hugues Duffau, Luc Bauchet, Valérie Rigau, Franck Denat, Charles Truillet, Didier Boquet, Jean‐Philippe Hugnot   +36 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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