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Feedback Loops and Openness: A Snapshot of the Field Baseline Report [PDF]

, 2015
Fund for Shared Insight ("Shared Insight") is a collaborative effort among funders that pools financial and other resources to make grants to improve philanthropy. Shared Insight believes philanthropy can have a greater social and environmental impact if
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Limited progress in global reduction of vulnerability to flood impacts over the past two decades

Communications Earth & Environment
Global flood impacts have risen in recent decades. While increasing exposure was the dominant driver of surging impacts, counteracting vulnerability reductions have been detected, but were too weak to reverse this trend. To assess the ongoing progress on
Inga J. Sauer, Benedikt Mester, Katja Frieler, Sandra Zimmermann, Jacob Schewe, Christian Otto   +5 more
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J itegemee (rely on yourself): a multi-phase process of co-creating a personal savings intervention with female sex workers in western Kenya to reduce their HIV risk

BMC Public Health
Background HIV prevalence among female sex workers (FSW) is significantly higher than among women in the general population. Studies have shown that FSW engage in unprotected sex which provides higher compensation when they face emergency situations.
Kawango Agot, Jacob Onyango, Marylyn Ochillo, Timothy Omondi Okello, Shantana Carol, Tobias Odwar, Jane Moraa, Sophie Otticha, Redempter Odeny, Nicky Okeyo, Linet Ochieng, Gerald Ochieng, Ivy Wango, Alloys Koloo, Jacinta Badia, Carol S. Camlin, Bernard Ayieko, Sue Napierala, Harsha Thirumurthy   +18 more
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A new frontier in treatment of advanced melanoma: Redefining clinical management in the era of immune checkpoint inhibitors

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2017
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized treatment of advanced cutaneous melanoma. This group of novel therapeutic agents differs from other systemic treatments and has necessitated a new approach for several fundamental aspects of clinical ...
Oren Levine, Tahira Devji, Feng Xie
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Anthropogenic influence on extreme temperature and precipitation in Central Asia

Scientific Reports, 2023
We investigate the contribution of anthropogenic forcing to the extreme temperature and precipitation events in Central Asia (CA) during the last 60 years.
Bijan Fallah, Emmanuele Russo, Christoph Menz, Peter Hoffmann, Iulii Didovets, Fred F. Hattermann   +5 more
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Impact of the IMPACT Trial [PDF]

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation, 2018
The latest iteration of the Global initiative for chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD)1 guidelines emphasizes the use of long-acting muscarinic antagonist /long-acting beta2-agonist (LAMA/LABA) combination therapy as maintenance therapy before triple therapy (inhaled corticosteroid [ICS]/LABA/LAMA) for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD ...
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Google Scholar citations: a way for academics to compute citation metrics and track them over time [PDF]

, 2011
Citation metrics are used by many academics and researchers to gauge the influence of their work, and to gain a better understanding of the impact of their research.
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Five Minutes with Tim Gowers and Tyler Neylon: “The boycott has made Elsevier more concerned about its public image” [PDF]

, 2012
Earlier this year Tim Gowers sparked debate about the future of academic publishing when he declared his intentions to boycott Elsevier. With Tyler Neylon’s work on the Cost of Knowledge website, the pair discuss how they made a splash in the comfy world
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Modeling surge dynamics improves coastal flood estimates in a global set of tropical cyclones

Communications Earth & Environment
Tropical cyclone-induced storm surge is a major coastal risk, which will be further amplified by rising sea levels under global warming. Here, we present a computational efficient, globally applicable modeling approach in which ocean surge and coastal ...
Thomas Vogt, Simon Treu, Matthias Mengel, Katja Frieler, Christian Otto   +4 more
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The global economic long-term potential of modern biomass in a climate-constrained world

Environmental Research Letters, 2014
Low-stabilization scenarios consistent with the 2 °C target project large-scale deployment of purpose-grown lignocellulosic biomass. In case a GHG price regime integrates emissions from energy conversion and from land-use/land-use change, the strong ...
David Klein, Florian Humpenöder, Nico Bauer, Jan Philipp Dietrich, Alexander Popp, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Markus Bonsch, Hermann Lotze-Campen   +7 more
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