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Navigating overgrazing and cultural values through narratives and participatory mapping: a socio-cultural analysis of sheep grazing in the Faroe Islands

open access: yesEcosystems and People, 2022
Long-term livestock grazing has shaped landscapes, biodiversity, societies, cultures, and economies in the North Atlantic over time. However, overgrazing has become a major environmental sustainability challenge for this region, covering the Faroe ...
Laura N.H. Verbrugge   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Island landscapes: Some preliminary questions

open access: yesJournal of Marine and Island Cultures, 2012
AbstractThe ESLAND Project (http://www.eslandproject.eu) seeks to investigate ‘European culture as expressed in island landscapes’. All the world’s islands, except perhaps those of the high Arctic and high Antarctic, are cultural landscapes: the product of interactions between the environment, plants and animals, and human cultures.
openaire   +1 more source

Dissipation of the sectored heliospheric magnetic field near the heliopause: a mechanism for the generation of anomalous cosmic rays

open access: yes, 2009
The recent observations of the anomalous cosmic ray (ACR) energy spectrum as Voyagers 1 and 2 crossed the heliospheric termination shock have called into question the conventional shock source of these energetic particles.
Burlaga   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Deciphering transcriptional plasticity in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma reveals alterations in sensory neuron innervation

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Pancreatic sensory neurons innervating healthy and PDAC tissue were retrogradely labeled and profiled by single‐cell RNA sequencing. Tumor‐associated innervation showed a dominant neurofilament‐positive subtype, altered mitochondrial gene signatures, and reduced non‐peptidergic neurons.
Elena Genova   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Renewable Energy as a Tool to Achieve Tourism Sustainability in Mediterranean Islands

open access: yesÉtudes Caribéennes, 2008
This paper addresses the challenge of transforming Mediterranean islands into sustainable tourism areas, through the direct (or indirect) use of renewable energy projects and technologies.
Evanthie Michalena
doaj   +1 more source

The Transition to Clean Energy: Are People Living in Island Communities Ready for Smart Grids and Demand Response?

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
Islands are widely recognised as ideal pilot sites that can spearhead the transition to clean energy and development towards a sustainable and healthy society.
Dana Abi Ghanem, Tracey Crosbie
doaj   +1 more source

SPG4 and Dementia: Expanding the Clinical Spectrum

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of disorders characterized by progressive spasticity and lower limb weakness, with mutations in SPG4/SPAST being the most common cause. Detailed studies and clinical and molecular comparisons across different populations are missing.
Emanuele Panza   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting island decolonization: The pursuit of self-government in Pacific island polities under US hegemony

open access: yesIsland Studies Journal, 2018
The final years of the Cold War and the following decade led to a short historical intermission in the United States’ strategic interest in the Pacific. During that period the Trust Territory of the Pacific was dissolved and three former districts gained
Moritz Pöllath
doaj   +2 more sources

State and local governance in Solomon Islands: building on existing strengths [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In dealing with the question of a future system for governance in Solomon Islands, two options have been put on the table: patch up the existing system or convert the existing provinces into states under a federal system.
Scales, Ian
core  

Dementia Incidence in Individuals With Parkinson's Disease in the Framingham Heart Study

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Limited information exists on incident dementia in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) in US community‐based samples. We examined cognitive statuses and PD diagnoses of 183 individuals in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) to establish incident dementia, mortality rates, associations with sex, age at PD onset, and education level.
Joshi Dookhy   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

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