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Evaluation of different aspects of maximum entropy for niche-based modeling

Procedia Environmental Sciences, 2010
AbstractBiodiversity conservation is a world challenge that needs attention and efficient strategies for its success. Modeling of geographic distributions of species is used in assorted applications related to biodiversity conservation. Maximum entropy (maxent) is a technique recently applied to modeling of geographic distributions of species and is ...
Rodrigues, Elisângela S. da C., Rodrigues, Fabrício A., Rocha, Ricardo L. de A. da, Corrêa, Pedro L.P., Giannini, Tereza C.   +4 more
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Bio‐Inspired Multifunctional Superhydrophilic Coatings With Remarkably Fast Self‐Healing Abilities

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We developed bio‐inspired multifunctional hydrogel‐based coatings that exhibit extremely fast/repeatable self‐healing abilities, long‐lasting anti‐fogging performance, superhydrophilicity in air, and underwater superoleophobicity. By doping multivalent metal‐ions into the hydrogel networks, which promoted hydrogen bonding formation and enhanced the ...
Hyeonjin Kim, Jerred Wassgren, Hiroshi Kakiuchida, Kouki Akaike, Shunsuke Tanaka, Atsushi Hozumi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guanosine‐Quadruplex Hydrogels as Dynamic, Mechanically Tunable and Ion Conductive 3D Scaffolds for Cell Culture Applications

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Versatile guanosine‐quadruplex (GQ) hydrogels are developed as dynamic biomatrices for cell culture. These scaffolds are fabricated under mild aqueous conditions, present improved stability, tunable mechanical properties within physiological ranges; fibrillar, porous microstructure, ion conductivity, and cytocompatibility.
Neha Thakur, Minye Jin, Pavel Milkin, Deepa Negi, Carla Cofiño Fabres, Hubert Gojzewski, Leonid Ionov, Alla Synytska, Andries van der Meer, Robert Passier, Julieta I. Paez   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Magneto‐Ionic Devices With Polymer‐Based Electrolytes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Polymer electrolytes are introduced for magneto‐ionic devices based on hydroxide and hydrogen ions. The magneto‐ionic effect results in a pronounced voltage‐controlled variation of coercivity in both devices. The switching speed is in the range of 100 ms.
Markus Gößler, Richard Weber, Michael Sommer, Karin Leistner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ultra‐Thin Tow‐Based Discontinuous Composites—Material Overview and Aspirations

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Tow‐based discontinuous composites made from ultra‐thin tapes offer outstanding in‐plane mechanical properties. This material, inspired by Nacre, has high volume fraction of tapes exceeding 90 % and allows for quasi‐isotropic material plates less than 100 micrometer in thickness.
Ioannis Katsivalis, Vasiliki Safranoglou, Luis Gulfo, Michael R. Wisnom, Martin Fagerström, Malin Åkermo, Soraia Pimenta, Dan Zenkert, Leif E. Asp   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

A process-based Knowledge Management framework supported by ARIS Enterprise Modelling architecture

, 2007
Knowledge and its management have been respectively accepted as a critical resource and a core business competency. Despite that literature proves the existence of a gap between the theoretical considerations of Knowledge Management (KM) and their ...
Koronis, E, Vagenas, G., Koronis, E., Ponis, S, Vagenas, G, Tatsiopoulos, I.P., Tatsiopoulos, I, Ponis, S.T.   +7 more
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Advancing Human Skin Equivalents: The Crucial Role of Neurovascular Integration

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review discusses the importance of integrating vascular and peripheral nerve systems into human skin equivalents (HSEs) to better recapitulate native skin physiology. Recent advances in vascularized, innervated, and neurovascularized HSEs are highlighted, together with emerging bioengineering strategies, current challenges, and future ...
Hao Wu, Lorenzo Moroni, Nicolas Lebonvallet, Vincent Flacher, Paul Wieringa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Triatoma brasiliensis occupy the same environmental niche space as Triatoma melanica?

Parasites & Vectors, 2015
Background Triatomines (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) are vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease, one of the most important vector-borne diseases in Latin America.
Rita de Cássia Moreira de Souza, Gabriel H Campolina-Silva, Claudia Mendonça Bezerra, Liléia Diotaiuti, David E Gorla   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

SEGMENTATION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF AGRI-FOOD NICHE MARKETS: EXAMPLES FROM THE LITERATURE [PDF]

Niche marketing has recently received a great deal of attention in the agri-food trade press and in academic circles as a legitimate strategy for small- and medium-sized agri-food firms.
Phillips, Jon C., Peterson, H. Christopher   +1 more
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Self‐Healing Hydrogel‐Enabled Modular Assembly of Bilayered Skin Construct for Hair Follicle Regeneration

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Self‐healing assembly of two cell‐laden hydrogel layers creates a biomimetic skin construct that restores both dermal and epidermal functions, resulting in accelerated wound healing and enhanced hair follicle regeneration in a full‐thickness skin wound model. ABSTRACT Alopecia remains a pervasive clinical challenge, largely owing to the limited ability
JaeWook Park, Su Yong Kim, MinSu Jeong, Beom Joon Kim, Shin Hyuk Kang, Won‐Gun Koh   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source