Can ecosystem-based adaptation address the adaptation needs of smallholder farmers? Insights from smallholder coffee and subsistence farmers in central America [PDF]
, 2015 In many regions, climate change is having significant adverse impacts on the agricultural production and livelihoods of smallholder farmers, with important consequences for global food security..
Alpizar, Francisco +9 more
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Optimal Pricing-Based Edge Computing Resource Management in Mobile Blockchain
, 2017 As the core issue of blockchain, the mining requires solving a proof-of-work puzzle, which is resource expensive to implement in mobile devices due to high computing power needed.
Feng, Shaohan +4 more
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Children Affected by AIDS: A Review of the Literature on Orphaned and Vulnerable Children [PDF]
, 2010 This paper presents a systematic review of the literature pertaining to orphans and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on research in countries heavily impacted by HIV/AIDS.
Miller, Candace
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Parental care influences social immunity in burying beetle larvae [PDF]
, 2014 1. We provide evidence for social immunity in offspring of a sub-social species, the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides. 2. N. vespilloides is a carrion breeder, and in a similar fashion to the adult beetles, the offspring produce exudates that ...
Arce +10 more
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Failed Child Welfare Policy: An Essay Review [PDF]
, 2002 Hutchinson, J.R. (with C.E. Sudia) (2002). Failed Child Welfare Policy—Family Preservation and the Orphaning of Child Welfare. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. This essay reviews Failed Child Welfare Policy (Hutchinson, 2002), in which the author
Maluccio, Anthony N.
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World health dilemmas: Orphan and rare diseases, orphan drugs and orphan patients
World Journal of Methodology, 2014 According to global annual estimates hunger/malnutrition is the major cause of death (36 of 62 million). Cardiovascular diseases and cancer (5.44 of 13.43 million) are the major causes of death in developed countries, while lower respiratory tract infections, human immunodeficiency virus infection/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, diarrhoeal disease,
Christina N, Kontoghiorghe +3 more
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On the use of the ZigBee protocol for wireless sensor networks [PDF]
, 2006 This project was developed within the ART-WiSe framework of the IPP-HURRAY group (http://www.hurray.isep.ipp.pt), at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (http://www.ipp.pt).
Alves, Mário +2 more
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Identification and Characterization of the Corazonin Receptor and Possible Physiological Roles of the Corazonin-Signaling Pathway in Rhodnius prolixus. [PDF]
, 2016 Neuropeptides control many physiological and endocrinological processes in animals, acting as neuroactive chemicals within the central and peripheral nervous systems.
Hamoudi, Zina +2 more
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Negative Mental Health Factors in Children Orphaned by AIDS: Natural Mentoring as a Palliative Care [PDF]
, 2009 The study examined the psychosocial mental health of some children whose parents died of AIDS (n = 373) in Uganda and South Africa. The design had 2 control groups: other-causes orphaned (n = 287), and non-orphaned (n = 290) children (grand mean age = 13.
Bogere Stephen M. +5 more
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Community-based initiatives in response to the OVC crisis in North Central Uganda [PDF]
In response to the orphan crisis, a number of community initiatives have proliferated to enhance service delivery to OVCs (Orphans and other Vulnerable Children).
Omwa, Samuel Samson, Titeca, Kristof
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