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Some love them, others hate them: Understanding farmers' tree planting decisions in Scotland

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Agroforestry is increasingly recognized as a sustainable agricultural land use system with potential to sequester carbon, create and repair habitats, enhance biodiversity and offer environmental and socio‐economic benefits, including improved agricultural productivity.
Albert Mvula, Katrin Prager, Josie Geris
wiley   +1 more source

A dual-functional cobalt ferrite nanocomplex for targeted cisplatin prodrug delivery and MALAT1 gene silencing in gastric cancer cells

open access: yesScientific Reports
Cisplatin (CDDP) is a common drug for gastric cancer (GC) treatment. The aberrant expression of MALAT-1, a long noncoding RNA, plays a critical role in CDDP resistance.
Fatemeh Doryani   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decadal changes of the Western Arabian sea ecosystem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Historical data from oceanographic expeditions and remotely sensed data on outgoing longwave radiation, temperature, wind speed and ocean color in the western Arabian Sea (1950–2010) were used to investigate decadal trends in the physical and biochemical
AK Srivastava   +48 more
core   +2 more sources

Explaining persistent management of change underperformance in a safety‐critical gas organization

open access: yesProcess Safety Progress, EarlyView.
Abstract Management of change (MOC) is a critical process safety control used to govern engineering and organizational modifications in safety‐critical systems; however, despite widespread procedural adoption, it often underperforms in practice. This study identifies the organizational and managerial mechanisms that erode the practical authority of MOC
Saba Saei   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Numerical Study of the Effects of Changing the Height and Location of the Step on a Planing Flat Plate

open access: yesنشریه مهندسی دریا, 2017
For most vessels, the frictional resistance of the hull in the water has the largest share in the total resistance of the ship, so in the past few decades much research have been done on reducing the frictional resistance of ships.
Ahmadreza Kohansal   +2 more
doaj  

Epidemiology of body dysmorphic disorder among adolescents: A study of their cognitive functions

open access: yesBrain and Behavior, 2022
Background Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is characterized by a preoccupation with an imagined defect in one's appearance. In case of a slight physical anomaly, the person would experience an excessive concern. This disorder causes cognitive dysfunction.
Soran Rajabi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The circulation of the Persian Gulf: a numerical study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
We employ a three-dimensional hydrodynamic model (COHERENS) in a fully prognostic mode to study the circulation and water mass properties of the Persian Gulf – a large inverse estuary.
Kaempf, Jochen, Sadrinasab, Masoud
core   +2 more sources

Prioritization of the Sustainable Development Goals: Developing and Testing a Novel Framework Under Varying Geographic Scales

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study develops and tests a novel prioritization framework for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under varying geographic scales (regional, sub‐regional, national), focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as a pilot case.
Lea Issa, Mutasem El Fadel
wiley   +1 more source

Personal drivers and factors influencing the attitude toward mobile advertising: A Study on Mobile phone users

open access: yesتحقیقات بازار یابی نوین, 2014
Today, mobile advertising is considered one of the most important and influential marketing activities, because marketers through the small media ability to individual access and have direct contact with users at any time and place.
Manijeh Bahrainizadeh   +2 more
doaj  

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