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Rural Areas [PDF]

, 2015
This chapter assesses the impacts of climate change on, and the prospects for adaptation in, rural areas. Rural areas include diverse patterns of settlement, infrastructure, and livelihoods, and relate in complex ways with urban areas. The chapter shows that rural areas experience specific vulnerabilities to climate change, both through their ...
Dasgupta, Purnamita, Morton, John, Dodman, David, Karapinar, Barış, Meza, Francisco, Rivera-Ferre, Marta G., Toure Sarr, Aissa, Vincent, Katharine E.   +7 more
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Community assets and relative rurality index

, 2022
<p>The CARR (Community assets and relative rurality index) index is a continuous, multidimensional measure of rurality based on the concept of sustainable development that integrates measures of environmental, social, and economic resources ...
Nelson, Katherine, Nguyen, Tuan
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Viral Infection‐Inspired Autonomous Detection of Fusion‐Competent Viruses for Screening and Environmental Surveillance

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Inspired by viral entry mechanisms, the FUSION assay enables autonomous detection of respiratory viruses via membrane fusion–triggered CRISPR‐Cas13a activation. VEACON selectively fuses with fusion‐competent viruses, triggering fluorescence within confined vesicles.
Jae Chul Park, Yidam Song, Hyun‐Woo Choi, Jaeuk Sung, Harin Jin, WonSeok Gwak, Kirim Yoo, Soohwang Lee, Jongeon Park, Jeongmin Kim, Hye‐Jun Jo, Jahyun Koo, Youngdo Jeong, Kwan Hyi Lee, Seung‐Jung Kee, Hojun Kim   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

The liability of rurality and new venture viability [PDF]

, 2019
Highlights • This paper develops the «liability of rurality» as a new concept. • I integrate the liability of rurality with the liabilities of newness and smallness.
Clausen, Tommy Høyvarde
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Next‐Generation Water Treatment With Molybdenum Disulfide: Dual‐Functionality in Pollutant Adsorption and Photocatalysis

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has attracted attention as a promising material due to the growing demand for environmentally friendly, cost‐effective, and efficient water treatment techniques. With its physicochemical characteristics, this stratified bidimensional material allows it to be highly effective in adsorption and catalytic performance ...
Pariksha Bishnoi, Gunjan Chauhan, Phil Hart, Samarjeet Singh Siwal, Vijay Kumar Thakur   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The revitalisation of the Hebden Bridge district: greentrified Pennine rurality [PDF]

, 1998
This thesis provides an integrated theoretical account of gentrification in a context which evokes significant socio-cultural meanings of rurality. With this purpose in mind, three key conceptual standpoints are established to frame the research.
Smith, Darren Paul
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A Rare Allele of ST5 From Wild Rice Enhances Salt Tolerance in Rice

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A novel salt‐tolerance gene ST5W, characterized by a unique 36‐bp promoter insertion, is found exclusively in a small subset of Oryza rufipogon and is absent in cultivated rice. Field trials confirm ST5W significantly enhances rice yield across diverse genetic backgrounds under saline conditions.
Meng Xing, Jingfen Huang, Qiaoling Yuan, Ziyi Yang, Yanyan Wang, Mingchao Zhao, Yamin Nie, Rui Xu, Hongge Qian, Wenxi Chen, Qiaoling Zhang, Qi Du, Leiyue Geng, Yapeng Li, Ziyi Chen, Shizhuang Wang, Like Lou, Haiyuan Peng, Chongke Zheng, Xianzhi Xie, Xiaoming Zheng, Lifang Zhang, Lianguang Shang, Jiaqiang Sun, Qian Qian, Qingwen Yang, Weihua Qiao   +26 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patient experiences in primary care do not differ according to rurality: a cross-sectional study

BMC Primary Care
Background Living in rural areas is a major contributor of health inequity. Tackling health inequity is important for primary care physicians. Therefore, it is important to compare the quality of primary care between rural and urban areas. To the best of
Makoto Kaneko, Hironori Yamada, Tadao Okada   +2 more
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Unbalanced rural development in underdeveloped areas: rurality and human settlements

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
IntroductionThe continuous migration of rural populations to urban areas poses a significant threat to food production and sustainable development in underdeveloped regions.
Xueyi Wang, Manguo Geng, Xianglong Tang
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Le crédit, outil d’inclusion sociale : le cas de Valente (Bahia)

Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2010
Long-time neglected from public policy and excluded from traditional financial institutions, small rural producers in the sertão baiano are facing harsh climate conditions (semi-arid) and social or economic contingencies.
Pauline Bensoussan
doaj   +1 more source