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Evaluating megaprojects: from the “iron triangle” to network mapping [PDF]

, 2014
Evaluation literature has paid relatively little attention to the specific needs of evaluating large, complex industrial and infrastructure projects, often called ‘megaprojects’.
Altshuler A, Argyris C, Bornstein L, Cantarelli CC, Dryzek JS, Gibbons M, Kickert WJM, Loorbach D, Nowotny H, Osland O, Renault M, Sen A, Stark D, Wachs M   +13 more
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Projecting the proliferation risk of Oncomelania hupensis in China driven by SSPs: A multi-scenario comparison and integrated modeling study

Advances in Climate Change Research, 2022
Climate change has been known to cause variations in the geographically suitable areas for the schistosome-transmitting Oncomelania hupensis (O. hupensis).
Yan-Feng Gong, Xiao-Kang Hu, Yu-Wan Hao, Zhuo-Wei Luo, Jia-Xin Feng, Jing-Bo Xue, Zhao-Yu Guo, Yin-Long Li, Li-Juan Zhang, Shang Xia, Shan LYU, Jing Xu, Shi-Zhu Li   +12 more
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Parenting stress and parent support among mothers with high and low education [PDF]

, 2015
Current theorising and evidence suggest that parenting stress might be greater among parents from both low and high socio-economic positions (SEP), compared to those from intermediate levels; due to material hardship among parents of low SEP, and to ...
Parkes, Alison, Sweeting, Helen, Wight, Daniel   +2 more
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Projected Wind Energy Maximum Potential in Lithuania

Applied Sciences, 2022
Harnessing wind energy in Lithuania is one of the most important ways to implement climate mitigation measures. This study aims to assess whether it is feasible to implement an energy greening plan in Lithuania in the 21st century, hypothetically by ...
Justė Jankevičienė, Arvydas Kanapickas   +1 more
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Collaborative and competitive strategies in the variability and resiliency of large-scale societies in Mesoamerica [PDF]

, 2018
Examinations of the variation and duration of past large-scale societies have long involved a conceptual struggle between efforts at generalization and the unraveling of specific trajectories. Although historical particulars are critical to understanding
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Income inequality projections for the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) [PDF]

Futures, 2019
This paper presents global scenarios of future national Gini coefficients, based on an econometric model of the evolution of income inequality within countries over the last three decades. These projections are defined within the scenario framework of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP) in climate research, in which income inequality is a ...
Rao, N., Sauer, P., Gidden, M., Riahi, K.   +3 more
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Humans drive future water scarcity changes across all Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
Future changes in climate and socioeconomic systems will drive both the availability and use of water resources, leading to evolutions in scarcity. The contributions of both systems can be quantified individually to understand the impacts around the ...
Neal T Graham, Mohamad I Hejazi, Min Chen, Evan G R Davies, James A Edmonds, Son H Kim, Sean W D Turner, Xinya Li, Chris R Vernon, Katherine Calvin, Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Leon Clarke, Page Kyle, Robert Link, Pralit Patel, Abigail C Snyder, Marshall A Wise   +16 more
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A continued role of short-lived climate forcers under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways [PDF]

Earth System Dynamics, 2020
Mitigation of non-CO2 emissions plays a key role in meeting the Paris Agreement ambitions and sustainable development goals. Implementation of respective policies addressing these targets mainly occur at sectoral and regional levels, and designing ...
M. T. Lund, B. Aamaas, C. W. Stjern, Z. Klimont, T. K. Berntsen, T. K. Berntsen, B. H. Samset   +6 more
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Parent Quality of Life at Two Years Following Their Child's Completion of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Parents of children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often experience significant caregiver burden and disruption to their well‐being. While parent quality of life (QoL) during treatment is well characterized, little is known about outcomes during early survivorship.
Sara Dal Pra, Maria McCarthy, Michael Takagi, Cinzia De Luca   +3 more
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Genetically determined height and coronary artery disease. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: The nature and underlying mechanisms of an inverse association between adult height and the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) are unclear.
Amouyel, P., Anand, S., Assimes, T. L., Blankenberg, S., Boehm, B. O., Burgess, S., Clarke, R. J., Collins, R., Danesh, J., Dedoussis, G., Deloukas, P., Erdmann, J., Farrall, M., Franks, Paul,, Groop, Leif,, Hall, A. S., Hamby, S. E., Hamsten, A., Hengstenberg, C., Hopewell, J. C., Hovingh, G. Kees, Ingelsson, E., Kanoni, S., Kathiresan, S., Kee, F., Koenig, I. R., Kooner, J., Lehtimaeki, T., Lund University., Lund University., Lund University., Lund University., Maerz, W., McPherson, R., Metspalu, A., Nelson, C. P., Nieminen, M. S., O'Donnell, C. J., Palmer, C. N. A., Perola, M., Peters, A., Reilly, M. P., Ripatti, S., Roberts, R., Saleheen, D., Salomaa, V., Samani, N. J., Schreiber, S., Schunkert, H., Shah, S. H., Siegbahn, A., Thompson, J. R., Thorsteinsdottir, U., Veronesi, G., Wareham, N., Watkins, H., Willenborg, C., Willer, C. J., Zalloua, P. A., Zeng, L.   +59 more
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