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Towards Water, Food and Energy Security: The Global Challenges and Possible Solutions for a Holistic Vision of Sustainability

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This invited paper gives an overview of the challenges the world is facing and offers a possible solution for water and food security within the holistic integrated concept of the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus. The paper summarizes the experience the author gained through working on various research projects at national and international ...
Ragab Ragab
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Translating Riedl: The Circulation and Operationalisation of Evolutionary Ideas

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, EarlyView.
Rupert Riedl's Order in Living Organisms proposed a systems theory of evolution decades before the concepts it pioneered—homology, burden, the imitative epigenotype—reached the agenda of evolutionary biology. This paper reconstructs the lineages that operationalized his insights across several fields and explores the internal and external reasons for ...
Laura Nuño de la Rosa
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Surface and Tropospheric Climatic Trends in the Galápagos Archipelago Based on the Galápagos Archipelago Refined Analysis Dataset

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
The Galápagos Archipelago's near‐surface climate is primarily influenced by interannual El Niño‐Southern Oscillation variability, with no statistical evidence for long‐term trends in air temperature, humidity, or precipitation. While tropospheric warming and increased atmospheric stability are observed, these trends are largely decoupled from near ...
Benjamin Schmidt, Marco Otto, Frederik Bart, Nazli Turini, Byron Delgado Maldonado, Jörg Bendix, Dieter Scherer   +6 more
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Heat, Health and Holidays: Reported Heat Related Adjustments to Australian Tourist Behaviour

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
This study assessed how climate‐related hazards affect Australian tourists' travel planning. While 80% of tourists report no impact, the 20% who do experience disruption most commonly change their activities, timing, or destination, with heat and rain affecting the same proportion of tourists across beach, city, nature, and family tourism types ...
Kerstin K. Zander, Sohail Ali, Amila Kasun Sampath Udage Kankanamge, Ronju Ahammad, Jonatan Lassa, Matthew Abunyewah, Michael Odei Erdiaw‐Kwasie, Stephen T. Garnett   +7 more
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„Wir kommen unter die Metzger“. Die Umsetzung des nationalsozialistischen Euthanasieprogramms im Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg

Historia.scribere, 2016
The following bachelor thesis is about the Aktion T4 in Nazi Germany and its execution in the Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg. Starting with an overview of the most important ideological and racial influences of the Nazis, like the social Darwinism or the ...
Thomas Walli
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of a vancomycin intervention on vancomycin‐associated nephrotoxicity in children: a quality improvement initiative

Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Vancomycin is first‐line treatment for methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. However, despite guideline recommendations, there is no evidence that targeting vancomycin trough concentrations of ≥15 mg/L in children confers clinical benefit and is associated with vancomycin‐associated nephrotoxicity (VAN ...
Megan R. Nettleton, Hwi‐Eun Mary Shim, Joanne Abbotsford, Zoy Goff, Briony Hazelton, Matthew O'Brien, Tenielle Porter, Thomas Snelling, Daniel K. Yeoh, Asha C. Bowen, Christopher C. Blyth, Anita J. Campbell   +11 more
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Editor's Presentation. Darwinism and Social Science: Is there Any Hope for the Reductionist?

Theoria, 2010
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Jesús Zamora Bonilla
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TIMELESS LEADERSHIP FOR A CHANGING WORLD: LESSONS FROM AFRICAN PROVERBS

Leader to Leader, EarlyView.
Abstract The author served for more than 20 years as the CEO of multibillion‐dollar businesses, and is now Professor of the Practice of Management at Columbia Business School. This informs his perspective on leading for the long term, and the challenges in doing so.
Willie Pietersen
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Human evolution in the South African school curriculum

South African Journal of Science, 2019
A decade after the introduction of the topic into the South African public school curriculum, the theory of evolution by natural selection is poorly understood among those who teach it, and that flawed understanding is transferred to those attempting to ...
Clarisa Sutherland, Ericka N. L'Abbé
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Rooted in Responsibility: How Evolutionary Cues Influence Green Consumption?

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Growing concerns about sustainable consumption have prompted marketers to identify drivers of consumers' green decision‐making, yet limited research has explored the effect of evolutionary cues on green consumption. Drawing on evolutionary psychology and regulatory focus theory, this research examines whether long‐term (vs. short‐term) partner
Yee Qin Lee, Soo Yeong Ewe, Sumit Malik, Motoki Watabe   +3 more
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