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Social Metabolism and Conflicts over Extractivism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The natural resource conflict dimension of environmental governance is usually centred on the social and political aspects of production systems and has hardly addressed the biophysical features of the natural resources themselves. Here we aim to address renewable and non-renewable resource-extraction conflicts in Latin America in the context of a ...
Joan Martinez-Alier, Mariana Walter
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LivWell: a sub-national Dataset on the Living Conditions of Women and their Well-being for 52 Countries

open access: yesScientific Data, 2022
Measurement(s) human living conditions Technology Type(s) data ...
Camille Belmin   +3 more
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Self-beneficial belief updating as a coping mechanism for stress-induced negative affect

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Being confronted with social-evaluative stress elicits a physiological and a psychological stress response. This calls for regulatory processes to manage negative affect and maintain self-related optimistic beliefs.
Nora Czekalla   +8 more
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Metabolic division of labor in social insects

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Insect Science, 2023
Social insects are known for reproductive and behavioral division of labor, but little attention has been paid to metabolic forms of division of labor. Metabolic division of labor is the partitioning of complementary metabolic tasks between individuals within the colony, and it is widespread in social insects.
Matteo Negroni, Adria LeBoeuf
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Social metabolism of Czech agriculture in the period 1830–2010

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae Geographica, 2015
This article presents the concept of social metabolism and highlights its use for the analysis of the development of agriculture in Czechia. Similar to the general discipline of geography, social metabolism investigates the interactions between people ...
Petra Grešlová   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The agrarian metabolism as a tool for assessing agrarian sustainability, and its application to Spanish agriculture (1960-2008)

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2018
Agrarian metabolism applies the social metabolism framework to agriculture. It focuses on the study of the exchange of material and energy flows between a society and its environment for producing useful biomass.
Gloria I. Guzmán   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Low physical activity and depression are the prominent predictive factors for falling in older adults: the Birjand Longitudinal Aging Study (BLAS)

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2023
Background Falling in the older adults has many irreparable consequences, including hospitalization to long-term care centers and loss of independence, depression and social isolation, financial burden, and death.
Sara Mortazavi   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Amadori rearrangement products as potential biomarkers for inborn errors of amino-acid metabolism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Contains fulltext : 231543.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)The identification of disease biomarkers plays a crucial role in developing diagnostic strategies for inborn errors of metabolism and understanding their pathophysiology.
Moons, Sam J.   +39 more
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Dynapenic abdominal obesity is associated with mild cognitive impairment in patients with cardiometabolic disease: a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background Dementia is an important health issue for older people and requires early intervention in the mild cognitive impairment (MCI) stage to manage risk factors.
Kazuhito Oba   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase: At the crossroads between cellular metabolism and epigenetic regulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
[Background]: The abundance of energy metabolites is intimately interconnected with the activity of chromatin-modifying enzymes in order to guarantee the finely tuned modulation of gene expression in response to cellular energetic status.
Fernández, Agustín F.   +4 more
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