Enabling Future Sustainability Transitions: An Urban Metabolism Approach to Los Angeles Pincetl et al. Enabling Future Sustainability Transitions [PDF]
, 2014 Summary: This synthesis article presents an overview of an urban metabolism (UM) approach using mixed methods and multiple sources of data for Los Angeles, California.
Chester, M +7 more
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Social Metabolism and Conflicts over Extractivism [PDF]
, 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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Insights into the pathogenesis of nicotine addiction. Could a salivary biosensor be useful in Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)? [PDF]
, 2019 Nicotine has gained the attention of the medical community due to its insidious addictive mechanisms which lead to chronic consumption. The multitude of compounds derived from tobacco smoke have local and systemic negative impacts, resulting in a large ...
Alexescu, Teodora G +13 more
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International comparison of health care carbon footprints
Environmental Research Letters, 2019 Climate change confronts the health care sector with a dual challenge. Accumulating climate impacts are putting an increased burden on the service provision of already stressed health care systems in many regions of the world. At the same time, the Paris
Peter-Paul Pichler +3 more
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The genomics of neonatal abstinence syndrome [PDF]
, 2017 Significant variability has been observed in the development and severity of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) among neonates exposed to prenatal opioids.
Cole, F. Sessions +2 more
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Living in interesting times - Challenging protein metabolism in the era of the epidemiological shift [PDF]
, 2016 The recently released results of the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor study 2013 reveal that during the past 23 years, metabolic and behavioral risk factors, including high BMI, increased their impact on global mortality and disability-
Laviano, Alessandro
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Gestational diabetes knowledge improves with interactive online training modules
BMC Medical EducationBackground The risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is up to 50% among women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). However, diabetes education during and after pregnancy is limited.
Petra Krutilova +7 more
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Material Flow Analysis: Outcome Focus (MFA:OF) for Elucidating the Role of Infrastructure in the Development of a Liveable City [PDF]
, 2015 Engineered infrastructures (i.e., utilities, transport & digital) underpin modern society. Delivering services via these is especially challenging in cities where differing infrastructures form a web of interdependencies. There must be a step change in
Hunt, D., Leach, J., Lee, S., Rogers, C.
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Different trajectories of exosomatic energy metabolism for Brazil, Chile and Venezuela: using the MSIASM approach [PDF]
Economic development goes hand in hand with an increase in the consumption of natural resources. Some analysts use material flows to describe such relationship [Eurostat 2001, Weisz et al., 2006], or exergy [Ayres et al., 2003].
Heinz Schandl +2 more
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A guide to studying the socio-ecological transition in european agriculture [PDF]
This paper shows the potential of the Social Metabolism approach to study the industrialization of the agriculture. It provides information about the physical functioning of agrarian systems over time and their spatial differences. It also sheds light on
Manuel González de Molina
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