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Sponge cities for healthier populations

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2023
Nature-based approaches to enhancing the absorbency of urban environments are being used to address the linked issues of climate change, flooding, sanitation and health. Fid Thompson reports.
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An integrated autoregressive model for predicting water quality dynamics and its application in Yongding River

Ecological Indicators, 2021
It is important to predict evolution processes of water quality in order to effectively protect the aquatic eco-system. We proposed an integrated autoregressive (AR) prediction model based on Markov-switching (MS) theory and the improved crow search ...
Chunlei Liu, Chengzhong Pan, Yawen Chang, Mingjie Luo   +3 more
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Identification of a 3-Alkylpyridinium Compound from the Red Sea Sponge Amphimedon chloros with In Vitro Inhibitory Activity against the West Nile Virus NS3 Protease. [PDF]

, 2018
Viruses are underrepresented as targets in pharmacological screening efforts, given the difficulties of devising suitable cell-based and biochemical assays.
Duggan, Brendan M, Emwas, Abdul-Hamid, Gerwick, William H, Kharbatia, Najeh, Kremb, Stephan, O'Rourke, Aubrie, Raji, Misjudeen, Sioud, Salim, Voolstra, Christian R   +8 more
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Eighth Grade Students' Understandings of Groundwater [PDF]

, 2004
According to national standards, eighth graders should possess appropriate understandings regarding groundwater and its role in the hydrologic cycle. This article describes a study of eighth-grade students to determine what types of ideas eighth graders ...
Daniel Dickerson, Karen Dawkins
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Interactions and temporal changes in drivers of Urban Water Ecological Carrying Capacity in cities of Hubei Province, China reflect economic, innovation and policy environments

Ecological Indicators
The Urban Water Ecological Carrying Capacity (UWECC) is a complex, integrated system influenced by water resources, environment, ecology, and socio-economic factors, and is closely linked to high-quality development (HD).
Qimeng Yue, Kate Heal, Zhanjie Li, Jingshan Yu, Xiaolei Yao, Hu Xu, Shugao Xu, Shuang Li, Tong Sun, Zhiyang Yang, Haotian Zhang   +10 more
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Determination of renewable energy yield from mixed waste material from the use of novel image analysis methods [PDF]

, 2013
Two novel techniques are presented in this study which together aim to provide a system able to determine the renewable energy potential of mixed waste materials.
Dudley, R., Longhurst, Philip J., Naftaly, M., Wagland, Stuart Thomas   +3 more
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Assessment of changes in water conservation capacity under land degradation neutrality effects in a typical watershed of Yellow River Basin, China

Ecological Indicators, 2023
Large-scale implementation of the Grain for Green Project since 1999, which took the Yellow River Basin (YRB) as the core ecological restoration area, has had an important impact on the hydrological processes and ecological environment.
Depeng Zuo, Guo Chen, Guoqing Wang, Zongxue Xu, Yuna Han, Dingzhi Peng, Bo Pang, Karim C. Abbaspour, Hong Yang   +8 more
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Impact of urbanization on variability of annual and flood season precipitation in a typical city of North China

Hydrology Research, 2020
Urbanization plays an important role in a global change, but there are few studies that combine land use with topography and precipitation. The urbanization in Jinan, a typical city of North China, between the 1980s and 2005 was analyzed by transition ...
Peijun Li, Depeng Zuo, Zongxue Xu, Xiaoxi Gao, Dingzhi Peng, Guangyuan Kan, Wenchao Sun, Bo Pang, Hong Yang   +8 more
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Developing evidence‐based, cost‐effective P4 cancer medicine for driving innovation in prevention, therapeutics, patient care and reducing healthcare inequalities

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The cancer problem is increasing globally with projections up to the year 2050 showing unfavourable outcomes in terms of incidence and cancer‐related deaths. The main challenges are prevention, improved therapeutics resulting in increased cure rates and enhanced health‐related quality of life.
Ulrik Ringborg, Joachim von Braun, Julio Celis, Anton Berns, Michael Baumann, Tit Albreht, Nancy Abou‐Zeid, Vanderlei Bagnato, Christian Brandts, Chien‐Jen Chen, Massimiliano di Pietro, Manjit Dosanjh, Thomas Dubois, Alexander Eggermont, Angelika Eggert, Ingemar Ernberg, Sara Faithfull, Johannes Förner, Stefan Fröhling, Manuel Heitor, Leroy Hood, Wei Jiang, Bengt Jönsson, Ravi Kannan, Maria Leptin, Su Li, Peter Lindgren, Douglas Lowy, Jun Ma, Alex Markham, Péter Nagy, Simon Oberst, M. Iqbal Parker, Danielle Rodin, Kevin Ryan, Joachim Schüz, Richard Sullivan, Josep Tabernero, Peter Turkson, Oliver Várhelyi, Harold Varmus, Chijie Wang, Elisabete Weiderpass, Nils Wilking   +43 more
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Intensified Rainfall, Growing Floods: Projecting Urban Drainage Challenges in South-Central China Under Climate Change Scenarios

Applied Sciences
Global climate change is intensifying extreme rainfall, exacerbating urban flood risks, and undermining the effectiveness of urban stormwater drainage systems (USDS) designed under stationary climate assumptions.
Zhengduo Bao, Yuxuan Wu, Weining He, Nian She, Zhenjun Li   +4 more
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