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The Construction of an Environmental Villain: A Discourse Analysis of Upland Maize Farming in Thailand

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the mid‐2010s, Thai public discourse has villainised upland maize cultivation in northern Thailand for deforestation and environmental degradation through the popular imagery of bald mountains. The attention has prompted a new wave of land‐use interventions urging upland smallholders to replace maize with trees and perennials.
Pin Pravalprukskul   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fractal evolution of MHz electromagnetic signals prior to earthquakes: results collected in Greece during 2009

open access: yesGeomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2016
This paper addressed a fractal evolution of 11 one-month lasting MHz electromagnetic disturbances, recorded in Greece prior to nine significant earthquakes of 2009. Time-space wavelet-based power spectral techniques were employed in the analysis.
Ermioni Petraki   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Disfunção miocárdica em pacientes chagásicos sem cardiopatia aparente Myocardial dysfunction in chagasic patients with no apparent heart disease

open access: yesArquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2007
FUNDAMENTO: O índice de Tei avalia simultaneamente as funções sistólica e diastólica dos ventrículos. Apresenta boa correlação com dados hemodinâmicos e tem sido capaz de detectar alterações na função ventricular iniciais de diversas etiologias. OBJETIVO:
Airandes de Sousa Pinto   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The risk and resilience factors associated with secondary traumatic stress in school personnel: A scoping review

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background School personnel bear the emotional burden of students' trauma. Secondary traumatic stress (STS), resulting from indirect trauma exposure, impacts well‐being and job performance through PTSD‐like symptoms, making addressing STS in schools a critical priority.
Paul Gordon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Increased posterior tibial slope leads to increased risk of graft rupture in anterior cruciate reconstruction: a retrospective matched case-control study

open access: yesAsia-Pacific Journal of Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation and Technology
Purpose: To investigate influence of an increased posterior tibial slope (PTS) on anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction graft failure amongst ethnic Chinese in local subjects.
Wing-Leong Chan   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementing Security in a University Network

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2016
This paper describes the implementation of a revised security plan in the Technological and Educational Institution Stereas Elladas. This technology uses smart cards and 8 digits alphanumeric to provide high data security and encrypted communications in ...
Diakakis Ioannis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
wiley   +1 more source

PERIODIZING GEOLOGICALLY OUTWITH (AND WITHOUT?) THE ANTHROPOCENE: PASTS, AGENCIES, AND THE TERRESTRIAL

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to premodern histories and texts. However, it has introduced historians to geological periodization as a mode of describing periods of changed ...
Gwenffrewi J. Morgan
wiley   +1 more source

Detection and Classification of Multiple Objects using an RGB-D Sensor and Linear Spatial Pyramid Matching

open access: yesELCVIA Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis, 2013
This paper presents a complete system for multiple object detection and classification in a 3D scene using an RGB-D sensor such as the Microsoft Kinect sensor.
Georgios Triantafyllidis   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding extracellular vesicle biology, isolation, and characterization: The theory of EV‐erything

open access: yesPeriodontology 2000, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Extracellular vesicles (EVs), especially exosomes, are nanoparticles increasingly recognized as key regulators of intercellular communication in both physiological and pathological aspects. Despite rapid progress, inconsistencies in nomenclature, isolation, and characterization continue to restrict translational advancement.
Paras Ahmad   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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