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Predicting the environmental suitability for onchocerciasis in Africa as an aid to elimination planning.

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
Recent evidence suggests that, in some foci, elimination of onchocerciasis from Africa may be feasible with mass drug administration (MDA) of ivermectin. To achieve continental elimination of transmission, mapping surveys will need to be conducted across
Elizabeth A Cromwell   +224 more
doaj   +1 more source

W. T. Stead and the Eastern Question (1875-1911); or, How to Rouse England and Why?

open access: yes19, 2013
W. T. Stead, who had viewed his appointment as editor of the new Darlington daily, the Northern Echo, in 1871 as ‘a glorious opportunity of attacking the devil’, took up many crusades beyond that of the ‘Maiden Tribute’. Among the career-long causes that
Stéphanie Prévost
doaj   +2 more sources

From Loss to Transformation? Towards Pluralistic and Politicised Agrarian‐Climate Futures

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how actors perceive and anticipate future states of the world is gaining traction in climate change governance scholarship and related calls for sustainability transformations. However, smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, and local communities, who are expected to bear disproportionate burdens of loss and damage from climate ...
Joel Persson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Re-organisation of oesophago-gastric cancer care in England: progress and remaining challenges

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2009
Background Oesophago-gastric cancer services in England have been extensively reorganised since 2001 to deliver a centralised, specialist-led service.
Greenaway Kimberley   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards an ‘absolute’ timing of biostratigraphic and environmental phases from the Saalian late glacial to the Weichselian pleniglacial in central Europe—Insights from a lacustrine succession in Lichtenberg, northern Germany

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Palynological records are central to the biostratigraphic subdivision of the Late Pleistocene in central Europe. Yet many interglacial and interstadial phases—such as the Eemian, Brörup and Odderade—remain only poorly constrained in time due to limited numerical dating.
Michael Hein   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17

open access: yesThe Lancet Global Health, 2020
Summary: Background: Universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities is an essential human right, recognised in the Sustainable Development Goals as crucial for preventing disease and improving human wellbeing.
Aniruddha Deshpande   +668 more
doaj   +1 more source

An AI‐assisted workflow for generating historical species distributions from avian museum specimens

open access: yesIbis, EarlyView.
The Earth's biodiversity is changing rapidly due to human activities. Natural history collections could help us better understand how and why biodiversity is changing but are grossly under‐used in this respect. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform this situation by enabling us to unlock data associated with museum specimens more ...
Peter Learned   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The global distribution of lymphatic filariasis, 2000–18: a geospatial analysis

open access: yesThe Lancet Global Health, 2020
Summary: Background: Lymphatic filariasis is a neglected tropical disease that can cause permanent disability through disruption of the lymphatic system. This disease is caused by parasitic filarial worms that are transmitted by mosquitos.
Aniruddha Deshpande   +668 more
doaj   +1 more source

Long‐term prescribed burning and mowing shape soil bacterial community structure and functional potential in a restored tallgrass prairie ecosystem

open access: yesRestoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Questions How do long‐term prescribed burning and mowing influence soil bacterial community diversity, composition, and predicted functional potential in restored tallgrass prairie ecosystems, and do microbial responses observed a decade earlier persist under continued management? Location Glacier Creek Preserve (GCP), Eastern Nebraska, United
Charles Antwi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Converso Diaspora and Iberian Empires

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whereas there is no consensus among contemporary scholars in defining the Converso diaspora and its criteria of belonging, most of them highlighted its geographical, economic, cultural and political dependence on early modern Iberian empires.
Claude B. Stuczynski
wiley   +1 more source

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