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Establishing a theoretical foundation for measuring global health security: a scoping review
BMC Public Health, 2019 Background Since the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola epidemic, the concept of measuring health security capacity has become increasingly important within the broader context of health systems-strengthening, enhancing responses to public health emergencies ...
Sanjana J. Ravi +5 more
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Projecting water yield and ecosystem productivity across the United States by linking an ecohydrological model to WRF dynamically downscaled climate data [PDF]
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2016 Quantifying the potential impacts of climate change on water yield and ecosystem productivity is essential to developing sound watershed restoration plans, and ecosystem adaptation and mitigation strategies.
S. Sun +6 more
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Stem Cells Translational Medicine, 2016 Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are being exploited as gene delivery vectors for various disease and injury therapies. We provide proof‐of‐concept that engineered MSCs can provide a useful, effective platform for protection against infectious disease ...
Lorena R. Braid +3 more
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Optimal growth under military threat [PDF]
, 2004 National Defense is a public good that requires resources for its production and its availability affects the economic behavior of private agents. A major policy problem of the government is to find an optimal allocation of resources between private use ...
Ersel, Hasan
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Water bathing alters threat perception in starlings. [PDF]
, 2012 The majority of bird taxa perform water bathing, but little is known about the adaptive value of this behaviour. If bathing is important for feather maintenance then birds that have not bathed should have poorer feather condition, compromised escape ...
Bateson M. +5 more
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“What’s Past Is Prologue”: Vegetation Model Calibration with and without Future Climate
Land, 2023 Many models are designed to generate future predictions under climate-change scenarios. Such models are typically calibrated for a study area with climate data that represent historical conditions.
Ellynne Kutschera +3 more
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Transcription as a Threat to Genome Integrity [PDF]
, 2016 Genomes undergo different types of sporadic alterations, including DNA damage, point mutations, and genome rearrangements, that constitute the basis for evolution.
Aguilera López, Andrés +1 more
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Ecohydrological processes and ecosystem services in the Anthropocene: a review
Ecological Processes, 2017 The framework for ecosystem services has been increasingly used in integrated watershed ecosystem management practices that involve scientists, engineers, managers, and policy makers.
Ge Sun, Dennis Hallema, Heidi Asbjornsen
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Non-native tree regeneration indicates regional and national risks from current invasions
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 Non-native (introduced, exotic, and alien) species alter forest ecosystem processes, cause landscape change, interfere with services provided by native trees, and contribute to biotic homogenization. To quantify the degree of invasion by non-native trees
Kevin M. Potter +2 more
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, 2017 Provenance systems are used to capture history metadata, applications include ownership attribution and determining the quality of a particular data set.
Brooks, Richard R. +5 more
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