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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Psittacosis: An Underappreciated and Often Undiagnosed Disease
Pathogens, 2023 The bacterial agent Chlamydia psittaci, and the resulting disease of psittacosis, is a little-known and underappreciated infectious disease by healthcare practitioners and in public health in general. C.
Zygmunt F. Dembek +4 more
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Burned forests impact water supplies
Nature Communications, 2018 Wildland fire seasons in the United States are getting longer, yet the impacts of fire on water availability at the regional scale are unclear. Here the authors show that fire increased annual river flow throughout the West, while prescribed burns in the
Dennis W. Hallema +7 more
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The relationships between internal and external threat and right-wing attitudes: A three-wave longitudinal study [PDF]
, 2013 The interplay between threat and right-wing attitudes has received much research attention, but its longitudinal relationship has hardly been investigated. In this study, we investigated the longitudinal relationships between internal and external threat
Onraet, Emma +2 more
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Cultural differences in the perception of psychological threat and compensation [PDF]
, 2017 2017-12-28Coping toward psychological threat is important in our everyday lives, even if we choose to overcome or avoid it. While most of the research conducted on this theme has originated from the Western world, the conception, function and content of ...
TAKAI, Jiro, TERASHIMA, Yuto
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Cognitive and affective components of challenge and threat states [PDF]
, 2012 We explored the cognitive and affective components of the Theory of Challenge and Threat States in Athletes (TCTSA) using a cross-sectional design. One hundred and seventy-seven collegiate athletes indicated how they typically approached an important ...
McCarthy, Paul J. +11 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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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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