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Enabling Effective Problem-oriented Research for Sustainable Development

Ecology and Society, 2012
Environmental problems caused by human activities are increasing; biodiversity is disappearing at an unprecedented rate, soils are being irreversibly damaged, freshwater is increasingly in short supply, and the climate is changing.
Christoph Kueffer, Evelyn Underwood, Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, Rolf Holderegger, Michael Lehning, Christian Pohl, Mario Schirmer, René Schwarzenbach, Michael Stauffacher, Gabriela Wuelser, Peter Edwards   +10 more
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Urban transition in China: Examining the coordination between urbanization and the eco-environment using a multi-model evaluation method

Ecological Indicators, 2021
The coupling between urbanization and the eco-environment plays an important role in advancing China’s urbanization. This study applies systems theory to build a set of indicators for urbanization and the eco-environment and uses the entropy method to ...
Xiuli Liu, Pibin Guo, Xiaohang Yue, Shunchang Zhong, Xiaoyan Cao   +4 more
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Evaluating the Utility of Paired Tumor and Germline Targeted DNA Sequencing for Pediatric Oncology Patients: A Single Institution Report

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic yield and utility of universal paired tumor–normal multigene panel sequencing in newly diagnosed pediatric solid and central nervous system (CNS) tumor patients and to compare the detection of germline pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PV/LPVs) against established clinical referral criteria for cancer ...
Natalie Waligorski, Rebecca Ronsley, Shannon M. Stasi, Jeffrey Stevens, Erin R. Rudzinski, Christina M. Lockwood, Sarah E. S. Leary, Bonnie L. Cole, Michelle A. Ting, Vera Paulson   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Field and farm-level data on agricultural land use for the European Union

Scientific Data
We present field-level land-use data from the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS), featuring extended thematic details on farm-level indicators and organic cultivation.
Clemens Jänicke, Kristoffer Ansbak Petersen, Phillip Schmidts, Daniel Müller, Martin Rudbeck Jepsen   +4 more
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Shaping Water Infrastructure Futures in the European Union Context

Encyclopedia
This entry explores how foresight approaches can guide the future of water infrastructures. It highlights key long-term disruptive drivers of change—such as climate change, digital transformation, and geopolitical tensions—that infrastructures must ...
Helena Alegre
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Modeling for Transition Management

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
A framework for the modeling and simulation of transitions is presented. A transition, “substantial change in the state of a socio-technical system”, typically unfolds over a long timespan. We therefore suggest to use simulation to inform transition managers on the effect of their decisions.
Chappin, E.J.L. (author), Dijkema, G.P.J. (author)   +1 more
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Outcomes of Live Virus Vaccination in Patients With Vascular Anomalies Being Treated With Sirolimus

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Live vaccination in patients with vascular anomalies (VA) receiving sirolimus remains controversial due to immunosuppressive effects and theoretical risks. Procedure This single‐center retrospective study included patients with VA less than 4 years old at the start of sirolimus therapy who were incompletely vaccinated.
Svatava Merkle, Kiersten Ricci, Kelly Blache, Rebecca A. Marsh, Adrienne M. Hammill, Elissa Engel   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The value of theoretical multiplicity for steering transitions towards sustainability [PDF]

, 2009
Transition management, as a theory of directing structural societal changes towards sustainable system innovations, has become a major topic in scientific research over the last years.
Breeman, G.E., Dewulf, A., Pot, W.D., Termeer, C.J.A.M., Werkman, R.A.   +4 more
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Moving enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to the cloud: the challenge of infrastructural embeddedness

International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management, 2020
Cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions allow organizations to support and coordinate key business processes by leveraging virtualization. Nevertheless, moving ERPs to the cloud is not straightforward, and organizational cloud ERP initiatives ...
Eli Hustad, Vegard Sørheller, Emeli Jørgensen, Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou,   +4 more
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