Climate Change and Food Systems
Food systems contribute 19%–29% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, releasing 9,800–16,900 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO 2 e) in 2008. Agricu...
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Evidence-Based Health Policy—Lessons from the Global Burden of Disease Study
The Global Burden of Disease Study, a comprehensive regional and global assessment of mortality and disability from 107 diseases and injuries and 10 risk factors, is an example ...
Clinical findings in a group of patients infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) outside of Wuhan, China: retrospective case series
Abstract Objective To study the clinical characteristics of patients in Zhejiang province, China, infected with the 2019 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Co...
Focal Adhesions: Transmembrane Junctions Between the Extracellular Matrix and the Cytoskeleton
Many cells grown in tissue culture adhere tightly to the underlying substrate through discrete regions of the plasma membrane, referred to as adhesion plaques, focal contacts, o...
Classifying Services to Gain Strategic Marketing Insights
The diversity of the service sector makes it difficult to come up with managerially useful generalizations concerning marketing practice in service organizations. This article a...
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations in the Data Releases 10 and 11 Galaxy samples
We present a one per cent measurement of the cosmic distance scale from the detections of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of galaxies from the Baryon Os...
AGE STANDARDIZATION OF RATES: A NEW WHO STANDARD
A recent WHO analysis has revealed the need for a new world standard population (see attached table). This has become particularly pertinent given the rapid and continued declin...
Mouvement brownien d'un ellipsoide - I. Dispersion diélectrique pour des molécules ellipsoidales
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Prevention of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
This Clinical Report was retired October 2012. Rickets in infants attributable to inadequate vitamin D intake and decreased exposure to sunlight continues to be reported in the ...
Deficits in Psychologic and Classroom Performance of Children with Elevated Dentine Lead Levels
To measure the neuropsychologic effects of unidentified childhood exposure to lead, the performance of 58 children with high and 100 with low dentine lead levels was compared. C...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric Camera
We have constructed a large format mosaic CCD camera for the Sloan Digital\nSky Survey. The camera consists of two arrays, a photometric array which uses\n30 2048 x 2048 SITe/Te...
Large Shareholders, Monitoring, and the Value of the Firm
We propose that dispersed outside ownership and the resulting managerial discretion come with costs but also with benefits. Even when tight control by shareholders is ex post ef...