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[
"natural-capital"
] | Modelling malaria dynamics with partial immunity and protected travellers: optimal control and cost-effectiveness analysis. | [
"S Olaniyi",
"K O Okosun",
"S O Adesanya",
"R S Lebelo"
] | Journal of biological dynamics | 2,020 | 14 | 10.1080/17513758.2020.1722265 | 32,046,615 | A mathematical model of malaria dynamics with naturally acquired transient immunity in the presence of protected travellers is presented. The qualitative analysis carried out on the autonomous model reveals the existence of backward bifurcation, where the locally asymptotically stable malaria-free and malaria-present e... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | Efficacy of medicinal plants and their derived biomolecules against Plasmodium falciparum. | [
"Umme Qulsum",
"Md Thoufic Anam Azad",
"Kentaro Kato"
] | Parasitology international | 2,024 | 103 | 10.1016/j.parint.2024.102946 | 39,128,649 | Many apicomplexan pathogens pose significant threats to humans and domestic animals, with the lack of effective drugs and drug resistance representing major challenges in disease management. To address this, the search for new and potent antimalarial drugs is crucial. Plant-based formulations offer a promising alternat... |
[
"coastal-protection"
] | Arsenic (As) contamination in sediments from coastal areas of China. | [
"Xun Liu",
"Biao Zeng",
"Guo Lin"
] | Marine pollution bulletin | 2,022 | 175 | 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113350 | 35,092,934 | Arsenic (As) from various anthropogenic sources has accumulated in estuarine and coastal sediments of China in the past decade, but we know little about the overall situation of As pollution at a national scale. Here, we analysed the spatial-temporal distribution characteristics, source, fate, and potential risks of As... |
[
"renewable-resources"
] | Carrageenan: Drug Delivery Systems and Other Biomedical Applications. | [
"Edisson-Mauricio Pacheco-Quito",
"Roberto Ruiz-Caro",
"María-Dolores Veiga"
] | Marine drugs | 2,020 | 18 | 10.3390/md18110583 | 33,238,488 | Marine resources are today a renewable source of various compounds, such as polysaccharides, that are used in the pharmaceutical, medical, cosmetic, and food fields. In recent years, considerable attention has been focused on carrageenan-based biomaterials due to their multifunctional qualities, including biodegradabil... |
[
"biodiversity-conservation"
] | Dead foundation species create coral rubble habitat that benefits a resilient pest species. | [
"Kennedy Wolfe",
"Maria Byrne"
] | Marine environmental research | 2,024 | 202 | 10.1016/j.marenvres.2024.106740 | 39,255,629 | Critical loss of habitat is the greatest threat to biodiversity, yet some species are inherently plastic to and may even benefit from changes in ecosystem states. The crown-of-thorns sea star (CoTS; Acanthaster spp.) may be one such organism. CoTS are large corallivores native to the tropical Indo-Pacific and in unexpl... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | Microbial itaconic acid bioproduction towards sustainable development: Insights, challenges, and prospects. | [
"Priskila Adjani Diankristanti",
"I-Son Ng"
] | Bioresource technology | 2,023 | 384 | 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.129280 | 37,290,713 | Microbial biomanufacturing is a promising approach to produce high-value compounds with low-carbon footprint and significant economic benefits. Among twelve "Top Value-Added Chemicals from Biomass", itaconic acid (IA) stands out as a versatile platform chemical with numerous applications. IA is naturally produced by As... |
[
"habitat-restoration",
"biodiversity-conservation",
"ecosystem-restoration"
] | Can large herbivores enhance ecosystem carbon persistence? | [
"Jeppe A Kristensen",
"Jens-Christian Svenning",
"Katerina Georgiou",
"Yadvinder Malhi"
] | Trends in ecology & evolution | 2,022 | 37 | 10.1016/j.tree.2021.09.006 | 34,801,276 | There is growing interest in aligning the wildlife conservation and restoration agenda with climate change mitigation goals. However, the presence of large herbivores tends to reduce aboveground biomass in some open-canopy ecosystems, leading to the possibility that large herbivore restoration may negatively influence ... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | Economic burden of caregiving for persons with severe mental illness in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review. | [
"Rebecca Addo",
"Samuel Agyei Agyemang",
"Yesim Tozan",
"Justice Nonvignon"
] | PloS one | 2,018 | 13 | 10.1371/journal.pone.0199830 | 30,092,073 | Over the past two decades, the focus of mental health care has shifted from institutionalisation to community-based programs and short hospital stays. This change means that there is an increased role for caregivers, mostly family members, in managing persons with mental illness. Although there is evidence to support t... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | Differential Investment Strategies in Leaf Economic Traits Across Climate Regions Worldwide. | [
"Liang Ren",
"Yongmei Huang",
"Yingping Pan",
"Xiang Xiang",
"Jiaxuan Huo",
"Dehui Meng",
"Yuanyuan Wang",
"Cheng Yu"
] | Frontiers in plant science | 2,022 | 13 | 10.3389/fpls.2022.798035 | 35,356,106 | The leaf economics spectrum (LES) is the leading theory of plant ecological strategies based on functional traits, which explains the trade-off between dry matter investment in leaf structure and the potential rate of resource return, revealing general patterns of leaf economic traits investment for different plant gro... |
[
"ecological-engineering"
] | Understanding constraints on sport performance from the complexity sciences paradigm: An ecological dynamics framework. | [
"Ludovic Seifert",
"Duarte Araújo",
"John Komar",
"Keith Davids"
] | Human movement science | 2,017 | 56 | 10.1016/j.humov.2017.05.001 | 28,499,742 | Glazier's suggestion for the constraints-led approach as a GUT for sport performance is a worthy proposal. What is missing from these preliminary insights is a principled basis, in the form of pillars, for understanding the cornerstones of the sports medicine profession, and this lack of an overarching theoretical fram... |
[
"habitat-restoration",
"ecosystem-restoration"
] | Influence of Water Table Depth on Pore Water Chemistry and Trihalomethane Formation Potential in Peatlands. | [
"Rachel Gough",
"Peter J Holliman",
"Nathalie Fenner",
"Mike Peacock",
"Christopher Freeman"
] | Water environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation | 2,016 | 88 | 10.2175/106143015X14362865227878 | 26,803,099 | Drained peatland catchments are reported to produce more colored, dissolved organic carbon (DOC)-rich water, presenting problems for potable water treatment. The blocking of peatland drainage ditches to restore the water table is increasingly being considered as a strategy to address this deterioration in water quality... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | [Prevention and management of stoma-related complications after surgery for low rectal cancer]. | [
"J Gu",
"Yong Yang"
] | Zhonghua wei chang wai ke za zhi = Chinese journal of gastrointestinal surgery | 2,022 | 25 | 10.3760/cma.j.cn441530-20220517-00219 | 36,396,368 | The related technology of enterostomy is a professional skill that colorectal surgeons need to master, and it is clinically important to prevent the occurrence of enterostomy-related complications of low rectal cancer. The early complications of enterostomy include stoma retraction, stoma ischemic necrosis, stoma edema... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | Promoting a more diverse and inclusive research workforce through the research scholars program. | [
"Nancy E Schoenberg",
"Jimmy Robinson",
"Margaret McGladrey",
"Lisa A Cassis",
"Darwin Conwell",
"Kevin J Pearson",
"Lisa R Tannock",
"Donna Wilcock",
"Stephanie White"
] | BMC medical education | 2,024 | 24 | 10.1186/s12909-024-05075-0 | 38,291,425 | Novel and comprehensive approaches are needed to address shortcomings in the diversity and inclusiveness of the scientific workforce. In response to this need and informed by multiple programs and data sources, we created the Research Scholars Program (RSP). The RSP is a yearlong program for early-career faculty with a... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of 3- vs. 6-monthly dispensing of antiretroviral treatment (ART) for stable HIV patients in community ART-refill groups in Zimbabwe: study protocol for a pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial. | [
"Geoffrey Fatti",
"Nicoletta Ngorima-Mabhena",
"Frank Chirowa",
"Benson Chirwa",
"Kudakwashe Takarinda",
"Taurayi A Tafuma",
"Nyikadzino Mahachi",
"Rudo Chikodzore",
"Simon Nyadundu",
"Charles A Ajayi",
"Tsitsi Mutasa-Apollo",
"Owen Mugurungi",
"Eula Mothibi",
"Risa M Hoffman",
"Ashraf G... | Trials | 2,018 | 19 | 10.1186/s13063-018-2469-y | 29,378,662 | Sub-Saharan Africa is the world region with the greatest number of people eligible to receive antiretroviral treatment (ART). Less frequent dispensing of ART and community-based ART-delivery models are potential strategies to reduce the load on overburdened healthcare facilities and reduce the barriers for patients to ... |
[
"ecosystem-based-management"
] | Benthic ecosystem determines jellyfish blooms by controlling the polyp colony development. | [
"Wenxiao Zang",
"Fang Zhang",
"Yan Sun",
"Zhiqiang Xu",
"Song Sun"
] | Marine pollution bulletin | 2,023 | 193 | 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115232 | 37,406,400 | The harmful irregular jellyfish blooms in recent years are difficult to be deciphered by macro hydrographic condition changes. To fundamentally explain the dynamic of jellyfish populations, we shifted the focus to the polyp stage of jellyfish life cycle and local benthic ecosystems. We monitored the population dynamics... |
[
"habitat-restoration",
"ecosystem-restoration"
] | Empirical Evidence for the Potential Climate Benefits of Decarbonizing Light Vehicle Transport in the U.S. with Bioenergy from Purpose-Grown Biomass with and without BECCS. | [
"Ilya Gelfand",
"Stephen K Hamilton",
"Alexandra N Kravchenko",
"Randall D Jackson",
"Kurt D Thelen",
"G Philip Robertson"
] | Environmental science & technology | 2,020 | 54 | 10.1021/acs.est.9b07019 | 32,052,964 | Climate mitigation scenarios limiting global temperature increases to 1.5 °C rely on decarbonizing vehicle transport with bioenergy production plus carbon capture and storage (BECCS), but climate impacts for producing different bioenergy feedstocks have not been directly compared experimentally or for ethanol vs electr... |
[
"biodiversity-conservation"
] | Spatial scaling of microbial biodiversity. | [
"Jessica Green",
"Brendan J M Bohannan"
] | Trends in ecology & evolution | 2,006 | 21 | 10.1016/j.tree.2006.06.012 | 16,815,589 | A central goal in ecology is to understand the spatial scaling of biodiversity. Patterns in the spatial distribution of organisms provide important clues about the underlying mechanisms that structure ecological communities and are central to setting conservation priorities. Although microorganisms comprise much of Ear... |
[
"habitat-restoration",
"coastal-protection",
"ecosystem-restoration"
] | Landscape structure and land use affect estuarine benthic invertebrates in the Virginian Biogeographic Province, USA. | [
"Marguerite C Pelletier",
"Arthur J Gold",
"Jane Copeland",
"Liliana Gonzalez",
"Peter V August"
] | Environmental monitoring and assessment | 2,019 | 191 | 10.1007/s10661-019-7401-8 | 30,919,081 | Estuaries are dynamic transition zones linking freshwater and oceanic habitats. These productive ecosystems are threatened by a variety of stressors including human modification of coastal watersheds. In this study, we examined potential linkages between estuarine condition and the watershed using multimodel inference.... |
[
"carbon-sequestration"
] | Mosses reduce soil nitrogen availability in a subarctic birch forest via effects on soil thermal regime and sequestration of deposited nitrogen. | [
"Marianne Koranda",
"Anders Michelsen"
] | The Journal of ecology | 2,021 | 109 | 10.1111/1365-2745.13567 | 33,776,135 | In high-latitude ecosystems bryophytes are important drivers of ecosystem functions. Alterations in abundance of mosses due to global change may thus strongly influence carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling and hence cause feedback on climate. The effects of mosses on soil microbial activity are, however, still poorly un... |
[
"renewable-resources"
] | Efficient dehydration of glucose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural catalyzed by the ionic liquid,1-hydroxyethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate. | [
"Yongshui Qu",
"Chongpin Huang",
"Yanlei Song",
"Jie Zhang",
"Biaohua Chen"
] | Bioresource technology | 2,012 | 121 | 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.06.081 | 22,863,180 | The dehydration of fructose or glucose to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) using room temperature ionic liquids (ILs) as a solvent is a promising method for producing liquid fuels from renewable resources. The IL, 1-hydroxyethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([C(2)OHMIM]BF(4)), was used a catalyst-rather than as... |
[
"ecological-engineering"
] | Face mask and medical waste generation in the City of Baguio, Philippines: its current management and GHG footprint. | [
"Marcelino N Lunag",
"Alexander S Abana",
"Juco P Agcaoili",
"Jillien Kaith T Arellano",
"Coleen Angela G Caluza",
"Nick Brylle V Decena",
"Emmanuel R Dela Paz",
"Lyka Angela B Delgado",
"Aaron F Obero",
"Don Miguel E Ocampo",
"Charlene Ann D Sacdalan"
] | Journal of material cycles and waste management | 2,023 | 25 | 10.1007/s10163-023-01601-2 | 36,743,944 | The daily use of facemask to prevent virus transmission increases the negative effect on the environment because of improper waste disposal. Due to the absence of baseline data, the impact of facemask and medical waste generation, as well as the community's management practice, should be studied to avoid further enviro... |
[
"ecological-engineering"
] | Advancements in genetic studies of mushrooms: a comprehensive review. | [
"Entaj Tarafder",
"Mir Muhammad Nizamani",
"Samantha C Karunarathna",
"Diptosh Das",
"Xiangyu Zeng",
"Raza Ali Rind",
"Yong Wang",
"Fenghua Tian"
] | World journal of microbiology & biotechnology | 2,024 | 40 | 10.1007/s11274-024-04079-8 | 39,034,336 | Genetic studies in mushrooms, driven by innovations such as CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and RNA interference, transform our understanding of these enigmatic fungi and their multifaceted roles in agriculture, medicine, and conservation. This comprehensive review explores the rationale and significance of genetic research... |
[
"ecological-engineering"
] | Atomic Hydrogen in Electrocatalytic Systems: Generation, Identification, and Environmental Applications. | [
"Wentian Zheng",
"Yanbiao Liu",
"Fuqiang Liu",
"Ying Wang",
"Nanqi Ren",
"Shijie You"
] | Water research | 2,022 | 223 | 10.1016/j.watres.2022.118994 | 36,007,400 | Electrochemical reduction has emerged as a viable technology for the removal of a variety of organic contaminants from water. Atomic hydrogen (H*) is the primary species generated in electrochemical reduction processes. In this work, identification and quantification for H* are reviewed with a focus on methods used to ... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | Ethnopharmacological Survey of Herbal Remedies Used for the Treatment of Cancer in the Greater Casablanca-Morocco. | [
"Mohammed Bourhia",
"Abdelaaty Abdelaziz Shahat",
"Omer Mohammed Almarfadi",
"Fahd Ali Naser",
"Wael Mostafa Abdelmageed",
"Amal Ait Haj Said",
"Fatiha El Gueddari",
"Abderrahim Naamane",
"Laila Benbacer",
"Naima Khlil"
] | Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM | 2,019 | 2019 | 10.1155/2019/1613457 | 31,687,035 | Medicinal plants played an important role in traditional medicine for the treatment of diseases since antiquities. The aim of the study is to carry out an ethnobotanical survey on medicinal plants used traditionally in cancer treatment in the region of Greater Casablanca-Morocco, and to enhance the traditional herbal m... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | Whole sugar 2,3-butanediol fermentation for oil palm empty fruit bunches biorefinery by a newly isolated Klebsiella pneumoniae PM2. | [
"Shazia Rehman",
"Md Khairul Islam",
"Noman Khalid Khanzada",
"Alicia Kyoungjin An",
"Sumate Chaiprapat",
"Shao-Yuan Leu"
] | Bioresource technology | 2,021 | 333 | 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.125206 | 33,940,505 | Effective utilization of cellulose and hemicelluloses is essential to sustainable bioconversion of lignocellulose. A newly isolated xylose-utilizing strain, Klebsiella pneumoniae PM2, was introduced to convert the biomass "whole sugars" into high value 2,3-butanediol (2,3-BDO) in a biorefinery process. The fermentation... |
[
"ecological-engineering"
] | Identification, Occurrence, and Cytotoxicity of Haloanilines: A New Class of Aromatic Nitrogenous Disinfection Byproducts in Chloraminated and Chlorinated Drinking Water. | [
"Di Zhang",
"Tom Bond",
"Yang Pan",
"Mingli Li",
"Jiayi Luo",
"Rong Xiao",
"Wenhai Chu"
] | Environmental science & technology | 2,022 | 56 | 10.1021/acs.est.1c07375 | 35,302,737 | Identifying disinfection byproducts (DBPs) with high health risk is an unresolved challenge. In this study, six members of a new class of aromatic nitrogenous DBPs─2-chloroaniline, 2-bromoaniline, 2,4-dichloroaniline, 2-chloro-4-bromoaniline, 4-chloro-3-nitroaniline, and 2-chloro-4-nitroaniline─are reported as DBPs in ... |
[
"biodiversity-conservation"
] | A bioinformatic toolkit to simultaneously identify sex and sex-linked regions. | [
"Iulia Darolti",
"Judith E Mank"
] | Molecular ecology resources | 2,022 | 22 | 10.1111/1755-0998.13530 | 34,662,503 | Sex chromosomes are strange things, and often exhibit unusual patterns of diversity, rates of evolution, and gene regulation (Bachtrog et al., 2011, Mank, 2013). These unique features mean that although sex chromosomes are often a relatively small proportion of the genome, they are best identified and assessed separate... |
[
"environmental-sustainability"
] | The impact of green innovation and renewable energy on CO2 emissions in G7 nations. | [
"Hela Borgi",
"Noha Alessa",
"Fadhila Hamza",
"Khaldoon Albitar"
] | Heliyon | 2,024 | 10 | 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e31142 | 38,813,154 | This study aims to explore the effect of eco-innovation and renewable energy on carbon dioxide emissions (CDE) for G7 countries. Using regression models, the results reveal that eco-innovation and renewable energy lead to reducing CDE in the presence of governance variables. Additional analysis is conducted to examine ... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | [Analysis methods and case analysis of effect modification (1): effect modification in epidemiology and traditional Meta-analysis]. | [
"F Q Liu",
"Z R Yang",
"S S Wu",
"H Y Zhao",
"S Y Zhan",
"F Sun"
] | Zhonghua liu xing bing xue za zhi = Zhonghua liuxingbingxue zazhi | 2,024 | 45 | 10.3760/cma.j.cn112338-20230824-00093 | 38,228,538 | This paper briefly introduces the definition, classification and significance of effect modification in epidemiological studies, summarizes the difference between effect modifier and confounders, and analyze the influence as well as the role of effect modification in epidemiological studies and Meta-analysis. In this p... |
[
"environmental-sustainability"
] | Titanium dioxide and graphitic carbon nitride-based nanocomposites and nanofibres for the degradation of organic pollutants in water: a review. | [
"Rudzani Ratshiedana",
"Alex Tawanda Kuvarega",
"Ajay Kumar Mishra"
] | Environmental science and pollution research international | 2,021 | 28 | 10.1007/s11356-020-11987-3 | 33,405,162 | The paper reviews graphitic carbon nitride-based nanostructured photocatalytic materials and nanofibres for applications in water purification. Titanium dioxide has shown unique features that continue to attract research and development (R&D) due to its unique properties such as availability, ultraviolet absorptivity, ... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | Synthesis of 2'-fucosyllactose from apple pomace-derived xyloglucan oligosaccharides by an α-L-fucosidase from Pedobacter sp. CAU209. | [
"Ran Shi",
"Shao-Qing Yang",
"Nan-Nan Wang",
"Qiao-Juan Yan",
"Xie-Min Yan",
"Zheng-Qiang Jiang"
] | Applied microbiology and biotechnology | 2,023 | 107 | 10.1007/s00253-023-12533-0 | 37,115,252 | 2'-Fucosyllactose (2'-FL) is known for its ability to provide various health benefits to infants, such as gut maturation, pathogen resistance, improved immunity, and nervous system development. However, the production of 2'-FL using α-L-fucosidases is hindered by the lack of low-cost natural fucosyl donors and high-eff... |
[
"ecological-engineering"
] | Integrating animal personality into insect population and community ecology. | [
"Andreas P Modlmeier",
"Carl N Keiser",
"Colin M Wright",
"James Ll Lichtenstein",
"Jonathan N Pruitt"
] | Current opinion in insect science | 2,015 | 9 | 10.1016/j.cois.2015.03.008 | 32,846,713 | Despite the recent surge of interest in the concept of animal personalities, that is, temporally consistent individual differences in behavior, few studies have integrated intraspecific behavioral variation in population or community ecology. Insects and other arthropods provide ideal model systems to study how intrasp... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | Type 2 diabetes mellitus in children and youth. | [
"S Ramkumar",
"Nikhil Tandon"
] | Indian journal of pediatrics | 2,013 | 80 Suppl 1 | 10.1007/s12098-013-0962-6 | 23,430,571 | Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) which used to be a disease of adults is now seen commonly at an early age in children and adolescents. T2DM is now an important diagnostic consideration in children who present with signs and symptoms of diabetes. The emerging epidemic of obesity in children throughout the world and the ... |
[
"sustainable-development",
"biodiversity-conservation",
"climate-resilience"
] | Addressing Criticisms of Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas. | [
"Bethan C O'Leary",
"Natalie C Ban",
"Miriam Fernandez",
"Alan M Friedlander",
"Pablo García-Borboroglu",
"Yimnang Golbuu",
"Paolo Guidetti",
"Jean M Harris",
"Julie P Hawkins",
"Tim Langlois",
"Douglas J McCauley",
"Ellen K Pikitch",
"Robert H Richmond",
"Callum M Roberts"
] | Bioscience | 2,018 | 68 | 10.1093/biosci/biy021 | 29,731,514 | Designated large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs, 100,000 or more square kilometers) constitute over two-thirds of the approximately 6.6% of the ocean and approximately 14.5% of the exclusive economic zones within marine protected areas. Although LSMPAs have received support among scientists and conservation bodie... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | Assessment of Molecular Diversity in Biofuel Crops. | [
"Sriram Parameswaran",
"Nalini Eswaran",
"T Sudhakar Johnson"
] | Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) | 2,021 | 2290 | 10.1007/978-1-0716-1323-8_11 | 34,009,589 | Sustainable biofuel sources require the new sources of biofuel crops that can be developed into scalable plantation to meet the growing energy demands. Diverse supply sources of bioenergy plantations (edible, nonedible, and perennial grasses) will enable de-risking impact on geography and climate change that humans are... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | Sex-specific dose-response effects of a 24-week supervised concurrent exercise intervention on cardiorespiratory fitness and muscular strength in young adults: The ACTIBATE randomized controlled trial. | [
"Alba Camacho-Cardenosa",
"Francisco J Amaro-Gahete",
"Borja Martinez-Tellez",
"Juan M A Alcantara",
"Francisco B Ortega",
"Jonatan R Ruiz"
] | Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports | 2,024 | 34 | 10.1111/sms.14507 | 37,787,096 | Concurrent training has been postulated as an appropriate time-efficient strategy to improve physical fitness, yet whether the exercise-induced adaptations are similar in men and women is unknown. An unblinded randomized controlled trial was conducted to investigate sex-specific dose-response effects of a 24-week super... |
[
"ecological-engineering"
] | Selenate and Nitrate Bioreductions Using Methane as the Electron Donor in a Membrane Biofilm Reactor. | [
"Chun-Yu Lai",
"Li-Lian Wen",
"Ling-Dong Shi",
"Kan-Kan Zhao",
"Yi-Qi Wang",
"Xiaoe Yang",
"Bruce E Rittmann",
"Chen Zhou",
"Youneng Tang",
"Ping Zheng",
"He-Ping Zhao"
] | Environmental science & technology | 2,016 | 50 | 10.1021/acs.est.6b02807 | 27,562,531 | Selenate (SeO4(2-)) bioreduction is possible with oxidation of a range of organic or inorganic electron donors, but it never has been reported with methane gas (CH4) as the electron donor. In this study, we achieved complete SeO4(2-) bioreduction in a membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR) using CH4 as the sole added electron... |
[
"urban-greening"
] | Analysis on determinants of carbon emissions from plaza ground paving during the construction stage based on life cycle assessment. | [
"Huayue Nie",
"Lizhong Wang",
"Meirong Tian"
] | Scientific reports | 2,024 | 14 | 10.1038/s41598-023-47933-9 | 38,167,513 | The carbon emissions of paving projects are the focus of urban managers and researchers. By introducing the life cycle assessment (LCA) method and drawing up the study time and boundary, this study analyzed the carbon emissions activities of the plaza ground paving project and established a computational model of the c... |
[
"ecological-engineering"
] | Identifying and Managing Aqueous Film-Forming Foam-Derived Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in the Environment. | [
"Andrea Leeson",
"Timothy Thompson",
"Hans F Stroo",
"Richard H Anderson",
"Jason Speicher",
"Marc A Mills",
"Janice Willey",
"Charles Coyle",
"Rajat Ghosh",
"Carmen Lebrón",
"Cara Patton"
] | Environmental toxicology and chemistry | 2,021 | 40 | 10.1002/etc.4894 | 33,026,660 | The use of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) has resulted in the widespread occurrence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in groundwater, drinking water, soils, sediments, and receiving waters throughout the United States and other countries. We present the research and development efforts to date by the Stra... |
[
"environmental-sustainability"
] | Marine biofilms: diversity of communities and of chemical cues. | [
"Jorge Antunes",
"Pedro Leão",
"Vitor Vasconcelos"
] | Environmental microbiology reports | 2,019 | 11 | 10.1111/1758-2229.12694 | 30,246,474 | Surfaces immersed in seawater are rapidly colonized by various microorganisms, resulting in the formation of heterogenic marine biofilms. These communities are known to influence the settlement of algae spores and invertebrate larvae, triggering a succession of fouling events, with significant environmental and economi... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | Willingness to share anonymised routinely collected clinical health data in Switzerland: a cross-sectional survey. | [
"Flurina Pletscher",
"Karin Mändli Lerch",
"Dominik Glinz"
] | Swiss medical weekly | 2,022 | 152 | 10.4414/smw.2022.w30182 | 35,752,970 | Routinely collected health data (or real-world data) from hospitals is becoming increasingly important to advance medical progress. Anonymisation of these data facilitates data sharing processes. This allows stakeholders of the healthcare system to compliantly access this anonymised data to address epidemiological ques... |
[
"habitat-restoration",
"ecosystem-restoration"
] | Stoichiometric mechanisms of regime shifts in freshwater ecosystem. | [
"Haojie Su",
"Yao Wu",
"Wulai Xia",
"Lei Yang",
"Jianfeng Chen",
"Wenxuan Han",
"Jingyun Fang",
"Ping Xie"
] | Water research | 2,019 | 149 | 10.1016/j.watres.2018.11.024 | 30,465,988 | Catastrophic regime shifts in shallow lakes are hard to predict due to a lack of clear understanding of the associate mechanisms. Theory of alternative stable states suggests that eutrophication has profound negative effects on the structure, function and stability of freshwater ecosystems. However, it is still unclear... |
[
"sustainable-development",
"ecosystem-services",
"carbon-sequestration"
] | Spatio-temporal evolution and driving factors of carbon storage in the Western Sichuan Plateau. | [
"Mingshun Xiang",
"Chunjian Wang",
"Yuxiang Tan",
"Jin Yang",
"Linsen Duan",
"Yanni Fang",
"Wenheng Li",
"Yang Shu",
"Mengli Liu"
] | Scientific reports | 2,022 | 12 | 10.1038/s41598-022-12175-8 | 35,581,278 | The carbon sequestration function of the ecosystem is one of the most important functions of ecosystem service, and it of great significance to study the spatio-temporal differentiation of carbon storage for promoting regional sustainable development. Ecosystems on the Western Sichuan Plateau are highly variable, but i... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | A cost-effectiveness analysis of provider interventions to improve health worker practice in providing treatment for uncomplicated malaria in Cameroon: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. | [
"Virginia Wiseman",
"Lindsay J Mangham",
"Bonnie Cundill",
"Olivia A Achonduh",
"Akindeh Mbuh Nji",
"Abanda Ngu Njei",
"Clare Chandler",
"Wilfred F Mbacham"
] | Trials | 2,012 | 13 | 10.1186/1745-6215-13-4 | 22,225,699 | Governments and donors all over Africa are searching for sustainable, affordable and cost-effective ways to improve the quality of malaria case management. Widespread deficiencies have been reported in the prescribing and counselling practices of health care providers treating febrile patients in both public and privat... |
[
"ecological-engineering"
] | Reaction-based fluorescent probe for the selective and sensitive detection of thiophenols with a large Stokes shift and its application in water samples. | [
"Mengzhao Zhang",
"Taohua Leng",
"Yongjia Shen",
"Chengyun Wang"
] | The Analyst | 2,018 | 143 | 10.1039/c7an01994g | 29,323,679 | Although widely used in organic synthesis, pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, thiophenol has brought about a series of ecological problems due to its high toxicity. Therefore, the development of efficient methods to discriminate thiophenols from aliphatic thiols is of great importance. In this work, a new reaction-base... |
[
"agroforestry"
] | Evidence-based investment selection: Prioritizing agricultural development investments under climatic and socio-political risk using Bayesian networks. | [
"Barbaros Yet",
"Christine Lamanna",
"Keith D Shepherd",
"Todd S Rosenstock"
] | PloS one | 2,020 | 15 | 10.1371/journal.pone.0234213 | 32,502,217 | Agricultural development projects have a poor track record of success mainly due to risks and uncertainty involved in implementation. Cost-benefit analysis can help allocate resources more effectively, but scarcity of data and high uncertainty makes it difficult to use standard approaches. Bayesian Networks (BN) offer ... |
[
"urban-greening"
] | Distinct microplastic patterns in the sediment and biota of an urban stream. | [
"Ben Parker",
"J Robert Britton",
"Katsiaryna Pabortsava",
"Magdalena Barrow",
"Iain D Green",
"Victoria Dominguez Almela",
"Demetra Andreou"
] | The Science of the total environment | 2,022 | 838 | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156477 | 35,660,581 | Urban freshwaters, their sediments and resident biota are often highly susceptible to microplastic contamination from catchment-specific sources. Water velocity and spatiotemporal dynamics within the system can impact microplastic loads, while biological features may additionally impact levels within freshwater biota. ... |
[
"biodiversity-conservation"
] | A botanical group in Lahore, 1864. | [
"H J Noltie"
] | Archives of natural history | 2,011 | 38 | 10.3366/anh.2011.0033 | 22,165,442 | The sitters in a previously misunderstood nineteenth-century Indian group photograph are identified as four East India Company surgeons with wider interests in natural history: William Jameson, Thomas Caverhill Jerdon, John Lindsay Stewart and Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn, taken in Lahore at the Punjab Exhibition of 18... |
[
"sustainable-development",
"natural-capital"
] | Disaggregated energy use and socioeconomic sustainability within OECD countries. | [
"Ioannis Kostakis",
"Dimitrios Paparas",
"Konstantinos P Tsagarakis"
] | Journal of environmental management | 2,023 | 334 | 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117475 | 36,801,804 | This study investigates the relationship between disaggregated energy use, human development, trade openness, economic growth, urbanization, and sustainability index in OECD countries from 2014 to 2019. Static, quantile, and dynamic panel data approaches are employed. The findings reveal that fossil fuels such as petro... |
[
"ecosystem-restoration"
] | Optimum reaction ratio of coal fly ash to blast furnace cement for effective removal of hydrogen sulfide. | [
"Satoshi Asaoka",
"Hideo Okamura",
"Kyunghoi Kim",
"Yuzuru Hatanaka",
"Kenji Nakamoto",
"Kazutoshi Hino",
"Takahito Oikawa",
"Shinjiro Hayakawa",
"Tetsuji Okuda"
] | Chemosphere | 2,017 | 168 | 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.10.070 | 27,810,538 | Reducing hydrogen sulfide concentration in eutrophic marine sediments is crucial to maintaining healthy aquatic ecosystems. Managing fly ash, 750 million tons of which is generated annually throughout the world, is another serious environmental problem. In this study, we develop an approach that addresses both these is... |
[
"sustainable-development",
"ecological-engineering"
] | Algae-based approaches for Holistic wastewater management: A low-cost paradigm. | [
"Simranjeet Singh",
"Lav Singh",
"Vijay Kumar",
"Wahid Ali",
"Praveen C Ramamurthy",
"Daljeet Singh Dhanjal",
"Nikhita Sivaram",
"Ruby Angurana",
"Joginder Singh",
"Vimal Chandra Pandey",
"Nadeem A Khan"
] | Chemosphere | 2,023 | 345 | 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.140470 | 37,858,768 | Aquatic algal communities demonstrated their appeal for diverse industrial applications due to their vast availability, ease of harvest, lower production costs, and ability to biosynthesize valuable molecules. Algal biomass is promising because it can multiply in water and on land. Integrated algal systems have a signi... |
[
"ecosystem-services"
] | Human practices promote presence and abundance of disease-transmitting mosquito species. | [
"Maarten Schrama",
"Ellard R Hunting",
"Brianna R Beechler",
"Milehna M Guarido",
"Danny Govender",
"Wiebe Nijland",
"Maarten van 't Zelfde",
"Marietjie Venter",
"Peter M van Bodegom",
"Erin E Gorsich"
] | Scientific reports | 2,020 | 10 | 10.1038/s41598-020-69858-3 | 32,782,318 | Humans alter the environment at unprecedented rates through habitat destruction, nutrient pollution and the application of agrochemicals. This has recently been proposed to act as a potentially significant driver of pathogen-carrying mosquito species (disease vectors) that pose a health risk to humans and livestock. He... |
[
"renewable-resources"
] | Pyrolysis of groundnut de-oiled cake and characterization of the liquid product. | [
"Ankit Agrawalla",
"Sachin Kumar",
"R K Singh"
] | Bioresource technology | 2,011 | 102 | 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.08.113 | 21,944,285 | Renewable biomass is considered as an important energy resource all over the world and for an agriculture based economy like that of India, the future prospects of being able to convert widely available biomass materials into various forms of fuel is most attractive. In this study, pyrolysis of groundnut de-oiled cake ... |
[
"ecological-engineering"
] | Isolation and Characterization of Diesel-Degrading Bacteria from Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Sites, Flower Farms, and Soda Lakes. | [
"Gessesse Kebede Bekele",
"Solomon Abera Gebrie",
"Eshetu Mekonen",
"Tekle Tafese Fida",
"Adugna Abdi Woldesemayat",
"Ebrahim M Abda",
"Mesfin Tafesse",
"Fasil Assefa"
] | International journal of microbiology | 2,022 | 2022 | 10.1155/2022/5655767 | 35,096,070 | Hydrocarbon-derived pollutants are becoming one of the most concerning ecological issues. Thus, there is a need to investigate and develop innovative, low-cost, eco-friendly, and fast techniques to reduce and/or eliminate pollutants using biological agents. The study was conducted to isolate, characterize, and identify... |
[
"biodiversity-conservation"
] | Global monitoring for biodiversity: Uncertainty, risk, and power analyses to support trend change detection. | [
"Brian Leung",
"Andrew Gonzalez"
] | Science advances | 2,024 | 10 | 10.1126/sciadv.adj1448 | 38,363,843 | Global targets aim to reverse biodiversity declines by 2050 but require knowledge of current trends and future projections under policy intervention. First, given uncertainty in measurement of current trends, we propose a risk framework, considering probability and magnitude of decline. While only 11 of 198 systems ana... |
[
"ecosystem-services",
"natural-capital"
] | Resilience and challenges of marine social-ecological systems under complex and interconnected drivers. | [
"Sebastián Villasante",
"Gonzalo Macho",
"Manel Antelo",
"David Rodríguez-González",
"Michel J Kaiser"
] | Ambio | 2,013 | 42 | 10.1007/s13280-013-0450-2 | 24,213,990 | In this paper, we summarize the contributions made by an interdisciplinary group of researchers from different disciplines (biology, ecology, economics, and law) that deal with key dimensions of marine social-ecological systems. Particularly, the local and global seafood provision; the feasibility and management of mar... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | Monitoring the Zero-Inflated Time Series Model of Counts with Random Coefficient. | [
"Cong Li",
"Shuai Cui",
"Dehui Wang"
] | Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) | 2,021 | 23 | 10.3390/e23030372 | 33,804,690 | In this research, we consider monitoring mean and correlation changes from zero-inflated autocorrelated count data based on the integer-valued time series model with random survival rate. A cumulative sum control chart is constructed due to its efficiency, the corresponding calculation methods of average run length and... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | THE TOP-IMPLART PROTON LINEAR ACCELERATOR: INTERIM CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 35 MEV BEAM. | [
"C De Angelis",
"A Ampollini",
"G Bazzano",
"S Della Monaca",
"F Ghio",
"F Giuliani",
"M Lucentini",
"R M Montereali",
"P Nenzi",
"C Notaro",
"C Placido",
"M Piccinini",
"C Ronsivalle",
"F Santavenere",
"A Soriani",
"A Spurio",
"L Strigari",
"V Surrenti",
"E Trinca",
"M Vadrucc... | Radiation protection dosimetry | 2,019 | 186 | 10.1093/rpd/ncz142 | 31,141,142 | In the framework of the Italian TOP-IMPLART project (Regione Lazio), ENEA-Frascati, ISS and IFO are developing and constructing the first proton linear accelerator based on an actively scanned beam for tumor radiotherapy with final energy of 150 MeV. An important feature of this accelerator is modularity: an exploitabl... |
[
"green-infrastructure",
"urban-greening"
] | Tuning multi-scale pore structures in carbonaceous films via direct ink writing and sacrificial templates for efficient indoor formaldehyde removal. | [
"Zhuo Chen",
"Qiwei Chen",
"Yan Wang",
"Wuwei Zou",
"Yuan Li",
"Jinhan Mo"
] | Journal of hazardous materials | 2,025 | 487 | 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.137203 | 39,837,033 | The primary challenges impeding the extensive application of adsorption for indoor air purification have been low efficiency and effective capacity. To fill the research gap, we developed carbonaceous net-like adsorption films featuring multi-scale porous structures for efficient indoor formaldehyde removal. By optimiz... |
[
"habitat-restoration",
"ecosystem-restoration",
"ecological-engineering"
] | Behavioral and biochemical responses of the marine polychaete Perinereis aibuhitensis to 2-ethylhexyl-4-methoxycinnamate (EHMC) exposure. | [
"Jiabo He",
"Zhi Chen",
"Chen Jing",
"Weiwei Zhang",
"Hangke Peng",
"Honglei Zhou",
"Fengxiao Hu"
] | Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Toxicology & pharmacology : CBP | 2,024 | 279 | 10.1016/j.cbpc.2024.109868 | 38,423,197 | 2-ethylhexyl-4-methoxycinnamate (EHMC) is a commonly used UV filter, and is receiving increasing concerns due to its ubiquitous occurrence in a variety of environmental media and potential adverse effects. This study was aimed to assess the ecotoxicological potentials of EHMC on the marine polychaete Perinereis aibuhit... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | Can Government Environmental Auditing Help to Improve Environmental Quality? Evidence from China. | [
"Xiaoyu Li",
"Jiawei Tang",
"Chao Feng",
"Yexiao Chen"
] | International journal of environmental research and public health | 2,023 | 20 | 10.3390/ijerph20042770 | 36,833,466 | Promoting environmental governance to achieve green and low-carbon development is the focus of attention from all walks of life. As a policy tool to control environmental pollution, the effectiveness of environmental audits remains to be verified. Based on China's provincial data from 2004 to 2019, this paper aims to e... |
[
"ecological-engineering"
] | Direct determination of Cu, Cr, and Ni in river sediments using double pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy: Ecological risk and pollution level assessment. | [
"Carla Pereira De Morais",
"Diego Victor Babos",
"Vinícius Câmara Costa",
"Jordan Brizi Neris",
"Gustavo Nicolodelli",
"Milene Corso Mitsuyuki",
"Frederico Fabio Mauad",
"Stéphane Mounier",
"Débora Marcondes Bastos Pereira Milori"
] | The Science of the total environment | 2,022 | 837 | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155699 | 35,525,359 | Double pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (DP LIBS) has attracted much attention for analyzing trace elements due to its higher sensitivity when compared to single pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (SP LIBS). However, the development of quantitative methods in LIBS for the analysis of complex samples, ... |
[
"biodiversity-conservation"
] | Endangered medicinal species of the Indian Ocean: radical need for conservation. | [
"Pt Kartikay Pandey"
] | Chemistry & biodiversity | 2,009 | 6 | 10.1002/cbdv.200800183 | 19,623,561 | Life originated in the Oceans, which are also the most fertile source of chemically distinctive natural products that are mainly accumulated in living organisms. Several of these compounds show pharmacological activities, and are helpful for the invention and discovery of bioactive compounds, primarily for several fata... |
[
"environmental-sustainability",
"biodiversity-conservation"
] | Urbanisation and the loss of phylogenetic diversity in birds. | [
"Daniel Sol",
"Ignasi Bartomeus",
"César González-Lagos",
"Sandrine Pavoine"
] | Ecology letters | 2,017 | 20 | 10.1111/ele.12769 | 28,436,096 | Despite the recognised conservation value of phylogenetic diversity, little is known about how it is affected by the urbanisation process. Combining a complete avian phylogeny with surveys along urbanisation gradients from five continents, we show that highly urbanised environments supported on average 450 million fewe... |
[
"environmental-sustainability",
"sustainable-development",
"natural-capital"
] | Unlocking the path to environmental sustainability: navigating economic policy uncertainty, ICT, and environmental taxes for a sustainable future. | [
"Xiaomeng Deng",
"Mohammad Qamruzzaman",
"Salma Karim"
] | Environmental science and pollution research international | 2,024 | 31 | 10.1007/s11356-024-33566-6 | 38,761,261 | The study aims to gauge the impact of economic policy uncertainty, ICT, and environmental tax on environmental sustainability, which is measured by carbon emission and ecological footprint in a panel of 22 nations from 1997 to 2021. The present study has implemented the advanced panel data estimation techniques, includ... |
[
"watershed-management",
"ecological-engineering"
] | What drives the change of nitrogen and phosphorus loads in the Yellow River Basin during 2006-2017? | [
"Jiaqi Zheng",
"Xianghui Cao",
"Chunzi Ma",
"Nanyan Weng",
"Shouliang Huo"
] | Journal of environmental sciences (China) | 2,023 | 126 | 10.1016/j.jes.2022.04.039 | 36,503,746 | The Yellow River Basin (YRB) plays a very important role in China's economic and social development and ecological security. In particular, the ecosystem of the YRB is sensitive to climate change. However, the change of nutrient fluxes in this region during the past years and its main driving forces remain unclear. In ... |
[
"ecological-engineering"
] | Fluorescent whitening agents in Baiyangdian Lake in North China: Analysis, occurrence, distribution and ecological risk assessment. | [
"Qi Wu",
"Bowen He",
"Ruiyao Guo",
"Jiansheng Cui",
"Shuwen Yan",
"Daxi Liu",
"Bo Yao"
] | Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) | 2,021 | 291 | 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118235 | 34,582,923 | Fluorescent whitening agents (FWAs) are very important chemical additives that are widely applied in the industrial production field. The history of global FWA production and use spans more than 60 years, but the environmental fate of FWAs has been less reported in the public literature and most studies predate 2000; i... |
[
"ecological-engineering"
] | Elements of a dynamic systems model of canopy photosynthesis. | [
"Xin-Guang Zhu",
"Qingfeng Song",
"Donald R Ort"
] | Current opinion in plant biology | 2,012 | 15 | 10.1016/j.pbi.2012.01.010 | 22,325,454 | Improving photosynthesis throughout the full canopy rather than photosynthesis of only the top leaves of the canopy is central to improving crop yields. Many canopy photosynthesis models have been developed from physiological and ecological perspectives, however most do not consider heterogeneities of microclimatic fac... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | Effect of storage and cooking on the fatty acid profile of omega-3 enriched eggs and pork meat marketed in Belgium. | [
"Caroline Douny",
"Rawad El Khoury",
"Julien Delmelle",
"François Brose",
"Guy Degand",
"Nassim Moula",
"Frédéric Farnir",
"Antoine Clinquart",
"Guy Maghuin-Rogister",
"Marie-Louise Scippo"
] | Food science & nutrition | 2,015 | 3 | 10.1002/fsn3.197 | 25,838,892 | The fatty acids (FA) profile was determined in n-3 enriched (Columbus™) Belgian eggs and pork in order to evaluate to what extent the n-3 fatty acids, which are very sensitive to oxidation, are resistant to storage or cooking. In standard eggs or pork, no change of the fatty acid profile was observed after storage or c... |
[
"flood-mitigation",
"climate-resilience"
] | Public support for policies to reduce risk after Hurricane Sandy. | [
"Michael R Greenberg",
"Marc D Weiner",
"Robert Noland",
"Jeanne Herb",
"Marjorie Kaplan",
"Anthony J Broccoli"
] | Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis | 2,014 | 34 | 10.1111/risa.12203 | 24,708,068 | A phone survey was conducted in New Jersey in 2013 four months after the second of two major devastating tropical storms (Sandy in 2012 and Irene in 2011). The objective was to estimate public support for restricting land uses in flood zones, requiring housing to be built to resist storm waters, and otherwise increasin... |
[
"habitat-restoration",
"ecosystem-restoration"
] | Implications of genetic heterogeneity for plant translocation during ecological restoration. | [
"Taylor M Crow",
"C Alex Buerkle",
"Daniel E Runcie",
"Kristina M Hufford"
] | Ecology and evolution | 2,021 | 11 | 10.1002/ece3.6978 | 33,598,117 | Ecological restoration often requires translocating plant material from distant sites. Importing suitable plant material is important for successful establishment and persistence. Yet, published guidelines for seed transfer are available for very few species. Accurately predicting how transferred plants will perform re... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | A Multicompartment Assessment of Microplastic Contamination in Semi-remote Boreal Lakes. | [
"Hayley K McIlwraith",
"Minoli Dias",
"Diane M Orihel",
"Michael D Rennie",
"Anna L Harrison",
"Matthew J Hoffman",
"Jennifer F Provencher",
"Chelsea M Rochman"
] | Environmental toxicology and chemistry | 2,024 | 43 | 10.1002/etc.5832 | 38,415,806 | Microplastic contamination is ubiquitous across the globe, even in remote locations. Still, the sources and pathways of microplastics to such locations are largely unknown. To investigate microplastic contamination in a semi-remote location, we measured microplastic concentrations in nine oligotrophic lakes within and ... |
[
"ecological-engineering"
] | Biomineralized manganese oxide mediated nitrogen-contained wastewater treatment. | [
"Yingying Liu",
"Xinshan Song",
"Zhongshuo Xu",
"Yifei Wang",
"Xiaoxiao Hou",
"Yuhui Wang",
"Xin Cao",
"Wei Wang"
] | Bioresource technology | 2,024 | 400 | 10.1016/j.biortech.2024.130689 | 38,599,353 | In recent years, manganese (Mn) has emerged as an accelerator for nitrogen metabolism. However, the bioactivity of manganese is limited by the restricted contact between microbes and manganese minerals in the solid phase and by the toxicity of manganese to microbes. To enhance the bioactivity of solid-phase manganese, ... |
[
"environmental-sustainability"
] | Broad Neutralization Responses Against Oncogenic Human Papillomaviruses Induced by a Minor Capsid L2 Polytope Genetically Incorporated Into Bacterial Ferritin Nanoparticles. | [
"Fan Yang",
"Filipe C Mariz",
"Xueer Zhao",
"Gloria Spagnoli",
"Simone Ottonello",
"Martin Müller"
] | Frontiers in immunology | 2,020 | 11 | 10.3389/fimmu.2020.606569 | 33,343,580 | Cervical cancer remains a global health burden despite the introduction of highly effective vaccines for the prophylaxis of causative human papillomavirus infection (HPV). Current efforts to eradicate cervical cancer focus on the development of broadly protective, cost-effective approaches. HPV minor capsid protein L2 ... |
[
"environmental-sustainability",
"ecological-engineering"
] | When the Going Gets Tough, the Females Get Going: Sex-Specific Physiological Responses to Simultaneous Exposure to Hypoxia and Marine Heatwave Events in a Ubiquitous Copepod. | [
"Fanny Vermandele",
"Matthew Sasaki",
"Gesche Winkler",
"Hans G Dam",
"Diana Madeira",
"Piero Calosi"
] | Global change biology | 2,024 | 30 | 10.1111/gcb.17553 | 39,450,945 | The existence of sex-specific differences in phenotypic traits is widely recognized. Yet they are often ignored in studies looking at the impact of global changes on marine organisms, particularly within the context of combined drivers that are known to elicit complex interactions. We tested sex-specific physiological ... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | Regio- and Diastereoselective Synthesis of 2-Arylazetidines: Quantum Chemical Explanation of Baldwin's Rules for the Ring-Formation Reactions of Oxiranes†. | [
"Ervin Kovács",
"Ferenc Faigl",
"Zoltán Mucsi"
] | The Journal of organic chemistry | 2,020 | 85 | 10.1021/acs.joc.0c01310 | 32,786,621 | A general, scalable two-step regio- and diastereoselective method has been described for the synthesis of versatile alkaloid-type azetidines from simple building blocks with excellent overall yields. In the kinetically controlled reaction, only the formation of the strained four-membered ring can be achieved instead of... |
[
"wetland-preservation",
"coastal-protection"
] | Preservation on calcium homeostasis is involved in mitochondrial protection of Limonium sinense against liver damage in mice. | [
"Xin-Hui Tang",
"Jin Chen",
"Xiao-Lan Yang",
"Li-Fang Yan",
"Jing Gao"
] | Pharmacognosy magazine | 2,010 | 6 | 10.4103/0973-1296.66935 | 20,931,078 | Mechanisms underlying the mitochondrial protection of Limonium sinense extracts (LSE) was studied in lipopolysaccharide and D-galactosamine (LPS/D-GalN) intoxicated mice. It was found that increased activities of serum aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase induced by LPS/D-GalN were significantly inhi... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | European regulatory aspects of phage therapy: magistral phage preparations. | [
"Gilbert Verbeken",
"Jean-Paul Pirnay"
] | Current opinion in virology | 2,022 | 52 | 10.1016/j.coviro.2021.11.005 | 34,801,778 | Bacteriophages (phages) are bacterial viruses, and have been used for more than a century to combat bacterial infections, particularly in Poland and in the former Soviet Union. The antimicrobial resistance crisis has triggered a renewed interest in the therapeutic use of natural phages. The capacity of phages to specif... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | Characteristics of drugs for ultra-rare diseases versus drugs for other rare diseases in HTA submissions made to the CADTH CDR. | [
"Trevor Richter",
"Ghayath Janoudi",
"William Amegatse",
"Sandra Nester-Parr"
] | Orphanet journal of rare diseases | 2,018 | 13 | 10.1186/s13023-018-0762-1 | 29,386,040 | It has been suggested that ultra-rare diseases should be recognized as distinct from more prevalent rare diseases, but how drugs developed to treat ultra-rare diseases (DURDs) might be distinguished from drugs for 'other' rare diseases (DORDs) is not clear. We compared the characteristics of DURDs to DORDs from a healt... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | Recent Advances in Biopolymeric Composite Materials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicines: A Review. | [
"Muhammad Umar Aslam Khan",
"Saiful Izwan Abd Razak",
"Wafa Shamsan Al Arjan",
"Samina Nazir",
"T Joseph Sahaya Anand",
"Hassan Mehboob",
"Rashid Amin"
] | Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) | 2,021 | 26 | 10.3390/molecules26030619 | 33,504,080 | The polymeric composite material with desirable features can be gained by selecting suitable biopolymers with selected additives to get polymer-filler interaction. Several parameters can be modified according to the design requirements, such as chemical structure, degradation kinetics, and biopolymer composites' mechan... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase-Catalyzed Deamination of an Acyclic Amino Acid: Enzyme Mechanistic Studies Aided by a Novel Microreactor Filled with Magnetic Nanoparticles. | [
"Diána Weiser",
"László Csaba Bencze",
"Gergely Bánóczi",
"Ferenc Ender",
"Róbert Kiss",
"Eszter Kókai",
"András Szilágyi",
"Beáta G Vértessy",
"Ödön Farkas",
"Csaba Paizs",
"László Poppe"
] | Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology | 2,015 | 16 | 10.1002/cbic.201500444 | 26,345,352 | Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL), found in many organisms, catalyzes the deamination of l-phenylalanine (Phe) to (E)-cinnamate by the aid of its MIO prosthetic group. By using PAL immobilized on magnetic nanoparticles and fixed in a microfluidic reactor with an in-line UV detector, we demonstrated that PAL can catalyz... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | Reactive Oxygen Species Scavenging Nanomedicine for the Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease. | [
"Zhan Zhang",
"Rinkoo Dalan",
"Zhenyu Hu",
"Jiong-Wei Wang",
"Nicholas Ws Chew",
"Kian-Keong Poh",
"Ru-San Tan",
"Tuck Wah Soong",
"Yunlu Dai",
"Lei Ye",
"Xiaoyuan Chen"
] | Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) | 2,022 | 34 | 10.1002/adma.202202169 | 35,470,476 | Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is the leading cause of disability and mortality worldwide. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been shown to play key roles in the progression of diabetes, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia, which are independent risk factors that lead to atherosclerosis and the development of IHD. Eng... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | Promising degrees of stakeholder interaction in research for sustainable development. | [
"Flurina Schneider",
"Tobias Buser"
] | Sustainability science | 2,018 | 13 | 10.1007/s11625-017-0507-4 | 30,147,775 | Stakeholder interactions are increasingly viewed as an important element of research for sustainable development. But to what extent, how, and for which goals should stakeholders be involved? In this article, we explore what degrees of stakeholder interaction show the most promise in research for sustainable developmen... |
[
"coastal-protection"
] | Can environmental policies improve marine ecological efficiency? Examining China's Ecological Civilization Pilot Zones. | [
"Qiang Gao",
"Run-Ping Zhang",
"Le-Hua Gao"
] | Marine pollution bulletin | 2,024 | 203 | 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116479 | 38,744,049 | Terrestrial ecosystems can benefit from environmental protection policies; however, their impact on marine ecological efficiency deserves further exploration. This study uses China's Ecological Civilization Pilot Zone (ECZ) policy as an example of a quasi-natural experimental study, with data from 11 coastal provinces ... |
[
"watershed-management"
] | China's water pollution by persistent organic pollutants. | [
"Lian-Jun Bao",
"Keith A Maruya",
"Shane A Snyder",
"Eddy Y Zeng"
] | Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) | 2,012 | 163 | 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.12.022 | 22,325,437 | Available data were reviewed to assess the status of contamination by persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), perfluorooctane... |
[
"coastal-protection"
] | Hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs) in fish: Evidence of recent HBCD input into the coastal environment. | [
"Runxia Sun",
"Xiaojun Luo",
"Xiaobo Zheng",
"Kun Cao",
"Pingan Peng",
"Qing X Li",
"Bixian Mai"
] | Marine pollution bulletin | 2,018 | 126 | 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.11.040 | 29,421,112 | Hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs) are flame retardants and emerging persistent organic pollutants. In the present study, α-, β-, and γ-HBCDs were measured in several fish species from rivers and an electronic waste (e-waste) recycling site in Pearl River Delta, South China. The concentrations of HBCDs were 12.8 to 640, 5... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | Design of a biocatalytic cascade for the enzymatic sulfation of unsulfated chondroitin with | [
"Dianelis T Monterrey",
"Raúl Benito-Arenas",
"Julia Revuelta",
"Eduardo García-Junceda"
] | Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology | 2,023 | 11 | 10.3389/fbioe.2023.1099924 | 36,726,741 | Sulfation of molecules in living organisms is a process that plays a key role in their functionality. In mammals, the sulfation of polysaccharides (glycosaminoglycans) that form the proteoglycans present in the extracellular matrix is particularly important. These polysaccharides, through their degree and sulfation pat... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | The role of risk perceptions in the risk mitigation process: the case of wildfire in high risk communities. | [
"Wade E Martin",
"Ingrid M Martin",
"Brian Kent"
] | Journal of environmental management | 2,009 | 91 | 10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.09.007 | 19,819,614 | An important policy question receiving considerable attention concerns the risk perception-risk mitigation process that guides how individuals choose to address natural hazard risks. This question is considered in the context of wildfire. We analyze the factors that influence risk reduction behaviors by homeowners livi... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | Does Entrepreneurs' Military Experience Promote Corporate Environmental Investment? Evidence from Chinese Private Firms. | [
"Conghua Hong",
"Youliang Yan",
"Xinxin Zhang"
] | International journal of environmental research and public health | 2,022 | 19 | 10.3390/ijerph19042104 | 35,206,291 | Although it is well established that the military experience of top executives has a profound influence on firms' decisions, empirical evidence on how military experience matters to corporate environmental investment has been scarce. Drawn on imprinting theory and upper echelon theory, this study examines the impact of... |
[
"climate-resilience"
] | Patterns of early post-disturbance reorganization in Central European forests. | [
"Rupert Seidl",
"Mária Potterf",
"Jörg Müller",
"Monica G Turner",
"Werner Rammer"
] | Proceedings. Biological sciences | 2,024 | 291 | 10.1098/rspb.2024.0625 | 39,317,320 | Disturbances catalyse change in forest ecosystems, and a climate-driven increase in disturbance activity could accelerate forest reorganization. Here, we studied post-disturbance forests after the biggest pulse of tree mortality in Central Europe in at least 170 years, caused by drought and bark beetle (Scolytinae) out... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | Pretreatment of Mango (Mangifera indica L. Anacardiaceae) Seed Husk for Bioethanol Production by Dilute Acid Treatment and Enzymatic Hydrolysis. | [
"Francis Dave C Siacor",
"Camila Flor Y Lobarbio",
"Evelyn B Taboada"
] | Applied biochemistry and biotechnology | 2,021 | 193 | 10.1007/s12010-020-03387-7 | 32,888,162 | One of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals is clean and affordable energy. This is also the aim of the Biofuels Act of 2007 in the Philippines. However, this law is confronted with challenges such as the limitation of lignocellulosic feedstock, specifically available for bioethanol production. The present ... |
[
"environmental-sustainability",
"biodiversity-conservation"
] | Regional fauna-flora biodiversity and conservation strategy in China. | [
"Baoguo Li",
"He Zhang",
"Kang Huang",
"Gang He",
"Songtao Guo",
"Rong Hou",
"Pei Zhang",
"Haitao Wang",
"Hao Pan",
"Hengguang Fu",
"Xiaoying Wu",
"Kexin Jiang",
"Ruliang Pan"
] | iScience | 2,022 | 25 | 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104897 | 36,039,288 | Evolutionary and historical development and current profiles are essential to generating a tangible conservation strategy. It is also critical to distinguish the regions with vigorous potential growth from those meeting evolutionary development bottlenecks and those whose development has been severely devastated. We us... |
[
"biodiversity-conservation"
] | Monitoring biodiversity loss with primary species-occurrence data: toward national-level indicators for the 2010 target of the convention on biological diversity. | [
"Jorge Soberón",
"A Townsend Peterson"
] | Ambio | 2,009 | 38 | 10.1579/0044-7447-38.1.29 | 19,260,344 | Development of effective indicators is indispensable for countries and societies to monitor effects of their actions on biodiversity, as is recognized in decision VI/26 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Good indicators would ideally be scalable, at least for the different scales that characterize biodiversity ... |
[
"coastal-protection"
] | First record of Luidia atlantidea Madsen, 1950 (Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Paxillosida: Luidiidae) in the Sidi-Medjdoub areaMostaganem (West Algerian coast, Mediterranean Sea). | [
"Karim Mezali",
"Ihcene Khodja",
"Ahlam Benarous",
"Zineb Lebouazda",
"Dina Lila Soualili"
] | Zootaxa | 2,022 | 5124 | 10.11646/zootaxa.5124.1.7 | 35,391,134 | The genus Luidia is currently represented in the Mediterranean Sea by three species, namely Luidia ciliaris (Philippi, 1837), Luidia sarsii sarsii (Dben Koren in Dben, 1844) and Luidia atlantidea (Madsen, 1950) which is an Atlantic species recently reported from the Spanish and Tunisian coasts. Two individuals of Luidi... |
[
"agroforestry"
] | Outwelling of nutrients into the Pasur River estuary from the Sundarbans mangrove creeks. | [
"Jahid Hasan",
"Dinesh Chandra Shaha",
"Sampa Rani Kundu",
"Minhaz Ahmed",
"Shahroz Mahean Haque",
"Farhana Haque",
"Md Emranul Ahsan",
"Salman Ahmed",
"Md Iqbal Hossain",
"Mohammad Abdus Salam"
] | Heliyon | 2,022 | 8 | 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12270 | 36,578,382 | The Pasur River estuary (PRE), the largest estuary in the Sundarbans mangrove area, provides vital fishery resources and supports millions of livelihoods in the southwestern coastal region of Bangladesh. This study focused on the tidal and run-off effects on the outwelling of nutrients from the Sundarbans mangrove cree... |
[
"ecological-engineering"
] | Enzymatic resolution of ibuprofen in an organic solvent under ultrasound irradiation. | [
"Dantong Zhao",
"Hong Yue",
"Ge Chen",
"Liyan Jiang",
"Hong Zhang",
"Zhi Wang",
"Guangchun Liu"
] | Biotechnology and applied biochemistry | 2,014 | 61 | 10.1002/bab.1229 | 24,698,427 | Ultrasound has been successfully adopted to improve the biocatalytic properties of APE1547 (a novel esterase from the archaeon Aeropyrum pernix K1) in the resolution of ibuprofen. After optimizing the conditions (ultrasound power, 200 W; temperature, 35 °C), the best biocatalytic performance of APE1547 (enzyme activity... |
[
"agroforestry"
] | …Fell Upas Sits, the Hydra-Tree of Death | [
"Vadim G Lebedev",
"Konstantin V Krutovsky",
"Konstantin A Shestibratov"
] | Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) | 2,019 | 24 | 10.3390/molecules24081636 | 31,027,270 | The use of natural products that can serve as natural herbicides and insecticides is a promising direction because of their greater safety for humans and environment. Secondary metabolites of plants that are toxic to plants and insects-allelochemicals-can be used as such products. Woody plants can produce allelochemica... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | An evaluation of the effect of plastic bag fee on consumer behavior: Case of Turkey. | [
"Gulsah Senturk",
"Devrim Dumludag"
] | Waste management (New York, N.Y.) | 2,021 | 120 | 10.1016/j.wasman.2020.10.042 | 33,223,247 | The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the plastic bag fee (that was implemented in Turkey recently) on the consumer behavior. For this purpose, a face-to-face consumer survey with 821 respondents was conducted in Istanbul. A paired sample t-test was carried out in order to compare consumers' average fre... |
[
"sustainable-development"
] | Transport energy consumption and environmental quality: Does urbanization matter? | [
"Samuel Adams",
"Elliot Boateng",
"Alex O Acheampong"
] | The Science of the total environment | 2,020 | 744 | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140617 | 32,712,414 | Previous studies on environmental quality have emphasized the importance of transportation and urbanization in influencing carbon emission globally. While the theoretical and empirical discussions remain inconclusive and controversial, the question of whether transport energy consumption and urbanization induce emissio... |
[
"natural-capital"
] | Powerful workhorses for antimicrobial peptide expression and characterization. | [
"Chun Li",
"Hans-Matti Blencke",
"Victoria Paulsen",
"Tor Haug",
"Klara Stensvåg"
] | Bioengineered bugs | 2,010 | 1 | 10.4161/bbug.1.3.11721 | 21,326,929 | Discovery of antimicrobial peptides (AMP) is to a large extent based on screening of fractions of natural samples in bacterial growth inhibition assays. However, the use of bacteria is not limited to screening for antimicrobial substances. In later steps, bioengineered "bugs" can be applied to both production and chara... |
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