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World Report on Disability, Intellectual Disabilities, and Disaster Preparedness: Costa Rica as a Case Example
(Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2015-06)
The World Report on Disability relates concerns about the experiences of individuals with intellectual disability in disaster situations.
Disaster planning related to people with intellectual disability needs to consider ...
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and Persons with Disabilities
(International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2015-06)
In this paper, the Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (SFDRR) is evaluated
with respect to its ramifications for persons with disabilities.
In the SFDRR, persons with disabilities were referenced
either ...
Engaging with Entrepreneurs in Academic and Public Libraries
(Emerald, 2015)
The purpose of this paper is to explore how academic and public libraries support entrepreneurial researchers and, in doing so, demonstrate impact and share best practices.
The authors discuss their own experiences as ...
Reduced SNP Panels for Genetic Identification and Introgression Analysis in the Dark Honey Bee (Apis mellifera mellifera)
(PLOS, 2015-04-13)
Beekeeping activities, especially queen trading, have shaped the distribution of honey bee (Apis mellifera) subspecies in Europe, and have resulted in extensive introductions of two eastern European C-lineage subspecies ...
The contribution of mangrove expansion to salt marsh loss on the Texas Gulf coast
(PLOS, 2015-05-06)
Landscape-level shifts in plant species distribution and abundance can fundamentally change the ecology of an ecosystem. Such shifts are occurring within mangrove-marsh ecotones, where over the last few decades, relatively ...
Challenges Associated with Multi-institutional Multi-site Clinical Trial Collaborations: Lessons from a Diabetes Self-Management Interventions Study in Primary Care
(OMICS Publishing Group, 2015-04-22)
Purpose: Project management for multi-institutional, multi-site clinical trials poses significant challenges. We describe the response to challenges encountered in a 5-year National Institutes of Health multi-institutional ...
Synovial pharmacokinetics of tulathromycin, gamithromycin and florfenicol after a single subcutaneous dose in cattle
(BioMed Central, 2015-02-07)
Background: Deep digital septic conditions represent some of the most refractory causes of severe lameness in
cattle. The objective of this study was to determine the distribution of tulathromycin, gamithromycin and ...
Measuring Spatial Variability of Land Use Associated with Hydrological Impact in Urbanised Quaternary Catchments using Entropy
(2015-01)
Decision making for water resources is needed for land-use change due to urbanisation, which impacts hydrological variables such as mean annual runoff (MAR) of catchments. Urbanisation introduces some degree of uncertainty ...
Patterns of shrub expansion in Alaskan arctic river corridors suggest phase transition
(John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2015)
Recent increases in deciduous shrub cover are a primary focus of terrestrial
Arctic research. This study examined the historic spatial patterns of shrub
expansion on the North Slope of Alaska to determine the potential ...
Decreasing NF-κB Expression Enhances Odontoblastic Differentiation and Collagen Expression in Dental Pulp Stem Cells Exposed to Inflammatory Cytokines
(PLOS, 2015-01-28)
Inflammatory response in the dental pulp can alter the collagen matrix formation by dental pulp stem cells and lead to a delay or poor healing of the pulp. This inflammatory response is mediated by cytokines, including ...