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    Driving forces of grassland vegetation changes in Chen Barag Banner, Inner Mo...

    Inner Mongolia is an important ecological zone of northern China and 67% of its land area is grassland. This ecologically fragile region has experienced significant vegetation...
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    An audit of physiotherapists’ documentation on physical activity assessment, ...

    Identify if physiotherapists document the assessment, promotion and prescription of physical activity to older adults attending out-patient rehabilitation and assist them in the...
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    Economic evaluation of nivolumab combined with ipilimumab in the first-line t...

    The objective of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of nivolumab in combination with ipilimumab (nivo + ipi) compared to current therapeutic alternatives in...
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    Pricing methods in outcome-based contracting: δ2: Willingness-to-pay-based pr...

    Aims: Six Delta is a six-dimensional independent platform for outcome-based pricing/contracting. The second dimension (δ2) estimates prices on the basis of four...
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    Anticipatory witnessing: military bases and the politics of pre-empting access

    As part of their newsgathering process, journalists often seek access to places owned or controlled by the government, such as military bases. In the United States, the military...
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    The creation of the SAVE consortium – Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction:...

    There have been few faster, more dramatic and wide-scale species declines than those of South Asian vulture populations since the 1990s. This article describes the background to...
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    Inter and intraexaminer reliability of a new method of infrared thermography ...

    Thermography is an imaging technique that records the infrared radiation of the skin with a potential to detect asymmetries in body temperature and relating them to pathologies...
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    New York City’s coastlines are a mosaic of natural and man-made habitats intermixed with housing and industry, all of which are extremely vulnerable to flooding, storm surge,...
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    Entropy-Based Analysis of the Impact of Environmentally Sensitive Elements on...

    Understanding the impact of natural and modified environment on human health is a subject within the scope of medical geology. Ameka and its environs in southeastern Nigeria is...
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    Spatial modelling of cumulative human pressure in the tropical coastscape of ...

    Coastal landscapes and seascapes (‘coastscapes’) are under immense anthropogenic pressures emanating from multiple human activities. We applied spatial modelling to characterise...
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    The economic burden of common adverse events associated with metastatic color...

    Aims: Adverse events (AEs) associated with treatments for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) may compromise the course of treatment, impact quality-of-life, and increase...
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    Do voluntary certification standards improve yields and wellbeing? Evidence f...

    Cocoa and oil palm production are major agricultural activities in Ghana, contributing substantially to the national economy and rural livelihoods. Even though smallholders...
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    Assessing the Impacts of Co-Management on Protected Area Landscape under Soci...

    Bangladesh Forest Department had undertaken co-management of protected area (PA) initiatives for halting the rapid rate of forest degradation and deforestation in the country....
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    The purse-seine fishery for small pelagic fishes off the Madeira Archipelago

    Small pelagic fishes constitute a valuable food resource for human consumption and are also important components of marine food webs. At Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago in the...
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    Toward a Low-Carbon Industrial Sector in Mexico

    This article analyzes the possibility of substantially reducing greenhouse gases (GHG) in the Mexican industrial sector by applying a Low-carbon (LC) scenario, through a period...
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    Smallholder tree-farmers and forest certification in Southeast Asia: alternat...

    The smallholder tree-farm resources of Southeast Asia are generating substantial benefits for growers and support many successful domestic wood processors. They could provide...
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    The epidemiology and prehospital care of motorcycle crashes in a sub-Saharan ...

    Road traffic crashes (RTCs) are common among motorcyclists in Kigali, Rwanda. The Service d’Aide Medicale Urgente (SAMU), a prehospital ambulance service, responds to many of...
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    Assessing causes of quality deterioration of groundwater in Puttalam, Sri Lan...

    Extensive extraction of groundwater has resulted in deterioration of the groundwater quality in the Puttalam area in the northwestern coastal zone of Sri Lanka. This situation...
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    A Call to Arms for Climate Change? How Military Service Member Concern About ...

    Military service members are a highly trusted group – especially among ideological conservatives. Consequently, we devised an environmental communication strategy that...
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    Intravitreal aflibercept: its role in treatment of neovascular age-related ma...

    Introduction: Age related macular degeneration (AMD) affects over 14 million people worldwide and is the commonest cause of visual loss in the over 65’s age group in the...