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LED flashlight technology facilitates wild meat extraction across the tropics (2020)
Journal Article
Bowler, M., Beirne, C., Tobler, M., Anderson, M., Rocha El Bizri, H., & et al. (2020). LED flashlight technology facilitates wild meat extraction across the tropics. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 18(9), 489-495. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2242

Hunting for wild meat in the tropics provides subsistence and income for millions of people. Methods have remained relatively unchanged since the introduction of shotguns and battery-powered incandescent flashlights, but the short battery life of suc... Read More about LED flashlight technology facilitates wild meat extraction across the tropics.

Lockdown urbanism: COVID-19 lifestyles and liveable futures opportunities in Wuhan and Manchester (2020)
Journal Article
Jefferies, T., Cheng, J., & Coucill, L. (2020). Lockdown urbanism: COVID-19 lifestyles and liveable futures opportunities in Wuhan and Manchester. Cities and Health, 5, 155-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1788771

Based on the authors’ personal experiences, this commentary discusses contrasting urban contexts and lockdown measures in twinned cities Wuhan, China and Manchester, UK, to examine spatial reach under COVID-19 restrictions in both places. Focusing on... Read More about Lockdown urbanism: COVID-19 lifestyles and liveable futures opportunities in Wuhan and Manchester.

Social and biological correlates of wild meat consumption and trade by rural communities in the Jutaí river basin, Central Amazonia (2020)
Journal Article

Wild animals are an important source of food and income throughout the Amazon basin, particularly for forest-dependent communities living in the more remote regions. Through interviews in 51 households within 16 communities in the Jutaí River Extract... Read More about Social and biological correlates of wild meat consumption and trade by rural communities in the Jutaí river basin, Central Amazonia.

Age, religion, and taboos influence subsistence hunting by indigenous people of the Lower Madeira River, Brazilian Amazon (2020)
Journal Article
Knoop, S., Morcatty, T., Rocha El Bizri, H., & Cheyne, S. (2020). Age, religion, and taboos influence subsistence hunting by indigenous people of the Lower Madeira River, Brazilian Amazon. https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-40.2.131

Subsistence hunting is an essential livelihood strategy of Indigenous people in the Amazon. The present study examines the aspects influencing hunting practices by the Indigenous Maraguá people in the central Amazon, Brazil. We used a Generalized Add... Read More about Age, religion, and taboos influence subsistence hunting by indigenous people of the Lower Madeira River, Brazilian Amazon.

Utilizing an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) for overcrowding level risk assessment in railway stations (2020)
Journal Article
Alawad, H., An, M., & Kaewunruen, S. (2020). Utilizing an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) for overcrowding level risk assessment in railway stations. Applied Sciences, 10(15), e5156. https://doi.org/10.3390/app10155156

The railway network plays a significant role (both economically and socially) in assisting the reduction of urban traffic congestion. It also accelerates the decarbonization in cities, societies and built environments. To ensure the safe and secure o... Read More about Utilizing an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) for overcrowding level risk assessment in railway stations.

Social behavior in Nototriton brodiei in the Cloud Forest of Cusuco National Park, Honduras (2020)
Journal Article
Sasso, T., Cox, C., & Gilroy, D. (2020). Social behavior in Nototriton brodiei in the Cloud Forest of Cusuco National Park, Honduras. South american journal of herpetology (Impresso), 17(1), 29-32. https://doi.org/10.2994/SAJH-D-18-00015.1

The slender and elusive Nototriton brodiei is known only from a few specimens at two separate sites in the Sierra de Merendón, in Guatemala and Honduras. We present the first record of an aggregation of three adults of N. brodiei on a single leaf in... Read More about Social behavior in Nototriton brodiei in the Cloud Forest of Cusuco National Park, Honduras.

FoxP3+ T regulatory cells in cancer : prognostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets (2020)
Journal Article
Saleh, R., & Elkord, E. (2020). FoxP3+ T regulatory cells in cancer : prognostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets. Cancer Letters, 490, 174-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2020.07.022

T Regulatory cells (Tregs) can have both protective and pathological roles. They maintain immune homeostasis and inhibit immune responses in various diseases, including cancer. Proportions of Tregs in the peripheral blood of some cancer patients incr... Read More about FoxP3+ T regulatory cells in cancer : prognostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets.

Affordable housing provision in informal settlements through land value capture and inclusionary housing (2020)
Journal Article
Nzau, B., & Trillo, C. (2020). Affordable housing provision in informal settlements through land value capture and inclusionary housing. Sustainability, 12(15), 5975. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12155975

Public-driven attempts to provide decent housing to slum residents in developing countries have either failed or achieved minimal output when compared to the growing slum population. This has been attributed mainly to shortage of public funds. Howeve... Read More about Affordable housing provision in informal settlements through land value capture and inclusionary housing.

Adomain computation of radiative-convective bi-directional stretching flow of a magnetic non-Newtonian fluid in porous media with homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions (2020)
Journal Article
Mishra, S., Shamshuddin, M., Beg, O., & Kadir, A. (2020). Adomain computation of radiative-convective bi-directional stretching flow of a magnetic non-Newtonian fluid in porous media with homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions. International Journal of Modern Physics B, 34(18), 2050165. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217979220501659

In the present communication, laminar, incompressible, hydromagnetic flow of
an electrically conducting non-Newtonian (Sisko) fluid over a bi-directional stretching sheet in
a porous medium is studied theoretically. Thermal radiation flux, homogene... Read More about Adomain computation of radiative-convective bi-directional stretching flow of a magnetic non-Newtonian fluid in porous media with homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions.