Reconsidering disaster resilience: a nonlinear systems paradigm in agricultural communities in Southern Africa
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DOI: 10.1007/s11069-017-3071-4
Abstract: Abstract Disasters continue to have a dramatic impact on lives, livelihoods and environments communities depend on. In response to these losses, the global community has developed various theories, assessment methodologies and policies aimed at reducing… read more here.
Keywords: disaster resilience; communities southern; resilience; agricultural communities ... See more keywords
ASSESSING THE SPREAD OF ENEOLITHIC AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES IN THE FOREST-STEPPE OF UKRAINE USING AMS RADIOCARBON DATING
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DOI: 10.1017/rdc.2023.28
Abstract: Current scholarship suggests that Neo-Eneolithic systems of settlement and subsistence in Eastern Europe were defined by short-to-medium range migration, while sparsely populated land in peripheral regions allowed for the continual colonization of new territories. We… read more here.
Keywords: spread eneolithic; eneolithic agricultural; assessing spread; forest steppe ... See more keywords
Toxins linked to chronic interstitial nephritis in agricultural communities
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DOI: 10.1038/s41581-019-0239-z
Abstract: Nature reviews | Nephrology Chronic interstitial nephritis in agricultural communities (CiNaC) is a disease that primarily affects young agricultural workers from low-income, tropical countries. although heat stress has been proposed to have a role, the… read more here.
Keywords: nephrology; chronic interstitial; interstitial nephritis; agricultural communities ... See more keywords
Helping the Ineloquent Farmers: Finding Experts for Questions With Limited Text in Agricultural Q&A Communities
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DOI: 10.1109/access.2020.2984342
Abstract: Nowadays, hundreds of thousands of farmers in China seek online in agricultural Q&A communities, such as Farm-Doctor, for agricultural advice. As in many other Q&A communities, the key design issue is to find experts to… read more here.
Keywords: farm doctor; helping ineloquent; finding experts; farmers finding ... See more keywords
Factors Associated with Levels of Organophosphate Pesticides in Household Dust in Agricultural Communities
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DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19020862
Abstract: Organophosphate (OP) pesticides are associated with numerous adverse health outcomes. Pesticide use data are available for California from the Pesticide Use Report (PUR), but household- and individual-level exposure factors have not been fully characterized to… read more here.
Keywords: exposure; exposure assessment; organophosphate pesticides; agricultural communities ... See more keywords