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The Effects of Labor Market Opportunities on Education: The Case of a Female Hiring Ceiling in Iran
In: JPUBE-D-21-01438
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Health Levels Influenced by Urban Residential Conditions in a Megacity—Tokyo
In: Urban studies, Band 33, Heft 6, S. 879-894
ISSN: 1360-063X
Influences of residential conditions in a megacity on the health levels of residents were investigated. Correlations between mortalities and specified residential-condition indicators in study areas randomly selected from the megacity Tokyo were examined. Indicators representing housing and city planning were significantly correlated with mortalities after adjusting for socio-economic differences between the communities. Urbanisation to a certain level seems to have been associated with good health; however, the most densely developed artificial urban environment seems to be associated with negative health outcomes. Coping skills with regard to health problems are discussed in relation to health levels. A survey elucidated that the coping attitude of the elderly is related with their educational level, family structure, frequency of receiving health information and contact with a family doctor.
Introduction to ISO Technical Report on Lifecycle Risk Management for Integrated CCS Projects
In: 14th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference Melbourne 21-26 October 2018 (GHGT-14)
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Community‐Level Responses to Iron Availability in Open Ocean Plankton Ecosystems
29 pages, 9 figures, supporting information https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GB006022 ; Predicting responses of plankton to variations in essential nutrients is hampered by limited in situ measurements, a poor understanding of community composition, and the lack of reference gene catalogs for key taxa. Iron is a key driver of plankton dynamics and, therefore, of global biogeochemical cycles and climate. To assess the impact of iron availability on plankton communities, we explored the comprehensive bio‐oceanographic and bio‐omics data sets from Tara Oceans in the context of the iron products from two state‐of‐the‐art global scale biogeochemical models. We obtained novel information about adaptation and acclimation toward iron in a range of phytoplankton, including picocyanobacteria and diatoms, and identified whole subcommunities covarying with iron. Many of the observed global patterns were recapitulated in the Marquesas archipelago, where frequent plankton blooms are believed to be caused by natural iron fertilization, although they are not captured in large‐scale biogeochemical models. This work provides a proof of concept that integrative analyses, spanning from genes to ecosystems and viruses to zooplankton, can disentangle the complexity of plankton communities and can lead to more accurate formulations of resource bioavailability in biogeochemical models, thus improving our understanding of plankton resilience in a changing environment ; We thank the commitment of the following people and sponsors who made this singular expedition possible: CNRS (in particular Groupement de Recherche GDR3280, the Mission Pour l'Interdisciplinarité – Project MEGALODOM, and the Fédération de Recherche GO‐SEE FR2022), European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genoscope/CEA, the French Government "Investissements d'Avenir" programs Oceanomics (ANR‐11‐BTBR‐0008), MEMO LIFE (ANR‐10‐LABX‐54), PSL* Research University (ANR‐11‐IDEX‐0001‐02), and FRANCE GENOMIQUE (ANR‐10‐INBS‐09), Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders, VIB, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, UNIMIB, ANR (projects "PHYTBACK/ANR‐2010‐1709‐01," POSEIDON/ANR‐09‐BLAN‐0348, PROMETHEUS/ANR‐09‐PCS‐GENM‐217, TARA‐GIRUS/ANR‐09‐PCS‐GENM‐218, SAMOSA/ANR‐13‐ADAP‐0010, CINNAMON/ANR‐17‐CE02‐0014‐01), EU FP7 (MicroB3/No. 287589), ERC Advanced Grant Award (Diatomite: 294823), the LouisD foundation of the Institut de France, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship from Harvard University to C. B., JSPS/MEXT KAKENHI (26430184, 16H06437, and 16KT0020), The Canon Foundation (203143100025), Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (award #3790) and the US National Science Foundation (awards OCE#1536989 and OCE#1829831) to MBS, agnès b., the Veolia Environment Foundation, Region Bretagne, World Courier, Illumina, Cap L'Orient, the EDF Foundation EDF Diversiterre, FRB, the Prince Albert II de Monaco Foundation, Etienne Bourgois, the Fonds Français pour l'Environnement Mondial, the TARA schooner and its captain and crew. ; Peer Reviewed
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