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Background: Patients with a rare genetic disease face unmet needs deepened by the traditional American healthcare system. Social, educational, and financial support resources help address some of these challenges; however, for patients who are Spanish speaking, the language barrier makes it more difficult to attain such resources. This compounds with already existing healthcare disparities faced by the Latino/Hispanic communit...
Migration-driven exposome reconfiguration: a predictive, preventive and personalized medicine perspective on cardiometabolic riskNARA Subscribed
Contemporary global migration, driven by socioeconomic instability, armed conflict, climate change, and political factors, has emerged as a major determinant of exposome reconfiguration and cardiometabolic vulnerability. Migrant populations are disproportionately exposed to cumulative environmental, psychosocial, behavioral, and cultural stressors that may contribute to chronic low-grade inflammation, neuroendocrine dysregulat...
Governance Arrangements That Fit Social‐Ecological Context Are Associated With Fishery SustainabilityNARA Subscribed
In many parts of the world, natural resources are primarily managed by governance arrangements at the local level. Those arrangements range from collective, such as cooperatives and associations, to individualistic, such as patrons and owner‐operators. A key question is how such arrangements influence resource use and associated social and ecological outcomes. We hypothesize that sustainable resource use is not associated with...
Under the current global biodiversity crisis, there is a need for automated and noninvasive monitoring techniques that can gather large amounts of data cost‐effectively at various ecological scales, from local to large spatial scales. These data can then be analyzed to inform stakeholders and decision‐makers. One such technique is passive acoustic monitoring, which is commonly coupled with automatic identification of animal sp...
Marine megafauna species are affected by a wide range of anthropogenic threats. To evaluate the risk of such threats, species’ vulnerability to each threat must first be determined. We build on the existing threats classification scheme and ranking system of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species by assessing the vulnerability of 256 marine megafauna species to 23 at‐sea threat...
Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The updated version expands version 1.0 of the database by doubling the number of studies and includes substantial additional curation to the taxonomic accuracy of the records, as well as the metadata. Moreover, we now provide an R packag...
Evaluating the role of moonlight-darkness dynamics as proximate spawning cues in an Acropora coralNARA Subscribed
For sessile broadcast spawning marine invertebrates, such as corals, successful sexual reproduction depends on conspecifics spawning synchronously. The precise monthly, lunar, and diel timing and the extent of synchrony, i.e., proportion of population reproducing at the same time, are likely to play a key role in coral population recovery, persistence, and adaptation. Despite its importance, the mechanisms by which different e...
Metastatic disease results from the dissemination of tumor cells beyond their organ of origin to grow in distant organs and is the primary cause of death in patients with advanced breast cancer. Preclinical murine models in which primary tumors spontaneously metastasize are valuable tools for studying metastatic progression and novel cancer treatment combinations. Here, we characterize a novel syngeneic murine breast tumor cel...
For community forest enterprises (CFEs) in central Mexico, ‘scaling up’ can be an effective means of achieving the transition to economically attractive and sustainable forest management, but little is known about the potential and challenges that they face in this regard. We used a qualitative case study to evaluate a set of variables that determine the limitations and opportunities for scaling up CFEs in central Mexico and t...