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Barriers and facilitators to implementing the European code of cancer practice in a rural and coastal setting: a qualitative studyNARA Subscribed
Purpose The European Code of Cancer Practice (ECCP) is a patient-centred framework for good clinical cancer practice, to improve outcomes for all of Europe’s patients [1]. Given challenges with applications to rural regions, the study aimed to explore the barriers and facilitators to implementing the ECCP in a rural, coastal, and urban context. Methods We conducted semi-structured individual and group interviews with nine acut...
Three Decades of Silviculture in Northern Rocky Mountain Forests, USA: Trends, Practices, and OutcomesNARA Subscribed
The Northern Rocky Mountains region includes 42 million acres of forest land which is diverse in landownership, management objectives, tree species, site productivities, disturbance regimes, and silvicultural practices resulting in a mosaic landscape. Substantial changes in landownership, management objectives, markets, policy, forest conditions, and silvicultural practices have occurred over the last thirty years. This review...
Production and characterization of pellets with sewage sludge for use as an energy and environmental alternativeNARA Subscribed
This study investigates the production and characterization of pellets incorporating sewage sludge as a partial substitute for lignocellulosic biomass, aiming at its valorization as an alternative energy source and environmentally sustainable solution. Pellets were produced using different proportions of sewage sludge and Pinus wood powder (0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%) in a pilot-scale pellet mill (1,500 kg·h⁻ 1 ). The samples...
Purpose Rural communities frequently experience inequalities in cancer care compared to urban counterparts. Despite growing academic interest , there has been no global bibliometric analysis of rural cancer publications. Increasingly, global policies focus on place-based health inequalities; it is critical to understand the current state and emerging trends of rural cancer research. This analysis focuses on publication trends,...
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...
Giants of the Amazon: How does environmental variation drive the diversity patterns of large trees?NARA Subscribed
For more than three decades, major efforts in sampling and analyzing tree diversity in South America have focused almost exclusively on trees with stems of at least 10 and 2.5 cm diameter, showing highest species diversity in the wetter western and northern Amazon forests. By contrast, little attention has been paid to patterns and drivers of diversity in the largest canopy and emergent trees, which is surprising given these h...
Image-based machine learning methods are becoming among the most widely-used forms of data analysis across science, technology, engineering, and industry. These methods are powerful because they can rapidly and automatically extract rich contextual and spatial information from images, a process that has historically required a large amount of human labor. A wide range of recent scientific applications have demonstrated the pot...
SNAPSHOT USA 2020: A second coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States during the COVID ‐19 pandemicNARA Subscribed
Managing wildlife populations in the face of global change requires regular data on the abundance and distribution of wild animals, but acquiring these over appropriate spatial scales in a sustainable way has proven challenging. Here we present the data from Snapshot USA 2020, a second annual national mammal survey of the USA. This project involved 152 scientists setting camera traps in a standardized protocol at 1485 location...
Escape from the heat: thermal stratification in a well-mixed estuary and implications for fish species facing a changing climateNARA Subscribed
Climate change may cause organisms to seek thermal refuge from rising temperatures, either by shifting their ranges or seeking microrefugia within their existing ranges. We evaluate the potential for thermal stratification to provide refuge for two fish species in the San Francisco Estuary (Estuary): Chinook Salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha Walbaum, 1792) and Delta Smelt ( Hypomesus transpacificus McAllister, 1963). We compil...
Prolonging survival in good health is a fundamental societal goal. However, the leading determinants of disability-free survival in healthy older people have not been well established. Data from ASPREE, a bi-national placebo-controlled trial of aspirin with 4.7 years median follow-up, was analysed. At enrolment, participants were healthy and without prior cardiovascular events, dementia or persistent physical disability. Disab...
Expert range maps of global mammal distributions harmonised to three taxonomic authoritiesNARA Subscribed
Aim Comprehensive, global information on species' occurrences is an essential biodiversity variable and central to a range of applications in ecology, evolution, biogeography and conservation. Expert range maps often represent a species' only available distributional information and play an increasing role in conservation assessments and macroecology. We provide global range maps for the native ranges of all extant mammal spec...