Animal pee in the sea: consumer‐mediated nutrient dynamics in the world's changing oceans

JE Allgeier, DE Burkepile, CA Layman - Global change biology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Humans have drastically altered the abundance of animals in marine ecosystems via
exploitation. Reduced abundance can destabilize food webs, leading to cascading indirect …

Reducing antimicrobial use in food animals

TP Van Boeckel, EE Glennon, D Chen, M Gilbert… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The large and expanding use of antimicrobials in livestock, a consequence of growing
global demand for animal protein, is of considerable concern in light of the threat of …

Mapping and linking supply-and demand-side measures in climate-smart agriculture. A review

L Scherer, PH Verburg - Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2017 - Springer
Climate change and food security are two of humanity's greatest challenges and are highly
interlinked. On the one hand, climate change puts pressure on food security. On the other …

Allometric scaling of skin thickness, elasticity, viscoelasticity to mass for micro-medical device translation: from mice, rats, rabbits, pigs to humans

JCJ Wei, GA Edwards, DJ Martin, H Huang… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Emerging micro-scale medical devices are showing promise, whether in delivering drugs or
extracting diagnostic biomarkers from skin. In progressing these devices through animal …

Human exposure risk assessment due to heavy metals in groundwater by pollution index and multivariate statistical methods: a case study from South Africa

V Elumalai, K Brindha, E Lakshmanan - Water, 2017 - mdpi.com
Heavy metals in surface and groundwater were analysed and their sources were identified
using multivariate statistical tools for two towns in South Africa. Human exposure risk …

Wastewater-based epidemiology as a new tool for estimating population exposure to phthalate plasticizers

I González-Mariño, R Rodil, I Barrio… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
This study proposes the monitoring of phthalate metabolites in wastewater as a nonintrusive
and economic alternative to urine analysis for estimating human exposure to phthalates. To …

The impact of vertical human-structure interaction on the response of footbridges to pedestrian excitation

K Van Nimmen, G Lombaert, G De Roeck… - Journal of Sound and …, 2017 - Elsevier
In the present paper, a detailed crowd model is applied to investigate the impact of vertical
human-structure interaction (HSI) on the dynamic response of footbridges to pedestrian …

Profile of cancer in the Eastern Mediterranean region: The need for action

I Kulhánová, F Bray, I Fadhil, AS Al-Zahrani… - Cancer …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Many countries in the Eastern Mediterranean region (EMR) are undergoing
marked demographic and socioeconomic transitions that are increasing the cancer burden …

Half-life of IgE in serum and skin: Consequences for anti-IgE therapy in patients with allergic disease

MG Lawrence, JA Woodfolk, AJ Schuyler… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present results from clinical studies on plasma infusion done in the late 1970s in patients
with hypogammaglobulinemia in which we documented the short half-life of both total and …

Does alcohol use have a causal effect on HIV incidence and disease progression? A review of the literature and a modeling strategy for quantifying the effect

J Rehm, C Probst, KD Shield, PA Shuper - Population health metrics, 2017 - Springer
In the first part of this review, the nature of the associations between alcohol use and
HIV/AIDS is discussed. Alcohol use has been found to be strongly associated with incidence …