Assessment of adaptive capacity and adaptation to climate change in the farming households of Eastern Himalayan foothills of West Bengal, India by Pritha Datta, Bhagirath Behera

“…The differences in natural, physical, and financial capital are mainly responsible for the differential adaptive capacity among the farming households in this region. …”
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Tumorigenesis: cell defense against hypoxia? by Nafiseh Pakravan

“…Effective therapies may be correcting therapies which direct the tumor microenvironment towards natural physical/chemical condition. Correcting therapies either bring back tumor cells to a normal form (correct tumor cells) or help the immune system to eradicate tumor cells which can not be corrected.…”
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The role of sustainable soil management practices in improving smallholder farmers’ livelihoods in the Gosho watershed, Northwest Ethiopia by Ermias Debie, Tadesse Yayeh, Mesfin Anteneh

“…Comparing adopter farm households to non-adopter farm households, the adopters’ natural, physical, human, financial, and social asset indices were larger by 0.28, 0.43, 0.64, 0.54, and 0.15, respectively. …”
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Semisolid Wet Sol–Gel Silica/Hydroxypropyl Methyl Cellulose Formulation for Slow Release of Serpin B3 Promotes Wound Healing In Vivo by Mattia Albiero, Alice Fullin, Gianmarco Villano, Alessandra Biasiolo, Santina Quarta, Simone Bernardotto, Cristian Turato, Mariagrazia Ruvoletto, Gian Paolo Fadini, Patrizia Pontisso, Margherita Morpurgo

“…The topical administration of SB3 is challenging due to its protein nature. Physical entrapment in wet sol–gel silica can stabilize the protein’s conformation and permit its sustained delivery. …”
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Travelers’, migrants’ and refugees’ health – individual, population and systemic aspects by Dorota CIANCIARA, Jacek Pruszyński, Inga Włodarczyk-Pruszyńska, Irena Padzińska-Pruszyńska

“…Risk factors for the health of migrants are insufficiently recognized and can be of a very diverse nature - physical, chemical, biological, psychophysical and social. …”
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Establishment of the Baseline for the IWRM in the Ecuadorian Andean Basins: Land Use Change, Water Recharge, Meteorological Forecast and Hydrological Modeling by Christian Mera-Parra, Fernando Oñate-Valdivieso, Priscilla Massa-Sánchez, Pablo Ochoa-Cueva

“…The objective was to describe, through land use/land cover change (LUCC), the natural physical processes under current conditions and to project them to 2029. …”
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Exploring the personal benefits of surfing: insights from cold-water surfers in Jæren, Norway by Yasmine M. Elmahdy, Mark Orams, Reidar J. Mykletun

“…Additional secondary data were derived from written and video material published in online surfing blogs/vlogs and surfers' private video footage.Results and discussionParticipants gained a wide range of benefits including experiencing strong positive feelings, inclusion, and social cohesion with other members in the surfing subculture, a deep connection to nature, physical and mental health benefits, and an overall enhanced quality of life. …”
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The metaphorical naming of selected dreaded diseases and medical conditions in Igbo language and thought by Kamalu Ikenna

“…The study reveals that the Igbo use different conceptual metaphors such as container, journey, leaf, natural/physical force, heavy burden, etc. to frame their understanding of some dreaded diseases and conditions. …”
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Landslide Susceptibility Analysis: A Logistic Regression Model Case Study in Coonoor, India by Evangelin Ramani Sujatha, Venkataramana Sridhar

“…This region has a direct link between natural physical systems, hydrology, and humans from the socio-hydrological perspective. …”
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION WITH CORONA AND WV-3 SATELLITE IMAGERY OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF ZAR TEPE (UZBEKISTAN) by C. Iranzo, P. Uribe, J. Angas, E. Ariño, V. Martínez-Ferreras, J. M. Gurt, S. Pidaev

“…IPAEB was started in 2006 in the South of Uzbekistan and is currently trying to explore the urban planning of the Zar Tepe archaeological site and the elements that make up its natural physical environment: evidence of communication routes, smallholdings, irrigation channels, fences and sources of raw materials.…”
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Eucalyptus-based livelihoods: enhancing household food security and resilience in Northwest Ethiopia by Fasika Belay, Fasika Belay, Messay Mulugeta, Teferee Makonnen

“…Moreover, the outcome of the livelihood asset index reveals that households that possess eucalyptus plantations exhibit higher indices for natural, physical, financial, and social assets compared to households without plantations. …”
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Autism, the social construction of disability, and the rejection of cultural stereotypes by Kwang, Qi Qi

“…The disabled are “defined in opposition to a norm that is assumed to possess natural physical superiority” (Thomson 19), which often leads to the marginalisation and oppression of the disabled minority by the dominant able-bodied majority. …”
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KEMISKINAN DAN KETAHANAN PANGAN RUMAH TANGGA TANI DI SUB DAS KEDUANG KABUPATEN WONOGIRI by , AJENG AYU NABILLA MANDALA, , Dr. Ir. Suhatmini Hardyastuti, M.S.

“…This study aims to know human assets, natural, physical, financial, and social, to identify level of poverty and food security in critical and non critical land areas, to analyze factors affecting level of food security, to identify linkages between poverty and food security. …”

Using analytical hierarchy process (AHP) for prioritizing and ranking of ecological indicators for monitoring sustainability of ecotourism in northern forest, Iran by Barzekar, Godratollah, Aziz, Azlizam, Mariapan, Manohar, Ismail, Mohd Hasmadi, Hosseni, Syed Mohsen

“…The 9 criteria include identified :1- Conservation of Natural resources & biodiversity 2- Maintenance of sceneries, natural &physical features 3- Conservation of soil & water resources 4- Maintenance of heritage & cultural diversity 5- existence of legal, institution, legislation and policy frameworks for empowering Ecotourism 6- promoting economic benefits & poverty alleviation 7- Educational affairs and public awareness 8- Maintenance of hygiene& tourist safety 9- Tourists & local people satisfaction. …”
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Development paths of people’s sustainable livelihood based on climate change: a case study of Yunnan minority areas by Jiaxin Wu, Lei Liu, Hongjuan Yang

“…Design/methodology/approach – Taking Yunnan Province as an example, based on the expansion of the traditional sustainable livelihood framework, the authors constructed a system dynamics (SD) model of sustainable livelihood from the six subsystems of natural, physical, financial, social, human and cultural and tested the accuracy and effectiveness of the model with data from Cangyuan County. …”
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Physical stimuli-emitting scaffolds: The role of piezoelectricity in tissue regeneration by Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo, Mariana Zarur, Alejandro Seijo-Rabina, Barbara Blanco-Fernandez, Isabel Rodríguez-Moldes, Angel Concheiro

“…Scaffolds that can better mimic the natural physical stimuli that tissues receive under healthy conditions and during healing may significantly aid the regeneration process. …”
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Analysis of Land Surface Temperature Driving Factors and Spatial Heterogeneity Research Based on Geographically Weighted Regression Model by Yin Zhi, Liang Shan, Lina Ke, Ruxin Yang

“…Among these, in terms of natural physical factors, digital elevation model, normalized difference vegetation index, and modified normalized difference water index data were found to be negatively correlated with LSTs in most cases; in the social dimension, the point-of-interest number and building-coverage ratio were generally positively correlated with LSTs.…”
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Legal Protection of Children as Commercial Sex Workers in Human Trafficking Crime by Intan Syapriyani

“…Child protection is any effort made to create conditions so that every child can carry out their rights and obligations for the development and growth of children naturally, physically, mentally and socially. Child protection activities bring legal consequences, both in relation to written law and unwritten law. …”
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Iranian Women's Experiences of Physical Recovery from Perineal Injuries after Childbirth: A Qualitative Study by Nahid Jahanishoorab, Ali Taghipour, Masomeh Mirteimori, Robab Latifnejad Roudsari

“…Improving physical functions helped to restore emotional recovery as well, when participants recaptured pervious sense of self (normalization), and regained their daily activities.Conclusion: Women, especially women with severe perineal trauma, in addition to the routine six-week post-partum care, need longer time of receiving care until completing the natural physical recovery process.…”
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GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF FOREST FLORA OF THE CENTRAL CISCAUCASIA by I. L. Ivanov, I. N. Guseva

“…Composing flora elements have different types of habitats, concentrated in the natural physical-geographical unit where isolated from the main habitats. …”
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