Uncertainty in climate response to carbon dioxide and implications for mitigation policy by Millar, R

“…Estimates of the magnitude of GMST response to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide (equilibrium climate sensitivity or ECS) remains uncertain over a broad range between 1.5-4.5K. Expected economic damages associated with climate change are strongly sensitive to this broad uncertainty, creating challenges in constructing mitigation policies to limit peak warming.…”

The policy of free healthcare for children under the age of 6 years in Vietnam: Assessment of the uptake for children hospitalised with acute diarrhoea in Ho Chi Minh City by Shieh, M, Thompson, C, Phan Vu Tra, M, Thi Thuy Linh, V, Tediosi, F, Merson, L, Farrar, J, Manh Tuan, H, Lu Viet, H, Thi Ngoc Tuyet, P, Baker, S

“…Associations between socio-economic factors with non-utilisation of FCCU6 were evaluated. …”

Identifying relationships between multi-scale social-ecological factors to explore ungulate health in a Western Kazakhstan rangeland by Khanyari, M, Robinson, S, Morgan, ER, Salemgarev, A, Milner-Gulland, E

“…Using the example of Western Kazakhstan, home to two types of ungulate hosts, the critically-endangered saiga antelopes, Saiga tatarica, and livestock, we conducted a cross-scale analysis of social-economic, ecological and climatic factors that contribute to transmission of diseases We focused on Gastro-intestinal Nematodes (GINs) because they are transmitted between hosts that share pasture and they affect ungulate fitness. …”

Lessons learned from the commercial exploitation of marine battery energy storage systems by He, W, Valøen, LO, Olsen, KV, Kjeka, KM, Fredriksen, BM, Petiteau, M, Touat, A, Såtendal, H, Howie, A, Howey, D, Kandepu, R, Hammershøj, CF

“…Large, reliable, and economically viable battery energy storage systems (BESSs) play a crucial role in electrifying the maritime industry. …”

Assessing the cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in a low incidence and low mortality setting: the case of Thailand at start of the pandemic by Wang, Y, Luangasanatip, N, Pan-Ngum, W, Isaranuwatchai, W, Prawjaeng, J, Saralamba, S, Painter, C, Briones, JR, Teerawattananon, Y

“…<br><strong> Methods<br></strong> An age-structured transmission dynamic model was developed based on key local data to evaluate economic consequences, including cost and health outcome in terms of life-years (LYs) saved. …”

Practitioner, patient and public views on the acceptability of mobile stroke units in England and Wales: A mixed methods study by Moseley, L, McMeekin, P, Price, C, Shaw, L, Laws, A, Allen, M, Ford, GA, James, M, McCarthy, S, McClelland, G, Park, LJ, Pearn, K, Phillips, D, White, P, Wilson, D, Scott, J

“…These concerns included how MSUs would be staffed; whether and how telemedicine could contribute; the types of economic impacts; extent to which triage systems could accurately identify stroke patients for MSUs to attend; where the base location and geographic coverage of MSUs should be, the impact of MSUs on equitable access to stroke care, and how to improve public awareness of MSUs. …”

Young Lives Preliminary Country Report: Peru by Escobal, J, Lanata, C, Madrid, S, Penny, M, Saavedra, J, Suárez, P, Verastegui, H, Villar, E, Huttly, S

“…The preliminary results presented in this paper provide important data on housing, nutrition, food aid, health, education, the environment, economic shocks, and child labour. The authors outline conclusions and implications for pro-poor pro-child policy based on this data.…”

Urban politics and the urban process by Greenstein, D

“…</p> <p>Both case studies begin with computer-assisted analyses of changes in the socio-economic and spatial structures of urban society. Such changes are often considered to be fundamental causes of urban political reform either because they altered political elites' interests in municipal government or because they created enormous new demands on existing municipal works and services. …”

A comparative study of the forms of slavery by Steiner, FB

“…The third part deals with a group of pre-servile institutions arising out of economic symbiosis of two societies of different <u>densité morale</u>.…”

Making progress: Report of the Young Lives school survey in Vietnam by Dornan, P, James, Z

“…Improving educational opportunities may be expected to play a role in reducing economic and social inequalities. However, attending school is only one set of influences on a child's learning development, and even in an equitable education system, home background and contextual influences may perpetuate or widen differences in learning progress between more and less advantaged pupils. …”

What will it cost to prevent violence against women and girls in low- and middle-income countries? Evidence from Ghana, Kenya, Pakistan, Rwanda, South Africa and Zambia by Torres-Rueda, S, Ferrari, G, Orangi, S, Hitimana, R, Daviaud, E, Tawiah, T, Prah, RKD, Karmaliani, R, Kapapa, E, Barasa, E, Jewkes, R, Vassall, A

“…Although there is a growing body of evidence on the effectiveness of VAWG prevention interventions, economic data are scarce. We carried out a cross-country study to examine the costs of VAWG prevention interventions in low- and middle-income countries. …”

The genomic architecture of mastitis resistance in dairy sheep. by Banos, G, Bramis, G, Bush, SJ, Clark, EL, McCulloch, MEB, Smith, J, Schulze, G, Arsenos, G, Hume, DA, Psifidi, A

“… <h4>Background</h4> <p>Mastitis is the most prevalent disease in dairy sheep with major economic, hygienic and welfare implications. The disease persists in all dairy sheep production systems despite the implementation of improved management practises. …”

The organising vision for telehealth and telecare: discourse analysis. by Greenhalgh, T, Procter, R, Wherton, J, Sugarhood, P, Shaw, S

“…Political economy discourse envisaged a techno-economic complex of powerful vested interests driving commodification of healthcare and diversion of public funds into private business. …”

Elimination of reference mapping bias reveals robust immune related allele-specific expression in crossbred sheep by Salavati, M, Bush, SJ, Palma-Vera, S, McCulloch, MEB, Hume, DA, Clark, EL

“…These tissue-specific ASE profiles may underlie the expression of economically important traits and could be utilized as weighted SNVs, for example, to improve the accuracy of genomic selection in breeding programs for sheep. …”

Survey attrition and attrition bias in Young Lives by Outes-Leon, I, Dercon, S

“…Analysts often presuppose that attrition is correlated with observable characteristics such as household education, health or economic well-being, resulting in samples that include only a selected group of households. …”

Extreme rainfall and landslides as a response to human-induced climate change: a case study at Baixada Santista, Brazil, 2020 by Couto de Souza, D, Crespo, NM, Vieira da Silva, D, Harada, LM, Parrode de Godoy, RM, Domingues, LM, Luiz, R, Bortolozo, CA, Metodiev, D, Magalhaes de Andrade, MR, Hartley, A, Cesario de Abreu, R, Li, S, Lott, F, Sparrow, S

“…The anthropogenic contribution to changes in rainfall accounted for 20-42% of the total losses and damages. The greatest economic losses occurred in Guarujá (42%), followed by São Vicente (30%) and Santos (28%). …”

The role and perception of the civitas in late Roman and Frankish Gaul by Allen, S, Allen, Susan Jane

“…Thus, civitates are considered in the light of their administrative, religious, military and economic roles. Within each chapter, attention is given not only to the practical operation of these functions, but also to their importance to the civitas in terms of status and prestige. …”

Mind and body in Charlotte Bronte's fiction by Shuttleworth, S

“…More particularly, I had aimed to show that the models of selfhood in Charlotte Brontë’s fiction drew on the social, psychological and economic constructions of the period.…”

Building mounds: Viking-Late Norse settlement in the North Atlantic c. AD800-1200 by Harrison, J

“…Settlement mounds in Orkney are also closely associated with nearly 40 Skaill ON <em>skáli</em> ('hall') place-names, which place-names linked the sites with the social and economic networks of Orkney's peripatetic leaders. …”

Long-term survival of asexual Zymoseptoria tritici spores in the environment by Kay, WT, O’Neill, P, Gurr, SJ, Fones, HN

“…Background: The fungal phytopathogen Zymoseptoria tritici, causal agent of the economically damaging Septoria tritici blotch of wheat, is different from most foliar fungal pathogens in that its germination occurs slowly and apparently randomly after arrival on the leaf surface and is followed by a potentially prolonged period of epiphytic growth and even reproduction, during which no feeding structures are formed by the fungus. …”