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The World Ecology of Desalination

Brian F O'Neill • Journal of World-Systems Research (2020)

World-systems scholars are increasingly engaged in issues at the intersection of ecological and economic concerns since the proliferation of debates on the Anthropocene. Recently, the alternative concept of Capitalocene—age of Capital—has e...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2020.987

Outcome of pregnancy in the morbidly obese woman

Eugene Ngoga, David Hall, Fredd Mattheyse, Debby Grové • South African Family Practice (2009)

Background: Obesity is a growing global health problem. In South Africa, more than half of the adult women are overweight and almost 30% are obese. The problems associated with obesity, such as diabetes, hypertension, thrombo-embolism and c...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/20786204.2009.10873805

Chemosensory-Related Genes in Marine Copepods

Vittoria Roncalli, Marco Uttieri, Iole Di Capua, Chiara Lauritano et al. • Marine Drugs (2022)

Living organisms deeply rely on the acquisition of chemical signals in any aspect of their life, from searching for food, mating and defending themselves from stressors. Copepods, the most abundant and ubiquitous metazoans on Earth, possess...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/md20110681