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The avifauna of Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu along the Southeast coast of India: waterbird assessments and conservation implications across key sanctuaries and Ramsar sites

Hameed Byju, Hegde Maitreyi, Raveendran Natarajan, Reshmi Vijayan et al. • PeerJ (2025)

Background Wetlands, globally, face significant threats from human activities, and waterbirds, as key indicators of wetland health, are essential to maintaining ecological balance. Any long-term conservation measures should prioritize coord...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.7717/peerj.18899

Offering mental health first aid to a person with depression: a Delphi study to re-develop the guidelines published in 2008

Kathy S. Bond, Fairlie A. Cottrill, Fiona L. Blee, Claire M. Kelly et al. • BMC Psychology (2019)

Abstract Background Depressive disorder is ranked as the largest contributor to non-fatal health burden. However, with prompt treatment, outcomes can improve. Family and friends are well placed to recognise the signs of depression and encou...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s40359-019-0310-3

Dissecting the genetic basis of fruiting efficiency for genetic enhancement of harvest index, grain number, and yield in wheat

Dipendra Shahi, Jia Guo, Md Ali Babar, Sumit Pradhan et al. • BMC Plant Biology (2025)

Abstract Background Grain number (GN) is one of the key yield contributing factors in modern wheat (Triticum aestivum) varieties. Fruiting efficiency (FE) is a key trait for increasing GN by making more spike assimilates available to reprod...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12870-025-06072-1

The Effect of Diversification Strategies on Inventory Performance

Zahra Yousefzadeh, Gholamreza Mansourfar, Farzad Ghayour • مطالعات تجربی حسابداری مالی (2021)

Today, with rapid and sustained changes in business markets, a growing number of companies have turned diversification into new product segments or global markets by shifting their business to increase the importance of long-term financial ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22054/qjma.2021.58687.2227

Challenges of the growing African cement market – environmental issues, regulative framework, and quality infrastructure requirements

Schmidt Wolfram, Ngassam Inès L. Tchetgnia, Breitschaft Gerhard, Virchow Stephen • MATEC Web of Conferences (2018)

The African cement, concrete and construction business is growing at rapid pace. The cement sales are expected to grow rapidly until 2050. The number of newly built cement plants increases dramatically and in addition more cements are being...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1051/matecconf/201714901014

A rural community-based investigation to assess mHealth for family planning advice in district Multan

Naveen Farooq, Nadia Rehman Alvi, Sana Mangrio, Syed Aftab Rahim et al. • Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College (2023)

Background: Globally, Pakistan is the 5th populous country. To increase the use of family planning services by public private business model, Punjab Population Innovation Fund selected “Connect4fp” project implemented by International Rescu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.37939/jrmc.v27i1.1973

An Optimization via Simulation approach for the preemptive and non-preemptive multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problems

Parham Azimi, Naeim Azouji • International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Production Research (2017)

In this paper a novel modelling and solving method has been developed to address the so-called resource constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) where project tasks have multiple modes and also the preemption of activities are allowed...

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STEM approach and computer science impact the metaphorical thinking of Indonesian students’

Farida Farida, Nanang Supriadi, Siska Andriani, Dona Dinda Pratiwi et al. • RED. Revista de Educación a Distancia (2022)

Metaphorical thinking is important in improving the formation and discovery of learning ideas in the 21st-century. However, the metaphorical thinking of Indonesian students is below the international average in terms of cognitive process, a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.6018/red.493721

Developing a Rational, Optimized Product of Centella asiatica for Examination in Clinical Trials: Real World Challenges

Kirsten M. Wright, Janis McFerrin, Armando Alcázar Magaña, Armando Alcázar Magaña et al. • Frontiers in Nutrition (2022)

Botanical products are frequently sold as dietary supplements and their use by the public is increasing in popularity. However, scientific evaluation of their medicinal benefits presents unique challenges due to their chemical complexity, i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2021.799137

Weighing and Prioritizing the Eight Principles of Integrated Health, Safety, Environment and Energy Management in Industries Covered by the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Trade

Rasoul Yarahmadi, Hamed Moridi, Ali Asghar Farshad, Fereshteh Taheri • Salāmat-i kār-i Īrān (2020)

Abstract: Aim and Background: Today, with the growth of different dimensions of sustainable development, managers at the organizational and governmental levels have become more and more interested in the components of sustainable developmen...

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Arylamine N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) genetic diversity and traditional subsistence: a worldwide population survey.

Audrey Sabbagh, Pierre Darlu, Brigitte Crouau-Roy, Estella S Poloni • PLoS ONE (2011)

Arylamine N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) is involved in human physiological responses to a variety of xenobiotic compounds, including common therapeutic drugs and exogenous chemicals present in the diet and the environment. Many questions rem...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018507

Genetic Diversity and Population Genetic Structure of Endemic Schizothoracinae Fishes in the Upper Yellow River and Its Adjacent Waters

Xiu Feng, Xiaoling Wang, Ren Zhu, Yintao Jia et al. • Ecology and Evolution (2025)

ABSTRACT The endemic fishes in the upper Yellow River and its adjacent waters on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau are very sensitive and vulnerable to human activities and climate changes. However, the status of populations, such as genetic divers...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/ece3.72813

The Psychosocial Impact of COVID-19 on health care workers

Bárbara Otonín Rodríguez, Tania Lorca Sánchez • International Brazilian Journal of Urology (2020)

ABSTRACT At the end of 2019, a disease was identified, COVID-19, caused by a new type of easy and fast spreading virus, which led to the beginning of a worldwide pandemic. One of the most exposed groups to the virus and its psychosocial con...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1590/s1677-5538.ibju.2020.s124

Baltic Sea Coastal Eutrophication in a Thousand Year Perspective

Lena Norbäck Ivarsson, Thomas Andrén, Matthias Moros, Thorbjørn Joest Andersen et al. • Frontiers in Environmental Science (2019)

Sediment cores from three sites along the east-coast of Sweden, north-western Baltic Proper, have been studied with respect to lithologies, geochemistry, and diatom assemblages to trace and date early human impact with emphasis on nutrient ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2019.00088

The spatial allocation of population: a review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use

S. Leyk, S. Leyk, A. E. Gaughan, A. E. Gaughan et al. • Earth System Science Data (2019)

Population data represent an essential component in studies focusing on human–nature interrelationships, disaster risk assessment and environmental health. Several recent efforts have produced global- and continental-extent gridded populati...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5194/essd-11-1385-2019

THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE SOCIOENVIRONMENTAL IN SPACE MANAGEMENT RURAL: THE CASE OF DERRUBADAS – RS

Dhonathã Santo Rigo, Pedro Selvino Neumann, Paulo Roberto Cardoso da Silveira • Redes (2015)

Inadequate occupation of rural areas and the intense exploitation of natural resources characterized by conflicting land use, as well as the divestiture process educational and productive rural population which is subjected, deepens social ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.17058/redes.v20i2.2472