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Quantifying and mapping land use changes and regulating ecosystem service potentials in a data-scarce peri-urban region in Kenya

Peter Waweru Wangai, Benjamin Burkhard, Felix Müller • Ecosystems and People (2019)

Recent scientific developments are advancing to link land use and land cover (LULC) change with ecosystem service (ES) potentials. Such links within peri-urban ecosystems are scanty due to methodological and expertise challenge, and data li...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/21513732.2018.1529708

Horizons in Human Geography

Derek Gregory, Rex Walford (1989)

Horizons in Human Geography brings together 20 specially commissioned essays which range over the full breadth of its subject matter presenting a critical challenge to the philosophical positivism of...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19839-9

Big data and human geography

Rob Kitchin • Dialogues in Human Geography (2013)

We are entering an era of big data – data sets that are characterised by high volume, velocity, variety, exhaustivity, resolution and indexicality, relationality and flexibility. Much of these data are spatially and temporally referenced an...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820613513388

Spatially Constrained Discontinuity Trace Extraction from 3D Point Clouds by Intersecting Boundaries Segmented

Jingsong Sima, Qiang Xu, Xiujun Dong, Haoliang Li et al. • Remote Sensing (2025)

Discontinuity trace provides critical geological data for engineering design and construction optimization. However, current extraction methods relying on discontinuity intersection fitting are highly sensitive to the segmentation accuracy ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/rs17213566

A Novel Construction Method of Bayesian Neural Networks Based on Multi-type Engineering Knowledge

Wenbin Ye, YanZhou Duan, Jun Yuan, Jixu Wang et al. • International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (2026)

Abstract In the field of engineering, the utilization of surrogate models to replace computationally intensive simulation software has become a widely adopted approach. However, when addressing complex engineering problems, the costs of sim...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1007/s44196-026-01214-1

Empirical studies of software engineering

Dewayne E. Perry, Adam Porter, Lawrence G. Votta • Future of Software Engineering (FOSE) (2000)

PointersEmpirical study play a fundamental role in modern science, helping us understand how and why things work, and allowing us to use this understanding to materially alter our world.Defining and executing studies that change how softwar...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/336512.336586

CRISPR/Cas9 for hepatitis B virus infection treatment

Bo Cai, Shixue Chang, Yuhan Tian, Shuai Zhen • Immunity, Inflammation and Disease (2023)

Abstract Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a global health challenge. Despite the availability of effective preventive vaccines, millions of people are at risk of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Current drug therapies inhibi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/iid3.866

Landscape Genetics

Rolf Holderegger, Helene H. Wagner • BioScience (2008)

Landscape genetics is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field that integrates approaches from population genetics and landscape ecology. In the context of habitat fragmentation, the current focus of landscape genetics is on assessing the...

OPENALEX other-oa DOI: https://doi.org/10.1641/b580306

The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness

A Young • Annual Review of Anthropology (1982)

ion. [In this connection, see analogous arguments by Navarro (126) and Assennato & Navarro (7, pp. 224--30) on the social production of knowledge of occupational medicine, and Latour & Woolgar (102) on the social production of biomedical kn...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.an.11.100182.001353

Comparison in Anthropology

Matei Candea • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2018)

Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another? This book answers these question...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108667609

Challenging Anthropology: Anthropological Reflections on the Ethnographic Turn in International Relations

Jon Harald Sande Lie • Millennium Journal of International Studies (2012)

Ethnography and anthropology are intrinsically linked, but recently other disciplines have started to draw inspiration from anthropological methods. The ongoing ethnographic turn in International Relations has spurred debate on what ethnogr...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829812463835

Anthropology, by Comparison

• Routledge eBooks (2002)

Comparison has long been the backbone of the discipline of anthropology. But recent developments in anthropology, including critical self-reflection and new case studies sited in a globalized world, have pushed comparative work aside. For t...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203463901

Molecular detection of antibiotic resistance genes in Staphylococcus aureus isolated from poultry farms of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Padma Shrestha, Bijay Bajracharya, Deena Shrestha, Ajit Kumar Karna et al. • BMC Microbiology (2026)

Abstract Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as a critical global health challenge and is currently addressed through a “One Health” approach that investigates its occurrence in humans, animals, and the environment, as wel...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12866-026-04713-5