Increasing anthropogenic activities are affecting water quality and related ecosystem services in river basins worldwide. There is a need to identify act on synergies between the water-energy-food (WEF) elements other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) while mediating trade-offs. The Guayas basin (GRB), one of major watersheds Ecuador, being affected by increasing urbanization, agricultural i...

Effective HIV prevention requires the protection and empowerment of marginalized groups at high risk of infection. However, many policies persist that stigmatize these groups and hinder HIV prevention efforts, including HIV-related travel restrictions. In the Republic of Korea, which requires HIV tests for certain visa categories, these restrictions negatively affect the national HIV response a...

This article compares the ideological positions found in visions of future proposed by World Economic Forum (WEF) “The Great Reset” campaign and internet users’ reaction to it. In this YouTube campaign, WEF presents what it understands “new normal” should be –understood as new social, economic, political relations after COVID-19 pandemic. The comments reject agenda express different grounds for...

Synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizer has enabled modern agriculture to greatly improve human nutrition during the twentieth century, but it has also created unintended human health and environmental pollution challenges for the twentyfirst century. Averaged globally, about half of the fertilizer-N applied to farms is removed with the crops, while the other half remains in the soil or is lost from ...

The two major conservation issues for drylands of Africa are habitat loss or degradation and habitat fragmentation, largely from agriculture, charcoal production, and infrastructural development. A key question for management is how these landscapes can retain their critical ecological functions and services, while simultaneously supporting resilient livelihoods. It is a clear nexus question in...

The water–energy–food nexus is being promoted as a conceptual tool for achieving sustainable development. Frameworks for implementing nexus thinking, however, have failed to explicitly or adequately incorporate sustainable livelihoods perspectives. This is counterintuitive given that livelihoods are key to achieving sustainable development. In this paper we present a critical review of nexus ap...

This study was conducted in Delta State Nigeria to establish a nexus between rural-urban migration and child labour. Random sampling was applied to select rural settlements and this study covers 450 sample farming households. The results show that rural-urban migration influence child labour (P

Since 2007, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has issued data on factors and policies that contribute to development of tourism competitiveness across countries worldwide. While WEF compiles yearly report out from governmental private stakeholders, we seek analyze representativeness open collaborative platform OpenStreetMap (OSM) international scene. For this study, selected eight parameters indic...

Here were demonstrate in Rana pipiens ventricle a nexus with very unusual morphology. This tissue has been reported previously to lack nexuses. The nexus appears in thin sections of ventricle, fixed in aldehyde and OsO4 or permanganate as a series of punctate membrane appositions regularly alternating with regions of membrane separation. The junctional width at membrane appositions, as determin...