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2016Teil eines BuchesWelfare system and social protection: can a lack of services be a reason for possible abuses?
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2016ZeitschriftenartikelWhen Care Strikes Back Building on the works of sociologists of health and illness that have highlighted the effects of visible difference and stigmatisation since Goffman, this article examines the ambivalence of visibility experienced by people ...
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2013-10ZeitschriftenartikelNeue Sozialhygiene oder lokale Biologie? Die sogenannte Umweltepigenetik bringt sozialwissenschaftlich und gesellschaftlich brisante Fragen auf. Das in Laboren produzierte Wissen hat zwar das Potenzial, Ungleichheit und soziale Verhältnisse zu naturalisieren, ...
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2011-01ZeitschriftenartikelCardiovascular Disease and Obesity Prevention in Germany Cardiovascular diseases present the leading cause of death worldwide. Over the last decade, their preventio has become not only a central medical and public health issue but also a matter of political concern as well as a ...
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2014-05ZeitschriftenartikelStadt als Praxis ko-laborativ wissen Diese Replik fügt dem sympathisch argumentierenden Aufsatz von Alexa Färber drei hoffentlich generative Kritikpunkte hinzu: Erstens erscheint mir überdenkenswert, ob der Assemblage-Begriff dem dynamischeren und bereits ...
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2016-06-23ZeitschriftenartikelHotspots of land use change in Europe Assessing changes in the extent and management intensity of land use is crucial to understanding land-system dynamics and their environmental and social outcomes. Yet, changes in the spatial patterns of land management ...
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2013-10-08ZeitschriftenartikelCritical impacts of global warming on land ecosystems Globally increasing temperatures are likely to have impacts on terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems that are difficult to manage. Quantifying impacts worldwide and systematically as a function of global warming is ...
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2015-07-10ZeitschriftenartikelWater savings potentials of irrigation systems global simulations of processes and linkages Global agricultural production is heavily sustained by irrigation, but irrigation system efficiencies are often surprisingly low. However, our knowledge of irrigation efficiencies is mostly confined to rough indicative ...
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2016-10-27ZeitschriftenartikelThe Worlds Biggest Gamble The scale of the decarbonisation challenge to meet the Paris Agreement is underplayed in the public arena. It will require precipitous emissions reductions within 40 years and a new carbon sink on the scale of the ocean ...
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2006-07-25ZeitschriftenartikelTerrestrial vegetation redistribution and carbon balance under climate change Carbon Balance and Management Background: Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs) compute the terrestrial carbon balance as well as the transient spatial distribution of vegetation. We study two scenarios of moderate and strong climate change (2.9 K ...
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2016-09-15ZeitschriftenartikelImpacts devalue the potential of large-scale terrestrial CO2 removal through biomass plantations Large-scale biomass plantations (BPs) are often considered a feasible and safe climate engineering proposal for extracting carbon from the atmosphere and, thereby, reducing global mean temperatures. However, the capacity ...
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2016-03-22ZeitschriftenartikelChildhood overweight in Berlin: intra-urban differences and underlying influencing factors BACKGROUND: In recent years, childhood overweight and obesity have become an increasing and challenging phenomenon in Western cities. A lot of studies have focused on the analysis of factors such as individual dispositions ...
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2014-06-11ZeitschriftenartikelAssessment of land use factors associated with dengue cases in Malaysia using Boosted Regression Trees The transmission of dengue disease is influenced by complex interactions among vector, host and virus. Land use such as water bodies or certain agricultural practices have been identified as likely risk factors for dengue ...
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2012-03-09ZeitschriftenartikelMental health in the slums of Dhaka - a geoepidemiological study BACKGROUND: Urban health is of global concern because the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Although mental health problems (e.g. depression) in developing countries are highly prevalent, such issues ...
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2014-12-13ZeitschriftenartikelStochastic market modeling with Gaussian Quadratures: Do rotations of Stroud's octahedron matter? Recently, stochastic applications of large-scale applied simulation models of agricultural markets have become more frequent. However, stochastic modeling with large market models comes with high computational and management ...
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2016-09-06ZeitschriftenartikelThe impact of human-biometeorological factors on perceived thermal comfort in urban public places For the understanding of the impact of meteorological stressors on human perceptions of thermal comfort, it is essential to examine in detail the joint variability of atmospheric conditions and human perception. We designed ...
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2015-01-28ZeitschriftenartikelTemporal constraints on future accumulation-area loss of a major Arctic ice cap due to climate change (Vestfonna, Svalbard) Arctic glaciers and ice caps are major contributors to past, present and future sea-level fluctuations. Continued global warming may eventually lead to the equilibrium line altitudes of these ice masses rising above their ...
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2015-10-26ZeitschriftenartikelRepeated glacial lake outburst flood threatening the oldest Buddhist monastery in north-western Nepal Since 2004, Halji village, home of the oldest Buddhist Monastery in north-western Nepal, has suffered from recurrent glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). A sudden englacial drainage of a supraglacial lake, located at a ...
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2016-07-18ZeitschriftenartikelImpact of supraglacial deposits of tephra from Grímsvötn volcano, Iceland, on glacier ablation Supraglacial deposits are known for their influence on glacier ablation. The magnitude of this influence depends on the thickness and the type of the deposited material. The effects of thin layers of atmospheric black ...
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2014-06-03ZeitschriftenartikelClimate change signal of future climate projections for Aachen, Germany, in terms of temperature and precipitation A multi-model ensemble of regional climate projections is used to estimate the climate change signal in terms of temperature and precipitation for the city of Aachen, Germany, until the end of the current century. Since ...