Contributions of abiotic nature to riverine populations in the Amazon, Brazil: an analysis based on geoenvironmental units by Raimundo Humberto Cavalcante Lima, Maria Da Gloria Motta Garcia

“…Nature is an essential public resource that provides food, clean water, energy resources, minerals and shelter for human life. To face environmental changes and the exploitation of natural resources, it is crucial to understand and manage the ecosystem services (ES) that benefit humanity and preserve the natural processes that create them. …”
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“In the early Anthropocene”: Witnessing Environmental Emergency in Kathleen Jamie’s Essays by Monika SZUBA

“…Finally, it aims to explore the language of Surfacing, which records environmental emergency and witnesses its consequences to the non-human as well as human world.…”
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A novel Mutein of TNFα Containing the Arg-Gly-Asp Sequence Shows Reduced Toxicity in Intestine by H. Shikama, K. Miyata, N. Sakae, K. Kuroda, K. Nishimura, S. Yotsuya, M. Kato

“…The effects of human tumour necrosis factor-α (TNFα), or its mutein (F4168) having the cell adhesive Arg-Gly-Asp sequence at the N-terminus, on intestinal injury, were examined. …”
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Delineating Molecular Mechanisms of Squamous Tissue Homeostasis and Neoplasia: Focus on p63 by Kathryn E. King, Linan Ha, Tura Camilli, Wendy C. Weinberg

“…These findings can be extended to human cancers; for example, the novel recognition of NFκB/c-Rel as a downstream effector of p63 has identified a role for NFκB/c-Rel in human squamous cell cancers. …”
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Environmental alarmism: the Club of Rome and its critics by Nikolai Mihailov, Lidia Sakelarieva

“…The members of the Club prescribe the setting of limits to human expansion over nature, which is explained with superfluous “anthropocentric confidence”, after the words of the foundation member Aurelio Peccei. …”
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Highly-Sensitive Polymer Optical Fiber SPR Sensor for Fast Immunoassay by Ying Wang, Xing Rao, Xun Wu, George Y. Chen, Changrui Liao, Mateusz Jakub Smietana, Yiping Wang

“…Upon immobilization of the goat anti-human IgG antibody, the resonance wavelength shifts by 11.2 nm. …”
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Predictors of evacuation behavior: dataset on respondents’ route choice and web interaction by Dajana Snopková, Martin Tancoš, Lukáš Herman, Vojtěch Juřík

“…Abstract Empirical data on human evacuation behavior are invaluable for adjusting and training computational algorithms that simulate evacuation processes, including agent-based modeling. …”
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Technologies and Research Trends in Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare: A Systematic Literature Review by Ilkyu Ha

“…In particular, a WBAN has a very different network environment compared to a sensor network that uses free space, because wireless sensors in a BAN transmit through parts of the human body. Therefore, research on WBANs involves a variety of research areas that differ slightly from those of conventional sensor networks and take into account the characteristics of the human body. …”
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Dwelling in the Abyss: Society in Werner Herzog and Martin Heidegger by Haotian Wu

“…This article articulates a dialogue between Werner Herzog’s films and Martin Heidegger’s philosophy to illuminate human dwelling. In the light of Heidegger’s ideas of dwelling, thrownness, they-self, authenticity, abyss and being-towards-death, I look into the abyss of society as represented by Herzog, considering dwelling with humans in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) and Into the Abyss (2011) as dwelling through language and dwelling in proximity to death. …”
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Prevention of The Crime Of Trafficking in Persons (TPPO) in Cases Of Illegal Sending Indonesian Migrant Workers (PPMI) Overseas as Foreign Ship Crew by Aulia Aulia

“…Human trafficking is a transnational crime in the form of human smuggling and is the third largest transnational crime in the world after drugs and weapons. …”
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Growing from Exploration: A Self-Exploring Framework for Robots Based on Foundation Models by Shoujie Li, Ran Yu, Tong Wu, Junwen Zhong, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Wenbo Ding

“…Existing works leverage learning-based or optimization-based methods to accomplish human-defined tasks. However, the challenge of enabling robots to explore various environments autonomously remains unresolved. …”
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Brown Adipose Tissue Growth and Development by Michael E. Symonds

“…Thermogenesis in brown fat humans is environmentally regulated and can be stimulated by cold exposure and diet, responses that may be further modulated by photoperiod. …”
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The Complexity of the Transition in Combat Operations and Potential Solutions to Streamline the Process by Claudiu Valer NISTORESCU

“…Despite the high degree of transparency on the battlefield, the nature of the conflict, characterized by friction, uncertainty, violence, and high lethality, underscores the pivotal role of the human factor. The operational process remains primarily driven by human decision-making, with the constant planning, preparation, execution, and evaluation of military operations shaped by the human decision-making process. …”
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Perspectives rituelles dans les Plaines et sur la Côte Nord-Ouest by Klaus Hamberger

“…In the Plains, the ritual aim was to transfer the power of supernatural predators to humans; on the Northwest Coast, to re-transform supernatural predators into human beings. …”
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Modeling co-infection of Ixodes tick-borne pathogens by Yijun Lou, Li Liu, Daozhou Gao

“…Ticks, including the Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes scapularis hard tick species, are regarded as the most common arthropod vectors of both human and animal diseases in Europe and the United States capable of transmitting a large number of bacteria, viruses and parasites. …”
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Jesus uttering his last words and drawing on his final breath: reflecting on Luke 23:46 by P. Nagel

“… The last words and final breath of any human being in the wake of death is a moment in time one should not underappreciate. …”
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Theology Before and After Bishop Robinson’s Honest to God (1963)

“…Since the Enlightenment brought to humans the freedom to think for themselves – Bonhoeffer labelled this phenomenon ‘Humanity’s coming of age’ – so the theological enterprise gradually changed from being the exposition of divinely revealed dogmas to the human exploration of religious experience. …”
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N-Cadherin promotes cardiac regeneration by potentiating pro-mitotic β-Catenin signaling in cardiomyocytes by Yi-Wei Tsai, Yi-Shuan Tseng, Yu-Shuo Wu, Wei-Lun Song, Min-Yi You, Yun-Chia Hsu, Wen-Pin Chen, Wei-Han Huang, Jia-Ci Chng, Chai-Ling Lim, Ke-Hsuan Wei, Shih-Lei Ben Lai, Wen-Chih Lee, Kai-Chien Yang

“…Abstract Adult human hearts exhibit limited regenerative capacity. …”
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Spirometra (Pseudophyllidea, Diphyllobothriidae) Severely Infecting Wild-Caught Snakes from Food Markets in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Guangdong, China: Implications for Public Health by Fumin Wang, Weiye Li, Liushuai Hua, Shiping Gong, Jiajie Xiao, Fanghui Hou, Yan Ge, Guangda Yang

“…The results indicated that Spirometra severely infected snakes in food markets in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, implying that eating snakes has great health risk and improper cooking methods may increase the risk of Spirometra infection in humans in China. Additional steps should be considered by the governments and public health agencies to prevent the risk of snake-associated Spirometra infections in humans.…”
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Pulmonary Remodeling in Equine Asthma: What Do We Know about Mediators of Inflammation in the Horse? by Ann Kristin Barton, Heidrun Gehlen

“…Increasing evidence in horses and humans suggests that local pulmonary inflammation is influenced by systemic inflammatory processes and the other way around. …”
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