How ecosystem services are measured and why it matters for Florida by Charles Wallace, Anna Braswell, Mysha Clarke, Andrew Ropicki, Tara Wade, Frank Asche, Ashley Smyth, Armando Ubeda, Ed Camp

“…The term ecosystem services describes the benefits ecosystems and their components provide humans. This publication describes some of the ways to measure ecosystem services and explains how the different approaches to assess ecosystems might be selected, depending on what is most important to the user. …”
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De quelle éducation au politique l’évaluation PISA de la « compétence globale » est-elle porteuse ? by Jean-Émile Charlier, Sarah Croché

“…These prospects provide answers to the main challenges facing humanity, including those linked to “poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, prosperity, peace and justice” (id.) to all countries. …”
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Cinquante ans de contributions sur la littérature de langue allemande by Aurélie Le Née

“…In the varia, as well as in the special issues, detailed textual analyses are presented side by side with approaches at the intersection of literature and other fields of the humanities, such as sociology, anthropology, philosophy... …”
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Key to Nine Common Smilax Species of Florida by Lynn Proenza, Michael Andreu

“…Smilax species are important because they can provide shelter and food for wildlife and have provided humans with medicine, food, and dyes. Twelve Smilax species are found in Florida. …”
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Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli: Detection, Differentiation, and Implications for Food Safety by William J. Zaragoza, Max Teplitski, Clifton K. Fagerquist

“…Even though most E. coli are benign or even beneficial members of our gut microbial communities, strains carrying Shiga-toxin encoding genes are highly pathogenic in humans and other animals. This 6-page fact sheet discusses the two types of Shiga toxins and the best approaches to identifying and determining which Shiga toxin is present. …”
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Ulcerative Lesions: A Rare Cutaneous Manifestation of Brucellosis by Abbas Azadi, Payman Jafarpour Fard, Mohammad Almasian

“…Brucellosis is a disease that is transmitted from animals to humans mainly via the consumption of unpasteurized dairy products, and it can involve any organ all over the body. …”
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A Review of Semantic Sensor Technologies in Internet of Things Architectures by Gergely Marcell Honti, Janos Abonyi

“…Semantic metadata can provide contextual information to support the accessibility of these features, making it easier for machines and humans to process the sensory data and achieve interoperability. …”
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Third Grade Manatee Curriculum—Introduction by Ruth Francis-Floyd, Maia McGuire

“…This curriculum provides a series of individual lessons covering manatee biology and ecology, as well as highlighting some of the ways that humans impact and can protect manatees. The curriculum has been written at a third-grade level but can be adapted for older or younger students. …”
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Sleep Spindles as Facilitators of Memory Formation and Learning by Daniel Ulrich

“…Behavioural studies in humans and animals have found significant correlations between the recall performance in different learning tasks and the amount of sleep spindles in the intervening sleep. …”
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Azalea Caterpillar, Datana major Grote & Robinson (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Notodontidae) by G. W. Dekle, Thomas R. Fasulo

“…While the caterpillar appears hairy, it is harmless to humans and can be picked off the bushes by hand. This document is EENY-137 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular No. 6), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Florida’s Geologic History by Kyle W. Bostick, Shelly A. Johnson, Martin B. Main

“…It also discusses the major processes that continue to reform the morphology of the Florida Platform: sea level change, karstification, and humans. Previous Version: Allen, Ginger, and Martin Main. 2005. …”
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The Role of Hyperglycemia and Insulin Resistance in the Development and Progression of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension by Daniel Grinnan, Grant Farr, Adam Fox, Lori Sweeney

“…In addition, evaluating the effects of glucose control in animals with pulmonary hypertension and diabetes (as well as in humans) is warranted.…”
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Cetaceans 4th Grade Curriculum by Maia Patterson McGuire, Ruth Francis-Floyd

“…Lessons highlight some of the ways that humans impact and can protect cetaceans. They help teachers address science, mathematics, language arts, or visual arts objectives and could be used in place of current lesson plans for many topics. …”
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Synthesis and kinetic evaluation of analogs of (E)-4-amino-3-methylbut-2-en-1-yl diphosphate, a potent inhibitor of the IspH metalloenzyme by Petit, Benoît Eric, Jobelius, Hannah, Bianchino, Gabriella Ines, Guérin, Mélina, Borel, Franck, Chaignon, Philippe, Seemann, Myriam

“…Our previous research revealed that (E)-4-amino-3-methylbut-2-en-1-yl diphosphate (AMBPP) is one of the best inhibitors of IspH, a [4Fe–4S]-dependent enzyme involved in the methylerythritol phosphate pathway that is a valuable target for the discovery of new antibacterial and antiparasitic drugs as it is absent in humans. AMBPP has substantial limitations for drug development due to its poor metabolic stability. …”
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Pesticide Storage: Keep It in the Container by Fred Fishel

“…In particular, the herbicide paraquat is highly toxic to humans; one small accidental sip can be fatal, and there is no antidote. …”
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Interferons and Interferon Regulatory Factors in Malaria by Sin Yee Gun, Carla Claser, Kevin Shyong Wei Tan, Laurent Rénia

“…Malaria is one of the most serious infectious diseases in humans and responsible for approximately 500 million clinical cases and 500 thousand deaths annually. …”
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Journey through the writing process: Metaphors of thesis writing experience by Hanić Jasmina, Pavlović Tanja, Jašić Alma Jahić

“…Semistructured interviews on the topic of master’s thesis writing with three students coming from humanities, social sciences and natural sciences served as a corpus from which the data were extracted. …”
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Third Grade Manatee Curriculum—Lesson 5: Manatees and Their Cousins by Maia McGuire, Ruth Francis-Floyd

“…This curriculum provides a series of individual lessons covering manatee biology and ecology, as well as highlighting some of the ways that humans impact and can protect manatees. The curriculum has been written at a third-grade level but can be adapted for older or younger students. …”
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Franco Vaccari. Experiencing darkness towards Shamanism by Sergio Poggianella

“…The Shaman passes through these dream states and Spirit worlds – in an altered state of consciousness – in order to recover the souls of the humans closest to him, lost after an illness. Dark spaces in which, as Vaccari states, the forms that may be encountered become unexpected events with hallucinating features.…”
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Immune Evasion Strategies of Pre-Erythrocytic Malaria Parasites by Hong Zheng, Zhangping Tan, Wenyue Xu

“…Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans. It begins with a bite from an infected female Anopheles mosquito and leads to the development of the pre-erythrocytic and blood stages. …”
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