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Effective and targeted conservation action requires detailed information about species, their distribution, systematics and ecology as well as the distribution of threat processes which affect them. Knowledge of reptilian diversity remains surprisingly disparate, and innovative means of gaining rapi...
Sheel Bansal, Irena F. Creed, Brian A. Tangen, Scott D. Bridgham et al.
Abstract Wetlands cover a small portion of the world, but have disproportionate influence on global carbon (C) sequestration, carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and aquatic C fluxes. However, the underlying biogeochemical processes that affect wetland C pools and fluxes are complex and dynamic, m...
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BACKGROUND: The persistence of preventable maternal and newborn deaths highlights the importance of quality of care as an essential element in coverage interventions. Moving beyond the conventional measurement of crude coverage, we estimated effective coverage of facility delivery by adjusting for f...
Lindsay Mallick, Jennifer Yourkavitch, Courtney Allen
BACKGROUND: Although child mortality has decreased over the last several decades, neonatal mortality has declined less substantially. In South Asia, neonatal deaths account for the majority of all under-five deaths, calling for further study on newborn care practices. We assessed five key practices:...
Jeffrey Engstrom
Abstract The participation of East Asian militaries (Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea) in international disaster relief is a relatively new phenomenon having many implications that will shape the global landscape of the 21st century. This article looks at the historical record of these operatio...
Cynthia J. Burrows, Shu Wang, Hyun Jae Kim, Gerald J. Meyer et al.
The research community faces unprecedented disruption from the global COVID-19 pandemic. Some researchers are beginning to return to lab work after a hiatus, but others continue to work as best as they can from home, including ourselves. The global editorial, support, and production staff of ACS jou...
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Wang Wenjuan, Lindsay Mallick, Courtney Allen, Thomas W. Pullum
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Abstract The Political Economy of Pakistan 1947–1985, by Omar Noman (London, Kegan Paul International 1988, pp. xiii + 202, biblio., maps, £25.00). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives, edited by Francis Robinson (Cambridge, Cambridge U...