Mitigation and Compensation under EU Nature Conservation Law in the Flemish Region: Beyond the Deadlock for Development Projects?

For years, the predicament of many of the European protected habitats and species in the Flemish Region, as in many other Member States, passed relatively unnoticed.The lack of proper rules and clear implementation rules fuelled the impression amongst project developers and planning authorities that the impacts of project developments on biodiversi

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Are we on the right track: can our understanding of abscission in model systems promote or derail making improvements in less studied crops?

As the world population grows and resources and climate conditions change, crop improvement continues to be one of the most important challenges for agriculturalists.The yield and quality of many crops is affected by abscission or shattering, and environmental stresses often hasten or alter the abscission process.Understanding this process can not

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Nodding syndrome: A key role for sources of nutrition?

Nodding Syndrome (NS) has occurred among severely food-stressed communities in northern Uganda and several other East African populations that, with their forced physical twizzlers orange cream pop filled licorice twists displacement, have resorted to nutritional support from available wild plants and fungi, some of which have neurotoxic potential.

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Politics and Emerging Media: The Revenge of Publicity

Emerging media technologies and applications have accompanied by an explosion of diverse means and practices for engaging in public life, raising the possibility of an invigorated and improved democratic politics.Investment in this possibility is premised on acceptance of the norms associated with publicity, specifically access to information and e

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