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Measuring disaster-resilient communities: A case study of coastal communities in Indonesia. - Kafle SK.
Tue, 15 May 2012 23:50:53 +0100 | SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated)
Vulnerability reduction and resilience building of communities are central concepts in recent policy debates. Although there are fundamental linkages, and complementarities exist between the two concepts, recent policy and programming has focused more on t... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))

New Global Vaccine Strategy Glosses Over Basic Immunization Gaps
Tue, 15 May 2012 14:02:00 +0100 | MSF News
South Sudan 2011 © Avril Benoit/MSF An MSF staff member vaccinates a child against measles in Abathok. GENEVA/NEW YORK, 15 MAY 2012—A new, ten-year, multi-billion dollar action plan for global vaccination may fail to deliver if it does not directly address the weaknesses in routine immunization programs. One in five children—nineteen million worldwide—are being missed each year and this challenge must be explicitly addressed, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. A "Global Vaccines Action Plan" has been designed to implement the "Decade of Vaccines" project and will be considered by health ministers gathering next week in Geneva for the 65th Wor...

Global Genetic Variation at OAS1 Provides Evidence of Archaic Admixture in Melanesian Populations
Tue, 15 May 2012 04:00:00 +0100 | Molecular Biology and Evolution
Recent analysis of DNA extracted from two Eurasian forms of archaic human shows that more genetic variants are shared with humans currently living in Eurasia than with anatomically modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa. Although these genome-wide average measures of genetic similarity are consistent with the hypothesis of archaic admixture in Eurasia, analyses of individual loci exhibiting the signal of archaic introgression are needed to test alternative hypotheses and investigate the admixture process. Here, we provide a detailed sequence analysis of the innate immune gene OAS1, a locus with a divergent Melanesian haplotype that is very similar to the Denisova sequence from the Altai region of Siberia. We resequenced a 7-kb region encompassing the OAS1 gene in 88 individuals from six Old W...

Is the single currency worth saving at all? | Aditya Chakrabortty
Mon, 14 May 2012 19:00:09 +0100 | Guardian Unlimited Science
Eurozone officials must have guessed at the upheaval and social unrest caused by their austerity measures – and imposed them anywayNever in the history of the British media have so many commentators lavished such intense concern on so abstract a concept. I refer, of course, to the euro – because, once you get past the crude notes and coins, what could be more satisfactorily airy than the optimal conditions for a currency union across 17 nations? Over the past few days, from those first reproachful pips of the Today programme to the final credits of Newsnight, pundits and politicians, financiers and journalists have thrust and parried over how to rescue the single currency. Will it hold together if Athens marches out? Will Lisbon, Madrid even, have to lumber after it? But I have yet to ...

Novel quercetin glucosides from Helminthostachys zeylanica root and acceleratory activity of melanin biosynthesis
Sun, 13 May 2012 05:55:12 +0100 | Journal of Natural Medicines
Abstract  Two novel quercetin glucosides, namely 4′-O-β-d-glucopyranosyl-quercetin-3-O-β-d-glucopyranosyl-(1→4)-β-d-glucopyranoside (compound 1) and 4′-O-β-d-glucopyranosyl-(1→2)-β-d-glucopyranosyl-quercetin-3-O-β-d-glucopyranosyl-(1→4)-β-d-glucopyranoside (compound 2), were isolated from Helminthostachys zeylanica root 50 % EtOH extract. Structural analysis of isolated compounds was achieved mainly by 600 MHz and 800 MHz NMR, UPLC–TOFMS and GC–MS. Of the two quercetin glucosides, compound 1 showed a high melanogenic acceleratory effect, 2.7 times higher than control, at 10 Î¼M concentration in murine B16 melanoma cells, with no cytotoxic effect. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory NotePages 1-6DOI 10.1007/s11418-012-0672-9Authors ...

UN appoints high-level development advisory panel
Fri, 11 May 2012 17:13:58 +0100 | SciDev.Net
The leaders of Indonesia, Liberia and the United Kingdom will co-chair a UN panel advising on development after the MDGs expire. (Source: SciDev.Net)

Committed carbon emissions, deforestation, and community land conversion from oil palm plantation expansion in West Kalimantan, Indonesia [Environmental Sciences]
Tue, 08 May 2012 04:00:00 +0100 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Industrial agricultural plantations are a rapidly increasing yet largely unmeasured source of tropical land cover change. Here, we evaluate impacts of oil palm plantation development on land cover, carbon flux, and agrarian community lands in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. With a spatially explicit land change/carbon bookkeeping model, parameterized using high-resolution satellite time series and informed by socioeconomic surveys, we assess previous and project future plantation expansion under five scenarios. Although fire was the primary proximate cause of 1989–2008 deforestation (93%) and net carbon emissions (69%), by 2007–2008, oil palm directly caused 27% of total and 40% of peatland deforestation. Plantation land sources exhibited distinctive temporal dynamics, comprising 8...

Indonesia to construct three hospitals for industrial workers
Mon, 07 May 2012 23:00:00 +0100 | Hospital Management
The Ministry of Public Housing in Indonesia has announced that it will construct three new hospitals focused on treating worker-related injuries. (Source: Hospital Management)

FRAX® version 3.6 released with 5 new country models
Mon, 07 May 2012 04:00:00 +0100 | EurekAlert! - Biology
(International Osteoporosis Foundation) The WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool - FRAX® has now been released as version 3.6 with new country models for Chile, Greece, Indonesia, Ireland and Lithuania. Downloadable charts for the newly added countries are also available and Greek has been added as a language option. FRAX is freely available online at http://www.shef.ac.uk/FRAX/ (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)