Publications by authors named "Rebecca Short"

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  • * A study called the Blue Food Assessment looked at how blue foods affect nutrition, the environment, economy, and fairness, creating four goals to help countries use blue foods in their food systems.
  • * The goals aim to improve nutrition, offer healthier options than land meats, reduce environmental harm from diets, and support communities facing climate change, paying attention to what's best for different countries and cultures.
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Small-scale fisheries and aquaculture (SSFA) provide livelihoods for over 100 million people and sustenance for ~1 billion people, particularly in the Global South. Aquatic foods are distributed through diverse supply chains, with the potential to be highly adaptable to stresses and shocks, but face a growing range of threats and adaptive challenges. Contemporary governance assumes homogeneity in SSFA despite the diverse nature of this sector.

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  • There is growing scientific evidence connecting oceans to human health, yet the discipline of Oceans and Human Health (OHH) is still new and often overlooked in major policy areas like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
  • The study aimed to create a systematic map to outline existing research on the effects of marine environments on human health and wellbeing, focusing on Europe and other developed regions.
  • The research yielded 1,542 articles, with most studies focused on the US, revealing significant connections between marine resources, such as seafood and biotechnology, and various health conditions like cardiovascular issues.
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Free or subsidised mosquito net (MN) distribution has been an increasingly important tool in efforts to combat malaria in recent decades throughout the developing world, making great strides towards eradicating this hugely detrimental disease. However, there has been increasing concern in the natural resource management and healthcare communities over alternative use of MNs, particularly in artisanal fisheries where it has been suggested they pose a threat to sustainability of fish stocks. So far, little evidence has been presented as to the global prevalence and characteristics of MN fishing, limiting global management initiatives and incentives for action across disciplines.

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Unlabelled: There is accumulating evidence that the viral interleukin-10 (vIL-10) ortholog of both human and rhesus cytomegalovirus (HCMV and RhCMV, respectively) suppresses the functionality of cell types that are critical to contain virus dissemination and help shape long-term immunity during the earliest virus-host interactions. In particular, exposure of macrophages, peripheral blood mononuclear cells, monocyte-derived dendritic cells, and plasmacytoid dendritic cells to vIL-10 suppresses multiple effector functions including, notably, those that link innate and adaptive immune responses. Further, vaccination of RhCMV-uninfected rhesus macaques with nonfunctional forms of RhCMV vIL-10 greatly restricted parameters of RhCMV infection following RhCMV challenge of the vaccinees.

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To assess the effect of exercise-induced sweat on truncal acne, a prospective, single-blinded, randomized, controlled, institution review board-approved clinical trial was conducted on physically active males. Subjects were instructed to exercise long enough to break a sweat 5 days a week for 2 weeks. Group 1 did not exercise (n = 7), group 2 showered within 1 hour of exercise (n = 8), and group 3 waited at least 4 hours to shower after exercising (n = 8).

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