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The Food, Environment, and Health (FEH) program of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) aims to improve the health of low- and middle-income country populations by generating evidence, innovations, and policies that reduce the health and economic burdens of preventable chronic and infectious diseases. A predominant focus of the FEH program is research related to consumer food environments that promote or enable healthy and sustainable shifts in consumption. An evaluation of the FEH program, led by the University of Toronto, provided an opportunity to analyse the approach and role of a development funder in building the field of food systems research. In this commentary, we provide an external evaluator’s perspective on the IDRC’s contributory role in building the field of food systems research, based on a secondary analysis of findings from a recent FEH program evaluation. We used the field-building framework outlined in Di Ruggiero et al. (Health Res Policy System, 2017) to highlight the strengths and challenges of the FEH’s approach to field-building and determined that the program aligns with six of the seven features of the framework. The FEH program has enhanced support and awareness for food systems research, provided organized funding and capacity-building opportunities, multilevel activity to support research and its use, and strong scientific leadership, and set significant standards and exemplars. However, we also found that not all sociopolitical environments have fully recognized or valued food systems research and its use for policy change. The FEH program’s field-building approach can be situated within the field-building framework, and it has been successful in laying the groundwork for building the field of food systems, particularly consumer food environments research. However, supportive external environments and further investments may be needed to achieve a critical mass of capacity, continue building communities of practice, and influence policy. The FEH program approach may serve as an exemplar and comparator for other research funding agencies looking to develop strategic research programming in the field of food systems research.

Raptor conservation programs should be based on knowledge of the birds’ ecology in both natural and urban habitats, justifying the inclusion of ecological studies in suburban zones into regional planning initiatives. The objective of this study was to determine the use of diurnal raptors within the habitats of a suburban area of a city in southern Chile. We characterize the different zones into five types of environment, and assess their raptor diversity for consideration in territorial planning. Acoustic surveys were conducted in auditory stations in addition to observations from fixed transects and trails. From a total of 161.39 h of survey, we obtained 664 sightings corresponding to ten species of diurnal raptors. The richest environment was dense forest (eight species), followed by grassland (six species), native forest regeneration (five species), shrubs (four species) and exotic tree plantations (three species). We discuss the relationship between the richness of diurnal raptors, the types of environment in the study area, and the spatial location of the sites, as well as the implications for territorial planning to support the conservation of birds of prey in the suburban zone studied.

Acetylcholine (Ach) reversibly reduces the high voltage-activated (HVA) calcium (Ca) current in hippocampal neurons. Pretreatment of the cells with pertussis toxin (PTX) abolishes the Ach effect, suggesting that PTX-sensitive GTP-binding regulatory proteins (G-proteins) are involved in the signal transduction mechanism that links Ach receptor activation to inhibition of Ca channel activity. This effect is mimicked by intracellular application of the nonhydrolyzable GTP analog GTPγS. Intracellular application of purified G-proteins restored the response to Ach in PTX-treated cells. Furthermore, Ach inhibits the Ca current independently of the presence of cyclic AMP and of the protein kinase C inhibitor H-7 and neither does the Ach effect on the Ca current seem to be correlated to a transient increase in intracellular Ca. Our results suggest that activation of the α-subunit of the PTX-sensitive G-protein could directly modulate the HVA Ca channel without involving second messenger systems.

Let a 1-d system of hyperbolic conservation laws, with two unknowns, be endowed with a convex entropy. We consider the family of small BV functions which are global solutions of this equation. For any small BV initial data, such global solutions are known to exist. Moreover, they are known to be unique among BV solutions verifying either the so-called Tame Oscillation Condition, or the Bounded Variation Condition on space-like curves. In this paper, we show that these solutions are stable in a larger class of weak (and possibly not even BV) solutions of the system. This result extends the classical weak-strong uniqueness results which allow comparison to a smooth solution. Indeed our result extends these results to a weak-BV uniqueness result, where only one of the solutions is supposed to be small BV, and the other solution can come from a large class. As a consequence of our result, the Tame Oscillation Condition, and the Bounded Variation Condition on space-like curves are not necessary for the uniqueness of solutions in the BV theory, in the case of systems with 2 unknowns. The method is $$L^2$$ based, and builds up from the theory of a-contraction with shifts, where suitable weight functions a are generated via the front tracking method.

It is the objective of the present study to establish an absolute scale for flows in the solar transition region in observations obtained with the UVSP/SMM. By use of the polar limbs as reference one finds that the downflows range between 3 and 10 km s−1. The brighter regions show the largest downward flows.

Systematisch vorgenommene Blut- und Harnuntersuchungen bei mit Albucid behandelten Gonorrhöekranken weisen auf Beziehungen zwischen der Höhe des Albucidblutspiegels und der Harnausscheidung des Medikaments zu dessen Heilerfolg hin. Die nicht geheilten Fälle zeigen im Durchschnitt einen niedrigeren Blutspiegel und eine höhere Ausscheidung im Harn. Der Blutspiegel liegt im allgemeinen bei den wiederholten Stößen höher als beim 1. Stoß. Bei gleicher Dosierung liegt der Blutspiegel des Albucids tiefer als der des Ulirons, die Harnausscheidung ist beim Albucid jedoch größer als beim Uliron. Bei der an der Klinik durchgeführten Dosierung haben sich keine Schädigungen gezeigt.