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Pastoralism 2022 14;12(1):18. Epub 2022 Apr 14.

School of Agricultural Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.

The study assessed the economic impact of COVID-19 on cattle traders in the Karamoja and Teso pastoral and agro-pastoral areas in Uganda and their response after the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. The results reveal that cattle traders were negatively affected by COVID-19 in many ways including reduction in cattle sales, erosion in operating capital, and failure to sell animals while others have diversified or moved to other businesses. Twenty-five per cent of the cattle traders did not sell any animal during the lockdown. Read More

Sci Total Environ 2022 Mar 26;832:154834. Epub 2022 Mar 26.

Estación Experimental de Aula-Dei (EEAD-CSIC), Spanish National Research Council, Avenida Montañana, 1005, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain.

Sediment fingerprinting has emerged as a valuable tool for elucidating soil erosion processes and assessing the sources of sediment and particle-bound chemicals. Due to its upward trend in popularity and the parallel advances in analytical methods, different types of tracers such as Compound-Specific Stable Isotopes (CSSIs) have been incorporated to identify the potential sources. However, the physical processes of CSSIs, usually characterised by the ratio of two stable isotopes, also depends on the isotopic content requiring specific fingerprinting models. Read More

Sci Total Environ 2022 Mar 26;831:154832. Epub 2022 Mar 26.

National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Hamilton 3251, New Zealand.

Sediment fingerprinting estimates the proportional contribution of fine sediment from distinct catchment sources delivered to downstream receiving environments. Increased attention has focused on assessing the accuracy of source contribution estimates, particularly in relation to tracer selection and statistical un-mixing procedures. However, no studies have systematically tested the impact of source combination or dominance on the accuracy of source estimates. Read More

J Environ Manage 2022 Mar 8;311:114695. Epub 2022 Mar 8.

Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia, USA, 201 N. Milledge Avenue, Athens, GA, 30602, USA. Electronic address:

Living shorelines are often better alternatives to stabilize shorelines and reduce dangerous erosion compared to traditional hard armoring practices such as bulkheads and seawalls. Increasing the use of living shorelines will require policy innovation and new approaches to shoreline management, however. Informed by a comparative legal analysis, this article identifies "policy levers" through four categories that demonstrate critical aspects of the human dimension in the estuarine management context that, to greater and lesser extents, promote or inhibit the implementation of living shorelines. Read More

Neurourol Urodyn 2022 03 19;41(3):777-786. Epub 2022 Feb 19.

Department of Urology, APHP, Academic Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière Hôpital, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.

Purpose: Mid-urethral slings are the standard treatment for women with refractory stress urinary incontinence (SUI) but are at risk of infection or erosion due to host-prothesis interaction. In this proof-of-concept study, we aimed at evaluating umbilical vessel sling (UVS) in incontinent female rats.

Material And Methods: UVS was extracted from human umbilical cord lining and was placed on female rats who underwent bilateral pelvic nerve injury (PNI) to reproduce SUI (Group 3, N = 10). Read More