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Press Release: First Global Estimate of Urban Agriculture Reveals Area Size of the EU that’s Boosting Food Security in Cities

Study finds irrigation more common on city farms than rural farms, intensifying water demands in sprawling urban zones.

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Press Release: New agreement boosts drive to more sustainable agriculture

A new agreement between the Ministry of Agriculture and IWMI will help develop initiatives to improve waste-derived compost using nutrient enrichment and pelletizing technologies.

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Global use of wastewater to irrigate agriculture at least 50% greater than previously thought, says new study

With 885 million consumers exposed to health risks, study calls for urgent investments in improved sanitation.

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Farming for the future: How climate-smart agriculture can protect Sri Lanka’s smallholders

More than 1,300 farmers received over 1.6 million LKR as part of insurance payouts for crop damage caused by excess rain or dry spells.

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Agriculture climate science in Zambia gets boost with launch of new World Bank-backed grant

The World Bank and IWMI will rapidly scale climate science to support agri-business in Zambia, tackling the climate challenge head on through the new AICCRA-Zambia Accelerator Grant.

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FAO and IWMI’s milestone book gives actionable guidelines on water quality for agriculture

Researchers offer technical solutions and best agricultural practices related to water quality, risk assessment and mitigation.

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South Korean Workplace Culture Shifts as Fathers Embrace Childcare

South Korean men made up one-third of all medlinkchildcare/medlink leave takers in the first half of this year, marking a historic milestone as their








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BARC, IWMI sign MoU to strengthen research on agriculture

The Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) and IWMI have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen research in irrigation and agriculture water management within Bangladesh.

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India - The treasure house of culture and heritage

India is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has been the dream land for centuries.India is an ideal place to sp



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China’s Pop-Culture Crackdown Widens After It Hits Its Biggest Movie Star

Beijing is targeting the pop-culture industry as part of an effort to weed out what it sees as unhealthy influences for young people. WSJ looks at what happened after one of China’s highest-profile celebrities, Zhao Wei, disappeared from parts of the Chinese internet. Photo: Xu Nizhi/Zuma Press




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Zeel Joshi, Gujarat-Based-Performer Of Culture And Modernity

Zeel always ups her social media game because she is aware of how the world works and how this generation is captivated by it. 




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Worlding the south : Nineteenth-century literary culture and the southern settler colonies [Electronic book] / ed. by Sarah Comyn, Porscha Fermanis.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2021]




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Uncovering Anna Perenna : a focused study of Roman myth and culture [Electronic book]/ edited by Gwynaeth McIntyre and Sarah McCallum.

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.




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The spoken word : Oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850 [Electronic book] / ed. by Adam Fox, Daniel Woolf.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]




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Reuse and renovation in Roman material culture : functions, aesthetics, interpretations [Electronic book] / edited by Diana Y. Ng, Molly Swetnam-Burland.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.




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Republican learning : John Toland and the crisis of Christian culture, 1696-1722 [Electronic book] / Justin Champion.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]




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The Qur'ān's Legal Culture : The Didascalia Apostolorum as a Point of Departure [Electronic book] / Holger Michael Zellentin.

[s.l.] : Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG, 2023.




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Queer sinophone cultures [Electronic book] / edited by Howard Chiang and Ari Larissa Heinrich.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.




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Progress and pathology : Medicine and culture in the nineteenth century [Electronic book] / ed. by Sally Shuttleworth, Melissa Dickson, Emilie Taylor-Brown.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2020]




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The power of vulnerability : Mobilising affect in feminist, queer and anti-racist media cultures [Electronic book] / ed. by Katariina Kyrölä, Ingrid Ryberg, Anu Koivunen.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]




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Poetry and Contemporary Visual Culture / Lyrik und zeitgenössische Visuelle Kultur [Electronic book] / ed. by Magdalena Elisabeth Korecka, Wiebke Vorrath.

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]




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Playing American : Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture [Electronic book] / Sören Schoppmeier.

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023]




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Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture [Electronic book] / James Paz.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2017]




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Narratives of qualitative PhD research : identities languages and cultures in transition [Electronic book] / edited by Laura Gurney, Yi Wang and Roger Barnard.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.




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Migrants shaping Europe, past and present : Multilingual literatures, arts, and cultures [Electronic book] / ed. by Helen Solterer, Vincent Joos.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2022]




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Literature and sustainability : Concept, text and culture [Electronic book] / ed. by John Parham, Louise Squire, Adeline Johns-Putra.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2017]




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Jihadi culture on the world wide web [Electronic book] / Gilbert Ramsay.

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Imperialism and popular culture [Electronic book] / edited by John M. MacKenzie.

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2017.




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Imagining 'we' in the age of 'I' : romance and social bonding in contemporary culture [Electronic book] / edited by Mary Harrod, Suzanne Leonard, and Diane Negra.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.




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History of Intellectual Culture 2/2023 : Modes of Publication [Electronic book] / ed. by Charlotte A. Lerg, Johan Östling, Jana Weiß.

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023]




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Global humanitarianism and media culture [Electronic book] / ed. by Michael Lawrence, Rachel Tavernor.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2019]




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Engine of modernity : The omnibus and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris [Electronic book] / Masha Belenky.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2020]




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Deburau : Pierrot, mime, and culture [Electronic book] / Edward Nye.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.




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Dance, gender and culture [Electronic book] / edited by Helen Thomas.

Houndmills : Macmillan Press, 1993.




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The culture of toleration in diverse societies : Reasonable tolerance [Electronic book] / ed. by Dario Castiglione, Catriona McKinnon.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]




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A culture of curiosity : Science in the eighteenth-century home [Electronic book] / Leonie Hannan.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.




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Contours of culture : space and social difference in Singapore [Electronic book] / Robbie B. H. Goh.

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2005]




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Continuity or rupture? Investigating domestic structures during the Final Neolithic and the Bell Beaker culture in central-eastern France and western Switzerland : Bell Beaker Settlement of Europe: The Bell Beaker Phenomenon from a Domestic Perspective -

[s.l.] : Oxbow Books, 2019.




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Comradely objects : Design and material culture in Soviet Russia, 1960s-80s [Electronic book] / Yulia Karpova.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2020]




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A companion to the political culture of the Roman Republic [Electronic book] / edited by Valentina Arena, Jonathan Prag ; with assistant editor Andrew Stiles.

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2022.




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The Canaanites : their history and culture from texts and artifacts [Electronic book] / Mary Ellen Buck.

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2019]




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Vascularized tissue on mesh-assisted platform (VT-MAP): a novel approach for diverse organoid size culture and tailored cancer drug response analysis

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,2208-2223
DOI: 10.1039/D3LC01055D, Paper
Open Access
Jungseub Lee, Sangmin Jung, Hye Kyoung Hong, Hyeonsu Jo, Stephen Rhee, Ye-Lin Jeong, Jihoon Ko, Yong Beom Cho, Noo Li Jeon
VT-MAP, a novel in vitro platform, offers better physiological reflection through the vascularized organoid. This advancement supports drug assessment with deeper insights into cancer biology through correlation between morphology and drug effects.
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Study on the hemodynamic effects of different pulsatile working modes of a rotary blood pump using a microfluidic platform that realizes in vitro cell culture effectively

Lab Chip, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00159A, Paper
Lixue Liang, Xueying Wang, Dong Chen, Palaniappan Sethu, Guruprasad A. Giridharan, Yanxia Wang, Yu Wang, Kai-Rong Qin
The best pulsation frequency mode of the RBP would be one that changes every 2–3 times of the cardiac cycle. The proposed in vitro microfluidic model could provide an effective platform to select the best working mode of the RBP for heart failure.
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Rocking- and diffusion-based culture of tumor spheroids-on-a-chip

Lab Chip, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3LC01116J, Paper
Duomei Tian, Zheng Mao, Li Wang, Xiaochen Huang, Wei Wang, Haoyue Luo, Juan Peng, Yong Chen
Tumor spheroids are cultured in hydrogel microwells with a gravity driven medium flow underneath the membrane on-a-chip. The rocking system is pumpless, powered with a rechargeable battery, and programmable with a built-in microprocess.
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Measuring mechanical cues for modeling the stromal matrix in 3D cell cultures

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01425H, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Linda Srbova, Ossi Arasalo, Arttu J. Lehtonen, Juho Pokki
An approach to quantify microscale viscoelasticity in breast-cancer-associated stromal tissues was developed for cell-scale analyses of physiologically stiff 3D cell cultures.
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Floriculture fortune: Gujarat farmers strike gold with marigold

Their fields, and lives, are blooming, thanks to horticulture and improved farming techniques