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Jobs in the City : Explaining Urban Spatial Structure in Kampala
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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This paper examines the spatial organization of jobs in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, and applies the Lucas and Rossi-Hansberg (2002) model to explain the observed patterns in terms of the agglomeration forces and the commuting costs of workers. The paper suggests that: (i) Economic activities are concentrated in the downtown-beyond which employment is spatially dispersed. (ii) Geographically weighted regressions identify five potential subcenters in 2011; however, none of these contribute significantly to employment. When explaining the variation in employment density across localities in Kampala, the research highlights that (i) density falls by 23.5 percent per kilometer increase in distance from the nearest potential subcenter; (ii) an increase in local production externalities of 10 percent increases density by 3.7 percent; and (iii) production externalities in Kampala's potential subcenters are extremely weak to have any significant impact even on nearby tracts.


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From neighborhoods to nations : the economics of social interactions
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ISBN: 1283611074 9786613923523 1400845386 9781400845385 0691126852 9780691126852 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton,NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Just as we learn from, influence, and are influenced by others, our social interactions drive economic growth in cities, regions, and nations--determining where households live, how children learn, and what cities and firms produce. From Neighborhoods to Nations synthesizes the recent economics of social interactions for anyone seeking to understand the contributions of this important area. Integrating theory and empirics, Yannis Ioannides explores theoretical and empirical tools that economists use to investigate social interactions, and he shows how a familiarity with these tools is essential for interpreting findings. The book makes work in the economics of social interactions accessible to other social scientists, including sociologists, political scientists, and urban planning and policy researchers. Focusing on individual and household location decisions in the presence of interactions, Ioannides shows how research on cities and neighborhoods can explain communities' composition and spatial form, as well as changes in productivity, industrial specialization, urban expansion, and national growth. The author examines how researchers address the challenge of separating personal, social, and cultural forces from economic ones. Ioannides provides a toolkit for the next generation of inquiry, and he argues that quantifying the impact of social interactions in specific contexts is essential for grasping their scope and use in informing policy. Revealing how empirical work on social interactions enriches our understanding of cities as engines of innovation and economic growth, From Neighborhoods to Nations carries ramifications throughout the social sciences and beyond.

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Social integration --- Economics --- Economic sociology --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Inclusion, Social --- Integration, Social --- Social inclusion --- Sociological aspects. --- Social aspects --- Social interaction --- Human interaction --- Interaction, Social --- Symbolic interaction --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Economic aspects. --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- Economic aspects --- Sociological aspects --- E-books --- Social interaction - Economic aspects --- Economics - Sociological aspects --- AlonsoЍillsЍuth model. --- Duranton model. --- LucasВossi-Hansberg model. --- Thomas Schelling. --- Zipf's law. --- agglomeration. --- archipelago. --- autarkic cities. --- city geometry. --- city size distribution. --- city size. --- city. --- community choice. --- community. --- contextual effects. --- decisions. --- diversification. --- econometrics. --- economic geography. --- economic growth. --- economic integration. --- economics. --- empirics. --- firms. --- geography. --- graph theory. --- hierarchy principle. --- housing. --- human capital spillovers. --- industrial specialization. --- intercity trade. --- job matching. --- labor market frictions. --- localization. --- location decisions. --- microneighborhood. --- neighborhood choice. --- neighborhood effects. --- neighborhood. --- physical capital. --- physical space. --- productivity. --- racial preferences. --- risk pooling. --- site rents. --- social effects. --- social interactions. --- social learning. --- social networks. --- social structure. --- spatial aggregation. --- spatial clustering. --- spatial econometrics. --- spatial economic activity. --- spatial equilibrium. --- spatial interactions. --- spatial structure. --- synthetic neighborhood. --- total factor productivity. --- urban archipelago. --- urban economy. --- urban evolution. --- urban expansion. --- urban externalities. --- urban growth. --- urban infrastructure. --- urban networks. --- urban social fabric. --- urban spatial structure. --- urban specialization. --- urban structure. --- urban transition. --- urban transportation. --- urban wage premium. --- urbanization.


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Forest Management, Conflict and Social-Ecological Systems in a Changing World
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Conflicts in forest management are unavoidable because of the large temporal and spatial scales characteristic of forests ecosystems and the large number of actors involved. Forests are multifunctional ecosystems par excellence, and it can be hypothesized that current public policies, and especially those labeled as societal transitions, can affect this widespread holistic management goal. In this Special Issue, the different contributions by the authors raise the questions of how different types of conflicts arise and what alternatives exist to solve those conflicts. The Issue contains examples from both temperate and tropical forests and addresses, for instance, conflicts arising from REDD+ programs, the declaration of new protected areas, the complexity of negotiating carbon offset targets, the loss of local knowledge because of demographic trends, and meeting biodiversity and biomass targets simultaneously, among others. We present a general typology of sources of conflicts because of two dimensions: a vertical dimension represented by bottom-up versus top-down approaches and a horizontal dimension arising by ecosystem extent and ownership boundaries. Awareness that new policies can be a source of unexpected conflicts calls for precaution while testing new ‘transition’ approaches.

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Research. --- Forestry. --- forest planning and management --- rural community sustainability --- ecosystem services --- forest sociology --- forestry in the media --- forest vulnerability --- adaptive capacity --- multiple-use land management --- conflicting perspectives --- natural processes --- high-yield silviculture --- forest management --- multifunctionality --- carbon offset --- collective action --- conflict avoidance --- mitigation --- payment for ecosystem services --- social-ecological --- France --- protected areas establishment --- stakeholder participation --- landscape protection --- qualitative research --- Soutok Protected Landscape Area (Czech Republic) --- REDD+ --- conflict --- forests --- land tenure --- political ecology --- ecological unit --- synergy/trade-off --- spatial structure --- attribute characteristics --- forest sustainability --- production forests --- environment forests --- carbon credit --- retention approach --- common-pool resource management --- local vs. global --- economic oligopoly --- panacea paradigm --- renewable energy --- sectoral organization --- CHANS --- globalization --- historical data --- socio-ecological frameworks --- dry-edge --- forest planning and management --- rural community sustainability --- ecosystem services --- forest sociology --- forestry in the media --- forest vulnerability --- adaptive capacity --- multiple-use land management --- conflicting perspectives --- natural processes --- high-yield silviculture --- forest management --- multifunctionality --- carbon offset --- collective action --- conflict avoidance --- mitigation --- payment for ecosystem services --- social-ecological --- France --- protected areas establishment --- stakeholder participation --- landscape protection --- qualitative research --- Soutok Protected Landscape Area (Czech Republic) --- REDD+ --- conflict --- forests --- land tenure --- political ecology --- ecological unit --- synergy/trade-off --- spatial structure --- attribute characteristics --- forest sustainability --- production forests --- environment forests --- carbon credit --- retention approach --- common-pool resource management --- local vs. global --- economic oligopoly --- panacea paradigm --- renewable energy --- sectoral organization --- CHANS --- globalization --- historical data --- socio-ecological frameworks --- dry-edge


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Forest Management, Conflict and Social-Ecological Systems in a Changing World
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Conflicts in forest management are unavoidable because of the large temporal and spatial scales characteristic of forests ecosystems and the large number of actors involved. Forests are multifunctional ecosystems par excellence, and it can be hypothesized that current public policies, and especially those labeled as societal transitions, can affect this widespread holistic management goal. In this Special Issue, the different contributions by the authors raise the questions of how different types of conflicts arise and what alternatives exist to solve those conflicts. The Issue contains examples from both temperate and tropical forests and addresses, for instance, conflicts arising from REDD+ programs, the declaration of new protected areas, the complexity of negotiating carbon offset targets, the loss of local knowledge because of demographic trends, and meeting biodiversity and biomass targets simultaneously, among others. We present a general typology of sources of conflicts because of two dimensions: a vertical dimension represented by bottom-up versus top-down approaches and a horizontal dimension arising by ecosystem extent and ownership boundaries. Awareness that new policies can be a source of unexpected conflicts calls for precaution while testing new ‘transition’ approaches.


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Dedicated to the 55th Anniversary of G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PIBOC FEB RAS) was founded in 1964 in Vladivostok in the Far East of Russia. Over many years, we have been carrying out studies on the natural products of both marine and terrestrial origin. In collaboration with many Russian and foreign scientists, we have investigated many hundreds of diverse biomolecules, including steroids and terpenoids, quinoid compounds and alkaloids, polysaccharides and lipids, enzymes and lectins, proteins, and peptides. The Institute has a collection of marine microorganisms (KMM) PIBOC, which includes more than 4000 strains of marine bacteria and more than 1000 strains of marine fungi. The biological activity of natural compounds is also being studied. This book includes the 14 manuscripts which covered almost all aspects of PIBOC research activity in the fields of bioorganic chemistry, biochemistry, organic synthesis of natural compounds, marine microbiology, and genetic engineering, and we hope it will provide interesting new information for scientists working in these fields.

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Research & information: general --- polyhydroxylated steroids --- NMR spectra --- starfish --- Anthenoides laevigatus --- cytotoxicity --- soft agar assay --- kainic acid --- domoic acid --- dysiherbaine --- neodysiherbaine A --- marine bacteria --- whole genome sequence --- porin --- amino acids composition --- bilayer lipid membrane --- pore-forming activity --- spatial structure --- phlorotannins --- phlorethols --- anticancer activity --- colorectal cancer --- radiosensitizer --- radiotherapy --- 1,4-naphthoquinones --- quinoid compounds --- thioglycosides --- quinone-sugar conjugates --- cytotoxic activity --- antibiotic activity --- histochrome --- echinochrome A --- oxidative degradation --- HPLC–DAD–MS --- NMR --- actinoporin --- sea anemone --- Heteractis crispa --- anti-migratory activity --- glycosphingolipids --- cerebrosides --- peroxidation products --- structure elucidation --- allylic thioether --- ESI-MS --- GC-MS --- mass spectra --- glass sponge --- isomalabaricanes --- Stelletta sp. --- marine sponge --- terpenoid --- Cobetia amphilecti --- Cobetia litoralis --- Cobetia pacifica --- Cobetia marina --- Cobetia crustatorum --- identification markers --- alkaline phosphatase PhoA --- lanosterol 14-alpha demethylase --- flavonoids --- enzyme inhibition --- surface plasmon resonance --- spectral titration --- molecular docking --- Zobellia --- genomes --- polysaccharide lyase family 7 --- alginate utilization system --- paralogs --- orthologs --- recombinant phospholipase A1 --- Yersinia pseudotuberculosis --- inclusion bodies --- fusion protein --- green fluorescent protein --- porin gene expression --- antibiotic stress --- phenotypic heterogeneity --- n/a --- HPLC-DAD-MS


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Forest Management, Conflict and Social-Ecological Systems in a Changing World
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Conflicts in forest management are unavoidable because of the large temporal and spatial scales characteristic of forests ecosystems and the large number of actors involved. Forests are multifunctional ecosystems par excellence, and it can be hypothesized that current public policies, and especially those labeled as societal transitions, can affect this widespread holistic management goal. In this Special Issue, the different contributions by the authors raise the questions of how different types of conflicts arise and what alternatives exist to solve those conflicts. The Issue contains examples from both temperate and tropical forests and addresses, for instance, conflicts arising from REDD+ programs, the declaration of new protected areas, the complexity of negotiating carbon offset targets, the loss of local knowledge because of demographic trends, and meeting biodiversity and biomass targets simultaneously, among others. We present a general typology of sources of conflicts because of two dimensions: a vertical dimension represented by bottom-up versus top-down approaches and a horizontal dimension arising by ecosystem extent and ownership boundaries. Awareness that new policies can be a source of unexpected conflicts calls for precaution while testing new ‘transition’ approaches.


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Dedicated to the 55th Anniversary of G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PIBOC FEB RAS) was founded in 1964 in Vladivostok in the Far East of Russia. Over many years, we have been carrying out studies on the natural products of both marine and terrestrial origin. In collaboration with many Russian and foreign scientists, we have investigated many hundreds of diverse biomolecules, including steroids and terpenoids, quinoid compounds and alkaloids, polysaccharides and lipids, enzymes and lectins, proteins, and peptides. The Institute has a collection of marine microorganisms (KMM) PIBOC, which includes more than 4000 strains of marine bacteria and more than 1000 strains of marine fungi. The biological activity of natural compounds is also being studied. This book includes the 14 manuscripts which covered almost all aspects of PIBOC research activity in the fields of bioorganic chemistry, biochemistry, organic synthesis of natural compounds, marine microbiology, and genetic engineering, and we hope it will provide interesting new information for scientists working in these fields.

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polyhydroxylated steroids --- NMR spectra --- starfish --- Anthenoides laevigatus --- cytotoxicity --- soft agar assay --- kainic acid --- domoic acid --- dysiherbaine --- neodysiherbaine A --- marine bacteria --- whole genome sequence --- porin --- amino acids composition --- bilayer lipid membrane --- pore-forming activity --- spatial structure --- phlorotannins --- phlorethols --- anticancer activity --- colorectal cancer --- radiosensitizer --- radiotherapy --- 1,4-naphthoquinones --- quinoid compounds --- thioglycosides --- quinone-sugar conjugates --- cytotoxic activity --- antibiotic activity --- histochrome --- echinochrome A --- oxidative degradation --- HPLC–DAD–MS --- NMR --- actinoporin --- sea anemone --- Heteractis crispa --- anti-migratory activity --- glycosphingolipids --- cerebrosides --- peroxidation products --- structure elucidation --- allylic thioether --- ESI-MS --- GC-MS --- mass spectra --- glass sponge --- isomalabaricanes --- Stelletta sp. --- marine sponge --- terpenoid --- Cobetia amphilecti --- Cobetia litoralis --- Cobetia pacifica --- Cobetia marina --- Cobetia crustatorum --- identification markers --- alkaline phosphatase PhoA --- lanosterol 14-alpha demethylase --- flavonoids --- enzyme inhibition --- surface plasmon resonance --- spectral titration --- molecular docking --- Zobellia --- genomes --- polysaccharide lyase family 7 --- alginate utilization system --- paralogs --- orthologs --- recombinant phospholipase A1 --- Yersinia pseudotuberculosis --- inclusion bodies --- fusion protein --- green fluorescent protein --- porin gene expression --- antibiotic stress --- phenotypic heterogeneity --- n/a --- HPLC-DAD-MS


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Heritage Patterns—Representative Models
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The Heritage Patterns—Representative Models issue of Heritage welcomed twelve articles that discussed traditional and contemporary methodologies, as well as scholars from different backgrounds who intended to seek patterns of tangible heritage and its underlying principles to understand the diversity of heritage approaches. The Special Issue aims to research the patterns in heritage and the underlying rules that define tangible heritage as a universal value in spatial coexistence, economics, urban life, and design via case studies and theoretical proposals that could be implemented in the future. The pattern language and the heritage phenomenon could act as a base of observation to deduct logic and create generative algorithms (generative design); to understand the importance of spatial connection with tangible heritage and urban forms (space syntax, urban morphology, and urban morphometrics) and its visibility; as well as archaeological, architectural, and urban heritage. Based on the UNESCO-ICOMOS doctrines and the examination of morphological regions, urban morphological research and its different layers (urban forms, structural components, built environment, urban tissue, and their interaction) act as a background and foundation for general urban heritage conservation and protection proposals, and also as the base of specific interventions in the built environment caused by natural disasters.

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urban morphology --- historico-geographical --- town plan --- preservation --- design guidelines --- conservation --- heritage --- urban form --- town-plan --- streets --- plots --- block-plans of buildings --- New York --- urban planning --- pattern language --- generative modelling --- Vienna --- Austria-Hungary --- Barnet --- suburban centres --- spatial morphology --- heritage syntax urbanism --- community heritage --- tangible heritage --- intangible heritage --- space syntax --- cultural heritage --- industrial landscape planning --- industrial landscape --- post-industrial landscape --- industrial tourism --- industrial heritage --- spatial layout --- spatial distribution --- spatial structure --- mapping --- surveying --- indigenous place values --- colonisation --- Michel de Certeau --- lost landscapes --- design reparation --- architecture --- healing architecture --- ergonomics --- community building --- ecology --- architecture for children --- low-tech --- universal design --- vernacular architecture --- regionalism --- visibility analysis --- isovist --- field of view --- urban heritage --- built environment --- Istanbul --- architectural heritage --- spatial distribution characteristics --- influencing factors --- UNESCO heritage --- heritage protection --- urban history --- urban design of 19th century --- system of public squares and city parks --- Zagreb --- Croatia --- urban block --- urban transformation --- urban reconstruction --- historical core --- sustainable urbanisation --- liveable urbanism --- evidence-based design --- Asian cities


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Dedicated to the 55th Anniversary of G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PIBOC FEB RAS) was founded in 1964 in Vladivostok in the Far East of Russia. Over many years, we have been carrying out studies on the natural products of both marine and terrestrial origin. In collaboration with many Russian and foreign scientists, we have investigated many hundreds of diverse biomolecules, including steroids and terpenoids, quinoid compounds and alkaloids, polysaccharides and lipids, enzymes and lectins, proteins, and peptides. The Institute has a collection of marine microorganisms (KMM) PIBOC, which includes more than 4000 strains of marine bacteria and more than 1000 strains of marine fungi. The biological activity of natural compounds is also being studied. This book includes the 14 manuscripts which covered almost all aspects of PIBOC research activity in the fields of bioorganic chemistry, biochemistry, organic synthesis of natural compounds, marine microbiology, and genetic engineering, and we hope it will provide interesting new information for scientists working in these fields.

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Research & information: general --- polyhydroxylated steroids --- NMR spectra --- starfish --- Anthenoides laevigatus --- cytotoxicity --- soft agar assay --- kainic acid --- domoic acid --- dysiherbaine --- neodysiherbaine A --- marine bacteria --- whole genome sequence --- porin --- amino acids composition --- bilayer lipid membrane --- pore-forming activity --- spatial structure --- phlorotannins --- phlorethols --- anticancer activity --- colorectal cancer --- radiosensitizer --- radiotherapy --- 1,4-naphthoquinones --- quinoid compounds --- thioglycosides --- quinone-sugar conjugates --- cytotoxic activity --- antibiotic activity --- histochrome --- echinochrome A --- oxidative degradation --- HPLC-DAD-MS --- NMR --- actinoporin --- sea anemone --- Heteractis crispa --- anti-migratory activity --- glycosphingolipids --- cerebrosides --- peroxidation products --- structure elucidation --- allylic thioether --- ESI-MS --- GC-MS --- mass spectra --- glass sponge --- isomalabaricanes --- Stelletta sp. --- marine sponge --- terpenoid --- Cobetia amphilecti --- Cobetia litoralis --- Cobetia pacifica --- Cobetia marina --- Cobetia crustatorum --- identification markers --- alkaline phosphatase PhoA --- lanosterol 14-alpha demethylase --- flavonoids --- enzyme inhibition --- surface plasmon resonance --- spectral titration --- molecular docking --- Zobellia --- genomes --- polysaccharide lyase family 7 --- alginate utilization system --- paralogs --- orthologs --- recombinant phospholipase A1 --- Yersinia pseudotuberculosis --- inclusion bodies --- fusion protein --- green fluorescent protein --- porin gene expression --- antibiotic stress --- phenotypic heterogeneity --- polyhydroxylated steroids --- NMR spectra --- starfish --- Anthenoides laevigatus --- cytotoxicity --- soft agar assay --- kainic acid --- domoic acid --- dysiherbaine --- neodysiherbaine A --- marine bacteria --- whole genome sequence --- porin --- amino acids composition --- bilayer lipid membrane --- pore-forming activity --- spatial structure --- phlorotannins --- phlorethols --- anticancer activity --- colorectal cancer --- radiosensitizer --- radiotherapy --- 1,4-naphthoquinones --- quinoid compounds --- thioglycosides --- quinone-sugar conjugates --- cytotoxic activity --- antibiotic activity --- histochrome --- echinochrome A --- oxidative degradation --- HPLC-DAD-MS --- NMR --- actinoporin --- sea anemone --- Heteractis crispa --- anti-migratory activity --- glycosphingolipids --- cerebrosides --- peroxidation products --- structure elucidation --- allylic thioether --- ESI-MS --- GC-MS --- mass spectra --- glass sponge --- isomalabaricanes --- Stelletta sp. --- marine sponge --- terpenoid --- Cobetia amphilecti --- Cobetia litoralis --- Cobetia pacifica --- Cobetia marina --- Cobetia crustatorum --- identification markers --- alkaline phosphatase PhoA --- lanosterol 14-alpha demethylase --- flavonoids --- enzyme inhibition --- surface plasmon resonance --- spectral titration --- molecular docking --- Zobellia --- genomes --- polysaccharide lyase family 7 --- alginate utilization system --- paralogs --- orthologs --- recombinant phospholipase A1 --- Yersinia pseudotuberculosis --- inclusion bodies --- fusion protein --- green fluorescent protein --- porin gene expression --- antibiotic stress --- phenotypic heterogeneity

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