Dietary Nannochloropsis oculata ameliorates lead acetate induced reproductive toxicity in Barki rams: NF-κB and cytokines pathways by Doaa H. Elsayed, Sameer A. Nagadi, Heba M.A. Abdelrazek, Ahmed. S. El‑Hawy, Moharram F. El-Bassiony, Seham A. Helmy, Yasmina K. Mahmoud, Ibrahim E. Helal, Shady T. Hassan

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Nucleotide sequence variants, gene expression and serum profile of immune and antioxidant markers associated with brucellosis resistance/susceptibility in Shami goat by Ahmed A. Elsayed, Ahmed M. Sallam

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Particle-bound PAHs and Chemical Composition, Sources and Health Risk of PM2.5 in a Highly Industrialized Area by Elizabeth Vega, Diego López-Veneroni, Omar Ramírez, Judith C. Chow, John G. Watson

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Cactus Moth, Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) by Dale H. Habeck, F. D. Bennett, Christine Miller

“…The spread of this moth raises concerns about harm to rare opuntioid species (prickly pear and related cacti), the endangerment of wild opuntioids in the southwestern United States and Mexico, and the consequent effects on entire desert ecosystems and economic hardship for communities in Mexico that cultivate and sell Opuntia. …”
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Entre rencontres et rendez-vous : stratégies marocaines de sexualité hors mariage by Matthew Carey

“…However these problems are shaped differently and affect social actors in different ways depending on whether they live in big cities, in the plains just outside urban areas or in the remote desert and mountain areas. Our article addresses these dilemmas and resulting differences, based on an analysis that allows for variations between the plains and mountains on the one hand, and encounters and rendezvous on the other hand. …”
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The Rising of “Modern Actinobacteria” Era by Jodi Woan-Fei Law, Vengadesh Letchumanan, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Hooi-Leng Ser, Bey-Hing Goh, Learn-Han Lee

“…MOD-ACTINO members consist of already identified or novel actinobacteria isolated from special environments: mangrove, desert, lake, hot spring, cave, mountain, Arctic and Antarctic regions. …”
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Matérialités instables, Temporalités complexes. Stimulantes schizophrénies numériques by Emmanuel Doutriaux

“…When, on the one hand, by being subject to upstream information, the project would tend to desert its floating cosa mentale nature in order to switch very quickly to trivial formalizations - from another point of view, the increase in data and the interoperability of formats would allow, by engaging the project in the field of infinite simulations, to delay any objective stability. …”
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A Single Bangle Does Not Jingle: The Twinning Imperative of Ubuntu by Nokuthula Hlabangane

“…In this way, the ubiquity of the capitalist, instrumentalist, rational reason is routinely undermined as higher ideals are lived, heralding beauty in the desert.…”
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Conquête d’un milieu, adaptation à une multitude de réalités : l’exemple de la conquête romaine des espaces oasiens égyptiens by Evelyne Ferron

“…Even if the Western desert of Egypt is considered one of the most hyper-arid in the world, five oases are nonetheless inhabitable, even though they are situated far from the Nile Valley. …”
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Cactus Moth, Cactoblastis cactorum (Berg) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) by Dale H. Habeck, F. D. Bennett, Christine Miller

“…The spread of this moth raises concerns about harm to rare opuntioid species (prickly pear and related cacti), the endangerment of wild opuntioids in the southwestern United States and Mexico, and the consequent effects on entire desert ecosystems and economic hardship for communities in Mexico that cultivate and sell Opuntia. …”
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From Vietnam, VA, to Iraq, CA: The Spectrality of Violence in An-My Lê’s Small Wars and 29 Palms by Barbara Kowalczuk

“…In the second project, 29 Palms (2003–2004), Lê turns her camera on United States Marines preparing for deployment in Iraq in the California desert. In the series, warfare is either reenacted or rehearsed without the violent outcome of combat being tangibly represented. …”
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Comparative assessment of empirical and hybrid machine learning models for estimating daily reference evapotranspiration in sub-humid and semi-arid climates by Siham Acharki, Ali Raza, Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma, Mina Amharref, Abdes Samed Bernoussi, Sudhir Kumar Singh, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Ahmed Z. Dewidar, Ahmed A. Al-Othman, Mohamed A. Mattar

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Assessing recovery time of ecosystems in China: insights into flash drought impacts on gross primary productivity by M. Lu, M. Lu, H. Sun, H. Sun, H. Sun, Y. Yang, J. Xue, H. Ling, H. Zhang, W. Zhang

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Effects of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, abundance, and climate conditions on bighorn sheep lamb:ewe ratios in New Mexico by Colton J. Padilla, Caitlin Q. Ruhl, James W. Cain III, Matthew E. Gompper

“…We found reduced juvenile:female ratios post M. ovipneumoniae exposure for both desert (O. c. mexicana) and Rocky Mountain (O. c. canadensis) bighorn sheep populations. …”
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Optimal Route Selection Decision-Making Based on Intelligent Network by Mengshu Zhao, Zhaohui Zhang

“…In this paper, we study a game case which is a problem of optimal strategy of desert crossing based on intelligent network and then propose an optimal route selection decision-making. …”
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L’École de Madrid et son devenir après la Guerre Civile by Eve Fourmont Giustiniani

“…The Spanish Civil War dissolved the rising philosophical tradition and dispersed its members into exile or in the cultural "desert" of Franco's Spain. Far from being the end of the School of Madrid, the war marks the division between the two branches of the orteguian philosophical legacy, which continues to grow through the thought of his disciples, despite various attempts of neutralization or political distorsion. …”
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One Map, Multiple Legends by Noa Roei

“…It does so by way of a close reading of Detroit, a short video work by Amir Yatziv where the construction plans of an urban combat training facility in the Israeli desert are the focus of attention (2009). Taking Detroitas a point of departure, I will present a number of works of art that address the phenomenon in which a military-inflected construction of space yields material and cognitive consequences, naturalising the military’s status as the guiding principle of daily life. …”
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Diversité génétique de l’allèle O dans des populations berbères by Silvayn Amory, Jean-Michel Dugoujon, Stéphanie Despiau, Francis Roubinet, Farha El-Chennawi, Antoine Blancher

“…Siwa was an important stopping place for caravans in the desert: it was subjected to many raids and armed conflicts. …”
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Identity, imaginary and tourism in the tuareg region, in Niger by Emmanuel Grégoire, Marko Scholze

“…The authors discuss first the western imagination relative to the Sahara and the Tuareg, an element that the Tuareg have remarkably played upon to encourage regional tourism based on “Desert tourism”. Then, from an historical perspective, they study the growth of tourism in the Agadez region, while highlighting its appropriation by the Tuareg, and the identity adaptations to which this appropriation has led. …”
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Se nourrir par l’agriculture périurbaine à São Paulo by Angèle Proust

“…Those disadvantaged populations live in urban fringes defined as food desert. They are particularly affected by nutritional diseases as diabetes and obesity caused by malnutrition.…”
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