The weight of African native-centric ecology in eco-desacralization by Ikechukwu Monday Osebor

“…Doubts about the authenticity of environmental degradation or climate change and desert encroachment bear a strong anthropocentric view of nature. …”
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Modeling Pan Evaporation for Kuwait by Multiple Linear Regression by Jaber Almedeij

“…The data used here for the modeling are daily measurements of substantial continuity coverage, within a period of 17 years between January 1993 and December 2009, which can be considered representative of the desert climate of the urban zone of the country. Multiple linear regression technique is used with a procedure of variable selection for fitting the best model forms. …”
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Viral Transcript and Tumor Immune Microenvironment-Based Transcriptomic Profiling of HPV-Associated Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Identifies Subtypes Associated with Progno... by Anastasiia Nikitina, Daria Kiriy, Andrey Tyshevich, Dmitry Tychinin, Zoya Antysheva, Anastasya Sobol, Vladimir Kushnarev, Nara Shin, Jessica H. Brown, James Lewis, Krystle A. Lang Kuhs, Robert Ferris, Lori Wirth, Nikita Kotlov, Daniel L. Faden

“…In contrast, E6/E7 subtype samples were associated with the fibrotic and immune-desert TME subtypes, with lower values of T-cell and B-cell gene expression signatures and lower overall survival. …”
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Dry Deposition from Sahara Sources Regions of Western Africa by B. Douaiba, A. Azzi, A. Khorsi, A. Benlefki

“…The simulation of synoptic conditions and dry deposition of four dust particles including clay, small silt, large silt, and sand was performed with Eta model, coupled with a desert dust cycle module. The results have been compared with surface data from weather stations in North Africa, data of dry metals from stations located in Gran Canaria, and various satellite images such as European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer for the period in question.…”
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Environmental Archaeology and Heritage in Dakhla Oasis, Egypt by Karin Kindermann, Richard Bussmann

“…A major outcome of the discussions is the realisation that a distinct narrative needs to be developed for Dakhla Oasis and the surrounding desert landscape to provide an encompassing strategy for the management and protection of its archaeological heritage, from prehistoric times through Pharaonic Egypt to the recent past.…”
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NATURAL AND CLIMATIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHAD AND ANTHRAX INCIDENCE by Mahamat Nguerabe Yamtinina, Ban-Bo Bebanto Antipas

“…This fact can be accounted for desert arid climate and absence of rainfalls in this natural-climatic zone. …”
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EXPERIENCE GAINED IN CULTIVATING INDUSTRIAL JOJOBA IN THE ENVIRONMENTS OF TURKMENISTAN by A. M. Penjiyev

“…Studying the possibilities of jojoba cultivation for the development of the Kara-Kum Desert, improvement of the feeding  reserves in pastures, quick sand fixation, and production of bioactive  compounds for the medical and cosmetic industries is a vital problem.Results and conclusion. …”
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Discernment - the compass on the high sea of spirituality by Kees Waaijman

“…It then analyses and evaluates discernment in the community of desert monks in the Christian tradition which illustrates the significance of discernment for spirituality. …”
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Simultaneous Determination of Phenolic Compounds in Leptadenia pyrotechnica (Forssk.) Decne. by Using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC-DAD-UV) by Raman Preet, Raghbir Chand Gupta

“…Decne. collected from the Indian Thar Desert. The optimized process was used for the quantification of ten phenolic compounds. …”
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Laboratory Islands: Renaissance(s), Regression and Re-creation in H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau and R. L. Stevenson’s The Ebb-Tide by Julie Gay

“…If by the turn of the 19th century, starting anew and being reborn on a desert island had become increasingly difficult, the island still offered the possibility of a form of literary re-birth or ‘renaissance’, by regressing to more ancient forms of story-telling while simultaneously innovating in terms of literary form and genre. …”
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Where There's Fire, THere's Smoke: Air Quality and Prescribed Burning in Florida by Martha C. Monroe, Austin K. Dixon, David R. Godwin, Adam C. Watts, Leda N. Kobziar

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“I’ll begin again in a jiffy”: récits cycliques dans la littérature anglophone by Côme Martin

“…However, though this form is the most conventional, many authors—James Joyce among others, with Finnegans Wake—have tried to question the traditional teleology of narration by offering to the reader cyclical narratives, stories you can only start in medias res and leave behind? desert because of the formal constraints of the volume. …”
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A Scene-Adaptive Phase Gradient Autofocus Algorithm by Caizhen Luo, Yi Liang, Jian Gao, Gang Lei, Chaolei Han

“…In the process of airborne radar imaging, when encountering certain scenarios (e.g., the Gobi desert), the low number or absence of strong scattering points will lead to azimuth scattering in the imaging results. …”
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Deep soil contributions to global nitrogen budgets by Maya Almaraz, Chao Wang, Michelle Y. Wong

“…Abstract Previous estimates of deep soil inorganic nitrogen (N) reservoirs have been mainly limited to desert soils, however, recent evidence suggests that deep soil pools are far more ubiquitous across biomes and therefore may be important for global N budgets. …”
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Prebiotic Properties of Dates and Their Impact on Health by Ahmad Alhomsi, Mukaddes Kılıç Bayraktar

“….), primarily cultivated in desert regions like the Middle East, is a significant source of nutrition, rich in sugars, polysaccharides, and bioactive compounds such as carotenoids, flavonoids, phenolics, anthocyanins, and sterols. …”
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Effects of Different Treatments on Seed Germination Improvement of Calotropis persica by Asghar Farajollahi, Bahram Gholinejad, Hamed Jonaidi Jafari

“…The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of different treatments on seed germination in the desert plant species Calotropis persica (Gand.). This species is known to have long time for seed germination considering arid region condition and short time of access moist. …”
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Long-Term Trend of Climate Change and Drought Assessment in the Horn of Africa by Mihretab G. Ghebrezgabher, Taibao Yang, Xuemei Yang

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Abundance of Sesamia nonagrioides (Lef.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on the Edges of the Mediterranean Basin by Matilde Eizaguirre, Argyro A. Fantinou

“…It is multivoltine, with two to four generations per year, that overwinters as mature larva in the northern of the Sahara desert. Our purpose was to compare the response of the S. nonagrioides populations occurring in the broader circum-Mediterranean area, with particular attention to the diapause period and the different numbers of generations per season. …”
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PERENNIAL AND ANNUAL DROUGHT- AND SALT-RESISTANT FORAGE PLANTS IN THE VAVILOV COLLECTION by N. I. Dzyubenko, A. V. Bukhteeva, A. A. Kochegina

“…Theoretical and practical research on the physiology of desert plants was further developed. Currently salt tolerance of forage crops is assessed using molecular methods.…”
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Hydrological niche separation between two coexisting shrubs in an extremely arid region by Mingyan Fan, Hai Zhou, Lihui Tian, Heng Ren, Bing Liu, Xibin Ji, Xiangyan Feng, Qiyue Yang, Huli Gu

“…Study region: At the southern edge of Badain Jaran Desert, China. Study focus: The mixed shrubs of Calligonum mongolicum and Nitraria sphaerocarpa are the common species in extreme arid areas. …”
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