The impact of drought on forest spring phenology in northern China by Haowen Hu, Pengcheng Xue, Shaodong Huang, Zong Wang, Nina Xiong, Liang Shi, Boyi Liang, Jia Wang

“…Global warming is altering ecosystem function and productivity, with changes in vegetation phenology playing a crucial role. These changes are driven not only by rising temperatures but also by the increasing intensity and frequency of extreme events, particularly drought. …”
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Intensified monsoonal rainstorm events over westerly-dominated Asian interior during the warm mid-Holocene by Peixian Shu, Weijian Zhou, Aaron E. Putnam, Baosheng Li, Shugang Kang, Yingying Sha, Zhengguo Shi, Guodong Ming, Hong Wang, Youbin Sun, David K. Wright, Weiguo Liu, Xiaodong Liu, Peng Cheng, Yougui Song, Dongfeng Niu, John R. Dodson, Hua Du, Jiaju Zhao, Zeke Zhang, Yahui Qiu, Zhisheng An

“…Abstract Hydroclimatic change in the Asian interior plays a key role in regulating regional environmental sustainability, water security, and human-nature relationships. …”
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Determining Dominant Factors of Vegetation Change with Machine Learning and Multisource Data in the Ganjiang River Basin, China by Zhiming Xia, Kaitao Liao, Liping Guo, Bin Wang, Hongsheng Huang, Xiulong Chen, Xiangmin Fang, Kuiling Zu, Zhijun Luo, Faxing Shen, Fusheng Chen

“…Vegetation is a fundamental component of terrestrial ecosystems, and accurately assessing the effects of seasonal climate variations, extreme weather events, and land use changes on vegetation dynamics is crucial. …”
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High-order harmonic generation driven by perfect optical vortex beams: Exploring the orbital angular momentum upscaling law by Bikash Kumar Das, C. Granados, M. Krüger, Marcelo F. Ciappina

“…Our research establishes a pathway for producing bright structured extreme ultraviolet coherent radiation sources—a pivotal tool with multifaceted applications across various technological domains.…”
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Dark Margins: Invisibility and Obscenity in Thomas Pynchon’s V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow by Paul Jahshan

“…The invisibility of the Preterite is not only a reaction to the obscenity of the Elect but is also, as it reaches an interpretative extreme, another form of technological obscenity not less powerful than that of the Elect. …”
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Dual feature-based and example-based explanation methods by Andrei Konstantinov, Boris Kozlov, Stanislav Kirpichenko, Lev Utkin, Vladimir Muliukha

“…The convex hull allows us to consider a dual representation of instances in the form of convex combinations of extreme points of a produced polytope. …”
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Tempos modernos? by Rita Brandão, Mário José Filho

“…Instead of guaranteeing mechanisms to implement policies of full employment and universal social policies, there has been a predominance of residual policies, which are either selective or focused on extreme poverty, as a mechanism to minimize the impact resulting from neoliberal policies. …”
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Resilience of the samin community in the face of climate change in Java Island, Indonesia by Wibowo Agung, Wardojo Waskito Widi, Rahmanto Andre Noevi, Candrakirana Rosita

“…The Samin Community has a rich traditional knowledge system which plays an important role in maintaining social and ecological resilience. …”
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Exploring the climate-environment-health nexus: Insights for informed action by Harvey V. Fineberg

“…The environment, encompassing physical, biological, and social dimensions, profoundly influences our health. Climate change, as a pervasive force, impacts human health directly, for instance through extreme weather events, and indirectly through phenomena like air pollution from wildfires, and alterations to ecosystem services. …”
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Diogenes Syndrome: Identification and Distinction from Hoarding Disorder by Carmel Proctor, Sakib Rahman

“…“Severe domestic squalor” or Diogenes syndrome is characterised by extreme self-neglect of environment, health, and hygiene, excessive hoarding, squalor, social withdrawal, and a distinct lack of concern or shame regarding one’s living condition. …”
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Shear localisation controls the dynamics of earthquakes by Fabian Barras, Nicolas Brantut

“…Here, we numerically simulate shear ruptures using a dual scale approach, allowing us to couple a sub-mm description of inner fault processes and km-scale elastodynamics, and show that the sudden localisation of shear strain within a shear zone leads to the emergence of classical cracks driven by a constant fracture energy. …”
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Introduction: Balkan Romance Within the Balkan Sprachbund by Virginia Hill, Adam Ledgeway

“…This article provides a short introduction to Balkan Romance, examining and exemplifying a number of its principal features. …”
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Sentiment Analysis of Mobile Phone Reviews Using XGBoost and Word Vectors by Wang Zekai

“…An extreme Gradient Boosting Tree (XGBoost) is used to integrate word vectors and a Large Language Model (LLM) to construct a sentiment recognition model, and finally, a review sentiment index is derived, which unfolds from multiple dimensions to analyze the sentiment tendency in consumer reviews. …”
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Penile Anomalies in Adolescence by Dan Wood, Christopher Woodhouse

“…Topical treatments may be of value, but in extreme cases, phalloplasty is a valuable option for patients to consider. …”
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Time-Frequency Connectedness between Green Bonds and Conventional Financial Markets: Evidence from China by Yingliang Chen, Guifen Shi, Guanchong Hou

“…The total spillover effects among all markets increase notably during extreme market conditions. Secondly, the green bond market primarily acts as a net risk spillover transmitter in most periods. …”
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Stasis, Charging the Space of Change by Sarah Riviere

“…Through a series of readings of ancient Greek texts on topics ranging from pathology to literature and politics, stasis is revealed as a powerfully charged state of located dynamic exchange that operates through a precise temporal and spatial performance. …”
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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

“…Climate change due to global warming is a world concern, particularly in Africa. In this study, precipitation and temperature variables are taken as a proxy to assess and quantify the long-term climate change and drought in the Horn of Africa (HOA) (1930–2014). …”
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The Implications of Non-Domestication of Kampala Convention to the Protection of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria by Tasiu Magaji

“…Using a qualitative research approach where primary and secondary data are utilized. …”
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Modeling and Simulation of Control Actuation System with Fuzzy-PID Logic Controlled Brushless Motor Drives for Missiles Glider Applications by Murali Muniraj, Ramaswamy Arulmozhiyal

“…The proposed system will realize better rise time and less overshoot while operating in extreme nonlinear dynamic system conditions. A mathematical model of BLDC motor is derived in state space form. …”
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La composition corporelle des adolescentes. La mode et quelques répercussions cliniques by Consuelo Prado, Anders Holt Nielsen, Raquel Martínez, Margarita Carmenate, Cesare Donoso

“…The influence of advertising and social pressure is particularly strong in the case of girls, and a new prototype of body proportion has emerged in which extreme thinness is no longer the exception as it has been in previous periods. …”
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