Targeted Enrollment in Russian Universities: Current State, Problems and Solutions by Yu. S. Ezrokh

“…The scientific and applied problem of this study is the insufficient efficiency of the state’s use of the instrument of targeted education in higher education.The goal is to form a set of scientifically grounded proposals to improve the efficiency of using the targeted education system in Russia based on the systematic analysis of the practice of targeted enrollment system functioning at the present stage.The empirical base of the study included the results of the admission campaign in 2021 of the TOP-100 of the leading universities in Russia (according to Forbes magazine). The objects of observation were individual IT and medical areas of training.Results and scientific novelty: on the basis of a systemic analysis, the current state of the targeted education system in domestic universities is comprehensively described, on the basis of which the key problems of its functioning at the present stage are formulated: 1) in most cases, a significantly lower level of educational potential of target students in comparison with ordinary “budget” students; 2) the lack of opportunity for universities to influence the quality of applicants within the target quota; 3) proactive nature of the formation of directions for targeted training; 4) the absence in the public domain of formal criteria that are being used for selecting target areas (in most cases); 5) non-objective criteria for selecting potential target students; 6) constraining the choice of an educational institution by target students; 7) insufficient interest of employing enterprises to the implementation of the selection program of potential target groups; 8) lack of means of control and influence on the learning outcomes on the part of future employers; 9) the lack of data-centricity in organizing the targeted training system functioning in Russia. …”
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Modern challenges facing electric vehicle adoption: a review of barriers to adoption, supply chain challenges, and equity by Hala Alshahapy, Joe F Bozeman III, Sanya Carley, Destenie Nock, Daniel Matisoff

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İSLÂM ÖNCESİ ARABİSTAN’DA ŞARAP İÇME ALIŞKANLIĞI VE ŞARAP YASAĞI by Mohammed Maraqten

“… Şarap, Antik Yakın Doğu’da erken dönemden itibaren var olmuştur (Forbes 1955: 70-78). Şarap ve bira Mezopotamya’da (Rollig 1970), Mısır’da (Helck 1975; Meyer 1986) ve Suriye-Filistin’de (Dommers-hausen 1982: 614-20) insanların meşhur içeceklerdendi. …”
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PHAST. The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Southern Treasury. I. Ultraviolet and Optical Photometry of over 90 Million Stars in M31 by Zhuo Chen, Benjamin Williams, Dustin Lang, Andrew Dolphin, Meredith Durbin, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Adam Smercina, Léo Girardi, Claire E. Murray, Eric F. Bell, Martha L. Boyer, Richard D’Souza, Karoline Gilbert, Karl Gordon, Puragra Guhathakurta, Francois Hammer, L. Clifton Johnson, Tod R. Lauer, Margaret Lazzarini, Jeremiah W. Murphy, Ekta Patel, Amanda Quirk, Mariangelly Díaz Rodríguez, Julia Christine Roman-Duval, Robyn E. Sanderson, Anil Seth, Tobin M. Wainer, Daniel R. Weisz

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Discovery and Spectroscopic Confirmation of Aquarius III: A Low-mass Milky Way Satellite Galaxy by W. Cerny, A. Chiti, M. Geha, B. Mutlu-Pakdil, A. Drlica-Wagner, C. Y. Tan, M. Adamów, A. B. Pace, J. D. Simon, D. J. Sand, A. P. Ji, T. S. Li, A. K. Vivas, E. F. Bell, J. L. Carlin, J. A. Carballo-Bello, A. Chaturvedi, Y. Choi, A. Doliva-Dolinsky, O. Y. Gnedin, G. Limberg, C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, S. Mau, G. E. Medina, M. Navabi, N. E. D. Noël, V. M. Placco, A. H. Riley, I. U. Roederer, G. S. Stringfellow, C. R. Bom, P. S. Ferguson, D. J. James, D. Martínez-Delgado, P. Massana, D. L. Nidever, J. D. Sakowska, L. Santana-Silva, N. F. Sherman, E. J. Tollerud, DELVE Collaboration

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Effects of plant functional group removal on caterpillars (Gynaephora alpherakii) performance and plant production in an alpine meadow by Rui Cao, Han Chen, Jingran Cai, Chen Hang, Ziyu Zhang, Yingchun Miao, Peng Xie

“…Our results show that forb removal significantly decreased the aboveground plant biomass (APB) by 41.3%, but did not affect the APB of sedges. …”
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Waterlogging of soil induces diverging rates of senescence in Svalbard reindeer forage plants by Emilie K. S. Andersen, Samantha P. H. Dwinnell, Leif Egil Loe, Caroline Iveland, René van der Wal

“…Moderately increased soil moisture slightly delayed the timing of senescence in the forb and shrub. However, waterlogging reduced the growing season of the forb and shrub but considerably extended that of the grass. …”
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The effect of land use intensity and habitat characteristics on butterfly community composition within the Southern Great Plains of the United States by Emily A. Geest, Raymond A. Moranz, Kristen A. Baum

“…Methods We conducted standardized butterfly and flowering forb surveys at grassland sites across north‐central Oklahoma. …”
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Quantitative Characteristics of Brown Bear (Ursus arctos L.) Feeding on Umbelliferae Plants by S.S. Ogurtsov

“…The general quantitative characteristics of feeding on forbs have been revealed for bears inhabiting the Central Forest State Nature Biosphere Reserve (Tver region). …”
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Pityopsis - Silkgrass by Gage LaPierre, Michael G Andreu, Jazz Griffis

“… The genus Pityopsis, the silkgrasses, are perennial forbs that look like grass with silky, silver hairs. …”
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A Colorado Front Range grassland exhibits decreasing dominance of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) over time by Janet S. Prevéy, Timothy R. Seastedt

“…The cheatgrass decline corresponded with a lesser decline in native grass cover and no change in native forb cover, while the abundance of non‐native perennial grasses and forb species increased over the study interval. …”
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Grazing by non‐native ungulates negatively impacts vegetation important to a native species of concern by Phillip A. Street, Levi Jaster, Thomas E. Dilts, Tessa L. Behnke, James S. Sedinger

“…As livestock increased, we found evidence for decreases in the percentage of perennial grasses, forbs, cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum), and increases in the amount of bare ground. …”
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نظم تصنیف مقتنیات المتاحف :دراسة تحلیلیة تقییمة مقارنة by د. سمیرة خلیل محمد

“…The study examined the classification systems of museum collections forbeing one of the tools and standards in documenting museum collections, withthe aim of monitoring the attributes and characteristics of the applicableclassification systems in museums, Where the definition of the concept ofclassification of museum collections, and determine the motives and justificationswhich are paid about museums classification of their collections, With inventory ofclassification systems of museum collections through search engines, Then studywhich are available in English-language Web site in light of the basic componentsof systems classifications, namely: the main schedules, tables, index, manual,which a number of elements of evaluation included in the checklist,. …”
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Terrestrial Liming As a Restoration Technique for Acidified Forest Ecosystems by Sarah E. Pabian, Shawn M. Rummel, William E. Sharpe, Margaret C. Brittingham

“…We observed an increase in forb ground cover on limed sites, but liming had no effect on millipede abundance or other vegetation measures. …”
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Nitrogen addition and drought impose divergent effects on belowground bud banks of grassland community: a meta-analysis by Jing Wu, Jing Wu, Xian-zhang Hou, Jin-lei Zhu, Ren-hui Miao, Michael Opoku Adomako, Michael Opoku Adomako

“…While drought negatively affects bud banks densities and functional groups of grasses and forbs. We found that effects of the N addition and drought on the bud banks depend on the bud type, e.g., root sprouting buds, bulb buds, and dormant buds. …”
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Ecological and biological features of Gentiana septemfida in the south of Western Siberia by Alexey S. Prokopyev, Tatjana N. Kataeva, Mikhail S. Yamburov

“…In the Altai Mountains, this species occurs near the upper boundary of the forest belt, in forest meadows, open glades, and bushy tundra with alpine and subalpine forbs. In the flat landscape, it is rarely encountered in river valleys among mesophilic tall grass meadows. …”
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Environment of European Last Mammoths: Reconstructing the Landcover of the Eastern Baltic Area at the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition by Ivan Krivokorin, Anneli Poska, Jüri Vassiljev, Siim Veski, Leeli Amon

“…The abrupt disappearance of typical forb-dominated tundra indicators, such as <i>Dryas octopetala</i>, and the fast increase in tree birch marked a shift from an open, tundra-like landscape to a forested one, making the environment inhospitable for mammoths even in northernmost Estonia by the beginning of the Holocene. …”
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Comparative analysis of floristic richness and diversity in six central forest reserves of north eastern Uganda by Samuel Ojelel, Esther Katuura, Patrick Mucunguzi, James Kalema

“…Data was collected from nested quadrats (20 × 20 m for trees, 10 × 10 m for shrubs and 5 × 5 m for herbaceous climbers, forbs and grasses) placed at intervals of 100 m along a transect of 1000 – 1500 m. …”
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Effect of Experimental Warming on Forage Nutritive Value and Storage in Alpine Meadows at Three Different Altitudes of Nianqing Tanggula Mountain, Northern Tibet: A Long-Term Exper... by Fusong Han, Wei Sun, Shaowei Li, Chengqun Yu, Jun Xu, Tianyu Li, Yujie Deng, Dorblha, Chuhong Chen, Dawaqiongda, Luobu, Gang Fu

“…Warming did not affect community nutrition storages at the low or mid-elevations. Overall, forbs had higher CP, EE, Ash, and WSC contents and lower ADF and NDF contents compared with graminoids. …”
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The contrasted impacts of grasshoppers on soil microbial activities in function of primary production and herbivore diet by Ibanez, Sébastien, Foulquier, Arnaud, Brun, Charles, Colace, Marie-Pascale, Piton, Gabin, Bernard, Lionel, Gallet, Christiane, Clément, Jean-Christophe

“…During two consecutive years, we conducted an experiment controlling the presence of three grasshopper species consuming either grasses, forbs or both in twelve natural and managed alpine grasslands with contrasted productivities. …”
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