Development and Assessment of the Sand Dust Prediction Model by Utilizing Microwave-Based Satellite Soil Moisture and Reanalysis Datasets in East Asian Desert Areas by Hyunglok Kim, Muhammad Zohaib, Eunsang Cho, Yann H. Kerr, Minha Choi

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Socio-economic and ecological factors linked to the adoption of foreign livestock breeds by Zimbabwean smallholders farmers in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area by Chiedza R. Mudavanhu, Prisca H. Mugabe, Venancio H. Imbayarwo-Chikosi, Billy Mukamuri, Alexandre Caron

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ASTEC–MAAP Comparison of a 2 Inch Cold Leg LOCA until RPV Failure by J. C. de la Rosa Blul, S. Brumm, F. Mascari, S. J. Lee, L. Carenini

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Intervertebral disc regeneration – Is it possible? by Dragos Schiopu, Arnaud Devriendt, Clara Van Vyve, Tamas S. Illes

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Tracing the trajectories of energy intensity, environmental tax revenues, and environmental neutrality in major European economies by Fayyaz Ahmad, Nabila Abid, Junaid Aftab, Aamir Javed

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Antimicrobial Resistance of Enteric Salmonella in Bangui, Central African Republic by Christian Diamant Mossoro-Kpinde, Alexandre Manirakiza, Jean-Robert Mbecko, Pembé Misatou, Alain Le Faou, Thierry Frank

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Catholic Church Interiors in Fin-de-Siècle Literature by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…In Dowson’s correspondence or in his poem ‘Benedictio Domini’, in Johnson’s ‘Our Lady of France’, in Wratislaw’s ‘Palm Sunday’ and ‘Songs to Elizabeth’, in some of Wilde’s stories, the opposition between inside and outside expresses figuratively the fundamental incompatibility between an ideal of beauty, embodied in the aesthetic experience of the church, and the coarseness of the outside world. …”
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Health literacy in context: struggling to self-manage diabetes – a longitudinal qualitative study by Xavier Debussche, Maryvette Balcou-Debussche, Delphine Ballet, Jessica Caroupin-Soupoutevin

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Comportements et distribution spatiale de trois espèces de singes néotropicaux, (Callithrix geoffroyi, Callicebus cupreus et Leontopithecus chrysomelas) dans un groupe multi-espèce... by Gladez Shorland, Jean Pascal Guery

“…La présente étude cherche à déterminer l'effet de la présence de visiteurs dans un enclos d'immersion sur un groupe multi-espèces de petits singes néotropicaux comprenant des ouistitis de Geoffroy (Callithrix geoffroyi), des titis roux (Callicebus cupreus) et des tamarins lions à tête dorée (Leontopithecus chrysomelas) dans un enclos naturaliste et boisé au parc de La Vallée des Singes, en Vienne (France). Dans ce but, des observations sur le comportement et la distribution spatiale ont été effectuées par les méthodes de focal sampling en continu et de scans instantanés. …”
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Redshifting the Study of Cold Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets: The Mid-infrared Wavelength Region as an Indicator of Surface Gravity and Mass by S. K. Leggett, Pascal Tremblin

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Sources of characters useful for breeding in hulless barley by N. V. Tetyannikov, N. A. Bome

“…The research results showed that C.I.10975 (k-30624, Ethiopia), Liguleless (k-29894, Tajikistan), Schwarze Nackte Kraftborn (k-25788, Germany) and ‘De printempe’ (k-23491, France) had relatively high yield combined with a number of other useful traits.…”
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Sampling mass mortality events to enable diagnoses: A protocol using freshwater mussels by Daniel A. Cossey, Michelle M. Dennis, Jordan Richard, Camilla Della Torre, Andrew McElwain, Diane L. Waller, Susan Knowles, Joshua I. Brian, Eric Leis, Erika A. V. Burioli, David C. Aldridge

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Q Fever: Current State of Knowledge and Perspectives of Research of a Neglected Zoonosis by Sarah Rebecca Porter, Guy Czaplicki, Jacques Mainil, Raphaël Guattéo, Claude Saegerman

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Results of a study of soybean source material for breeding purposes under the conditions of Primorsky Territory by E. A. Vasina, E. S. Butovets, L. M. Lukyanchuk

“…Compared to the reference ‘Primorskaya 4’, an increase of more than 35% in productivity was observed in the cultivars ‘Mestnaya’ (Russia), ‘Jilin’ (China), ‘Montreal’ (France), and ‘XP 977-1.9’ (USA). Cvs. ‘No. 075-2’ (USA), ‘K0152’ (Ukraine), ‘Muzanze Stamm M 4789/74’, ‘SOJA 1065’ and ‘Adsoi’ (Germany) were characterized by earliness (100 days). …”
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Risk versus Benefit of Using Hydroxychloroquine to Treat Patients with COVID-19 by George G. Zhanel, Michael A. Zhanel, Kevin F. Boreskie, Joseph P. Lynch, James A. Karlowsky

“…Early clinical data from China and France reported that HCQ and CQ were associated with viral load reduction and clinical improvement in patients with COVID-19 compared to control groups; however, an overwhelming number of randomized controlled trials, meta-analyses, and systematic reviews have since concluded that HCQ used alone, or in combination with azithromycin (AZ), provides no mortality or time-to-recovery benefit in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. …”
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Legal Status of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine: Current State and Perspectives of Development by L. V. Borets, Ya. O. Arbych

“…Based on the analyzed experience of the Accounting Chamber of France, the authors have suggested the ways to improve the legal status of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine.…”
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Impacts of unilateral U.S. carbon policies on agricultural sector greenhouse gas emissions and commodity markets by Marcel Adenauer, Michael K Adjemian, Shawn Arita, Wade Brorsen, Joseph Cooper, Gyuhyeong Goh, Berna Karali, Mindy Lyn Mallory, Wyatt Thompson, Jisang Yu

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Brexit and the Future of the Special Relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom by A. A. Aleshin, S. V. Kislitsyn

“…On the basis of quantitative analysis of the U.S. and British databases of international treaties, the authors provide a comparative analysis of the dynamic of bilateral relationship between the two countries from 1940 to 2017, as well as of their relations with the leading European powers — France and Germany. The authors also examine a wide range of agreements which laid a formal basis for the special relationship in such spheres as military and technical cooperation as a whole and nuclear cooperation in particular, intelligence, trade, taxation, scientific and industrial cooperation. …”
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Cytotoxic evaluation of a mixture of four commonly used pesticides on mammalian cell lines by Prudence Agnandji, Eugène S. Attakpa, Fabrice Cazier

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Outcomes after reversed corneal graft rejection: a report from the European VISICORT project by W John Armitage, Uwe Pleyer, Conor C Murphy, Derek Tole, Matthew D Griffin, Jesper Hjortdal, Katja C Iselin, Bertrand Vabres

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