Understanding rangeland desertification through pastoralist perspectives using a grounded theory approach by Mohsen Sharaftmandrad, Mohammadreza Shahraki

“…Abstract Rangeland desertification risk has significantly increased due to the fragility of these ecosystems and the severity of degradation caused by climate instability and human activities over the last decade. This research focuses on identifying indicators of rangeland desertification risk using a qualitative grounded theory approach based on the perspectives of pastoralists in Kolijah and Qolaq-Borte, Golestan Province, Iran. …”
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Context-dependent modulation of spatial attention: prioritizing behaviourally relevant stimuli by Noah Britt, Jackie Chau, Hong-jin Sun

“…Abstract Human attention can be guided by semantic information conveyed by individual objects in the environment. …”
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To the problem of optimization of criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of providing the national security of the State by Y. V. Kobko

“…It has been argued that the evaluation of the effectiveness of Ukrainian national security is the activities of authorized entities carried out in the prescribed manner, which aims to establish the extent to which measures implemented by the state in the relevant direction, as well as related financial, material technical and human costs, meet the goal. It has been performed the classification of the relevant criteria, which is most appropriate to divide into the following groups: 1) financial and economic, which include: the level of shadowing of the economy; the level of GDP per capita; the ratio of public debt to GDP; the average level of wages in the state; 2) socio-cultural, in particular: the demographic situation in the country (depopulation rate); the level of legal consciousness of society and cultural development; national consent and unity; a sense of personal security; the level of support of the population of the state; 3) political: stability and effectiveness of public policy (domestic political stability); resilience to ensure a high level of readiness of society and the state to respond to a wide range of threats; the level of democracy, the formation and effectiveness of the legal framework of the rule of law; 4) indicators of combat readiness of the army: the state of the armed forces, their combat capability and combat readiness; logistical, financial support of troops; adequacy of staffing. …”
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A bicycle can be balanced by stochastic optimal feedback control but only with accurate speed estimates. by Eric Maris

“…Balancing a bicycle is typical for the balance control humans perform as a part of a whole range of behaviors (walking, running, skating, skiing, etc.). …”
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Narratives of climate adaptation and linkages to psychosocial and nutritional health in a Zimbabwean rural community by Sandra Bhatasara, Chijoke Nwosu, Lesley Macheka, Admire M. Nyamwanza

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Involvement of Coenzyme Q10 in Various Neurodegenerative and Psychiatric Diseases by Alireza Ebrahimi, Amirhossein Kamyab, Sahar Hosseini, Sedigheh Ebrahimi, Soheil Ashkani-Esfahani

“…This molecule is detected broadly in different parts of the human body in various quantities. This molecule can be absorbed by the digestive system from various nutritional sources as supplements. …”
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OUTSTANDING RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS: DIMITRY AND ELENA WENTZEL by V. I. LEVIN

“…The special aim of the paper was to recreate the human images of Elena and Dimitry Wentzel.…”
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Post-pedagogical Syndrome of the Digimodernism Age by I. A. Kolesnikova

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Children Reception Centers: Main Challenges of the Present Day by N. V. Kolomoiets

“….); organizational (for example, the organization of individual preventive and educational work with children needs to be improved, any manifestations of minors isolation must be mitigated, etc.) and human resources (for example, incomplete assembly of the staff in children reception centers, the lack of psychologists and medical employees, etc.). …”
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Investigating time-independent and time-dependent diffusion phenomena using steady-state diffusion MRI by Benjamin C. Tendler

“…Experimentally, the time-independent representation is used to derive Tensor and proof-of-principle NODDI estimates in a whole human post-mortem brain. A final SNR-efficiency investigation demonstrates the theoretical potential of DW-SSFP for ultra-high field microstructural imaging.…”
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Hierarchical and Distributed Eco-Driving Approach for Mixed Vehicle Clusters at Unsignalized Intersections by Jie Yu, Yugong Luo, Weiwei Kong, Fachao Jiang

“…To improve the driving efficiency and energy-saving characteristics for large-scale mixed traffic flows under different market penetration rates (MPRs) of intelligent and connected vehicles (ICVs) at unsignalized intersections, considering the cooperative eco-driving performance between ICVs and human-driven vehicles (HDVs) with time-varying speed characteristics, the hierarchical and distributed cooperative eco-driving architecture is first established in this paper, consisting of a cloud decision layer and a vehicle control layer. …”
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Quinoline-Based Materials: Spectroscopic Investigations as well as DFT and TD-DFT Calculations by Mahmoud A. S. Sakr, Samy A. El-Daly, El-Zeiny M. Ebeid, Sadeq M. Al-Hazmy, Mohammed Hassan

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MT Evaluation in the Context of Language Complexity by Dasa Munkova, Michal Munk, null Ľubomír Benko, Jiri Stastny

“…The paper focuses on investigating the impact of artificial agent (machine translator) on human agent (posteditor) using a proposed methodology, which is based on language complexity measures, POS tags, frequent tagsets, association rules, and their summarization. …”
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PENGARUH TEKANAN VAKUM TERHADAP KEMURNIAN OKSIGEN PADA PROSES VACUUM PRESSURE SWING ADSORPTION by Amelia Sugondo, Teng Sutrisno, Richard M. Saputra Saputra

“…Air pollution is an environmental problem that interferes with human health. This pollution is difficult to avoid due to the development of industry and transportation which are not fully environmentally friendly. …”
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Introduced substrates trigger colonization by reef-associated fish in a degraded coastal system. by Maryann S Watson, Jon Dickson, Oscar Franken, Laura L Govers, Tjisse van der Heide, Sterre Witte, Britas Klemens Eriksson

“…Under increasing pressure from human activities, the coverage of subtidal reefs has decreased along the world's coasts. …”
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An Overview of Extensive Analysis of 3D Printing Applications in the Manufacturing Sector by M. Jayakrishna, M. Vijay, Baseem Khan

“…The advantages of 3D printing for industrial applications include little material waste, simple production, minimal human participation, minimal postprocessing, and energy efficiency. …”
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Willingness to take action toward climate change in Agriculture Experts in Khuzestan Province. by Masoud Yazdanpanah, Tahereh Zobeidi, Hajar Zaery

“…Greenhouse emissions from agricultural as a consequence of human activities are causing climate change. Small changes in agricultural practices have a large potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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Social context affects sequence modification learning in birdsong by Lioba Fortkord, Lena Veit

“…Social interactions are crucial for imitative vocal learning such as human speech learning or song learning in songbirds. …”
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ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE OF WORLDVIEW STRUCTURE by Олег ПОГОРЄЛОВ, Мирослава КАРПЕНКО

“… Three basic elements of worldview are revealed – «I», Nature, Absolute, which form the sphere of human spiritual culture. Man is physically a part of nature, but through consciousness he is internally separated from it. …”
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THE ROLE OF PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN DEVELOPING CATASTROPHE INSURANCE MARKET by Darko Blazhevski

“… Natural and man made disasters cause severe human, physical and economic damage, both for the economy and for the population. …”
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