Using DNA metabarcoding and direct behavioural observations to identify the diet of proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) in the Kinabatangan Floodplain, Sabah. by Valentine Thiry, Arthur F Boom, Danica J Stark, Olivier J Hardy, Roseline C Beudels-Jamar, Regine Vercauteren Drubbel, Sylvia Alsisto, Martine Vercauteren, Benoit Goossens

“…We focused our study on the proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), an endangered primate species which is endemic to the island of Borneo. Our survey was conducted in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary (LKWS), a riverine protected area that is surrounded by oil palm plantations. …”
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Impacts of GIC on the New Zealand Gas Pipeline Network by M. Ingham, T. Divett, C. J. Rodger, M. Sigley

“…In this study we look at CP monitoring data from a number of sites on the gas pipeline network in the North Island of New Zealand. We focus on variations during geomagnetic storms in three aspects of the CP system: (a) the output voltage of the constant current rectifiers, (b) the potential between the pipe and a Cu/CuSO4 reference cell, and (c) the potential between an installed metal coupon and the reference cell. …”
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Conductive filament formation in the failure of Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 ferroelectric capacitors by Matthew Webb, Tony Chiang, Megan K. Lenox, Jordan Gray, Tao Ma, Jon F. Ihlefeld, John T. Heron

“…Conductive atomic force microscopy measurements and field distribution simulations suggest a local failure mechanism consistent with filament formation along the boundary of the island capacitor due to an enhanced electric field.…”
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Potential of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Antagonist Compounds as Therapeutic Agents for a Wide Range of Cancer Types by Jack D. Burton, David M. Goldenberg, Rosalyn D. Blumenthal

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Graph convolutional network as a fast statistical emulator for numerical ice sheet modeling by Younghyun Koo, Maryam Rahnemoonfar

“…When applied to transient simulations of the Pine Island Glacier (PIG), Antarctica, the GCN successfully reproduces ice thickness and velocity with a correlation coefficient of approximately 0.997, outperforming non-graph models, including fully convolutional network (FCN) and multi-layer perceptron (MLP). …”
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Fossil fish assemblage of the Laguna Formation, Philippines: unveiling the uniqueness of Pleistocene freshwater ecosystems in Southeast Asia by Tomáš Přikryl, Abigael Castro, Allan Gil Fernando, Jaan Ruy Conrad Nogot, Clarence Magtoto, Kevin Garas, Dominique Mediodia, Chien-Hsiang Lin

“…Abstract This study offers a comprehensive analysis and detailed description of the fossil fish assemblage from the Pleistocene Laguna Formation in Luzon Island, Philippines. The fish fossils were collected from the deeper lacustrine facies of the formation, and a total of three fish families were identified. …”
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Recent progress in tsunami deposit investigations in Taiwan by Neng-Ti Yu, Jiun-Yee Yen, Shyh-Jeng Chyi, Cheng-Hao Lu, Nobuhisa Matta Matsuta, I-Chin Yen

“…Major developments and results of the investigation include the onset of the first stage before 2010, with findings in Keelung, the eastern coast, and Lanyu Island, and the second/ongoing stage after 2013, with findings in the northern and eastern coasts and Penghu Islands. …”
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Allergic Contact Dermatitis Reaction to Permanent Tattoo Containing Paraphenylenediamine: A Case Report by Eliot Parascandolo, Samuel Puglisi, Miguel Marenco, Gregory Puglisi

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Development of the Si PaPa Gasi Module (First Aid for Preeclampsia/Eclampsia) with a Family Approach in the Archipelago Region by Haryadi Haryadi, Fidyah Aminin, Ayi Diah Damayani, Rawdatul Jannah

“…Maternal deaths in the Riau Islands Province in 2020 are still dominated by direct causes, namely hypertension in pregnancy (around 39%), known as preeclampsia and eclampsia. …”
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A evolução das ilhas de calor noturnas em Três Lagoas/MS no período de fevereiro a junho de 2019 by Juliana Carla Pereira de Freitas, Gislene Figueiredo Ortiz Porangaba, Mauro Henrique Soares da Silva

“…The results show that during the analyzed period, the formation of nocturnal heat islands was observed in all months, being up to 10.7ºC in February, 5.8ºC in March, 6.2ºC in April, 7.1ºC in May and 7.7ºC in June. …”
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Engineering Characteristics and Reinforcement Approaches of Organic Sandy Soil by Jun Hu, Liang Jia, Wei Wang, Hong Wei, Juan Du

“…Organic sandy soil is widely distributed throughout Hainan Island. This study aimed at addressing the distribution, composition, and formation of organic sandy soil. …”
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Masculinité et relations de genre dans la société secrète abakuá by Géraldine Morel

“…Emerging in 1836 in the port of Regla across from Old Havana, the male secret society abakuá is an urban religious phenomenon strictly confined to the western part of the island of Cuba, namely the port cities of Matanzas, Cárdenas and Havana. …”
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IN THIS ISSUE: Indigenous knowledge at the food systems forefront by Duncan Hilchey

“…PKO was a small group of Native Hawaiian activists who organized to stop the bombing of a sacred island that the U.S. Navy had used for target practice since World War II. …”
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Physicochemical Parameters and Bioactive Compounds of Strawberry Tree (Arbutus unedo L.) Honey by Pablo A. Ulloa, Miguel Maia, Amadeu F. Brigas

“…Significant differences (P<0.05) in results of ash content, EC, HMF, OP and colour when were compared with analogous famous Italian honey (Sardinia island). For BC, total phenolic and total flavonoid content were 94.47 mg gallic acid/100 g and 5.33 mg quercetin/100 g, respectively. …”
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Electrical conductivity in the mantle transition zone beneath eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt revealed by geomagnetic signals by Yanhui Zhang, Yujia Hu, Mina Ma, Yuyan Zhang

“…Combined with the geological background of the structural domain, and constrained by the spatiotemporal variations in magmatism, we speculate that the high conductivity anomaly bodies are the stagnant oceanic crust material of the Okhotsk Ocean or the delaminated island arc accretionary wedge. The sinking slab or the detached lithosphere residual descending into the lower MTZ causes the upwelling of hot mantle material, forming widely distributed volcanic rocks on both sides of the Mongol-Okhotsk suture.…”
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On the Geological and Palaeontological Heritage of the Azores Archipelago and the Urgent need to Review the Geosites of the Azores UNESCO Geopark: A Comment on Lima & Meneses (2023... by Sérgio P. Ávila, Ana Hipólito, Patrícia Madeira, Lara Baptista, Samuel Arruda, Gonçalo Castela Ávila, Carlos Góis-Marques, Rui Quartau

“…In a recent review article, Lima & Meneses (2023, Geoconservation Research, 6 (1): 114–127) reported on the Azores Geopark, introducing a new geosite for São Miguel Island. We here express our concerns regarding the data presented in this review article. …”
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Prevalence study of Echinococcus granulosus in guanaco (Lama guanicoe) from the Chilean Patagonia unexpectedly reveals the southernmost limit of Taenia omissa by Cristian A. Alvarez Rojas, Juan Francisco Alvarez, Juliana Iglesias, Anson V. Koehler, Cristian Bonacic

“…Conversely, all metacestodes found in guanacos collected from Tierra del Fuego Island, where no pumas exist, were identified solely as Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto. …”
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POST-RELIGION: TRADITIONALISTS’ ANALYSIS by Kirill M. Tovbin

“…Post-religion’s splitting is deprivation of spirituality center, destruction of sacral Center and the transformation of spirituality in the plane on which the intellectual and sensual wandering post-believer from one semiotic island to another. Virtualization is a displacement field of spiritual tension in a completely virtual area, isolated from the natural conditions of existence and created as his replacement, network discussion sites and galleries. …”
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Explanatory Factors of the Expansion of Recreation Function on the Bank of Danube River in Budapest by Pál Szabó, Zoltán Mihályi, Tamás Szomorjai, Emese Tóth

“…Two case studies are in the paper also: the Margaret Island as the oldest traditional recreational area in Budapest, and the Kopaszi-dam, as the newest and successful recreational area of Budapest. …”
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Refusing the Referendum: Queer Latino Masculinities and Utopian Citizenship in Justin Torres’ We the Animals by Marion Christina Rohrleitner

“…Justin Torres’s 2011 debut novel We the Animals performs Puerto Rican queer masculinity at the precise moment when the first formal challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), as expressed by then Attorney General Eric Holder, intersect with growing and increasingly aggressive hostility towards Latinx in the United States regardless of their legal status, and when Puerto Ricans on the island continue to be second class citizens ineligible, for example, to participate in presidential elections. …”
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