Analysis of Climate Change Effects on Precipitation and Temperature Trends in Spain by Blanca Arellano, Qianhui Zheng, Josep Roca

“…The main objectives were as follows: (1) to analyze the temporal evolution of temperature from 1971 to the present, to quantify the warming process experienced in the case study and to evaluate the increase in extreme heat events (heatwaves); (2) to study the evolution of the precipitation regime to determine whether there is a statistically representative trend towards a drier climate and an increase in extreme precipitation; (3) to investigate the interaction between annual precipitation and the continuous increase in temperature; and (4) to estimate the future climate scenario for mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands towards 2050, analyzing the trends in land aridity and predicting a possible change from a Mediterranean climate to a warm steppe climate, according to the Köppen classification. …”
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Dynamic Dual-Level Overcurrent Protection Scheme for Distributed Energy Resource Networks Using Digital Twins Technology by Feras Alasali, Naser El-Naily, Haytham Y. Mustafa, Hassen Loukil, Saad M. Saad, Abdelaziz Salah Saidi, William Holderbaum

“…Additionally, the research thoroughly examines protection strategies for both grid-connected and islanded modes, ensuring reliable operation during faults or grid failures. …”
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Key Drivers of Consumption, Conceptual, Sensory, and Emotional Profiling of Cheeses Based on Origin and Consumer Familiarity: A Case Study of Local and Imported Cheeses in Greece by Malamatenia Panagiotou, Efstathios Kaloudis, Danai Ioanna Koukoumaki, Vasiliki Bountziouka, Evangelia Giannakou, Margarita Pandi, Konstantinos Gkatzionis

“…The present study aims at identifying consumers’ conceptualizations and attitudes towards local Greek cheeses of the North-Aegean Sea islands, such as Ladotyri, Graviera, Kasseri, Kaskavali, Melichloro, and Kalathaki, some of which have a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status, as opposed to cheeses of non-Greek origin, such as Cheddar, Regatto, and Gouda. …”
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Ten-year (2009–2019) epidemiological study of head and neck, salivary glands and upper aerodigestive tract cancers, and overall survival outcomes in the Northern Territory of Austr... by Hemi Patel, Nayellin Reyes-Chicuellar, Kate Thimbleby, Bhavya Balasubramanya, Suresh Mahendran

“…Ethically approved, the study assessed incidence, mortality, risk factors and survival across ethnic populations.Results Of 612 potential cases, 524 were analysed, with 35.5% identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders. Predominantly affecting males (median age: 62 years), HNACs showed an age-standardised incidence of 21.9 per 100 000, with stable trends. …”
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Emerging Risk to Dengue in Asian Metropolitan Areas Under Global Warming by Cheng Jing, Guojie Wang, Kristie L. Ebi, Buda Su, Xiaoming Wang, Dong Chen, Tong Jiang, Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz

“…With global warming, the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, the coast of the Arabian Sea in southern Iran, southern Pakistan in West Asia, the Korean Peninsula, most of the Japanese islands, and parts of North China in East Asia are projected to become suitable for dengue transmission. …”
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Integrating phylogeographic and phenotypic evidence to delimit deep evolutionary lineages in the Dryophytes japonicus species complex, with an assessment of their conservation need... by Amaël Borzée, Yikweon Jang, Siti N. Othman, Jordy Groffen, Irina V. Maslova, Zoljargal Purevdorj, Kiyomi Yasumiba, Tomohiko Shimada, Yoonjung Yi, Natalya Alekseevna Schepina, Desiree Andersen, Yoonhyuk Bae, Ikuo Miura, Christophe Dufresnes

“…Analyses of four mtDNA genes and 42.8 kb nuclear loci obtained by RAD-sequencing (RAD-seq) confirmed two distinct species-level clades that diverged ~6 Mya, one provisionally assigned to D. japonicus in southern Japan and mainland Asia and the other unnamed (D. cf. japonicus) in northern Japan and adjacent Russian islands. According to the mitochondrial data, each species is further divided into two subclades of Pleistocene age that display differences in morphological and call properties that may represent candidate subspecies: D. j. japonicus in southwestern Japan and D. j. stepheni on the Asian mainland and two unnamed lineages in Central and Northern Japan for D. cf. japonicus. …”
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Multi-Criteria Assessment of Urban Thermal Hotspots: A GIS-Based Remote Sensing Approach in a Mediterranean Climate City by Javier Sola-Caraballo, Antonio Serrano-Jiménez, Carlos Rivera-Gomez, Carmen Galan-Marin

“…Several methods have been developed to characterize urban heat islands (UHIs); however, the most widely used involve complex planning, huge time consumption, and substantial human and technical resources on field monitoring campaigns. …”
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Seasonal activities, morphological characteristics, and veterinary importance of Haemaphysalis mageshimaensis in Ishigaki and Yonaguni, Okinawa, Japan by Satoko Nakao, Thillaiampalam Sivakumar, Yuko Takakuwa, Hajime Suzuki, Keiichiro Ohta, Keiko Nakamura, Osamu Tsuha, Yuzuru Ikehara, Sanae Ikehara, Syota Ohki, Mizue Inumaru, Yukiko Higa, Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji, Naoaki Yokoyama

“…We surveyed questing ticks in pastures on Ishigaki and Yonaguni islands of Yaeyama, from September 2022 to May 2024. …”
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Social Support Groups in the Maintenance of Glycemic Control after Community-Based Intervention by Claire Townsend Ing, Guangxing Zhang, Adrienne Dillard, Sheryl R. Yoshimura, Claire Hughes, Donna-Marie Palakiko, Bridget Puni Kehauoha, Ka‘imi A. Sinclair, Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula

“…Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders (NH/PI; e.g., Samoan and Chuukese) have higher type 2 diabetes prevalence compared to other groups in Hawai‘i. …”
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X-Ray/Radio Quasiperiodic Pulsations Associated with Plasmoids in Solar Flare Current Sheets by Pankaj Kumar, Judith T. Karpen, Joel T. Dahlin

“…Plasmoids (or magnetic islands) are believed to play an important role in the onset of fast magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration during solar flares and eruptions. …”
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Holarctic phylogeographic structure of Eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope) by I. V. Kulikova, Y. N. Zhuravlev, I. G. Korobitsyn, G. A. Nemkova, K. G. McCracken, J. L. Peters

“…The former included wigeons from Europe, Siberia and the Atlantic coast of North America, and the latter comprised ducks from Russian Far East, Kamchatka Peninsula, Chukotka Autonomous District, the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, and the Pacific coast of North America.…”
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Regeneration of Rabbit Auricular Cartilage After the Intravenous Stem Cell Injection by Pavlo Virych, Nadiia Shuvalova, Anton Karas, Galina Karas, Svitlana Chaika, Tetiana Kucherenko, Ganna Minina, Marina Timchenko, Oleg Melnykov, Yurii Minin

“…Yret, an increase of the number of fibroblasts and single islands of the newly formed auricular cartilage was found, which indicates the migration of the injected stem cells to the site of the damage and settling there. …”
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Complementary Non‐invasive Fish Monitoring Distinguishes Depth‐Dependent Fish Communities by Ewan Burns, Vijini Mallawaarachchi, Thomas M. Clarke, Belinda Martin, Joseph D. DiBattista, Jamie Hicks, Danny Brock, Elizabeth A. Dinsdale, Charlie Huveneers, Michael P. Doane

“…We used baited remote underwater video systems (BRUVS) and environmental DNA (eDNA) survey methods to assess fish communities across four offshore islands and seamount groups in Australia's eastern Great Australian Bight (GAB). …”
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Promoting Computational Access to Digital Collections in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: An Icelandic Use Case by Gustavo Candela, Olga Holownia, Max Odsbjerg, Mirjam Cuper, Nele Gabriëls, Katrine Hofmann, Edward J. Gray, Sally Chambers, Mahendra Mahey

“…The framework was applied to a relevant dataset derived from Timarit.is, a digitised collection of newspapers and periodicals from Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. We identified common features and best practices and we provide a detailed analysis that can be useful for organisations interested in publishing reproducible code combined with documentation such as Jupyter Notebooks. …”
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Forecasting Range Shifts in Terrestrial Alpine Insects Under Global Warming by Fabio Leonardo Meza‐Joya, Mary Morgan‐Richards, Steven A. Trewick

“…Upslope shifts are often accompanied by range contractions that are expected to diminish species genetic variation and adaptive potential, increasing extinction risk. Endemic species on islands are predicted to be especially vulnerable. …”
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International Dimension in Colonization of the North-West of America and California at the End of the 17-18 ^th Centuries by A. Y. Petrov, V. N. Kostornichenko, M. M. Koskina

“…For the first time in Russian historiography the authors touch upon the exploration of California in the 18th century.The exploration of the North Pacific Ocean, the northwestern American coast, including certain areas of California, Alaska and the Aleutian Islands has long attracted the attention of European powers. …”
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Evaluation of In-House ELISA for Antirabies Antibodies Detection in Domestic Canine by Yul Fitria, Niko Febrianto, Rahmi E. Putri, Ibenu Rahmadani, Didik T. Subekti

“…Indonesia is known to be endemic for rabies in several areas, especially in Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Flores Islands. Currently, vaccinating dogs has been shown to be the most cost-effective strategy for preventing rabies in humans. …”
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Assessing the Complexity of Intelligent Parks’ Internet of Things Big Data System by Jialu Liu, Renzhong Guo, Zhiming Cai, Wenjian Liu, Wencai Du

“…The complexity of the Internet of Things (IoT) big data system of intelligent parks is analyzed to unify the information transmission of various industries, such as smart transportation, smart library, and smart medicine, thereby diminishing information islands. The traditional IoT systems are analyzed; on this basis, a relay node is added to the transmission path of the data information, and an intelligent park IoT big data system is constructed based on relay cooperation with a total of three hops. …”
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Development, validation, and usage of metrics to evaluate the quality of clinical research hypotheses by Xia Jing, Yuchun Zhou, James J. Cimino, Jay H. Shubrook, Vimla L. Patel, Sonsoles De Lacalle, Aneesa Weaver, Chang Liu

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Short distances dominate connectivity patterns of coral communities in the North-West Arabian Sea by Michel R. Claereboudt, Gerd Bruss

“…Some reefs (Daymaniyat Islands in the Gulf of Oman and Mirbat in the Arabian Sea) could be considered sources of larvae, as they proportionally produced more larvae that later settled successfully than the other reefs. …”
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