Shear Performance of Vertical Joints in Wind Turbine Concrete Towers with Different Interface Processes by Yang Zhou, Ertong Hao, Yudong Ran, Hai Cao, Yane Li, Jike Tan

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Characteristics of traditional Chinese acidic rice soup (rice-acid) prepared with different fermentation methods by Na Liu, Likang Qin, Jihong Pan, Song Miao

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Display song of parti-coloured bat Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus, 1758 (Chiroptera, Mammalia) in southern Slovenia and preliminary study of its variability by Maja Zagmajster

“…Bats emitted the song at four localities near Goteniška gora Mountain in southern Slovenia while flying above the canopy or above open land surrounded by forests. …”
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L’articulation entre propriété et usage des terres agricoles : application au cas de Pise (Toscane) by Alain Gueringer

“…The research identifies specific land structures between the plain of Pisa and the mountain next to, the “Monte Pisano”. Beyond different issues for agriculture, both areas face important issues related to natural risks. …”
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Entre air et terre : les éléments dans Aurora Leigh d’Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Marianne Camus

“…She multiplies the associations with air : angels and squirrels, wind and mountains, to cite only a few. She then examines and redefines the relationships between these two elements in life and in poetry and finally reaches a mystical union anchored in the body.…”
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Figuig et sa région dans l’imaginaire des militaires français au milieu du xixe siècle by Youness Khalloufi, Agnès Charpentier

“…In 1845, the treaty of Lalla Maghnia detached Figuig from the Ksour Mountain Range to which the oasis had been connected. …”
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Généralisation de l’éducation au développement durable et territorialisation des établissements scolaires by Stéphane Bonnet, Angela Barthes

“…After defining and criterifying the generalization of ESD and the territorialization of second degree institutions, we study fourteen them spread over three departments in the mountain countryside of southern France. The method consists of the analysis of school projects by extracting lexical occurrences relating to sustainable development policy and territorialization, coupled with interviews with school heads. …”
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Application of Induced Polarization and Resistivity to the Determination of the Location of Metalliferous Veins in the Taroucht and Tabesbaste Areas (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco) by Ibrahim Dakir, Ahmed Benamara, Habiba Aassoumi, Abdessalam Ouallali, Youssef Ait Bahammou

“…The study area is located in the extreme southwest of the Ougnat Mountains in the eastern Anti-Atlas, which is part of the distorted northern margin of the West African craton. …”
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Antipoisoning activities in Bulgaria to enforce raptors conservation in the country by Dobromir D. Dobrev, Nikolai G. Terziev, Vladimir D. Dobrev, Volen S. Arkumarev, Anton Stamenov

“…The dog unit operated more than 4 years (October 2016 – December 2020) in the frame of the Conservation of Black and Griffon Vultures in the cross border Rhodope Mountains (LIFE 14 NAT/NL/901) project. During that time 153 searches and patrols were conducted. …”
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Climate Change and Vulnerability in Local Areas: Attitudes to Evolving Risks and Adaptation in Two Pyrenean Valleys by Christine Bouisset, Sylvie Clarimont, Isabelle Degrémont

“…Drawing on our findings in the Western Pyrenees, this article aims to bring a better understanding of attitudes among local players, mainly elected representatives but also residents, to change - especially climate change - and how these changes are likely to affect the vulnerability to risks of mountain areas in the shorter or longer term. Vulnerability depends not only on the nature, scale and intensity of the changes to which a territorial system is exposed, but also on its sensitivity and capacity for adaptation (IPCC, 2001 and 2014). …”
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Un cercueil dans la cour : des funérailles évangéliques dans une famille transnationale haïtienne by Nadège Mézié

“…This article offers a detailed case study of an evangelical funeral in the mountains of southwestern Haiti, in a family with many members of the diaspora. …”
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Évolution d’un commun d’altitude : entre matérialité et immatérialité by Isabelle Bagdassarian, Adrien Peneranda, Catherine Baron

“…However, collective management organizations remain and face new valuation issues.Taking into account the material and intangible dimensions of an immaterial common linked with the undivided lands of the Basque mountain of Soule (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), helps to widen its evolution understanding.Indeed, the interweaving of owner communities, the imaginary representation of the territory and the immaterial resource appropriation could make it more difficult to set up self-organization principles and priority customary uses necessary to the common sustainability.…”
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About the population of the Golden Eagle in the Eastern part of the Kyrgyz Range, Northern Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan by Anatoly N. Ostashchenko, Andrey Yu. Zakharov

“…The material for this paper is based on occasional observations of the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) over a 30-year period and on breeding data collected from March 21 to April 14, and from May 21 to June 14, 2019, in the foothills and middle mountains of the northern macro slope of the Kyrgyz Range, from the Boom Valley in the east to the Kara-Balta area in the west. …”
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Changements climatiques et vulnérabilité des territoires : regards de montagnards sur l’évolution des risques et l’adaptation dans deux vallées pyrénéennes by Christine Bouisset, Sylvie Clarimont, Isabelle Degrémont

“…Drawing on our findings in the Western Pyrenees, this article aims to bring a better understanding of attitudes among local players, mainly elected representatives but also residents, to change - especially climate change - and how these changes are likely to affect the vulnerability to risks of mountain areas in the shorter or longer term. Vulnerability depends not only on the nature, scale and intensity of the changes to which a territorial system is exposed, but also on its sensitivity and capacity for adaptation (IPCC, 2001 and 2014). …”
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The first DNA-supported record of Platicrista angustata (Eutardigrada, Hypsibiidae) from Germany and reply to Scheirer et al. (2024) by Piotr Gąsiorek

“…Herein, I present first DNA-backed, reliable record of a rare species Platicrista angustata from the German Taunus mountains. I also indicate that statements of Scheirer et al. (2024) are completely unfounded and result from the general lack of understanding what Gąsiorek et al. (2024a) wrote. …”
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Tourism, gender and development. An ethnic case in Morocco by BERLANGA ADELL, María Jesús

“…This article is based on the author’s Ph.D. research on the relationship between tourism and the development it generates in the Berber ethnic group in Aït Haddidou (living in High Atlas mountains of Morocco). This patriarchal and cattle-raising society went through a wide process of transformation in the 1980s, evolving from a subsistence economy to a precarious market economy. …”
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L’eau de Chartreuse, miroir réfléchissant du renouvellement des dialectiques territoriales entre villes et montagne by Bérangère Serroi, François Besancenot, Philippe Brégard, Gérard Hanus, Fabien Hobléa

“…These new challenges imposed on water resources raise questions about the relationships between urban and mountain areas, typically considered through the centre/periphery paradigm. …”
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Troops and military tribunals of NKVD in battle for the Caucasus (August– November 1942) by A. E. Shagov, O. V. Grigoriev

“…Particular attention is paid to the creation and heroic defense by the troops of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (hereinafter referred to as the NKVD) of the Vladikavkaz, Grozny, Makhachkala, Nalchik fortified areas, passes and mountain passages of the Main Caucasus Range (hereinafter referred to as the GKH) in August-November 1942. …”
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Failure of a Solar Filament Eruption Caused by Magnetic Reconnection with Overlying Coronal Loops by Leping Li, Hongqiang Song, Yijun Hou, Guiping Zhou, Baolin Tan, Kaifan Ji, Yongyuan Xiang, Zhenyong Hou, Yang Guo, Ye Qiu, Yingna Su, Haisheng Ji, Qingmin Zhang, Yudi Ou

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Seasonality of host-seeking Ixodes ricinus nymph abundance in relation to climate by Hoch, Thierry, Madouasse, Aurélien, Jacquot, Maude, Wongnak, Phrutsamon, Beugnet, Fréderic, Bournez, Laure, Cosson, Jean-François, Huard, Frédéric, Moutailler, Sara, Plantard, Olivier, Poux, Valérie, René-Martellet, Magalie, Vayssier-Taussat, Muriel, Verheyden, Hélène, Vourc’h, Gwenaël, Chalvet-Monfray, Karine, Agoulon, Albert

“…The peak occurred in summer for the mountainous site, with an absence of ticks in winter. …”
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