Scenario-Based Risk Assessment for Düzce Province by Zeynep Mıhçı, Hüseyin Bayraktar

“…The main components featured in this study are 10 urban neighborhoods of Düzce that are all comprised of structural and natural environments located in the vicinity of the North Anatolian Fault Line. …”
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Where be dragons? by Miguel Andrade

“…The habitat of dragons encompasses a variety of natural environments throughout Old Norse-Icelandic literature. …”
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Survey of optical-based physical domain adversarial attacks and defense by CHEN Jinyin, ZHAO Xiaoming, ZHENG Haibin, GUO Haifeng

“…Optical-based physical-domain adversarial attack techniques, such as those using projected irradiation as a typical example, are more likely to be overlooked and provided negligible protection due to their perturbations being very similar to effects produced by natural environments in the real world. Given their high degree of invisibility and executability, they could pose a significant or even fatal threat to real systems. …”
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Effectivité juridique des instruments de protection des espaces naturels appliquée aux projets routiers en France by Fanny Mallard, Denis François

“…Some major changes to natural environments are related to the construction and the use of roads. …”
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Instrumenting Parkrun: Usefulness and Validity of Inertial Sensors by Rachel Mason, Yunus Celik, Gill Barry, Alan Godfrey, Samuel Stuart

“…The analysis of running gait has conventionally taken place within an expensive and restricted laboratory space, with wearable technology offering a practical, cost-effective, and unobtrusive way to examine running gait in more natural environments. This pilot study presents a wearable inertial measurement unit (IMU) setup for the continuous analysis of running gait during an outdoor parkrun (i.e., 5 km). …”
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Impact of water residence time and stratification on water quality improvement of an artificial brackish waterway by Bo-Kyung Kim, Dong Hyeon Kim, Jin Hwan Hwang

“…Study focus: This study investigates how water residence time and stratification affect water quality in an artificial brackish water system, which has different characteristics from natural environments and is under-researched, using numerical simulations. …”
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Virtual reality support during systemic cancer therapy to improve anxiety/depressive symptoms and reduce toxicity in patients with gastrointestinal cancers—OncoVR by S. Kasper, S. Liszio, K. Schorrmann, M. Gerigk, S. Jovic, O. Basu, K. Kostbade, B. Goraus, A. Elsakka, B. Puladi, J. Kleesiek, M. Schuler, G. Luijten, J. Egger

“…We hypothesize that virtual reality (VR) systems which project a relaxing nature environment may help to reduce psychological stress and toxicities of cancer therapies. …”
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Interactive effects of temperature, cadmium, and hypoxia on rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) liver mitochondrial bioenergetics by John O. Onukwufor, Collins Kamunde

“…Fish in their natural environments possess elaborate mechanisms that regulate physiological function to mitigate the adverse effects of multiple environmental stressors such as temperature, metals, and hypoxia. …”
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Comparative Genomics Analysis of Plasmid pPV989-94 from a Clinical Isolate of Pantoea vagans PV989 by Lei Xu, Min Yin, Tingyuan Zhu, Yabo Liu, Yuanyuan Ying, Junwan Lu, Chaoqing Lin, Jianchao Ying, Teng Xu, Liyan Ni, Qiyu Bao, Shunfei Lu

“…Pantoea vagans, a gram-negative bacterium from the genus Pantoea and family Enterobacteriaceae, is present in various natural environments and considered to be plant endophytes. …”
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Relationship with place: a transformative and sustainable pedagogy for the planet by Julie Singleton

“… The central hypothesis of this conceptual commentary is that place-based educational approaches that use local environments as the learning context could not only provide needed educational reforms but also sow the seeds of sustainable behaviors of future generations. Furthermore, natural environments are offered as an optimal context for the emotional and sensory-rich needs of learning experiences that transform eco-paradigms and develop land ethics. …”
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Genome-wide association studies in lettuce reveal the interplay of seed age, color, and germination under high temperatures by Sookyung Oh, Ezekiel Ahn, Ainong Shi, Beiquan Mou, Sunchung Park

“…Abstract Thermoinhibition, the suppression of seed germination by high temperatures, is an adaptive trait that ensures successful seedling establishment in natural environments. While beneficial for wild plants, thermoinhibition can adversely affect crop yields due to uneven and reduced germination rates, particularly in the face of climate change. …”
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La gouvernance des espaces protégés: vers un partage de la nature ? by Céline Chadenas, Vincent Andreu-Boussut, Celine Barthon, Xavier Michel, Arnaud de Lajartre

“…for thirty years and the setting aside of natural environments on the French coasts of the Atlantic, the Channel and the Mediterranean, their opening to the public has led to a development of space, sometimes reducing itself to a few discovery trails, going, for other sites, to participate fully in the tourist dynamic of the contiguous territory. …”
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Ovid Among the Floating Garbage: Derek Mahon on Recycling and Exile by Peter Kelly

“…Mahon is keenly aware of how the postmodern erosion of place and locality through globalization and exponential urbanization has contributed to the destruction of natural environments. Mahon’s growing environmental concerns are interwoven with a persistent interaction with the works of ancient Greek and Roman writers, perhaps most frequently Ovid. …”
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Behaviour of Cadmium(II) Ions on Cation-Exchange Resins by Sevgi Kocaoba

“…This element is found at low concentrations in natural environments, but human activities have led to increased levels in all continents. …”
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Two new species of Plagiostomum (Prolecithophora, Plagiostomidae) from China with its morphology, phylogeny, and reproductive strategy by Leyuan Feng, Shiyan Zhang, Ming Tao, Ting Sun, Antai Wang

“…The reproductive studies indicate that in natural environments or larger mating groups, these two new species tend to invest resources in male reproductive functions to enhance fertilization success, while in smaller or single-individual cultures, they shift resources toward complete female reproductive functions. …”
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Does environmental public policy act as a slowdown for urban expansion? A 2012-2023 analysis with Landsat images by Jorge Alberto Escandón-Calderón, Columba Jazmín López-Gutiérrez, Demian Vázquez-Muñoz, Marco Antonio Gálvez-Lomelín, Marcela Rosas-Chavoya

“…Urban expansion constitutes one of the main activities that modify natural environments worldwide; the most vulnerable areas to these effects are peri-urban areas. …”
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Comparative analysis of hull steel corrosion in tropical marine atmosphere: Correlation between indoor simulations and outdoor exposures by Feng Gao, Caifu Yang, Weiyi Wang, Yajun Pang, Naipeng Zhou, Jian Li, Xiaobing Luo, Feng Chai

“…Corrosion, a complex and gradual process, is best studied by directly exposing the materials to natural environments that closely mirror real-world conditions. …”
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Perceived urban environment elements associated with momentary and long-term well-being: An experience sampling method approach by Yu-Ru Chen, Atsushi Nakagomi, Masamichi Hanazato, Noriyuki Abe, Kazushige Ide, Katsunori Kondo

“…Meanwhile, relaxing/clean (0.56) and natural environments (0.14) were associated with higher MWB. …”
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Non-Stationary Extreme Runoff Prediction Model of Snowmelt Flood in Flood Season Based on VMD-NGO-LSTM and Its Application by ZHOU Xia, ZHOU Feng

“…Due to the influence of natural environments, climate changes, and human activities, the extreme runoff sequence in flood season shows non-stationary and complex characteristics, which brings new challenges to the accurate prediction of extreme runoff of the basin in flood season. …”
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Adaptation features of the invasive species <i>Berberis aquifolium</i> Pursh and <i>Daphne laureola</i> L. in forest communities on the Southern Coast of Crimea by N. A. Bagrikova, Z. D. Bondarenko

“…According to a majority of edaphoclimatic factors, their habitat conditions corresponded to the parameters of the fundamental niches for the studied species, which explains their high degree of adaptation to the natural environments on the Southern Coast of Crimea.…”
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