Assessment of Radionuclide Concentration in Surface Soil and Human Health Risk Associated with Exposure in Two Higher Institutions of Esan land, Edo State, Nigeria by F.A. Popoola, O.D. Fakeye, Q.B. Basiru, D.A. Adesina, M.A. Sulola

“…The measured mean activity concentration of radionuclides for 40K, 238U and 232Th from the examined topsoil of Samuel Adegboyega University were 57.80 ± 1.7 BqKg-1; 2.07 ± 0.09 BqKg-1 and 6.89 ± 0.34 BqKg-1 respectively. At the neighbouring higher institution; College of Education, Igueben, the mean activity concentration of 40K, 238U and 232Th in its surface soil were 30.19 ± 1.22 BqKg-1, 1.41 ± 0.07 BqKg-1 and 4.85 ± 0.28 BqKg-1 respectively. …”
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Spatial-temporal characteristics and influence factors of high-quality development of animal husbandry industry in China. by Tiantian Su, Cuixia Li

“…The level of high-quality development in a given region is significantly influenced by the development levels observed in neighbouring regions, illustrating a phenomenon akin to the adage that One who is near vermilion is stained red, one who is near ink is stained black. …”
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The Primate Habituation Programme, Dzanga Sangha Protected Areas, Central African Republic: An overview by Terence Fuh Neba, Anna Feistner, Angelique Todd

“…In 2012, DNNP, and its neighbouring NPs, were designated a World Heritage Site, the Sangha Tri-National complex (TNS) – classified as an exceptional priority area for western lowland gorilla and central chimpanzee (Pan t. troglodytes) conservation in the IUCN Regional Action Plan. …”
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TB among refugees from Ukraine in European countries by G. de Vries, J.P. Guthmann, B. Häcker, B. Hauer, K. Nordstrand, A. Nowinski, H. Soini

“…BACKGROUND: Since the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine, millions of refugees have moved to neighbouring European countries. We assessed the burden of TB in these refugees and surveyed screening approaches. …”
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A Cloud-Based Optimized Ensemble Model for Risk Prediction of Diabetic Progression—An Azure Machine Learning Perspective by V. K. Daliya, T. K. Ramesh

“…This study introduces an optimized Light Gradient-Boosting Machine (Light GBM) and K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN) based ensemble algorithm for predicting diabetic progression of Type 2 Diabetes, classifying it as high or low risk, using patient health parameters and serum measurements. …”
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Towards a Noninvasive Intracranial Tumor Irradiation Using 3D Optical Imaging and Multimodal Data Registration by R. Posada, Ch. Daul, D. Wolf, P. Aletti

“…In fractioned radiotherapy (FRT), lesions are irradiated in several sessions so that healthy neighbouring tissues are better preserved than when treatment is carried out in one fraction. …”
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The well-being of Polish general practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic-cross-sectional questionnaire-based study by Katarzyna Nessler, Krzysztof Studziński, Esther Van Poel, Sara Willems, Ewa Wójtowicz, Elżbieta Kryj – Radziszewska, Adam Windak

“…The experience of collaboration with neighbouring practices and the provision of adequate governmental support emerged as significant protective factors against distress. …”
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Assessing the Logistics Efficiency of Baltic Region Seaports Through DEA-BCC and Spatial Analysis by Vilma Locaitienė, Kristina Čižiūnienė

“…The model developed by the authors integrates the nearest neighbour method for cluster identification, data envelopment analysis using the Banker, Charnes, and Cooper (DEA-BCC) model to assess the overall technical, pure technical, and scale logistics efficiency, and spatial autocorrelation analysis to explore spatial interactions. …”
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Radioisotope and Metal Concentrations in Borehole Water Samples of Umuahia and Umudike, Nigeria by J.C. Nnaji, O.U. Igwe, K.M. Onyedim, P. Okafor

“…  The study examined metal and radioisotope concentrations in boreholes water samples collected from the neighbouring towns of in Umuahia and Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria. …”
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« Une femme en Côte d’Ivoire, une femme au Burkina Faso » by François Ruf

“…Côte d’Ivoire, with its diversity of forest and savannah regions, and its neighbour to the north, Burkina Faso, are historically linked to the creation and growth of the Ivorian village plantation economy based on the ‘coffee-cocoa’ pairing. …”
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East Antarctic Ice Sheet variability in the central Transantarctic Mountains since the mid Miocene by G. R. M. Bromley, G. R. M. Bromley, G. Balco, G. Balco, M. S. Jackson, A. Balter-Kennedy, A. Balter-Kennedy, H. Thomas

“…In contrast, an apparent hiatus in moraine deposition both at Otway Massif and the neighbouring Roberts Massif suggests that the ice sheet surface in the central TAM was potentially lower than present during the late Miocene and earliest Pliocene.…”
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Genome wide identification of MATE and ALMT gene family in lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) and expression profiling under Al stress condition by Ankita Tripathi, Dharmendra Singh, Jyotika Bhati, Deepti Singh, Jyoti Taunk, Jawaher Alkahtani, Abdulrahman Al-Hashimi, Madan Pal Singh

“…Predicted 3D (three-dimensional) structure and molecular docking revealed that 5 LcMATE proteins could bind citrate and contain amino acids related to its secretion via citrate exuding motif and other neighbouring sites. Expression analyses of LcMATE and LcALMT genes were performed using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). …”
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Visit of the Soviet Union journalists' delegation to Finland and the Baltic countries in 1937: the report of the leader of the delegation, Boris Michailov, to Stalin and Molotov by Zenonas Butkus, Magnus llmjärv

“…An attempt was made to show that the ongoing repressions did not hinder its active foreign policy, and did not prevent it from having close relations with the neighbouring countries. This visit, to a certain extent, could also have been a demonstration against Germany - an attempt was made to make it understand that the Soviets were influential in the Baltic region, and therefore, the expansionary politics had to be done in coordination with them. …”
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Genesis of feudalism in Western Europe and its influence to the globai process of history: The conceptions of L. Vasilyev and E. Gudavičius by Nerijus Babinskas

“…In the early Middle Ages, a necessary condition of the feudalisation of the periphery of Western Europe was the influence of the neighbouring (already feudal) countries. Otherwise, the social structure of peripheral societies would have been developing like in the Orient.   …”
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Revisiting ‘revisiting supervised methods for effort‐aware cross‐project defect prediction’ by Fuyang Li, Peixin Yang, Jacky Wai Keung, Wenhua Hu, Haoyu Luo, Xiao Yu

“…The results show that (1) The classification before sorting (CBS+) defect density calculation strategy achieves the best overall performance. (2) Using balanced distribution adaption (BDA) and joint distribution adaptation (JDA) with the K‐nearest neighbour classifier to build the EACPDP model can find 15% and 14.3% more defective modules and 11.6% and 8.9% more defects while achieving the acceptable initial false alarms (IFA). (3) Better comprehensive classification performance of the methods can bring better EACPDP performance to some extent. (4) A flexible adjustment of the defect threshold λ of the CBS+ strategy contribute to different goals. …”
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DATA MINING ALGORITHMS FOR PREDICTION OF STUDENT TEACHERS’ PERFORMANCE IN ICT: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW by Juma Habibu Shindo, Mohamedi Mohamedi Mjahidi, Mohamed Dewa Waziri

“…They are Naive Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbour, Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, and Decision Tree. …”
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Annotated review of the mammal fauna in the Chornobyl Biosphere Reserve as of 2023 by Sergii Gashchak

“…Nine species are considered to be phantom species, meaning that they are known from neighbouring areas but have not been found in the Reserve. …”
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Extensive vegetation management and semi-natural habitats increase plant alpha and gamma diversity in European vineyards by Silvia Winter, Ricarda Weitzl, Stefan Möth, Božana Petrović, Violette Aurelle, Pauline Tolle, Thomas Costes, Sylvie Richart-Cervera, Adrien Rusch

“…We established four plots within one inter-row and three transects in two neighbouring inter-rows and one undervine row in each of 70 paired vineyards (organic versus conventional farming) along a gradient of proportion of semi-natural habitats in the landscape. …”
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Biofilm characterisation of Mycoplasma bovis co-cultured with Trueperella pyogenes by Koji Nishi, Satoshi Gondaira, Yuki Hirano, Masahide Ohashi, Ayano Sato, Kazuya Matsuda, Tomohito Iwasaki, Takuya Kanda, Ryoko Uemura, Hidetoshi Higuchi

“…M. bovis released an extracellular matrix to connect with neighbouring bacteria and form a mature biofilm on the plate. …”
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Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato antibodies in English adult blood donors: A nationwide cross-sectional study, 2021–2022 by Eilish Hart, John Tulloch, Daniel Bailey, Tim Brooks, Heli Harvala, Peter Simmonds, Roberto Vivancos, Neil French, Amanda Semper

“…This is lower than neighbouring UK nation Scotland and other northern European countries.…”
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