Spatial-Temporal Evolution Characteristics of NDVI in Middle and Lower Reaches of Lancang River Basin by YUAN Zeshen, CHEN Chenchen, LI Bogen, WANG Yuchun

“…Vegetation coverage plays an important role in soil and water conservation,atmosphere regulation,and maintenance of ecosystem stability,which influences regional hydrological and water-sediment processes and has important implications for hydropower development in the basin.This paper analyzes the spatial and temporal evolution mechanisms of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in the study area from 1998 to 2018 using the Mann-Kendall model coupled with Sen's slope estimator,with the middle and lower reaches of the Lancang River Basin as the study area.The results reveal that ① the annual average NDVI in the study area from 1998 to 2018 is 0.81,and NDVI increases year by year from north to south on the whole;② NDVI in the study area shows an insignificant increasing trend from 1998 to 2018,with a growth rate of 5.8 × 10^-3/a;③ the sudden spatial changes in NDVI all occur in degraded areas.Against the background of increasing global warming and the frequent occurrence of extreme weather in the past two decades,the results of this study provide a scientific basis for future biodiversity conservation and ecological and environmental protection in the Lancang River Basin.…”
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Efficacy of Monoclonal Antibodies Against Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide for Medication Overuse Headache in Migraine Patients: Literature Review by A. Kairytė, P. Lukoševičius, G. Žemgulytė

“…This condition negatively impacts the quality of life of those affected, while also placing a significant socioeconomic burden on the healthcare system. Over the past decade, preventive treatment has become a lot more prominent in the management of MOH in an attempt to reduce the risk of medication overuse. …”
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Anarchy Is What Explains the History of International Relations by William C. Wohlforth

“…The author argues that in order to understand the present dilemmas and challenges of international politics, we need to know the past. Every current major global problem has historical antecedents. …”
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“Nossa energia tem um Norte”: propostas e (des) encontros no planejamento energético na Amazônia Oriental by Andrey Minin Martin

“…Taking as a motto the documentary production of companies involved in this process, such as Eletronorte, Celpa and Eletrobrás, as well as by observing the debates that permeated government media and speeches, the article seeks to bring subsidies to understand how the paths followed by these projects, from the present to the past , are apprehended as dynamic elements of a region, but that historically have not consolidated a real execution focused on the interests and needs of this space.…”
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Summary of Canadian Guidelines for the Initial Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia: An Evidence-Based Update by the Canadian Infectious Disease Society and the Canadian Thor... by Lionel A Mandell, Thomas J Marrie, Ronald F Grossman, Anthony W Chow, Robert H Hyland, Canadian CAP Working Group

“…Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a serious illness with a significant impact on individual patients and society as a whole. Over the past several years, there have been significant advances in the knowledge and understanding of the etiology of the disease, and an appreciation of problems such as mixed infections and increasing antimicrobial resistance. …”
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Facilitate cross-selling of value-added mobile services using data mining by Hamidreza Atefi

“…The data used in this research is information about the past purchases of the customers of HamrahAval Company from the value-added mobile services. …”
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Reforming the Welfare State: Camden 1965-73 by Mark Swenarton

“…The housing projects built by the London Borough of Camden in the years 1965-73 belong arguably to the most substantial investigations into the architecture of social housing undertaken in the past half-century. Under borough architect Sydney Cook, Camden aimed to establish a new kind of housing architecture based, not on the Corbusian tabula rasa, but on a radical reinterpretation of traditional English urbanism. …”
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Ten principles of residential child care by Kiaras Gharabaghi

“…Residential child care has manifested itself in many different ways over the past century. We have accounts of orphanages in Europe, residential schools for aboriginal children in Canada and settlement homes for the children of immigrant families in the United States (Addams, 1910; Korczak, 1925; Chrisjohn & Young, 1997). …”

L’agro-écologie en Montagne limousine : une production alimentaire plus diversifiée et relocalisée, au service de l’emploi et de la préservation des espaces semi-naturels by Nathan Morsel, Nadège Garambois

“…In the 1950s, the Limousin Mountain region was characterized by mixed crop and livestock farming, produced mainly for local consumption. Over the past 70 years, however, this small area of the Massif Central has since specialized in breeding cattle for export, breaking the link between agriculture and the local food system. …”
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A Computational Turn in Policy Process Studies: Coevolving Network Dynamics of Policy Change by Maxime Stauffer, Isaak Mengesha, Konrad Seifert, Igor Krawczuk, Jens Fischer, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo

“…The past three decades of policy process studies have seen the emergence of a clear intellectual lineage with regard to complexity. …”
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Improvement of overall equipment efficiency with root cause analysis and TPM strategy: a case study by Ahsanul Abedin

“…This article provides research and a review of TPM implementation in an RMG Industry to help enhance Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Data from the past have been studied, and the findings obtained in terms of motivated employees, improved OEE, and a decrease in the number of rejects/accidents on the production line are fairly positive. …”
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Stanowisko publicystów „Tygodnika Powszechnego” w Polsce Ludowej wobec powstań narodowych jako element koncepcji neopozytywizmu (do 1976 roku) by Ariel Orzełek

“…An important place in their political thought, formulated in this aspect above all by Stanisław Stomma, Stefan Kisielewski and Antoni Gołubiew, was given to the evaluation of events from the Polish past, especially from the late 18th century to the present times. …”
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Why Bother About Clumsiness? The Implications of Having Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) by Christopher Gillberg, Björn Kadesjö

“…Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a common motor problem affecting—even in rather severe form—several percent of school age children. In the past, DCD has usually been called ‘clumsy child syndrome’ or ‘non-cerebralpalsy motor-perception dysfunction’. …”
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Permanence and changes in pastoral farming in the Southern Alps by Laurent Garde, Marc Dimanche, Jacques Lasseur

“…Nevertheless, the perception of the durability of an activity seen as traditional should not obscure the extent of changes that have had an impact on it in the past. In light of this, there is much to learn from the comparison between the major upheaval that affected pastoral farming at the end of the 19th century, and the current process of change whose outcome is not yet known. …”
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Aestheticising the Post-Industrial Debris : Industrial Ruins in Contemporary British Landscape Photography by Karolina Kolenda

“…Contemporary landscape photography attempts to reinstate the image of Britain’s industrial past into commonly shared imagination, where the conflicted nature of the country’s cultural identity – the clash between the “Northern” and “Southern” metaphors – reveals itself with particular force.…”
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Rescuing the Jews in Lithuania during World War II: Practices of Creating a Lithuanian Museum Narrative by Rūta Šermukšnytė

“…It revealed that the aim of the topic of rescuing the Jews is to present the most objective, all-encompassing image of this past and to perform several important functions with the help of it. …”
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Multimedia Instruction & Language Learning Attitudes: A Study with University Students by Jesús Izquierdo, Daphnée Simard, María Guadalupe Garza Pulido

“…During four weeks, university learners of French received MI on the distinctive use of the perfective and the imperfective past in one of the four following conditions: learners with low L2 proficiency level exposed to MI with (n=17) or without language awareness tasks (n=17), and learners with intermediate L2 proficiency level exposed to MI with (n=14) or without language awareness tasks (n=28). …”
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Les ressorts territoriaux de la gestion de l’eau : le cas de la Drôme (1980-2013) by Sabine Girard

“…The demonstration uses the empirical case of the Drôme valley over the past three decades. The results of the research highlight three types of territorial feedback: arguments allowing agreements in negotiation process; tools of strategic action to change water users’ practices; sources of legitimization allowing water managers to increase their means of action. …”
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Predatory journals: What can we do to protect their prey? by Christine Laine, Dianne Babski, Vivienne C. Bachelet, Till W. Bärnighausen, Christopher Baethge, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Frank Frizelle, Laragh Gollogy, Sabine Kleinert, Elizabeth Loder, João Monteiro, Eric J. Rubin, Peush Sahni, Christina C. Wee, Jin-Hong Yoo, Lilia Zakhama x

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Le Roman de Perceforest, la Sicambre et la guerre de Cent Ans by Levente Selaf

“…The analysis proves that, by this reference, England and France oppose each other in the distant past: the ancestral conflict prefigures the Hundred Years' War. …”
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