Konya Valisi Mehmed Ferid Paşa’nın Gözünden Antalya (1898-1902) by Hatice DURGUN

“…The failure to fulfil its great potential also stemmed from its disadvantageous geographical location and the lack of reformist and far-sighted administrators to solve the problems encountered and meet the needs of the locals. …”
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From Isolationism to Interventionism. Book Review of ‘The U.S.-German Relations, 1938–1941: Politics, Diplomacy, Priorities’ by O.V. Petrosyants by D. V. Rodin

“…The reviewer notes that the study pays special attention to tensions between isolationists and interventionists within the American elites and agrees with the author’s conclusion that the isolationists’ position turned out to be more and more regressive and short-sighted as the international situation worsened. However, as the author emphasizes, it was the need to take into account the isolationists’ influence that largely led to the inconsistency and indecisiveness of the U.S. foreign policy during that period. …”
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Assessing changing baleen whale distributions and reported incidents relative to vessel activity in the Northwest Atlantic. by Hannah Solway, Boris Worm, Tonya Wimmer, Derek P Tittensor

“…Using a database of 483,003 whale sightings, 1,110 incident reports, and 82 million hours of maritime vessel activity, we conducted a spatiotemporal vulnerability analysis for all six baleen whale species occurring in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean by developing an ensemble of habitat-suitability models. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation of Abattoir Operation on Soil Quality Dynamics in Umuahia South, Abia State, Nigeria by M.U. Chikwendu, U.I. Uchendu, N.O. Ochor

“… Heaps of abattoir wastes are commonly sighted in most abattoirs in Nigeria which constitute serious environmental and public health hazards. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation of Abattoir Operation on Soil Quality Dynamics in Umuahia South, Abia State, Nigeria by M.U. Chikwendu, U.I. Uchendu, N.O. Ochor

“… Heaps of abattoir wastes are commonly sighted in most abattoirs in Nigeria which constitute serious environmental and public health hazards. …”
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New records of the golden jackal (Canis aureus L.) in the upper Soča valley, Slovenia by Miha Mihelič, Miha Krofel

“…In recent years, however, a substantial increase in sightings of golden jackalshas been recorded in the area around the town of Bovec. …”
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Authors of Lithuanian books in the first part of 19th century by Aušra Navickienė

“…Among the main reasons, we can name an intensive cultural and social life and the sights of the ethnocultural movement. Almost all the Lithuanian authors of that period were born in the territories of ethnographic Lithuania: 54% in the province of Kaunas; 39% in Vilnius; 6% in Suvalkai. …”
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Have you seen this fish? Important contribution of stakeholder observations in documenting the distribution and spread of an alien fish species in Iceland by Theresa Henke, Hlynur Bárðarson, Magnús Thorlacius, Guðbjörg Asta Ólafsdóttir

“…Our study furthermore indicates that interest in voluntarily reporting European flounder sightings decreased over time, but reemerged when stakeholders and/or the public were presented with an easily accessible opportunity to share information in the form of an online survey. …”
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Career Guidance and Academic Performance in Secondary Schools in Kisoro District; A case Study of Namirembe and Nyanamo Comprehensive Secondary Schools in Bukimbiri Sub-County. by Robert, Mwesigwa

“…It was found out that 29% of the respondents considered career guidance as a means to help students to broaden their knowledge; skills and abilities; though on the hand sighted irregularities that career guidance was meant for the rich who had the capacity to facilitate their children’s future the way they wished; and that career guidance was irrelevant at schools since it never provided anything new that they would get from their family members and their religious backgrounds. …”
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SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF THE GAME «SHOOTING SIMULATION IN A SHOOTING RANGE» by D. Yanchev, O. Sakaliuk, D. Popkov

“…Special attention was given to the practical implementation of the game’s core features, including weapon selection, target customization, the use of optical sights, and the implementation of bonus shots under certain conditions. …”
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Decades of leopard coexistence in the Himalayas driven by ecological dynamics, not climate change by Paras Bikram Singh, Pradip Saud, Prakash Chandra Aryal, Pawan Rai, Jeff R. Muntifering, Huijian Hu, Ajay Karki, Yiming Hu, Kumar P. Mainali

“…Utilizing historical accounts dating back to the 1950s and our winter sighting data from trail cameras from 2016 to 2023 in the trans-Himalayan part of Annapurna Conservation Area of Nepal (3100–4696 m), we provide substantial evidence of the common leopard’s established residency at high altitudes traditionally associated with snow leopards. …”
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Quantifying uncertainty in anthropogenic causes of injury and mortality for an endangered baleen whale by Daniel W. Linden, Jeffrey A. Hostetler, Richard M. Pace III, Lance P. Garrison, Amy R. Knowlton, Véronique Lesage, Rob Williams, Michael C. Runge

“…We developed a multistate capture–recapture model that leveraged 30 years of intensive survey effort yielding sightings of individuals with injury assessments and necropsies of carcass recoveries. …”
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VANDAL BEHAVIOUR OF ADOLESCENTS AS A LEGAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM by O. V. Gurova

“…Vandals damage monuments of cultural heritage, historic sights and other types of public space. A theoretical aspect of vandalism is registered in jurisprudence, which is guided principally by regulatory approach to the solution of questions of the violation of laws and recognised rules of human coexistence. …”
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Citizen science platforms can effectively support early detection of invasive alien species according to species traits by Pablo González‐Moreno, Ana A. Anđelković, Tim Adriaens, Christophe Botella, Jakovos Demetriou, Rita Bastos, Sandro Bertolino, Celia López‐Cañizares, Franz Essl, Živa Fišer, Milka Glavendekić, Marc Herremans, Philip E. Hulme, Viola Jani, Dimitra Katsada, Periklis Kleitou, Nicola La Porta, Katharina Lapin, Marta López‐Darias, Vanessa Lozano, Angeliki F. Martinou, Damiano Oldoni, Esra Per, Stephanie Rorke, Helen E. Roy, Karl‐Manfred Schweinzer, Kristijn Swinnen, Elena Tricarico, Joana R. Vicente, Maarten de Groot, Michael J. O. Pocock

“…Multi‐species citizen science platforms for reporting nature sightings are a valuable source of information on early detection of IAS even though they are not specifically designed for this purpose. …”
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The Modulation of Laser Refractive Surgery on Sensory Eye Dominance of Anisometropia by Hongting Liu, Qi Chen, Fangfang Lan, Yan Luo, Enwei Lin, Wuqiang Luo, Ming Kong, Jiangxia Wang, Fengju Zhang

“…The ocular dominance index (ODI) was applied to evaluate the subject’s overall degree of sensory ocular dominance. Visual acuity, sighting eye dominance, and stereo acuity were also accessed. …”
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