Land Rights, Land Ownership, and Land Governance among Rural Communities in River Tana County, Kenya: A Gender Perspective by Wilson Ndenyele, Marie-Emmanuelle, Halimu Suleimani Shauri, Godffrey Nato

“…This article suggest that putting women at the fore front of sustainable land governance could improve the low success rate of land investment process. …”
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CHRISTIAN THINKERS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (REINHOLD NIEBUHR AND GIORGIO LA PIRA) by T. V. Zonova

“…Therefore the names of Christian thinkers are back again to the fore. It is worth noting that President Obama cites Niebuhr as one of his favorite philosophers. …”
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An advanced technique to adjust hull girder load: Part 1 = generalisation by Chang Hwan Jang, Do Kyun Kim

“…In the whole ship model, it is necessary to implement more accurate hull girder loads and in the cargo hold, fore and aft body model, it is necessary to adjust the hull girder loads calculated from local loads to the target value. …”
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Developing Ecological Landscape Design Proposals Against Flood Susceptibility in Urban Areas: Antalya, Kemer Example by Onur Aksoy, Elif Altaş, Kamil Erken

“…With the ecological landscape design approach that came to the fore in the 20th century, the possible effects of flood can be decreased. …”
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A narrative literature review to inform the development of a health threats preparedness framework in Ireland by Louise Marron, James Gilroy, Michelle Williams, Randal Parlour, Máirín Boland, Máirín Boland

“…Public health leadership must be to the fore.ConclusionAn effective health threats preparedness approach is legislatively mandated for European Member States. …”
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Development of the US Plans for Post-War Japan during World War II by A. A. Sidorov

“…The needs to promote the interdepartmental cooperation and to reconcile the positions of the State Department, the Military and Naval Ministries on the future of Japan came to the fore. This work resulted in a series of memoranda, which laid the foundation for the US post-war policy towards Japan. …”
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of blood-drop agglutination test for chicken tuberculosis diagnosis by M. O. Baratov

“…Due to the increased role of opportunistic infections, mycobacterioses, parasitocenoses, etc. the detectability of nonspecific reactions to PPD-tuberculin has sharply increased, which makes it difficult to make a diagnosis and brings laboratory test methods to the fore. The aim of the study was to determine practical significance of blood-drop agglutination test in comparison with allergy test, and frequency of avian tuberculosis lesions on internal organs. …”
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Maximizing udder health through a selection index: a focus on udder traits in Italian Mediterranean Buffaloes by Johanna Ramírez Díaz, Roberta Cimmino, Rossi Dario, Zullo Gianluigi, Neglia Gianluca, Altieri Damiano, Mayra Gómez, Stefano Biffani, Giuseppe Campanile

“…The aim of this study was the development of an aggregate selection index (ASI) considering MP (milk production), MSCS150 (geometric mean of somatic cell score at 150 days in milk), and UC traits (fore udder attachment– FUA; rear udder width– RUW; rear legs height– RLH; teat direction – TD; teat length – TL and teat position – TP). …”
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Soundscape analysis reveals fine ecological differences among coral reef habitats by Juan Carlos Azofeifa-Solano, Miles J.G. Parsons, Rohan Brooker, Robert McCauley, Daniel Pygas, William Feeney, Steve Simpson, Sophie L. Nedelec, Eve M. Croxford, Mark Meekan, Christine Erbe

“…Using the Soundscape Code—a method that summarizes soundscape amplitude, impulsiveness, periodicity, and uniformity—we analyzed habitat differentiation across 25 simultaneous recordings from back, flat, and fore reef zones. Benthic composition analysis identified two distinct healthy habitat types: one dominated by branching corals and another without a dominant coral growth form. …”
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Voluntary Forelimbs Exercise Reduces Immobilization-Induced Mechanical Hyperalgesia in the Rat Hind Paw by Kumiko Ishikawa, Satoshi Oga, Kyo Goto, Junya Sakamoto, Ryo Sasaki, Yuichiro Honda, Hideki Kataoka, Minoru Okita

“…Wistar rats were randomly divided into the (1) both hind limbs immobilized group (IM group), (2) immobilization and exercise with nonimmobilized fore limbs group (EX group), and (3) control group. …”
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Barnehagelærarars refleksjonar over høgtlesing med fleirspråklege barn by Randi Høyland

“…Analysen viste at barnehagelærarane la særleg merke til organiseringa av lesehendingane og reflekterte over korleis bildeboklesing kunne føre til inkludering og deltaking i fellesskap. Lesepraksisane blei grunngitt med eit ønske om å gi barna forståing av innhaldet i bildebøkene, men barnehagelærarane argumenterte også for at barna fekk estetiske opplevingar og språkstimulering. …”
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Bokvalg i norske barnehager - hva som leses sammen med barn og hvorfor by Agnes-Margrethe Bjorvand, Monica G. Mitchell, Katarzyna A. Tunkiel, Marianne Undheim

“…Barnehagelærerne vektlegger at bøkene bør være tematisk relevante, ha fine bilder og føre til gode samtaler. Når barnehagelærere i så stor grad velger å lese bøker barna liker, innebærer dette stort sett bøker barna kjenner fra før. …”
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A multidisciplinary collaborative care model involving family members in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus and associated diabetes distress in young and middle-aged patient... by Wang Yan-Ping, Peng Lu-Yao, Yuan Xian-Ming, Chen Ting-Ting, Li Lin, Deng Kai-Qin

“…We assessed and compared glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels, Diabetes Distress Scale (DDS) scores, Summary of Diabetes Self-care Activities (SDSCA) scores, and body mass index (BMI) between the two groups be-fore the intervention and three months after. Results. …”
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Nociceptor-localized KCC2 suppresses brachial plexus avulsion-induced neuropathic pain and related central sensitization by Hang Xian, Huan Guo, Yuan-Ying Liu, Sui-Bin Ma, Rui Zhao, Jian-Lei Zhang, Hang Zhang, Rou-Gang Xie, Xu-Cheng Guo, Jie Ren, Sheng-Xi Wu, Ceng Luo, Rui Cong

“…A novel mice model of BPA on the middle trunk (C7) was established, and BPA mice showed a significant reduction in mechanical withdrawal threshold of the affected fore- and hind- paws without affecting the motor function through CatWalk Gait analysis. …”
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Quantifying Stress and Relaxation: A New Measure of Heart Rate Variability as a Reliable Biomarker by Emese Rudics, András Buzás, Antónia Pálfi, Zoltán Szabó, Ádám Nagy, Emőke Adrienn Hompoth, József Dombi, Vilmos Bilicki, István Szendi, András Dér

“…For this reason, the use of heart rate variability (HRV) to characterize stress has recently come to the fore. HRV is the variability in the length of heartbeat intervals, which indicates the ability of the heart to respond to various physiological and environmental stimuli. …”
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USSR in World War II by M. Yu. Myagkov

“…Under these conditions, for the USSR, its own security and the conclusion of a non-aggression pact with Germany began to come to the fore, defining the "spheres of interests" of the parties in order to limit the advance of German troops towards the Soviet borders in the event of German aggression against Poland. …”
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External particle mixing influences hygroscopicity in a sub-urban area by S. Deshmukh, L. Poulain, B. Wehner, S. Henning, J.-E. Petit, P. Fombelle, P. Fombelle, O. Favez, H. Herrmann, M. Pöhlker, M. Pöhlker

“…During the ACROSS campaign (Atmospheric ChemistRy Of the Suburban foreSt, conducted in Paris in summer 2022), particles' hygroscopic growth rates at 90 % relative humidity (RH) and chemical composition were measured at the sub-urban site using a Hygroscopicity Tandem Differential Mobility Analyser (HTDMA, scanning at 100, 150, 200, and 250 nm) and an Aerodyne High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS). …”
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Transprofessional education in the student discourse: Demand, expectations, risks by A. N. Pinchuk, S. G. Karepova, D. A. Tikhomirov

“…The nonlinearity of professional and educational trajectories brings to the fore, and the practice of continuous professional development and retraining becomes particularly important. …”
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Security and religion in democratizing Tunisia: re-enacting surveillance through religious narratives and gendered dynamics by Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu, Alessandra Bonci

“…As Moghadam claims, “at times of regime consolidation and state building, questions of gender, family and male-female relations come to the fore. The state becomes the manager of gender” (1993: 94). …”
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Morphological evaluations in buffaloes (Bubal- us bubalis) in Venezuela by Luis Alfredo Pacheco-Díaz, José Atilio Aranguren-Méndez, Rafael Román-Bravo, Sharon Rivero-Hernández, Luis Edgardo Tovar-Briceño

“…There were measurements on 24 traits, 18 quantitative (cm) variables considered as morphometric: (i) wither height (HW), (ii) rump length (RL), (iii) rump angle (RA), (iv) hip length (HL), (v) rump width (RW), (vi) hip width (WH), (vii) heel depth (HD), (viii) shoulder width (SW), (ix) chest depth (CD), (x) heart girth (HG), (xi) body length (BL), (xii) tail length (TL) and six qualitative traits, a) loin strength (LS), b) hock angle (HA), c) foot angle (FA) and d) dairy form (DF); and only for females (xiii) fore udder attachment (FUA), (xiv) rear udder height (RUH), (xv) rear udder width (UW), (xvi) udder depth (UD), (xvii) udder cleft (UC), (xviii) teat length (LT) and e) Nipple direction (ND) and f) Nipple position (NP). …”
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