Inference of Wildfire Causes From Their Physical, Biological, Social and Management Attributes by Yavar Pourmohamad, John T. Abatzoglou, Erica Fleishman, Karen C. Short, Jacquelyn Shuman, Amir AghaKouchak, Matthew Williamson, Seyd Teymoor Seydi, Mojtaba Sadegh

“…We developed a machine learning model of wildfire ignition cause across the western United States on the basis of physical, biological, social, and management attributes associated with wildfires. …”
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How to Quantify Nosema Spores Infection Rate in a Honey Bee Colony by Ashley N. Mortensen, Cameron Jack, Meghan McConnell, Liana Teigen, Jamie Ellis

“…One species, Nosema ceranae, has become the dominant microsporidian infection in western honey bee colonies. When honey bees ingest Nosema spores, many eventually starve to death because the spores replicate in the stomach and hijack the bee’s nutrition. …”
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Visualizing the invisible: COVID-19 pandemic season in Saigon by Christophe Robert

“…Images of empty streets with no traffic became features of Western reporting and were mimicked by Vietnamese media. …”
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Illegal cannabis cultivation in Europe: new developments by David Weinberger, Michel Gandilhon, Jalpa Shah, Nacer Lalam

“…Illicit cannabis cultivation is not new to Western Europe. It first emerged on the scene in the 1970s, in the wake of the counter-culture following the 1968 Protests. …”
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Aquatic and palustrine plants of restinga in a Ramsar site in the easternmost Amazon, Brazil by N. P. F. Alves, M. C. A. Pestana, S. F. Pires, J. C. A. Penha, V. R. Cardoso-Neto, A. V. Scatigna, R. V. C. Saraiva

“…In this study, we carried out the first floristic survey of aquatic and palustrine plants in restingas (restinga swamps and swamp forests) of a Ramsar site in the municipality of Guimarães, western coast of Maranhão State and easternmost Amazon, Brazil. …”
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Surveys of butterfly and skipper fauna in the southwestern part of the Republic of Macedonia (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea & Hesperioidea) by Vid Švara, Miloš Popović, Andrej Peternel, Đorđe Radevski, Kaja Vukotić, Rudi Verovnik

“…These surveys covered a total of 40 localities, with special emphasis on less sampled areas of the south-western part of the country. The study yielded recording of 131 species, including several habitat specialist and potentially threatened butterflies. …”
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Bush versus Bin Laden in Time by Johann de Wet

“…It was found that the cultural code translates into: the United States and the Western World are the beacons of democracy and freedom, while Islam (more specifically Muslim fundamentalists) represents authoritarianism, repression and bondage. …”
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A Dynamic Analysis of a Record Breaking Winter Season Blocking Event by Andrew D. Jensen

“…This event formed out of the strong ridge that was associated with the devastating drought in the Western United States during the winter season of 2013-2014. …”
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Lower Tropospheric Response to Local Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies: A Numerical Study in the EUREC4 ${ ext{EUREC}}^{4}$A Region by M. Borgnino, F. Desbiolles, A. N. Meroni, C. Pasquero

“…The analysis focuses on north‐western tropical Atlantic and indicates that fine scale SST anomalies modulate the air column stability and the entrainment of dry air at boundary layer top. …”
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Large‐Scale Climate Patterns Modulate Intraseasonal Mesoscale Activities in the Bay of Bengal by Zheen Zhang, Xueen Chen, Lequan Chi, Chunxin Yuan, Jie Zhang, Shuyan Zhang

“…Meanwhile, influences from IOD manifest more rapidly and concentrate in the western bay, suggesting distinct mechanisms compared to those associated with ENSO. …”
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MODELING OF TRANSFORMATION FEATURES FOR NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE NOVOSIBIRSK RESERVOIR by Aleksandr A. Tskhai, Vladislav Y. Ageikov, Aleksandr N. Semchukov

“…The article presents a model description of spatially inhomogeneous features for the ecosystem of the Novosibirsk reservoir, the largest in Western Siberia, based on the reproduction of biogeochemical cycles of limiting elements. …”

A Case of Undetected Neuroborreliosis in a 75-Year-Old Chinese Male by Jenny Lamichhane, Rohail Haider, Michael Bekkerman, Sean Tilford, Shireen Hijaz, Bikash Bhattarai, Rajanish Bobde

“…Patients are identified based on their clinical symptoms and then diagnosed through enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), Western blot, and blood culture techniques. Here, we present the case of a 75-year-old, Northeast suburban resident complaining of unstable gait, high fevers, malaise, myalgia, and confusion. …”
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Green finance and energy efficiency improvement: The role of green innovation and industrial upgrading by Peijia Wang, Xuelu Xu

“…Meanwhile, it is evident that there exists regional disparity in the impact of eco-friendly finance on the augmentation of utilization efficiency of energy, with a more pronounced effectiveness observed in provinces located within the regions located in the central and western parts of the nation. Based on the thorough analysis conducted herein, this paper strongly advocates for the persistent development and widespread enactment of policies related to green finance.…”
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FROM AND AFTER 1990: ON LITHUANIAN MENTALITY AND MODERNIZATION by Marius Povilas Povilas Šaulauskas

“…First, soviet industrial totalitarianism was not pieced together as a deviation from the western model of modernization, but, conversely, it represents the most violent enhancement of the latter. …”
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Neurasthenia, Civilisation and the Crisis of Spanish Manhood, c. 1890–1914 by Violeta Ruiz

“… In the early 1880s, a new disease called neurasthenia gained prominence within Western medicine. Neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion, was associated with the development of modern civilisation, presented as both a cause and a consequence thereof. …”
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In Turkısh Thrace by Umut M. Doğan

“…The surface materials recovered from these sites indicate close connections with Bulgarian Thrace, the Carpathians, the north-western Balkans, and Anatolia. The study presents the results of a pottery analysis and a settlement typology, opening a new perspective for research on the EIA of Turkish Thrace. …”
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Communication and ‘revolt’ by Bert Olivier

“…Kristeva points the way to a creative enlivening of individuals’ lives, as well as of society at large, through her passionate elaboration on the potential for ‘revolution’ in language and communication, and also her development of the notion of ‘revolt’ as a legacy of Western culture – a legacy which is under threat in the present ‘culture of the spectacle’. …”
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Fertility-Sparing Surgery in Early Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: A Viable Option? by Christina Fotopoulou, Ioana Braicu, Jalid Sehouli

“…Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) continues to represent one of the most lethal conditions in women in the western countries. With the shifting of childbearing towards higher age, EOC increasingly affects women with active childbearing wish, resulting in major impacts on treatment management. …”
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The occurrence of muskrat Ondatra zibethicus in central and eastern Poland in the period 1996–2007 by Jerzy Romanowski, Karolina Karpowicz

“…Muskrats inhabited mostly small and medium rivers in the western part of the study area. The decrease in the occurrence of the species over a study period is the best document by a significant reduction in the frequency of muskrat records at the 249 sites surveyed in 1996-1998 (present at 44% sites) and 2007 (7%). …”
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An Extremely Rare Cause of Isolated Congenital Anosmia by Chia Saw, Noel David Friesen, Anthony Bartley

“…A 14-year-old adolescent was referred to a regional paediatric outpatient clinic with anosmia by her family doctor in Western Australia. The patient has no recollection of her previous ability to smell, suggesting the possibility of congenital anosmia. …”
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