Agroforestry and the Improvement of Soil Fertility: A View from Amazonia by Rachel C. Pinho, Robert P. Miller, Sonia S. Alfaia

“…In the case of tropical soils and Amazonia, information on the effects of trees on soils is discussed in the context of traditional agriculture systems, as well as in regard to the development of more sustainable agricultural alternatives for the region. Lastly, attention is given to a case study in the savanna region of Roraima, northern Brazil, where a chronosequence of indigenous homegarden agroforestry systems showed clear effects of management practices involving trees on soil fertility. …”
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Fuzzy Adaptive Compensation Control for Uncertain Building Structural Systems by Sliding-Mode Technology by Houyao Zhu, Zicong Chen, Jianhui Wang, Yunchang Huang, Wenli Chen, Zheng Huang, Huaqi Zhao

“…In traditional control methods, the timeliness is not paid enough attention for systems with uncertain seismic waves. …”
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Experimental Study on the Negative Skin Friction of the Pile Group Induced by Rising and Lowering the Groundwater Level by Yu Zhang, Li-Pei Zhou, Ming-Yuan Wang, Xuanming Ding, Chenglong Wang

“…Negative skin friction (NSF) has been one of the important factors in the design of pile foundation; especially, the influence of water level on the pile negative skin friction should be paid attention. In this paper, a series of model tests were carried out to analyze the bearing characteristic of the pile group influenced by groundwater level. …”
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Caffeine Use: Association with Nicotine Use, Aggression, and Other Psychopathology in Psychiatric and Pediatric Outpatient Adolescents by Catherine A. Martin, Circe Cook, John H. Woodring, Gretchen Burkhardt, Greg Guenthner, Hatim A. Omar, Thomas H. Kelly

“…High caffeine consumption was associated with daily cigarette use; aggressive behavior; conduct, attention deficit/hyperactivity, and social problems; and increased somatic complaints in adolescents.…”
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Praising God or singing of love? From theological to erotic allegorisation in the interpretation of Canticles by H. Ausloos

“…Then, we shall examine the anthropological interpretation, which has received renewed attention, especially since the beginning of the twentieth century, and which has rapidly developed into an anthropological-allegorical interpretation. …”
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Pemodelan 3D Jembatan Lengkung, Studi Kasus Jembatan Bukit Sulap, Menggunakan Software Autodesk Revit by Muhammad Ihsanul Kharimah, Benny Hidayat

“…Infrastructure development is a priority, but the implementation of infrastructure projects needs to pay attention to time, costs and quality. Building Information Modeling (BIM) has the potential to minimize errors and increase efficiency. …”
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An Experimental Study on the Water-Induced Strength Reduction in Zigong Argillaceous Siltstone with Different Degree of Weathering by Yu-chuan Yang, Jia-wen Zhou, Fu-gang Xu, Hui-ge Xing

“…In a word, when red-bed soft rocks are encountered in geotechnical engineering, special attention should be paid to presence of water.…”
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The ethics of DeCSS posting: towards assessing the morality of the Internet posting of DVD copyright circumvention software by K.R. Eschenfelder, R.G. Howard, A.C. Desai

“…</b> The paper points out six areas that require further attention in ethical frameworks: determining motivation for posting, deciding whether some groups have more moral standing to post, assessing knowledge of the laws related to circumvention and posting, determining if protesters have taken related political actions, the legality of various formats of circumvention devices, and the physical geography of the participants.…”
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Recognition of Depression and Anxiety among Elderly Colorectal Cancer Patients by Amy Y. Zhang, Gregory S. Cooper

“…They call for research attention to the investigation of depressive symptoms for improving the recognition and treatment in this patient population.…”
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Multi-dimensional perceptual recognition of tourist destination using deep learning model and geographic information system. by Shengtian Zhang, Yong Li, Xiaoxia Song, Chenghao Yang, Niusha Shafiabady, Robert M X Wu

“…Then, we adopted the improved Inception V3 model, the bidirectional long short-term memory network (BiLSTM) model with multi-head attention, and geographic information system (GIS) technology to recognize basic tourist feature information from the UGC dataset, such as the content, sentiment, and spatiotemporal perceptual dimensions of the data, achieving a recognition accuracy of over 97%. …”
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Assessing the impact of the country’s economic security on export development in the agro-industrial sector by E. V. Nagovitsyna, E. A. Bratukhina

“…The global economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, changes in the structure and volume of world trade, and political crises in a number of EAEU member states also force us to pay special attention to food security. The relevance of this research is due to: 1) the processes of globalisation and integration of national markets, which is why new foreign economic and foreign trade relations are increasingly being formed; 2) the crisis of the coronavirus pandemic, which is why many foreign trade processes in Russia and a number of other countries are disrupted; 3) the commodity groups under consideration, the uncontrolled volume of exports of which can cause a food threat to the country. …”
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Righting response and electrocardiographic evaluation of juvenile tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum) (Cuvier, 1818) exposed to immersion baths with different concentrations of bushy l... by Thaysa de Sousa Reis, Clarissa Araújo da Paz, Daniella Bastos de Araújo, Luciana Eiró Quirino, Yris da Silva Deiga, Tays Mata Câmara, Moisés Hamoy

“…Among the essential oils studied, Lippia alba has attracted attention due to its diverse pharmacological properties, including sedative and anesthetic effects. …”
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Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Change on Soil Erosion and Hydrological Responses in Ethiopia by Ajanaw Negese

“…Future research works should pay more attention to the investigation of the impacts of land use and land cover change on groundwater hydrology and the prediction of future soil loss and hydrological imbalance under the changing land use and land cover in the country since little information is available from past researches on these issues. …”
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A Lightweight Laser Chip Defect Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv7-Tiny by HU Wei, ZHAO Jumin, LI Dengao

“…Additionally, the introduced coordinate attention mechanism improves the precision of defect localization. …”
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Concept and classification of powers of the Cyberpolice Department of the National Police of Ukraine by V. V. Bereza

“…The author of the article has outlined the etymology of the legal category of “powers”. Special attention has been focused on the fact that, revealing the essence of the powers of the Cyberpolice Department as a subject of counteraction to cybercrime, such concepts as “right” and “duty” can not be evaded. …”
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Stress Is Associated with Quality of Life Reduction among Health Professionals in Vietnam: A Multisite Survey by Le Thi Kieu Hanh, Ngo Van Toan, Vu Minh Hai

“…Stressed health workers had a reduced quality of life. Attention should be paid to providing appropriate interventions to reduce stress and improve the quality of life in healthcare workers.…”
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Technology and Modeling of Nonclassical Transistor Devices by George V. Angelov, Dimitar N. Nikolov, Marin H. Hristov

“…Nonclassical device structures such as novel multiple-gate transistor structures including multiple-gate field-effect transistors, FD-SOI MOSFETs, CNTFETs, and SETs are examined as possible successors of conventional CMOS devices and FinFETs. Special attention is devoted to gate-all-around FETs and, respectively, nanowire and nanosheet FETs as forthcoming mainstream replacements of FinFET. …”
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The Sacred Architecture of Josep Lluís Sert by Iñigo Ugalde-Blázquez, Ricardo Gómez-Val, Cinta Lluis-Teruel, Pilar Moran-García

“…At the same time, it seeks to highlight an aspect of the architect that, despite the significance and brilliance of his designs, has received little attention until now.…”
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Specificity of overcoming behavior within relationship to tolerance to uncertainty of convicted men by A. A. Shylina, O. M. Skliarov

“…The growth of intolerance of convicts who serve the punishment not for the first term, leads to the propensity to overcome the problem through intellectual methods of rationalization, switching attention, removal, humor, depreciation.…”
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Definicja piękna w XII wieku a architektoniczna ekspozycja ołtarza w epoce gotyckiej by Mirosław Bogdan

“…With the definition of artistic types of beauty, a lot of attention is applied to the separation and coexistence of spiritual and corporeal beauty. …”
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