Exploring microbial players for metagenomic profiling of carbon cycling bacteria in sundarban mangrove soils by Basanta Kumar Das, Ayushman Gadnayak, Hirak Jyoti Chakraborty, Smruti Priyambada Pradhan, Subhashree Subhasmita Raut, Sanjoy Kumar Das

“…The study explored the hypothesis that microbial communities in mangrove ecosystems exhibit unique taxonomic and functional traits that play a vital part in carbon cycling and ecosystem resilience. …”
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Soils and vegetation of the permafrost floodplain of the small river Tenyakha (Messoyakha basin, Western Siberia) by Sergey V. Loiko, Ivan V. Kriсkov, Nikita V. Shefer, Irina Nedyak, Rinat M. Manasypov, Sergey P. Kulizhskiy

“…The second is a meander with ridges and depressions in between. Plant communities of the first type of floodplain have a higher diversity of higher plants than communities of the second type. …”
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Assessments of Wind-Energy Potential in Selected Sites from Three Geopolitical Zones in Nigeria: Implications for Renewable/Sustainable Rural Electrification by Joshua Olusegun Okeniyi, Olayinka Soledayo Ohunakin, Elizabeth Toyin Okeniyi

“…Electricity generation in rural communities is an acute problem militating against socioeconomic well-being of the populace in these communities in developing countries, including Nigeria. …”
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Association of Physical Activity and Physical Education With Overweight and Obesity Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents in Pakistan: An Empirical Cross-Sectional Study by Moazzam Tanveer, Ejaz Asghar, Georgian Badicu, Nadeem Roy, Maximilian Siener, Umar Tanveer, Sameer Badri Al-Mhanna, Alexios Batrakoulis

“…Conclusion: This study underscores the critical need to enhance PA opportunities in schools and communities in Pakistan, particularly for girls, to address the rising rates of overweight and obesity.…”
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Farewell to Fiestas and Saints? Changing Catholic Practices in Contemporary Rural Oaxaca by Toomas Gross

“…The ethnographic focus of the discussion is on indigenous Zapotec communities of the State of Oaxaca. Collective religious practices in Mexican villages contribute to social cohesion. …”
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Communicating About Water in the Floridan Aquifer Region: Part 3— How the Right Messages and Messengers Can Increase Bipartisan Support for Water Policy by Sadie Hundemer, Shenara Ramadan

“…They may argue that the policy is fair to the parties involved or that it shows loyalty to affected communities. These are moral arguments used to sway public support. …”
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Quilombos: the land is life and freedom by Amanda dos Santos Pereira

“…It is concluded that land and territory have a crucial meaning for the existence of quilombola communities, so it is urgent to implement public policies that recognize, respect, and guarantee the strengthening and preservation of quilombola communities in Brazil. …”
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Rural Tourism as a Factor Stimulating the Development of Border Areas – The Case of Lubelskie Voivodeship by Urszula Bronisz, Andrzej Jakubowski

“…This article aims to evaluate the level of tourism potential for the communities located in the eastern border region of the Lubelskie Voivodeship in Poland. …”
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Traquer les reptiliens, dévoiler la vérité by Théophile Robert-Rimsky

“…On the Internet, one finds communities that share evidence of a race of reptilian humanoids whose goal is to enslave and dominate the human race. …”
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D’infimes différences. Pratique et circulation des jeux de ficelle chez les femmes du Chaco paraguayen by David Jabin

“…Based on fieldwork carried out in the central Paraguayan Chaco, where indigenous people live in agricultural settlements established by the Mennonites to implement intensive agriculture, the author compares the string figure making of Nivacle and Enlhet women in two neighboring communities. The aim is to understand the meaning of the technical and graphic differences observed in these two communities, and then, in contrast to the diffusionist hypothesis, to examine the way in which string figure making, like language or handicrafts, participates in the processes of ethnic affiliation.…”
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Hydrogen Valleys – Energy transition and local development scenarios for medium-sized cities by Alessandra Battisti, Angela Calvano

“… In the current decarbonisation scenario, production, transport and energy consumption affect the territorial dimension of communities, while the proximity character of renewable sources and distributed generation systems make it possible to redefine the socio-spatial link with energy. …”
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Strategy for controlling tourist mobility: analysis of the biopolitical processes of territorialization implemented by the cruise tourism industry in a Caribbean destination by Luc Renaud

“…It discusses how local communities undertake the management of their territory through the exercise of a democratic, “bottom-up” biopower.…”
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Seed endophytes of malting barley from different locations are shaped differently and are associated with malt quality traits by Oyeyemi Ajayi, Ramamurthy Mahalingam

“…Host genotype, location, and interactions (genotype x location) significantly impacted the seed endophytic microbial communities. Taxonomic composition analysis identified the most abundant genera for bacterial and fungal communities to be Bacillus (belonging to phylum Firmicutes) and Blumeria (belonging to phylum Ascomycota), respectively. …”
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Go Back!: Reclaiming Indigenous Visibility in Literary, Cultural, and Environmental Spaces of Pakistan by Anam Feroz

“… This paper examines the nexus of visibility and violence in the context of indigenous communities of Pakistan, with a focus on the literary works of Mustansar Hussein Tarar. …”
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Experiences and outcomes of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller women in pregnancy: a scoping review protocol by Mary Higgins, Maggie O’Brien, Brendan Dempsey

“…Introduction Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities are subjected to a specific form of racism fuelled by deep-seated prejudice and stereotypes. …”
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Archives numériques aborigènes, parenté et création by Jessica De Largy Healy

“…Over the past two decades, Indigenous archives have been created in several isolated communities in central and northern Australia. The use of digital technology has enabled members of these communities to rediscover their ancestors’ traces, which since the 1920s have been dispersed into ethnographic archives and museums in Australia and abroad. …”
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PRA Melting-ICE Project: Svalbard 2022 Expeditions Report [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] by Enrico Maiero, Elisa Baldrighi, Riccardo Cerrato, Delia Segato, Massimiliano Vardè, Mauro Mazzola, Iain Rudnik, James Bradley, Margaret Cramm, Angelina Cordone, Stefano Caliro, Donato Giovannelli, Francesco Montemagno, Carlo Cardellini, Martina Cascone, Elena Manini, Jacopo Pasotti

“…The project aims to investigate the diversity and activity of active layer microbial communities across a full season thaw cycle, correlating microbial diversity with gas fluxes and composition. …”
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Dispersal and colonization success of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) on the Solovetsky Islands (the largest archipelago of the White Sea) by Natalia A. Zubrii, Boris Yu. Filippov, Ivan N. Bolotov

“…Cluster analysis and non-metric multidimensional scaling (MDS) revealed that the carabid communities maintained stable spatial and temporal structures among studied sites. …”
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Analysis of Forest Cover in the Tumba-Lediima Nature Reserve (RTL-DRC) by Sylvestre Frey, André Musas A Musas, Nestor Anzola Kibamba, Sebastien Kidushi Mboma, Tege Simboni Simboni, Djonive Munene Asidi

“…Furthermore, local communities face diminished livelihoods due to reduced access to natural resources. …”
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Building retrofit solutions in the context of energy resilience and urban environment regeneration by Croitoru Cristiana, Calotă Răzvan, Lemian Diana, Civiero Paolo, Aelenei Laura

“…This paper highlights the role of building retrofitting in developing energy-resilient communities as a part of sustainable urban regeneration. …”
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