Evolution of the Danube River's islands on the Bulgaria-Romania border over the last century. by Gabriela Ioana-Toroimac, Marina Vîrghileanu

“…Our paper invites national authorities to periodically inventory the geomorphological trajectory of islands and bars, but to transfer the decision-making process for stable islands at local scale in order to put them into green use with benefits for local communities.…”
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Traditional herbal medicine legislative and regulatory framework: a cross-sectional quantitative study and archival review perspectives by Sileshi Dubale, Rashed Edris Usure, Yesuneh Tefera Mekasha, Gemmechu Hasen, Firdos Hafiz, Dereje Kebebe, Sultan Suleman

“…For future roadmaps, collaboration among traditional healers, regulatory bodies, and scientific communities, along with supporting evidence-based research, could further enhance THM regulation in Ethiopia. …”
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A Program for Master of Science in Environment and Natural Resources (MENR) by Kabale University

“…This will be achieved through a joint effort and interaction of technical expertise in rural resource management and planning, rural farming communities and national and district planning authorities. …”
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The influence of agricultural development initiatives on women's empowerment and their right of access to land in Burkina Faso: the case of the Bama plain by Akinni Raoul AKANRO, ZONOU Bienvenu, BOUGOUMA-YAMEOGO Valérie

“…Furthermore, the gender promotion policy implemented in Burkina Faso and the intervention of government projects and technical and financial partners have forced village communities to grant land use rights to women in order to carry out their activities. …”
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Perceived Forest-based Ecosystem Services and Attitudes Toward Forest Rehabilitation: A Case Study in the Upstream of Central Java, Indonesia by Prasetyo Nugroho, Shinya Numata, Nur Abdi Aprilianto

“…However, the critical issue on how locals perceived importance of forest rehabilitation, and how forest rehabilitation generates, both direct and indirect, benefits for the adjacent communities has remained contentious. A questionnaire survey was employed to examine locals' perceived importance, perceived ES, and attitudes toward forest rehabilitation in a village adjacent to Perhutani's forest area in the upstream of a catchment in Central Java, Indonesia. …”
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Data on insect biodiversity in a Chinese potato agroecosystem from DNA metabarcoding by Changjin Lin, Chenxi Liu, Lilin Chen, Hongmei Cheng, Muhammad Ashfaq, Paul D. N. Hebert, Yulin Gao

“…As a leading potato producer, China faces significant challenges from insect pest infestations that compromise yield and quality. However, insect communities within Chinese potato fields remain poorly characterized. …”
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Gut Microbial Translocation in Critically Ill Children and Effects of Supplementation with Pre- and Pro Biotics by Paola Papoff, Giancarlo Ceccarelli, Gabriella d'Ettorre, Carla Cerasaro, Elena Caresta, Fabio Midulla, Corrado Moretti

“…It also covers treatment with pre- and pro biotics during critical illness to restore the balance of microbial communities in a beneficial way with positive effects on intestinal permeability and bacterial translocation.…”
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Modulatory effects of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum on chronic metabolic diseases by Lei Tian, Ruixiang Zhao, Xinyi Xu, Zhiwei Zhou, Xiaofang Xu, Dongmei Luo, Zhiqiang Zhou, Yu Liu, Ariel Kushmaro, Robert S. Marks, András Dinnyés, Qun Sun

“…Ingesting L. plantarum demonstrated its ability to reduce inflammatory and oxidative stress levels by regulating the production of cytokines and short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), the activity of antioxidant enzymes, and the balance of intestinal microbial communities to alleviate the symptoms of chronic metabolic diseases. …”
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Diversity of hydrozoans on artificial substrates in large commercial ports of the Sea of Marmara by Yüksel Esin, Isinibilir Melek, Martell Luis

“…Hydrozoans are among the most common invertebrates found in marine biofouling communities, making them a priority taxon for monitoring and identification in large ports. …”
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Alpinia oxyphylla Miq. Extract Prevents Diabetes in Mice by Modulating Gut Microbiota by Yiqiang Xie, Man Xiao, Yali Ni, Shangfei Jiang, Guizhu Feng, Shenggang Sang, Guankui Du

“…Comparisons of fecal bacterial communities were performed between db-/db- mice and normal mice (DB/DB) and between the db-/db mice treated and untreated with AOE using next-generation sequencing technology. …”
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Funding, inequalities, and access: An amalgam of challenges in South African higher education by Simangele Constance Cele, Samson Adeoluwa Adewumi

“…The recommendations on the challenges are presented by addressing the problem of funding, inequalities, and access to higher education such as expanding access to higher education (e.g. expanding access through online learning platforms), implementing affirmative action policies (e.g. increase students enrolment from the disadvantaged communities), increasing public funding, generating third-stream income funds, provision of scholarships and bursaries, corporate sponsorship, and students’ agency.…”
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Biochemistry of Bacterial Biofilm: Insights into Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms and Therapeutic Intervention by Kashish Azeem, Sadaf Fatima, Asghar Ali, Ayesha Ubaid, Fohad Mabood Husain, Mohammad Abid

“…Biofilms, composed of structured communities of bacteria embedded in a self-produced extracellular matrix, pose a significant challenge due to their heightened resistance to antibiotics and immune responses. …”
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Unveiling farmers’ perceptions: a citizen science and machine learning approach to exploring drivers in the adequacy and fairness of water systems by Vasilios Plakandaras, Fahad Khan Khadim, Vassiliki Kazana, Emmanouil Anagnostou, Amvrossios C Bagtzoglou

“…This study evaluates the effects of citizen science approaches in shaping the farmers’ perceptions towards adequacy of the quantity of the provided water and the fairness of the irrigation distribution system in the area, using as a case study a project implemented in the Upper Blue Nile (UBN) region of Ethiopia in two irrigated communities. Harnessing the analytical power of machine learning models in extracting patterns from data, the informational content of social surveys coupled with hydrological data for the survey region from a calibrated MODFLOW-NWT groundwater (GW) model, we draw inferences on the importance of socioeconomic rather than hydrological variables as drivers in agricultural decisions about crop selection and planting period, underscoring those factors as potential criteria in drawing successful agricultural policies for crop yield optimization in the Great South area. …”
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First Investigation of the Marine Gastrotrich Fauna from the Waters of North Tunisia, with the Description of a New Species of <i>Halichaetonotus</i> (Gastrotricha, Chaetonotida) by Aicha Souid, Mehrez Gammoudi, Francesco Saponi, M’hamed El Cafsi, M. Antonio Todaro

“…Gastrotrichs (hairy bellies) are microscopic, acoelomate worms that live in freshwater and marine environments and represent one of the significant components of the meiobenthic communities. There are over 520 marine species, and several of them are also found in the Mediterranean Sea. …”
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The Effects of Microplastic Pollution on Marine Organisms and its Impact on Human Health: A Review by Aran Akbari, Jalil Jaafari

“…MPs in marine environments provide a highly selective and flexible support platform for a variety of microbial communities, especially resistant pathogens. The accumulation of MPs in marine organisms consumed as human food has dangerous consequences for human health, leading to physical and chemical toxic effects. …”
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ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES: EXPECTATIONS AND REALITIES by O. B. TOMILIN, I. M. FADEEVA, O. O. TOMILIN, A. K. KLUYEV

“…Research data allow identifying a gap between expectations concerning modernization of university organizational couture and real trends, including the growth of bureaucratic component and decrease of real autonomy and independence of academic staff, increased imbalance in corporate values of university communities creating new risks and threats for higher education development. …”
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Are you understanding what I am saying? The critical importance of communication competency in epidemiology by Alison G. Abraham, Alison G. Abraham, WayWay M. Hlaing

“…There are myriad examples of poor communication by public health scientists and researchers that have resulted in lasting harm to individuals, communities, the field of epidemiology, and the broader field of public health. …”
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A novel decomposer-exploiter interaction framework of plant residue microbial decomposition by Youzhi Miao, Wei Wang, Huanhuan Xu, Yanwei Xia, Qingxin Gong, Zhihui Xu, Nan Zhang, Weibing Xun, Qirong Shen, Ruifu Zhang

“…Results In this study, the evolution of fungal and bacterial communities and their functional interactions were elucidated during the degradation of complexity-gradient plant residues. …”
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Structural characterization of oligosaccharide from Spirulina platensis and its effect on the faecal microbiota in vitro by Bingna Cai, Xiangxi Yi, Qian Han, Jianyu Pan, Hua Chen, Huili Sun, Peng Wan

“…In addition, the change in intestinal microbiota function predicted by phylogenetic investigation of communities by reconstruction of unobserved states (PICRUSt) after treatment with SPO-1 is mainly related to the terms “carbohydrate metabolism” and “amino acid metabolism”. …”
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Synthetic graphs for link prediction benchmarking by Alexey Vlaskin, Eduardo G Altmann

“…We propose a family of random graphs that incorporates both micro-scale motifs and meso-scale communities, two ubiquitous structures in complex networks. …”
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