Private equity renewable energy investments in India by Hemi H. Gandhi, Bram Hoex, Brett Jason Hallam

“…India is anticipated to grow its total energy consumption and CO2 emissions by more than any other country over the next two decades. India will have to attract around $400 billion in financing to realize its 500 GW target of renewable energy by 2030. …”
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Sensitivity assessment and simulation of ecosystem services in response to land use change in arid regions: Empirical evidence from Xinjiang, China by Xiaoyun Li, Chunsheng Wu

“…Ecosystem services are essential for human life, but they have undergone significant degradation in recent decades, mainly due to human-induced land use change. …”
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Effectiveness Trade-Off Between Green Spaces and Built-Up Land: Evaluating Trade-Off Efficiency and Its Drivers in an Expanding City by Xinyu Dong, Yanmei Ye, Tao Zhou, Dagmar Haase, Angela Lausch

“…Our findings reveal that while urban–ecological conditions in Zhengzhou’s periphery degraded over the past two decades, the inner city showed improvement in urban heat island and carbon sequestration. …”
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Prediabetes: Challenges, Novel Solutions, and Future Directions by Monique E Francois, Katie M Oetsch

“…This has been largely due to cost and lack of consensus data for appropriate diagnostic threshold; however, with disease burden costs estimated to be close to half a billion USD by the end of the decade, an in-depth cost analysis for benefits-costs of early detection and treatment or prevention is warranted. …”
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Ensuring the Reliability and Efficiency of the Power Industry in the Agricultural Sector of the Republic of Belarus in Modern Conditions by I. V. Protosovitskii, E. P. Zabello, M. A. Prishchepov, V. A. Daineko

“…The analysis of promising energy-saving measures in agricultural power engineering demonstrated that routine measures are being supplemented by other measures induced by the fact that power electronics and microprocessor technology have significantly advanced in their development in the agricultural energy sector over the past decades, for example, for frequency control of asynchronous motors equipped by a short-circuited rotor that has high values of energy and dynamic indicators. …”
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EPRNG: Effective Pseudo-Random Number Generator on the Internet of Vehicles Using Deep Convolution Generative Adversarial Network by Chenyang Fei, Xiaomei Zhang, Dayu Wang, Haomin Hu, Rong Huang, Zejie Wang

“…With the increasing connectivity and automation on the Internet of Vehicles, safety, security, and privacy have become stringent challenges. In the last decade, several cryptography-based protocols have been proposed as intuitive solutions to protect vehicles from information leakage and intrusions. …”
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Seasonal Variations and Long-term Trend of Mineral Dust Aerosols over the Taiwan Region by Yanda Zhang, Yi-Jhen Cai, Fangqun Yu, Gan Luo, Charles C. K. Chou

“…The long-term model results suggest a decreasing trend of the strong dust event frequencies and annual mean ND,d>500nm over Taiwan in the last two decades. From 1999 to 2018, the number of strong dust event days and ND,d>500nm decreased by 40–43% and 37–54%, respectively, under 4 km, and the decline is weaker at higher altitudes. …”
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Rapid landslide detection from free optical satellite imagery using a robust change detection technique by Rosa Coluzzi, Angela Perrone, Caterina Samela, Vito Imbrenda, Salvatore Manfreda, Letizia Pace, Maria Lanfredi

“…Abstract In the last decades, the availability of multi-source, multi-scale, and multi-resolution remote sensing data and the consequent progress of processing techniques brought a significant positive impact for landslide detection. …”
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Formulation and In Vitro Evaluation of Oral Capsules from Liquid Herbal Antimalarials Marketed in Ghana by Christina Osei-Asare, Fredrick William Akuffo Owusu, Philomena Entsie, Ama Kwansima Annan, Rita Akosua Gyamaa, Edem Makafui Amenuke

“…The patronage and usage of liquid herbal antimalarials in the management and treatment of malaria in Ghana have been on the ascendency over the past decade. This project seeks to transform five liquid herbal antimalarial preparations (Agbeve pevah, Time mixture, Givers mixture, Masada mixture, and Rooter mixture) produced locally and commonly used for the treatment of malaria fever into capsules. …”
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The Collection of Rhizosphere Microorganisms: its importance for the study of associative plant-bacterium interactions by O. V. Turkovskaya, S. N. Golubev

“…The broad range of useful properties found in these microorganisms, including the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen, production of phytohormones, solubilization of phosphates, control of pathogens, and formation of induced systemic resistance in the colonized plants, make these bacteria an all-purpose tool that has been used for several decades in basic and applied research. This article reviews the current state of Azospirillum research, with emphasis on the results obtained at the IBPPM. …”
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Histopathological Insights into Granulomatous Lesions: A Comprehensive Study by Archana Kumari, Irbinder K. Bali, Ayushi Chauhan, Falguni Chitkara, Deepika Wadhera

“…Results: Lesions of granulomatous nature were more common in individuals in their third and fourth decades of life, with a little higher occurrence in females (male: female ratio = 1:1.43). …”
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Effectiveness of ISSR markers for detecting genomic variability in <I>Panicum miliaceum</I> L. accessions by D. Kh. Arkhestova, A. A. Yakhutlova, A. D. Khaudov, L. Kh. Sokurova, T. V. Kulemina

“…Millet is one of the main cereal crops with a wide area of cultivation. Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the consumption of millet and its processed products. …”
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Review of potential simultaneous operations for the surgical rehabilitation of patients with thyroid eye disease by D.S. Atarshchikov, E.Yu. Korchemkina

“…Korchemkina² </p> <p> ¹Central Clinical Hospital and Polyclinic of the Department for Presidential Affairs, Moscow, Russian Federation </p> <p> ²Academy of Postgraduate Education of the Federal Scientific and Clinical Center of the Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation </p> <p> The importance of revising the traditional multi-stage approach to the surgical rehabilitation of patients with thyroid eye disease is supported by multiple reasons, such as high operation costs, anesthesia-related increase in a burden for patients, and repeated surgical incisions associated with a delayed healing of surgical wounds. Over the past two decades, the orbital surgeons have attempted to solve the problem by combining several operations into a single-stage procedure. …”
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Una mirada a medio siglo de cimentaciones laminares, métodos de cálculo e investigaciones asociadas en Cuba A look at half a century of shells foundations, methods of calculation a... by Ángel Emilio Castañeda, William Cobelo, Yoermes González, José Álvarez

“…<br>The work shows a summary of the most significant shells foundations built in Cuba in the last decades and the developments related to these in term of methods of calculation of plates and shells of complex geometry using reference surfaces and reference bodies, from the generalization of the projected solicitations method (Pücher, 1934) with the use of referential surfaces (Hernández, 1970) and other developments made in the mechanics of deformable solid by the Method of Duality (Rianitsiyn, 1974; Castañeda, 1993) and the Static-Geometric Analogy in the mechanics of the deformable solid (Castañeda, 1985).It also includes a summary of the research developed in recent years on the stress-strain states of soil under and inside shell foundations for chimneys of 74.5 m in sugar industries (Cobelo, 2004), comparative studies made of these with the use of the FEM (González, 2010) and other research projects currently running (Álvarez, 2010 ).…”
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Resistance-breaking strains of tomato spotted wilt virus hamper photosynthesis and protein synthesis pathways in a virus accumulation-dependent manner in Sw5-carrying tomatoes by Maria Isabella Prigigallo, Ugo Picciotti, Giovanni Bubici

“…In Italy, TSWV is widely spread in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) crops and causes severe yield losses. In the last decades, several tomato varieties carrying the Sw-5b gene for resistance to TSWV have been released. …”
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To Study the Thyroid Hormone Levels in Neonates of Rural and Urban Vidarbha Region by Ankita Kondhalkar, Meghali Kaple, Ranjit S. Ambad, Archana Dhok, Ashsish Anjankar

“…Background: This study aimed to evaluate thyroid hormone levels in neonates from the rural and urban Vidarbha region. Over the past decade, neonatal hypothyroidism screening has been conducted using filter paper techniques to identify congenital hypothyroidism (CH). …”
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Occurrence of Florfenicol and Linezolid Resistance and Emergence of optrA Gene in Campylobacter coli Isolates from Tunisian Avian Farms by Manel Gharbi, Rihab Tiss, Chadlia Hamdi, Safa Hamrouni, Abderrazak Maaroufi

“…Campylobacter species, especially C. coli and C. jejuni, have been associated with a range of human gastrointestinal diseases. During the last two decades, due to the irrational use of antibiotics in poultry farms, high rates of antimicrobial resistance have been globally reported in C. coli and C. jejuni isolates. …”
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The burden of medical contraindications to corneal donation: Time for review. by Oliver Dorado-Cortez, Sylvain Poinard, Magali Epinat, Fanny Collange, Sandrine Ninotta, Paul Goin, Jean Luc Perrot, Philippe Gain, Graeme Pollock, Gilles Thuret

“…The potential pool of corneal donors is significantly restricted by a group of CIs introduced decades ago in response to a theoretical transmission of disease. …”
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Identification and Genetic Diversity Analysis of Cinnamomum parthenoxylon (Jack) Meisn Species in Song Hinh Protection Forest, Vietnam Based on Three Chloroplast Gene Regions by Dinh Duy Vu, Mai Phuong Pham, Ngoc Huyen Dang, Xuan Dac Le, Hung Cuong Dang, Huu Thuc Nguyen, Dang Hoi Nguyen

“…Background: Cinnamomum parthenoxylon is an important component of tropical Vietnam and has major ecological and economic significance, which has been threatened in recent decades due to the destruction of its habitat and overexploitation. …”
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Genotypic variability of Pinus sylvestris L. on the drought-resistance attribute by E. Yu. Amineva, A. P. Gureev, T. M. Tabatskaya, O. S. Mashkina, V. N. Popov

“…There was an increase and intensification of droughts in connection with global climate change in recent decades. Not all plant organisms are able to adapt to changing environmental conditions. …”
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