optimal location to reduce earthquake vulnerability of cities (Case study: Bojnord) by sana rahmani, sayed hossein vahedi, leila abedi far, saleh ebrahimi pour

“…This natural phenomenon creates a disaster in an area of Iran every few years and destroys the human and financial potentials of the country and it has also irreversible mental and emotional consequences. …”
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EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE SUSTAINABLE WASTE-TO-ENERGY SYSTEM PERFORMANCE FOR THE POULTRY FARM by Xuejun QIAN, Yulai YANG, Raghulkumar CHANDRASEKARAN, Seong LEE

“…However, excess land application of poultry litter caused eutrophication problems of surface waters coming from the watershed and destroyed the aquatic ecology. Co-combustion of poultry litter and coal were widely studied in fluidized bed combustor as an alternative disposal method during last two decades. …”
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Threats and the active protection of birds in a riverbed: postulates for the strategy of the preservation of the middle Vistula River avifauna by Dariusz Bukaciński, Monika Bukacińska, Arkadiusz Buczyński

“…The other important task for the coming years will be to oppose plans for extensive engineering in the middle section of the river, which will irreversibly destroy this unique ecosystem.…”
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IMPACT OF FLOODING ON HUMAN SECURITY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA by DUBE PHILEMON ABRAK, ADELAKUN RASHEED ADEYINKA, ISHAKU AISHA YUSUF, UBON UDOH HUMAPWA, MUKHTAR BELLO MUHAMMAD, CHUKWUEDO N. HENRY, OGBUKE KINGSLEY NNAMDI

“…It also causes internal displacement, homelessness, economic hardship, psychological violence, and flooding affects agricultural productivity, destroying crops and farmland, which threatens food security. …”
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A VAN-Based Multi-Scale Cross-Attention Mechanism for Skin Lesion Segmentation Network by Shuang Liu, Zeng Zhuang, Yanfeng Zheng, Simon Kolmanic

“…In the process of operation, they may destroy the 2D structure of the image and cannot effectively capture low-level features. …”
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Integration of Multi-Source Archival Data for 3D Reconstruction of Non-Existent Historical Buildings by Beata Calka, Paulina Jaczewska, Justyna Slowik

“…These buildings either were destroyed or endured significant damage during the war. …”
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Development Characteristics and Sensitivity Analysis of Expansive Soil Slope by Pengfei Jiang, Yuanyuan Kong, Zhenyu Song, Ruixin Zhao, Jiewei Zhan, Xuhui Lin

“…It is found that the landslide is destroyed by the properties of expansive soil, the existence of water in the cracks, the loading of artificial filling, and the traction of old landslide. …”
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“Great Flood-Gates of the Wonder World”: Baptisms of Water and Fire in Melville and Hawthorne by Ariel Clark Silver

“…He is astonished at the capacity of water to both save and destroy—Ishmael floats on a buoyant trunk after the Pequod is dismantled by the greatest creature of the sea—even as it binds all elements on earth together. …”
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Role of Helicobacter pylori Eradication Therapy on Platelet Recovery in Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura by Khan Sheema, Ujjan Ikramdin, Naz Arshi, Naz Farah, Sheikh Imran

“…Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is a bleeding disorder in which the immune system destroys native platelets. In this condition an autoantibody is generated against a platelet antigen. …”
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A Khwārazmian Saint in the Golden Horde: Közlük Ata (Gözlī Ata) and the Social Vectors of Islamisation by Devin DeWeese

“…Evidence from the Ilkhanid realm and the Chaghatay ulus in Central Asia suggests that the Islamizing role of Sufis in this era may be better understood within the framework of establishing social bonds between Sufi communities, often organized hereditarily, and nomadic communities whose traditional social structures had been destroyed by Mongol military reorganization and by relocation to more constricted pasturelands, in the midst of substantial sedentary populations, far from their original homelands. …”
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Topsoil Compaction Risk Based on the Different Responses of Soil Structure to Compaction Stress by Huiqing Zhang, Tingfeng He

“…Compaction leads to reduced crop yields, as the soil structure is destroyed. As soil structures respond differently to different degrees of compaction stress, early warnings for the risk of soil compaction caused by agricultural machinery need to be provided based on changes to the soil structure. …”
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Information War in Syria by N. A. Smirnov

“…Analyzing numerous publications, photos and videos, largely specially rigged to achieve the desired result, it is difficult to say about the objective picture of what is happening, but it is an indisputable fact of enormous human sacrifices, millions of people who have fled their country and the destroyed country in the heart of the Middle East.…”
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Aménagement d’ossuaires dans le baptistère paléochrétien de Brioude (Haute-Loire) :  sélection, tri des ossements et relation À l’Âge au décès by Aline Thomas, Fabrice Gauthier, Esther Gatto, Pascal Murail

“…This area seems to have been destroyed during the construction of the second phase structure.…”
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Lip forgery detection via spatial-frequency domain combination by Jiaying LIN, Wenbo ZHOU, Weiming ZHANG, Nenghai YU

“…In recent years, numerous “face-swapping” videos have emerged in social networks, one of the representatives is the lip forgery with speakers.While making life more entertaining for the public, it poses a significant crisis for personal privacy and property security in cyberspace.Currently, under non-destructive conditions, most of the lip forgery detection methods achieve good performance.However, the compression operations are widely used in practice especially in social media platforms, face recognition and other scenarios.While saving pixel and time redundancy, the compression operations affect the video quality and destroy the coherent integrity of pixel-to-pixel and frame-to-frame in the spatial domain, and then the degradation of its detection performance and even misjudgment of the real video will be caused.When the information in the spatial domain cannot provide sufficiently effective features, the information in the frequency domain naturally becomes a priority research object because it can resist compression interference.Aiming at this problem, the advantages of frequency information in image structure and gradient feedback were analyzed.Then the lip forgery detection via spatial-frequency domain combination was proposed, which effectively utilized the corresponding characteristics of information in spatial and frequency domains.For lip features in the spatial domain, an adaptive extraction network and a light-weight attention module were designed.For frequency features in the frequency domain, separate extraction and fusion modules for different components were designed.Subsequently, by conducting a weighted fusion of lip features in spatial domain and frequency features in frequency domain, more texture information was preserved.In addition, fine-grained constraints were designed during the training to separate the inter-class distance of real and fake lip features while closing the intra-class distance.Experimental results show that, benefiting from the frequency information, the proposed method can enhance the detection accuracy under compression situation with certain transferability.On the other hand, in the ablation study conducted on the core modules, the results verify the effectiveness of the frequency component for anti-compression and the constraint of the dual loss function in training.…”
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Mid-Late Holocene Stalagmite δ18O and δ13C Records in Naduo Cave, Guizhou Province, China by Jialu Wang

“…Since 2.0 ka BP, the intensity of human activities and the transformation and influence of surface vegetation have increased, and native vegetation has been destroyed in large quantities. Therefore, the climatic and environmental significance indicated by δ13C and δ18O has been well demonstrated. …”
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Ecotourism and hunting in Ukraine: development analysis and forecast for the future by Serhii Portiannik, Volodymyr Merchanskyi

“…Unfortunately, Russian aggression led to the destruction of many unique natural landscapes, forest, hunting grounds, water ecosystems are bombed, not only people die, but also hunting (wild) animals, historical and cultural monuments are destroyed, such as the national literary and memorial the museum of the outstanding Ukrainian writer and philosopher Hryhoriy Savich Skovoroda in Kharkiv region. …”
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Study of centrifugal atomisation mechanisms based on a simulated experiment by Evgeny Yu. Zhukov, Alibek S. Naurzalinov, Igor N. Pashkov

“…Due to the walls of the bowl, the path of the liquid before it leaves the bowl increases, drops flying above the surface of the bowl are destroyed into a film, therefore, the dispersion process improves.…”
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Pathological effects of pregabalin toxicity in rats by Roaa Salih Mahdi, Nawras Najah, Sura Salman Ejam

“…Cerebellar cortical layers were preserved; however, Purkinje cells were destroyed in the acute toxicity group, which also exhibited an increase in pyknotic cells, hemorrhage, vascular congestion, and localized loss of tissue. …”
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POSITIVISM AND ITS ADVERSARIES: BRADLEY, COLLINGWOOD, NIETZSCHE AND HEIDEGGER by Evaldas Nekrašas

“…To overcome it once and for all without destroying the very foundations of our way of life and our evermore common culture is much more difficult than the most prominent critics may think. …”
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Akin Ogundiran: The Historian and Archaeologist of Yoruba-Atlantic becomes Chancellor Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte by Toyin Falola

“…And if, as he treats the local, he engages in issues around production and trade—as all his objects indicate—he is forced to engage in the understanding of how society relates to nature: that is, how humans ultimately relate to their environments, using and destroying them at the same time, and sometimes renewing them as well. …”
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