SPATIAL EVOLUTION OF SMART CITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM: A CASE STUDY OF PHUKET PROVINCE, THAILAND by Komsan KIRIWONGWATTANA, Katawut WAIYASUSRI

“…The study results found that land use patterns such as Urban and built-up land, Waterbodies, and Forest land have had an increasing trend over the past 20 years. …”
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Enhanced antioxidant performance of phlorotannin compounds from brown seaweed Sargassum tenerrimum via nanoliposomal encapsulation by Esmat Mohammadi, Bahareh Shabanpour, Parastoo Pourashouri, Vahide Payamnoor, Salim Sharifian

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Enhancing cybersecurity incident response: AI-driven optimization for strengthened advanced persistent threat detection by Gauhar Ali, Sajid Shah, Mohammed ElAffendi

“…Then, the machine learning techniques i.e., Random Forest, and XGBoost, are applied to improve the decision process and reduce the false positive alerts of the Security Information and Event Management system. …”
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Predicting the current and future distributions of Australian Loranthaceae mistletoes by Carol A. Wilson, Kenneth Trang

“…Mistletoes are branch parasites of trees and shrubs, occur world-wide, and are considered keystone species in many forest communities. They have complex interactions with seed dispersers, pollinators, and animals that use them for shelter, and contribute to community productivity and biotic diversity. …”
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A Postcolonial Insight into African Onomastics in Europhone Translation: A study of D. O. Fagunwa’s Selected Yoruba Narrative Names by Damola E. Adeyefa

“…Fagunwa’s Yoruba novels – Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀ (2005) and Ìrèké-Oníbùdó (2005) –and their French translations – Le preux chasseur dans la forêt infestée de démons (1989) and La fortune sourit aux audacieux(1989) – by Olaoye Abioye respectively; as well as Louis Camara’s, an Ivorian francophone, translation of Soyinka’s translation The Forest of a Thousand Daemons (1982); originally from Fagunwa’s Ogboju into French-- La Forêt aux Mille Demons (2010). …”
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Law diversities for climate change: legal pluralism and climate governance in Indonesia by Muhammad Insan Tarigan, Raisha Hafandi

“…Therefore, the formulation of Indonesia's NDC policy documents, especially those related to the forest and land use (FOLU) sector, is recommended to increase the inclusiveness of local communities, local governments, and non-governmental organizations. …”
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Usage of Satellite Imagery to Determine Distribution of Dacrycarpus imbricatus (Blume) De Laub. on The Tapak Hill, Batukahu Natural Reserve Bali by Rajif Iryadi, Arief Priyadi, I Dewa Putu Darma

“…Pleaides image is an important asset to obtain data and information with regard to the structure of the vegetation in the forest that are difficult to measure directly as the area is inaccessible and has a large coverage. …”
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Visual–Inertial Autonomous UAV Navigation in Complex Illumination and Highly Cluttered Under-Canopy Environments by Leyang Zhao, Weixi Wang, Qizhi He, Li Yan, Xiaoming Li

“…The objective is to enhance the reliability and safety of UAV operations beneath the forest canopy, thereby establishing a technical foundation for surveying vertically stratified natural resources.…”
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Influence of Shade in Cocoa Agroforestry Systems on Physicochemical and Functional Characteristics of Cocoa Beans in Bonon, Central-West Côte d’Ivoire by Affoué Tatiana Kouassi, Adjoua Christiane Eunice Boko, Sika Hortense Blei, Djédoux Maxime Angaman, Yao Sadaiou Sabas Barima

“…To combat deforestation, the Ivorian government recently advocates for agroforestry, a farming technique involving the cultivation of cocoa trees with fruit or forest trees. Yet, the impact of these associated trees and their shade on the quality of produced cocoa beans remains relatively unknown. …”
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DRG2 as a Biomarker to Enhance the Predictive Efficacy of PD-L1 Immunohistochemistry Assays by Muralidharan Mani, Seong Hee Choi, Hyuk Nam Kwon, Jeong Woo Park

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Assessing Wildfire Risk in South Korea Under Climate Change Using the Maximum Entropy Model and Shared Socioeconomic Pathway Scenarios by Jukyeong Choi, Heemun Chae

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Enhancing credit risk assessments of SMEs with non-financial information by Ranik Raaen Wahlstrøm, Linn-Kristin Becker, Trude Nonstad Fornes

“…Our analysis incorporates state-of-the-art discrete hazard models, the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), adaptive boosting (AdaBoost), bagging and random forest. We also test robustness using balanced datasets generated using the synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE). …”
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Сільське кладовище в метеорологічній магії українців Полісся by Олександр Васянович

“…The locations of possible burials of suicides to prevent bad weather were identified: intersection, forest, place of suicide, etc. Based on the field materials collected at the beginning of the 21st century, meteorological magical actions performed on the graves of suicides are considered: destruction of graves, pulling out crosses, watering graves with water, etc. …”
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NON-NATIVE AND NATIVE INVASIVE TERRESTRIAL PLANT SPECIES IN COMANA NATURAL PARK. CASE-STUDIES: AMORPHA FRUTICOSA AND CRATAEGUS MONOGYNA by MONICA DUMITRAŞCU, INES GRIGORESCU, GHEORGHE KUCSICSA, CARMEN-SOFIA DRAGOTĂ, MIHAELA NĂSTASE

“…Based on this complex assessment, the potential users (foresters, environmentalists, etc.) will be able to predict the expanding of ITPS and identify their impact upon the natural habitat of some rarespecies, especially when talking about protected area’s conservative importance.…”
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Trends and transitions: mapping a decade of conservation research in Brazil’s federal protected areas by Ana Carolina da Silva, Franklin Galvão, Nelson Cosmo

“…The VosViewer software identified niches of the most used keywords linked to conservation, Atlantic Forest, and protected areas. The study highlights the challenges faced when performing research activities in federal protected areas in Brazil, such as access to remote areas and climate instability. …”
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Research on Recognition of Quiet Period of Sandstone Acoustic Emission Based on Four Machine Learning Algorithms by Dong Duan, Xiaojing Feng, Ruizhe Zhang, Xiaoyu Chen, Hongzhi Zhang

“…The kernel support vector machine model has the best performance, and its average precision is 0.87. The random forest (RF) model is the best model for recognizing quiet period of acoustic emission.…”
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FARMER-HERDERS CONFLICTS IN NIGERIA: ITS CHALLENGES AND INTERVENTIONS by M.O. Mazeli, Binta Side

“… Climate change has forced herders to move out of the desert to the forest, searching for a greener posture but not ethnic war. …”
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Identification of Xylem Occlusions Occurring in Cut Clematis (Clematis L., fam. Ranunculaceae Juss.) Stems during Their Vase Life by Agata Jedrzejuk, Julia Rochala, Jacek Zakrzewski, Julita Rabiza-Świder

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Wood identification in objects of Bambuti people from the Congo in the collection of the Slovene ethnographic museum by Katarina Čufar, Hans Beeckman, Marko Frelih, Luka Krže, Wannes Hubau, Maks Merela

“… The African collection of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum (SEM) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, holds objects of everyday life from the Bambuti people from the Ituri forest, in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. …”
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The Spread of Information in Virtual Communities by Zhen Zhang, Jin Du, Qingchun Meng, Xiaoxia Rong, Xiaodan Fan

“…A two-layer network model was first used to study the spread of topics through a VC. A random forest method was then applied to rank various factors that might determine an individual user’s importance in topic spreading through a VC. …”
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