Fathers’ involvement in pregnancy and childbirth in Africa: an integrative systematic review by Samuel Nambile Cumber, Anna Williams, Helen Elden, Malin Bogren

“…Background As notions of masculinity evolve globally, it is important to understand their dimensions within geographic regions and life contexts. African men’s involvement in their partners’pregnancy and childbirth has been explored to a limited extent in the peer-reviewed literature. …”
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Eternal City or the Stuff of Nightmares? The Characterisation of Rome in Portrait of a Lady and Middlemarch by Hannah Hunt

“…The use of specific identifiable locations also indicates, through their character’s engagement with their geographical setting, how place and time help construct the identity of the characters themselves. …”
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Geospatial Analysis and Research on Social and Spatial Inequality of Compulsory Education: A Case Study of Hangzhou, China by Ge He, Qinshi Huang

“…In this paper, an improved Gaussian two-step floating catchment area model is developed taking into consideration the school district system, while the bivariate local spatial analysis method and geographically weighted regression model are employed to study the social and spatial differentiation of compulsory education accessibility and its capitalization effects in Hangzhou. …”
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Analysis of the Impact of the Russia–Ukraine Conflict on Global Liquefied Natural Gas Shipping Network by Ranxuan Ke, Xiaoran Wang, Peng Peng

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Spatial Pattern Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Green Use Efficiency of Urban Construction Land in Jilin Province by Huisheng Yu, Ge Song, Tong Li, Yanjun Liu

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A Tempo-Spatial Survey of Degree Day (Heating and Cooling) in Iran by Abolfazl Masoodian, Bohlol Alijani, Reza Ebrahimi

“…Being in different geographical latitudes, the existence of a variety of uneven lands, and the entrance of diverse synoptic systems during the year are among the major factors affecting Iran’s climate. …”
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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

“…In this work, we characterized the seed endophytic microbial communities of malting barley from different geographical locations and investigated associations between microbial (bacterial and fungal) species diversity and malt quality traits. …”
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Searching for effective strategies to reach boys and young men; a mixed-methods study protocol for youth clinics in Sweden by Mazen Baroudi

“…Thirdly, case studies in two regions in Sweden – chosen for their demographic and geographic diversity – will be conducted interviewing healthcare providers, managers, policymakers, and boys and young men. …”
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Three-Rooted Permanent Mandibular First Molars: A Meta-Analysis of Prevalence by Nyan M. Aung, Kyaw K. Myint

“…The prevalence of three-rooted permanent mandibular first molars (PMFMs) was influenced by different geographical locations across the world and also by widespread habitation of the Mongoloid descent. …”
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Orthogonal Capsule Network with Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Small Sample Hyperspectral Image Classification by Prince Yaw Owusu Amoako, Guo Cao, Boshan Shi, Di Yang, Benedict Boakye Acka

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Pakistan-Russia Relations within the Framework of the SCO: A Regional Analysis by Hira Yaqoob, Abeeda Qureshi

“… Pakistan and Russia have shared geographical proximity, but historically, this proximity did not translate into extensive cooperation due to Pakistan's alignment with the Western bloc during the Cold War and India’s strong relations with Russia. …”
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Spatiotemporal distribution of rural multifunctionality and its influencing factors: a case study of the Liaoning Coastal Economic Belt, China by Yu Chen, Jun Wang

“…This study constructed the RMF index from the living function, production function, and ecological function and systematically analyzed and depicted the spatiotemporal distribution process of rural functions using trend surface analysis and exploratory spatial data analysis. A geographical detector model was employed to further analyze the influencing factors. …”
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Enhancing Cobot Design Through User Experience Goals: An Investigation of Human–Robot Collaboration in Picking Tasks by Ana Pinto, Inês Duarte, Carla Carvalho, Luís Rocha, Joana Santos

“…A framework on UX goals will be tested, in the geographical context of Portugal. For that, an experimental setup was introduced in the form of a laboratory case study in which the human–robot collaboration (HRC) was evaluated by the combination of both quantitative (applying the User Experience Questionnaire [UEQ]) and qualitative (semistructured interviews) metrics. …”
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Autonomous, Multisensory Soil Monitoring System by Valentina-Daniela Băjenaru, Simona-Elena Istrițeanu, Paul-Nicolae Ancuța

“…Laboratory research involved a two-month evaluation of the system’s performance across three distinct soil types collected from diverse geographical locations. Analysis of the three soil types yielded a model accuracy estimate of 0.01. …”
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Monitoring and quantification of rural urbanisation: Case of Arris and Theniet Elabed, Algeria by Soto Sabrina, Hamouda Abida, Rebah Halim

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Genetic and Shared-Environment Effects on Stature and Lifespan. A Study of Dutch Birth Cohorts (1785–1920) Based on Genealogies by Jan Kok

“…I estimate how the associations are affected by respectively genetic relatedness, shared historical period and shared social and geographical environment. Furthermore, I make a distinction between kin related via the mother versus kin related via the father. …”
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Research in public communication of science and knowledge social appropriation: a decade-long bibliometric study by Marianela Dávila Lorenzo, Angélica Mendieta Ramírez, Josías Hernández Pérez

“…The following were analyzed: productivity of articles per year, author productivity, collaboration in authorship, geographical distribution, institutional affiliation and productivity of articles by journals, as well as knowledge structure: conceptual structure and social structure.…”
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CLIMATIC PATTERN ANALYSIS OF RAINFALL AND DRY SPELLS DURING THE AGRICULTURAL SEASON IN MALAWI by Medrina Linda Mloza Banda, Wim Cornelis, Henry R. Mloza Banda

“…The results highlight that climatic frameworks for analysing rainfall and dry events must consider multi-index analyses and cannot be uniformly applied across geographically diverse areas or assumed to be homogeneous within regions.…”
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The circular economy model as a promising path towards regional ecological and economic balance by M. Yu. Dyakov

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La forteresse de Sadr, une lecture géo-historique au temps des croisés by Corinne Feïss-Jehel, Jean-Michel Mouton, Claudine Piaton, Pierre-Jérôme Jehel, Jeannine Le Rhun

“…The location of the Sadr fortress appears to have met two major geographic criteria. Firstly, construction on a high butte gave the fortress a strong defensive position with a commanding view of the lower areas, which were the only way an army could approach. …”
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