Distribution, growth, and structure of pine-beech forest stands in the Lviv Roztochchia region by Hryhoriy Krynytskyy, Lubomyr-Olexandr Debryniuk, Valentyna Kovaleva, Mykola Korol, Volodymyr Kramarets, Olga Krynytska, Roman Kuziv, Vasyl Lavnyy, Natalia Lutsiv, Stepan Myklush, Ihor Skolskyy, Volodymyr Yakhnytsky

“…In the western part of Ukraine, pine-beech forest stands are widespread only in the physico-geographical regions of Roztochchia and Opillia. Their total area is 8,204.5 hectares, of which 6,246.5 hectares (76.13%) are occupied by stands of natural origin, 1,890.8 hectares (23.05%) are forest plantations, 5.5 hectares (0.07%) are sparse forests, 20.0 hectares (0.24%) are naturally occurring stands with admixture of forest cultures, 41.2 hectares (0.50%) are unclosed forest cultures, and 0.5 hectares (0.01%) are forest nurseries. …”
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Network Meta-Analysis of Factors Influencing the Carbon Sink Capacity of Urban Park Green Spaces by Yutong JI, Tianyi LIN, Lian LIU, Xiong LI

“…The influence of the external environment on carbon sink capacity is generally weaker but still requires attention in specific scenarios. The geographical location, climatic conditions, and soil types of different parks also lead to certain differences. …”
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Development of a Transcultural Social Ethical and Integrated Care Model, for Dependent and Older People Populations at Risk of Exclusion in the Mediterranean Sea Basin (TEC-MED): A... by Ana María Porcel-Gálvez, Elena Fernández-García, Soledad Vázquez-Santiago, Sergio Barrientos-Trigo, María Dolores Mateos-Garcia, Mercedes Bueno-Ferrán, Jalila El Ati, Hajer Aounallah-Skhiri, Marta Lima-Serrano

“…Methods: The TEC-MED project participants are nine project partners and six associated partners, with geographic coverage from six countries in the Mediterranean basin, Spain, Tunisia, Italy, Lebanon, Egypt, and Greece. …”
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The burden of acute respiratory infection attributable to fine particulate matter brought by dust storms among children under 5 years of age in low- and middle-income countries by Hong Lu, Mingkun Tong, Ruohan Wang, Ning Kang, Xueqiu Ni, Jianyu Deng, Jiajianghui Li, Pengfei Li, Tianjia Guan, Tong Zhu, Tao Xue

“…The long-term dust PM2.5 exposure contributed to 12–13% of all the children affected by U5-ARI between 2000 and 2017. The geographic hotspots were the arid and populous areas of South Asia and Africa. …”
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Prevalence of chronic kidney disease among Chinese adults with diabetes: a nationwide population-based cross-sectional studyResearch in context by Weiping Jia, Rong Yu, Limin Wang, Dalong Zhu, Lixin Guo, Jianping Weng, Hong Li, Mei Zhang, Xiaoqi Ye, Zhiguang Zhou, Dajin Zou, Qiuhe Ji, Xiaohui Guo, Yinan Zhang, Dong Lang, Jiarui Wu, Jing Wu, Xuhong Hou, Xiaohui Guo, Kai Wu, Liming Chen, Demin Liu, Guangyao Song, Linyi Shu, Jing Yang, Yan Wang, Dongmei Li, Qiansha Guo, Ling Li, Na Wu, Yadong Sun, Huifang Cheng, Hongyu Kuang, Huijuan Zhang, Weiping Jia, Xuhong Hou, Dalong Zhu, Jian Zhu, Hong Li, Fenping Zheng, Qiu Zhang, Honglin Hu, Gang Chen, Xingquan Yang, Xiaoyang Lai, Jianping Liu, Li Chen, Ming Dong, Zhigang Zhao, Jian Liu, Guangda Xiang, Junxia Zhang, Zhiguang Zhou, Jian Peng, Jianping Weng, Longyi Zeng, Yuzhen Liang, Guoqiao Li, Kaining Chen, Leweihua Lin, Qifu Li, Qingfeng Cheng, Xingwu Ran, Dawei Chen, Hong Li, Xin Nian, Lihui Yang, Shuyou Meng, Jing Xu, Junhong Long, Jing Liu, Qi Zhang, Qingxiang Dai, Xiaomin Xie, Guirong Bai, Jun Li, Tao Li, Zhong Dong, Tao Zhang, Sijia Liu, Yong Yang, Kun Geng, Wenlong Zheng, Zhihong Li, Hui Wang, Zuojun Wu, Miao Wang, Jixin Sun, Jianwei Zhou, Jun An, Huaqing Shen, Yanfang Li, Zeping Ren, Xiuli Xue, Shaohui Jia, Yongping Zheng, Jiaoxia Li, Yonggang Qian, Ping Ma, Yan Su, Liang Cao, Xuyi Yang, Guowei Pan, Guangzhi Pan, Ling Jin, Quanfu Yu, Yunfei Liu, Yingli Zhu, Zhifang Cheng, Jun Yang, Chundi Jia, Qing Wang, Shichun Yan, Jingyang Huang, Yumei Chi, Li Zhang, Ruifa Pang, Yan Shi, Yan Lu, Yiling Wu, Jie Yu, Chunxiang Wu, Jinyi Zhou, Yunxia Wu, Ning Zhang, Jing Sun, Xiumei Tian, Jieming Zhong, Jingying Chen, Kaixu Xie, Lingjuan Fu, Xiaohua Wang, Yeji Chen, Ling Zeng, Zhenqian Cao, Maomin Yang, Biao Hu, Wenling Zhong, Qingyan Liu, Zhiding Huang, Qingbin Lai, Yuyu Zhang, Liping Zhu, Yujing Zhao, Wuming Tao, Yonghai Tu, Lin Zhou, Xiaolei Guo, Benzheng Chai, Liping Ding, Yuewei Zou, Dongzhi Li, Li Hua, Shixian Feng, Jianli Guo, Wanguang Liu, Qingxiang Li, Yunzhi Zheng, Minli Xu, Lan Zhang, Chunbo Li, Yingchao Wan, Chi Hu, Shengping Xu, Biyun Chen, Huilin Liu, Xiaojia Bian, Wenwei Chen, Honghua Li, Yanjun Xu, Fan Weng, Hong Wu, Weijin Zhang, Liankai Zhu, Jun Meng, Jin Yang, Yongsong Zeng, Gaoke Zhai, Lingfeng Qin, Yi Lu, Zhenwang Fu, Shukuan Wu, Caigang Li, Na Wang, Lianfen Chen, Xianbin Ding, Qi Zhou, Yiling Xie, Rui Chen, Dongsheng Yang, Ying Deng, Youping Hu, Bo Huang, Ping Wang, Peng Cai, Changyan Peng, Xiaofang Chen, Ling Li, Liang Xiao, Chenglin Wang, Chaogang Tan, Daobin Chen, Min Chen, Mingfang Qin, Zhaomin Lei, Jianzhi Qiu, Wei Yu, Yunfei Li, Guoxia Bai, Ying Wang, Lin Qiu, Ning Wang, Xudong Zhao, Ani Yan, Jianfei Liu, Tingcai Wang, Kaihua Hao, Zaihong Zhang, Zhanqi Xian, Tenghuan Ma, Zhihua Xu, Yi Yang, Hongli Wang, Rong Li, Zhonggang Zhao, Caixia Fan, Purhati, Hongjun Xu, Liping Gao

“…Furthermore, the restricted cubic spline curves depicted that the disparities in the odds of having albuminuria or decreased eGFR among subpopulations grouped by sex, age, setting, and geographical region, significantly decreased and even disappeared in some cases as the LE8 scores increased. …”
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Determination of Zinc Requirement in Suckling Calves using Some Non-Linear Models by Mohammad Javad Elyasi, Khalil zaboli

“…However, one of the basic problems regarding for addition of Zn to the livestock diets in Iran is the lack of accurate knowledge of the livestock requirement for Zn (according to the country's geographical conditions). The present study was carried out to determine the optimal requirement of Zn in Holstein suckling calves using some models. …”
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Genetic Analysis of Reciprocal Crosses of Silkworm in New Iranian Lines and Hybrids by Shahla Nematollahian, Seyed Hossein Hosseini Moghaddam, Babak Rabiei, Seyed Ziaeddin Mirhoseini

“…Further field investigations can be carried out to select the hybrids suitable for different geographical conditions.…”
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Estimación de Erosión Hidrica de Suelos para plan de Manejo del Campo Forestal Aguas Frías, Patagonia Argentina by Ana Cecilia Dufilho, María Cristina Frugoni, Pablo Macchi, Alan Thot

“…Paper presents, pedology map by interpreting and georreferencing satellite images by a Geographical Information System. (GIS). The mapping methodology was based in Hierarchical Classification of Landforms, which is the structure of the geopedology focus for mapping soil (Zinck, 1989). …”
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Comprehensive Assessment of the Effect of Urban Built-Up Land Expansion and Climate Change on Net Primary Productivity by Pengyan Zhang, Yanyan Li, Wenlong Jing, Dan Yang, Yu Zhang, Ying Liu, Wenliang Geng, Tianqi Rong, Jingwen Shao, Jiaxin Yang, Mingzhou Qin

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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and spread of New Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase (NDM) in Italy: A call for policymakers by Gabriella Nucera

“…Indeed, there are two sentinel networks at national level, named AR-ISS and MICRONET, but there is an unequal, geographical distribution of the hospital laboratories that participate in AR-ISS and MICRONET, which are mostly located in the northern regions, despite the fact that AMR prevalence is acknowledged to be highest in the central and the southern regions of the country. …”

New Insights into Duckweed as an Alternative Source of Food and Feed: Key Components and Potential Technological Solutions to Increase Their Digestibility and Bioaccessibility by Krisztina Takács, Rita Végh, Zsuzsanna Mednyánszky, Joseph Haddad, Karim Allaf, Muying Du, Kewei Chen, Jianquan Kan, Tian Cai, Péter Molnár, Péter Bársony, Anita Maczó, Zsolt Zalán, István Dalmadi

“…While some studies have analysed the variability in the nutritional composition of different duckweed species, there is a need for comprehensive research on the variability in nutrient contents across species, growth conditions, harvesting times, and geographic locations. There has been limited research on the digestibility, bioaccessibility (the proportion of nutrients that are released from the food matrix during digestion), and bioavailability (the proportion that is absorbed and utilised by the body) of nutrients in duckweed. …”
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Activités artisanales sur la rive droite de la Vesle à Reims/Durocortorum by Émilie Jouhet, Michaël Brunet, Pierre Mathelart, Véronique Matterne

“…The geological analysis results performed on the stored clay demonstrated that they were 100% composed of smectite (whose geographical and geological origin could not be determined). …”
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Rural Management Development: Understanding Future Scenarios for Villages in Jiroft County by Mahmoud Falsolayman, Mohammad Hajipour, Atiyeh Salari

“…Hence, this study sought to identify the key factors and drivers that influence rural management development and provided scenarios and strategies necessary for its future implementation, specifically within the geographical region of Jiroft. Materials and MethodsThis study utilized an applied research design employing a mixed-method approach. …”
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Research on the Spatio-temporal Characteristics and Driving Factors of Smart Farm Development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt by GAO Qun, WANG Hongyang, CHEN Shiyao

“…Including the overall spatial clustering characteristics, high-value or low-value clustering phenomena, centroid characteristics, and dynamic change trends. Subsequently, the geographic detector was employed to identify the key factors driving the spatio-temporal differentiation of smart farms and to discern the interactions between different factors. …”
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A Historical Study of the Effects of the 1930 Earthquake on the Human Geography and History of Selmas City and its Surrounding Region by Zeinab Ahmadvand, Tohid Malekzadeh Dilmaghani

“…Materials & Methods:The methodology employed in this study was based on both descriptive and analytical methods, drawing upon primary sources, such as historical and geographical texts, official reports, accounts from local residents, and field studies encompassing geology and earthquakes. …”
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Les fours « à pain » dans les Gaules et les Germanies (ve s. av. J.-C.-ve s. apr. J.-C.), un regard technique by Nicolas Monteix, Camille Noûs

“…From then on, this type of oven was progressively introduced throughout the territory considered by this study, though it remains impossible to determine an exact zone of emergence, or to trace the geographical progression or rhythm of its adoption. Beyond certain fluctuations, the number of known ovens increases from the 2nd c. …”
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Investigating the Effects of Debt Convergence of Companies on the Speed of Capital Structure Adjustment Considering the Time Horizon by Sayed Mojtaba Ahmadi, Mehdi Agha Beik Zadeh, Afsaneh Soroushyar

“…It is essential to evaluate the optimal composition based on the convergence of a company's capital structure with its industry peers or other comparable companies in the same geographic region or country. This contextual perspective is crucial for accurately determining a company's optimal financing mix. …”
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Key Drivers Affecting the Future of Power Relations in Tehran Metropolis with a Scenario-Writing Approach by Afshin Mottaghi, Arash Ghorbani Sepehr, Joseph Saloukadz

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Nécropoles multipolaires et élaboration d’un nouveau modèle socio-politique au premier âge du Fer : réflexions à partir des sites du Camp de l’Église Sud à Flaujac-Poujols (Lot) et... by Antoine Dumas

“…Following a brief overview of the general contextual informations for these two sites (geographical and physical location, history of prior study, etc.), the first part of this work is dedicated to the internal analysis of each cemetery. …”
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Geological, alteration, mineralogy and geochemical studies of the Copper deposit in the Kalatehno prospect area, northwest of Gonabad (Khorasan Razavi province) by Sedigheh Zirjanizadeh, Roohollah Miri Bydokhti

“…Introduction The Kalatehno area is situated 23 km northwest of Gonabad city, Khorasan Razavi province, and in geographic latitude 34°28´30̋ to 34°29´30̋ N and longitude 58°31´30̋ to 58°32´30̋ E. …”
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