An Investigation for Heavy Metals’ Contamination in Farmers’ Fingernails: Case Study in Libya by Aiman M. Bobaker, Intisar Alakili, Elrashied E. Elkhidir, Sukiman B. Sarmani, Zaher Mundher Yaseen

“…This cross-sectional study involved 127 farmers and 25 high school teachers living in the same geographical area as the farmers (served as the control group). …”
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Evaluation of land use change, modeling and prediction of areas susceptible to physical development of the city (Case Study: Nurabad Mamasani Town) by rahman zandi, najmeh shafiei, ebrahim akbari, ali hajizadeh shikhanlo

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Assessment of land suitability and crop water requirements for irrigated sugarcane in the Kuraz Irrigation Scheme, Lower Omo Basin, Ethiopia by Mesfin Mamo Haile, Ayansa Teshome Gelalcha

“…This study focuses on evaluating the suitability of land for irrigated sugarcane cultivation and determining crop water requirements within the Kuraz Irrigation Scheme in Ethiopia. A combination of geographic information system (GIS) and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) tools was used to classify land suitability and support decision-making by considering factors such as soil pH, texture, temperature, rainfall, land use-land cover, and slope. …”
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Analysis of Climate and Land Use Changes Impacts on Land Degradation in the North China Plain by Zhihui Li, Xiangzheng Deng, Fang Yin, Cuiyuan Yang

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Introduction risk of fire ants through container cargo in ports: Data integration approach considering a logistic network. by Shota Homma, Daisuke Murakami, Shinya Hosokawa, Koji Kanefuji

“…Unlike natural dispersal, methods to address these issues have not yet been established, because the spatial correlation between ports based on the geographical distance is not assumed for human-mediated species introduction through container cargo. …”
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Comparative assessment of the resilience of new urban settlements to earthquake risk (Case study: Greater Isfahan urban area) by Fazllollah Karimi Ghotbabadi, Ali Zangiabadi

“…Earthquake resilience, defined as the capacity of societies—including social, economic, institutional, geographical, and other dimensions—to withstand and recover from seismic events, is a critical issue that demands attention across various societal contexts. …”
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Sustaining Biological and Cultural Diversity by Ana G. Valenzuela Zapata, Marie Sarita Gaytán

“…Outlined by the World Trade Organization, Geographical Indication (GI) designations identify specific quality guidelines and protect foods, drinks, and other products from competition based on their specific geographical origin or location. …”
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An Evapotranspiration Assimilation Method Based on Ensemble Kalman Filter and À Trous Wavelet by Shaohui Chen, Jianwei Qi, Xiaomin Sun, Xiangzheng Deng, Jing Tian

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Mortality, Work and Migration. A Consideration of Age-specific Mortality from Tuberculosis in Scotland, 1861-1901 by Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett

“…This paper provides an examination into some of the most enduring debates regarding tuberculosis mortality during the nineteenth century: those related to gender, geographic and temporal variations. We use populations reconstructed from individual census and civil register data for the period 1861 to 1901, comparing a growing urban area with a declining rural area, both with around 20,000 inhabitants in 1861. …”
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Re-Analyzing of Consequences and Methods of Climatological Changes Managements (Case Study: Iran’s Central Basin) by Sadegh Karami

“…The findings of the research indicate that climate change has shown the geographic region of Iran in terms of changing the rainfall pattern, decreasing precipitation and increasing its temperature. …”
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Multi-Criteria Assessment of Flood Risk on Railroads Using a Machine Learning Approach: A Case Study of Railroads in Minas Gerais by Fernanda Oliveira de Sousa, Victor Andre Ariza Flores, Christhian Santana Cunha, Sandra Oda, Hostilio Xavier Ratton Neto

“…The research regions are situated in the densely rail-networked state of Minas Gerais. The geographical and climatic diversity of Minas Gerais makes it the perfect place to test and validate the suggested approaches. …”
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Re-evaluation of mastodon material from Oregon and Washington, USA, Alberta, Canada, and Hidalgo and Jalisco, Mexico by Alton C. Dooley Jr, Chris Widga, Brittney E. Stoneburg, Christopher Jass, Victor M. Bravo-Cuevas, Andrew Boehm, Eric Scott, Andrew T. McDonald, Mark Volmut

“…The apparent presence of both mastodon taxa in close geographic proximity has interesting paleobiogeographic implications. …”
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Application of Artificial Intelligence Models for Evapotranspiration Prediction along the Southern Coast of Turkey by Mohammed Majeed Hameed, Mohamed Khalid AlOmar, Siti Fatin Mohd Razali, Mohammed Abd Kareem Khalaf, Wajdi Jaber Baniya, Ahmad Sharafati, Mohammed Abdulhakim AlSaadi

“…For this purpose, twenty input combinations including hydrological and geographical parameters were introduced to three different approaches called multiple linear regression MLR, random forest RF, and extreme learning machine ELM. …”
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Production Thematic Maps of Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundation for Al-Basrah Soil Using Standard Penetration Data and GIS by Majeed Sabaa, Alaa Salman, Ammar Dakhil, Saba Jawad, Mahdi Karkush, Ahmed Athab

“…The Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the modern database software which is used to collect, analyze, display, processing and produce geographic information maps for a specific objective. …”
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Chemistry Combining Elemental Profile, Stable Isotopic Ratios, and Chemometrics for Fine Classification of a Chinese Herb Licorice (Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch.) from 37 Producing... by Zhongying Lu, Chengying Hai, Simin Yan, Lu Xu, Daowang Lu, Yixin Sou, Hengye Chen, Xiaolong Yang, Haiyan Fu, Jian Yang

“…A method based on elemental fingerprint, stable isotopic analysis and combined with chemometrics was proposed to trace the geographical origins of Licorice (Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch) from 37 producing areas. …”
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Cultivars and lines added to the gene pool of VIR’s durum wheat collection in 2000–2019. by O. A. Lyapunova, A. S. Andreeva

“….), like any other crop collection held by VIR, is a permanent process aimed at expanding the geographic, morphological and agrobiological diversity of the crop’s gene pool. …”
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Development of Arabic Language Learning Research: A Bibliometric Study on Scopus (2009-2024) by Ramadhan Safrudin, Ade Nandang, Sri Dewi Priwarti Siregar, Izzuddin Musthafa, Muhamad Fauzan Fauzi, Moch. Hazmi Farhanul Alby, Suyono Suyono

“…The analyzed parameters include the number of publications, citation patterns, geographical distribution, h-index, g-index, and journal rankings. …”
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Connectivity and community structure of online and register-based social networks by Márton Menyhért, Eszter Bokányi, Rense Corten, Eelke M. Heemskerk, Yuliia Kazmina, Frank W. Takes

“…These results hold when correcting for population size and geographical distance, notwithstanding that these two factors appear to be the main drivers of connectivity. …”
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Interregional features in the taxonomic composition of the Russian segetal floras by O. G. Baranova, A. S. Tretyakova, N. N. Luneva, A. A. Zverev, P. V. Kondratkov, T. A. Terekhina, G. R. Khasanova, S. M. Yamalov, M. V. Lebedeva

“…As for geographically remote regions – Altai Territory and Rostov Province – native and alien weedy species compositions were distant. …”
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Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of a Threatened African Tree Species, Milicia excelsa, Using Nuclear Microsatellites DNA Markers by Christine Ouinsavi, Nestor Sokpon, Damase P. Khasa

“…Pairwise FST values were positively and significantly correlated with geographical distances (r=0.432; P=.007, Mantel's test) indicating that populations are differentiated by “isolation by distance.” …”
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