Detection and Phylogenetic Analysis of Alphacoronaviruses in Bat Populations of Rostov and Novosibirsk Regions of Russia, 2021–2023 by Olesia V. Ohlopkova, Igor V. Popov, Ilia V. Popov, Kristina A. Stolbunova, Marina A. Stepanyuk, Alexey D. Moshkin, Aleksei A. Maslov, Ivan A. Sobolev, Aleksey V. Malinovkin, Elizaveta V. Tkacheva, Daria A. Bogdanova, Ekaterina A. Lukbanova, Alexey M. Ermakov, Alexander Y. Alekseev, Svetoslav D. Todorov, Alexander M. Shestopalov

“…These sequences shared over 90% identity with alphacoronaviruses previously identified in bats across Northern Europe and Russia, underscoring the viruses’ wide geographic distribution and evolutionary connections. …”
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Preserving Darwin’s fox: genomic tools for the conservation of South America’s most endangered canid by Cristóbal Valenzuela-Turner, José Horacio Grau, Jörns Fickel, Jörns Fickel, Daniel W. Förster

“…Here we highlight the potential of HTS to address these challenges, such as clarifying its taxonomy, demographic history, geographic distribution, population structure, genetic diversity, and pathogen exposure. …”
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Possessives with kinship terms in Italian and Italo-Romance dialects by Francesca Volpato, Gianluca Lebani

“… This study investigates the acceptability of constructions containing third-person possessives combined with singular and plural kinship terms in adult bilectal speakers of Italian and different Italo-Romance varieties spoken in six different geographic areas in northern, central, and southern Italy. …”
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NLRP3 Inflammasome: Activation and Regulation in Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Jiangyuan Gao, Ruozhou Tom Liu, Sijia Cao, Jing Z. Cui, Aikun Wang, Eleanor To, Joanne A. Matsubara

“…Little is known about the interactions among these mechanisms that drive the transition from early to late stages of AMD, such as geographic atrophy (GA) or choroidal neovascularization (CNV). …”
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APPLE TREE DEVELOPMENT AND INTENSIFICATION OF THE BREEDING PROCESS by E. N. Sedov

“…In connection with the discovered features of apple tree development, we consider opportunities of breeding acceleration and intensification by means of combination of breeding stages, agricultural methods, multiple screenings against infectious and provocative backgrounds, grafting of 2-year seedlings on 3–6-year skeletogenous trees, study of hybrid seedlings in different geographical areas, utilization of correlations of anatomical, physiological and morphological characters of young seedlings with their commercially valuable properties in adulthood, and application of molecular methods.…”
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A contribution to the knowledge of the butterfly fauna (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) of the Cerkljansko Idrijsko region, west Slovenia, with notes on their vertical distribution by Rudi Verovnik

“…The highest diversity of butterfly species and habitat types was observed between 500 and 750 m. Despite the geographical heterogeneity, only few parts of the region have escaped intensive exploration and could be considered important habitats for the threatened butterfly species in Slovenia. …”
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Comparison of the Spatiotemporal Variability of Temperature, Precipitation, and Maximum Daily Spring Flows in Two Watersheds in Quebec Characterized by Different Land Use by Ali A. Assani, Raphaëlle Landry, Christophe Kinnard, Ouassila Azouaoui, Christine Demers, Karine Lacasse

“…We compared the spatiotemporal variability of temperatures and precipitation with that of the magnitude and timing of maximum daily spring flows in the geographically adjacent L’Assomption River (agricultural) and Matawin River (forested) watersheds during the period from 1932 to 2013. …”
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Determining the Climate Risk in the City Using the Risk Matrix Method - Examples from Poland by Wojciech Szymalski, Andrzej Kassenberg

“… The preparation of urban adaptation plans in Poland required application of tools, hitherto rarely used in geographical sciences. One of them is the risk matrix, the application of which originates from management science. …”
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Ecology of Indigenous Lactic Acid Bacteria along Different Winemaking Processes of Tempranillo Red Wine from La Rioja (Spain) by Lucía González-Arenzana, Pilar Santamaría, Rosa López, Carmen Tenorio, Isabel López-Alfaro

“…Ecology of the lactic acid bacteria (LAB) during alcoholic fermentation (AF) and spontaneous malolactic fermentation (MLF) of Tempranillo wines from four wineries of La Rioja has been studied analyzing the influence of the winemaking method, processing conditions, and geographical origin. Five different LAB species were isolated during AF, while, during MLF, only Oenococcus oeni was detected. …”
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Site selection of equipment and military equipment based on natural factors Case Study: Oman Sea Shores by mohamda poodineh, morteza esmailnejad, sohrab qaedi, Mohammad Ali Shirazi kharazi

“…The coastal are geographically diverse from important areas for attracting populations and economic activities, especially military ones. …”
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THE NEW ATLANTEANS: FORCED MIGRATION, STATELESSNESS AND JUSTICE by Magnus Arni Skjöld MAGNUSSON, Heather ALLANSDÓTTIR, Danielle Elizabeth BEAUCHEMIN, Elham FAKOURI, Judit RODRIGUEZ, Anca TĂNASIE

“…With the well-documented predicted continuation of rising sea-levels as a result of man-made climate change over the next century, two interrelated issues have emerged in international law and global policy discussions: what to do about both those who are displaced due to climate change, those whose homelands are entirely physically eradicated due to climate change, and those whose homelands remain geographically/ physically intact but who nonetheless experience forced migrations, and what transnational duties exist in both cases. …”

Genetic Diversity of Melipona mandacaia SMITH 1863 (Hymenoptera, Apidae), an Endemic Bee Species from Brazilian Caatinga, Using ISSR by Elder Assis Miranda, Henrique Batalha-Filho, Priscila Santos Oliveira, Rogério Marcos Oliveira Alves, Lucio Antonio Oliveira Campos, Ana Maria Waldschmidt

“…The correlation between genetic and geographic distances (r=0.4542; P<0.01) suggests isolation by distance. …”
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Study on GIS Visualization in Evaluation of the Human Living Environment in Shenyang-Dalian Urban Agglomeration by Kang Hou, Jieting Zhou, Xuxiang Li, Shengbin Ge

“…Based on the carrying capacity of resources, natural and socioeconomic environmental factors and regional changes of human living environmental evaluation are analyzed with the application of geographic information systems (GIS) software. By using principal component analysis (PCA) model and natural breaks classification (NBC) method, the evaluation results are divided into five categories. …”
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Wind Potential of Bingöl Province and the Impact of Climate Change by Sadık Alashan

“…Furthermore, the continuity of the wind potential according to geographical directions for this city is investigated and the prevailing wind direction is determined. …”
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Understanding the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem and Identifying Appropriate Spatial Units while Studying the Influence of the Built Environment on the Traffic System State by Tian Li, Mengmeng Zhang, Haobin Jiang, Peng Jing

“…The purpose of this study is to assess the effects of MAUPs on statistical variables and geographically weighted regression results when evaluating the influence of the built environment on the traffic system state. …”
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Time series data on typhoid fever incidence during outbreaks from 2000 to 2022 by Dae-Hyup Koh, Monica Duong, Nodar Kipshidze, Virginia E. Pitzer, Jong-Hoon Kim

“…Abstract This article presents a comprehensive dataset compiling reported cases of typhoid fever from culture-confirmed outbreaks across various geographical locations from 2000 through 2022, categorized into daily, weekly, and monthly time series. …”
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Financial Sustainability of the Russian Higher Education Institutions: Quantitative Analysis by D. A. Endovitsky, V. V. Korotkikh, A. V. Krivosheev

“…Moreover, we have established the insignificance of the university geographical location influence on financial sustainability. …”
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The 5th Canadian Symposium on Hepatitis C Virus: We Are Not Done Yet—Remaining Challenges in Hepatitis C by Nicholas van Buuren, Lorraine Fradette, Jason Grebely, Alexandra King, Mel Krajden, Sonya A. MacParland, Alison Marshall, Sahar Saeed, Joyce Wilson, Marina B. Klein, Selena M. Sagan

“…However, a considerable proportion of the population remains undiagnosed and treatment uptake remains low in Canada due to financial, geographical, cultural, and social barriers. Comprehensive prevention strategies, including enhanced harm reduction, broader screening, widespread treatment, and vaccine development, are far from being realized. …”
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Holocene Bythocytheridae (Ostracoda: Podocopida) from Southwestern Atlantic deep-sea sediments off Brazil. Part 1: tribes Bythocytherini Sars, 1926 and Jonesini Schornikov, 1981 by Cristianini Trescastro Bergue, Marie-Béatrice Forel, Geise de Santana dos Anjos-Zerfass, Simone Nunes Brandão

“…During the Cenozoic this family became one of the main constituents of the deep-sea ostracod faunas, with some taxa reaching wide geographic distribution. Bythocytherids are, therefore, important for the understanding of evolution and paleobiogeography in marine Ostracoda. …”
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CC2: Defending Hybrid Worm on Mobile Networks with Two-Dimensional Circulation Control by Hailu Yang, Deyun Chen, Guanglu Sun, Xiaoyu Ding, Yu Xin

“…For those nodes that are geographically close but located in different communities , we evaluate the communication security between them based on the observed infection history and limit communications between insecure ones to avoid the worm spreading across communities. …”
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