Contaminants in the Urban Environment: Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs)—Part 2 by Yun-Ya Yang, Gurpal S. Toor

“…This series is intended to give state and local government officials, soil scientists, consulting engineers, extension agents, and citizens (1) a basic understanding of the occurrence, toxic effects, and source of various contaminants in the environment and (2) guidance on ways to protect human and environmental health. This 9-page fact sheet discusses the sources and impacts of PPCPs and offers common-sense ways we can protect our environment from PPCPs. …”
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UAV and Its Approach in Oil and Gas Pipeline Leakage Detection by Saheed Akande, Adedotun Adetunla, Tosin Olanrewaju, Adeyinka Adeoye

“…The consequences of this include human casualties, environmental degradation, economic loss, and loss of resources. …”
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Kinematics and Dynamics Analysis of Double Rocker Prosthetic Knee Joint by Xuhui Liu, Zhijuan Ding, Qiwen Luo, Zhen Jian, Yuanfang Zhang

“…Knee joint is an important part of normal movements of human body. In order to meet the needs of lower limb amputees to restore normal motor function， a prosthetic knee joint with double rocker mechanism is designed. …”
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L’homme et la mer aux Yasawa (îles Fidji) by Émilie Nolet

“…It also involves positive actions from the State so as to protect traditional fishing rights and the preservation of harmonious relationships with spiritual entities, which pull the strings of human lives, and within the island community itself.…”
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Pierwsze wyznanie Synostwa Bożego przez Jezusa (Łk 2, 41–52) by Stanisław Witkowski

“…It develops through reflection on the identity of Jesus and ultimately leads to the primacy of the will of God over human will.…”
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Mieux appréhender la neige par le croisement de données qualitatives et quantitatives dans la région de l’Everest (Népal) by Ornella Puschiasis, Marie Savéan, Pierre Chevallier, Joëlle Smadja, Olivia Aubriot, François Delclaux

“…To get a better understanding of solid precipitation and how it has evolved over the last decades, and thus to improve our knowledge of hydro-climatic variations, we crossed quantitative data (measured, spatialised and simulated) produced from work in hydrology, with qualitative data (field interviews) derived from work in human geography. Here we present an innovative comparison method based on three key factors: seasonality, trends and notable events. …”
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Les montagnes et la montée des clercs dans l’Algérie coloniale. Viticulture, montagnes et réformisme (iṣlāḥ) aux xixe-xxe siècles by Kamel Chachoua

“…Studies of human and social sciences on religion in Algeria have always focused on the roles and functions of the iconic actors (saints, reformers) and ancient and modern institutions (brotherhoods , madrasas , public schools) in a sort of "functionalism the worst and/or the best". …”
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“They willfully themselves exile from light”: Exile in Space, Stage and Metatheatre in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Zied Ben Amor

“…Transformed characters are exiled from the human world when they change shapes. Others are forced to leave their countries and worlds to enter magical ones. …”
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Wi-freshness: research on CSI-based pork freshness detecting system by Chao NIU, Weidong YANG, Pengming HU, Xiangshang GAO, Erbo SHEN

“…Effective and rapid detection of pork freshness is important for pork quality.However, traditional sensory evaluation methods are too subjective, physical and chemical analysis methods are time-consuming and destructive.Recently, radio frequency is widely used in the field of location, material identification and human body monitoring, while, the meat freshness detection is ignored.A real-time, non-destructive and low-cost system for pork freshness detecting based on channel state information (CSI) was proposed.It is a new application of internet of things in the field of fresh agricultural products based on ubiquitous network (commercial Wi-Fi).The proposed Wi-freshness consists of four modules: CSI data sensing, data pre-processing, detection modelling and freshness detection.Considering the need for Wi-freshness data characteristic value processing is not much, and high demand for real-time prediction characteristics, a detection model based broad learning system (BLS) was proposed.Experiment shows that Wi-freshness system can achieve more than 93% detection accuracy.…”
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Guidance for Processing Fresh-cut Produce in Retail Operations by Keith R. Schneider, Victor Garrido, W. Steve Otwell, Ray Mobley

“…This document is FSHN05-05, one of a series of the Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, IFAS, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611. …”
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Studies Regarding Social Representations About High Blood Presure in Cuba by Lisvett González Rodríguez, Masiel Díaz López, Armando Rodríguez Salvá

“…The theory of social representations has achieved a great value in Public Health research, since they influence actions and responses of the human beings, at the individual and social level. …”
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State’s Authority Concerning Health Protection in Ordinary Times and During Epidemics by Jacek Meller

“…Life and health as fundamental matters are major concerns for every human being. To this end, he / she should be assisted by the community in which they live. …”
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National Information Infrastructure and the realization of Singapore IT2000 initiative by Cheryl Marie Cordeiro, Suliman Al-Hawamdeh

“…Being a small island and without any natural resource, Singapore has much to depend on its human potential and investment in National Information Infrastructure (NII) in order to find its place in the ever competitive global world economies. …”
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NEGARA DAN KEPEMIMPINAN DALAM PEMIKIRAN ALFARABI by Imam Sukardi

“…The ideal state is the state which is elaborated the universal values of humanism, not just limited to certain ethnic and nation which is emphasizing its obedience just to God, not the something else. …”
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Preventing Foodborne and Non-foodborne Illness: Vibrio vulnificus by Anita C. Wright, Renée M. Goodrich, Michael A. Hubbard, Keith R. Schneider

“…Schneider, and published by the UF Food Science and Human Nutrition Department. Original publication date: July 2009. …”
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Ontologies for the Transactions on IoT by Chao Qu, Fagui Liu, Ming Tao

“…To facilitate the efficient use of information generated from the Internet of Things (IoT) by sensors and automatically drive entities to meet the needs of human beings, this paper presents an information processing framework using semantic web technologies. …”
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Del Antropoceno al Ecoceno: propuestas jurídicas de la transición ecosocial para el cuidado de la vida by Susana Borràs-Pentinat

“…In these times when we experience, first-hand, the limits of our existence, COVID-19 has proved to be another of the multiple consequences of the human footprint on the Earth ecosystem. The destruction of habitats, the extinction of biodiversity, the climatic emergency… have generated a situation of global disease, which places the Earth system at the limits of its capacity and in which humans are not at all oblivious to the consequences of this pathology. …”
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Brain tumor detection across diverse MR images: An automated triple-module approach integrating reduced fused deep features and machine learning by Yugal Pande, Jyotismita Chaki

“…Brain tumors pose a significant threat to human health due to their potential to disrupt normal brain function. …”
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Vibrio parahaemolyticus: spread, detection and identification techniques by G. S. Skitovich, N. B. Shadrova, O. V. Pruntova

“…Vibrio parahaemolyticus are gram-negative halophilic bacteria found in marine and coastal waters all over the world which cause acute food-borne gastroenteritis in humans. Rarely V. parahaemolyticus cause wound infections, infections of ears or sepsis in individuals with a compromised immune system. …”
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« L’Amazonie – victime des changements climatiques ? » by Sebastian Weissenberger, Delaine Sampaio da Silva

“…Its future is however in peril due to the effects of climate change and human activities. Climate models predict a severe die-back of the Amazon forest by the end of this century, accompanied by the release of vast quantities of carbon actually stored in the vegetation. …”
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