Neighborhood environment associations with cognitive function and structural brain measures in older African Americans by Dima L. Chaar, Le Tu, Kari Moore, Jiacong Du, Lauren A Opsasnick, Scott M Ratliff, Thomas H Mosley, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Wei Zhao, Xiang Zhou, Ana V Diez Roux, Fazlay S Faruque, Kenneth R Butler, Jennifer A Smith

“…Further examination of the potential pathways between the neighborhood environment and cognitive function/WMH may allow the development of potential behavioral, infrastructural, and pharmaceutical interventions to facilitate aging in place and healthy brain aging in older adults, especially in marginal populations that are most at risk.…”
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Genetic evidence for the causal effect of clonal hematopoiesis on pulmonary arterial hypertension by Jia-Yong Qiu, Shen-Shen Huang, Chao Liu, Dong Ding, Yan-Hong Xu, Yi-Min Mao, Ya-Dong Yuan

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The financial character of policing in Tunisia: collusions, extraversion and the criminalization of informality by Daniela Musina

“…Experiments with new technologies, such as blockchain, come into play here (and in line with a broader trend visible in the whole African continent) not only as extraversion practices to reassure investors in European countries and international economic institutions, and consequently exit sanctioning lists, but as they strengthen the contemporary experimental and infrastructural character of 'security' which maintains and reproduces its regimes. …”
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HyQ2: A Hybrid Quantum Neural Network for NextG Vulnerability Detection by Yifeng Peng, Xinyi Li, Zhiding Liang, Ying Wang

“…As fifth-generation (5G) and next-generation communication systems advance and find widespread application in critical infrastructures, the importance of vulnerability detection becomes increasingly critical. …”
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Mitigation of environmental impacts in ornamental rock and limestone aggregate quarries in arid and semi-arid areas by M.A. Peñaranda Barba, V. Alarcón Martínez, I. Gómez Lucas, J. Navarro Pedreño

“…All of this has given rise to numerous active and abandoned mines, where no restoration process has been carried out, generating strong impacts on the environment.METHODS: In this study, 8 environmental impact assessments studies of ornamental rock and aggregate quarries in the Region of Murcia were analysed to identify the negative impacts on the abiotic and biotic environment, landscape, socio-economic and socio-cultural environment, and infrastructures and analysing preventive and control measures. …”
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The Role of Information Communication Technology to Teaching and Learning Geography in Secondary Schools: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality Kabale District. by Akampurira, Ruth

“…The study recommended that there is a need for the selected secondary schools to invest more in ICT as means of not only solving accessibility problem but also improving on the presence of the facilities especially computers in the classroom and computer labs and more infrastructures such as printers, computers, projectors should be put in place for more practice and utilization so that teaching and learning of geography can be effective.…”
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The Effects of Genocide on Tourism Industry in Bugesera District in Rwanda. by Egide, Mudaheranwa

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Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation of Lagos Coastal Communities to Flooding by Prince Emeka Ndimele, Akinloye Emmanuel Ojewole, Gabriel Olarinde Mekuleyi, Lateef Akorede Badmos, Christopher Monday Agosu, Emmanuel Sunday Olatunbosun, Oluseyi Olaide Lawal, Jamiu Adebayo Shittu, Olufemi Olabode Joseph, Kehinde Moyosola Ositimehin, Felix Chinsom Ndimele, Catherine Oluwalopeye Ojewole, Iman Olawunmi Abdulganiy, Odunayo Temitope Ayodele

“…This is because many African cities lack the resources and infrastructures needed to withstand extreme weather conditions. …”
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Physiological and image-based phenotyping assessment of waterlogging responses of three kiwifruit rootstocks and grafting combinations by Maria Calabritto, Alba N. Mininni, Roberto Di Biase, Angelo Petrozza, Stephan Summerer, Francesco Cellini, Bartolomeo Dichio

“…The aim of the present study was to evaluate morpho-physiological changes in kiwifruit rootstocks and grafting combinations under short-term waterlogging stress.MethodsA pot trial was conducted at the ALSIA PhenoLab, part of the Phen-Italy infrastructures, using non-destructive RGB and NIR image-based analysis and physiological measurements to identify waterlogging stress indicators and more tolerant genotypes. …”
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Soil classification in a seismically active environment based on join analysis of seismic parameters by Y. Asnawi, A.V.H. Simanjuntak, U. Muksin, M. Okubo, S.I. Putri, S. Rizal, M. Syukri

“…The classification of soil properties from the combination of shear wave and horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio data correlates with the geology of the study area.CONCLUSION: The Banda Aceh city, flanked by the two active faults, is characterized by low shear wave velocity and high amplification because the city stands on the sedimentary basin; thus, it requires a detailed investigation prior to constructing infrastructures. The other clusters are located on the relatively less vulnerable areas, indicated by moderate shear wave velocity and moderate to low seismic vulnerability indexes. …”
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Explanation and validation of the coordination model of the marketing and sales department in the insurance industry in Iran by Alireza Jahed, Ehsan Abedi, Hamidreza Saeednia

“…The insurance sales and marketing network consists of all executives, staff, infrastructures, software and hardware; and should be in the form of a targeted planning process as a success factor, marketing lever, and executive arm of the insurance industry; and should be managed based on marketing skills and Sales (Shafei, 2020). …”
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HESS Opinions: Towards a common vision for the future of hydrological observatories by P. Nasta, G. Blöschl, G. Blöschl, H. R. Bogena, S. Zacharias, R. Baatz, G. De Lannoy, K. H. Jensen, S. Manfreda, L. Pfister, L. Pfister, A. M. Tarquis, I. van Meerveld, M. Voltz, Y. Zeng, W. Kustas, X. Li, H. Vereecken, N. Romano

“…The already existing monitoring infrastructures have provided an enormous amount of hydrometeorological data, facilitating detailed insights into the causal mechanisms of hydrological processes, the testing of scientific theories and hypotheses, and the revelation of the physical laws governing catchment behavior. …”
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Modeling the quality of tax audit based on the acceptance of legal taxpayers in business by Mohsen Hajibabaei, Sina Kheradyar, Mojtaba Malekichoobari

“…The findings of the research show the effectiveness of seven dimensions: causative factors including legal issues, taxpayers' issues, issues related to the case, and organizational issues; central factors including acceptance of legal taxpayers; intervening factors including conditions of legal taxpayers, performance of beneficiary organizations, cultural conditions, and infrastructures; background factors including organizational issues, skills of agents, and audit system; consequential factors including maintaining interests, improving attitudes, and increasing income. …”
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Valorisation des résidus de cultures pour l’alimentation du bétail au Burkina Faso : perception des agropasteurs et pratiques d’utilisation by Songdah Désiré Ouattara, Boko Michel Orounladji, Souleymane Sanogo, Der Dabiré, Dramane Diomandé, Ollo Sib, Mohamed Habibou Assouma

“…Conclusions : cette étude a montré que les traitements visant à améliorer la valeur nutritive des résidus de cultures sont peu utilisés en raison de la mauvaise maîtrise qu’en ont les exploitants, de leur incertitude quant à l’efficacité de ces traitements, et de l’absence d’infrastructures. …”
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Discovery of Novel Diagnostic Biomarkers for Common Pathogenic <i>Nocardia</i> Through Pan-Genome and Comparative Genome Analysis, with Preliminary Validation by Chaohong Wang, Xinmiao Jia, Ming Wei, Jun Yan, Qing Sun, Sibo Long, Maike Zheng, Yiheng Shi, Guanglu Jiang, Yan Zhao, Hairong Huang, Xinting Yang, Li Gu, Guirong Wang

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Preparation of future teachers for innovative activities in pedagogical and technological educational environment by N. I. Naumkin, N. N. Shekshaeva, V. F. Kupryashkin, E. V. Zabrodina

“…The environment includes conceptually-targeted, infrastructural, content-based, psychological-didactic, methodological-technological and relaxation-diagnostic components, its features are the following: 1) focus on innovative training of technology teachers as directly related to the material objects of the innovative economy of the country; 2) universality in the form of the possibility of using it to solve other educational tasks; 3) graphical visualisation of the environment model with an indication of the hierarchy and interrelation of components, its scale, combinatoricity and functional sufficiency; 4) compliance of the environment with all the requirements of regulatory documents on educational activities at the university; 5) possibility of full-scale implementation of modern approaches to learning (innovative, personalised, environmental, project, etc.); 6) possibility of constant monitoring and control of the implementation of the environment within its relaxation and diagnostic component; 7) use of modern educational technologies, including digital; 8) possibility of obtaining specialised knowledge and studying other disciplines within the framework of using network learning; 9) innovativeness of the environment, determined by the novelty of the approach to teaching the teachers innovation technology and its effectiveness.To teach innovation activity in this environment, a model of a methodological system for the formation of competence in innovation activity among future technology teachers has been created, combining conceptually-targeted, meaningful, instrumental-activity and reflexive-evaluative components. …”
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Alimenter la ville de Lyon en eau : les galeries de captage antiques sous les collines de Fourvière et de la Croix-Rousse by Emmanuel Bernot

“…Their contribution to a more extensive supply network therefore necessarily implied their convergence towards reservoirs in order to put the water under pressure.The water collection galleries under the hills, exploited at least since the 1st century AD, as well as the channelled springs, were therefore used –either directly or in addition to other sources– to supply public or private hydraulic infrastructures located on the slopes or at the foot of the hills: thermal baths, basins, cisterns, wells and fountains. …”
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Carbon Emission of Garden Pavement by Peiyong WANG, Ruixing LU

“…In the field of landscape architecture, a large amount of practical research has been carried out in the two aspects of enhancing urban resilience and reducing emissions and increasing sinks, both of which mainly focus on the qualitative research on study of the carbon footprints of landscape plants, soils, water bodies, green infrastructures, and green spaces over their entire life cycle. …”
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A Meta-Synthesis of the Integrated Model of Customer Value co-Destruction and Value co-Creation by Zohreh Dehdashti Shahrokh, Vahid Nasehifar, Mohammad Reza Karimi Alavijeh, Yazdan Rahmatabadi

“…Abstract Considering that the Internet and the advancement of technology have created very advanced infrastructures for the interaction between organizations and customers, and both value creation and value destruction are two inseparable components of the relationship between the customer and the organization and the interactive process between the two. …”
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Presenting the model of social entrepreneurship in the development of rural tourism in the target villages of Gilan province by Fatemeh Doozandeh Ziabari, hamed fallah tafti, Mir Mohammad Asadi, Mahdi Basouli

“…The obtained results showed that the nine main factors affecting the formation of higher education tourism in Iran in order of influence are: dynamic political exchanges with the world at the national level, the existence of macro-national policies in the field of academic interaction, facilitating the process of acceptance in political and administrative dimensions, the existence of economic and technical infrastructures for foreign students, the international language level of faculty members and staff as well as the structure of dynamic and accepting higher education, the existence of a sense of security in social, security and political dimensions for foreign students, and branding factors of universities and introducing historical, cultural and religious attractions to the world.Ratten (2020) in a research comprehensively examined researches in the field of entrepreneurship in tourism and it is noted that it focused on lifestyle and sustainable forms of tourism entrepreneurship without considering emerging technologies and other forms of entrepreneurship like digital and social.Research methodologyThe research method is qualitative and applicable. …”
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