Retrospective analysis of enzootic bovine leucosis spread in Republic of Dagestan considering natural and climatic conditions by A. R. Mustafayev, M. O. Baratov

“…The animal infection with BLV in these natural and climatic conditions was reported as follows: high-altitude and mountainous areas– 0.5% (2,313 animals), plain areas– 0.8% (1,925 animals), sub-mountain areas– 0.1% (109 animals). …”
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A successful remote patient monitoring program for diabetes by Katlyn Sawyer, David Saxon, David Saxon, Richard Zane, Hemali Patel, Michael McDermott, Vatsala Singh, Helen M. Lawler

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Core-genome guided novel therapeutic targets identification and chimeric vaccine designing against Rickettsia rickettsii by Fizza Arshad, Asifa Sarfraz, Muhammad Shehroz, Umar Nishan, Asia Perveen, Riaz Ullah, Mohamed A. Ibrahim, Mohibullah Shah

“…Abstract Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, caused by the gram-negative intracellular bacteria Rickettsia rickettsii, is a serious tick-borne infection with a fatality rate of 20–30%, if not treated. …”
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Reservoir Physical Properties and Micropore Nanocharacteristics of Cores in the Shihezi Formation, Sudong District, Sulige Gas Field, Ordos Basin by Xin Zhang, Feng Wang, Shuyi Liang, Qintao Guo, Jingchun Tian, Bingyue Shen

“…The cumulative area of reservoirs in mountain section accounts for 5.38% of the total area and that in He-8 section accounts for 5.46%. …”
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Shear Performance of Vertical Joints in Wind Turbine Concrete Towers with Different Interface Processes by Yang Zhou, Ertong Hao, Yudong Ran, Hai Cao, Yane Li, Jike Tan

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Genetic Variation of Lentil Landraces Across Different Altitudes in Azerbaijan by Babayeva Sevda, Shikhaliyeva Kamila, Qurbanova Qamar, Hajiyeva Sabina, Izzatullayeva Vusala, Rustamov Khanbala, Abbasov Mehraj

“…Lentil is mainly grown in rainfed systems and thus plays an important role in sustainable agriculture, especially in high mountain landscapes. The aim of this study was to assess the genetic diversity of 50 lentil accessions, including landraces from high mountain regions of Azerbaijan as well as wild lentil species, using SSR markers. …”
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Thickness of Ruth Glacier, Alaska, and depth of its Great Gorge from ice-penetrating radar and mass conservation by Brandon S. Tober, Michael S. Christoffersen, John W. Holt, Martin Truffer, Christopher F. Larsen

“…Ruth Glacier is situated in the Central Alaska Range, with the Don Sheldon Amphitheater comprising much of its broad accumulation area, directly adjacent to North America's tallest mountain, Denali. From there it funnels through the ‘Great Gorge,’ flanked by steep valley walls reaching over 1500 m. …”
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Neolithic pastoralism and plant community interactions at high altitudes of the Pyrenees, southern Europe by Irene Julián-Posada, Graciela Gil-Romera, Sandra Garcés-Pastor, Peter D. Heintzman, Daniel Gómez, Federico Fillat, Ana Moreno, Javier Lara-Recuero, Pere Bover, Lourdes Montes, Alejandro Sierra, Blas Valero-Garcés, Inger G. Alsos, Penélope González-Sampériz

“…These findings highlight complex interactions between climate, human activities, and landscape dynamics during the Neolithic in Mediterranean mountains.…”
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Interroger l’innovation dans les Alpes à l’échelle locale by Philippe Bourdeau

“…The Pays des Écrins, which hosted the 2008 Alpine Week, is an emblematic mountain region of the French Alps that has to adapt in the face of numerous endogenous and exogenous crises and changes. …”
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Théorie du droit et front écologique : apport à la (re)définition de la justice environnementale by Nadia Belaidi

“…This is the resulting question of the law and geography connexions when we wanted to consider strategy of conquest operated on a protected area (Table Mountain National Park, Cap Town, South Africa). This link showed, on one hand, that geographical terminology depends on law as social process and, on the other hand, that defintion of the notion of environmental justice requires a global conception that can offer a Law and Geography combined analysis.…”
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Homoclinic Solutions for a Class of the Second-Order Impulsive Hamiltonian Systems by Jingli Xie, Zhiguo Luo, Guoping Chen

“…This paper is concerned with the existence of homoclinic solutions for a class of the second order impulsive Hamiltonian systems. By employing the Mountain Pass Theorem, we demonstrate that the limit of a 2kT-periodic approximation solution is a homoclinic solution of our problem.…”
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Désenchantement dans les Tatras. La vulnérabilité des « Alpes de poche » (Slovaquie) by Michel Lompech

“…Although tourism in this mountain range started in the mid-19th century, different stages over the course of the 20th century accelerated the transformation of the mountainous surroundings into an urban and recreational area. …”
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Existence and Multiplicity Results of Homoclinic Solutions for the DNLS Equations with Unbounded Potentials by Defang Ma, Zhan Zhou

“…New sufficient conditions of the existence and multiplicity results of homoclinic solutions for the difference equations are obtained by making use of the mountain pass theorem and the fountain theorem, respectively. …”
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Nontrivial Solutions for a Class of p-Kirchhoff Dirichlet Problem by Xian Hu, Yong-Yi Lan

“…The main tools are variational method, critical point theory, and mountain-pass theorem.…”
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Mergeable adaptive tile coding method by Meng-yu SHI, Quan LIU, Qi-ming FU

“…In order to solve many unnecessary division,mergence supported adaptive tile coding algorithm was presented which would eliminate the unnecessary division.Simulation is conducted on mountain car problem with discrete actions and continuous state space Results show that the proposed method can eliminate the influence of false division in the traditional tile coding method and achieve a more accurate adaptive partition of continuous state space.A higher convergence rate is achieved at the same time.…”
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Failure of a Solar Filament Eruption Caused by Magnetic Reconnection with Overlying Coronal Loops by Leping Li, Hongqiang Song, Yijun Hou, Guiping Zhou, Baolin Tan, Kaifan Ji, Yongyuan Xiang, Zhenyong Hou, Yang Guo, Ye Qiu, Yingna Su, Haisheng Ji, Qingmin Zhang, Yudi Ou

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Socioecological dynamics of diverse global permafrost-agroecosystems under environmental change by Melissa Ward Jones, Joachim Otto Habeck, Mathias Ulrich, Susan Crate, Glenna Gannon, Tobias Schwoerer, Benjamin Jones, Mikhail Kanevskiy, Prashant Baral, Amina Maharjan, Jakob Steiner, Andrew Spring, Mindy Jewell Price, David Bysouth, Bruce C. Forbes, Mariana Verdonen, Timo Kumpula, Jens Strauss, Torben Windirsch, Christopher Poeplau, Yuri Shur, Benjamin Gaglioti, Nicholas Parlato, Fulu Tao, Merritt Turetsky, Stephanie Grand, Adrian Unc, Nils Borchard

“…These systems support local livelihoods and food production and are rarely considered in global agricultural studies but may become more relevant as climate change is increasing opportunities for food production in high latitude and mountainous areas. The exact locations and amount of agricultural production in areas containing permafrost are currently unknown, therefore we provide an overview of countries where both permafrost and agricultural activities are present. …”
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Canopy structural heterogeneity drives α and β species–genetic diversity correlations in a Chinese subtropical forest by Zhiliang Yao, Xia Pan, Xin Yang, Xiaona Shao, Bin Wang, Yun Deng, Zhiming Zhang, Qiaoming Li, Luxiang Lin

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The Mosquito by Jorge R. Rey

“…They can reproduce in virtually any natural or man-made deposit of water and have been found in mines deep below the surface, in mountain peaks, in highly polluted water bodies, in snow pools, and even in crab holes. …”
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Wetland Degradation and Ecological Restoration by Junhong Bai, Baoshan Cui, Huicong Cao, Ainong Li, Baiyu Zhang

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