Using Seasonal Climate Variability Forecasts to Plan Forest Plantation Establishment by Norman Breuer, Matthew Langholtz, David Zierden, Clyde Fraisse

“…Knowledge of climatic conditions allows us to develop a seasonal management strategy for forest plantations and managed natural forests. Areas of application include seedling establishment, preparing for pests and diseases, fire management, harvest schedules and inventory management. …”
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Forms of the Earth and Urban Forms by Giuseppe Tupputi

“…Over the centuries, many settlements were born following the recognition of spatial vocations based inside the geographical forms, thus exalting the natural features of a specific territory. During the last century in Italy the Urban Design Theory dealt with these themes by trying to define the syntax of urban construction in relation to the forms of physical geography. …”
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Molecular Basis of Inhibitory Activities of Berberine against Pathogenic Enzymes in Alzheimer's Disease by Hong-Fang Ji, Liang Shen

“…The natural isoquinoline alkaloid berberine possesses potential to treat Alzheimer's disease (AD) by targeting multiple pathogenic factors. …”
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Perceived Brand Authenticity as the Answer to Global Crises by Magdalena Grębosz-Krawczyk

“…The most important PBA dimension in the case of mineral water is the brand naturalness. The study also proved that the brand origin can increase the perceived brand authenticity. …”
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New technology in libraries work and the problems of education in the field of librarianship and bibliography by Marija Prokopčik

“…The changing role of information, which becomes one of the natural resources of a country, and the rapid development of computer technology reveal new professional demands for librarians. …”
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The Farm Bill: Helping Landowners Help Wildlife by Kristin C. Thomas, William M. Giuliano

“… The United States Department of Agriculture administers a wide variety of Farm Bill programs through the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the Farm Service Agency (FSA), and the Forest Service (FS). …”
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SCOPE OF APPLICABILITY OF THE COMPETENCE APPROACH IN EDUCATION by Oleg R. Kayumov

“…The article considers the natural obstacles to the implementation of the competence approach in Russian higher education. …”
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Salinity Preference in Hatchery-Reared Juvenile Red Drum by Daryl C. Parkyn, Debra J. Murie, Edward T. Sherwood

“…This observed salinity preference in juvenile red drum has implications with respect to movement or residency of hatchery-reared juvenile red drum out-planted into natural coastal systems.…”
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Causal ACTH-Depot Therapy during Pregnancies following Infertility Treatment by Rudolf Klimek, Marek Klimek, Peter Gralek, Dariusz Jasiczek

“…The activity of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis plays a key role in pregnancy. Such naturally stimulated endogenous corticosteroid hormones are free from unwanted side effects of their synthetics analogs. …”
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Applying of Factor Analyses for Determination of Trace Elements Distribution in Water from River Vardar and Its Tributaries, Macedonia/Greece by Stanko Ilić Popov, Trajče Stafilov, Robert Šajn, Claudiu Tănăselia, Katerina Bačeva

“…Three factors represent the associations of elements that occur in the river water naturally while Factor 3 represents an anthropogenic association of the elements (Cd, Ga, In, Pb, Re, Tl, Cu, and Zn) introduced in the river waters from the waste waters from the mining and metallurgical activities in the country.…”
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Z-Distance Based IF-THEN Rules by R. A. Aliev, O. H. Huseynov, R. X. Zulfugarova

“…We provide an example on solving problem related to psychological issues naturally characterized by imperfect information, which shows applicability and validity of the suggested approach.…”
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Suspension du droit et rétrécissement du politique : apothéose de l’État planétaire by Jesús Cuenca De la Rosa

“…Even a superficial understanding of our concretereality, which would enlighten how the real inhabitants of our world live or survive – what their life of living beings consist in, if we borrow the concept suggested by Michel Foucault in the end of The Will to Know, when he asserts that modernity is caracterized by the intrusion of natural life intothe political field – would inevitably contradict such a noble project. …”
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Para ler, entender e divulgar um jardim by Marta Enokibara

“…A intenção era “tornar os parques susceptíveis de serem lidos e entendidos pelos leigos curiosos de se iniciarem em história natural”. Mas, além da instrução, pretende-se explorar neste artigo como o Guia foi um importante material de divulgação. …”
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Image dehazing method based on haze-line and color attenuation prior by Miao LIAO, Yan LU, Jin ZHANG, Yuqian ZHAO, Shuanhu DI

“…To solve the problems caused by the existing image dehazing methods, such as color over-saturation, detail loss, and artifacts, a dehazing method was proposed based on haze-line and color attenuation prior.Firstly, haze-line prior and Hough vote were used to estimate the atmospheric light.Then, a nonlinear model on scene depth was constructed according to color attenuation prior theory to achieve transmission accurately.Finally, the haze was removed from the image by inversely solving the atmospheric scattering model, so as to obtain the dehazed image with rich details.The proposed method was tested on public RESIDE dataset in comparison with many existing methods.Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively remove the haze from image and obtain a clear and natural dehazed image, which has higher time and space efficiency than other methods.…”
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Modal Analysis and Test Research of Double Meshing Needle Teeth Cam Indexing Mechanism by Mingtao Liu, Fuyuan Zhang, Yanqi Li, Herong Liu, huaiyu Jin

“…The comparison shows that the natural frequency of the experimental modal analysis is similar to the finite element calculation. …”
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Teaching for a Broken World by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

“…The enthusiasm of the initial years will naturally cool. We must continue to try to keep to the initial principles, even as we satisfy institutional norms. …”
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Bifurcation Type Change of AC Electrostatically Actuated MEMS Resonators due to DC Bias by Dumitru I. Caruntu, Kyle N. Taylor

“…The AC frequency is near natural frequency. This drives the resonator into nonlinear parametric resonance. …”
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Higher-order topology for collective motions by Zijie Sun, Tianjiang Hu

“…Abstract Collective motions are prevalent in various natural groups, such as ant colonies, bird flocks, fish schools and mammal herds. …”
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ERDOF: outlier detection algorithm based on entropy weight distance and relative density outlier factor by Zhongping ZHANG, Weixiong LIU, Yuting ZHANG, Yu DENG, Mianxin WEI

“…An outlier detection algorithm based on entropy weight distance and relative density outlier factor was proposed to solve the problem of low accuracy in complex data distribution and high dimensional data sets.Firstly, entropy weight distance was introduced instead of euclidean distance to improve the detection accuracy of outliers.Then, the Gaussian kernel density estimation was carried out for the data object based on the concept of natural neighbor.At the same time, relative distance was proposed to describe the degree of the data object deviating from the neighborhood and improve the ability of the algorithm to detect outliers in the low-density region.Finally, the entropy weight distance and relative density outlier factor were proposed to describe the degree of outliers.Experiments with artificial data sets and real data sets show that the proposed algorithm can effectively adapt to various data distributions and outlier detection of high-dimensional data.…”
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Impact of On-Farm Demonstrations on Technology Adoption, Yield, and Profitability Among Small Farmers of Wheat in Pakistan—An Experimental Study by Nadia Hussain, Keshav Lall Maharjan

“…While extension methods show significant immediate effects of an intervention, their impact may fade over time. In a government-led natural experiment in Pakistan, a long-lasting adoption of certified seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides/herbicides in post-treatment years were observed by employing difference–indifferences with a fixed effect method on panel data. …”
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