A New Weighting Scheme in Weighted Markov Model for Predicting the Probability of Drought Episodes by Zulfiqar Ali, Ijaz Hussain, Muhammad Faisal, Ibrahim M. Almanjahie, Muhammad Ismail, Maqsood Ahmad, Ishfaq Ahmad

“…Drought is a complex stochastic natural hazard caused by prolonged shortage of rainfall. …”
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The world’s first “Smart Nation” vision: the case of Singapore by Esra Banu SIPAHI, Zabihullah SAAYI

“… “Smartization” is the policy that Singapore as a city-state with a small geographical territory, limited natural resources, increasing urban density and aging population but determined to become an exceptional city-state has adopted to overcome various national challenges, improve the quality, efficiency and performance of urban services, sustainable development and overall improvement of citizens’ lives. …”
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Research Progress in Lactoferrin’s Role in Alleviating Intestinal Barrier Dysfunction by LI Yi, REN Xinxin, WANG Qin, HE Xiaoyun

“…When the intestinal mucosa is damaged, the tight junctions between intestinal cells are disrupted, and the intestinal flora becomes imbalanced, a variety of diseases can arise. Natural active proteins are pivotal in the repair of the intestinal barrier. …”
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Malokun Festival and Practices among the Mahin on the Ilaje Coast by Ajishola Omojeje, Raliat Olusola Adu-Peters

“…The article concludes that like the Mahin, most coastal communities in Yorubaland explored their natural endowments and entrenched them into their socio-economic activities; hence, religious beliefs and economic activities are interwoven and are regarded as inseparable. …”
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Dynamic Simulations of the Allam Cycle Power Plant Integrated with an Air Separation Unit by Dan Fernandes, Song Wang, Qiang Xu, Daniel Chen

“…Controller set point change, power ramp down, and natural gas composition change were studied, and key plant performance indicators were monitored and analyzed. …”
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L’influence de la volition sur la distribution des verbes à alternance causative dans les résultatives de l’anglais by Maryse Grône

“…More precisely, the purpose of this paper is to show, on the basis of an extensive corpus investigation of naturally occurring data, that already-existing analyses of the resultative structure – Simpson 1983, Levin & Rappaport Hovav (L&RH) 1998, 1999, 2001, Wechsler 1997 – are insufficient to account for the full range of data collected. …”
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Various Terpenoids Derived from Herbal and Dietary Plants Function as PPAR Modulators and Regulate Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism by Tsuyoshi Goto, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Shizuka Hirai, Teruo Kawada

“…Terpenoids (also called “isoprenoids”) constitute one of the largest families of natural products accounting for more than 40,000 individual compounds of both primary and secondary metabolisms. …”
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À la recherche des haïdouks. Annoter les entités spatiales dans des romans roumains du xixe siècle by Ioana Galleron, Roxana Patraș, Camelia Grădinaru, Frédérique Mélanie-Becquet

“…To verify if this different vision reverberates in novels, the aim was to collect all nominal and adverbial phrases referring to space, thus going largely beyond toponyms, that are usually marked-up and examined in digital humanities and natural language processing projects. After a presentation of the main differences between our approach and those prevailing in older or more recent studies in spatial literary analyses, we focus on the elaboration of the annotation scheme and comment upon the results of the inter-annotator agreement, as measured on a set of ten fully-annotated samples, of a thousand words each, from our novels.…”
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Common Fixed Point Results for Intuitionistic Fuzzy Hybrid Contractions with Related Applications by Mohammed Shehu Shagari, Shazia Kanwal, Akbar Azam, Hassen Aydi, Yaé Ulrich Gaba

“…This one way research has clearly dropped-off a great amount of important results, considering the fact that a fuzzy set is a natural enhancement of a crisp set. In order to entrench hybrid fixed notions in fuzzy mathematics, this paper focuses on introducing a new idea under the name intuitionistic fuzzy p-hybrid contractions in the realm of -metric spaces. …”
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Managing Mexican Petunia (Ruellia simplex C. Wright) in the Home Landscape by Carrie A. Reinhardt Adams, Christine Wiese, L. C. Lee, Sandra B. Wilson, A. M. Smith, Rosanna Freyre

“… Environmental tolerance, abundant seed production, and an ability to easily grow from plant stem sections have allowed Mexican petunia to spread into natural areas that border urban areas. The Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council lists Mexican petunia (wild-type and non-sterile cultivars) as a Category 1 invasive species, meaning that it is “altering native plant communities by displacing native species, changing community structures or ecological functions, or hybridizing with natives.” …”
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Hesitation on Fifth Book of Comprehensive Description of Mathnavi Manavi by Ali Soleimani, Mohammad reza Movahedi

“…This essay is devoted to the review of the fifth book entitled “Comprehensive Description of Mathnavi Manavi”. Naturally, reviewing and analyzing all 4238 verses of this book is more than the capacity of an article. …”
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Floating Photovoltaic Systems in Italy: Challenges and Future Prospects in an Uncertain Regulatory Framework by Tedioli Francesco

“…The shading effect of the solar panels on the water surface significantly reduces evaporation, thereby preserving a valuable resource like freshwater, which is particularly important in areas prone to drought. Additionally, the natural cooling effect of the water enhances the efficiency of the photovoltaic panels, increasing the production of electricity.…”
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Efficacy of an Aromatic Vinegar in Reducing Psychrotrophic Bacteria and Biogenic Amines in Salmon Fillets (Salmo salar) Stored in Modified Atmosphere Packaging by Jessica Di Toro, Raffaella Branciari, Rossana Roila, Serena Altissimi, Haiyang Jiang, Kang Zhou, Simona Perucci, Michela Codini, David Ranucci

“…Salmon flesh spoilage can be greatly reduced through the use of preservation methods, using natural products combined with low temperature and packaging. …”
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Ruiz de Montoya y su mirada pre-científica del Paraguay by Zenobio Saldivia M., Felipe Caro P.

“…Se destaca además, la explicación proporcionada por Ruiz de Montoya en cuanto a la apropiación cognitiva de los nativos y las categorías vernáculas de los mismos, como forma de comprensión de la realidad y de su entorno social y natural americano. Lo anterior, como elemento percibido y rescatado por el autor, para dejar atrás la violencia y la supuesta superioridad del proceso epistémico europeo, que en este hito evolutivo de los siglos XVI y XVII, se caracteriza por un desconocimiento de la alteridad.…”
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Ecosystem Services Valuation for Estuarine and Coastal Restoration in Florida by Susanna Blair, Carrie Adams, Tom Ankersen, Maia McGuire, David Kaplan

“…This 10-page literature review surveys the available ecosystem-service valuation literature for five of Florida’s coastal natural communities—oyster reefs, beach dunes, mangrove forests, seagrass beds, and salt marshes—to facilitate the quantification of ecosystem services to provide a better measure of the full impact of restoration efforts. …”
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Imaging cell spheroid clusters: An MRI protocol for non-invasive standardized characterization by Rebecca Wißmann, Petros Martirosian, Marina Danalache, Gerd Grözinger, Fritz Schick, Stefanie Elser

“…This is contributed by natural cell-cell interactions that occur within spheroids, leading to the subsequent development of extracellular matrix. …”
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Larvicidal Effects of Nanoliposomes Containing Clove and Cinnamon Essential Oils, Eugenol, and Cinnamaldehyde against the Main Malaria Vector, Anopheles stephensi Liston by Alireza Sanei-Dehkordi, Roghayeh Heiran, Ghazaal Roozitalab, Narges Elahi, Mahmoud Osanloo

“…However, LC50 values of the other three nanoformulations were also around 10 μg/mL; all four prepared nanoformulations were thus introduced as natural larvicides for further investigations in the field conditions.…”
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High Response Performance of a Tuned-Mass Damper for Vibration Suppression of Offshore Platform under Earthquake Loads by Qiong Wu, Xilu Zhao, Rencheng Zheng, Keisuke Minagawa

“…By further analyses of its high response characteristics, it was validated that the TMD reactions can commence within the first 3 s of earthquake excitation, while the fundamental natural frequency was consistently tuned for the TMD system dependent on the dynamic magnification factor. …”
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Virus-inspired biogenic delivery system for advancing cancer therapy by Di Sun, Hao Liang, Qianwen Mu, Chengchao Chu, Gang Liu, Chao Liu

“…Biogenic delivery systems imitating the natural structure of viruses are regarded as innovative nanoplatforms used to deliver drug compounds to related sites and target cells in organisms. …”
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Incompressible limit for the compressible viscoelastic fluids in critical space by Han Bin, Wu Dan

“…(Incompressible limit for compressible viscoelastic flows with large velocity, Advances in Nonlinear Analysis 12 (2023), 20220324) to the critical functional space with respective to the natural scaling of the system. The proof relies on the dispersive property of the linear system on the high-frequency regime and the parabolic property on the low-frequency regime. …”
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