Mudanças climáticas e impactos sócio-territoriais dos desastres glaciais na Cordilheira Branca, Peru by Anderson Ribeiro de Figueiredo, Jefferson Cardia Simões, Álvaro Luiz Heidrich, Rualdo Menegat

“…This article discusses the history of natural disasters in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, during the 1970–2011 period. …”
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The effects of a brief intervention at home based on shared reading to promote children’s oral language by Camila Domeniconi, Marta Gràcia, Priscila Benitez

“…Results The results showed that all children improved some aspects of their communicative repertoire in standardized tests and/or in the observations of natural or structured situations. Conclusion We conclude that the use of strategies such as a brief intervention to promote communicative interactions between mothers and their children may have contributed to promoting children’s oral language.…”
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Determination of the Mechanical Properties of Rubber by FT-NIR by Rattapol Pornprasit, Philaiwan Pornprasit, Pruet Boonma, Juggapong Natwichai

“…In this work, mechanical properties of selected rubber materials, that is, natural rubber (NR), styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR), and ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM), were evaluated using a near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy technique. …”
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Stability Analysis of SIRS Model considering Pulse Vaccination and Elimination Disturbance by Yanli Ma, Xuewu Zuo

“…It is well known that many natural phenomena and human activities do exhibit impulsive effects in the fields of epidemiology. …”
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Green Dyeing and Antibacterial Treatment of Hemp Fabrics Using Punica granatum Peel Extracts by Thitirat Inprasit, Jarinphorn Pukkao, Nattanee Lertlaksameephan, Araya Chuenchom, Kanjana Motina, Worapat Inprasit

“…In this study, the dyeing performance and antibacterial properties of pomegranate (Punica granatum) peel extracts were investigated, when applied to hemp fabric. A tannin-rich natural dye was extracted using water at 100°C. As the antibacterial agent was sensitive to temperature, it was extracted using Soxhlet apparatus with methanol at 55°C. …”
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LEAST SQUARES ESTIMATION METHOD BASED ON THE IMPROVED MEAN RANK (MT) by XUE GuangMing, NING Peng, QIAN MingJun, HE HongRui, ZHOU Jun

“…To improve estimating accuracy in the traditional mean rank or median rank estimation method, an improved mean rank is proposed in the correction principle of rank estimation function as the cumulative distribution function of samples by adjusting the applicable points of natural mean rank. Then a least squares estimation is performed by directly fitting the cumulative distribution function. …”
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BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE IN 2022 by Lawrence Olabode Ekundayo

“…As a result of these findings, the paper recommended that there must be an immediate demilitarization of Ukraine, NATO's equipment installations on the borders of Russia should be relocated; there must be a restoration of the natural status of Ukraine for the sake of peace, the continuous eastward expansion of NATO must be stopped; and Russian legitimate security interest must be unconditionally taken into consideration by the Western countries to avoid third world war …”
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Citral Delays Postharvest Senescence of Kiwifruit by Enhancing Antioxidant Capacity under Cold Storage by Ling Wei, Chuying Chen, Chunpeng Wan, Ming Chen, Jinyin Chen

“…These findings suggest that citral has the potential to be used as a promising natural preservative for the extension of postharvest quality in harvested kiwifruit.…”
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Le recul stratégique : de l’anticipation nécessaire aux innovations juridiques by Marie-Laure Lambert

“…The preservation or return to a more or less natural state of the most vulnerable shore line seems to be, in many cases, a means to guarantee the safety of persons, the protection and attractiveness of the inside spaces. …”
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Amino Acid-Doped Polyaniline Nanotubes as Efficient Adsorbent for Wastewater Treatment by Zhao Zhao, Yimin Yang, Longfei Xu, Zihan Qiu, Ziheng Wang, Yongfeng Luo, Kun Du

“…A natural amino acid-doped polyaniline nanostructure was prepared by a simple in situ chemical polymerization method in an aqueous medium. …”
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Characterization of Nutritional and Bioactive Compound in Three Genotypes of Mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum Ruiz and Pavón) from Different Agroecological Areas in Puno by Alejandro Coloma, Emilio Flores-Mamani, German Quille-Calizaya, Arturo Zaira-Churata, Jorge Apaza-Ticona, Wilber César Calsina-Ponce, Percy Huata-Panca, Juan Inquilla-Mamani, Félix Huanca-Rojas

“…Unexploited colored mashua tubers are proposed as a valuable natural source of phenolics and anthocyanins with high antioxidant activity.…”
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Comparison of Wood Veneer-Based Composite Characteristics Made of Jabon Wood (Neolamarckia cadamba) and Sengon Wood (Falcataria moluccana) by Eka Mulya Alamsyah, Ahmad Fawwaz Abdullah, Rafael Niko Navarro, Yoyo Suhaya, Sutrisno Sutrisno, Asep Suheri, Yooce Yustiana, Jamaludin Malik, Sasa Sofyan Munawar

“…The shift of wood raw material sources from natural forests to community forests opens opportunities for West Java Province Indonesia as a source of wood raw materials because it has a large area of community forests. …”
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Inosine Prevents Colorectal Cancer Progression by Inducing M1 Phenotypic Polarization of Macrophages by Yuchen Ma, Xiaoli Qian, Qun Yu, Yadan Dong, Jiapeng Wang, Heng Liu, Huai Xiao

“…Inosine (IS) is a naturally occurring metabolite of adenosine with potent immunomodulatory effects. …”
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Évolution des systèmes de reproduction chez les plantes face aux changements globaux by Cheptou, Pierre-Olivier

“…Beyond species extinction, it is likely that global change modifies selection regimes in natural populations. Whereas the classical Darwinian paradigm considers evolution as a slow process, it is now accepted that populations can evolve rapidly, in a few dozen generations. …”
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Heat Transfer Augmentation: Experimental Study with Nanobubbles Technology by Prudhvi Krishna Amburi, G. Senthilkumar, Ibsa Neme Mogose

“…Atmospheric air was chosen as the cold fluid. The natural convection heat transfer rate between hot and cold fluid streams was analyzed with and without the generation of micronanobubbles in the hot fluid. …”
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A Novel Chinese Entity Relationship Extraction Method Based on the Bidirectional Maximum Entropy Markov Model by Chengyao Lv, Deng Pan, Yaxiong Li, Jianxin Li, Zong Wang

“…To identify relationships among entities in natural language texts, extraction of entity relationships technically provides a fundamental support for knowledge graph, intelligent information retrieval, and semantic analysis, promotes the construction of knowledge bases, and improves efficiency of searching and semantic analysis. …”
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Interplay of chiral transitions in the standard model by Holger Gies, Richard Schmieden, Luca Zambelli

“…This allows to discuss the “naturalness” of the standard model in terms of a pseudo-critical exponent which we determine as a function of the ratio of the QCD and the Fermi scale. …”
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Grenzüberschreitungen / Traversées des frontières by Aude Therstappen

“…The journal Recherches germaniques, with its ‘naturally’ comparative positioning, its dual focus on German literature and history of thought, and the place it reserves for Alsace, is thus intimately linked to the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg, formerly the Kaiserliche Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek. …”
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Autophagy-associated signal pathways of functional foods for chronic diseases by Jinfeng Xie, Jiling Liang, Ning Chen

“…Functional foods, namely as natural or processed foods containing bioactive compounds, can provide health-promoting effects beyond basic nutrition, or offer the prevention or supplementary treatment of chronic diseases. …”
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Parametric Study on Dynamic Response of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite Bridges by Woraphot Prachasaree, Attapon Sangkaew, Suchart Limkatanyu, Hota V. S. GangaRao

“…In addition, the dynamic load allowance equation as a function of natural frequency, span length, and vehicle speed was proposed in this study. …”
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