Drill on drill: adaptive oviposition strategies of Sycophila and Physothorax wasps on Ficus citrifolia by Leví Oliveira Barros, Sergio Jansen-González, Rodrigo Augusto Santinelo Pereira

“…ABSTRACT Understanding tri-trophic interactions and the relationship among plants, herbivores, and their natural enemies is fundamental to advancing theoretical and practical ecology. …”
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L’humanisation des hybrides mi‑hommes, mi‑bêtes en question(s) by Jacqueline Leclercq-Marx

“…The creatures in question are five different hybrids of mythology and fabulous natural history: sirens (uniquely in their aspect of fish women), centaurs, cynocephali or dog heads, and satyrs or half-man half-goat.Finally, we will ask whether there is a determining cultural factor that has favoured this kind of particularly transgressive slippage between human and animal boundaries, even if it has not always and in case every instance prevailed.…”
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The Geometry of Black Hole Singularities by Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica

“…Recent results show that important singularities in General Relativity can be naturally described in terms of finite and invariant canonical geometric objects. …”
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Estimación de la densidad poblacional del venado cola blanca texano (odocoileus virginianus texanus), introducido en la UMA "Ejido de Amanalco" Estado de México by Claudia Yanira Beltrán Vera, Ana Dolores Díaz de la Vega Martínez

“…Se observó una densidad de 0.4216 y 0.5238 venados/ha respectivamente que corresponde a la distribución natural de la subespecie (O.v mexicanus), siendo la especie más vulnerable de las 14 que se encuentran en nuestro país. …”
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Parinari curatellifolia: A treasure trove of phytochemicals, nutritional benefits, and biological activities by Tafadzwa Kaseke, Trust Mukudzei Pfukwa, Kwanele Andy Nxumalo, Mawande Hugh Shinga, Umezuruike Linus Opara, Olaniyi Amos Fawole

“…Parinari curatellifolia, popularly known as Mobola plum, is a prominent African underutilized plant whose natural habitat stretches from West to Southern Africa. …”
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Point-of-Use technology for clean water treatment in disaster areas: Effectiveness of LDH plate in eliminating pathogenic bacteria by Ihsan Taufiq, Afrianita Reri, Ilfan Freddy

“…This study tackles the clean water crisis in West Sumatra, often exacerbated by natural disasters such as flash floods and landslides, by proposing an innovative point-of-use water treatment method. …”
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Trajectoires territoriales d’un nouveau centre extractif mondialisé. L’exemple des Andes argentines septentrionales by Marie Forget

“…Latin America’s renewed focus on primary industries, involving the extraction and export of unprocessed natural resources, could be viewed as a step back to colonial-style exploitation. …”
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Recent advances in carbon-based adsorbent materials for ammonium removal from water by Ali Akbar Said, Mauliza Lisa, Rizki Fazli Rahmad

“…Lignite, a low-rank coal, proves to be an economical natural adsorbent with enhanced performance through aerobic dewatering and oxidation. …”
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Summary of Experience in Geological Investigation of Nepal Hydropower Station by DING Bin, PEI Xiaodong, XU Kaikai

“…In the deep overburden exploration, mud and SM natural plant gum are used as the drilling fluid and SD single-acting double-tube two halves tube drilling tool is used for rotary drilling, which can effectively improve the core recovery percent and work efficiency. …”
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Commercially important fish biodiversity of Hail Haor with physicochemical properties and planktonic composition by Md. Monjurul Hasan, Md. Mehedi Hasan Pramanik, Md. Mozzammel Hoque, Rumana Yasmin, Ehsanul Karim, Md. Anisur Rahman, Yahia Mahmud

“… Hail Haor is one of Bangladesh’s most prominent natural freshwater wetlands, and it is unique in that majority of its catchment is located within the country. …”
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Soil Drought and Vegetation Response during 2001–2015 in North China Based on GLDAS and MODIS Data by Siyao Yang, Dan Meng, Huili Gong, Xiaojuan Li, Xinling Wu

“…Drought is a natural disaster caused by long-term water deficit. …”
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RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH COMPARING THE EFFICIENCY OF MARINE SAMPLERS IN RESEARCHING THE CONTENT OF MICROPLASTIC IN BOTTOM SEDIMENTS by V.O. Iemelianov, Ye.І. Nasiedkіn, T.S. Kukovska, N.O. Fedoronchuk, S.M. Dovbysh

“…The publication discusses one of the methodological aspects of microplastic research in bottom sediments with the involvement of a field experiment with the selection of natural matter by various means. Sampling was carried out within the western part of the Black Sea by specialists of the State Scientific Institution "MarGeoEcoCenter of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine" during research under the international project "Developing Optimal and Open Research Support for the Black Sea" in 2022. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Pine Needles Reinforced RF Matrix Based Biocomposites by A. S. Singha, Vijay Kumar Thakur

“…A thermosetting resin based composite, containing approximately 10, 20, 30 and 40% of natural fiber by weight, has been obtained by adding pine needles to the Resorcinol-Formaldehyde (RF) resin. …”
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From Tradition to Future: Sundanese Indigenous Laws as the Vanguard of Environmental Conservation and Disaster Mitigation by Dimas Febriansyah Krisna Dwiputra, Enok Maryani, Fahmi Nugraha Heryanto

“…These principles are crucial for mitigating natural disasters like landslides, floods, droughts, and climate change. …”
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Density-Dependent Habitat Selection in a Growing Threespine Stickleback Population by Ulrika Candolin, Marita Selin

“…The preference was further enhanced in the presence of a natural predator, a perch Perca fluviatilis (behind a transparent Plexiglas wall). …”
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Toward Dynamic Monitoring and Suppressing Uncertainty in Wildfire by Multiple Unmanned Air Vehicle System by Sharon Rabinovich, Renwick E. Curry, Gabriel H. Elkaim

“…Further research is needed on other deployment schemes that work in different natural disaster case studies.…”
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Elements substantiation of decision-making schemes for the management of prosocial and environmental corporate innovations of industrial enterprises by V. V. Degtyareva

“…The result of the study was a reasonable presentation of decision-making schemes when introducing changes in two areas of innovation implementation aimed at rationalizing the use of natural capital and the transition to a prosocial and pro-environmental concept of corporate innovation management in industrial enterprises.…”
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Hepatitis C Virus Evasion from RIG-I-Dependent Hepatic Innate Immunity by Helene Minyi Liu, Michael Gale

“…IFN is a major effector of innate antiviral immunity and is naturally produced in response to viral infection when viral pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) are recognized as nonself and are bound by cellular pathogen recognition receptors (PRRs), including Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and the RIG-I-like receptors (RLRs). …”
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The impact of the centralized volume-based procurement policy on Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturing firms' R&D investment: A difference-in-differences approach. by Fangjun Qiu, Shouming Chen, Yujia Li, Xianjing Wang, Mengfei Zhu

“…China's centralized volume-based procurement (CVBP) implemented in 2018 provides an ideal quasi-natural experiment to evaluate the effect of centralized procurement on the R&D investment of the firms. …”
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Identification of V-Formations and Circular and Doughnut Formations in a Set of Moving Entities with Outliers by Francisco Javier Moreno Arboleda, Jaime Alberto Guzmán Luna, Sebastian Alonso Gomez Arias

“…The model was validated with NetLogo, a programming and modeling environment for the simulation of natural and social phenomena.…”
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