Effect of Porosity on Soil-Water Retention Curves: Theoretical and Experimental Aspects by Chang Liu, Fuguo Tong, Long Yan, Hongbo Zhou, Shuang Hao

“…Porosity change is a common characteristic of natural soils in fluid-solid interaction problems, which can lead to an obvious change of the soil-water retention curve (SWRC). …”
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Temporal Variability of the Batumi Delta Wetlands by Bülent Turgut

“…Wetlands are invaluable ecosystems as they provide important services, but these areas are rapidly degrading due to anthropogenic pressures and natural changes/transformations. It is thought that this negative change will increase in the upcoming period due to the climate change and the rising demand for soil and water. …”
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«Chi potrebbe esplicar con parole»: il lessico dei disastri nelle relazioni di età moderna tra scarti e continuità by Rosa Anna Paradiso

“…In this contribution we try to bring together two lines of investigation that have recently concerned historical-linguistic research on disaster reports in Italy, that is, the study of the lexicon of natural disasters and the study of the language of the news press. …”
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Characterizing rural livelihoods in a changing environment: a case study in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco by Adele Woodmansee, Meryem Aakairi, Bruno Gérard, Omar Saadani Hassani, Abderrahim Ouarghidi, Alison G. Power, David G. Rossiter, Andrew McDonald

“…Households are also reducing livestock numbers in response to drought and reductions in labor availability created by migration. Other natural resource-based activities, including beekeeping and collecting wild herbs, are being abandoned. …”
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Vulnerability assessment and analysis of cryosphere changes in the Western Sichuan Plateau by Lumin Nie, Zihan Zhang, Heng Lu

“…The aggregation patterns are relatively stable but exhibit spatial heterogeneity. (3) The vulnerability to cryosphere changes in the Western Sichuan Plateau is the combined result of natural geographical conditions, socioeconomic development levels, and other factors.…”
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Could adjuvants serve as an agroecological tool? by Milan Brankov, Milena Simić, Jelena Vukadinović, Miloš Zarić, Alexandros Tataridas, Sofija Božinović, Vesna Dragičević

“…Adjuvants are agrochemicals or natural substances, commonly mixed with pesticides to increase their efficacy or reduce off-target movement by modifying the physical properties of the spray solution, such as surface tension, droplet size, and spreadability, which ultimately improve pesticide adhesion and coverage on target surfaces. …”
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On Antiresonance in the Forced Response of Mistuned Bladed Disks by Keith Jones, Charles Cross

“…This paper investigates mistuning using a transfer function approach where the frequency response functions (FRFs) are described by natural frequencies and antiresonant frequencies. …”
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Effect of Tremella fuciformis polysaccharide on the stalling and flavor of tteok during storage by Hongxiu Fan, Hongcheng Liu, Wenyi Li, Wenjing Su, Dawei Wang, Shanshan Zhang, Tingting Liu, Yanrong Zhang

“…Overall, this study could help food manufacturers to choose a high-effective and natural polysaccharide to control the retrogradation rate and flavor loss of tteok.…”
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TWSME of a NiTi strip in free bending conditions: experimental and theoretical approach by A. Fortini, M. Merlin, R. Rizzoni, S. Marfia

“…Heating to Af was reached by a hot air stream flow whereas cooling to Mf was achieved through natural convection. The evolution of the curvature with the increasing number of cycles was evaluated. …”
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Extraction from NP, frequency, and minimalist gradient harmonic grammar by Müller Gereon, Englisch Johannes, Opitz Andreas

“…Extraction of a PP from an NP in German is possible only if the head noun and the governing verb together form a natural predicate. We show that this corresponds to collocational frequency of the verb-noun combinations in corpora, based on the metric of ΔP. …”
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Biventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy in an Adult with Unique Facial Dysmorphisms: Case Report and Brief Review by Gaurav Rao, James Tauras

“…This unique presentation underscores the importance of a better understanding of the genetics and natural course of LVNC. This will help us to elucidate the uncertainty surrounding its clinical management, discussed in a brief review of the literature following the case.…”
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„... das Unendliche im Endlichen gebären ...“ by Susanne Gödde

“…Meaning is constituted through the indexicality of a (primarily aniconic) image of a god, whereby the cult-image of a phallus (which, according to Creuzer, represents the letter of a natural language) emerges as a privileged signifier. 3. …”
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Plant commodification in Northern Mesopotamia: evidence from the Early Bronze Age site of Kani Shaie, Iraqi Kurdistan by Karolina Joka

“…One of the milestones in the trajectory of economic and social change that spurred increasing societal complexity, and urbanization was the commodification of natural resources, such as plants, animals, and their derived products. …”
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A Modified Method for Studying Behavioral Paradox of Antioxidants and Their Disproportionate Competitive Kinetic Effect to Scavenge the Peroxyl Radical Formation by Nusrat Masood, Kaneez Fatima, Suaib Luqman

“…We are reporting hydrophilic and lipophilic as well as natural and synthetic forms of antioxidants revealing a diversified behaviour to peroxyl radical in a dose-dependent manner (1 nM–10 μM). …”
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Displacement Investigation of KNN-Bitumen-Based Piezoceramics in Asphalt Concrete by Ning Tang, Kaikai Yang, Wenhao Pan, Limei Wu, Qing Wang, Yanwen Chen

“…Asphalt concrete produces cumulative damage under the multiple repeated vehicle load and natural situation, so it is suited material and structure for nondestructive application. …”
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In Defense of Thought: A Critical Review of Three Works in the Field of Method of Research in History by Yaghoub Khazaei

“…The adoption of the methodological patterns of natural sciences in history, weakening the position of criticism, Undermining the position of thought in history, ignoring the role of the historian as at least part of the process of producing history, etc. are the consequences of adopting a positivist approach in history. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEX SOCIUM: A HUMANISTIC TURN by S. A. Kravchenko

“…On the one hand, society can hardly keep up with the increasing chaos of values and normative referents , undermining its internal functioning adequately, on the other hand, it is obvious that the relationship between social and natural systems significantly impaired. There appeared vulnerabilities in the form of unintended consequences of the openness of the society, that increases the production of new marginalized groups – people who are not temporarily unemployed, but those who do not adapt to the cultural innovations of the open society. …”
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Restoration of Degraded Agricultural Land by Alex, Saturday

“…Agricultural land is being deteriorated due to different anthropogenic and natural factors. The basic factors causing soil erosion- induced degradation are wind and water erosion. …”
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Advances in Antenna Array Processing for Radar 2016 by Hang Hu, Xuesong Wang, Michelangelo Villano, Ahmed Shaharyar Khwaja, Jeich Mar, Wenchong Xie

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Convex separable minimization problems with a linear constraint and bounded variables by Stefan M. Stefanov

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