Medieval Overexploitation of Peat Triggered Large-Scale Drowning and Permanent Land Loss in Coastal North Frisia (Wadden Sea Region, Germany) by Hanna Hadler, Antonia Reiß, Timo Willershäuser, Dennis Wilken, Ruth Blankenfeldt, Bente Majchczack, Stefanie Klooß, Ulf Ickerodt, Andreas Vött

“…Since the Middle Ages, these interactions between humans and natural forces have induced major coastal changes. …”
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Studies on banana for propagation, conservation and genome analysis by Susmita Shukla, Ritambhara Bhutani, Nibha Gupta, Shiv Kant Shukla, Taramla Raman, Mohamed A. El-Sheikh, Hosam O. Elansary, Ihab Mohamed Moussa

“…Decline in plant diversity can be ascribed to a multitude of variables encompassing human activities, climate change and exploitation of natural resources. The present study is aimed to develop robust in vitro regeneration protocol of unexplored indigenous Musa varieties (Musa acuminata var. hondakol, Musa paradisica var. sanikol, Musa paradisica var. kashkol, and Musa acuminata var. hazari) and to analyze their phylogenetic relationship. …”
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A Coons Patch Spanning a Finite Number of Curves Tested for Variationally Minimizing Its Area by Daud Ahmad, Bilal Masud

“…We partition the curves in a clear and natural way into four groups and then join all the curves in each group into one analytic curve by using representations of the unit step function including one that is fully analytic. …”
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Experimental and numerical study on vibration-based damage detection and localisation in laminated composite plates by Saeesh Verenkar, I. Sridhar, Vinayak S. Uppin, P. S. Shivakumar Gouda

“…Laminate was fixed to a Clamped-Free-Free-Free (CFFF) boundary condition for experimental modal analysis by introducing controlled damage to examine its impact on modal properties. To validate the natural frequencies (NFs) of damaged and undamaged composite laminates, a numerical analysis was conducted using ANSYS Parametric Design Language (APDL). …”
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Dispersal and colonization success of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) on the Solovetsky Islands (the largest archipelago of the White Sea) by Natalia A. Zubrii, Boris Yu. Filippov, Ivan N. Bolotov

“…Carabid assemblages of natural vegetation types, such as forests and seaside meadows, were more stable than those of anthropogenic meadows. …”
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Screening and Characterizing Tyrosinase Inhibitors from Salvia miltiorrhiza and Carthamus tinctorius by Spectrum-Effect Relationship Analysis and Molecular Docking by Ya-Li Wang, Guang Hu, Qian Zhang, Yu-Xiu Yang, Qiao-Qiao Li, Yuan-Jia Hu, Hua Chen, Feng-Qing Yang

“…Therefore, the developed methods (spectrum-effect relationship analysis and molecular docking) could be used to effectively screen TYR inhibitors in complex mixtures such as natural products.…”
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Accent Choices of English Majors in the Netherlands: Patterns and Motivations by Gezina Christien Dorothé Huttenga, Dick Smakman

“…L1 influences may be embraced as being natural and not in need of suppressing if they do not hinder intelligibility.…”
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Concentration of metals in water around roads: a case study in Southern Brazil by Vagner José Albuquerque, Caroline Müller, Marilia Hartmann, Paulo Afonso Hartmann

“…The water samples were collected in three environments with different influence of surface water runoff: (a) in water bodies near the RS-135 highway (six sampling points), (b) in water bodies in the agricultural systems around the RS-135 (three sampling points), and (c) in water bodies within the Sertão Municipal Natural Park (SMNP, three sampling points)). Two water samples were collected at each site, the first in October and the second in December 2022. …”
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Bambara groundnut starch-soluble dietary fibre nanocomposite stabilised emulsions: Optimisation of emulsion stability and studies on time-dependent rheological properties by Yvonne Maphosa, Oladayo Adeyi, Daniel Imwansi Ikhu-Omoregbe, Victoria A. Jideani

“…Numerical optimisation and experimental validation confirmed the effectiveness of the selected formulation, demonstrating STASOL's potential as a natural stabiliser in beverage emulsions and its ability to enhance stability compared to synthetic alternatives.…”
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Photochemical and photobiological properties of furocoumarins and homologues drugs by F. Bordin

“…Furocoumarins are natural photosensitizing drugs used in PUVA photochemotherapy and in photopheresis. …”
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Rethinking risk and disasters in mountain areas by Kenneth Hewitt, Manjari Mehta

“…This contrasts with prevailing approaches to disaster focused on natural hazards, “unscheduled” or extreme events, and emergency preparedness; approaches strongly reinforced by mountain stereotypes. …”
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Obesity Related Alterations in Plasma Cytokines and Metabolic Hormones in Chimpanzees by Pramod Nehete, Elizabeth R. Magden, Bharti Nehete, Patrick W. Hanley, Christian R. Abee

“…We also observed an obesity-related effect on immune function as demonstrated by lower mitogen induced proliferation, and natural killer activity and higher production of IFN-γ by PBMC in Elispot assay, These findings suggest that lean, overweight, and obese chimpanzees share circulating inflammatory cytokines and metabolic hormone levels with humans and that chimpanzees can serve as a useful animal model for human studies.…”
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Analysis of status of resilience indices in urban fabric (Case study: Faruj worn out fabric) by ameneh naghdi, Ezzatolah Mafia, mehdi vatanparast

“…Based on the analysis, we found nine indicators with these characteristics, of which we can refer to indicators such as access to temporary accommodation, awarenessabout the occurrence of natural and human disasters in the neighborhood, the level of awareness about reactions, how to behave appropriately during the crisis, job security, financial strength of residentsto participate in resolving the crisis, and the extent to which the insurance organizations support the residents.…”
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A Typical Basalt Platform Landslide: Mechanism and Stability Prediction of Xiashan Landslide by Yongliang Huang, Zhiwei Sun, Chunyan Bao, Man Huang, Anyuan Li, Minghao Liu

“…Results indicate that the maximum tensile stress at the top of the trailing edge under the natural state is 5.10 MPa, which is very close to the saturated tensile strength of rock mass. …”
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A Predictive Model for Damage Assessment and Deformation in Blast Walls Resulted by Hydrocarbon Explosions by Majid Aleyaasin

“…However, the 2nd model has 3 parameters of explosion length, distance, and also the natural period of the blast wall. These predictive models are then used to find explosion damages and ductility ratio. …”
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Mapeamento ambiental integrado: município de Porto Alegre, RS by Heloise Canal, Roberto Verdum

“…This proposal came up with the ultimate goal of a broad public awareness about the environmental situation of a given area, as well as support decision making through integrated planning, which took into account the natural and essential elements of the environment (soil, water and air) and human action (past and present). …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation Characteristics of Water Pollution and the Cause of Pollution Formation in a Heavily Polluted River in the Upper Hai River by Chunfang Meng, Xiaoyu Song, Kening Tian, Bingxiao Ye, Tianxiu Si

“…In the flood season, the pollution sources were mainly domestic sewage, industrial wastewater, agricultural runoff, biochemical pollution, and natural sources. In the nonflood season, the pollution sources were mainly domestic sewage and industrial wastewater. …”
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Estimación de la Resistencia a la Tracción en Suelos Reforzados con Fibras Sintéticas by Johannes Enrique Briceño Balza, Rebeca Carolina Barreto Aldana, Yusleiny Lorena Guerrero Dávila

“…Conociendo esto se plantea para mejorar la resistencia a la tracción reforzar el suelo con fibras sintéticas, micro y macrofibras, incorporándolas en porcentajes en peso de suelo (0.50, 1.00, 1.50 y 2.00 %), evaluando a través del ensayo de tracción indirecta el comportamiento del suelo areno limoso natural y reforzado. Al comparar los resultados en estas dos condiciones, se concluyó que la resistencia a la tracción aumenta cuando el porcentaje de macrofibra es superior al 1.50 % en un 3.69 %, mientras que al 2.00 % aumenta la en un 24.00 % con respecto al suelo patrón.  …”
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The Sociology of Karl Mannheim’s Knowledge and the Methodological Foundations of the History of Socio-Political Ideas by Alexander A. Chanyshev, Vasilisa A. Kuznetsova

“…In this case, however, criticism is not aimed at simplistically linear “exposure” of the social orientation of ideas, where the content of the latter is explained as a simple function of the author’s predilections and group interests that determine these predilections - and the desired source of the ideological content of the concept, therefore, can be found in the sphere of the “natural” action of common social causes. The critical analysis is focused on understanding the “existential” rootedness of ideas. …”
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A Review of Caffeine Adsorption Studies onto Various Types of Adsorbents by Javier Andrés Quintero-Jaramillo, Javier Ignacio Carrero-Mantilla, Nancy Rocío Sanabria-González

“…Phenyl-phosphate-based porous organic polymer (301 mg/g), natural sandy loam sediment (221.2 mg/g), composites of MCM-48 encapsulated graphene oxide (153.8 mg/g), and organically modified clay (143.7 mg/g) showed adsorption capacities lower than those of activated carbons. …”
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