Russia-India cooperation on Post-American Afghanistan by Ivan Safranchuk, Alexandre Knyazev

“…In Central Asia, Russia and India have previously pursued divergent agendas, with Russia being somewhat protective of its natural sphere of interests. However, we conclude that with the elimination of external disturbances in the form of US military occupation of Afghanistan, the interests of both countries could be reconciled in relation to Central Asia. …”
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Deposition behaviors and interfacial interaction mechanism between carboxyl-modified polystyrene nanoplastics and magnetite in aquatic environment by Meimei Ran, Xin Nie, Jingxin Wang, Ruiyin Xie, Xiaoping Lin, Hanjun Zhu, Quan Wan, Yuhong Fu

“…This study may provide insights for better understanding of environmental behaviors of COOH-PSNPs associated with magnetite and organic matter in natural environments at the molecular level.…”
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Variant of Organizational and Functional Adaptation Structures of a Typical Situational Centre to the Emergence of Crisis Situations by Volodymyr Mirnenko, Oleh Hudyma, Vadym Artamoshchenko

“… Due to the growing number of crisis situations (CS) in the modern world, such as natural disasters, man-made accidents, pandemics, cyber-attacks, financial crises, wars, and other negative events, it is important for the state to develop and adapt the organizational and functional structures of information and analytical units, including situation centers (SC), to respond effectively to such cases, thereby ensuring the country’s resilience in the face of negative circumstances. …”
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Ecological infrastructure and its role in sustainable urban development: analysis and perspectives by Ie. P. Tertytskyi

“…Key aspect of using the EI concept is to ensure sustainable urban development, and consequently reducing cities' environmental impact, include the organic integration of natural habitats into urbanized areas, design, and implementation of both traditional and innovative approaches to reduce the city's footprint on ecosystems and the environment. …”
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Does accountability for reasonableness work? A protocol for a mixed methods study using an audit tool to evaluate the decision-making of clinical commissioning groups in England by Sarah Clark, Katharina Kieslich, Peter Littlejohns, Albert Weale

“…A combination of quantitative and qualitative content analysis methods will be used to analyse the interview transcripts.Ethics and dissemination Full ethics approval was received by the King's College London Biomedical Sciences, Dentistry, Medicine and Natural and Mathematical Sciences Research Ethics Subcommittee. …”
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Clinical course and potential associated factors of progressive calcinosis cutis in early systemic sclerosis: a cohort study by Vassana Kanjanajarurat, Prathana Chowchuen, Chingching Foocharoen, Punthip Thammaroj

“…Background Calcinosis cutis of hands can progress and impair hand function in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Understanding the natural disease and comprehensive management is crucial.Objective To examine clinical course and identify risk factors associated with progressive calcinosis cutis in early SSc.Methods Dual time-point hand radiography was performed at initial and after diagnosis at median interval (range 2.9 ± 0.4 years) in 53 recruited patients with early SSc. …”
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Chromogranin A: From Laboratory to Clinical Aspects of Patients with Neuroendocrine Tumors by Paola Di Giacinto, Francesca Rota, Laura Rizza, Davide Campana, Andrea Isidori, Andrea Lania, Andrea Lenzi, Paolo Zuppi, Roberto Baldelli

“…Because new therapeutic options are needed to counter the natural behavior of neuroendocrine tumors, it would also be useful to have a biochemical marker that can be addressed better in the management of these patients. …”
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Autophagy-Enhancing Properties of <i>Hedyotis diffusa</i> Extracts in HaCaT Keratinocytes: Potential as an Anti-Photoaging Cosmetic Ingredient by Qiwen Zheng, Xiangji Jin, Trang Thi Minh Nguyen, Eun-Ji Yi, Se-Jig Park, Gyeong-Seon Yi, Su-Jin Yang, Tae-Hoo Yi

“…Consequently, activating autophagy has become a focal strategy for delaying skin photoaging. Natural plants are rich in functional molecules and widely used in the development of anti-photoaging cosmetics. …”
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Nation of Mechanics: Automobility, Animality, and Indigeneity in John Joseph Mathews’s Sundown (1934) by Daniel Bowman

“…I will argue that Mathews’s Osage characters find themselves in a double-bind as they seek to refute stereotypes of technological primitivism whilst still maintaining and respecting Indigenous connections to the natural world.…”
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Complex Ecosystems Lose Stability When Resource Consumption Is Out of Niche by Yizhou Liu, Jiliang Hu, Hyunseok Lee, Jeff Gore

“…Natural communities display a rich variety of dynamics, including global stability, multistability, periodic oscillations, and chaotic fluctuations in species abundances. …”
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The Ecological Model of Pastures Zoning of Kurdistan Province Emphasizing on the Climatic Elements of Temperature and Precipitation by Gholamali Mozafari, Farshad Safarpour

“…Pastures are renewable natural resources which provide the grass for the cattle need, adjust the weather and hydrological flows, provide water for aquifer, prevent soil erosion, control pollution, dispel food poisoning, and bring about soil formation through improving soil formation processes. …”
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Statistical Analysis of Public Sentiment on the Ghanaian Government: A Machine Learning Approach by John Andoh, Louis Asiedu, Anani Lotsi, Charlotte Chapman-Wardy

“…Gathering public opinions on the Internet and Internet-based applications like Twitter has become popular in recent times, as it provides decision-makers with uncensored public views on products, government policies, and programs. Through natural language processing and machine learning techniques, unstructured data forms from these sources can be analyzed using traditional statistical learning. …”
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A Watershed Approach to Co-Creating Just Sustainabilities: Reflections from the Lake Superior Living Labs Network by Charles Z. Levkoe, Nairne Cameron, Lindsay P. Galway, Rachel L. W. Portinga, Randy Hanson, Kathryn Milun, Erika Vye

“…Living labs aim to co-create innovative solutions to complex challenges through interdisciplinary, placed-based experiential learning and community-engaged action in the built and natural environments. In this paper, we focus on the potential for living labs to establish connections between people and communities and increasing the impact of place-based activities focused on social and environmental justice and sustainability, also known as just sustainabilities. …”
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Feasibility of Water Injection on the Coal Wall of Loose Thick Coal Seam to Prevent Rib Spalling and Its Optimal Moisture Content by Jian Sun, Bin Li, Ruofei Zhang, Zhou Huang

“…The results showed that the natural moisture content of III811 coal seam in Luling coal mine is low, and it contains a large amount of kaolinite (75.2%) belonging to clay mineral which is easy to absorb water and then expand, fully bond loose coal body and fill cracks to improve the integrity of coal body. …”
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Plant-Derived Compounds in Hemp Seeds (<i>Cannabis sativa</i> L.): Extraction, Identification and Bioactivity—A Review by Virginia Tanase Apetroaei, Daniela Ionela Istrati, Camelia Vizireanu

“…The growing demand for plant-based protein and natural food ingredients has further fueled interest in exploring hemp seeds (<i>Cannabis sativa</i> L.) as a sustainable source of and nutrition. …”
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Genetic Analysis Reveals A Missense Mutation In Reactivation Gene-2 Causing Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease In A Pakistani Family by Shahida Awais, Lubna Siddique, Nida Shafi, Sobia Humerah, Summyah Niazi, Wafa Omer

“… Abstract Objective: To perform clinical and genetic analysis in a patient suffering from lymphopenia (low B-lymphocyte, T-lymphocyte and healthy Natural Killer cells).  Methodology: In the current research project we enrolled a female child from Rawalpindi district.  …”
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Experimental Study on Unconfined Compressive Strength of Organic Polymer Reinforced Sand by Jin Liu, Qiao Feng, Yong Wang, Da Zhang, Jihong Wei, Debi Prasanna Kanungo

“…The natural sand is loose in structure with a small cohesive force. …”
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Air transportation for ensuring coherence territories of the Russian Federation by V. M. Kraev, V. V. Stroev, A. I. Tikhonov

“…Particular attention should be paid to ensuring the connectivity of the territories in the development of natural resources of Siberia, the Far East and the Arctic zone. …”
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The impact of economic, social and health crises on victims of domestic violence by Andrea Domokos

“…The COVID–19 epidemic also provided many lessons regarding the management and prevention of the economic effects of future natural disasters and the associated increased domestic violence. …”
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Short path molecular distillation of the essential oil from Pinus roxburghii oleoresin affords volatile fractions with powerful antioxidant and antimicrobial activities comparable... by Muhammad Adnan Ayub, Hawraz Ibrahim M. Amin, Rameen Waseem, Kamaran Younis M. Amin, Muhammad Asif Hanif, Amjad Hussain, Kovan Dilawar Issa, Jorge Ramírez, Chabaco Armijos, Muhammad Zubair, Giovanni Vidari

“…The antioxidant and antimicrobial activities varied between fractions and subfractions; however, their overall potency makes the P. roxburghii oleoresin a potential source of valuable natural antimicrobial products employable against various foodborne microbes and molds, as well as a source of preservative agents against food oxidation. …”
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