Illicit drug use derived from wastewater-based epidemiology in Iran, their removal during wastewater treatment, and occurrence in receiving waters by Anvar Asadi, Shabnam Zarei, Nebile Daglioglu, Evsen Yavuz Guzel, Neda Ravankhah

“…This study aimed to measure the licit and illicit drug concentrations in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), their removal efficiency, and their consumption rate by wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) approach. A 2-season monitoring program was undertaken for the first time in Iran. …”
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Hydrochemistry of a Tropical harbor: Influence of Industrial and Municipal inputs by Balogun Kayode James, Ladigbolu Ismail Adejare, Olaji Ebenezer Dayo

“…The temporal variability in some of these parameters could be attributed to influx of freshwater during the rainy season. @JASEM Keywords: Pollution, Hydrochemistry, Harbour, Heavy metals J. …”
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Deciphering the potential of plant metabolites as insecticides against melon fly (Zeugodacus cucurbitae): Exposing control alternatives to assure food security by Zinat Jahan Chowdhury, Anik Banik, Tanjin Barketullah Robin, Mohammed Rashed Chowdhury

“…Melon fly infestations have resulted in yield losses of 30 %–100 %, depending on the specific cucurbit species and season. Current control methods using synthetic chemicals are challenging due to their environmental and biological impacts. …”
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Dynamic of seismic noise sources in the Mediterranean Sea: implication for monitoring using noise correlations by Stehly, Laurent, Delouche, Estelle, Tomasetto, Lisa, Ranjan, Pratul

“…The relative contribution of these two source regions depends on the season, with the influence of the Adriatic and Aegean Sea increasing in summer.The interplay of these two sources regions creates lateral variations in the properties of the seismic noise. …”
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Antibiotics Resistance Pattern of Food-Borne Bacteria Isolated from Ice Cream in Bangladesh: A Multidisciplinary Study by Md Sohel, Moushumi Akter, Md. Fahmid Hasan, Shahin Mahmud, Mohammod Johirul Islam, Ashekul Islam, Khairul Islam, Abdullah Al Mamun

“…Ice cream is one of the most popular food items consumed during the summer season in Bangladesh by all ages but mostly school-going students. …”
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Ionospheric Storm Scale Index Based on High Time Resolution UPC‐IonSAT Global Ionospheric Maps (IsUG) by Qi Liu, Manuel Hernández‐Pajares, Haixia Lyu, Michi Nishioka, Heng Yang, Enric Monte‐Moreno, Tamara Gulyaeva, Yannick Béniguel, Volker Wilken, Germán Olivares‐Pulido, Raül Orús‐Pérez

“…The dependence of the VTEC on season, local time and geographical location at each grid point of UQRG is removed by normalizing (i.e., by substracting the mean and dividing by the corresponding standard deviation) the percentage deviation of hourly median VTEC. …”
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Music Drama as a Christian Parable: Mozart’s <i>Idomeneo</i> by Nils Holger Petersen

“…Based partly on these new insights, I attempt to provide a picture of a basic spiritual intention governing Mozart’s composition of the opera for the Carnival season of 1781 at the Munich court. Mozart’s <i>Idomeneo</i> is a Christian sacrifice drama modeled on the Aqedah (the sacrifice of Isaac; Gen 22: 1–14), which, in Christian traditions, is understood typologically as pointing to the Passion of Christ. …”
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Mixing Data Cube Architecture and Geo-Object-Oriented Time Series Segmentation for Mapping Heterogeneous Landscapes by Michel E. D. Chaves, Lívia G. D. Soares, Gustavo H. V. Barros, Ana Letícia F. Pessoa, Ronaldo O. Elias, Ana Claudia Golzio, Katyanne V. Conceição, Flávio J. O. Morais

“…The objective of this study is to mix the data cube architecture (analysis-ready data—ARD) and the geo-object-oriented time series segmentation via Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) to assess its performance in identifying natural vegetation and double-cropping practices over a crop season. The study area was the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. …”
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Impact of Climate Change on the Growth of Typical Crops in Karst Areas: A Case Study of Guizhou Province by Jun Ma, Baisha Weng, Wuxia Bi, Dan Xu, Ting Xu, Dengming Yan

“…In order to clarify the impact of weather events on agricultural production in karst landforms, this study selected the indices of the growth period of crops (start time and duration), growing season precipitation, intense precipitation, number of consecutive rainless days, and number of drought-flood abrupt alternation events to evaluate the variation trend of future weather events and their impact on crop growth in Guizhou Province, China. …”
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Seroprevalence and Risk Factors of Chlamydia abortus Infection in Tibetan Sheep in Gansu Province, Northwest China by Si-Yuan Qin, Ming-Yang Yin, Wei Cong, Dong-Hui Zhou, Xiao-Xuan Zhang, Quan Zhao, Xing-Quan Zhu, Ji-Zhang Zhou, Ai-Dong Qian

“…Our study revealed a widespread and high prevalence of C. abortus infection in Tibetan sheep in Gansu province, northwest China, with higher exposure risk in different seasons and ages and distinct geographical distribution.…”
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Performance Analysis of Costs Implementation Using the EVM Method (Earned Value Method) on the Work of Expanding the Distribution Pipeline Network in Samarinda City by Apriyanto Iring Patanduk, Wateno Oetomo, Risma Marleno

“…The previous distribution piping network in Samarinda City is considered to need to be expanded to meet the need for clean water, especially during the dry season where there is a shortage of clean water in the Samarinda area. …”
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Study on Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.) Response to Salt Stress Environment under Kabul Climatic Conditions, Afghanistan by Zafer Coşkun, Abdul Walid Salik, Mohammad Zaman Amini

“…This study consisted of four treatments having different salinity levels of irrigation water, (T1:0.0mM, T2:5mM, T3:10mM, and T4:20mM), which were applied throughout the growing season of okra in plastic pots with a randomized complete block design. …”
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Estimation of Groundwater Evapotranspiration Using Diurnal Groundwater Level Fluctuations under Three Vegetation Covers at the Hinterland of the Badain Jaran Desert by Wenjia Zhang, Liqiang Zhao, Xinran Yu, Lyulyu Zhang, Nai’ang Wang

“…Overall, ETG was 600∼900 mm at observation sites with Phragmites australis during a growing season (roughly early May to late October), 600∼650 mm in areas with Achnatherum splendens, and 500∼650 mm in areas with Nitraria tangutorum and Achnatherum splendens. …”
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Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Profiling of the <i>SPL</i> Transcription Factor Family in Response to Abiotic Stress in Centipedegrass by Dandan Kong, Maotao Xu, Siyu Liu, Tianqi Liu, Boyang Liu, Xiaoyun Wang, Zhixiao Dong, Xiao Ma, Junming Zhao, Xiong Lei

“….], which is an important warm-season perennial C4 turfgrass. In this study, 19 potential <i>EoSPL</i> genes in centipedegrass were identified and assigned the names <i>EoSPL1</i>-<i>EoSPL19</i>. …”
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Previous Crop and Cultivar Effects on Methane Emissions from Drill-Seeded, Delayed-Flood Rice Grown on a Clay Soil by Alden D. Smartt, Kristofor R. Brye, Christopher W. Rogers, Richard J. Norman, Edward E. Gbur, Jarrod T. Hardke, Trenton L. Roberts

“…Rice following rice as a previous crop generally had greater (p<0.01) fluxes than rice following soybean, resulting in growing season emissions (p<0.01) of 19.6 and 7.0 kg CH4-C ha−1, respectively. …”
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Speeding Violation Type Prediction Based on Decision Tree Method: A Case Study in Wujiang, China by Zeyang Cheng, Jian Lu, Zhenshan Zu, Yunxuan Li

“…The binary logical regression analysis identifies that the license plate, season, speeding area, position, and rainfall are the influence factors of Wujiang’s speeding violation. …”
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Critical assessment of uncertainty in economic evaluations on influenza vaccines for the elderly population in Spain by Raúl Ortiz-de-Lejarazu Leonardo, Javier Díez Domingo, Ángel Gil de Miguel, Federico Martinón Torres, Esther Redondo Margüello, Juan Luis López-Belmonte Claver, Paloma I. Palomo-Jiménez, J. Manel Farré Avellà, José María Abellán Perpiñán

“…Abstract Background Influenza is a seasonal infection with a huge impact on morbidity and mortality in older adults, for whom vaccination is recommended. …”
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Composites of Heavy Rain Producing Elevated Thunderstorms in the Central United States by Laurel P. McCoy, Patrick S. Market, Chad M. Gravelle, Charles E. Graves, Neil I. Fox, Scott M. Rochette, Joshua Kastman, Bohumil Svoma

“…Events studied occurred during the warm season (April–September) during 1979–2012. These CWAs encompass the region determined previously to experience the greatest frequency of elevated thunderstorms in the United States. …”
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Particle-bound Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (pPAHs) in Merida, Mexico by Harry Alvarez-Ospina, Sofia Giordano, Luis A. Ladino, Graciela B. Raga, Joshua I. Muñoz-Salazar, Martha Leyte-Lugo, Daniel Rosas, Giovanni Carabali

“…Particle-bound Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (pPAHs) were quantified with a real time sensor during a six-month period during the dry season (October 2017 to March 2018). The pPAHs diurnal and monthly characteristics, as well as their potential sources were determined. …”
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Estimates of Combining Ability and Heterosis for Yield and Its Related Traits in Pearl Millet Inbred Lines under Downy Mildew Prevalent Areas of Senegal by Ghislain Kanfany, Amadou Fofana, Pangirayi Tongoona, Agyemang Danquah, Samuel Offei, Eric Danquah, Ndiaga Cisse

“…The F1 hybrids, their parents, and a check were evaluated in Bambey and Nioro research stations during the rainy season of 2017. Data on downy mildew incidence, plant height, flowering time, panicle length and diameter, productive tillers, thousand-grain weight, panicle, and grain yield were recorded. …”
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