Clinicodemographic profile of VKC patients in tertiary care centre of North India: A prospective study by Manpreet Kaur, Malvika Sharma, Nancy Sharma

“…Detailed history was taken from each patient including age at the onset of the disease, gender of the patient, any seasonal variations, his/her place of residence, and any associated allergic or “atopic” illnesses. …”
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Evaluation of Priority Fodder Trees for Leaf Yield and Nutritional Value at Arba Minch, Ethiopia by Habtamnesh Adane, Agena Anjulo

“…Tree fodder is an important supplement to livestock feed particularly where the shortage of palatable herbaceous biomass affects the animal production in dry seasons. In Arba Minch and nearby semiarid parts of southern Ethiopia, lopping and feeding tree fodder is becoming a common practice to increase livestock productivity. …”
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Comparative Study on the Field- and Lab-Based Soil-Water Characteristic Curves for Expansive Soils by Bakht Zamin, Hassan Nasir, Muhammad Ali Sikandar, Waqas Ahmad, Beenish Jehan Khan, Mahmood Ahmad, Muhammad Tariq Bashir

“…The damaging effect of these soils is strongly correlated with the soil-water characteristics of expansive soils present in the shallow depth. The seasonal wetting-drying cycle is vital in fluctuating moisture content in the surficial soils. …”
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Analysis and Prediction of Hydraulic Support Load Based on Time Series Data Modeling by Yi-Hui Pang, Hong-Bo Wang, Jian-Jian Zhao, De-Yong Shang

“…Based on the autoregression theory and weighted moving average method, the time series model is built to analyze the load data and predict its evolution trend, and the prediction accuracy of the sliding window model, ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average) model, and SARIMA (Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average) model to the hydraulic support load under different parameters are evaluated, respectively. …”
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Soil Respiration in Anthropogenic Disturbed Ecosystems Compared to Deciduous Forests in the Urban Industrial Area by Jawdat Bakr

“…The moisture and temperature of the soil, along with CO2 outflow from the soil, were measured over three consecutive seasons, using 92 samples from coalmine heaps and 10 samples from deciduous forests in the same urban industrial region. …”
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Pattern of Pediatric Dermatoses in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Western Nepal by Yogesh Poudyal, Annu Ranjit, Santosh Pathak, Nagendra Chaudhary

“…The incidence and severity of these skin lesions are influenced by geographical area, seasonal and cultural factors, and socioeconomic status. …”
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Ecological relationships of Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann with other tick species on wildlife hosts at cow–calf farms implementing integrated pest management in eastern Tenness... by Rebecca A. Butler, Lisa I. Muller, Dan Grove, Rebecca T. Trout Fryxell, Ala Tabor

“…To better understand how H. longicornis uses wildlife hosts and interacts with established tick species on farm settings we sampled small and medium wildlife seasonally for a year, using Sherman and Tomahawk traps, on three H. longicornis-infested cattle farms in eastern Tennessee. …”
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Biofortification of Spring Barley Grain with Microelements through Sulfur Fertilization by Bożena Barczak, Magdalena Jastrzębska, Marta K. Kostrzewska

“…An increase in the content of these micronutrients was found in the grain of plants fertilized with sulphur in comparison to plants that were not fertilized with this nutrient in each of the growing seasons. Ammonium sulphate, compared to the other fertilizers tested, had the greatest impact on the content and uptake of all micronutrients, with the exception of zinc. …”
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Acorus shannai (Acoraceae), a new species from Southern China by Zhuo Cheng, Xinyu Liu, Nianting Yu, Weizhe Chen, Haofeng Zhao, Feifei Li, Chunlin Long

“…Acorus shannai (Acoraceae) is a commonly used seasoning in southern China. It was previously misidentified as A. macrospadiceus (Yamam.) …”
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Quantitative Analysis of Heavy Metals and Organic Compounds in Soil from Deir Kanoun Ras El Ain Dump, Lebanon by Jamilah Borjac, Manal El Joumaa, Lobna Youssef, Rawan Kawach, Diane A. Blake

“…The aim of this study was to determine the levels of some toxic heavy metals and organic compounds in different soil samples collected from the dump and along the canal during winter and summer seasons. Six research sites (four from the dump and two along the canal) were selected, and the soil samples for analysis were collected from a depth of around 10 cm. …”
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A Feasibility Study on Monitoring Crustal Structure Variations by Direct Comparison of Surface Wave Dispersion Curves from Ambient Seismic Noise by K. Muhumuza

“…This work assesses the feasibility of the direct use of surface-wave dispersion curves from seismic ambient noise to gain insight into the crustal structure of Bransfield Strait and detect seasonal seismic velocity changes. We cross-correlated four years of vertical component ambient noise data recorded by a seismic array in West Antarctica. …”
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Survival probabilities of thornback skate (Raja clavata) and spotted skate (Raja montagui) discarded by tickler chain beam trawl, pulse trawl, and flyshoot fisheries. by Edward Schram, Lennert van de Pol, Katinka Bleeker, Pieke Molenaar, Allard van Mens, Jan Jaap Poos, Karolina Molla Gazi, Suzanne Cornelisse, Pim van Dalen, Wouter Suykerbuyk, Jurgen Batsleer

“…Trips were spread out over the seasons to account for the effect of variable environmental and fishing conditions on discards survival. …”
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Temporal Foraging and Ranging Patterns Suggested the Niche Partitioning of Two Sympatric Herbivores, Axis axis and Bubalus bubalis, in the Nijhum Dweep National Park of Bangladesh by Aftab Hossain, Syeda Ismat Ara, Biswajit Nath, Kazi Fayzatul Zannat, Md. Farid Ahsan

“…Although, these two parameters varied seasonally for both species, only in case of TAR of spotted deer the variation was statistically significant (P<0.05). …”
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Radon an indoor risk: In the Urban Devarakonda, Telangana state, India by M. Srinivas Reddy, G. Suman, K. Vinay Kumar Reddy, M. Sreenath Reddy, Ch Gopal Reddy, P. Yadagiri Reddy

“…The diurnal variation of 222Rn levels was studied using RAD-7 in a dwelling and seasonal variation of radon levels was also to be discussed in this paper.…”
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Evaluation of nitrogen fertilizer and nano silicon spray on seed yield performance and components of sunflower by Sabaghnia Naser, Janmohammadi Mohsen

“…Considering the climatic altering and the noteworthy increment within the late seasonal dry stress on sunflower in semi-arid regions, it is fundamental to utilize modern administration like application nano silicon to reduce the unfavourable impacts of such stresses. …”
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Predicting Nanobinder-Improved Unsaturated Soil Consistency Limits Using Genetic Programming and Artificial Neural Networks by Ahmed M. Ebid, Light I. Nwobia, Kennedy C. Onyelowe, Frank I. Aneke

“…Unsaturated soils used as compacted subgrade, backfill, or foundation materials react unfavorably under hydraulically bound environments due to swell and shrink cycles in response to seasonal changes. To overcome these undesirable conditions, additive stabilization processes are used to improve the volume change phenomenon in soils. …”
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Modeling Equatorial to Mid‐Latitudinal Global Night Time Ionospheric Plasma Irregularities Using Machine Learning by Ephrem Beshir Seba, Giovanni Lapenta

“…Furthermore, north‐south hemispherical asymmetry in PI observed across different seasons. Through the RF parameter importance analysis method, we determine that temporal, geographical, and magnetic disturbance‐related factors play a crucial role in predicting global PI variabilities. …”
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Impact of nitrogen fertilization and rootstock genotype on growth and fruit quality of Nules clementine by Fatima Ezahra Omari, Lhou Beniken

“… This study focuses on understanding the impact of varying nitrogen rates on the growth, fruit production, and quality of clementine Nules variety trees grafted onto Flhorag and Carrizo citrange rootstocks and cultivated at the Sidi Allal Tazi Experimental Station of INRA Morocco, in clay soil, over five seasons. A split-plot design with three blocks of repetitions (two trees per bloc per treatment, n=6) was employed in this experiment. …”
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Analyzing precipitation trends in the Cholistan Desert, Pakistan: A statistical and GIS-based study by Haider Shamsheir, Haq Fazlul, Mark Bryan G.

“…Using data from five meteorological stations, we applied a combination of Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques and statistical analyses to assess both seasonal fluctuations and annual trends in precipitation. …”
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The interest of apple orchard vegetation for the pollen supply of honey bees in South Tyrol (Italy) by Jacob Geier, Edith Bucher, Manfred Wolf, Benjamin Mair, Werner Kofler, Jean Nicolas Haas

“…However, in the weeks before the beginning of the apple blossom, and in the six weeks after, the apple orchards played a minor role in the supply of pollen to honey bees. Throughout the seasons investigated, flowers of a wide range of entomophilous and anemophilous plant species were the main sources of pollen. …”
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