Impact of Pore-Scale Characteristics on Immiscible Fluid Displacement by Nariman Mahabadi, Leon van Paassen, Ilenia Battiato, Tae Sup Yun, Hyunwook Choo, Jaewon Jang

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Hydrochemical Characteristics and Genetic Analysis of Shallow High-Fluorine Groundwater in Fuyang River Basin by Zhiwei Zhai, Chuanda Zhang, Tiansong Tang, Chunyan Zhang, Xing Bao, Kunchao Li, Bo Han

“…In order to understand the sustainable and effective utilization of groundwater resources in Fuyang River Basin, the chemical characteristics and genetic evolution process of characteristic shallow fluoride groundwater in the region were carried out. …”
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Long-Term Consequences of Hepatitis C Viral Clearance on the CD4 (+) T Cell Lymphocyte Course in HIV/HCV Coinfected Patients by J. Dazley, R. Sison, J. Slim

“…Of the 116 patients enrolled, 54 (46.6%) reached a sustained virological response. During a follow-up of 24 months, the SVR group showed a mean annual increase in CD4 + T cell from baseline of 84 cells/ll at 1 year and of a further 38 cells/ll within the second year (P=0.01, 0.001, resp.). …”
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Spatial and Temporal Confinement of the Ionospheric Responses During the St. Patrick's Day Storm of March 2015 by Sk Samin Kader, N. Dashora, K. Niranjan

“…These enhancements could be associated with the enhanced O density bulge resulting from the thermospheric expansion during the main phase. A daytime sustained and confined electron density depletion between about 100°E and 170°E is observed on 18 March which is being discussed in detail for the first time. …”
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Do education, urbanization, and green growth promote life expectancy? by Haojun Zhang, Yunqiu Zhan, Keqiu Chen

“…Green growth (GG) ensures sustainable development, reduces pollution and environmental risks, and contributes to longer, healthier lives. …”
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Access to the European cultural heritage of settlements and towns in the Danube macro-region through interoperable strategies digital transformation by Babin ANATOLIE, Elena PRUS, Elena MARGINEANU

“…In this way, the Danube Strategy participating States [4],  by supporting partnerships between the cultural heritage sector and other sectors such as higher education and vocational education and training, creative industries and sustainable cultural tourism, will be able to stimulate innovation for new services and applications in their regions. …”
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Strengthening Fire-Damaged Lightweight Concrete T-Beams Using Engineered Cementitious Composite with Basalt Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Grid by Haider M. Al-Baghdadi, Mohammed M. Kadhum

“…LWC has become increasingly important for sustainable construction due to its reduced susceptibility to cracking. …”
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Managing Risk in the Design of Modular Systems for an Autonomous Shuttle by Thomas H. Drage, Kieran Quirke-Brown, Lemar Haddad, Zhihui Lai, Kai Li Lim, Thomas Braunl

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Rhizosphere engineering for semiarid tropics: prospects and bottlenecks by Anurag Yadav, Kusum Yadav, Rumana Ahmad

“…Their application in enhancing water and nutrient absorption can help alleviate water stress, contributing to sustainable crop production in these regions. However, fully realizing the potential of rhizosphere engineering presents numerous challenges. …”
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V.N. Institute of Forest Arboretum, Krasnoyarsk as the Object of Ecological Education by Bazhina Ekaterina Alexandrovna, Bazhina Elena Vasilievna, Koretc Mihail Anatolievitch

“…Visiting such facilities and taking students directly into the conditions of artificially created biocenoses contributes to the formation of an ecological imperative, an understanding of the importance of all life on Earth, an understanding of the diversity of plants and their determining role in ensuring sustainable livelihoods. Thousands of schoolchildren and students all over the world are involved in educational seminars, trainings and various courses organised by the Botanical Gardens. …”
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Marine environmental regulation and green technology innovation: evidence from enterprises in coastal areas of China by Junchen Jiang, Han Sun

“…It is of great significance to explore the effect of marine environmental policies to promote the sustainable development of the marine economy. This article takes the ‘National Marine Ecological Civilization Demoznstration Zone’ (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Demonstration Zone’) as a quasi-natural experiment and adopts the difference-in-difference method to explore the effects of marine environmental regulation on green technology innovation of micro-enterprises in coastal areas and on the high-quality development of the regional economy. …”
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Employee attendance system using face recognition and GPS using local binary pattern histogram by Narahari Vigraha Prasada, Ikrimach

“…The system performances for various conditions were also noteworthy, achieving 96.4% recognition accuracy with FAR = 0.05 %, FRR = 1 % in normal lighting conditions and maintaining a 94.1 % near-accurate performance under low-light environmental settings whilst sustaining the performance at 90.6 % in outdoor environments, which resulted in detection time of approximately between 1.3–2.3 seconds respectively. …”
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TEAMWORK AND EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION IN BENUE INVESTMENT AND PROPERTY COMPANY, MAKURDI, BENUE STATE by TOR NORA

“…Teamwork should be seen as an effective operational strategy and adopted not as an ad hoc strategy but one that should be sustained, BIPC should promote espirit de corp in designing tasks and activities based on team to get better and desired results, teamwork activity within the organization is very much beneficial and its effect is directly on employee performance. …”
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Digital Words of Wisdom? Digital Storytelling with Older People – Ponderings of a (fairly) new PhD Research Candidate and a (growing) older Digital Storytelling practitioner by Jenkins Tricia

“…(4) The Pros and Cons of Digital Storytelling Projects (5) Extending Creative Practice and Silver Stories – Two Transnational Projects Linking Digital Storytelling and Older people – a sustainable model? (6) Ever Decreasing (Story) Circles.…”
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A Multilevel Analysis of Farmers’ Adoption of Water-saving Irrigation Technology: Evidence From the North China Plain by Yibei Guo, Kunpeng Zhang, Xiaohu Jia

“…Agricultural water scarcity poses a significant threat to food security and sustainable development. Farmers’ adoption of agricultural water-saving irrigation technologies (WSIT) is essential for addressing this challenge. …”
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Human Evolution: the Limits of Technocentrism by M. I. Boichenko

“…The ability of individuals, which is aimed at achieving a certain goal with the help of certain sustainable techniques, is not yet technology in itself but is only a certain author’s technique. …”
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BP « Deepwater Horizon » du Golfe du Mexique à l’Afrique : un tournant pour l’industrie pétrolière ? by Géraud Magrin, Bopp van Dessel

“…But as these precautions will make the oil more expensive, it could also contribute to speed the transition to a more sustainable world energetic matrix.…”
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Les hominoïdes fossiles : une aide pour l’éducation en Afrique by Brigitte Senut

“…In some cases, field museums became tourist attractions; in the long term, the scientific culture could be part of sustainable development.…”
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Role of the Kazakhstan-German Cooperation in Improving Scientific Tools for Evaluation of Vocational Education Programs by S. G. Karstina, O. N. Zechiel, C. Machado

“…The work carried out within the framework of the German-Kazakh project “GeKaVoс – Transfer of dual training in logistics, mechatronics and sustainable energy supply to Kazakhstan” can be considered as one of the crucial aspects of the contribution to improving the quality of system of technical and vocational education (TVET), the achievement of high rates of employment of graduates of the TVET system, improve the ratio of supply and demand in the labor market.As the analysis of the TVET system in Kazakhstan presented in the article shows, different forms of cooperation between participants of the educational process in the country (corporate partnership, industrial clusters, patronage of large and medium-sized enterprises over educational institutions, etc.) contribute to the development of a market-oriented education system. …”
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The role of educational management in enhancing innovation and problem-solving competencies for students towards global competitiveness: A literature review by Berkat, Setinawati, Basrowi

“…Educational management needs to adopt a holistic and sustainable approach by involving efficient resource mapping and allocation, advocating for more responsive educational policies, building an organizational culture that supports innovation, and investing in necessary educational technology infrastructure. …”
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