The Benefits of Windbreaks for Florida Growers by Michael G. Andreu, Bijay Tamang, Melissa H. Friedman, Donald L. Rockwood

“…Friedman, and Don Rockwood, focuses on the advantages and disadvantages of living windbreaks for improving crop production and enhancing conservation activities in sustainable agriculture systems. Includes references. Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, July 2008. …”
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ACTORS OF THE INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS OF THE EUROPEAN BANKING SECTOR IN RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS by Małgorzata Zaleska

“…The institutional changes are assessed in the paper, including the establishment of the European banking union, modifications in the EU deposit insurance systems and considerable strengthening of the role of central banks, with special focus on the European Central Bank. …”
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Atypical Histiocyte-Rich Sweet’s Syndrome by Sharon Chi, Marcia Leung, Mark Carmichael, Michael Royer, Sunghun Cho

“…Sweet’s Syndrome is a rare neutrophilic dermatosis thought to be a result of immune dysregulation occurring in the setting of drug exposure, recent infection, pregnancy, and underlying malignancy or idiopathic with specific and widely accepted diagnostic criteria established in the literature. Other organ systems can be involved with varying degrees of severity. …”
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Assessing the Role of Local Government Towards the Development of Tourism in Rwanda: A Case Study of Musanze District. by Tuyishime, Jean Claude

“…Other challenges like poaching. deforestation, grazing, and bush burning lead to the destruction of tourism destinations and the environment at large thus impacting the eco-systems within the environment and causing environmental erosion. …”
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Building a rights-based approach to nutrition for women and children: harnessing the potential of women’s groups and rights-based organizations in South Asia by Monica Shrivastav, Vani Sethi, Avishek Hazra, Zivai Murira, Roopal Jyoti Singh, Krishna Wagh, Anuradha Nair, Veronica Kamanga Njikho, Sapna Desai

“…These pathways include (i) income generation, (ii) agriculture, (iii) health and nutrition behavior change communication and participatory learning and action, (iv) advocating for rights to better health and social services, (v) food access, (vi) cash transfers, and (vii) strengthening service delivery and fostering convergence with health systems. We also note that women’s groups have the potential to implement integrated interventions through combined food-systems-rights pathways. …”
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Dual-targeting CRISPR-CasRx reduces C9orf72 ALS/FTD sense and antisense repeat RNAs in vitro and in vivo by Liam Kempthorne, Deniz Vaizoglu, Alexander J. Cammack, Mireia Carcolé, Martha J. Roberts, Alla Mikheenko, Alessia Fisher, Pacharaporn Suklai, Bhavana Muralidharan, François Kroll, Thomas G. Moens, Lidia Yshii, Stijn Verschoren, Benedikt V. Hölbling, Francisco C. Moreira, Eszter Katona, Rachel Coneys, Paula de Oliveira, Yong-Jie Zhang, Karen Jansen, Lillian M. Daughrity, Alexander McGown, Tennore M. Ramesh, Ludo Van Den Bosch, Gabriele Lignani, Ahad A. Rahim, Alyssa N. Coyne, Leonard Petrucelli, Jason Rihel, Adrian M. Isaacs

“…This highlights the potential of RNA-targeting CRISPR systems as therapeutics for C9orf72 ALS/FTD.…”
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Wide-field full-Stokes polarimetry for conical light based on all-dielectric metasurface by Qing Luo, Xiaoshao Ma, Yang Guo, Yang Zhou, Junwei Ma, Weihao Yang, Longjiang Deng, Lei Bi, Jun Qin

“…This study presents a promising solution for achieving wide field-of-view and high-efficiency polarization detection in integrated CMOS systems.…”
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Allergic Contact Dermatitis Is Associated with Significant Oxidative Stress by S. Kaur, K. Zilmer, V. Leping, M. Zilmer

“…Objective. To evaluate systemic levels of selected inflammatory markers, OxS indices and adipokines as well as their associations in allergic contact dermatitis. …”
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Nanomaterials–plants–microbes interaction: plant growth promotion and stress mitigation by Gurleen Kaur Sodhi, Tharuka Wijesekara, Kailash Chand Kumawat, Priyanka Adhikari, Kuldeep Joshi, Smriti Singh, Beatrice Farda, Rihab Djebaili, Enrico Sabbi, Fares Ramila, Fares Ramila, Fares Ramila, Devendra Sillu, Gustavo Santoyo, Sergio de los Santos-Villalobos, Ajay Kumar, Marika Pellegrini, Debasis Mitra

“…Nanomaterials strengthen plant antioxidant systems, regulate photosynthesis, and stabilize hormonal pathways. …”
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Emergent patterns in global health diplomacy: a network analysis of the resolutions adopted by the World Health Assembly from 1948 to 2022 by Kelley Lee, Didier Wernli, Nicolas Levrat, Bastien Chopard, Jean-Luc Falcone, Stephan Davidshofer

“…This article uses a computer-assisted methodology to better understand governance systems as a network of norms. All World Health Assembly (WHA) resolutions that were available from 1948 to 2022 were collected from the WHO Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS) database. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Niobium Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization, Applications in Health Sciences, and Future Challenges by Muhammad Usman Khalid, Austeja Rudokaite, Alessandro Marcio Hakme da Silva, Monika Kirsnyte-Snioke, Arunas Stirke, Wanessa C. M. A. Melo

“…These nanoparticles offer potential in drug delivery, imaging, and tissue engineering, where their nanoscale properties allow precise interactions with biological systems. Among niobium-based nanomaterials, niobium pentoxide (Nb₂O₅) is the most extensively studied due to its chemical stability, bioactivity, and optical properties. …”
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GIS-based assessment of photovoltaic solar potential on building rooftops in equatorial urban areas by Andrés Idrovo-Macancela, Marco Velecela-Zhindón, Antonio Barragán-Escandón, Esteban Zalamea-León, Danilo Mejía-Coronel

“…Installing photovoltaic systems (PVs) on building rooftops is a viable and sustainable alternative to meet the growing demand for electricity in cities. …”
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Cavitation dynamics and thermodynamic effect of R134a refrigerant in a Venturi tube by Beile Zhang, Ze Zhang, Xufeng Fang, Rong Xue, Shuangtao Chen, Yu Hou

“…Cavitation plays a crucial role in the reliability of components in refrigeration systems. The properties of refrigerants change significantly with temperature, thereby amplifying the impact of thermodynamic effects. …”
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Mechanisms of nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation in treating mental disorders by Hanyang Ruan, Geya Tong, Minghui Jin, Kathrin Koch, Zhen Wang

“…Moreover, by outlining the various NAc cell types, transmitter systems (i.e., predominantly GABAergic and dopaminergic systems) and anatomical pathways that have been shown to be relevant for NAc DBS stimulation effects, we aim to further elucidate the neurobiological determinants of NAc DBS efficacy. …”
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Characterizing the role of vehicular cloud computing in road traffic management by Iftikhar Ahmad, Rafidah Md Noor, Ihsan Ali, Muhammad Imran, Athanasios Vasilakos

“…This study reviews current traffic management systems to analyze the role and significance of vehicular cloud computing in road traffic management. …”
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Imaging exoplanets with coronagraphic instruments by Galicher, Raphaël, Mazoyer, Johan

“…Exoplanetary science is a very active field of astronomy nowadays, with questions still opened such as how planetary systems form and evolve (occurrence, process), why such a diversity of exoplanets is observed (mass, radius, orbital parameters, temperature, composition), and what are the interactions between planets, circumstellar disk and their host star. …”
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Intrauterine growth‐restricted pregnant rats, from placental ischemic dams, display preeclamptic‐like symptoms: A new rat model of preeclampsia by Jonna Smith, Madison Powell, Whitney Cromartie, Savanna Smith, Kylie Jones, Angie Castillo, Jordan Shaw, Joseph Editone III, Ahfiya Howard, Robert Tatum, Alex Smith, Brandon Fisher, George W. Booz, Mark Cunningham

“…In summary, pregnant IUGR rats, born from hypertensive placental ischemic dams, have HTN and increased systemic and brain OS, with larger brain sizes and smaller pups. …”
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Sleep Breathing Disorders’ Screening Among Children Approaching Orthodontic Evaluation: A Preliminary Study by Marco Storari, Francesca Stramandinoli, Maurizio Ledda, Alberto Verlato, Alessio Verdecchia, Enrico Spinas

“…Early recognition and management of SDB can significantly enhance systemic health and craniofacial outcomes in pediatric patients.…”
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Cyclic testing of a steel-tube-enabled emulative precast column-to-column connection by Ming-Ming Ji, Ming-Ming Ji, Wei Chen, Shi Zeng, Yan Xiong, Xin-Yu Zhao

“…Precast systems are increasingly favored in modern construction to meet the growing demands for faster project delivery, cost control, and enhanced quality assurance. …”
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An Analysis of Temperature-Dependent Timing Jitter Factors in the Structural Design of Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Single-Photon Avalanche Detectors by Jau-Yang Wu, Yu-Wei Lu, Meng-Hsuan Liu, Tien-Ning Chang, Chun-Hsien Liu

“…Consequently, the jitter value of SPADs at different temperatures plays a crucial role in LiDAR systems and Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) applications. …”
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