Portfolio d’options pour le renforcement de la résilience : application de principes systémiques de résilience à la gestion des risques d’inondation en Gironde by Touili Nabil

“…By integrating resilience systemic principles, this paper offers an operational framework to adapt flood risk management to present and future risk on the coastal areas.…”
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Pasture Management for Bobwhite Quail by William M. Giuliano, James F. Selph, Emma V. Willcox, Adam S. Willcox

“…Wilcox explain how to use grazing as an effective habitat management tool in rangeland systems. Also includes suggestions on how to adapt improved or tame grass pasture to provide the "crazy-quilt" habitat necessary for healthy and abundant quail populations. …”
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Absceso Cerebral Debido a Embolización Sistémica by Catarina Cabral, Inês Santos, Joana Tavares, Joana Vaz

“…The authors present a case of a patient with a heart valve prosthesis for aortic stenosis and a brain abscess due to systemic embolization from subacute endocarditis.…”
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Management and quality control of construction materials standards, techniques, and challenges by Severin Jean Maixent Loubouth, Sorel Nzaba, Gildas Ngouono Ngakali, Narcisse Malanda

“…Proper finishing enhances aesthetics, durability, and performance, while surface preparation, installation, and maintenance are critical for plumbing and electrical systems. …”
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A Fixed Point Technique for Set-Valued Contractions with Supportive Applications by Hasanen A. Hammad, Manuel De la Sen

“…Finally, the theoretical results are used to study the existence of the solution of Fredholm integral equation which arises from the damped harmonic oscillator, to study initial value problem which arises from Newton’s law of cooling and to study infinite systems of fractional ordinary differential equations (ODEs).…”
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RESULTS OF INVESTIGATIONS ON THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AIR HEATER BUNDLE MADE OF BIMETALLIC FINNED TUBES by V. B. Kuntysh, V. V. Dudarev, A. B. Sukhotsky, V. I. Volodin

“…The paper provides results of an exploratory test pertaining to heat transfer and resistance of four row staggered bundle made of tubes with aluminium spiral fins having outside diameter of 26 mm which are used in the systems of ventilation, air-conditioning and heating of buildings and also in transport heat exchangers.…”
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THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE, BELIEFS AND EXPERIENCE ON THE SUSTAINABLE END-OF-LIFE MANAGEMENT OF BUILDINGS IN NIGERIA by Aminu Lawan ABDULLAHI, Angela LEE

“…This study will give an insight into some practices in a pre-industrial society with potential for recognition and contribution of the development of formal waste management systems in developing countries. …”
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Training T-shaped translational scientists by Molly Wasko, Kathryn Allen Nearing, Stacey L. Neves, Amy Carrillo, Julie Rainwater, Jennifer A. Croker, Robert P. Kimberly

“…To evaluate the design of I-Corps@NCATS as a translational scientist training program, we mapped specific elements of the program’s content and pedagogy to the characteristics of a translational scientist, as first defined by Gilliland et al. []: systems thinker, process innovator, boundary spanner, team player, and skilled communicator. …”
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VAVILOV INSTITUTE CABBAGE COLLECTION: STAGES OF FORMATION AND RESEARCH by A. M. Artemyeva, Yu. V. Chesnokov

“…Major results of the organization and research of core collections of Brassica species, addition of new accessions to the collection, raise and characterization of initial breeding material and systemic organization of cabbage accessions inside the world collection by means of both conventional and new methods of investigation and evaluation including QTL analysis and association mapping are presented.…”
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A Comparative Analysis of Strategies for the Formation of Civic Identity in Russia and China by N. B. Pomozova

“…At the same time, China has also faced the need to reform economic and social systems, but has chosen the evolutionary path with a well-planned strategy of civic identity formation management.…”
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Liquid anti-fire missiles. The method of extinguishing fires by Andrii Sokol, Halyna Sokol

“…One of the ways to increase efficiency of fighting against forest fires and fires in general is the use of automated systems for detecting and extinguishing fires. …”
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Smart Irrigation Controllers: How Do Soil Moisture Sensor (SMS) Irrigation Controllers Work? by Michael D. Dukes, Mary Shedd, Bernard Cardenas-Lailhacar

“…It describes how soil moisture sensor systems work, rules for installation, setting the sensor threshold, and programming the irrigation timer. …”
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The impact of the Apostolic constitution ‘Veritatis gaudium’ on the concept of Quality in ecclesiastical higher education Institutions by Riccardo Cinquegrani

“…Three distinct levels of challenges are highlighted: the role of academic institutions and the need to innovate learning systems; the relationship between higher education centres and the whole society; interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity as levers to support knowledge. …”
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Building Industrialization and Prefabrication between Materiality and Immateriality by Sergio Russo Ermolli, Giuliano Galluccio

“…This paper aims to investigate the possibilities offered by the design and production paradigms of Industry 4.0 in the Architecture, Engineering & Construction industry, through the coordination between systems for the integrated management of the design process (Building Information Modeling) and rapid prototyping tools (Computer-Aided Manufacturing). …”
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Dealing with Iron and Other Micro-Irrigation Plugging Problems by Tom Obreza, Ed Hanlon, Mongi Zekri

“… SL-265, an 8-page illustrated fact sheet by Tom Obreza, Ed Hanlon, and Mongi Zekri, describes problems with emitter plugging and discusses management strategies to overcome and correct causes of plugging in micro-irrigation systems. This publication focuses, in particular, on iron scaling, documenting recent successes in treating this common problem in Florida. …”
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Stability Studies of Transition Metal Chelates of 5-Bromosalicylidene-4-methoxyaniline andSalicylidene-2,3-dimethylaniline as Ligands by N. G. Nadkarni, K. V. Mangaonkar

“…The stability constants for binary (M-Y) and ternary (M-X-Y) systems were calculated.…”
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Beyond Fat Mass: Exploring the Role of Adipokines in Rheumatic Diseases by Morena Scotece, Javier Conde, Rodolfo Gómez, Veronica López, Francisca Lago, Juan Jesus Gómez-Reino, Oreste Gualillo

“…The goal of this paper is to elucidate the recent findings concerning the involvement of adipokines in rheumatic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), osteoarthritis (OA), and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).…”
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Taking the Evolution of the Standards of Proof for a Criminal Conviction Seriously by Jacopo Della Torre

“…The first part focuses on the attempt of medieval and early modern Roman-canon systems to clarify this type of rule through a network of legal proofs. …”
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A New Flexibility Based Damage Index for Damage Detection of Truss Structures by M. Montazer, S. M. Seyedpoor

“…A new damage index, called strain change based on flexibility index (SCBFI), is introduced to locate damaged elements of truss systems. The principle of SCBFI is based on considering strain changes in structural elements, between undamaged and damaged states. …”
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Non-covalent organocatalyzed enantioselective cyclization reactions of α,β-unsaturated imines by Sergio Torres-Oya, Mercedes Zurro

“…In recent years several asymmetric catalytic cyclization strategies have been accomplished for the construction of N-heterocycles using various catalytic systems such as chiral metal catalysts, chiral Lewis acids or chiral organocatalysts. …”
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