The Polymorphism of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel Gene in Culex Mosquitoes in Banyuwangi District, Indonesia by Yasmin Azzahra Arifin, Hanifah Dzakiyah, Catherine Canina Charunita, Sakura Alya Ashari, Winna Putri Veliarta, Muhammad Akbar Panjinegara, Francesca Giovanetti, Carlo Montagna, Wojciech Jankowski, Muhammad Fathoni, Binarri Augustya, Lynda Rossyanti, Suhintam Pusarawati, Sukmawati Basuki

“…Culex mosquitoes were collected using mosquito trap in a two-day collection from Banyuwangi Sub-district and two sub-villages in Cluring Sub-district of Banyuwangi District in August 2023. …”
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Elucidating the knowledge, attitude, and stigma associated with tuberculosis: a community based descriptive study in Wau and Jur River, South Sudan by Peter Michael Marin, Morten Tryland, Musso Munyeme, Ambrose Samuel Jubara, Enock Matovu, Peter Waiswa, Javier Sanchez Romano, Francis Mutebi, David Onafruo, Estella Kitale, Esther Sabbath, Kayla J. Buhler, Clovice Kankya

“…Hence, tailored health messages using local languages, training of community volunteers to reach villages without accessibility and communication network are essential to improve TB prevention and control in South Sudan.…”
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Effect of Eel Biscuit Supplementation on Height of Children with Stunting Aged 36–60 Months: A Pilot Study by Dewi M. D. Herawati, Siti N. Asiyah, Siska Wiramihardja, Shifa Fauzia, Deni K. Sunjaya

“…The study was conducted in two villages in the Priangan Region, West Java Province, Indonesia. …”
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Fur Processing in Raižiai in the 20th Century: Craft and Image by Jonas Mardosa

“…The artisans were in direct contact with the fur craftsmen working in Butrimonys and the surrounding villages. In this way, the fur processing craft habitat was formed, the centre of which was Raižiai. …”
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Alliance matrimoniale traditionnelle en pays Éotilé et Baoulé, XVIIE-XIXE siècles : étude comparative by Kouassi Serge KOFFI & Adjé Séverin ANGOUA

“…Considéré comme l’union entre une femme et un homme par les liens de l’amour de l’un pour l’autre, le mariage coutumier dans les sociétés éotilé et baoulé est aussi la matérialisation de l’amitié entre deux familles ou lignages voire de deux villages et/ou communauté. Il existe sous plusieurs formes et diffère d’une région à une autre, d’une communauté à une autre dans sa pratique en dépit de quelques points communs. …”
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Occurrence and Antibiotic Resistance of Mesophilic Aeromonas in Three Riverine Freshwaters of Marrakech, Morocco by Boujamaa Imziln

“…I n order to evaluate the impact of pollution and sewage on the occurrence and antibiotic resistance of mesophilic aeromonads in riverine freshwaters of Marrakech, samples were collected from three rivers (Oukaimeden, Ourika, and Tensift) upstream and downstream from the principal bordering villages. During a 2-year study, indicators of pollution increased dramatically in the downstream waters. …”
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Typology of Tomato Cropping Systems and Determinants of Preharvest Losses in Western Cameroon by Roland Wilfried Titti, Anne Stéphanie Etoga, Pierre Germain Ntsoli, Georges Marius Kossi Etame, Asafor Henry Chotangui, Réné Mbonomo Bikomo, Aoudou Yaouba

“…One hundred and ninety-six growers were interviewed in 13 villages, using purposive sampling to select zones and simple random sampling to select growers. …”
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Identifying and ranking the effective financial factors on rural entrepreneurial small businesses by Khosro Farahi, Parvaneh Gelard, Hamid Tohidi

“…Rural entrepreneurship is one of the most important goals of policy-makers to develop villages and prevent migration from rural to urban areas. …”
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Transformative social innovation and rural collaborative workspaces: assembling community economies in Austria and Greece [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reser... by Colm Stockdale, Vasilis Avdikos

“…Recent years however have seen their diffusion beyond large urban agglomerations to small towns and villages, with their functions assumed to be more community-orientated. …”
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Utilizing GIS, remote sensing, and AHP-multi-criteria decision analysis for optimal landfill site selection in Kenitra Province, Morocco: a step towards sustainable development goa... by Adil Moumane, Jamal Al Karkouri, Mouhcine Batchi

“…Ten criteria were considered in selecting new landfill sites, including distance from surface water, soil permeability, land use land cover (LULC), topographic wetness index, distance from the shoreline, slope, aspect, proximity to urban areas, transportation networks, and villages. Maps for each criterion were generated, and pairwise comparisons were used to assign weights to these factors. …”
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Social activities and different intensities of physical activity among older adults in China: a population-based cohort study by Song Yang, Qi Zhang, Anhui Zhao, Dongye Lyu

“…Physical activity is widely recognized as a critical factor for improving health, yet the specific impact of different intensities of physical activity on the health of older adults remains underexplored.MethodsThis study addresses this gap by analyzing data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS), a nationally representative survey of a cohort of Chinese people (aged ≥45 years) from 150 counties or districts and 450 villages or urban communities across 28 provinces, who were selected by use of multistage stratified probability-proportionate-to-size sampling. …”
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Predicting of Temporal-Spatial Sand Dunes Transition Caused by Marine Storms (Case Study: The Coast of Makran, Iran) by Soleiman PirouzZadeh, Mahmood Khosravi, Samad Fotohi

“…These changes makes heavily exposed about 6 villages (Karti,Gnjk, Sohroki, Pyvshk, Vanak and Kalirak) to the movement of running sands.…”
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Use of climate smart agriculture technologies in West Africa peri-urban Sahel in Niger by Tinawaen Tambol, Emmanuel K. Derbile, Moussa Soulé

“…However, most studies on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) often focused on climate-smart villages in the Sahel region. This study investigated peri-urban farming systems in West African Sahel cities. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of vector control for supplementing mass drug administration for eliminating lymphatic filariasis in India. by Donald S Shepard, Aung K Lwin, Sunish I Pulikkottil, Mariapillai Kalimuthu, Natarajan Arunachalam, Brij K Tyagi, Graham B White

“…Data came from historical controls and a three-arm cluster randomized trial of 36 villages at risk of LF transmission in Tamil Nadu, India. …”
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A települési kötédés és a z generáció - egy magyarországi középváros példája (The Settlement Engagement and the Z Generation – the Example of a Hungarian City) by Nikoletta Tóth-Kaszás

“…This long-lasting problem in the rural environment has continued in the 2010s and affects not only villages, small towns but mid-sized cities, as well. …”
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Climate-smart agricultural technology and gender-differentiated food, and water security: Evidence from smallholder sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) Farmers by Abiodun Olusola Omotayo, Abeeb Babatunde Omotoso

“…Drawing on a combination of quantitative analysis and qualitative insights from smallholder sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) farming communities, a multistage sampling procedure was employed in selecting sunflower farmers across some selected villages in South Africa. To understand the linkages between CSAT, household’s food-nutrition and water security outcomes (FNWS); endogenous switching regression (ESR) model was employed to achieve the objective. …”
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The investigation of copper (cu), iron (fe), total iron binding capacity (tibc) and zn levels of blood serum of the ewes in izmir region by Ali Muhtar Tiftik, Selma (Çınar) Doğanay

“…In this research designed for determining Cu,Fe,Tolal iron binding capacity (TIBC) and Zn levels of blood serum of the healthy ewes grazed in the meadows in Izmir Region, a total of 250 units of blood-samples, being from a; least 10 ewes in each herd, were collected from different 15 herds belonging to various villages ot some different counties of İzmir (Karşıyaka, Seferihisar, Torbalı, Kemalpaşa. …”
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Une histoire des origines des Nkwanta et de leurs relations politiques et sociales avec les Abron (XVIIE siècle à nos jours) by Kouamé Kossonou Frédéric SECRE

“…Les Nkwanta bâtissent plusieurs villages dont Kerebio Kessi, Kerebio Domiambra. Le vocable et la langue Bron qu’ils parlent couvrent de nombreuses réalités historiques entre eux et les Bron de sorte qu’il est difficile de distinguer ces deux peuples akan pourtant de clans différents qui se partagent le même royaume. …”
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Towards an Understanding of Conservation-Based Costs, Benefits, and Attitudes of Local People Living Adjacent to Save Valley Conservancy, Zimbabwe by Given Matseketsa, Gladman Chibememe, Never Muboko, Edson Gandiwa, Kudakwashe Takarinda

“…A three-stage sampling was adopted: firstly, purposive sampling was employed to select wards adjacent to the SVC; secondly, random sampling was used to select villages within the selected wards; and thirdly, systematic sampling was used to select 71 household questionnaire respondents. …”
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Effect of social support networks on maternal knowledge of child health in rural Odisha, India by Ranjan Kumar Prusty, Sayeed Unisa

“…Methods: A multistage cluster sampling design was adopted for the present study and 379 mothers (age: M = 28.79, SD ± 4.03) were randomly selected by eight villages. A mixed-method research was used to integrate quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis. …”
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