Stewardship Ecosystem Services Study: Carbon Stores on Florida Forest Stewardship Program Lands by Nilesh Timilsina, Francisco J. Escobedo, Alison E. Adams, Sonia Delphin

“…Ecosystem services are benefits from nature that are directly enjoyed, consumed, or used by humans, such as water quality improvement or protection, recreation, biodiversity, and even timber. …”
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Designing of a Drainage System on a Section of Katuna - Rubaya - Muko Road in Kabale District. by Amanya, Rabbi

“…It also included field activities to take elevations and find the slope of the area, together with the entire water catchment. The discharge obtained enabled to size the channel, which furthermore directed onto the design of the hydraulic culvert. …”
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Agricultural Development and Economic Growth in Uganda: A Case Study of Rukiga District. by Ayebare, Joel

“…It also suggested promoting the cultivation of drought-tolerant crops like millet, sorghum, and cowpeas, which need less water and are more resilient to irregular rainfall patterns.…”
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Iron(III)–Quercetin Complex: In Vivo Acute Toxicity and Biodistribution of Novel MRI Agent by Innuan P, Kongkarnka S, Thongtharb A, Kantapan J, Dechsupa N

“…For in vivo biodistribution, SD rats were administered an intravenous dose of IronQ (225 μmol Fe/kg BW), followed by MR imaging using a 1.5 T scanner and subsequent tissue-ICP analysis.Results: The longitudinal relaxivity (r1) of IronQ was measured to be 2.17 mm⁻¹s⁻¹ in ultrapure water and 3.56 mm⁻¹s⁻¹ in whole blood. Acute toxicity studies showed no mortality, morbidity, or significant biochemical changes, with histopathology confirming no irreversible organ damage. …”
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Bismuth-Immobilized Optical Fiber-Based SPR Nanosensor for Detection of Zinc Nitrate Contamination in Aquaculture Industry by Yesudasu Vasimalla, Nasih Hma Salah, Baljinder Kaur, Hogr M. Rasul, Chella Santhosh, Ramachandran Balaji, S.R. Srither, Santosh Kumar

“…Zinc nitrate, a toxic substance usually found in industrial waste and agricultural residues, poses a serious threat to the aquaculture industry due to the poor water quality and harmful aquatic life. Effective monitoring of zinc nitrate contamination is essential to protect aquatic ecosystems and also ensures the safety of aquaculture products. …”
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Development of a Hydrocortisone Orodispersible Thin Film Containing Its Succinate Prodrug by Clément Boisseillier, Lucas Demange-Labriet, Dulanjalee Kariyawasam, Pauline Marchadour, Anne-Sophie Fauqueur, Maxime Annereau, Lucas Denis, Camille Cotteret, Salvatore Cisternino, Arnaud Schweitzer-Chaput

“…Conclusion: The ODF formulated with the water-soluble hydrocortisone prodrug HMS allows accurate drug level to be achieved, thus opening up new opportunities for use in pediatric patients.…”
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Phytochemical and Biological Investigations of Crude Extracts of <i>Astragalus pisidicus</i> by Esra Aydemir, Elif Odabaş Köse, Serap Özkaya Gül, Alaaddin Korkut, A. Cansu Kilit, Mehmet Engin Celep, Mustafa Yavuz, R. Süleyman Göktürk, Cengiz Sarikurkcu

“…Antioxidant activity of <i>A. pisidicus</i> water and methanolic extracts was investigated with eight different assays. …”
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Rheological properties and coalescence stability of degassed crude oil emulsion: Influence of supercritical CO2 treatment by Guangyu Sun, Fujun Sheng, Qingyi Li, Chuanxian Li, Fei Yang, Bo Yao, Yansong Zhao

“…With the technology of enhanced oil recovery by supercritical CO2 flooding (scCO2-EOR) popularized and applied, the water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion can be easily formed in the surface gathering pipeline when the produced crude oil and water flows through the pump and throttle valve. …”
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Reactive arthritis incidence in a community cohort following a large waterborne campylobacteriosis outbreak in Havelock North, New Zealand by Nicholas Jones, Rebecca Grainger, Michael G Baker, Tim Wood, Tiffany A Walker, Terence Quirke, Rebekah Roos, Jill Sherwood, Graham Mackereth, Tomasz Kiedrzynski, Rachel Eyre, Shevaun Paine, Anita Jagroop

“…Objectives In August 2016, Campylobacter spp contaminated an untreated reticulated water supply resulting in a large-scale gastroenteritis outbreak affecting an estimated 8320 people. …”
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Effects of the land use change on ecosystem service value by J. Zhou, L. Sun, S.Y. Zang, K. Wang, J.Y. Zhao, Z.X. Li, X.M. Liu, X.R. Liu

“…The sensitivity coefficients followed that wetland > water body > woodland > unutilized land > pasture land> cultivated land in 2015, which indicating that the changes of the land utilization are lack of flexibility to the changes of the ecosystem service value.…”
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The Kenya Surgical Capacity Study: An Audit of Surgical Equipment/Infrastructure in Level 4 Public Hospitals by Sara Chaker, Jaymie Ang Henry, Ya-Ching Hung, Mariam Saad, Elizabeth Slater, SriGita Krishna Madiraju, Patrick Mwai, Pankaj Jani, Kevin Lan, Peter Nthumba

“…Over 80% of the facilities had running water in maternity wards (83.1%). Sterilization equipment was present in about half of the facilities (range: 42.6–68.3%). …”
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Hubungan Sanitasi Lingkungan Rumah dengan Kejadian Askariasis dan Trikuriasis pada Siswa SD N 29 Purus Padang by Hildya Kusmi, Nuzulia Irawati, Husnil Kadri

“…The statistical test indicated no significant relationship between latrine ownership, availability of clean water source, garbage disposal facilities, and the type of floor home to the incidence of ascariasis and trichuriasis (p &gt; 0.05). …”
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The effectivity of pandanus leaf extract for the treatment of sangkuriang catfish juvenile Clarias gariepinus infected by Aeromonas hydrophila by Siti Sopiah, Rosidah Rosidah, Walim Lili, Iskandar Iskandar, Ibnu Bangkit Suryadi

“…The fish has infected with A. hydrophila bacteria as much as 20 mL of NaCl/L in 10 L of water medium with a density of 108 CFU/mL through immersion. …”
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Preliminary study on domestication of coconut crab (Birgus latro) by . Sulistiono, S. Refiani, F.Y. Tantu, Muslihuddin .

“…Domestication was done in rearing batch sized 1x1x1 m3 with artificial nests (30x15x15 cm3), and small batch for water (7x10x10 cm3).  While for clomang stage, crabs were reared in aquarium (80x40x40 cm3) with debris and small water batch.  …”
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Waterbird diversity and its influencing factors in various types of coastal wetlands in the Bohai Rim region by Mengdi FU, Jun WANG, Chunfei HOU, Junsheng LI, Jiade BAI, Yuanyuan ZHANG

“…Additionally, increased precipitation caused by climate change alters wetland water levels, indirectly impacting habitat conditions for waterbirds. …”
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Exploring Proso Millet Resilience to Abiotic Stresses: High-Yield Potential in Desert Environments of the Middle East by Srinivasan Samineni, Sridhar Gummadi, Sumitha Thushar, Dil Nawaz Khan, Anestis Gkanogiannis, Luis Augusto Becerra Lopez-Lavalle, Rakesh Kumar Singh

“…Scarce water resources, high temperatures, limited rainfall, elevated soil salinity, and poor soil quality (98% sand) challenge crop production in the desert regions of the Middle East. …”
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Selective solvothermal extraction of tetrabromobisphenol A to promote plastic recycling by Paavo Auvinen, Ville H. Nissinen, Erno Karjalainen, Kirsi Korpijärvi, Eerika Olkkonen, Krista Grönlund, Ilkka Rytöluoto, Lauri Kuutti, Mika Suvanto, Janne Jänis, Jarkko J. Saarinen

“…IPA/NaOH extraction provided efficient bromine removal, but it also extracted plenty of other plastic additives, including phenolic stabilizers Irganox 1076 and Cyasorb UV-2908. The inclusion of water in the IPA/NaOH mixture shifted the extraction selectivity towards TBBPA, leaving most of the other additives unaffected. …”
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Modeling the tropical fish community related to land uses and environmental determinants by N. Takarina, O. Chuan, M. Afifudin, L. Tristan, I. Arif, A. Adiwibowo

“…This study aims to assess and compare the environment and tropical fish community between disturbed and intact sites, represented by coasts dominated by settlements and coasts dominated by mangrove forests in West Java, Indonesia.METHODS: Fish sampling was carried out at two sites: Jakarta as the disturbed site and Subang as the intact site; water quality was also measured at these sites. Land uses at the sites were interpreted using satellite imagery. …”
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Focusing on the mechanism of glycinin-soybean lipophilic protein hybrid gels: Effect of ultrasonic, subunit interactions, and formation process analysis by Yuyang Huang, Jiyuan Liu, Yongping Li, Yongsheng Zhu, Gang Chen, Baoning Zheng, Yixin Zhang, Yang Li, Xiuqing Zhu

“…This enhanced water mobility in B-SLP gels, in turn weakening gel stability. …”
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iMulch: an investigation of the influence of polymers on a terrestrial ecosystem using the example of mulch films used in agriculture by Carmen Wolf, Mike Wenzel, Björn Fischer, Ralf Bertling, Erich Jelen, Dieter Hennecke, Karlheinz Weinfurtner, Martina Roß-Nickoll, Henner Hollert, Antonia Weltmeyer, Kristina Bitter, Pauline Ruiz, Dusica Banduka, Jochen Tuerk, Lars M. Blank

“…The biodegradable films showed incipient degradation after 8 weeks in drainage water and initial degradation after 12 weeks in soil ageing experiments. …”
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