Environmental Performance of Existing Cities and Green Infrastructures—Two Case Studies Compared: Reggio Calabria and Enna, Italy by Celestina Fazia

“…The research identifies two ways to prepare cities to meet the challenges: the first is to optimize the way the urban organism functions by containing CO₂ emissions and consumption of nonrenewable resources by indicating strategies to regenerate the existing city according to an ecosystem approach; the second is to preserve the natural areas of the peri-urban area through graded forms of protection and enhancement by curbing the settlement thrusts of the existing city. …”
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Evaluation of Rural Housing Structural Transformations Based on the Rural Livelihood; Case Study : Riab Village in Khorasan Razavi Province by Abasalt Askari Rabori, Shahab Abbaszadeh, Ali Asghar Abroon

“…The present research, via explaining the causes and factors influencing rural life, attempts to explain the nature of rural life influences on the structure of rural housing architecture, to examine the changes of rural housing from traditional-native housing to new housing in a the selected case study. This is achieved through combined descriptive-analytical approach, while studying library resources and field observations, and analyzed the changes in the structure of rural housing architecture. …”
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Spatial distribution patterns and driving factors of ecosystem services and ecological vulnerability in ecologically fragile areas: a case study of the Zhang-Cheng area by Ye Wang, Ye Wang, Zhong-cai Xue, Zhong-cai Xue, An-qi Ju, Yue Yang, Yue Yang, Wei Ren, Cai-wu Wu, Cai-wu Wu

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Bioactivity and Structural Characterization of Soluble Dietary Fiber from Lyophyllum decastes by HE Shanshan, LIU Liping, LIU Yanfang, FENG Jie, WANG Guangqiang, WANG Wenhan, ZHANG Jinsong

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<i>OsIAA19</i>, an <i>Aux</i>/<i>IAA</i> Family Gene, Involved in the Regulation of Seed-Specific Traits in Rice by Sha-Sha Jia, Xin-Yu Ren, Man-Ni Tong, Si-Yao Jiang, Chang-Quan Zhang, Qiao-Quan Liu, Qian-Feng Li

“…This study not only enriched the functional study of the <i>Aux/IAA</i> genes and the auxin signaling pathway in rice, but also provided valuable genetic resources for breeding elite rice varieties.…”
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Jumping Characteristics of Broiler Breeder Hens at Different Perching Platform Heights by Xiaoliu Xue, Baoming Li, Qin Tong, Yang Wang, Peng Yin

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THE THEORETICAL MODEL OF THE PEDAGOGICAL SYSTEM OF FORMATION OF THE ABILITIES OF FOREIGN-LANGUAGE BUSINESS COMMUNICATION SKILLS AMONG STUDENTS OF THE BACHELOR DEGREE IN THE POWER I... by Yulia V. Shustova, Valentin N. Mikhelkevich

“…The article is focused on the theoretical model of the pedagogical system of formation of the abilities of foreign-language business communication skills among students of the bachelor degree in the Power Industry and Electrical Equipment. The functional and procedural characteristics of each of nine links of model of the system are considered. …”
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Synergistic modulation of valence state and oxygen vacancy induced by surface reconstruction of the CeO2/CuO catalyst toward enhanced electrochemical CO2 reduction by Fangfang Chang, Zhenmao Zhang, Yan Zhang, Yongpeng Liu, Lin Yang, Xiaolei Wang, Zhengyu Bai, Qing Zhang

“…Advanced characterization analysis and density functional theory (DFT) calculations further confirm the fact that the existence of oxygen vacancies and Cu0–Cu+–Cu2+ sites modified with CeO2 is conducive to CO2 adsorption and activation, enhances the hydrogenation of *CO to *CHO, and further promotes the dimerization of *CHO, thus promoting the selectivity of C2+ generation. …”
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Genome assembly of an endemic butterfly (Minois aurata) shed light on the genetic mechanisms underlying ecological adaptation to arid valley habitat by Wenqian Hu, Yi Wang, Xiaoxiao Chen, Jialong Huang, Jingge Kuang, Lei Wang, Kangshan Mao, Liang Dou

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Landscape and habitat effects on pest control and seed predation by carabid beetles by Giacomo Ortis, Costanza Geppert, Andree Cappellari, Lorenzo Marini

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Analysis of the Soil Microbiome of a Los Angeles Urban Farm by Savanah St. Clair, Maryam Saraylou, Daila Melendez, Norman Senn, Serina Reitz, Destini Kananipour, Angelo Alvarez

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Synergistic task-offloading in 6G edge networks based on propagation dynamics by Chao Zhu, Yuexia Zhang, Xinyi Wang, Xuzhen Zhu

“…In future 6G edge networks, Device-to-Device (D2D)-assisted Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) can fully utilize the idle resources of user terminals (UT) and alleviate the burden on backhaul links. …”
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Trispecific SEED antibodies engineered for neutrophil-mediated cell killing by Veronica Natale, Gergely Heves, Katharina Stadlbauer, Florian Rüker, Vanessa Siegmund, Lukas Pekar, Stefan Zielonka, Lars Toleikis, Stefan Becker, Gordana Wozniak-Knopp

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The Impact of Refugees on the Social Economic Development of the Host Communities: A Case Study of Nyakabande Refugee Transit Kisoro District. by Ngabire, Robert

“…The study established that refugees bring productivity in the host communities, complement the job market, stimulate the economy complement market demand for goods and services, employment opportunities to the people around the transit areas and refugee camps which rises the standard of living, donations by the host communities Environmental degradation, increased demand for goods and services which rises the standards of living of the host communities, land grabbing, sharing of social facilities, cooperation of social functioning and insecurity of the host communities were cited to be some of the social relationship between the refugees and the host communities, deforestation, increased demand for goods and services, infrastructural development, theft, social ills like prostitution, competition for properties, compromised resources. …”
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Preparation of Straw Biochar by Solid Phase Activation and Its Deodorization Performance Ｒesearch by LI You-jing, LI Fen, YANG Ying, GE Bao-cai, MENG Fan-zhu

“…To solve the waste of biomass resources and the accumulation of by-product charcoal in the process of biomass pyrolysis. …”
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A review on renewable energy: Conversion and utilization of biomass by Xinping Yang, Yongjia Zhang, Peiliang Sun, Chong Peng

“…To achieve sustainable production of fuels and chemicals, biomass resources provide a rich repository for carbon‐neutral, green renewable energy, and organic carbon. …”
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Investigation on the interaction force measurement between bubble and particle in flotation based on resistance strain cantilever beam by Xibing REN, Lijuan SUN, Qinshan LIU, Yulong CHENG, Xiahui GUI, Yaowen XING

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ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ORGANIC SOY PRODUCTION IN UKRAINE by Hanna Pantsyreva

“…Consequently, the substantiation of its agrobiological potential in selected areas of sustainable production on non-irrigated land will ensure the territorial transformation of the "soybean belt". …”
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Identification of the cassava NADP-ME gene family and its response and regulation in photosynthesis by Haozheng Li, Jin Xiao, Jiahui Chen, Xu Shen, Jia Luo, Fengguang Guo, Shangfei Wang, Liangye Xu, Xin Guo, Shujuan Wang, Haiyan Wang, Wenquan Wang

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Assessing Differences and Implications of Two Methods for Calculating Outcomes in the Lower Quarter Y-Balance Test by Natalia Sokulska, Bartosz Zając, Paulina Katarzyna Gaj

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