La Guyane, un territoire Caraïbe en voie de sud-américanisation by Stéphane Granger

“…On the north coast of South America, French Guiana is appearing more as a caribbean territory because his history, his historical culture and his political and economical relations. …”
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Brief communication: Monitoring snow depth using small, cheap, and easy-to-deploy snow–ground interface temperature sensors by C. L. Bachand, C. L. Bachand, C. Wang, B. Dafflon, L. N. Thomas, L. N. Thomas, I. Shirley, S. Maebius, S. Maebius, C. M. Iversen, K. E. Bennett

“…The model performed well on Alaska's Seward Peninsula where it was trained and at Arctic evaluation sites (RMSE <span class="inline-formula">≤</span> 0.15 m). It performed poorly at temperate sites with deeper snowpacks, partially due to training data limitations. …”
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OOxytetracycline Hydrochloride (OTC-HCl) Application for Control of Palm Phytoplasmas by Brian W. Bahder, Ericka E. Helmick

“…In 2006, lethal bronzing disease (LBD) was discovered on the west coast of Florida near Tampa.  Currently, the only two management options available for control of phytoplasmas is an aggressive sampling strategy followed by consistent tree removal and injections of OTC.  …”
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Phytochemical Screening of the Roots, Stem, Leaves and Flowers of Tithonia Diversifolia For Antimicrobial Properties. by Baluku, Geoffrey Kapere

“…Therefore, this study was carried to ascertain the phytochemical classes of the bioactive compounds from the leaves, flowers, stems, and roots of Tithonia diversifolia and their antimicrobial activity. …”
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Penyeimbangan Kelas SMOTE dan Seleksi Fitur Ensemble Filter pada Support Vector Machine untuk Klasifikasi Penyakit Liver by Muhammad Amir Nugraha, Muhammad Itqan Mazdadi, Andi Farmadi, Muliadi, Triando Hamonangan Saragih

“…To class-balance the dataset, the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) method is used. …”
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Modelling and Analysis of Bioretention Systems for Removal of Stormwater Pollutants by Nuwagaba, Emmanuel, Abdulkadir, Taofeeq Sholagberu, Agwe, Michael Tobby, Philip, Tibenderana, Ako, Terseer, Moses N., Twesigye-omwe

“…Each of the Columns has four layers arranged as follows: Column B (Layer 1 for fine sand of 0.063 – 1.18 mm; Layer 2 for Coarse Sand of 1.18-4.75; Layer 3 for fine aggregate AASHTO M43, 4.75-9.5mm; and Layer 4 for Coarse aggregate >9.5mm), and Column C (Layer 1 for black soil with mulch and plants; fine Sand of 1.18-0.063; Layer 3 for fine aggregate AASHTO M43, 4.75-9.5mm; and Layer 4 for Coarse aggregate >9.5mm). …”
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Vaginal Tritrichomonas foetus infection in mice as an in vivo model for drug development against Trichomonas vaginalis. by Noelle M Nieskens, Yukiko Miyamoto, Brianna M Hurysz, Anthony J O'Donoghue, Lars Eckmann

“…Metronidazole and tinidazole, agents belonging to the 5-nitroheterocyclic class of antimicrobials, are most often used to treat infection, but increased resistance has been reported and adverse effects of these drugs can be significant. …”
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Plant community and structural pattern analyses of Abraham Sacred Forest in Amhara Regional State, northwest Ethiopia. by Getinet Masresha Kassa, Ayenew Lisanu Teka, Getahun Tassew Melese

“…Structural parameters and size class ratios were used to analyze the vegetation structure and regeneration status. …”
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Defining pediatric polypharmacy: A scoping review. by Paul M Bakaki, Alexis Horace, Neal Dawson, Almut Winterstein, Jennifer Waldron, Jennifer Staley, Elia M Pestana Knight, Sharon B Meropol, Rujia Liu, Hannah Johnson, Negar Golchin, James A Feinstein, Shari D Bolen, Lawrence C Kleinman

“…We recommend that pediatric polypharmacy studies specify the number of medications or therapeutic classes, if they are concurrent or sequential, and the duration of medications. …”
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SSMM: Semi-supervised manifold method with spatial-spectral self-training and regularized metric constraints for hyperspectral image dimensionality reduction by Bei Zhu, Yao Jin, Xuehua Guan, Yanni Dong

“…At the same time, the regularized distance metric constraint is imposed on the manifold, so that samples of the same class are clustered and different classes are mutually exclusive. …”
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Age determination of the wildcat (Felis silvestris): a case study of a sample from the North-Western Black Sea region (Ukraine) by Yuri Oleinik

“…Cementochronology was found to be the only method allowing the wildcat population to be divided into seven year classes. Cement deposition primarily occurs at the apical tip of the canine root, allowing the use of only the lower third of the tooth for analysis. …”
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Failure Mechanism of Salt Barrier in Saline Soil Subgrade in Cold and Arid Plateau Areas by Yurong Zhang, Wen Zhang, Yanbin Fan, Shiyi Liu, Yunxiu He, Yi Zou

“…There is continuous vapor and salt transport in the large pores of the coarse-grained salt barrier. The vibration load of the road surface causes the fine soil particles to migrate downward into the coarse-grained salt barrier, reducing the thickness of the salt barrier. …”
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The surface tension and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activation of sea spray aerosol particles by J. Kleinheins, N. Shardt, U. Lohmann, C. Marcolli

“…In a sensitivity study we show that organic compounds can be categorized into weak, intermediate, and strong surfactants for CCN activation based on their separation factor in water <span class="inline-formula"><i>S</i>_1<i>i</i></span> and their pure component surface tension <span class="inline-formula"><i>σ</i>_<i>i</i></span>. …”
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Study on Catastrophe Instability of Support System in Gypsum Goaf Based on Energy Dissipation Theory by Yuejin Zhou, Xiaoding Xu, Xiaotong Li, Meng Li, Yugui Yang

“…Energy catastrophe theory was applied to analyze the stability of the support system in different classes of goaf. The analysis results showed that Class D goaf should be labeled as the unstable zone, which was consistent with the result of field research. …”
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Incremental long-term benefit of drug therapies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in quality of life but not mortality: a network meta-analysis by Qiong Pan, Jiongzhou Sun, Shiyuan Gao, Zian Liu, Yiwen Huang, Yixin Lian

“…Results This network meta-analysis identified 69 eligible RCTs on 7 classes of drug therapies after stepwise screening and included 125,331 COPD patients. …”
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Naming the untouchable – environmental sequences and niche partitioning as taxonomical evidence in fungi by Faheema Kalsoom Khan, Kerri Kluting, Jeanette Tångrot, Hector Urbina, Tea Ammunet, Shadi Eshghi Sahraei, Martin Rydén, Martin Ryberg, Anna Rosling

“…Here, we use environmental sequence data as taxonomical evidence and combine phylogenetic and ecological data to generate and test species hypotheses in the class Archaeorhizomycetes (Taphrinomycotina, Ascomycota). …”
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Discriminating between “drizzle or rain” and sea salt aerosols in Cloudnet for measurements over the Barbados Cloud Observatory by J. Roschke, J. Witthuhn, J. Witthuhn, M. Klingebiel, M. Haarig, A. Foth, A. Kötsche, H. Kalesse-Los

“…<p>The highly sensitive Ka-band cloud radar at the Barbados Cloud Observatory (BCO) frequently reveals radar reflectivity signals below <span class="inline-formula">−</span>50 dBZ within the convective sub-cloud layer. …”
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Inheritance of cleistogamy in interspecific hybridization of Gossypium barbadense L. by T. I. Mukhiddinov, A. A. Abdullayev, E. Kuchkarov, A. H. Choriev, S. K. Jumaev

“…Segregation into two phenotypic classes occurs in the 3:1 ratio, i.e., three plants with chasmogamous flowers per one cleistogamous. …”
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The Impact of Audience Response System in Changing Students' Attitudes Towards Lectures During Training Courses; A Before‐After Study by Farzad Zareie, Rahim Baghaei, Naser Sheykhi, Davood Rasouli

“…Results In comparison to before the course, the students' attitudes towards lectures had changed in a positive and significant way, specifically in items such as learning quality improvement, decreasing boredom, increasing participation and class activity. …”
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Evaluating Explainable AI Methods in Deep Learning Models for Early Detection of Cerebral Palsy by Kimji N. Pellano, Inga Strumke, Daniel Groos, Lars Adde, Espen F. Alexander Ihlen

“…Specifically, we use XAI evaluation metrics &#x2014; namely faithfulness and stability &#x2014; to quantitatively assess the reliability of Class Activation Mapping (CAM) and Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) in this specific medical application. …”
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