Evaluation of vegetable wastes recycled for vermicomposting and its response on yield and quality of carrot (Daucus carota L.) by Ranjit Chatterjee, S. Bandyopadhyay, J. C. Jana

“…The findings can be promoted as a sound vegetable wastes recycling technology for organic carrot production to conserve natural resources and to minimize the deleterious impact of vegetable wastes on mother earth.…”
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slendr: a framework for spatio-temporal population genomic simulations on geographic landscapes by Petr, Martin, Haller, Benjamin C., Ralph, Peter L., Racimo, Fernando

“…., population displacements, expansions, and contractions) either on real Earth landscapes or on abstract custom maps, and schedule splits and gene-flow events between populations using a straightforward declarative language. …”
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Enhancement of Streptomyces aureoverticillatus HN6 through mutagenesis for improved biocontrol of banana wilt disease: an WGS approach by Xiangnan Yan, Shakil Ahmad, Nazia Manzar, Yunfei Zhang, Coline C. Jaworski, Abhijeet Shankar Kashyap, Lanying Wang, Yanping Luo

“…Moreover, the fermentation broth of the mutant strain E95 substantially improved the bacterial inhibitory activity. …”
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An Efflux Pumps Inhibitor Significantly Improved the Antibacterial Activity of Botanicals from Plectranthus glandulosus towards MDR Phenotypes by Gravalain Nanmeni, Alex T. Tedonkeu, Aimé G. Fankam, Armelle T. Mbaveng, Brice E. N. Wamba, Paul Nayim, Gabin T. M. Bitchagno, Raïssa T. Nzogong, Maurice D. Awouafack, Mathieu Tene, Veronique P. Beng, Victor Kuete

“…Antibacterial assays of samples alone and in the presence of an efflux pump inhibitor (phenylalanine-arginine β-naphthylamide, PAβN) were carried out using the broth microdilution method. The phytochemical study of P. glandulosus plant extract afforded seven major fractions (A–G) which lead to the isolation of seventeen known compounds. …”
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Dysphemism in eating expressions in Javanese: A study of cognitive semantics by Hermandra Hermandra, Elvi Citraresmana, Anida Sarudin, Hasmidar Hassan

“…, and ‘menungso kok gragas?!’ (how on earth could you only eat?!).  Moreover, the study identified conceptual metaphors, comprising six structural metaphors and two orientational metaphors. …”
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„Wie die Geschichtsschreiber der Welt die Geschichte des Felsens schreiben“. Die zerschlagene Gedächtnislandschaft in der „Saison in den Alpen“ von Mieczysław Jastrun by Elżbieta Dutka

“…Numerous tropes and figures (e.g. the metaphors “chronicles of the earth” and “a book bound with stone snaps” referring to the mountains) and allusions to Słowacki’s poem In Switzerland make the Alps in Jastrun’s poem not only a “place touched by autobiography” (per M. …”
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Monitoring of Ionospheric Anomalies Using GNSS Observations to Detect Earthquake Precursors by Nicola Perfetti, Yuri Taddia, Alberto Pellegrinelli

“…The study of the Earth’s ionosphere is a topic that has increased in relevance over the past few decades. …”
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Effects of Partial Supporting Pile Removal from Deep Foundation Pits by Shallow Excavation Method in Loess Areas by Yunxin Zheng, Zhiping Hu, Xiang Ren, Rui Wang, Enxiang Zhang, Zhao Long

“…In the process of removing the supporting piles, the Earth pressure behind the piles is redistributed, and the load is mainly transferred to the adjacent supporting piles outside the tunnel within the radius of one time of the tunnel diameter. …”
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Incidence of Cervical Cancer in Young Adult Women: Level of Knowledge for its Prevention by Edison Sotalin Nivela, José Sixto Calvopiña del Castillo, Carlos Alberto Llerena Gómez

“…It was found that knowledge was related to age, education, occupation, marital status, frequency of gynecological examinations, frequency of cytology, awareness of one's knowledge and the number of births. <br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> despite unlimited access to information, there are still many women who do not go to the gynecologist, do not have cytology and do not know how the Cervical Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Program works in Ecuador.…”
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Eco-toxicological effects of pesticide residues on soil biological sentinels by E.I. Atuanya, T Onuoha, E Morka

“…The pesticides were observed to have negative effect on the growth of Nitrobacter and Nitrosomas sp. in broth culture media. The effective and lethal concentration (EC50) and (LC50) for each of the pesticides were observed to decrease with increase in the time of exposure and the effects of the two pesticides on both nitrite oxidations by Nitrobacter sp. and ammonia oxidation by Nitrosomonas sp. were similar. …”
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The Extraordinary Long-lasting Infrared Echo of PS16dtm Reveals an Extremely Energetic Nuclear Outburst by Ning Jiang, Di Luo, Jiazheng Zhu, Roc M. Cutri

“…Our model can be validated in the near future by IR time-domain surveys such as the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, given the recent retirement of WISE. …”
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Filling the Atlantic coastal tree-ring reconstruction gap: A 195-year record of growing season discharge of the Sainte-Anne River, Gaspésie, Québec, Canada by A.V. Pace, J.-M. St-Jacques, D.D. Noel, G. Fortin

“…A principal components analysis (PCA) and correlation analysis with GRUN (the 5°x5° gridded multi-model ensemble of runoff of Ghiggi et al. (2019. Earth Syst. Sci. Data. 11, (1655–1674) showed common modes of variability through-out this broader region. …”
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Clinicopathological Findings of Retinoblastoma: A 10-Year Experience from a Tertiary Hospital in Kampala, Uganda by James Joseph Yahaya, Belson Rugwizangoga, Alex Mremi, Asafu Munema

“…The incidence rate reported in the literature is 9,000 new cases per year, which corresponds to 1 in 15,000 births. This study aimed at analyzing the clinicopathological findings in children with RB in Uganda. …”
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Comparative Study of Three Different BACTEC Culture Media for the Detection of Bacteremia in Ambulatory and Hospitalized Children by Deirdre L Church, H Dele Davies, G Cadrain, Cynthia L Trevenen

“…Over an 18-month period, equal blood volumes (minimum of 1 mL/bottle) were inoculated into a three-bottle culture set including aerobic BACTEC NR 6A, aerobic BACTEC PEDS Plus and anaerobic NR 7A broths. Chart reviews were completed on all children with bacteremia to determine whether the isolate was clinically significant based on predefined criteria. …”
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Diplomatic History of the Great Patriotic War and the New World Order by A. Y. Borisov

“…World history teaches, large and small wars have been fought on Earth for centuries for specific political interests. …”
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Machine Learning as a Downscaling Approach for Prediction of Wind Characteristics under Future Climate Change Scenarios by Abbas Yeganeh-Bakhtiary, Hossein EyvazOghli, Naser Shabakhty, Bahareh Kamranzad, Soroush Abolfathi

“…The developed decision tree (DT) models were employed to statistically downscale the Beijing Normal University Earth System Model (BNU-ESM) global climate model output. …”
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Soil Properties Mediated by Topography Influence Carbon Stocks in a Teak Plantation in the Deciduous Forest Zone of Ghana by Jones Agyei Kumi, Michael Ansong, Winston Asante, Boateng Kyereh

“…Recent estimates indicate that over 291 million hectares of the Earth’s land area are occupied by forest plantations, representing 7% of the world’s forest area and 2% of the world’s land area. …”
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Eco-toxicological effects of pesticide residues on soil biological sentinels by E.I. Atuanya, T Onuoha, E Morka

“…The pesticides were observed to have negative effect on the growth of Nitrobacter and Nitrosomas sp. in broth culture media. The effective and lethal concentration (EC50) and (LC50) for each of the pesticides were observed to decrease with increase in the time of exposure and the effects of the two pesticides on both nitrite oxidations by Nitrobacter sp. and ammonia oxidation by Nitrosomonas sp. were similar. …”
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Prenatal Developmental Toxicity and Histopathological Changes of the Placenta Induced by Syzygium guineense Leaf Extract in Rats by Melese Shenkut Abebe, Kaleab Asres, Yonas Bekuretsion, Samuel Woldekidan, Bihonegn Sisay, Girma Seyoum

“…The plant extract did not affect the number of implantations, fetal resorptions, live births, and stillbirths. The weight of the fetuses and the placentae also decreased dose-dependently. …”
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Applying the Dempster–Shafer Fusion Theory to Combine Independent Land-Use Maps: A Case Study on the Mapping of Oil Palm Plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia by Carl Bethuel, Damien Arvor, Thomas Corpetti, Julia Hélie, Adrià Descals, David Gaveau, Cécile Chéron-Bessou, Jérémie Gignoux, Samuel Corgne

“…The remote sensing community benefits from new sensors and easier access to Earth Observation data to frequently released new land-cover maps. …”
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