Prague, the Victorious May of 1945 by S. V. Kudryashov

“…The liberation of Prague was only part of a powerful offensive by three Soviet fronts. Heavy battles for Prague did not happen, but the entry of Soviet tanks into the Czech capital and the subsequent jubilation of local residents became a symbol of the end of the war in Europe. …”
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Mercury and Organic Matter Concentrations in Lake and Stream Sediments in relation to One Another and to Atmospheric Mercury Deposition and Climate Variations across Canada by Mina Nasr, Paul A. Arp

“…The objective was to quantify how sediment THg varies by (i) sediment organic matter, determined by loss on ignition (LOI) at 500∘C, (ii) atmospheric Hg deposition (atm.Hgdep) as derived from the Global/Regional Atmospheric Heavy Metals Model GRAHM2005, and (iii) mean annual precipitation and mean monthly July and January temperatures (TJuly, TJan). …”
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Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Santa Cruz, Bolivia: outbreak investigation and antibody prevalence study. by Joel M Montgomery, Patrick J Blair, Darin S Carroll, James N Mills, Alberto Gianella, Naomi Iihoshi, Ana M Briggiler, Vidal Felices, Milagros Salazar, James G Olson, Raisa A Glabman, Daniel G Bausch

“…Precipitation in the months preceding the outbreak was particularly heavy in comparison to other years, suggesting a possible climatic or ecological influence on rodent populations and risk of hantavirus transmission to humans. …”
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Spatio-temporal changes of glaciers, geomorphology, and meteorological influences on debris flow in the alpine environment: insights from a case study in the Hopar Nagar Valley, No... by Abrar Hussain, Jingfeng Liu, Muzaffar Ali, Wajid Hassan, Chengyuan Wang

“…Both in-situ and ERA5 climate data revealed extreme air temperature before debris flows followed by heavy rainfall, which triggered multiple debris flow events in August 2022. …”
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Utilizing Connection Usage Characteristics for Faster Web Data Transport by Gautam Raj Moktan, Nutti Varis, Jukka Manner

“…The results show significant improvement of page load times for both encryption heavy and unencrypted pages. We discuss the effect of the transport protocol on object transfer, connection duration, idle times during the page load, connections, and concurrency of flows that cumulate into page load times.…”
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Taxonomic Identification and Nutritional Analysis of <i>Pterocladiella capillacea</i> in Zhanjiang by Zhengwen Lv, Hongyan Cai, Nenghui Li, Hang Li, Jun Zeng, Kefeng Wu, Luming Deng, Huaqiang Tan, Hua Ye

“…The minerals contained four major elements and four trace elements, while heavy metal levels were within safety limits, ensuring their edibility. …”
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Spatial Analysis of Flood Hazard in Nirchay River Basin Using HEC-HMS Model and and fuzzy logic by fariba sfandyary darabad, mansour kheirizade, masoud rahimi

“…Floods are one of the most abundant and destructive natural disasters that every year are caused heavy losses of life and property. Due to human activity in river systems and construction in rivers, flood damage has an upward trend. …”
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Natural Disaster Diversity Assessment of Bitlis Province by Rezzan Ekinci, Aydın Büyüksaraç, Yunus Levent Ekinci, Ercan Işık

“…It was decided that landslide, rockfall and avalanche events threaten the daily life in the districts which have sloped topographies and generally get heavy rainfall. Emergency actions that can be applied in case of a possible avalanche disaster are strongly recommended for Bitlis province that is most prone to be damaged by avalanche events. …”
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Slope Reinforcement Mechanism and Stability Analysis of <italic>Ophiopogon bodinieri</italic> Under Rainfall Conditions by GUO Jianjun, ZhangWei, CaoHeng, WuZhenwei

“…With a significant reinforcement effect on soil slopes, <italic>O. bodinieri</italic> is an excellent slope protection plant and can be used for three-dimensional vegetation network slope protection technology during heavy rainfall.…”
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A Comparative Analysis of Prominent Virtual Synchronous Generator Strategies Under Different Network Conditions by Chalitha Liyanage, Inam Nutkani, Lasantha Meegahapola

“…., ISE-Lab, synchronverter, Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) model, and power synchronisation control (PSC)) under different network conditions (e.g., X/R ratios, network faults, and load types). …”
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An Innovative Eigenvector-Based Method for Traffic Light Scheduling by Mohammad Amin Soltani-Sarvestani, Zohreh Azimifar, Alexander Wong, Ali Akbar Safavi

“…In other words, vehicles are allowed to enter a street in both red and green ETL, but they are not allowed to exit the street for a long time in red ETL (while traffic is heavy in the subnetwork). The ETL gives a chance to relax traffic in a subnetwork and avoid traffic jam. …”
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An improved geometric algorithm for indoor localization by Junhua Yang, Yong Li, Wei Cheng

“…On the other hand, localization based on fingerprint can achieve high accuracy but need to pay heavy manual labor for fingerprint database establishment. …”
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Optimizing the Management and Outcomes of Failed Back Surgery Syndrome: A Consensus Statement on Definition and Outlines for Patient Assessment by Philippe Rigoard, Kliment Gatzinsky, Jean-Philippe Deneuville, Wim Duyvendak, Nicolas Naiditch, Jean-Pierre Van Buyten, Sam Eldabe

“…The lack of a comprehensive standardized care pathway compromises the appropriate management of FBSS patients, which is associated with a heavy financial burden. An international panel of spine surgeons, neurosurgeons, and pain specialists with a particular interest in FBSS established the chronic back and leg pain (CBLP) network with the aim of addressing the challenges and barriers in the clinical management of FBSS patients by building a common transdisciplinary vision. …”
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A Semi-supervised Deep Learning Method for Cervical Cell Classification by Siqi Zhao, Yongjun He, Jian Qin, Zixuan Wang

“…However, this technique entirely relies on manual operation and doctors’ naked eye observation, resulting in a heavy workload and low accuracy rate. Recently, automatic pathological diagnosis has been developed to solve this problem. …”
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Chemical Characterization of Specific Micropollutants from Textile Industry Effluents in Fez City, Morocco by Hakima Talouizte, Mohammed Merzouki, Mohammed Benlemlih, Mohammed Bendriss Amraoui

“…In the present work, physicochemical characterization of the studied textile effluents showed considerably high values of principal pollution parameters above the prescribed discharge water limits. Heavy metals like zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), nickel (Ni), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), and lead (Pb) were found to be present within the permissible limits. …”
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Personal portable self‐powered drinking water treatment device by Saeid Maghami, Moslem Tavakol

“…Abstract The presence of pathogenic microorganisms and excessive amounts of magnesium, nitrate and nitrite ions and also heavy metals in surface and underground water sources such as rivers and wells affect human health when used as drinking water. …”
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Disappearance of the Polar Cap Ionosphere During Geomagnetic Storm on 11 May 2019 by H.‐J. Kwon, K.‐H. Kim, G. Jee, J. Seon, C. Lee, Y.‐B. Ham, J. Hong, E. Kim, T. Bullett, H.‐U. Auster, W. Magnes, S. Kraft

“…From these observations we suggest that transpolar ionospheric currents connected to the field‐aligned currents flowing on a substorm wedge‐shaped circuit act as a source of polar atmospheric heating during the moderate geomagnetic storm interval and that elevated heavy molecular gases (O2 and N2) by atmospheric heating contribute to the electron density depletion via increased recombination rate.…”
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Assessing the Ecological Risk of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sediments at Langkawi Island, Malaysia by Essam Nasher, Lee Yook Heng, Zuriati Zakaria, Salmijah Surif

“…Tourism-related activities such as the heavy use of boats for transportation are a significant source of petroleum hydrocarbons that may harm the ecosystem of Langkawi Island. …”
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Active Suspension of Truck Seat by Masaaki Kawana, Taro Shimogo

“…The driver’s seat of a heavy duty truck is usually mounted on a spring–damper assembly anchored to the cab floor. …”
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Analysis of No.1 Flood Disaster in Poyang Lake Basin in 2020 Based on Natural Disaster System Theory by LIAN Yuechen, GAO Lu, MA Miaomiao, WANG Lan, LIN Hui

“…China is one of the countries most hit by flood disasters in the world.Flood disasters have the highest frequency,are distributed in the widest scope,and cause the largest loss in China.It is of great guiding significance to analyze the characteristics of disaster system elements for a better understanding of the evolution process of flood disasters.This study collects the disaster-formative environment (topography and river network),disaster-bearing body (socioeconomy),disaster-inducing factor (daily rainfall),and disaster losses in the core area of the Poyang Lake Basin.Moreover,it investigates the disaster mechanism and evolution process of the No.1 flood disaster in the Poyang Lake Basin in 2020 and discusses the flood prevention and control measures for the Poyang Lake Basin.The results show that the high-intensity rainfall since June was the precondition of the No.1 flood disaster in 2020 in the Poyang Lake Basin,which led to almost saturated soil moisture.Under the joint action of extremely heavy rainfall from 1 to 8 July (strong disaster-inducing factor) and low elevation (high sensitivity of disaster-formative environment) in the core area of the Poyang Lake Basin,the floods spread quickly and flooded the socioeconomic system (disaster-bearing body) of the lake area in a short time.Case analyses of typical flood disasters from the perspective of disaster systems will help improve the capabilities for risk identification,disaster prevention,and disaster mitigation of regional flood disasters.…”
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