Characteristics of salt dust aerosols and their transport implications in the Aral Sea by Jie Liu, Jianli Ding, Bohua Liu, Shu Wu, Zhijuan Han

“…From 2013 to 2018, the salt dust sources originated largely on the western side of the North Aral Sea. The spatial autocorrelation of salt dust aerosols was high and characterized by significant agglomeration, with significant changes in cold spot and hotspot regions. …”
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Effect of Gelatin/Xanthan Gum Ratios on Jackfruit Leaf Extract Nanoemulsion Gel Stability and Properties by Haswani Maisarah Mustafa, Nor Amaiza Mohd. Amin, Rabitah Zakaria, Mohd. Shamsul Anuar, Azhari Samsu Baharuddin

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Super Absorbent Polymers (SAPs) as concentration preservers in brine deicers for enhanced ice melting capacity by Gage Merke, Maedeh Hesami, Ravi Kiran

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Global regional and national burden of cataract attributable to high body mass index from 1990 to 2019 by Xiaowen Lan, Baodong Zhang, Yuxi Ding

“…In 2019, the burden of cataract due to high BMI was higher in females and the elderly population. North Africa and the Middle East were the high-risk areas of cataract attributable to high BMI in 2019, with Saudi Arabia being the country with the heaviest burden. …”
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Text to Realistic Image Generation with Attentional Concatenation Generative Adversarial Networks by Linyan Li, Yu Sun, Fuyuan Hu, Tao Zhou, Xuefeng Xi, Jinchang Ren

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Modeling Moral Behavior Based on Parent-Child Interaction and Perceived Social Support: The Mediation Role of Cultural Intelligence and Religious Orientation in Female High School... by Zahra Naji, Fatemeh Khoeini, Hasan Asadzadeh, Ali Jalili Shishvan

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Single Leg Bridge Test is Not a Valid Clinical Tool to Assess Maximum Hamstring Strength by Gabriela Bissani Gasparin, João Breno Araujo Ribeiro-Alvares, Bruno Manfredini Baroni

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Obesity Increases Prevalence of Colonic Adenomas at Screening Colonoscopy: A Canadian Community-Based Study by Theodore F. Shapero, Grant I. Chen, Tim Devlin, Alison Gibbs, Iain C. Murray, Stanley Tran, Corey Weigensberg

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Heatwaves in summer 2022 forces substantial mass loss for Urumqi Glacier No. 1, China by Chunhai Xu, Huilin Li, Feiteng Wang, Zhongqin Li, Ping Zhou, Shuangshuang Liu

“…Extreme heat events in the summer of 2022 were observed in Eurasia, North America and China. Glaciers are a unique indicator of climate change, and the European Alps experienced substantial glacier mass loss as a result of the conditions in 2022, which prompted a wide range of community concerns. …”
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Can Clinician-Stabilization with Hand-Held Dynamometry Yield a Reliable Measure of Knee Flexion Torque? by Daniel Larson, Daniel Lorenz, Brittany Melton

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Public Finance and Debt Crises in Southern Africa: A Push for Central Banks over Parliaments by Dunia Zongwe

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Tourism Development of Cultural Heritage Resources Through Conservation Concepts: A Case Study of Ningxia, China by Shengrui Zhang, Tianyi Hu, Tongyan Zhang, Hongrun Ju, Yingjie Wang

“…The findings reveal: (1) Religious and Ceremonial Sites: Ningxia boasts the highest number of religious and ceremonial sites, totaling 1741. (2) Geographical Distribution: Resources are distributed in a multicore pattern, concentrated in Longde and Zhongning Counties, while the central and western areas are less rich. (3) Regional Concentration: The eastern region shows a high concentration of resources, contrasting with the low concentration in the north. (4) Influencing Factors: Social factors like GDP per capita, urbanization, and population density significantly affect this spatial pattern, although natural factors like altitude are also important. …”
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Reliability of Spatiotemporal Characteristics During Single-Legged Hop and Bilateral Drop Jump Tasks Using an Instrumented Pressure Walkway by Matthew McManigal, Austin Post, Michael Allen, Alyx Jorgensen, MIke Rosenthal, Michael Wellsandt, Matthew Tao, Elizabeth Wellsandt

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Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933) and the Transition from 19th-Century Comparative Philology to 20th-Century General Linguistics by Subbiondo Joseph L., Kilarski Marcin

“…On the other hand, his reinterpretation of examples from the languages of North America, Southern Africa, and Tasmania as evidence of the lack of abstract and generic terms not only violated his methodological assumptions but was also consistent with the common nineteenth-century practice of treating words as an index of civilizational development.…”
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Intelligent adjustment for power system operation mode based on deep reinforcement learning by Wei Hu, Ning Mi, Shuang Wu, Huiling Zhang, Zhewen Hu, Lei Zhang

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Waste Materials from Tetra Pak Packages as Reinforcement of Polymer Concrete by Miguel Martínez-López, Gonzalo Martínez-Barrera, Carlos Barrera-Díaz, Fernando Ureña-Núñez, Witold Brostow

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New peach cultivar ‘Mechta’ developed at the Nikita Botanical Gardens by N. V. Mesyats, A. V. Smykov

“…It is necessary to increase winter hardiness and frost resistance of peach cultivars for more stable fruiting, manifestation of potential productivity, and expanding their areas of cultivation to the north, as well as to increase their adaptability to drought when they are grown under arid conditions.Materials and methods. …”
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Assessment of heavy metal pollution in seawater, benthic flora and fauna and their ability to survive under stressors along the northern Red Sea, Egypt by Salah-Tantawy Ahmed, Mahdy Aldoushy, Dar Mahmoud A., Young Shuh-Sen, Abdelreheem Abdelbaset M. A.

“…The purpose of this study was to assess the north coasts of the Egyptian Red Sea, including Ras Gharieb, Hurghada, Safaga and Qusier, by evaluating the heavy metal pollution in seawater and benthic flora and fauna in the winter and summer of 2016. …”
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The effect of site exposure index on the required capacities of aquaculture structures by Tobias Dewhurst, Samuel Rickerich, Michael MacNicoll, Nathaniel Baker, Zachary Moscicki

“…The research builds upon exposure indices proposed previously, and uses Hydro-/Structural Dynamic Finite Element Analysis (HS-DFEA) to quantify the required structural capacities for cultivation structures as a function of exposure index based on representative sites in the German Bight of the North Sea. The selection of 36 sites in this region was based on extreme hydrodynamic and mean bathymetric conditions, utilizing a k-means clustering approach to identify a collection of sites within a broad range of environmental conditions. …”
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Does the Direction of Kinesiology Tape Application Influence Muscle Activation in Asymptomatic Individuals? by Michelle Dolphin, Gary Brooks, Blair Calancie, Adam Rufa

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