Neglected Questions on the “Forgotten War”: South Korea and the United States on the Eve of the Korean War by Mark Caprio

“…The contribution made by these documents, however, is limited to enhanced understanding of relations between members of the northern triangle (the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea); they contribute little to understanding of the southern triangle (the United States, Japan, and South Korea). …”
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Numerical assessment of solar panel with utilizing ferrofluid flow within wavy duct equipped with V-shaped fins by Mohammed A. Tashkandi, Ali Basem, Hussein A.Z. AL-bonsrulah, Lioua Kolsi, Mahmood Shaker Albdeiri, Lotfi Ben Said, Amira M. Hussin

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ALMA Observations of Solar Spicules in a Polar Coronal Hole by T. S. Bastian, C. Alissandrakis, A. Nindos, M. Shimojo, S. M. White

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Prevalence and correlates of facemask usage during the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. by Nelson Onira Alema, Christopher Okot, Emmanuel Olal, Eric Nzirakaindi Ikoona, Freddy Wathum Drinkwater Oyat, Steven Baguma, Denish Omoya Ochula, Patrick Odong Olwedo, Johnson Nyeko Oloya, Francis Pebalo Pebolo, Pamela Okot Atim, Godfrey Smart Okot, Ritah Nantale, Judith Aloyo, David Lagoro Kitara

“…This study aimed to determine the prevalence and correlates of facemask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic in northern Uganda. We conducted a cross-sectional study on 587 adults across nine districts in northern Uganda, across 24 high-volume health facilities offering free COVID-9 vaccines. …”
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The mechanism of urban-rural integrated development based on the “population-land-capital” factor flow: A case study of Jiangxi Province by YANG Jie, GE Dazhuan, SUN Pan, YUAN Ziyi

“…[Results] (1) The overall urban-rural integrated development level in Jiangxi Province exhibited an upward trend from 2000 to 2020, transitioning from relying on urban-rural ecological space development to achieving balance in economy, society, and ecology. (2) The urban-rural integrated development level in Jiangxi Province displayed significant geographical differences, with the economic integration level in northern Jiangxi surpassing central Jiangxi and southern Jiangxi; the social integration level in northern Jiangxi exceeding southern Jiangxi and central Jiangxi; and the ecological integration level in southern Jiangxi surpassing central Jiangxi and northern Jiangxi. (3) The flow of population factor, land factor, and capital factor all exhibited significant positive effects on urban-rural integrated development in Jiangxi Province, with population factor flow having the greatest driving effect. (4) Urban-rural factor flow can continuously optimize the urban-rural relationship, generating diffusion effects and spatial spillover effects, fostering the ongoing reconstruction and integration of urban and rural spaces in Jiangxi Province. …”
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RETRACTED: Kanan et al. Empowering Low- and Middle-Income Countries to Combat AMR by Minimal Use of Antibiotics: A Way Forward. <i>Antibiotics</i> 2023, <i>12</i>, 1504 by Mohammed Kanan, Maali Ramadan, Hanan Haif, Bashayr Abdullah, Jawaher Mubarak, Waad Ahmad, Shahad Mari, Samaher Hassan, Rawan Eid, Mohammed Hasan, Mohammed Qahl, Atheer Assiri, Munirah Sultan, Faisal Alrumaih, Areej Alenzi

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Scandinavia in Lithuanian Diplomacy in 1915-1917 by Sandra Grigaravičiūtė

“…The forbidding of the Russian government to send money to the territories occupied by German military force was the third objective factor which forced the Lithuanians to choose the Scandinavian orientation. …”
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Patterns and wavelet coherence analysis of tidal dynamics and chlorophyll a concentration by M.N. Hidayat, R. Wafdan, M. Ramli, Z.A. Muchlisin, S. Rizal

“…Awareness is key for a comprehensive perspective on the role of tidal forces, affecting ocean’s physical aspects and life form diversity. …”
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Un scrutin pour trois pays : la nouvelle géographie politique italienne suite à l’élection législative du 4 mars 2018 by Matteo Cavallaro, Davide Policastro, Guido Salza, Massimo Angelo Zanetti

“…In particular, we focus on the geographical differences in the scores distribution of the main political forces. We argue that, from this point of view, Italy appears as a tripolar-but-imperfect political system with two major poles (centre-right and M5S) and a non-competitive pole, the centre-left. …”
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Syrian refugee and diaspora healthcare professionals: Case studies from the eastern mediterranean and European regions by Aula Abbara, Munzer Alkhalil, Kinan Wihba, Omer Abdrabbuh, Diana Rayes, Andrew Ghobrial, Manar Marzouk, Fadi Halabi, Mahmoud Hariri, Abdulkarim Ekzayez

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Dynamiques identitaires anciennes et actuelles chez les Aché du Paraguay oriental : éléments de compréhension by Philippe Edeb Piragi

“…Following forced settlement in Mission-run reservations which was completed in 1978, older geopolitical segmentations were replaced by a new distribution of this nomadic society in permanent and independent colonies. …”
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Geospatial Trends and Decadal Anomalies in Extreme Rainfall over Uganda, East Africa by Charles Onyutha

“…The influence of Niño 3 on the rainfall variability of some parts of the country was also evident. The southern and northern parts had positive and negative trends, respectively. …”
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 Jack Kerouac’s Ecopoetics in The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels : Domesticity, Wilderness and Masculine Fantasies of Animality by Pierre-Antoine Pellerin

“…Yet, large wild animals are almost never to be found in his novels and the long-awaited encounter with deadly predators does not occur, forcing the narrator to reconfigure the relationship between masculinity and animality. …”
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Lvov and Sandomir Offensive Operation: the Look 70 Years by V. B. Makovskiy

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The Islamic State" in the Context of Political Changes in the Middle East by A. A. Kuznetsov

“…To the author's opinion oppression of the Iraqi Sunni community by the government of Nuri al-Maliki was the main cause of the Sunni revolt in Summer of 2014. Sunni tribes of Northern Iraq and former Baath party members were the driving forces of the revolt but then Jihadi extremists hijacked this revolt. …”
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Fearlessness and Resistance in the Gulag: Estonian Prison Camp Poetry by Rebekka Lotman

“… During and after the Second World War, over 50,000 Estonians were sent to Soviet prison and forced labour camps. Within these camps, some of the repressed Estonians developed their own subculture – prison camp poetry, secretly written on sheets of paper and also memorised. …”
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Revisiting the Last Ice Area projections from a high-resolution Global Earth System Model by Madeleine Fol, Bruno Tremblay, Stephanie Pfirman, Robert Newton, Stephen Howell, Jean-François Lemieux

“…Abstract The Last Ice Area—located to the north of Greenland and the northern Canadian Arctic Archipelago—is expected to persist as the central Arctic Ocean becomes seasonally ice-free within a few decades. …”
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Sur quelques modifications hydromorphologiques dans le Val de Seine (Bassin parisien, France) depuis 1830 : quelle part accorder aux facteurs hydrologiques et anthropiques ? by Séverine Lescure, Gilles Arnaud-Fassetta, Stéphane Cordier

“…The present paper deals with the hydromorphological modifications which occurred along the whole Seine valley (a 779 km long river located in Northern France) during the past two centuries. The aim is to identify these changes and to assess the role of the main controlling factors, which are the hydrological variability (and its influence on fluvial dynamics through morphogenous floods) and the human forcing (river management). …”
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EVALUATING THREATS OF ARMED BANDITRY ON HUMAN AND FOOD SECURITY IN SHIRORO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NIGER STATE, NIGERIA by DR MUSA EMMANUEL UMARU, DR ALIYU MOHAMMED BELLO, DR CHARLES O. OKWUWA

“… Growing apprehension has emerged in the northern regions of Nigeria regarding the escalating activities of bandits. …”
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Establishment of Reference Norms for Lung Function Parameters of Healthy Sri Lankan Tamils by Mathanki Sooriyakanthan, Savithri Wimalasekera, Sivapalan Kanagasabai

“…Means, and standard deviations for Vital Capacity (VC), Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), Forced Expiratory Volume in the first second (FEV1), FEV1%, Peak Expiratory Flow Rate (PEFR) and for other forced expiratory parameters of 775 males and 687 females were determined. …”
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