A review of climate change effects on the regeneration dynamics of balsam fir by Joe Collier, David A. MacLean, Loïc D’Orangeville, Anthony R. Taylor

“…Balsam fir (Abies balsamea) is one of the most abundant softwood species in eastern Canada but is projected to be adversely affected by climate change. …”
Get full text

The Relationship Between Supply Environment, Supply Chain Integration and Performance Considering Opportunistic Behaviors by Abbas َAsadi, safanaz Heidari

“…From among the statistical population of 230 individuals, a sample of 140 participants was obtained using the Cochran sampling method. …”
Get full text

Digitalization and alternative marketing channels in the Uruguayan fruit and vegetable chain: Perspectives from main actors by Marcela Marques Berrutti, Jorge Álvarez, Federico García Suarez

“…Through a “snowball sampling”, carrying out semi-structured questionnaires for more than 4 months from INIA Las Brujas, we obtained information mainly from actors in the south and some points in the northwest and east-central Uruguay. …”
Get full text

A molecular specimen bank for contemporary and future study captures landscape-scale biodiversity baselines before Klamath River dam removal by Dylan J. Keel, Katie Karpenko, Scott M. Blankenship, Gregg Schumer, Oshun O’Rourke, Carl O. Ostberg, Daniel A. Chase, Jeffrey J. Duda

“…To avoid this, we created the KRRP molecular library, an environmental specimen bank, for long-term curation of environmental nucleic acids collected from the restoration project. We used these initial samples, environmental DNA metabarcoding, and generalized linear mixed-effects models to evaluate patterns of pre-dam removal fish richness and diversity. …”
Get full text

CEREBRAL OXYMETRY IN HIGH RISK CARDIAC SURGERY: APPLICABILITY AND PROTOCOL OF THE CLINICAL TRIAL by P. P. Perovskiy, E. V. Fominskiy, V. A. Shmyrev, I. A. Kornilov, V. V. Likhvantsev, V. V. Lomivorotov

“…We would very much appreciate the feedback from our colleagues and hope that that the other researchers will follow our example when starting big research projects.…”
Get full text

Microbial composition on microplastics mediated by stream impairment by Anne L. Gilewski, Saurav Shrestha, Sharon N. Kahara, Nikolas M. Stasulli

“…In this project, the influence of impairment was studied based on microbial diversity via 16S rRNA gene sequencing while monitoring total colony and fecal coliform colony counts using standard water sampling methods. …”
Get full text

The “Archeology of the Light”:  A multiproxy, interdisciplinary and experimental approach to Paleolithic subterranean activities. [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved wi... by Mª Ángeles Medina-Alcaide

“…Background This article presents the A-LIGHT project and its main results. The "Archeology of the Light" (A-LIGHT) project aims to improve our knowledge of Palaeolithic cave activities through an interdisciplinary methodology applied to rarely-studied remains: the residues of Palaeolithic light from lamps, fireplaces and torches (specially, charcoal and soot). …”
Get full text

Locally rendered high-resolution Land Use/Land Cover Bitmaps from OpenStreetMap Data for geospecific 3D Simulation by D. Frommholz

“…The scale factor passed to the style sheets is determined from the extent of the region to be rendered, the requested ground sampling distance, database hints and the latitude of the conformal target projection. …”
Get full text

The Study on Impacts of Financial Crowdsourcing of Iranian Football Clubs: A Content Analysis Approach by Mohamad Najmi, Abbas Naghizadeh Baghi, Nasrin Azizian Kohan, Mehrdad Moharramzadeh

“…Purpose: As an innovative approach to financing projects and research, crowdfunding allows interested individuals and members of the scientific community to directly support research projects and help promote and develop scientific activities. …”
Get full text

Exploring frameworks for quantitative risk assessment of antimicrobial resistance along the food chain by Tiina Mandel, Maria Francesca Iulietto, Mari Reinik, Roberto Condoleo

“…In terms of future perspectives, the outcome of this project will support future risk assessment and provide valuable inputs for estimating consumer exposure to AMR Campylobacter via broiler meat consumption. …”
Get full text

Stepper Motor Position Control Using PD and MPC Algorithms Embedded in Programmable Logic Controller by Anshul Jaswal, Ma'moun Abu-Ayyad, Yash Lad, Anilchandra Attaluri

“…PLCs often lack the processing capacity for real-time optimization and fast sampling rates required for accurate predictions.…”
Get full text

Peningkatan hasil belajar marketing melalui model pembelajaran PjBL berbasis media digital by Euis Rachmawati Azizah, Anisa Okta Viana, Anisa Nur Hidayah, Desy Ayu Safitri

“…This research method uses quantitative methods. The sampling technique uses the population research technique used as the sample in the research. …”
Get full text

Designing Model and Levelization of the Factors Affecting Companies’ Green Financing through Banking System by Abbasali Sheikh, Parviz Saeidi, Ebrahim Abbasi, Arash Naderian

“…The first part included Grounded Theory (GT) and interviews with 36 experts selected through purposive and snowball sampling. After extracting 362 open codes, 77 subsidiary components and 21 principal components were identified. …”
Get full text

Parenting Experiences with Children in Care: "Being a mother always feels incomplete to me" by Fatih Kucur, Özge Kelebek, Melike Semerci

“…Based on the idea that individual behaviors and attitudes reflected in daily life are a projection of past experiences, this study aimed to explore the experiences of parents with a history of institutional care by focusing on the parent-child relationship. …”
Get full text

Non-Destructive Identification of Wool and Cashmere Fibers Based on Cascade Optimizations of Interval-Wavelength Selection Using NIR Spectroscopy by Xin Chen, Qingle Lan, Yaolin Zhu, Jinni Chen

“…Then, the backward interval partial least squares (BiPLS) algorithm is applied for the preliminary selection of spectral intervals, followed by the application of three different variable selection algorithms, competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS), successive projection algorithm (SPA) and whale optimization algorithm (WOA), for secondary wavelength optimization, respectively. …”
Get full text

Evaluating the Investment Period in a Novel Citizen Science Program: A Case Study from Cold Water SCUBA Surveys by Adam Obaza, Amanda Bird, Dayv Lowry, Joseph Gaydos, Heidi Wilken, Jackie Selbitschka, Stena Troyer, John Peltonen, William Berger, Jamey Selleck, Daniel Tonnes

“…Groups that joined later increased participation more rapidly, suggesting an interaction among divers in disparate groups, improvement in project messaging, and/or attraction to a successful project. …”
Get full text

Sensitive Wavelengths Selection in Identification of Ophiopogon japonicus Based on Near-Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging Technology by Zhengyan Xia, Chu Zhang, Haiyong Weng, Pengcheng Nie, Yong He

“…The wavelength selection algorithms tested include successive projections algorithm (SPA), loading weights (LW), regression coefficients (RC), uninformative variable elimination (UVE), UVE-SPA, competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS), interval partial least squares regression (iPLS), backward iPLS (BiPLS), forward iPLS (FiPLS), and genetic algorithms (GA-PLS). …”
Get full text

Educators’ perspective on parental involvement in homework at a rural primary school in Palala by Hlongolane A. Seleka, Charles S. Masoabi

“…The article used questionnaires to collect the data, and convenient sampling was employed. For this research we interviewed Grade 6 and 7 educators. …”
Get full text

Design of a Wireless Multi-Radio-Frequency Channels Inspection System for Bridges by Yan Yu, Jie Wang, Xingquan Mao, Hongbo Liu, Lei Zhou

“…Experimental results show that the system has the advantages such as fast arrangement, high sampling rate, high resolution, capacity of low-frequency inspection, and GPS clock project for time synchronization and, thus, has good application prospects and practical value.…”
Get full text

New perspectives for the Annelida collection (National Museum/UFRJ) database: using data visualization to analyze and manage biological collections by Camila Simões Martins de Aguiar Messias, Carlos Cesar de Oliveira Fonseca, Monique Cristina dos Santos, Asla M. Sá, Joana Zanol

“…Interactive graphs of the metadata within this database (catalog date, taxonomic identification and determiners, sampling, depth, geographic localization, and collector data) were created with the Altair library in the Python 3 language. …”
Get full text