PHOSPHATE FERTILIZERS MARKETED IN RUSSIA AS A SOURCE OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS IN THE SOIL by Anna D. Kotelnikova, Ksenia A. Kolchanova, Mikhail A. Shishkin, Olga B. Rogova

“…It is shown that phosphate fertilizers can differ significantly in REEs content, high REEs content (over 1000 mg/kg) was observed in some samples of single and double superphosphate. The group of phosphate rock samples is the most homogeneous in terms of REE content in the samples. …”
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Investigating the Use of Open Air Burnt Sorghum and Wheat Straw Ashes to Soften Hard Water. by Bainomugisha, Jonan

“…This study investigated the use of open air burnt sorghum and wheat straw ashes to soften hard water, three water samples that is sample A which was collected from a borehole at the camp of CICO-UNRA on Hoima Butiaba Wanseko road project located in Hoima District, B from a borehole in wanseko village - kigwera parish Bulisa District, and sample C from Koranorya borehole Ruk:ungiri District. …”
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Climate Services for Agriculture: Tools for Informing Decisions Relating to Climate Change and Climate Variability in the Wine Industry by Leanne Webb, Carly Tozer, Lynette Bettio, Rebecca Darbyshire, Bella Robinson, Aysha Fleming, Sigrid Tijs, Roger Bodman, Mahesh Prakash

“…To help respond to these impacts, the Climate Services for Agriculture (CSA) platform presents readily accessible climate data, including future climate projections, relevant to specific agricultural commodities. …”
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Frequency and changes in trends of leading risk factors of coronary heart disease in women in the city of Novi Sad during a 20-year period by Rakić Dušica, Jakovljević Đorđe

“…In 2004, the fourth survey within MONICA project was conducted in the city of Novi Sad. The representative sample included 1,041 women between the age of 25 and 74. …”
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Evaluation of Child Health Promotion Researches in Roi Kaen Sarasin Area 7 for Being Smart, Good and Happy Children by Juthamas Wannasin, Anchalee Aeamsee, Yuwana Khaipan, Saichol Thornmart

“…Evaluation Phase: Children participating in the project improved in developmental and emotional intelligence. …”
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Qualitative and quantitative study of algae in three drinking water plants supply springs in Sulaymaniyah province - Kurdistan region of Iraq by Bashar T. I. AL-Shandah, Riadh Abas Abd Al-Jabar, Trifa K. J. Farkha

“…Five stations were selected, Stations 1, 2 and 3 were located at Bestan Sowr drinking water project in Sharazur district, station 4 was located at Saray Subhan Agha drinking water project in Said sadiq district and station 5 was located at Khurmal drinking water project in Khurmal district within Halabja district. …”
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How to select third-party library: harnessing visual insights and systematic evaluation for informed decisions by Alexander Lysenko, Igor Kononenko

“…The subject of this study is a selection approach for third-party libraries in IT projects based on the collection and analysis of expert evaluations and solving optimization problems. …”
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Investigating the Two Optimization Algorithms (GWO and ACO) Coupling with Radial Basis Neural Network to Estimate the Pile Settlement by Ehsanolah Assareh, Reza Poultangari

“…Immunizing projects such as piled bridges entails considerations that ensure safety over the operation period. …”
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AN ASSESSMENT APPROACH FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING: THE CASE OF TRABZON, TURKEY by Ceren Ünlü Öztürk, Cenap Sancar, Beyza Karadeniz

“…TOKİ (Housing Development Administration of Turkey), the most active actor in Turkey in house production for low-income families since 2000, has produced projects in this scope. Discussing these projects in terms of affordable housing is important in revealing the current state of Turkey and directing the projects to be made in the future. …”
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FISHGLOB: A collaborative infrastructure to bridge the gap between scientific monitoring and marine biodiversity conservation by Aurore A. Maureaud, Zoë Kitchel, Alexa Fredston, Robert Guralnick, Juliano Palacios‐Abrantes, Maria L. D. Palomares, Malin L. Pinsky, Nancy L. Shackell, James T. Thorson, Daniela Alemany, Kofi Amador, Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage Wajra Jeewantha Bandara, Jonathan Belmaker, Esther D. Beukhof, Steven J. Bograd, Mohamed Lamine Camara, Pierluigi Carbonara, Shahar Chaikin, Martin A. Collins, Tyler D. Eddy, Dori Edelist, Heino O. Fock, Romain Frelat, Kevin Friedland, Arnaud Grüss, Manuel Hidalgo, Didier Jouffre, Saïkou Oumar Kidé, Mariano Koen‐Alonso, Ian Knuckey, Stan Kotwicki, Edward Lavender, Martin Lindegren, Marcos Llope, Laura Mannocci, Julia G. Mason, Hicham Masski, Matthew McLean, Laurène Merillet, Vesselina Mihneva, Francis K. E. Nunoo, Richard L. O'Driscoll, Cecilia O'Leary, Laurene Pecuchet, Elitsa Petrova, Jorge E. Ramos, Ignacio Sobrino, Jón Sólmundsson, Vaishav Soni, Ingrid Spies, Maria Teresa Spedicato, Fabrice Stephenson, Ndiaga Thiam, Feriha Tserkova, George Tserpes, Evangelos Tzanatos, Daniël vanDenderen, Paraskevas Vasilakopoulos, Tom Webb, Daniela V. Yepsen, Philippe Ziegler, Walter Zupa, Bastien Mérigot

“…Here, we are sharing the project history, achievements, challenges, and outlooks. …”
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Introducing the UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank data resource, AgMicrobiomeBase, with case studies and methods on metabarcoding analyses by Payton To Yau, Rodrigo G. Taketani, J. Miguel Bonnin, Helen Stewart, Catriona M.A. Thompson, Ian M. Clark, Tim H. Mauchline, Jacob G. Malone, Matthew J. Ryan, Susan Jones, Nicola Holden

“…The UKCMCB is a scalable sequence-based data catalogue linked to a cryo-preserved sample collection. Results The focus of this paper is the amplicon sequencing, associated bioinformatics workflows, and development of the project data catalogue. …”
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Healthcare Providers’ Oral Health Practices Participating in a Regional Oral Health Intervention by Patricia A. Braun, Kimberly T. Wiggins, Cherith Flowerday, Andrew Bienstock, L. Miriam Dickinson

“…Objective: Evaluate healthcare providers’ and staffs’ knowledge, self-reported abilities, activities, and barriers to providing preventive oral health services (POHS) at primary care medical visits before and after participation in the Rocky Mountain Network of Oral Health (RoMoNOH) project. Methods: The RoMoNOH project integrated POHS into primary care medical visits of young children at 22 community health centers (CHCs) in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming by medical team members and/or by embedded dental hygienists (DHs). …”
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Influence of introduction of system of economical production on processes of creation and development of an innovative product: company example «Nestlé Russia» by E. A. Arsenova, T. Yu. Nikolaeva

“…The practical value of the developed standard consists in: the accounting of classification of projects on three categories depending on type of raw materials, the equipment and investments; to development of timing of the project according to the chosen category taking into account the terms coordinated in the standard and features for each category of projects; introduction of internal tests of consumer preferences at factory for minimization of expenses and decrease in risks of loss in the large-scale consumer tests which are carried out by third-party agencies, a preliminary estimate of cost of a compounding applied group of factory when developing samples.…”
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Trajectory of coastal wetland soil physical and microbial properties 6+ years after thin layer placement sediment amendment by Jacob Z. Cheng, Jacob Z. Cheng, Jacob F. Berkowitz, John R. White, John R. White

“…Data were compared with samples collected before TLP project implementation and 0.5 years after project completion. …”
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Determination of Heavy elements in Drinking Water from Different Regions of Baghdad City (Iraq) Using EDXRF Spectrometer by Muhanad H. Alrakabi, Esraa S. Ramadan

“…The results were compared with national and international standards, and it’s also showed that the values of the parameters within the permissible limit of World Health Organization (WHO) standards, except the Electrical Conductivity values for some samples were higher than permissible limit. According to these results, all the water projects must be monitored as well as using the proper and modern techniques for treatment the drinking water.…”
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Adding unmanned aerial vehicles to HIV supply chains in remote settings: modeling feasibility and cost in Turkana, Kenya by Caleb Parker, Emily Evens, Kayla Stankevitz, Margaret Eichleay, Rick Homan, Michael Loogos, David Onyango

“…Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are being promoted as a potential, novel way to reduce transportation times for laboratory samples and medical commodities. Our study models the use of UAVs in a remote area of Kenya to estimate costs and feasibility of their application for the Afya Nyota ya Bonde project, a large HIV service delivery program…”
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Similarity-Based Clustering for Identification and Segmentation of Responsive Electricity Customers by Amirhossein Ahmadi, Hamidreza Zareipour, Henry Leung

“…K-means with Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is employed as a nonlinear TSC approach, and to extend it beyond standard sample-to-centroid comparisons, a similarity matrix is suggested in place of raw time series, enabling sample-to-sample comparisons. …”
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Assessment of Density Variations of Marine Sediments with Ocean and Sediment Depths by R. Tenzer, V. Gladkikh

“…We analyze the density distribution of marine sediments using density samples taken from 716 drill sites of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP). …”
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RQdeltaCT: an open-source R package for relative quantification of gene expression using delta Ct methods by Daniel Zalewski, Anna Bogucka-Kocka

“…Abstract Relative quantification of gene expression is a fundamental method used in the molecular biology field to analyse real-time PCR data to determine transcriptional differences between groups of samples (or technical replicates of a single sample). …”
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Indoor endotoxin and house dust mite concentrations in the canine homologue of human atopic dermatitis by Yunji Song, Yeji Kim, Jihyun Kim, Ha-Jung Kim

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