On-farm diversity and production challenges in Ethiopian tef [Eragrostis tef ((Zuccagni) Trotter)] landraces from Arsi zone, Ethiopia: Implications for breeding and conservation by Fekadu Gadissa, Muhamed Adem

“…The extent of the Sorenson similarity index revealed a higher similarity (0.69 in Enkelo Wabe vs Arsi Robe to 0.77 in Shirka vs Arsi Robe) and the areas revealed a higher landrace richness (R) and evenness index (E). …”
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Free senior high school devours basic education in Ghana: rescue the children by Inusah Fuseini

“…Design/methodology/approach – A convergent mixed method design as indicated in Sharma et al. (2023) is used in this work to collect both quantitative and qualitative data from documents available from the stakeholders of education. …”
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Sowing the seeds of sustainability: A sociological exploration of environmental sustainability within SME sector by Mohi ud Din, Aqeel Ahmad, Sarminah Samad, Sanghyeop Lee, Heesup Han

“…Moreover, the study fosters collaboration and knowledge sharing among organizations within the SME sector. …”
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Expert projections on the development and application of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage technologies by Tobias Heimann, Lara-Sophie Wähling, Tomke Honkomp, Ruth Delzeit, Alessandra Pirrone, Franziska Schier, Holger Weimar

“…Whereas the individuals’ experts provided more precise estimates, the overall distribution of estimates reflected the wide range of estimates found in the literature. For the cost shares within BECCS, it was difficult to obtain consistent estimates. …”
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The Use of Fresnel Lenses in LED Sources of Local Illumination to Оptimize the Distribution of Illumination of the Working Plane by P. S. Bogdan, E. G. Zaytseva, I. A. Kovalenok, T. D. Tarasenko, E. V. Duboysky

“…For widely used LED sources there is a sharp decrease in the illumination of the working plane from the center to the edge. …”
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Referring psychiatric patients to occupational health services for earlier return to work – a qualitative implementation study of barriers and facilitators by Mikko Henriksson, Christina Tikka, Pirjo Juvonen-Posti, Marianna Virtanen, Tuula Oksanen

“…Results We identified three overarching themes crucially related to the implementation of the model: uncertainty about the scope and boundaries of the cooperation in the model, ambiguity about the size of the target group, and the existing sociocultural and self-stigma related to mental illness. Shared belief in the importance and the positive effects of the model and trust in the developers were the main facilitators of the implementation of the model. …”
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A classification scheme of active faults in engineering. by Qingyun Zhou, Suge He, Zhenyu Zou

“…Fault displacement hazard, along with ground shaking hazard and earthquake-induced geohazard, are the primary forms of disaster in major earthquakes. …”
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Screening and Characterization of High Protein Yeast with Excellent Stress Tolerance by DENG Juan-li, SUN Chang-po, ZHAO Yi-fan, LI Tian-tian, YIN Peng

“…Two superior strains, Pichia pastoris B-1 (7.65 g/L biomass, 4.96 g/L protein yield at pH 3.5; 9.32 g/L biomass, 5.81 g/L protein yield at pH 7.0) and Lactobacillus cerevisiae D-1 (8.00 g/L biomass, 3.91 g/L protein yield at pH 3.5; 14.91 g/L biomass, 6.87 g/L protein yield at pH 7.0), were identified based on biomass and protein production under shaking flask culture conditions. Flavor analysis revealed that strain B-1 had a higher content of flavor nucleotides and glutamic acid than strain D-1, along with a greater concentration of ester compounds. …”
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Prediction of implant failure risk due to periprosthetic femoral fracture after primary elective total hip arthroplasty: a simplified and validated model based on 154,519 total hip... by M. A. Alagha, Justin Cobb, Alexander D. Liddle, Henrik Malchau, Ola Rolfson, Maziar Mohaddes

“…If the risk of fracture can be forecasted, it would aid the shared decision-making process related to cementless stems. …”
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Knowledge and Use of Caries Detection Methods among Dental Students and Dental Practitioners in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Waseem Radwan, Abeer A. AlNasser, Hesah Aloqab, Khalid Al-Saggaf, Nora A. Almuhtab, Bothinah Alnasyan

“…Results. 42.3% and 32.7% use sharp explorers in diagnosing caries always and most of the time, respectively. …”
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Constitutional consolidation of the rule of law as the basis for the development of the Ukrainian state: historical origins and implementation practice by Lutskyi R., Kaleniuk O., Lytsur M.

“…The need for general provision and observance of the rule of law both at the national and international level is recognized by all UN member states, because the rule of law is one of the basic values shared by the European Union and its members. Cornerstone problems of the rule of law, expressed in the implementation of its main principles, are an actual subject of multilateral public discourse: the future of the country and its role in the process of modern development of the world order and the conditions of its globalization depend on their solution. …”
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Association of Alzheimer’s and Lewy body disease pathology with basal forebrain volume and cognitive impairment by Julia Schumacher, Stefan Teipel, Alexander Storch

“…Abstract Background Degeneration of the basal forebrain cholinergic system is a hallmark feature shared by Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Lewy body disease (LBD) whereas hippocampus atrophy is more specifically related to AD. …”
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Spatially explicit assessment of water stress and potential mitigating solutions in a large water-limited basin: the Yellow River basin in China by W. Zhang, W. Zhang, X. Zhao, X. Zhao, X. Gao, W. Liang, J. Li, B. Zhang

“…Water demand in the 2030s is predicted to be 6.5 % higher than during 2001–2020 (34.2 km<span class="inline-formula">³</span>) based on the trajectory of historical irrigation water use and corrected socio-economic data under different Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). To meet all sectoral water needs, a surface water deficit of 8.36 km<span class="inline-formula">³</span> is projected. …”
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Access to water and sanitation among people with disabilities: results from cross-sectional surveys in Bangladesh, Cameroon, India and Malawi by Islay Mactaggart, Hannah Kuper, Sarah Polack, Mahfuzar Rahman, Wolf-Peter Schmidt, Kristof Bostoen, Joseph Chunga, Lisa Danquah, Amal Krishna Halder, Saira Parveen Jolly, Marielle Snel, Adam Biran

“…In Bangladesh-2, households including a person with a disability were more likely to share facilities with other households (OR 1.3, 95% CI 1.1 to 1.5). …”
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Justification and selection of a method for restricting water inflow to horizontal wells in low-permeability terrigenous reservoir conditions using the example of the YuS2 formatio... by Olga V. Savenok, Nailya Kh. Zharikova, Elizaveta P. Chuykova, Alexander E. Verisokin, Mahmoud Hadid, Larisa V. Povarova, Denis S. Kalashnikov, Anna S. Domanova

“…In many fields, the level of water cut in products already reaches 98–99%, which is the limit of profitability of production and requires the adoption of measures aimed at reducing the share of produced water. Costs become an order of magnitude higher when it comes to horizontal wells, due to the higher complexity and cost of the work carried out on them. …”
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Interventions promoting recovery from depression for patients transitioning from outpatient mental health services to primary care: Protocol for a scoping review. by Anne Sofie Aggestrup, Frederik Martiny, Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, Morten Hvenegaard, Robin Christensen, Annette Sofie Davidsen, Klaus Martiny

“…Results will be published in an international peer reviewed scientific journal, at national and international conferences and shared with relevant authorities.<h4>Registration</h4>A pre-print has been registered at the medRxiv preprint server for health sciences (doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.06.22280499).…”
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AMMI analysis of elite bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) selections for genotype by environment interaction and stability of grain yield in Southern Ethiopia. by Liyew Alemayehu, Mesfin Kebede, Eyasu Wada

“…The additive main effects and multiplicative interaction (AMMI) ANOVA for main effects; location, genotype and GEI revealed significant variation among the selections with 82.0%, 8.7% and 9.3% share of sum square variation, respectively. The genotype plus genotype by environment interaction (GGE) bi-plot analysis explained 92.44% of the total variation observed. …”
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The Malthusian parameter and $R_0$ for heterogeneous populations in periodic environments by Hisashi Inaba

“…Since the classical stable population theory in demography by Sharpe and Lotka, the sign relation ${\rm sign}(\lambda_0)={\rm sign}(R_0-1)$ between the basic reproduction number $R_0$ and the Malthusian parameter (the intrinsic rate of natural increase) $\lambda_0$ has played a central role in population theory and its applications, because it connects individual's average reproductivity described by life cycle parameters to growth character of the whole population.Since $R_0$ is originally defined for linear population evolution process in a constant environment, it is an important extension if we could formulate the same kind of threshold principle for population growth in time-heterogeneous environments.…”
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Investigating the effect of driven length and diameter of monopile on seismic performance of offshore wind turbines through Physical Modeling by A.R. Bateni, M. Moradi

“…In this research, the seismic performance of monopiles has been investigated by conducting six experiments using a shaking table in a 1g condition. The effects of driven length and monopile diameter were analyzed, along with the impact of the installation medium being either saturated or dry. …”
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Evaluation of Satellite Rainfall Products over the Mahaweli River Basin in Sri Lanka by Helani Perera, Shalinda Fernando, Miyuru B. Gunathilake, T. A. J. G. Sirisena, Upaka Rathnayake

“…The Mahaweli River Basin (MRB), the largest river basin in Sri Lanka, is the heart of the country’s water resources contributing to a significant share of the hydropower production and agricultural sector. …”
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