Plio–Quaternary Tectonic Activity in the Northern Nubian Belts: The Main Driving Forces by Enzo Mantovani, Marcello Viti, Daniele Babbucci, Caterina Tamburelli

“…In the northern Nubian belts, the westward push of the Adria–Hyblean–Pelagian domain has been accommodated by oroclinal bending, thrusting and uplifting across the Tell and Atlas belts. …”
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Assessing the impact on mode competitiveness of improvements of the Trans-Eurasian railway network by Seyed Mohseni, Edwin van Hassel, Thierry Vanelslander

“…When comparing the (combinations of) transport modes, it turns out that the rail costs are on average 1.5 times to twice as high as when using maritime transport, but the more westward the origin on the Chinese territory, the closer the ratio gets to 1. …”
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Ionospheric Response to the Extreme 2024 Mother's Day Geomagnetic Storm Over the Latin American Sector by C. S. Carmo, L. Dai, C. M. Wrasse, D. Barros, H. Takahashi, C. A. O. B. Figueiredo, C. Wang, H. Li, Z. Liu

“…This structure drifted westward at a velocity of ∼140 m/s and had a large latitudinal extension, reaching about 36° geomagnetic latitude, this corresponds to an apex height of around 4,500 km. …”
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A Framework for Developing Biodiversity Conservation Networks Based on Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis and the Maximum Entropy Model: A Case Study of the Jianghan Plain, Chi... by Xiaohua Guo, Chang Liu, Shibo Bi, Xuewen Zhang

“…Our findings indicated the following: (1) The Jianghan Plain hosts 21 major ecological sources, primarily natural water bodies at the plain’s edge, which can be classified into five primary and 16 secondary sources based on biodiversity grades. (2) The recessive corridors, comprising 10 primary and 95 secondary ones, are mainly concentrated in the central Jianghan Plain, with primary corridors located centrally and westward, characterized by a large overall span. (3) Changhu Lake and Honghu Lake, two critical water bodies with high-quality habitats and significant biodiversity, were identified as key ecological nodes from the ecological sources, bridging and guiding the central and southern corridors. (4) Based on the ecological network distribution and key nodes and corridors, a “three zones, three belts, and two points” strategy was proposed for optimizing the Jianghan Plain’s ecological network. …”
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Lilium huanglongense (Liliaceae): a newly-discovered species in north-western Sichuan, China by Ting Wang, Yumei Yuan, Ting-Hong Zhou, Yundong Gao

“…This section comprises dwarf lilies predominantly found in the alpine scrub of the Hengduan Mountains, extending westwards into the Himalayas. Molecular phylogenetic analyses using both nuclear ITS and chloroplast genomes confirm the independent status of the new species and its placement within the section Lophophora. …”
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Simulation of interferometric imaging with EISCAT_3D for fine-scale in-beam incoherent scatter spectra measurements by D. Huyghebaert, D. Huyghebaert, B. Gustavsson, J. Vierinen, A. Kvammen, M. Zettergren, J. Swoboda, I. Virtanen, S. M. Hatch, K. M. Laundal

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Nonconcordance between Clinical and Head CT Findings: The Specter of Overdiagnosis by Kelli N. O'Laughlin, Jerome R. Hoffman, Steven Go, Gelareh Z. Gabayan, Erum Iqbal, Guy Merchant, Roberto A. Lopez-Freeman, Michael I. Zucker, William R. Mower

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Impacts of IOD and ENSO on the phytoplankton’s vertical variability in the Northern Indian Ocean by Qiwei Hu, Xiaoyan Chen, Xianqiang He, Yan Bai, Tingchen Jiang, Yu Huan, Zhanlin Liang

“…IOD-linked negative (positive) phytoplankton anomalies at 0–50 m (50–100 m) are driven by the westward propagating downwelling Rossby waves. During winter and spring, due to the local wind anomalies and shallower thermocline, the Seychelles–Chagos Thermocline Ridge (SCTR) is the only region where ENSO exhibits greater positive effects on phytoplankton at 50–100 m than IOD. …”
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DIE INDUSTRIEENTWICKLUNG UND DAS ORGANISIEREN DES STÄDTISCHEN RAUMES IM RUMÄNISCHEN SEKTOR DER UNTEREN DONAU. DER STUDIENFALL: GALAŢI by RADU SĂGEATĂ, MIRCEA BUZA

“…Within this context, the development of Galaţi City under communism was subordinated to political decision-making, therefore the location of a big iron-and-steel plant there had disturbing effects both for the City (by fast population growth due to the influx of migrants, concomitantly with the westwards extension of the built-in area) and for the rural neighbourhood (by diverging fluxes of materials and energy). …”
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Direct Observations of North Pacific Subsurface Low Potential Vorticity Water Impinging on the Kuroshio by Ran Wang, Qiang Ren, Feng Nan, Fei Yu, Zifei Chen, Yansong Liu, Jianfeng Wang, Chuanzheng Zhang, Ruixiang Zhao, Hua Zheng, Xiaohua Zhu

“…Compared with large‐scale climatological mean circulation, mesoscale eddy can trap SLPVW as a highway westward transport. In addition, the SLPVW impingement results in a significant subsurface velocity variation (about 10 cm/s) in the 200–400 m layer. …”
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Tectonometamorphic evolution of a subduction plate interface at the base of the Mirdita Ophiolite (Bajram Curri, northeastern Albania) by Madeline Richter, Kilian Pollok, Kujtim Onuzi, Kamil Ustaszewski

“…Corresponding microstructures indicate mineral growth at isotropic stresses, suggesting that deformation migrated into structurally lower, frontally accreted non-metamorphic units of the sub-ophiolitic mélange marking the start of obduction onto the passive Adriatic margin. Ongoing westward transport led to folding of the entire sub-ophiolitic succession. …”
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South Atlantic subtropical anticyclone responses to stratospheric aerosol injection by Thales Chile Baldoni, Michelle Simões Reboita, Natália Machado Crespo, João Gabriel Martins Ribeiro, Rosmeri Porfírio da Rocha

“…Climate projections under warming scenarios suggest a strengthening, as well as a westward and southward expansion of this system. However, little is known about how the combination of global warming and climate intervention affects this system. …”
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Simultaneous Observation of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles and Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances Over Indonesia Following the 15 January 2022 Tonga Volcano Eruption by Asnawi Husin, Varuliantor Dear, Agri Faturahman, Sefria Anggarani, Annis Siradj Mardiani, Adi Purwono, Jiyo Harjosuwito, Rezy Pradipta

“…There was a directional split in the zonal drift velocity of these EPBs, where some EPBs drifted eastward with a velocity of 138.0 ± 6.9 m/s and others westward with a velocity of 39.6 ± 2.0 m/s. At the same time, traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs) from the Tonga eruption also propagated over the Indonesian region with a velocity of 434.6 ± 21.7 m/s. …”
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Geochemical, Mineralogical, and Geomorphological Characterization of Ash Materials as a Tracer for the Origin of Shifting Sands near Oldupai Gorge, Ngorongoro, Tanzania by Mohamed Zengo Makongoro, Maheswara Rao Vegi, Said Ali Hamad Vuai, Michael Mwita Msabi

“…The particle size of ash materials decreases westwards across the study site. The distribution patterns of ash material align with the west-south-west wind direction. …”
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Extensional forearc structures at the transition from Alaska to Aleutian Subduction Zone: slip partitioning, terranes and large earthquakes by Kahrizi, Amin, Delescluse, Matthias, Chamot-Rooke, Nicolas, Pubellier, Manuel, Bécel, Anne, Shillington, Donna, Nedimović, Mladen, Bulois, Cédric

“…We infer that the trench parallel Unimak Ridge, associated with the 1946 Mw 8.6 tsunami earthquake, is the last expression of terrane sutures reactivation before their westward vanishing in the more recent Aleutian arc.…”
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Resolving the generation mechanisms and electrodynamical effects of Medium Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (MSTIDs) by Jeff Klenzing, Kate Zawdie, Elvira Astafyeva, Anna Belehaki, Meghan Burleigh, Angeline G. Burrell, Cosme A. O. B. Figueiredo, Nathaniel A. Frissell, Weizheng Fu, Dustin Hickey, Joe Huba, Pavel Inchin, Stephen R. Kaeppler, Viswanathan Lakshmi Narayanan, Mani Sivankandan, Jonathon M. Smith, Jonathon M. Smith, Chao Xiong, Tatsuhiro Yokoyama, Matt Zettergren, Shun-Rong Zhang

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Comparative Study on the Reservoir Characteristics and Development Technologies of Two Typical Karst Weathering-Crust Carbonate Gas Reservoirs in China by Haijun Yan, Ailin Jia, Fankun Meng, Qinyu Xia, Wei Xu, Qingfu Feng, Wenjun Luo, Xinyu Li, Xun Zhu, Yicheng Liu

“…For Jingbian gas field, it is a lithological-stratigraphic reservoir developed in a westward monocline and multiple rows of nose-fold structures, and is a stable craton basin with simple palaeognomy distribution and stable connectivity, which has complex gas-water distribution. …”
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Distribution and Conservation of Ephedra rhytidosperma by Chao Tan, David Kay Ferguson, Yong Yang

“…The range has shrunk significantly and migrated westwards since the Last Interglacial, whereas the projected area in the future displays a fluctuating pattern and easterly migration. …”
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Habitat use and spatial distribution patterns of endangered pheasants on the southern slopes of the HimalayasFigshare by Kai Zhao, Ning Wang, Jiliang Xu, Shan Tian, Yanyun Zhang

“…MaxEnt model predictions indicated that, under future climate scenarios, the suitable habitat for Satyr Tragopan is projected to increase, particularly expanding westwards into Nepal under the SSP245 scenario. However, owing to its limited dispersal ability and poor habitat connectivity, the survival of Satyr Tragopan remains threatened. …”
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USSR in World War II by M. Yu. Myagkov

“…The non-aggression pact gave the USSR just under two years to rebuild the army and consolidate its defensive potential and pushed the Soviet borders hundreds of kilometers westward. The signing of the Pact was preceded by the failure in August 1939 of the negotiations between the military mis­sions of Britain, France and the USSR, although Moscow took the Anglo-French-Soviet nego­tiations with all seriousness.The huge losses of the USSR in the summer of 1941 are explained by the following circum­stances: before the war, a large-scale modernization of the Red Army was launched, a gradu­ate of a military school did not have sufficient experience in managing an entrusted unit by June 22, 1941; the Red Army was going to bleed the enemy in border battles, stop it with short counterattacks by covering units, carry out defensive operations, and then strike a de­cisive blow into the depths of the enemy's territory, so the importance of a multi-echeloned long-term defense in 1941 was underestimated by the command of the Red Army and it was not ready for it; significant groupings of the Western Special Military District were drawn into potential salients, which was used by the Germans at the initial stage of the war; Stalin's fear of provoking Hitler to start a war led to slowness in making the most urgent and necessary decisions to bring troops to combat readiness.The Allies delayed the opening of the second front for an unreasonably long time. …”
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