Assessment of Air Pollution and Lagged Meteorological Effects in an Urban Residential Area of Kenitra City, Morocco by Mustapha Zghaid, Abdelfettah Benchrif, Mounia Tahri, Amine Arfaoui, Malika Elouardi, Mohamed Derdaki, Ali Quyou, Moulay Laarbi Ouahidi

“…Complex mixtures of air pollutants, including ozone (O₃), carbon monoxide (CO), sulfur dioxide (SO₂), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), black carbon (BC), and fine particulate matter (PM_2.5), present significant health risks. …”
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THE ROLE OF N. I. VAVILOV AND VIR’S SCIENTISTS IN DESERT RECLAMATION by N. I. Dzyubenko, A. A. Kochegina

“…The research on this topic was conducted by the Repetek Sand Desert Station (run by VIR from 1925 to 1941) with a supporting site in the Kara-Bogaz-Gol, the Aral Experimental Station (organized in 1933), the Turkmen Research Station of VIR in Kara-Kala (established in 1927), the Azerbaij ani branch VIR on the Apsheron Peninsula (organized in 1926). …”
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Necrotizing Periodontal Diseases in a Semirural District of South Africa by Neil Hamilton Wood, Elaine Blignaut, Johan Lemmer, Robin Meyerov, Liviu Feller

“…Eighty-four consecutive patients, 39 black females and 45 black males aged 20–46 years, diagnosed with NG/NP were recruited to the study over a period of two years. …”
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Intravenous nicardipine and labetalol use in hypertensive patients with signs or symptoms suggestive of end-organ damage in the emergency department: a subgroup analysis of the CLU... by Brian Hiestand, Phillip Levy, W Frank Peacock, Brigitte M Baumann, Richard M Nowak, Amy Hsu, Joseph Varon, Chad M Cannon, David M Cline, Pierre Borczuk, Abhinav Chandra, Deborah B Diercks, Preeti Jois, Brian Kaminski, Jon W Schrock

“…On multivariable modelling with adjustment for gender and clinical site, nicardipine patients were more likely to be in TR by 30 min than patients receiving labetalol (OR 3.65, 95% CI 1.31 to 10.18, C statistic=0.72).Conclusions In the setting of hypertension with suspected EOD, patients treated with nicardipine are more likely to reach prespecified SBP targets within 30 min than patients receiving labetalol.Clinical Trial Registration NCT00765648, clinicaltrials.gov…”
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The Effects of MyChoices and LYNX Mobile Apps on HIV Testing and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Use by Young US Sexual Minority Men: Results From a National Randomized Controlled Trial by Katie B Biello, Kenneth H Mayer, Hyman Scott, Pablo K Valente, Jonathan Hill-Rorie, Susan Buchbinder, Lucinda Ackah-Toffey, Patrick S Sullivan, Lisa Hightow-Weidman, Albert Y Liu

“…Nearly one-fifth were Black, non-Hispanic (n=67, 18%), Hispanic or Latino men (n=67, 18%), and 60% identified as gay (n=228). …”
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Alternative psychopharmacologic treatments for pediatric catatonia: a retrospective analysis by Joshua R. Smith, Joshua R. Smith, Isaac Baldwin, Tasia York, Carina Anderson, Trey McGonigle, Simon Vandekar, Lee Wachtel, James Luccarelli, James Luccarelli

“…This study aims to provide alternative treatment options for pediatric catatonia.MethodsThe study involved a single-site retrospective analysis of a private university hospital in the southern United States. …”
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Tributary by James Davoll, Paul Dolan, Pete Howson

“…Tributary explores covert, 'black-boxed' data centres (remote and highly secure sites) by tracking water and geothermal sources to the infrastructure required to power and house these physical locations of intensive computational processing. …”
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Designing and testing novel artificial shelter traps to mass-trap overwintering brown marmorated stink bugs: a proof-of-concept study in Northwestern China by Jin-Ping Zhang, Gonzalo Avila, Gang Ma, Qian-Qian Mi, Adriana Najar-Rodriguez, Ju-Hong Chen, Chun-Sen Ma, Feng Zhang

“…., wood or corflute) and lock types (with/without lock, pyrometric or strip door lock) and tested their efficacy at two different sites and three different locations within sites. …”
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USING THE ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE IN THE ARRANGEMENT OF BREEDING PROCESS TO DEVELOP SPRING TRITICALE CULTIVARS by A. M. Tyslenko, S. E. Skatova

“…Since 2003, a large-scale study of spring triticale source material of different ecogeographic origin was carried out to launch the breeding work with this crop in the non-black-soil zone of Russia. Accessions and populations from the collections and nurseries of CIMMYT (Mexico), Vavilov Institute, Krasnodar Agricultural Research Institute and Science and Production Centre for Agriculture (Belarus) were evaluated. …”
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New U-Pb zircon data for Maarianvaara granite and Tohmajärvi volcanic complex, eastern Finland: geologic implications by Asko Kontinen, Jarmo Kohonen, Perttu Mikkola, Matti Kurhila

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Chemical Composition of Pistacia lentiscus Seeds’ Oil from Moroccan High Atlas Mountain by Brahim Ait Mohand, Abderraouf El Antari, Fatiha Benkhalti

“…Pistacia lentiscus is an aromatic member of the Anacardiaceae family, endemic to the Mediterranean regions, which produces red and black oleaginous seeds in maturity. Our study focuses on the characterization of Pistacia lentiscus seed oils from three localities of High Atlas Mountain in the Azilal region of Morocco. …”
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Research and Geoconservation of the Albian “Giant” Ammonites Collection in the Basque Coast UNESCO Global Geopark by Asier Hilario, Miguel Angel López-Horgue, Luis Miguel Agirrezabala

“…The K/Pg and P/E boundaries are among the most popular sites, together with the IUGS-ICS designated Selandian and Thanetian global stratotypes. …”
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Green Synthesis of Cobalt–Zinc Ferrites and Their Activity in Dye Elimination via Adsorption and Catalytic Wet Peroxide Oxidation by Mariia Liaskovska, Tetiana Tatarchuk, Volodymyr Kotsyubynsky

“…Zinc-substituted cobalt ferrites were obtained by a green method using a black grape extract as a reductant and fuel. XRD analysis confirmed the spinel structure of the synthesized ferrites. …”
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Treatment of wastewater dyeing agent by photocatalytic process in solar reactor by O. Zahraa, S. Maire, F. Evenou, C. Hachem, M. N. Pons, A. Alinsafi, M. Bouchy

“…After checking the system using salicylic acid, a conventional model molecule, the photocatalytic decolorization of Orange II, Yellow Drimarene, and Black Drimarene dyes was investigated. Artificial and solar irradiation gave comparable results although the heating by the sun reduced the amount of adsorption. …”
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Threats and the active protection of birds in a riverbed: postulates for the strategy of the preservation of the middle Vistula River avifauna by Dariusz Bukaciński, Monika Bukacińska, Arkadiusz Buczyński

“…This effort included (a) reducing the number of American minks and red foxes, (b) neutralising the presence of predators and livestock at the nesting sites with electric fences and the use of incubators and dummy eggs and (c) restoration of the nesting habitat, as well as, in the case of mew gulls, (d) increasing the genetic diversity within colonies. …”
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Ecogeographic study of peanut accessions from the VIR collection by V. D. Bemova, M. Sh. Asfandiyarova, T. V. Yakusheva, V. A. Gavrilova, N. V. Kishlyan

“…The study of peanut accessions for agronomic characters was carried out in two ecogeographic sites located in Krasnodar Territory and Astrakhan Province. …”
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Tandem mass tag-based quantitative proteomics and targeted hormone analysis reveal the response to insect herbivory stress in Ginseng (Panax ginseng, L.). by Haitao Li, Lixin Zhang, Xiang Han, Qi Zhang, Guangna Liu, Guofeng Zhang, Yurong Zhu, Hongyang Liu, Haowei Deng, Shuangli Liu, Guangsheng Xi

“…The tandem-mass-tag technology was used to determine the protein phosphorylation sites. Plant hormones were analyzed by multiple reaction monitoring targeted metabolomics. …”
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Invasive shrubs amplify seasonal granivory, revealing optimal windows for seed survival following invasive shrub removal by Mark E. Fuka, John L. Orrock

“…We mechanically removed the widespread invasive species common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) from half of 14 sites (20 × 20 m) in a deciduous oak‐maple forest to track rodent and arthropod granivory of three native tree species, basswood (Tilia americana), black cherry (Prunus serotina), and sugar maple (Acer saccharum), and the invasive shrub R. cathartica over a year. …”
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Impact of Mixed Sources on the Atmospheric Aerosols of Urbanized Areas in the Philippines by Preciosa Corazon B. Pabroa, Joseph Michael D. Racho, John Robin Yee, Lawrence Adrian Tacliad, Haron Deo Vargaz, Iara Chantrelle V. Coronel, Raymond J. Sugcang, Christian Mark G. Salvador

“…The average BC level was 6.6 μg m−3 across three sampling sites, ranging between 4 to 83% of the fine PM mass. …”
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Recurrence of a t(8;21)-Positive Acute Myeloid Leukemia in the Form of a Granulocytic Sarcoma Involving Cranial Bones: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenge by Ambra Di Veroli, Alessandro Micarelli, Mariagiovanna Cefalo, Eleonora Ceresoli, Daniela Nasso, Laura Cicconi, Simone Mauramati, Fabrizio Ottaviani, Adriano Venditti, Sergio Amadori

“…This variety of AML harbors t(8;21) in up to 20–25% of cases (especially in children and black ones of African origin) and, at a molecular level, it is characterized by the generation of a fusion gene known as RUNX1-RUNX1T1. …”
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