Fallowed agricultural lands dominate anthropogenic dust sources in California by Adeyemi A. Adebiyi, Md. Minhazul Kibria, John T. Abatzoglou, Paul Ginoux, Satyendra Pandey, Alexandra Heaney, Shu-Hua Chen, Akintomide A. Akinsanola

“…However, the contribution of anthropogenic dust from agricultural sources, among major pollutants in California’s semi-arid Central Valley, remains largely unclear. Here, we used the Cropland Data Layer from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to identify crop types and land use/cover and leveraged satellite-derived estimates of major dust events between 2008 and 2022 over California. …”
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Reducing hops without extra power: Impact of deployment height on low-power multihop wireless network by Hoon Jeong, Changwon Lee, Jaehong Ryu, Byung-Chul Choi, JeongGil Ko, Jeongyeup Paek

“…Our work takes an empirical effort in quantifying the impact of height on a low-power wireless system’s performance. Specifically, we use CC2420 radio–based wireless sensor network motes to quantify the impact of device deployment height on the connectivity and energy efficiency of low-power wireless networks. …”
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The portrayal of panic-buying and stockpiling in English newspapers during Covid, a mixed-method content analysis. by Dayna Brackley, Rebecca Wells

“…Content analysis of 209 articles showed that coverage was dominated by popular and left-wing press, with 89% of articles using sensationalised language and 68% coded as negative. …”
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Bilateral V-Y medial fasciocutaneous thigh flap in perineal reconstruction for hidradenitis suppurativa: Case report by Alexander Fabricio Vicente-Rivas, Vitor Penteado Figueiredo Pagotto, Sabrina Buscariol, Marilia Ito, Rolf Gemperli

“…Conclusion: This case shows that it is useful and practical to use the V-Y medial thigh fasciocutaneous flap for perineal reconstruction after wide resections of skin, apocrine glands, and hair follicles in the treatment of HS, offering good skin coverage and subcutaneous cellular tissue with supply reliable vascular flap, which avoids sequelae associated with muscle sacrifice and reaches larger dimensions than other flaps, and can be considered in selected cases as an alternative in the surgical treatment of perineal HS.…”
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COMPARISON OF GENERAL CLINICAL DATA FROM TWO INDEPENDENT REGISTERS AMONG MALE SUBJECTS IN ONE AREA TASHKENT CITY by G. A. Nagaeva, R. S. Mamutov

“…In the 2nd register, the number of troponin determinations has increased, which indicates an increase in the coverage of laboratory studies. The results of the 2nd register on ACS/ АMI among males revealed a significant increase in the groups of drugs used in the treatment, not only those included in the basic therapy of IHD, but also the main ones in the treatment of ACS/ АMI, which indicates positive qualitative shifts in treatment acute cardiac pathology. …”
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Privatized healthcare for older adults living with chronic illness: A scoping review protocol for synthesizing the state of knowledge on their experiences. by Stuart McKinlay, Christine L Sheppard, Paige Brown, Luxey Sirisegaram, Kristina M Kokorelias

“…In contrast to public healthcare systems, which are government-funded and aim to ensure universal coverage, privatized models often involve substantial private costs. …”
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Family caregivers' experience of caring for patients undergoing hemodialysis: A qualitative study at Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. by Ally Halfan Magenge, Menti Lastone Ndile, Francis Furia

“…Semi-structured in-depth interviews were used for data collection. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. …”
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Fluctuating reproductive isolation and stable ancestry structure in a fine-scaled mosaic of hybridizing Mimulus monkeyflowers. by Matthew C Farnitano, Keith Karoly, Andrea L Sweigart

“…We seek to understand both patterns of hybridization across taxa and the evolutionary and ecological forces driving those patterns. To this end, we use whole-genome low-coverage sequencing of 458 wild-grown and 1565 offspring individuals to characterize the structure, stability, and mating dynamics of admixed populations of Mimulus guttatus and Mimulus nasutus across a decade of sampling. …”
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Impact of a Housing and Health Focused Residency Curriculum on Community Health Worker Utilization for Unmet Housing Needs by Marc Shi, Samuel Woo, Samantha Levano, Kevin Fiori, Shwetha Iyer

“…Multimodal educational and systemic interventions that support the use of existing workflows may be needed to increase uptake of interventions to address HRSNs.…”
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Fairy Rings Grow Slowly: The Turfgrass Information Center, Not-for-Profit Alliances and an Endowment Campaign [Abstract only]  by Pete Cookingham

“…An endowment campaign, now underway, seeks to stabilize long-term funding for the Center, and at the same time expand the scope-of-coverage of indexed materials, and, particularly, provide a framework for cooperative full-text and enhanced-content activities. …”
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Development of tax control in the context of digitalization of the economy by L. V. Reunova, L. A. Mamiek, L. V. Prigoda, T. A. Paladova

“…Modernization of tax processes is explained by the active use of the latest digital technologies in tax administration in the form of various tools in order to minimize tax risks from tax evasion of legal entities and individuals. …”
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The Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Algorithm Based on RIS Technology in a Coal Mine Tunnel by Shuqi Wang, Fengjiao Wang, Wei Zhang, Yaqi Wang

“…RIS technology significantly enhances signal coverage and transmission quality in complex, confined environments. …”
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Investigating the Performance of Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Domain-Specific Fine-Tuning for the Development of AI-Driven Knowledge-Based Systems by Róbert Lakatos, Péter Pollner, András Hajdu, Tamás Joó

“…In this study, we evaluate the performance of RAG and DFT on several LLM architectures, including GPT-J-6B, OPT-6.7B, LLaMA, and LLaMA-2. We use the ROUGE, BLEU, and METEOR scores to evaluate the performance of the models. …”
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The Circassian horse regiment: recruitment of sotnias and combat training of the first horsemen (August – October 1914) by Ruslan Sultanovich Kandor

“…Great importance is attached to the study of specific events that took place in the aul communities of the Kuban region during the formation of sotnias of the Circassian horse regiment.The author used the appropriate range of materials on the history of the Caucasian Native Cavalry Division, which included a large amount of archival material, suggesting a comprehensive coverage of his- torical facts on thу issue. …”
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Method for Landslide Area Detection with RVI Data Which Indicates Base Soil Areas Changed from Vegetated Areas by Kohei Arai, Yushin Nakaoka, Hiroshi Okumura

“…This study investigates the use of the radar vegetation index (RVI) derived from Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data for landslide detection. …”
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Electrophysical and geoinformational methods of mapping the biological properties of peats by A. D. Pozdnyakova, L. A. Pozdnyakov

“…It is shown that the use of electrophysical methods and GIS technologies allows revealing soil coverage structure and spatial distribution of individual biological indicators, in particular, greenhouse gases production, in drained histosols (eutrophic peat soils) located in complex landscape and hydrological conditions of the Yakhroma Valley in the Moscow Region. …”
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A genetic algorithm-based solution for multi-type maximal covering location problem (MMCLP): application to defense and deterrence by J.D. Lessan, Geoff Pond

“…Design/methodology/approach – In our case study, we use open source geographic and demographic data from Canadian sources as inputs to our optimization problem. …”
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Locally Freezing Control via Superhydrophobic Patterns on Hydrophilic Substrates by Dong Song, Jiacheng Zhang, Changsheng Xu, Xiang Wang, Sihan Huang, Pengcheng Ye

“…In the tested temperature range between −25 °C and −40 °C, the ice coverage ratio at the superhydrophobic region increases as temperature decreases, with a maximum value of 25.6 ± 2.33% at −40 °C. …”
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Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Driving Factors of Soil Salinization: A Case Study of the Yutian Oasis, Xinjiang, China by Shiqin Li, Ilyas Nurmemet, Jumeniyaz Seydehmet, Xiaobo Lv, Yilizhati Aili, Xinru Yu

“…The geographical detector (Geo Detector) tool was used to explore the driving factors of the spatiotemporal evolution of salinization. …”
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Inoculation of plant growth-promoting bacteria and silicon to optimize nitrogen fertilization in Emerald grass by Vitória Almeida Moreira Girardi, Carlos Eduardo da Silva Oliveira, Bruno Horschut de Lima, Isabela Martins Bueno Gato Gato, Patrick Luan Ferreira dos Santos, Nelson Câmara de Souza Júnior, Arshad Jalal, Marcelo Carvalho Minhoto Teixeira Filho

“…A sustainable alternative is the use of plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB), such as Pseudomonas fluorescens and Azospirillum brasilense, which reduce costs and increase profitability by promoting plant growth. …”
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