Methodological and practical aspects of using satellite imagery to assess the military impact on soils by Vitalii Lebed, Maksym Solokha, Vadym Solovei, Anatolii Kucher, Ludmila Vorotyntseva

“…This study aimed to assess the condition of soils and the extent of their damage due to military activity within the Chkalovske territorial community of the Chuhuiv District in the Kharkiv Region. The study identified the optimal combinations of optical bands from Sentinel-2 satellites for monitoring the consequences of military impact on soil cover. …”
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A fuzzy logic approach within the DPSIR framework to address the inherent uncertainty and complexity of water security assessments by Liang Yuan, Zhijie Zhou, Weijun He, Xia Wu, Dagmawi Mulugeta Degefu, Juan Cheng, Lin Chai, Thomas Stephen Ramsey

“…In addition, the control rules of fuzzy reasoning are set up to reflect the influence relationship between evaluation indexes. …”
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Protective effect of brain and muscle arnt-like protein-1 against ethanol-induced ferroptosis by activating Nrf2 in mice liver and HepG2 cells by Yanan Zhao, Ranran Zhang, Ziheng Chen, Ziyi Wang, Shuang Guan, Jing Lu

“…Ferroptosis is a newly recognized form of regulated cell death caused by the iron-dependent accumulation of lipid peroxidation. …”
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Compressive Loads on the Lumbar Spine During Lifting: 4D WATBAK versus Inverse Dynamics Calculations by M. H. Cole, P. N. Grimshaw

“…The model used by 4D WATBAK bases its predications on static calculations and it is assumed that these static loads reasonably depict the actual dynamic loads acting on the lumbar spine. …”
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Multi-criteria decision-making method for emergency shelter site selection considering flood risk: A case study of Zhuhai, China by Bo Liu, Yingbing Li, Yan Zhang, Zhichao Wu, Yansong Pan, Meiquan Li

“…To address these two issues, this study innovatively proposes a new multi-criteria decision-making model for selecting urban emergency shelter sites. (1) For the first time, the model systematically classifies the factors affecting the location of emergency shelter sites into four categories: hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and relief capacity, from which 11 decision-making indicators, such as flood risk, precipitation, and slope, are selected; (2) The model integrates multiple algorithms, including analytic hierarchy process, entropy weight method, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and TOPSIS, during the decision-making process, and is capable of comprehensively weighing the expert's subjective preferences, objective indicator levels and the relationship between multiple indicators to achieve a more reasonable ranking. The model was applied and evaluated in the city of Zhuhai as an example, and the results showed that more than 90% of the existing emergency shelters and natural disaster shelters in this study were located near the selected sites. …”
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Adaptive potential of spring durum wheat (<i>Triticum durum</i> Desf.) under the conditions of Primorsky Territory by P. M. Bogdan, A. G. Klykov, I. V. Konovalova, N. V. Kuzmenko

“…The research goal was to study spring durum wheat cultivars from different regions of Russia to select those that were most adapted to the conditions of Primorsky Territory and had high yield and grain quality.Materials and methods. …”
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Piper agroforestry in the Indian Himalayas: indigenous peoples’ practices, policies and incentives by Demsai Reang, Animekh Hazarika, Gudeta Weldesemayat Sileshi, Arun Jyoti Nath, Venkatesh Paramesh, W. Reshmi Singha, Ashesh Kumar Das

“…However, indigenous agricultural practices are rarely studied in depth and remain poorly documented in many regions of the world. Documenting such practices and identifying policies and incentives that affect them can unlock their potential for better land management and biodiversity conservation. …”
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Saturated hydraulic conductivity and steady-state infiltration rate database for Brazilian soils by Marta Vasconcelos Ottoni, Wenceslau Geraldes Teixeira, Aline Mari Huf dos Reis, Letícia Guimarães Pimentel, Luciana Rodrigues Souza, Jackson Adriano Albuquerque, Valdinar Ferreira Melo, Karina Maria Vieira Cavalieri-Polizeli, José Miguel Reichert, João Herbert Moreira Viana, Ademir Fontana, Lucas de Castro Medrado, Glenio Guimarães Santos, Luís Gustavo Henriques do Amaral, Lúcia Helena Cunha dos Anjos, José Coelho de Araújo Filho, Silvio Barge Bhering, Gabrielle Fernandes de Brito, Pedro Gomes de Campos do Valle, Pablo Nieto Campos, Adriana Monteiro da Costa, Jean Dalmo de Oliveira Marques, Alba Leonor da Silva Martins, Michele Bruna de Souza do Nascimento, Norberto Cornejo Noronha, Ricardo Duarte de Oliveira, Jeane Cruz Portela, Milson Evaldo Serafim, Marlen Barros e Silva, Sueli Rodrigues, Wilk Sampaio de Almeida, Margareth Lopes de Moraes, Nilton Curi

“…A significant difference was observed between Ksat values for the vast majority of Brazilian clayey and very clayey soils compared to soils from the same textural groups from temperate regions. The two groupings that presented the lowest variability in terms of Ksat standard deviation values were the combination of textural classes with soil classes at the second category level of SiBCS (Brazilian Soil Classification System), and porosity classes with soil classes at the second category level of SiBCS. …”
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Desgarro perineal posparto y variables obstétricas y sociodemográficas en mujeres peruanas altoandinas by Rossibel Juana Muñoz De la Torre, Jenny Mendoza Vilcahuaman, Jacqueline Charo Jauregui Sueldo, Edwin Jony Toral Santillán, Katherin Yurfa Villanueva Navarro, Ruth Quispe Aroni

“…<strong><br />Conclusión</strong>: el parto precipitado, el periodo intergenésico corto y las infecciones vaginales fueron las variables que más se asociaron al desgarro perineal posparto en mujeres altoandinas de la Región Ayacucho, Perú. Estos y otros de los factores que expresaron determinado riesgo pueden ser modificados mediante un acercamiento a la mujer desde la etapa preconcepcional.…”
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Ultrasonic-assisted adsorption of methylene blue using shrimp shells as a low-cost adsorbent: Evaluation on the adsorption isotherm, kinetics, and thermodynamics by Erni Misran, Wahyu Pratama, Kanzi Insan Kasyidi Napitupulu, Muhammad Dani Supardan, Dewi Agustina Iryani, Viqry Pramananda

“…However, its presence in wastewater negatively affects the environment, human health, and aquatic life. Adsorption is recognized as an effective and economical method for removing methylene blue from wastewater. …”
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Study of possible intrauterine infection of goat fetus with caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus by V. Yu. Koptev, N. A. Shkil, N. Yu. Balybina, T. N. Belenkova

“…The etiologic agent of caprine arthritis-encephalitis (CAE) is a virus of the Retroviridae family, which is part of the group of small ruminant lentiviruses subdivided into five genetic groups. A number of reasons prevent timely disease diagnosis, for example, lack of a legal framework regulating preventive measures, prolonged asymptomatic virus-carrier state, and absence of pathognomonic symptoms. …”
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Optimising the secondary use of primary care prescribing data to improve quality of care: a qualitative analysis by Robert A Verheij, Niek Klazinga, Erica Barbazza, Lotte Ramerman, Dionne Kringos

“…Descriptive and explanatory themes were derived from interview data using thematic analysis.Setting Stakeholders were sampled from across the micro (clinical), meso (organisational) and macro (policy) contexts of the Dutch primary care system.Participants The study involved 28 informants representing general practitioners (GPs), community pharmacists, regional chronic care networks (care groups), academia and research institutes, insurers, professional associations, electronic health record (EHR) vendors and national authorities.Results In the Netherlands, three main sources of data for improving prescribing in primary care are in use: clinical data in the EHRs of GP practices; pharmacy data in community pharmacy databases and claims data of insurers. …”
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A Series of Novel Alleles of <i>Ehd2</i> Modulating Heading and Salt Tolerance in Rice by Peng Xu, Shulei Hao, Xiaoxia Wen, Guifang Ma, Qinqin Yang, Ling Liu, Galal Bakr Anis, Yingxin Zhang, Lianping Sun, Xihong Shen, Qunen Liu, Daibo Chen, Yongbo Hong, Yuyu Chen, Xiaodeng Zhan, Shihua Cheng, Liyong Cao, Weixun Wu

“…Heading date, a critical agronomic trait, determines the regional and seasonal adaptability of rice varieties. …”
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Month-to-Month Variability of Autumn Sea Ice in the Barents and Kara Seas and Its Relationship to Winter Air Temperature in China by Chuhan Lu, Kaili Li, Shaoqing Xie, Zhaomin Wang, Yujing Qin

“…Compared to low sea ice cover in October and November, a more oceanic heat storage in the upper BK induced by low sea ice cover in the BK leads to a larger heat release to tropospheric atmosphere in winter by surface heat flux and upward longwave radiation in the BK. This regional tropospheric warming results in a higher barotropic positive height anomaly over the Ural Mountains, and then more active cold advection from the high latitude affects East Asia.…”
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Evaluation of the location of posterior superior alveolar artery and infraorbital foramen originating from the same source by using cone beam computed tomography by Kübra Çam, Ayse Zeynep Zengin

“…Material and method Bilateral maxillary sinuses were analysed retrospectively in 170 patients with no missing teeth in the maxillary posterior region. The largest locations of PSAA and IOF in the maxillary sinus were determined and their size, shape, location in relation to the teeth and distances from anatomical points were evaluated. …”
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Effect of Autoclave Sterilization on the Number of Uses and Resistance to Cyclic Fatigue of WaveOne Gold and Four Replica-Like Endodontic Instruments by Gustavo Ragozzini, Amjad Abu Hasna, Fernando Antonio Siano dos Reis, Felipe Bernardo de Moura, Tiago Moreira Bastos Campos, Carlos Eduardo Silveira Bueno, Cláudio Antonio Talge Carvalho, Alexandre Sigrist de Martin

“…One hundred and fifty human molars, freshly extracted for orthodontic reasons or periodontal disease and with severe curvature (between 30° and 60°), were used. …”
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Genome-wide identification of MGT gene family in soybean (Glycine max) and their expression analyses under magnesium stress conditions by Ammar Anwar, Junaid Akhtar, Saba Aleem, Maida Aleem, Muhammad Khuram Razzaq, Saud Alamri, Qasim Raza, Iram Sharif, Arooj Iftikhar, Shehreen Naseer, Zaheer Ahmed, Iqrar Ahmed Rana, Waheed Arshad, Muhammad Imran Khan, Javaid Akhter Bhat, Muqadas Aleem, Abdel-Rhman Z. Gaafar, Mohamed S. Hodhod

“…GmMGTs showed diverse tissue-specific and stress-response expression patterns due to the presence of stress-related cis-regulatory elements in their promoter regions. Under Mg-deficiency and surplus stress conditions, a decrease in root length, shoot length, and root and shoot fresh as well dry weight in susceptible genotypes showed the variegated expression of MGTs in soybean genotypes. …”
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A Review of the Environmental Impact of Buildings with an Emphasis on Performance Assessment Tools and Their Incorporation of LCA by Vidhyalakshmi Chandrasekaran, Jolanta Dvarionienė

“…Each BEA method is diverse in terms of its users, criteria, and regions and creates a niche among assessment methods. …”
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Navigating challenges and maximizing potential: Handling complications and constraints in minimally invasive surgery by Qadrie Zulfkar, Maqbool Mudasir, Dar Mohd Altaf, Qadir Afshana

“…Complications in MIS can arise from various factors, including anatomical variations, unexpected bleeding, or difficulties in instrument manipulation. Recognizing the potential for complications is crucial, and surgeons must be equipped to make real-time decisions, including the possibility of converting to open procedures when necessary. …”
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Rosiglitazone, a Ligand to PPARγ, Improves Blood Pressure and Vascular Function through Renin-Angiotensin System Regulation by María Sánchez-Aguilar, Luz Ibarra-Lara, Leonardo Del Valle-Mondragón, María Esther Rubio-Ruiz, Alicia G. Aguilar-Navarro, Absalom Zamorano-Carrillo, Margarita del Carmen Ramírez-Ortega, Gustavo Pastelín-Hernández, Alicia Sánchez-Mendoza

“…Additionally, an in silico analysis revealed that 5′UTR regions of RAS and PPARγ share motifs with a transcriptional regulatory role. …”
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