Des flots à contre-courant : des montagnes du Lesotho à la métropole sud-africaine by Yannick Rousselot

“…Coalitions of actors have emerged from these new relations that the transfer has produced, and as such, this project should be analysed as a hydraulic assemblage in which three distinct scales of territorialities are clashing or cooperating with each other: the regional scale, made up of South Africa’s political and economic elites, who seek to direct Southern Africa’s water resources towards the thirsty region in and around Johannesburg; the scale of the Lesotho government, which has a nationalist policy of monopolising any social and spatial stakes for the benefit of the national territory; and the scale of the Maloti communities, which claim their rights as a transnational Basotho nation and autonomy in the face of interventionism from the Lesotho state.…”
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Efficient Detection of West Nile Virus in Urine Specimens by a Novel In-House RT-qPCR Detection Kit by Gülten Tuncel, Gökçe Akan, Melis Kalaycı, Buket Baddal, Ayşegül Bostancı, Kaya Suer, Cenk Serhan Özverel, Tamer Şanlıdağ

“…This study highlights the importance of in-house kit design as a diagnostic tool in regions affected by emerging tropical infections, such as WNV, exemplified Cyprus. …”
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Numerical Investigation of Critical Velocity in Reduced Scale Tunnel Fire with Constant Heat Release Rate by Ruben Mouangue, Philippe M. Onguene, Justin T. Zaida, Henri P. F. Ekobena

“…Hot gases and smoke produced by fire form layers flowing towards extremities of the tunnel which may interfere with person’s evacuation and firefighter’s intervention. …”
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Ambient air pollution and carcinogenic activity at three different urban locations by Ivana Jakovljević, Zdravka Sever Štrukil, Gordana Pehnec, Tajana Horvat, Mandica Sanković, Antun Šumanovac, Silvije Davila, Nikolina Račić, Goran Gajski

“…The contribution of four- and five-ring PAHs to the total PAH concentrations was slightly lower during the warmer period of the year at all locations, while the contribution of six-ring PAHs was higher in the warmer period compared to the colder one. …”
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Role of imaging in the diagnosis and management of mixed epithelial and stromal tumors of the kidney: Case series and comprehensive review by Kasha Chen, BS, Jasmine Zhao, MD, Ali Sasani, BS, MS, Ryan Sabour, BS, Hannah Cho, BS, Riya Bansal, BS, Chang Shu, BSEE, MSEE, MSCS, Ryan O'Connell, MD, Roozbeh Houshyar, MD

“…This case series will present 7 cases of this rare renal neoplasm with emphasis on radiological imaging as an important tool in the guidance of clinical management. Considering the rarity of this tumor and its variable presentation, understanding the radiological features on multiple modalities can guide appropriate clinical and surgical management of MEST patients.…”
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Use of Hybrid Flame Retardants in Chemically Foamed rPET Blends by Veronika Anna Szabó, Sándor Kálmán Jakab, András Kovács, Tamara Zsuzsanna Böcz, Gábor Dogossy

“…The utilization of halogen-free flame retardants is beneficial for better air quality, reducing toxic gas and smoke emissions.…”
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Effects of Probiotics Red Yeast Rhodotorula paludigena CM33 on enhancing color pigmentation, antioxidant activity, immune response, intestinal microbiota, and growth in a commercia... by Jirawadee Kaewda, Papungkorn Sangsawad, Surintorn Boonanuntanasarn, Pimpisut Manassila, Apichat Boontawan, Mariena Ketudat‑Cairns, Cheeranan Sriphuttha, Chatsirin Nakharuthai

“…After the feeding trial, fish fed diets supplemented with 1 % and 2 % R. paludigena CM33 showed significant improvements in growth performance, lysozyme activity, total immunoglobulin levels, and antioxidant enzyme activity. …”
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Association of Glycated Proteins with Inflammatory Proteins and Periodontal Disease Parameters by Jeneen Panezai, Mohammad Altamash, Per-Erik Engstrӧm, Anders Larsson

“…Fifty-one patients with periodontitis and 20 healthy subjects underwent probing pocket depth (PPD) measurements. PPD total and PPD disease with and without tooth adjustment were used as continuous indices. …”
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Epidemiología y efecto de las parasitosis internas en la recría bovina en la región del pastizal serrano del noroeste argentino (NOA) by V.H. SUÁREZ, A.E. VIÑABAL, A. BASSANETTI, M.I. BIANCHI

“…Durante el período A se observaron diferencias significativas (p<0,05) en la GPV total entre grupos (GTM: 102,4 kg; GTL: 94,0 kg; GST: 86,6 kg). …”
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Evropská tradice a počátek novodobé mozaiky v Čechách a na Moravě by Zuzana Křenková, Vladisalva Říhová

“… The renovation of the musive technique took place in Venice after the middle of the 19th century. …”
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Research and Application of a Multi-Agent-Based Intelligent Mine Gas State Decision-Making System by Yi Sun, Xinke Liu

“…Additionally, the system incorporates several technologies, including retrieval-augmented generation based on human feedback mechanisms, tool management, prompt engineering, and asynchronous processing, which further enhance the application performance of the LLM in the gas status judgment system. …”
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A survey of the commercial traits and antioxidant status of goat milk in Mediterranean pastoral farms by Manuel Delgado-Pertiñez, Juan M. Mancilla-Leytón, Eduardo Morales-Jerrett, Sara Muñoz-Vallés, Verónica Cruz, Yolanda Mena

“…Material and methods: The commercial traits (total solids, fat, protein, lactose, bacterial and somatic cell counts) and TAC of milk were determined monthly throughout the year. …”
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Analysis of a Series of 26 Cases With Prenatal Skeletal Dysplasia via Multiplatform Genetic Detection by Li‐min Cui, Hua‐ying Hu, Xiao‐mei Zhai, Ming‐fei Qi, Yan‐ming Liu, Cong‐ying Han, Jing Zhang, Ming Shen, Yu‐lan Xiang, Wen‐qi Chen, Kai Yang, Dong‐liang Zhang, Huan‐xia Xing

“…Sanger sequencing and fluorescent quantitative PCR (QF‐PCR) were used as validation methods. Results A total of 16 cases (61.5%, 16/26) received positive results at various levels of testing, including one trisomy 18, four copy number variations (CNVs), and 11 sequence variations. …”
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Behavior of Structural Concrete Frames with Hybrid Reinforcement under Cyclic Loading by Asmaa Sobhy, Louay Aboul Nour, Hilal Hassan, Alaaeldin Elsisi

“…Although its energy dissipation was weak, its performance in terms of total storey drift demand was satisfactory.…”
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Deep learning application for stellar parameter determination: III-denoising procedure by Gebran Marwan, Bentley Ian, Brienza Rose, Paletou Frédéric

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Using Protein Painting Mass Spectrometry to Define Ligand Receptor Interaction Sites for Acetylcholine Binding Protein by Alexandru Graur, Natalie Erickson, Nadine Kabbani

“…Protein painting MS has been recently shown to be an effective tool for the identification of residues within Ac-AChBP involved in the binding of know ligands such as α-bungarotoxin. …”
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Game Factors and Game-Based Learning Design Model by Yen-Ru Shi, Ju-Ling Shih

“…How to design useful digital game-based learning is a topic worthy of discussion. Past research focused on specific game genres design, but it is difficult to use when the target game genre differs from the default genres used in the research. …”
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Influencing Factors of Resorption in Lumbar Disc Herniation by SHEN Xueqiang, LIU Jintao, YU Pengfei, DAI feng, ZHU Yu, JIANG Hong

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the influencing factors of resorption in lumbar disc herniation (LDH).MethodsA total of 116 patients with LDH who were hospitalized in Suzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine from April 2016 to December 2019 with non-surgical plan as the first treatment choice were selected and retrospectively analyzed. …”
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Average Packing Charges for Florida Fresh Citrus, 2002-2003 by Ronald P. Muraro

“… A survey was sent to Florida fresh citrus packers to collect data on the average “packing charges” for the 2003 season. A total of nine packinghouses from both the Indian River and Interior production regions provided data for the survey. …”
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Improving farming practices using multi-criteria decision analysis in geographic information system for Damask Rose cultivating by B. Shokati, M.R. Asgharipour, B. Feizizadeh

“…For this goal, several criteria including soil conditions, climatologically indicators, topography situation and agro-climatology criteria were taken into account of modeling processing. …”
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