Developing background,service characteristics and challenges of LEO IoT by Jun SHEN, Weibin GAO, Gengxin ZHANG

“…The low earth orbit (LEO) internet of things (IoT) is an effective solution to solve the coverage inefficiency problem of terrestrial IoT in ocean,mountain and desert areas.On the basis of analyzing the developing background and situation of LEO IoT,the main application and service characteristics were given,finally the technical challenges and key technologies need to be solved for LEO IoT were discussed.…”
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The Larva of Acanthognathus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by George C. Wheeler, Jeanette Wheeler

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Hieronymus on Hermits by Ioana Costa

“…The solitude of the three hermits is adorned with moments of intense encounters in human and divine dimensions: different as they are, Paulus, Malchus and Hilarion share a sense of harmoniously living, either among people or in secluded places, in the desert or in the mountains.…”
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Mapping species of greatest conservation need and solar energy potential in the arid Southwest for future sustainable development by Kylee Fleckenstein, Adam Stein, Heather L. Bateman, Fabio De Albuquerque

“…., LeConte’s Thrasher (Toxostoma lecontei), Bendire’s Thrasher (Toxostoma bendirei), Sonoran Desert Tortoise (Gopherus morafkai), Mojave Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), and the Southwestern population of the Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia). …”
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Research advances in Pimpinella thellungiana: Nutrients, bioactive compounds, and functional properties benefitting livestock by Shuxian Zhang, Minglu Yang, Tao Xu, Qiongxian Yan, Allan Degen, Xiaoling Zhou

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Spatial-Temporal Pattern of Vegetation Net Primary Productivity and Its Natural Driving Factors in Ordos Section of the Yellow River Basin by Xiaoguang Wu, Weiwei Hao, Guohua Qu, Lingyun Yang

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Statistical Distribution of Urban Area Reveals a Converging Trend of Global Urban Land Expansion by Shengjie Hu, Zhenlei Yang, Sergio Andres Galindo Torres, Zipeng Wang, Haoying Han, Yoshihide Wada, Thomas Cherico Wanger, Ling Li

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Extreme Environment Streptomyces: Potential Sources for New Antibacterial and Anticancer Drug Leads? by Periyasamy Sivalingam, Kui Hong, John Pote, Kandasamy Prabakar

“…This review covers novel drug leads with antibacterial and cytotoxic activities isolated from deep-sea, desert, cryo, and volcanic environment Streptomyces from 2009 to 2019. …”
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L'arbuste Calotropis procera, un épisode de son histoire dans le bassin du lac Tchad by Christian Seignobos

“…Coming initially from the desert’s margins, Calotropis procera is now progressively moving down south, owing both to anthropic diffusion and to the deterioration of the environment. …”
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Domestiquer l’Orient. La contre-histoire balzacienne de la domestication by Élisabeth Plas

“…While the relationship to animals is still seen a territory of naturalness, this article shows, from Balzac’s short story Une Passion dans le désert’s example, that the relationships between men and animals are as social and political as those between men. …”
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Le coton à El Deir by Fleur Letellier-Willemin

“…The presence of cotton in el-Deir (Kharga oasis, Egyptian Western desert) is a recent archaeological discovery, mainly of funerary origin. …”
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Florida Foliage House Plant Care: Adenium swazicum by Richard J. Henny, Jianjun Chen

“… Adenium swazicum is a species of desert rose whose gray-green leaves appear folded and are velvety to touch. …”
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A relação entre trabalho, cooperação e solidariedade na formação da Cooperativa Colonizadora Multiativa Fernheim Ltda no Chaco Paraguaio by Luana Jamayna Gellert, Paula Cecilia Pérez Reyes, Valmor Schiochet

“…The article analyzes the case of the Fernheim Cooperative, located in the Paraguayan Chaco, which is desert-like area with a small population. This analysis demonstrates how an experiment strongly based on these three values: work, cooperation and solidarity, can last over time and change the reality of a region.…”
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Florida Foliage House Plant Care: Adenium swazicum by Richard J. Henny, Jianjun Chen

“… Adenium swazicum is a species of desert rose whose gray-green leaves appear folded and are velvety to touch. …”
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Not all quad bikers are the same: unsupervised cluster analysis identifying injury risk groups among quad bike riders in Dubai, UAE by Michal Grivna, Ahmed Mohammed, Preetha Menon, Saeeda Buti Saeed, Ibrahim Abdalla Alfaki, Mohamed El Sadig, Omar Ahmed Zain Alsakaf, Rashad Gamar

“…Objective Quad bike riders in Dubai (UAE) constitute a highly diverse group with varying driving skills and familiarity with the desert environment. In the absence of evidence on the quad bike riders in the region, we attempted to describe the most vulnerable risk groups using routinely collected injury data. …”
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Crop water productivity assessment and planting structure optimization in typical arid irrigation district using dynamic Bayesian network by Yantao Ma, Jie Xue, Xinlong Feng, Jianping Zhao, Junhu Tang, Huaiwei Sun, Jingjing Chang, Longke Yan

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Self-organization in interface dynamics and urban development by Ehud Meron

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Where There's Fire, There's Smoke: Air Quality and Prescribed Burning in Florida by Martha C. Monroe, Adam C. Watts, Leda N. Kobziar

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A note on predator-prey dynamics in radiocarbon datasets by Marom, Nimrod, Wolkowski, Uri

“…We support our argument with examples from Pleistocene Beringia and the Holocene Judean Desert. …”
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Das Andere der „erdumspannenden Gesellschaft“ by Torsten Hahn

“…The most spectacular among these actors is the desert, which becomes a pole of resistance against Western norms. …”
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