Camels, Camel Milk, and Camel Milk Product Situation in Kenya in Relation to the World by Stephen Oselu, Rebecca Ebere, Joshua M. Arimi

“…Camels offer locals various benefits, including transportation of goods across the deserts, meat, fur, and milk. Camel milk contains natural therapeutically and immunity-boosting properties due to the higher concentration of lactoferrin, lactoglobulins, and lysozyme than bovine milk. …”
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Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Review of Two Decades of Food Vendors Study: Deciphering the Dynamics of Food Vendor Research by Ajay Adithya Manoharan, Geetha Rangaswamy

“…This review emphasizes the need of include time in food accessibility studies, the need for a more nuanced understanding of food deserts, and the increased interest in organic vegetable marketing and insect eating. …”
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Steppe Eagles in Bokey-Orda Nature Reserve and Ashiozek Sanctuary (Western Kazakhstan Region) in 2022–2023 by Ilya E. Smelyansky, Andrei A. Tomilenko, Anna N. Barashkova, Roman N. Aleksandrovich, Beibars Kitibaev, Alyona Koshkina

“…This vast (6,570 km2 ) territory contains desertified and dry steppes and northern halophyte and hemihalophyte deserts. The main objective for establishing these protected areas is to protect the saiga population and that ungulate’s habitats. …”
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Expériences carcérales et traductions picturalesLe témoignage du peintre et objecteur de conscience Didier Poiraud durant et après la guerre d’indépendance algérienne (1961-1964)... by Marc André

“…Pursued and arrested for illegal protest, disobedience, and desertion, this artist-objector was detained and incarcerated eleven times at various detention sites in France. …”
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Violence et conflits dans l’armée de la Monarchie Hispanique en Castille : quelques propositions de recherche et de méthodologie by Antonio Jiménez Estrella

“…However, in this article about Castile in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, we analyze other kinds of violence, that might be called structural, long-term violence, caused by the presence of the army on the territory, and that involved problems such as the recruitment of men for war in times of strong fiscal pressure, desertion, accomodation of soldiers in civil houses, etc. …”
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Comparison of Nesting Features and Breeding Success of Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur between Orchards and Riparian Habitats by Ismail Mansouri, Wafae Squalli, Abdelbari El Agy, Abderahim El-Hassani, Lahcen El Ghadraoui, Mohamed Dakki

“…Moreover, in apple orchards, clutches’ failure is due to both predation (18.89% of eggs and 10.54% of chicks) and temperature lowering (5.03% of unhatched eggs and 5.49% of dead chicks), while in riparian vegetation, the loss is due to nest desertion (21.33% of clutches) and mostly predation (33.16% of clutches).…”
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Les agglomérations de Nyon, Lausanne et Yverdon (Suisse) : trois exemples de l’ouest du plateau suisse entre Antiquité tardive et haut Moyen Âge by Clément Hervé

“…Further to the East on the Lemanic coast, the vicus of Vidy-Lousonna is not also entirely deserted in favor of the site located on the height of the hill of la Cité which will be the new centre of the diocese at the end of the 6th c. …”
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Dust Particle Size Distributions during Spring in Yinchuan, China by Jiangfeng Shao, Jiandong Mao

“…With increasing wind speed and decreasing humidity, fine particles were dominant in the atmosphere and the number and mass distributions of the coarse particles were indicative of long-range transport from surrounding deserts. Different dust conditions had different influences on PM1, PM2.5, and PM10 concentrations.…”
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Correlation between the Compressive, Tensile Strength of Old Concrete under Marine Environment and Prediction of Long-Term Strength by Weilai Yao, Shiyong Jiang, Wei Fei, Tao Cai

“…In this study, the relationship between compressive and splitting tensile strength of old concrete existing for long period under marine environment was investigated. At a deserted harbour, concrete cores samples were drilled by pairs in site. …”
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Detection and simulation of Kermanshah dust storm using HYSPLIT and WRF-chem models by Tooba Alizadeh, Majid Rezaei Banafsheh, Hashem Rostamzadeh, Gholamreza Goodarzi, Hedar Maleki, Hamzeh Alizadeh

“…Examination of HYSPLIT tracking maps shows that two general paths for dust transfer to the area can be identified. 1- The northwest-southeast route, which passes through dust cores formed in the deserts of Iraq and Syria, transports dust to the western half of Iran. 2- Southwest to west of Iran and Kermanshah, which is the main source of dust on November 2 and 3, The source of the particles is Kuwait, northern Saudi Arabia and part of Iraq. …”
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The Concept of “Steppe” in the Novel-Chronicle by A. M.  Amur-Sanan “Mudreshka’s Son” by Galina B. Esenova

“…“Steppe” is described as a type of terrain characterized by vastness, desolation and monotony. Such a deserted, boundless, uninhabited space contributes to the formation of a feeling of loneliness, uselessness, abandonment in the hero's mind, affects his psychological state. …”
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Powstanie narodowe czy bunt rekrutów? Rozkład wojsk austriackich w 1809 roku w Galicji by Michał Baczkowski

“…It involved mass as well as individual desertions, surrender into captivity without a fight, and finally a group defection to the enemy’s side. …”
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Genera Mixta in Herbert George Wells’s Industrial Romance ‘The Cone’ (1895): Realism, the Uncanny Fantastic, the Industrial Sublime and the Tragic by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…The industrial sublime coexists with a generalized sense of melancholy, shown as the new social disease affecting middle-class characters—and no longer the working-class underdogs or ‘Hands’ of previous texts—in a disfigured world deserted by God. ‘The Cone’ could be called an ‘industrial romance’, a category subsuming its genera mixta status: its convincing, realistic substratum (the industrial world of the 1890s in the Newcastle area), its love (and revenge) plot within an industrial context, the presence of dark Biblical symbolism within the realistic mode, and an approach to the human psyche inspired from contemporary psychological research and formulated through the uncanny. …”
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Ultrasonography of the Kidneys in Healthy and Diseased Camels (Camelus dromedarius) by Mohamed Tharwat

“…In the dromedary camel, the physiology of the kidney is of interest in view of the specialization of the camel to hot dry deserts and to prolonged periods without water. It plays an important role in water conservation through the production of highly concentrated urine that may predispose animal to varieties of renal disorders. …”
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La villa gallo-romaine de Grigy à Metz (ier s. apr. J.-C.-ve s. apr. J.-C.) : caractérisation fonctionnelle des structures et identification des activités artisanales by Gaël Brkojewitsch, Sandrine Marquié, Geneviève Daoulas, Guilherme Remor de Oliveira, Gaëtan Jouanin, Nicolas Garnier, Michaël Brunet, Simon Sedlbauer, Willy Tegel, Nadia Cantin, Valérie Thirion-Merle

“…., then dismantled and deserted between the end of the 4th c. and the start of the 5th c. …”
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Migratory Dates, Breeding Phenology, and Reproductive Success of European Turtle Doves between Lowlands and Highest Breeding Habitats in North Africa by Ismail Mansouri, Mohamed Mounir, Wafae Squalli, Laila Elhanafi, Mohamed Dakki, Lahsen El Ghadraoui

“…Moreover, at Midelt, 18.89% of eggs and 10.54% of chicks were predated, while at Beni Mellal 21.80% of eggs and 4.65% of chicks were deserted due to human disturbance. As a response, at Midelt breeding period was shorter and shifted to hot periods to ensure better reproductive success. …”
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Collembola Communities, 20 Years After the Establishment of Distinct Revegetation Treatments in a Severely Eroded Area in South Iceland by Esther Kapinga, Hlynur Óskarsson, Guðmundur Halldórsson, Erla Sturludóttir, Martin Holmstrup

“… Several restoration methods have been developed to aid ecosystem development from highly degraded Icelandic deserts into fully vegetated functional ecosystems. …”
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Data-Driven versus Köppen–Geiger Systems of Climate Classification by Vajira Lasantha, Taikan Oki, Daisuke Tokuda

“…Results from both the systems were similar for some climatic regions, especially extreme temperature ones such as the tropics, deserts, and polar regions. Data-driven classification identified novel climatic regions that the Köppen–Geiger classification could not. …”
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Le hameau moderne abandonné de Pré-Rigot (Compains, Puy-de-Dôme) by Frédéric Surmely, Jay Franklin, Amélie Berthon, Alban Horry

“…The site appears to be creatd ex-nihilo and deserted quite suddently. The cause of this brutal and permanent abandon remains a mystery, perhaps linked to agricultural changes, the expansion of specialised cattle breeding and or demographic crisis at the end of Louis XIVth rule.…”
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Perception et gestion de l’érosion et des ressources en eau par les agriculteurs et les éleveurs du bassin versant de l’ibicuí (RS, Brésil) by Guillaume Leturcq, François Laurent, Rosa Vieira Medeiros

“…In the sandy part, the environment is affected by erosion producing of spectacular forms (arenização) remaining in imaginary those of the deserts. The agricultural production is important and generates large uptakes of water for the irrigation of rice but also the use of pesticides for the whole of the cultures. …”
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