Analysis of Climate and Land Use Changes Impacts on Land Degradation in the North China Plain by Zhihui Li, Xiangzheng Deng, Fang Yin, Cuiyuan Yang

“…The economic development may exert positive impacts on land quality to alleviate land degradation, although the rural economic development and agricultural production will exert negative impacts on the land and lead to land degradation. Infrastructure construction would modify the land surface and further resulted in land degradation. …”
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A Novel Clustering Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Based on Determination of Virtual Links’ Weight to Increase Network Stability by Abbas Karimi, Abbas Afsharfarnia, Faraneh Zarafshan, S. A. R. Al-Haddad

“…Low stability of clusters may lead to rapid failure of clusters, high energy consumption for reclustering, and decrease in the overall network stability in mobile ad hoc network. …”
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First Report of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Infection due to Cyberlindnera fabianii by Jonathan Baghdadi, Peera Hemarajata, Romney Humphries, Theodoros Kelesidis

“…Transient fungemia in immunocompetent patients without any other risk factors for fungemia has been suggested as a possible mechanism that may lead to serious fungal ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt infections, but evidence is lacking. …”
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Interpretable Machine Learning to Forecast SEP Events for Solar Cycle 23 by Spiridon Kasapis, Lulu Zhao, Yang Chen, Xiantong Wang, Monica Bobra, Tamas Gombosi

“…The results show that the SMARP data can predict whether a flare will lead to an SEP with accuracy (ACC) ≤0.72 ± 0.12 while allowing for a competitive leading time of 55.3 ± 28.6 min for forecasting the SEP events.…”
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Modeling of a cracked and repaired Al 2024T3 aircraft plate: effect of the composite patch shape on the repair performance by Mohammed Baghdadi, Boualem Serier, Mokadem Salem, Bouchra Zaoui, Khacem Kaddouri

“…The obtained results show that in the first case, the patch shape have no effect on the SIF, the sharp edges (obtuse, right and acute) of oblique shapes generate high shear stresses, in the second case, the reduced surfaces lead to significant mass gain with the same SIF values. and to an increase in the maximum shear stresses, in the latter case the patches shapes lead to a reduction of the SIF and the shear stresses.…”
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Is Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease a Result of Multiple Gait Impairments? Implications for Treatment by Meir Plotnik, Nir Giladi, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff

“…The proposed theoretical framework sets the stage for testable hypotheses regarding the mechanisms that lead to FOG and may also lead to new treatment ideas.…”
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Chloramphenicol and gentamicin reduce the evolution of resistance to phage ΦX174 by suppressing a subset of E. coli LPS mutants. by Lavisha Parab, Jordan Romeyer Dherbey, Norma Rivera, Michael Schwarz, Jenna Gallie, Frederic Bertels

“…Modification of LPS can lead to resistance to phage infection. In addition, LPS modifications can impact antibiotic susceptibility, allowing for phage-antibiotic synergism. …”
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Response to ‘Saying sorry’ – we endorse protected apology by G Howarth

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ROLE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING OF THE RAILWAYS by E. Sedova, V. Kramarenko

“…The necessity of improving the management accounting system, which will lead to the optimization of the organization of warehouse activities and all transport companies.…”
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I’ll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours

“…Both Science and Nature lead this week with articles about the simultaneous publication of the human genome sequence by the private company Celera Genomics and the publicly funded Human Genome Project (HGP).…”
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Determinants of Inflation Expectations in the Euro Area by Richhild Moessner

“…Abstract Euro area inflation has been rising strongly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, giving rise to concerns that there could be second-round effects, with higher inflation leading to higher inflation expectations, which in turn lead to higher inflation. …”
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Imaging in connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease by Praveen P G. Rao, Kushal Joshi, Sidath Liyanage, Daniel Dalili, Gouri Koduri

“…Interpretation of HRCT in ILD is often challenging, but an emphasis on pattern recognition in the clinical context should lead to prompt diagnosis and management. The most common ILD pattern in rheumatic disease is nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis followed by usual interstitial pneumonitis. …”
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A Decision Model Assessing the Owner and Contractor’s Conflict Behaviors in Construction Projects by Guangdong Wu, Huanming Wang, Ruidong Chang

“…Balancing the contractor’s ability of converting conflicts into benefits and the loss caused by conflict behaviors lead to a more reasonable risk allocation between the owner and contractor, improving the effort level and net benefit. …”
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Optimal Benefit Distribution of a Tontine-like Annuity Fund with Age-Structured Models by Fan Zhang, Ping Chen, Xueyuan Wu

“…Additionally, the study finds that adverse shocks lead to a smaller population and thus fewer subsidies. …”
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The Advantage of Using International Multimodel Ensemble for Seasonal Precipitation Forecast over Israel by Amir Givati, Mashor Housh, Yoav Levi, Dror Paz, Itzhak Carmona, Emily Becker

“…The study presents the performance of both monthly and seasonal predictions of precipitation accumulated over three months, with respect to different lead times for the ensemble mean values, one per individual model. …”
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Enhanced energy storage in relaxor (1-x)Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-xBaZryTi1-yO3 thin films by morphotropic phase boundary engineering by Herbert Kobald, Alexander M. Kobald, Ivana Panzic, Marco Deluca

“…Abstract Perovskites at the crossover between ferroelectric and relaxor are often used to realize dielectric capacitors with high energy and power density and simultaneously good efficiency. Lead-free Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3 is gaining importance in showing an alternative to lead-based devices. …”
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Measurement and identification of areas susceptible to flood spreading from the viewpoint of geological formations in Birjand watershed using RS / GIS by Parviz Ziaiian Firouz Abadi, Ayoub Badragh Nejad, Reza Sarli, Mahboub Babaie

“…However, rivers have had an effective role in urban development and human civilization, therefore, identification of flood prone areas and flood part in the potent lower fields of Birjand watershed would lead to aid feeding the artificial environment of the water shed and would also lead to increase of quality in the environment fields. …”
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Forest Plundering in the Forest Management Unit (KPH) Randublatung, Blora Regency: Types of Plundering and the Involvement of External Community Actors by Nazal Chilmi Ulyatin, Singgih Tri Sulistiyono, Yety Rochwulaningsih

“…External factors include political instability in the lead-up to the Reformation, which created opportunities for plunderers due to the absence of legal certainty. …”
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Specific Features of Mental Health of Law Enforcement Officers – Participants of the Anti-Terrorist Operation by O. I. Kudermina

“…Under the intense influence of psycho-traumatic factors of the combat environment, a law enforcement officer can get mental disorders of various degree of severity, which lead to a partial or complete loss of combat capability. …”
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Potentiality of agricultural adsorbent for the sequestering of metal ions from wastewater by P.C. Emenike, D.O. Omole, B.U. Ngene, I.T. Tenebe

“…The use of agricultural adsorbents for cadmium (II), copper (II) and lead (II) ion removal has gained more interest in literature due to the level of contamination in water bodies. …”
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