Genetic diversity and population structure analyses of tropical maize inbred lines using Single Nucleotide Polymorphism markers. by Rodreck Gunundu, Hussein Shimelis, Seltene Abady Tesfamariam

“…This study provides valuable insights for maize breeding programs, enabling the exploitation of beneficial alleles and contributing to improved crop yields and food security through hybrid breeding.…”
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Cytogenetic impact of gamma radiation and its effects on growth, yield and drought tolerance of maize (Zea mays L.) by Walaa M. Al-Sayed, Hanaa H. El-Shazly, Awatif I. El-Nahas, Ahmed A. A. Omran

“…Abstract Maize is the third most important grain crop worldwide after wheat and rice; it is a vital global crop, serving as a key source of food, animal feed, and industrial products, making it essential for food security and economic stability in many countries. …”
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Automated Bitcoin Trading dApp Using Price Prediction from a Deep Learning Model by Zhi Zhan Lua, Chee Kiat Seow, Raymond Ching Bon Chan, Yiyu Cai, Qi Cao

“…The integration of smart contracts and on-chain oracles ensures transparency and security, allowing real-time verification of portfolio management. …”
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Local Policies in the Fight Against the Covid-19 Pandemic: Ankara and Rome Municipal Councils’ Decisions by Hicran Hamza Çelikyay, Hülya Küçük Bayraktar

“…Findings: According to the analyses, the Ankara Metropolitan Municipal Council intensified its decisions on economic support, social assistance, cleaning, public health, and local diplomacy, while the Rome Metropolitan Municipality’s policies focused on security, education, economic support, social assistance, cleaning, and transportation services. …”
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Socio-economic and environmental factors affecting breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices among Batwa and Bakiga communities in south-western Uganda. by Giulia Scarpa, Lea Berrang-Ford, Sabastian Twesigomwe, Paul Kakwangire, Maria Galazoula, Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo, Kaitlin Patterson, Didacus B Namanya, Shuaib Lwasa, Ester Nowembabazi, Charity Kesande, IHACC Research Team, Janet E Cade

“…Specifically, we highlight the need to engage with local and national authorities to improve breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices, and work on food security, distribution of lands, and the food environment. …”
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Complex links between the energy trilemma dimensions in top 25 energy trilemma performers: The role of the UN plan of action for 2030 by Masoud Shirazi

“…., energy equity, energy security, and environmental sustainability, influencing the policy pathfinding for balanced growth of ET. …”
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1941 (pre-war half-year period): changes in the NKVD structure of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic by V. A. Grechenko

“…One of them had to deal directly with state security, and the creation of appropriate departments in the regions and districts. …”
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Estimating Biomass Carbon Stocks of Inner Mongolia Grasslands Using Multi-Source Data by Yong Liu, Shaobo Sun, Xiaolei Yang, Xufeng Wang, Kai Liu, Haibo Dong

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Spatial characteristics and critical groundwater depth of soil salinization in arid artesian irrigation area of northwest China by Cui Chang, Guiyu Yang, Shuoyang Li, Hao Wang, Yaomingqi Song

“…Soil salinization readily occurs in artesian irrigation areas within arid regions due to prolonged irrigation, leading to diminished soil productivity and consequential impacts on regional food security and ecological stability. The present study focuses on the northern area of Qingtongxia artesian irrigation district in Ningxia, the spatial characteristics of soil salinity were investigated using the three-dimensional inverse distance weight interpolation, and the types of soil salt accumulation were determined. …”
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Multi-Relational Graph Representation Learning for Financial Statement Fraud Detection by Chenxu Wang, Mengqin Wang, Xiaoguang Wang, Luyue Zhang, Yi Long

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Mapping Abandoned Cultivated Land in China: Implications for Grain Yield Improvement by Guanghui Jiang, Wenqiu Ma, Yuling Li, Dingyang Zhou, Tao Zhou

“…The abandonment of cultivated land has profoundly affected the agroecological landscape, national food security, and farmer livelihoods, especially in China. …”
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Applying Big Data Based Deep Learning System to Intrusion Detection by Wei Zhong, Ning Yu, Chunyu Ai

“…With vast amounts of data being generated daily and the ever increasing interconnectivity of the world’s internet infrastructures, a machine learning based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) has become a vital component to protect our economic and national security. Previous shallow learning and deep learning strategies adopt the single learning model approach for intrusion detection. …”
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IDENTIFIKASI FAKTOR PREFERENSI POSISI RUANG TIDUR ORANG TUA DAN ANAK DI RUMAH TINGGAL by Asta Juliarman Hatta, Hanson E Kusuma, Dara Fitriani

“…The result of the analysis revealed nine criteria of respondent’s preferences in choosing the three positions of parents and children bedroom, namely accessibility, desire, privacy, comfortability, proximity, interaction, security, controllability, and tradition. Keywords: Bedroom; Home; Preference. …”
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How do improved lentil varieties affect farmers’ livelihood status in central Bangladesh? by Monira Sultana, Jannatul Ferdous Shetu, Fatema Sarker, Sharif Ahammad, Md. Hayder Khan Sujan

“…Lentil plays a crucial role in ensuring nutritional security for the majority of the people in Bangladesh. …”
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1-Bit/2-Level Analog-to-Digital Conversion Based on Comparator and FPGA for Aperture Synthesis Passive Millimeter-Wave Imager by Xiangzhou Guo, Ghulam Mehdi, Muhammad Asif, Anyong Hu, Jungang Miao

“…Interferometric aperture synthesis is a proven technique in radio astronomy and earth remote sensing, which also shows great potentials in security screening. An aperture synthesis passive millimeter-wave (PMMW) imager is under development at Beihang University, which is designed for concealed contraband detection on the human body in an indoor environment. …”
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Long-Term Trends and Ecological Risks of Heavy Metal Accumulation in Cultivated Land of Songnen Plain, China by Zonglai Liu, Jinying Li, Yanan Chen, Fengjun Zhang, Wei Feng

“…Heavy metal pollution in agricultural soils poses a serious threat to food security. Therefore, it is crucial to conduct risk assessments and issue early warnings about high levels of metal contamination for the sustained prosperity of agriculture. …”
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Presentation of Religious Tourism Pattern Based on Foundation Data Theory in International Borders by Ali Rostami, Mohammad Aidi, Alireaza slambolchi, Mohammadreza Rabiee Mandejin

“…Having determining the sample size qualitatively via snowball method, 14 experts of religious tourism including academics and trustees of religious tourism were recognized and they were interviewed directly and the research findings showed that religious tourism pattern in Mehran International Border has six main components including casual conditions (religious and tribal communities, provincial infrastructures, common border of Iraq and vicinity to The Holy of Holies, advertisements) categories (tourism and its subcategories, religious places in Iran and Iraq, security) grounds (commercial free zone in Mehran welfare and health services, economic part of religious tourism), interferer factors (political factors, conveying affairs to non-governmental sector, weather changes), strategies (cooperating with educational centers and universities, increasing governmental investing, using capacities of religious days) consequences & results (income and creating jobs, people’s persistence in border and non-immigration, cultural development of province, destruction of environmental, road and jungles of province) which could be introduced as a proper pattern for religious tourism in Mehran International Border according to the opinion of experts. …”
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Juvenile resistance of barleys from the East Asian center of crop origin and domestication to powdery mildew by R. A. Abdullaev, I. N. Anisimova, O. N. Kovaleva, E. E. Radchenko

“…Including genotypes protected by previously unused resistance genes into breeding practice is necessary to ensure the national food security. Barley landraces could become a fairly rich source of replenishment for the bank of effective pathogen resistance genes.Materials and methods. …”
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Climate change awareness and adaptation strategies by smallholder farmers in semi-arid areas of Zimbabwe by Sandra Makaita Madamombe, Stanley Karanja Ng’ang’a, Ingrid Öborn, George Nyamadzawo, Ngonidzashe Chirinda, Job Kihara, Libère Nkurunziza

“…Agricultural production, food, nutrition and income security of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are threatened by extreme weather events, such as increased frequency of mid-season dry spells and increased temperatures. …”
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Anomaly Detection and Business Process Orchestration for Low-Code Platform in Power System Based on Deep-Cross Model With Data Balancing by Jin Huang, Ming Sheng Xu, Chang Ming Zhu, Guo An Wang

“…This paper presents an innovative approach to anomaly detection in electric vehicle (EV) charging platforms, centered around four key innovations that significantly advance the field of charging infrastructure security. First, we introduce a statistically reliable data balancing methodology that addresses the critical challenge of anomaly sample scarcity, achieving a 47% improvement in detection accuracy compared to conventional sampling techniques. …”
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