Features of Administrative and Legal Regulation of Protecting Forestry Fund Land in Ukraine by R. V. Igonin, M. V. Viktorchuk

“…It has been emphasized that non-forest lands are not included in the forestry fund of Ukraine as they are occupied by agricultural lands, water and marshes, facilities, communications, low-productive lands, etc., which are provided in due course and used for the needs of forestry activities. …”
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Sufi Islam and Anti-Colonial Politics by Ameena Al Rasheed

“…Identities are said to be in constant processes of negotiation between the traditions of the homeland and that of the host society, thus to investigate the relationship between ideologies of new spaces and Sudanese women’s identity, as Muslims and African immigrants affected by the host society’s race and gender roles and discourses, this article will provide an analysis of the multi-faceted nature of Islam represented by the popular, Sufi Islam attached to the tradition of the home land, and the dominant Islamic religious discourse in West Yorkshire. …”
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Brittle crack propagation acceleration in a single crystal of a 3% silicon-Fe alloy by Tomoya Kawbata, Noritaka Nakamura, Shuji Aihara

“…The reason for this difference is due to braking effects during crack propagation, for example, unevenness in the faceting, tear ridges, microcracking, twin deformation and side ligaments, which are the elements that dominate the arresting toughness. …”
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Regional Disparities in Measles Vaccination Coverage and Their Associated Factors: An Ecological Study in Japan by Masaki Machida, Shinji Fukushima, Takahiro Tabuchi, Tomoki Nakaya, Wakaba Fukushima, Shigeru Inoue

“…Vaccination coverage increased to 95.4% in FY 2022 but varied by municipality. Few studies have focused on regional disparities in measles vaccination coverage. …”
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Fire Hazards Caused by Equipment Used in Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Prescriptive vs. Goal-Oriented Legislation by Dejan Brkić

“…This article offers a concise overview of the best practices for safety in offshore oil and gas operations, focusing on the risks associated with various types of equipment, particularly on the risk of fire. …”
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Soil Contamination by Metals/Metalloids around an Industrial Region and Associated Human Health Risk Assessment by Hale Demirtepe

“…Possible sources of contamination were iron and steel facilities with electric arc furnaces and oil combustion. …”
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The Concept of the Heat Removal System of a High-Flux Research Reactor by Vitaly Uzikov, Ildar Suleimanov, Irina Uzikova

“…The proposed concept of a heat removal system for a high-flux reactor facility combines the increased reliability of safe heat removal from the core and the convenience of handling irradiation cells, for example, in the production of isotopes. …”
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Endothelial molecule levels (VCAM-1, ICAM-1) in uncomplicated malaria cases in Lagos, Nigeria by Uche T. Igbasi, Wellington A. Oyibo

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted in four health facilities in Ikorodu, Lagos State, Nigeria. Blood samples from children and adults were screened for malaria via microscopy, and plasma ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 levels were measured using ELISA. …”
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On the road to Mecca: Branding discourses and national identity on coffee shop signage. by Abduljalil Nasr Hazaea, Mutahar Qassem

“…Commercial branding stands as a discursive and cultural facet of the contemporary global era where competing brands construct their own identities. …”
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An analysis of the current status of geriatric oral disease treatment—a dental institutions-based perspective by Caili Li, Dongmei Huang, Qini Pan, Pinyue Tao, Xiao Pan, Yanfei Pan, Ruofei He, Tongting Wang, Huiqiao Huang

“…Meanwhile, 69.9% of institutions have expressed a need for CME training on oral diseases in the older adult.ConclusionNon-public oral health institutions account for a significant proportion, and the older adult primarily pay out-of-pocket for oral disease treatment in these facilities. The high cost of treatment may pose a significant barrier to the older adult seeking oral healthcare. …”
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An environmental evaluation of food waste downstream management options: a hybrid LCA approach by Ramy Salemdeeb, Mohammad Bin Daina, Christian Reynolds, Abir Al-Tabbaa

“…There was significant environmental impact from capital goods, meaning current treatment facilities should be used for their full lifespan. Hybrid IO LCA’s included additional processes and reduced truncation error increasing overall captured environmental impacts of composting, AD, and incineration by 26, 10 and 26%, respectively. …”
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„In Afrika ist alles verloren“ by Dirk Göttsche

“…En s’appuyant sur trois romans qui mènent des Européens dans les actuels pays africains – Herz aus Sand (2009) de Daniel Goetsch, Keine Chance in Mori (2007) de David Signer et Bo (2013) de Rainer Merkel – et en se référant aux portraits de Felicitas Hoppe dans Verbrecher und Versager (2004), cet article reprend le topos colonial des « disparus » en Afrique, mais l’aborde de façon critique, à travers une approche culturelle mais aussi sous l’angle de la mondialisation. …”
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The Story of a Thing: A Frame-Analytic Perspective on a Biographical Approach to Materiality by U. S. Semovskikh, D. R. Davletov

“…The article focuses on the integration of a frame-analytic approach into the research field of the biography of material objects, whose main representatives were originally situated in classical anthropology and archaeology. …”
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Diffusion Partition Consensus: Diffusion-Aided Time-of-Flight Estimates, Anomaly Detection, and Localization for Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation Data by Nick Torenvliet, John S. Zelek

“…The quality of results, the checks and balances provided by the fault diagnosis mechanism, and the opportunity to include a human in the loop, support the case for usage in safety-critical contexts such as NDE at a nuclear power facility.…”
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Practice of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Nepal: Its Scope and Influencing Factor by Anjani Kumar Yadav, Ashok Dongol, Pradeep Acharya, Mehul R. Jaisani

“…Common factors influencing the practice were inadequate training (71.4%) and insufficient facilities/infrastructures (45.7%). Conclusion. The scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery is limited in Nepal, and oncology, implantology, cleft lip/palate, and orthognathic surgery have received little attention.…”
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Modeling Soil Behavior with Machine Learning: Static and Cyclic Properties of High Plasticity Clays Treated with Lime and Fly Ash by Gebrail Bekdaş, Yaren Aydın, Sinan Melih Nigdeli, İnci Süt Ünver, Wook-Won Kim, Zong Woo Geem

“…Soil improvement can be achieved by mechanical or chemical methods, especially in transportation facilities. L and FA additives are frequently used as chemical improvement additives. …”
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Sedimentation-driven one-step fabrication of bifunctional single-layered triboelectric nanogenerator from sol-state composite precursor by Yoonsang Ra, Dongik Kam, Sunmin Jang, Sumin Cho, Donghan Lee, Dongwhi Choi

“…Herein, one-step fabrication of a single-layered bifunctional composite film-based TENG (BF-TENG) driven by the sedimentation of a sol-state precursor is proposed for the extremely facile conversion of various ordinary items into energy harvesters. …”
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COVID-19 Induced Cardiomyopathy Successfully Treated with Tocilizumab by Ariyon Schreiber, Kalaimani Elango, Christoph Sossou, Sadaf Fakhra, Shabada Asad, Chowdhury Ahsan

“…Patient presented to our facility a month later with one-week history of progressively worsening generalized body aches, chills, fever, watery diarrhea, nausea with associated mild dry nonproductive cough, shortness of breath and nonspecific chest pain. …”
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Serum level of soluble interleukin‐2 receptor is positively correlated with metabolic tumor volume on 18F‐FDG PET/CT in newly diagnosed patients with diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma... by Hajime Senjo, Minoru Kanaya, Koh Izumiyama, Koichiro Minauchi, Kenji Hirata, Akio Mori, Makoto Saito, Masanori Tanaka, Hiroaki Iijima, Eriko Tsukamoto, Kazuo Itoh, Shuichi Ota, Masanobu Morioka, Daigo Hashimoto, Takanori Teshima, North Japan Hematology Study Group (NJHSG)

“…However, high cost and poor access to the imaging facilities hamper wider use of 18F‐FDG PET/CT. In order to explore a surrogate marker for TMTV, we evaluated the correlation between the serum levels of soluble interleukin‐2 receptor (sIL‐2R) and TMTV in 64 patients with DLBCL, and the results were verified in an independent validation cohort of 86 patients. …”
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Du concept de vulnérabilité à la perception des dépérissements forestiers par la société by Nathalie Bréda

“…Messages clés : - Les cadres conceptuels d’étude des dépérissements forestiers ont évolué historiquement. - La façon dont les dépérissements sont présentés par les médias a également évolué depuis les années 1980. - Les citoyens sont inquiets de la dégradation de la santé des forêts de leur territoire et émettent des hypothèses quant aux causes et actions possibles. …”
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