Edible Coatings Enhance Storability and Preserve Quality of Kiwiberry (<i>Actinidia arguta</i> L.) cv. Ken’s Red by Adriana C. Guerreiro, Custódia Gago, Dário Passos, Jaime Martins, Sandra Cruz, Fernão Veloso, Rui Guerra, Maria D. Antunes

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Atlantic mackerel population structure does not support genetically distinct spawning components [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Imanol Aguirre-Sarabia, Alice Manuzzi, Dorte Bekkevold, Natalia Díaz-Arce, Jessica Gomez-Garrido, Teunis Jansen, Marta Gut, Tyler S. Alioto, Sonia Sanchez-Maroño, Martin Castonguay, Naiara Rodriguez-Ezpeleta, Paula Álvarez

“…Our population genetic results show that the Atlantic mackerel consist of three previously known genetically isolated units (Northwest Atlantic, Northeast Atlantic, Mediterranean), and provide no evidence for genetically distinct spawning components within the Northwest or Northeast Atlantic. …”
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Glasswort as a Strategic Crop in Coastal Wetlands: Intercropping Results with Swiss Chard by Anna Rita Bernadette Cammerino, Michela Ingaramo, Vincenzo Rizzi, Maurizio Gioiosa, Massimo Monteleone

“…The Mediterranean region is experiencing severe droughts and unprecedented high temperatures. …”
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Healthy dietary patterns and the incidence of chronic kidney disease: results from a prospective cohort study by Yong-Ping Lu, Bin Xia, Xiao-Hua Wang, Qiang-Sheng He, Chang-Bo Qu, Ying-Ying Xie, Tian-Jiao Cui, Si-Qing Wu, Jin-Yu Zhao, Zhi-Hua Zheng, Ting Zhu, Jin-Qiu Yuan, Chun Tang

“…Four healthy dietary pattern scores were evaluated: the Healthy Plant-based Diet Index (hPDI), the Healthy Eating Index (HEI)-2015, the Mediterranean Diet (MED) Score, and the Alternative Mediterranean Diet (AMED) Score. …”
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L’utilisation du bois dans les aménagements portuaires antiques de Narbonne/Narbo Martius (Aude) by Corinne Sanchez, Jean-Michel Fabre, Sophie Coadic, Julie Labussière, Benoit Favennec, Marie-Pierre Jézégou, Stéphanie Wicha

“…Narbonne/Narbo Martius is located at the crossroads of sea routes, waterways and overland roads and it was a place of exchange between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic as early as the 2nd c. …”
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Radar-measured passerine vertical speeds reveal a migratory switch near a major barrier by Yuval Werber, Nir Sapir

“…Birds avoided drifting toward the Mediterranean Sea by landing and preferred taking off when winds blew away from the sea. …”
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Enthesitis in a 16-Year-Old Boy with M694V Mutation by Syert Luidolf Nienhuis, Robin Eric Westerbeek

“…Introduction. FMF (Familial Mediterranean Fever) is characterized by recurrent attacks of fever and articular pain. …”
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Mango Fruit Fly, Marula Fruit Fly, Ceratitis cosyra (Walker) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Gary J. Steck

“…The fly is a serious pest in smallholder and commercial mango across sub-Saharan Africa and has been recorded in Ivory Coast, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, where it is more destructive than either Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly; Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann)) or the Natal fruit fly (Ceratitis rosa Karsch) (Malio 1979; Labuschagne et al. 1996; Javaid 1979; De Lima 1979; Rendell et al. 1995; Lux et al. 1998). …”
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Synoptic analysis and satellite monitoring dust phenomenon in Kermanshah province in 1987-2010 (case study: wide spread dust in 17 and 18 June 2009) by kamal omidvar, nesa sepandar

“…The results of the study showed that at low ground level, when the European high-pressure system retreated to the north and west, Sudan's low pressure existed in the eastern Mediterranean, and the system moved southwest to the northeast, and when they entered, the disturbance zone is caused due to the lack of moisture in the dust, the main sources of dust in the province of Kermanshah include the deserts of northern Arabia, southern Iraq, and somewhat north of the sub-Saharan Africa.…”
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Mango Fruit Fly, Marula Fruit Fly, Ceratitis cosyra (Walker) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Gary J. Steck

“…The fly is a serious pest in smallholder and commercial mango across sub-Saharan Africa and has been recorded in Ivory Coast, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, where it is more destructive than either Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly; Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann)) or the Natal fruit fly (Ceratitis rosa Karsch) (Malio 1979; Labuschagne et al. 1996; Javaid 1979; De Lima 1979; Rendell et al. 1995; Lux et al. 1998). …”
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Synoptic analysis of 500 hpa flow patterns in rainy Spring’s Arasbaran region by Karim Amininia

“…In 5 cases of the extracted patterns, there's a really high center of east Mediterranean and south east Europe, the most important component was detected during the wet spring. …”
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Phenolic Compounds Analysis of Root, Stalk, and Leaves of Nettle by Semih Otles, Buket Yalcin

“…According to this kind of properties, nettle samples were collected from coastal part of (Mediterranean, Aegean, Black sea, and Marmara) Turkey. …”
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Controllability of Neutral Fractional Functional Equations with Impulses and Infinite Delay by R. Ganesh, R. Sakthivel, Yong Ren, S. M. Anthoni, N. I. Mahmudov

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Une forme spontanée de figuier (Ficus carica L.), le nābūt by Younes Hmimsa, Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Mohammed Ater

“…The fig tree is an emblematic fruit tree of the Mediterranean region as much as olive, grapevine or almond. …”
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Olive Tourism motivations, activities and experiences: Perspectives from a Portuguese Delphi Panel by Francisco Dias, Fernanda Oliveira

“…The olive heritage is a central element of many of the Mediterranean rural territories and is the basis for the development of a range of infrastructures, activities and experiences that make up olive tourism. …”
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HPLC/MS-MS Identification of Oak Quercus aegilops Root Tannins by Ayed S. Amr, Mousa N. Ahmad, Jalal A. Zahra, Mai A. Abdullah

“…The aim of this work was to isolate, extract, purify, and identify the tannins from the root bark of a common oak tree (Quercus aegilops L.) in Jordan and around the Mediterranean. The results showed that at least one form of ellagitannin (ellagic acid ester), quercitrin, afzelechin, valoneic acid, trigalloyl glucose, and catechin was identified in addition to two unidentified compounds. …”
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Israeli-Egyptian Gas Cooperation: Significance of Political Domestic Factors [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by Artur Skorek, Michał Lipa

“…The article aims to present the domestic factors in Egypt and Israel that shape the approach of these countries to mutual energy cooperation and to assess their current and future impact on the energy outlook of the Eastern Mediterranean.…”
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Territorialisation de la plateforme Airbnb by Alexandre Grondeau, Gwenaëlle Dourthe

“…To this end, we propose to focus on the territorialization of accommodations available on the Airbnb platform, as well as the socio-economic and political issues induced in two emblematic Mediterranean tourist cities: Barcelona and Lisbon. We'll analyze the spatial distribution of accommodations offered on Airbnb, their characteristics and cross-reference them with various socio-demographic data from these cities to measure the impact of the emergence and international development of the Californian platform. …”
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A comparative analysis of methods for mapping groundwater pollution hazard: application to the Gallocanta Hydrogeologic Unit (Spain) by José María Orellana Macías, María Jesús Perles Roselló

“…Therefore, due to the characteristic land uses of the study area, typical of the Mediterranean context, some proposals to improve the indexes have been suggested. …”
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Impact of Conflict Resolution on the Performance of Workers of Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Abuja: An Econometrics Approach by Abubakar Orlando Ijoko, Ogakwu Julius Ogbaji, Samson Galadima Simon

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