From the Neolithic to the end of Early Bronze Age: developments in the construction of entrance gates and city walls at settlements in Burdur (Turkey) and the surrounding region by Gülsün Umurtak

“…The development of this type of gate can be seen in the Western Gate and the Southern Gate at Hacılar Büyük Höyük. …”
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Thrips Management Program for Horticultural Crops by Vivek Kumar, Garima Kakkar, Cristi L. Palmer, Cindy L. McKenzie, Lance S. Osborne

“…This 7-page fact sheet presents a program to manage important thrips pests, including western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis), chilli thrips (Scirtothrips dorsalis), weeping fig thrips (Gynaikothrips uzeli), gladiolus thrips (Thrips simplex), and privet thrips (Dendrothrips ornatus) known to damage several horticultural crops of economic importance in the United States. …”
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Bodies in Pile: Osteological and Archaeological Analysis of Skeletal Remains from Phaselis Infrastucture by Tolga Karahan, Ahmet İhsan Aytek, Alper Yener Yavuz

“…The drainage system starts from the crepis in front of the western wall of the latrina and continues from north to south under the eastern crepidoma (stairs) to the central harbor and ends with a channel through which water flows into the sea. …”
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Thrips Management Program for Horticultural Crops by Vivek Kumar, Garima Kakkar, Cristi L. Palmer, Cindy L. McKenzie, Lance S. Osborne

“…This 7-page fact sheet presents a program to manage important thrips pests, including western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis), chilli thrips (Scirtothrips dorsalis), weeping fig thrips (Gynaikothrips uzeli), gladiolus thrips (Thrips simplex), and privet thrips (Dendrothrips ornatus) known to damage several horticultural crops of economic importance in the United States. …”
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Pax6 regulates neuronal migration and cell proliferation via interacting with Wnt3a during cortical development by Bichao Zhang, Meihua Hou, Jiayan Huang, Yunfei Liu, Ciqing Yang, Juntang Lin

“…JASPAR analysis together with the results of qPCR, Western blot, CUT&Tag, and rescue experiments revealed that Pax6 regulates neuronal migration and cell proliferation by indirectly mediating Wnt3a expression. …”
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Isolation of Viral Biofilms From HTLV-1 Chronically Infected T Cells and Integrity Analysis by Coline Arone, Hélène Dutartre, Delphine Muriaux

“…This method circumvents the need for mechanical, chemical, or enzymatic biofilm detachment, bypasses the use of ultracentrifugation, and enables us to resuspend the biofilms in the appropriate buffer for subsequent analyses such as western blotting or super-resolution microscopy imaging as presented.…”
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AN ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF THE ACTIVE AND PASSIVE POLITICAL BEHAVIOR OF CITIZENS ON GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA by LAMBE EMMANUEL OYEWOLE, HASSAN SEYID ISHOLA, BASHIR OLADIMEJI ABDULRAZAQ

“…The research found out that, Nigeria democracy is unique to western democracy therefore results to varying outcomes. …”
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Challenges in enabling aging-in-place initiatives in aging and shrinking Japanese cities: a case of the Gifu suburbs by Tomoko Kubo, Nobuhiko Komaki, Kensaku Tanaka

“… This study first reviewed previous literature on 1) the residential environments and everyday lives of older adults to examine universal factors enabling aging-in-place initiatives, and 2) the generation and outcomes of aging and shrinking suburbs in the Japanese context, via comparisons with case studies in Western cities. A case study was then conducted in the suburbs of Gifu to provide a clear impression of older adults’ daily lives and their perceived barriers in aging and shrinking suburbs in Japan. …”
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Volcanically forced Madden–Julian oscillation triggers the immediate onset of El Niño by Hyemi Kim, Seung-Ki Min, Daehyun Kim, Daniele Visioni

“…This increases the likelihood of ensemble members having stronger MJO activity in the western Pacific by about 35% compared to non-volcanic years, which subsequently increases the frequency of westerly wind bursts by about 76%, ultimately enhancing the probability of the onset of an El Niño by about 98% following major volcanic eruptions.…”
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“No data, no problem”? Potential inequities in psychosis among immigrants in the United States by Supriya Misra, Isha Weerasinghe, Lawrence H. Yang, Bizu Gelaye, Margarita Alegría

“…In this critical analytical review, we briefly summarize the evidence of inequities in psychosis among immigrants in other Western high-income countries, discuss the relevance to immigrants in the U.S. context, identify historical context and contemporary obstacles to studying this phenomenon in the U.S., and recommend strategies to improve research about psychosis among immigrants in the U.S. moving forward. …”
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The Eastern Mediterranean Sea mean sea level decadal slowdown: the effects of the water budget by Federica Borile, Nadia Pinardi, Nadia Pinardi, Vladyslav Lyubartsev, Mahmud Hasan Ghani, Antonio Navarra, Antonio Navarra, Jacopo Alessandri, Emanuela Clementi, Giovanni Coppini, Lorenzo Mentaschi, Giorgia Verri, Vladimir Santos da Costa, Enrico Scoccimarro, Francesco Misurale, Antonio Novellino, Paolo Oddo

“…While the overall trend remains positive across the Mediterranean basin, regional differences are evident. The Western Mediterranean shows an accelerating trend, consistent with global sea level rise, while the Eastern Mediterranean has experienced a decadal slowdown, particularly in the semi-enclosed Adriatic and Aegean Seas, where negative trends are observed. …”
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CHRISTIAN SELF-FORMATION: AN AUGUSTINIAN CONTRIBUTION by F. England

“… Augustine’s dense and probing thought about the imprint of the Trinitarian God upon human persons in De Trinitate (AD 399-422/426) provides an alternative spirituality of the self to that of a more individualistic Western liberal search for self-fulfilment through self-discovery. …”
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Habitat suitability mapping and landscape connectivity analysis to predict African swine fever spread in wild boar populations: A focus on Northern Italy. by Giulia Faustini, Marie Soret, Alexandre Defossez, Jaime Bosch, Annamaria Conte, Annelise Tran

“…In January 2022, the first case of ASF, due to genotype II, was reported in North-western Italy, in a wild boar carcass. Thereafter, numerous positive wild boars were identified, indicating an expanding wild epidemic, severely threatening Italian pig farming and trade. …”
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Simulating the air quality impact of prescribed fires using graph neural network-based PM2.5 forecasts by Kyleen Liao, Jatan Buch, Kara D. Lamb, Pierre Gentine

“…The increasing size and severity of wildfires across the western United States have generated dangerous levels of PM2.5 concentrations in recent years. …”
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Extreme Temperature Events in Kazakhstan and Their Impacts on Public Health and Energy Demand by Parya Broomandi, Alfrendo Satyanaga, Mehdi Bagheri, Mostafa Hadei, David Galán‐Madruga, Ali Mozhdehi Fard, Adib Roshani, Aram Fathian, Amir Nourian, Michael Leuchner, Klaus Reicherter, Mehdi Hamidi, Prashant Kumar, Jong Ryeol Kim

“…The most striking trends in heatwave‐related indices emerge in the western and southwestern regions. Conversely, despite heightened coldwave intensity, a decline is noted in their frequency and number. …”
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A human pathogenic hantavirus circulates and is shed in taxonomically diverse rodent reservoirs. by Samuel M Goodfellow, Robert A Nofchissey, Chunyan Ye, Jaecy K Banther-McConnell, Thanchira Suriyamongkol, Joseph A Cook, Jonathan L Dunnum, Ivana Mali, Steven B Bradfute

“…In the United States, Sin Nombre orthohantavirus (SNV) is the primary cause of HCPS, with a fatality rate of 36% and most cases occuring in the southwestern states. The western deer mouse, Peromyscus sonoriensis, is the primary reservoir for SNV; however, it remains unclear if alternative reservoirs exist.…”
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An assessment of economic and environmental impacts of refugees in Nakivale, Uganda by Alex Ronald, Mwangu

“…Some of the refugees are hosted in Nakivale one of the biggest refugee camps in the country located in South Western Uganda. This paper documents the economic and environmental impacts of refugees in Nakivale refugee camp. …”
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Metformin exerted tumoricidal effects on colon cancer tumoroids via the regulation of autophagy pathway by Roya Shabkhizan, Çığır Biray Avci, Sanya Haiaty, Marziyeh Sadat Moslehian, Fatemeh Sadeghsoltani, Ahad Bazmani, Mahdi Mahdipour, Leila Sabour Takanlou, Maryam Sabour Takanlou, Arezoo Rezaie Nezhad Zamani, Reza Rahbarghazi

“…The expression and protein levels of autophagy-related factors were measured using PCR array and western blotting, respectively. Using H & E, and immunofluorescence staining (Ki-67), the integrity and proliferation rate of CRC tumoroids were examined. …”
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Dyskurs podręcznikowy a dyskurs dziecięcy – odmienne postrzeganie rzeczywistości by Aleksandra Szyller

“…What is more, the voice of children in Poland is marginalized or completely ignored, as opposed to the Western countries. The perspective of the youngest participants of the education process, who are the direct recipients of the textbook offer and are critical and thoughtful, is very rarely taken into account. …”
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Professor Vanda Zaborskaitė: Why Classic? by Dalia Čiočytė

“…In the opinion of the researcher, the pinnacles of literary art are those works which, by employing aesthetic persuasion, interpret the classical ideas of the Western world: the ideas of the absolute value of the personality, freedom, and the primate of the spirit. …”
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