Antimicrobial Evaluation of Bacterial Isolates from Urine Specimen of Patients with Complaints of Urinary Tract Infections in Awka, Nigeria by Perpetua A. Ekwealor, Malachy C. Ugwu, Ifeanyi Ezeobi, George Amalukwe, Belinda C. Ugwu, Ugochukwu Okezie, Catherine Stanley, Charles Esimone

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Evaluating Urban Heat Island Effects in the Southwestern Plateau of China: A Comparative Analysis of Nine Estimation Methods by Ziyang Ma, Huyan Fu, Jianghai Wen, Zhiru Chen

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Multi-Disaster Hazard Analysis, The Case of Elazığ Province by Fethi Ahmet Canpolat

“…The hazard of landslides is high in the rugged areas along the EAF and in steep terrains eroded by rivers. Moreover, rock falls occur more frequently in mountainous areas along the Hazarbaba-Akdağ axis due to erosion and physical dissolution. …”
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Comparison of Analytic Hierarchy Process and Frequency Ratio Methods in Landslide Susceptibility Analysis: Example of Akçaabat and Düzköy districts of Trabzon province by Melek Dalkes, Mehmet Seren Korkmaz

“…A total of 13 criteria which are respectively; slope, curvature, lithology, precipitation, aspect, topographic wetness index (TWI), distance to rivers, distance to highways, distance to fault lines, land use, soil type, elevation and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for landslide susceptibility are evaluated as effective to cause landslides as a result of the literature review. …”
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Meeting deepwater drilling challenges in Niger-Delta with high performance water-based mud by Chimezie Sidney Uduba, Ibrahim Ademola Fetuga, Olabode Thomas Olakoyejo, Monica Wobo, Antônio Marcos de Oliveira Siqueira, Joshua Kolawole Gbegudu, Franklin Onah Onazi

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Analysis of legislative acts in water management by J. Nesiba, R. Cuhlova

“…The survey focuses on general water protection acts, water sewage management, agriculture sector, hygiene standards, and the protection of the basins of Czech rivers (e.g., blue water and gray water). METHODS: The analysis firstly concerns to the development of the number of legislative acts during 1990-2019 and secondly discusses a diversification of the legislative acts types (laws, decrees, resolutions, regulations, and strategic plans). …”
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An Assessment of Landslides Occurrence and Its Implications on Local Community in Ibanda Sub County Kasese District, Uganda by Chris, Agaba

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Seasonal Variation in Home Range Sizes and Daily Distance to Ephemeral Surface Water for African Savannah Elephant (Loxodonta africana) in Eastern Okavango Panhandle, Northern Bots... by Anastacia A. Makati, Anna Songhurst, Emily Bennitt, Gaseitsiwe S. Masunga, Graham McCulloch, Amanda Stronza, Tiroyaone A. Matsika, Frank D. Eckardt

“…We hypothesized that (i) elephant home ranges would be larger in the wet than in the dry season (because critical resources tend to be less localized in the wet than in the dry season), (ii) the daily distance of the elephants to the nearest ephemeral surface water sources would be larger in the dry than in the wet season because many of the ephemeral water sources would be dry in the dry season and elephants would start moving towards permanent water sources such as rivers, and lastly (iii) that the differences in elephant home ranges and daily distance to water would differ between sexes. …”
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Multiple Dimensions Define Thresholds for Population Resilience of the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica by Megan K. La Peyre, Hongqing Wang, Shaye E. Sable, Wei Wu, Bin Li, Devin Comba, Carlos Perez, Melanie Bates, Lauren M. Swam

“…In coastal Louisiana, extreme freshwater inputs from rivers and precipitation events impact estuarine salinity, which is a key driver of oyster population dynamics. …”
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Digital mapping of soil organic carbon in a plain area based on time-series features by Kun Yan, Decai Wang, Yongkang Feng, Siyu Hou, Yamei Zhang, Huimin Yang

“…The results showed that ecological factors such as normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) normalized difference built-up index (NDBSI), drought, and humidity indices, along with distance from rivers, played a dominant role in digital SOC mapping. …”
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Leptospirosis Prevalence in Patients with Initial Diagnosis of Dengue by A. Dircio Montes Sergio, E. González Figueroa, Verdalet Guzmán María Saadia, Soler Huerta Elizabeth, Rivas Sánchez Beatriz, M. Altuzar Aguilar Víctor, J. Navarrete Espinosa

“…In the bivariate analysis, overcrowding RP = 1.33, (IC = 0.46–3.5), bathing in rivers (RP = 1.31, IC = 0.13–7.4), and walking barefoot (RP = 1.39, IC = 0.58–3.3) were the variables associated with leptospirosis, although the relation was not statistically significant. …”
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The Origin of the Matter Matters: The Influence of Terrestrial Inputs on Coastal Benthic Microeukaryote Communities Revealed by eDNA by Mathisse Meyneng, Raffaele Siano, Naïna Mouras, Dominique Ansquer, Christine Laporte‐Magoni, Florence Antypas, Thomas Haize, Hugues Lemonnier

“…This work aimed to demonstrate that the terrestrial matter carried by rivers influences the structuration of microeukaryote communities of superficial (0–3 cm) sediments collected at the interface between the land and marine coastal areas. …”
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The development of a kinetic biotic ligand model to predict acute toxicity of Gadolinium for Daphnia magna by Marion Revel, Qiao-Guo Tan, Andrew Hursthouse, Susanne Heise

“…The model was then validated, first in the presence of dissolved organic matter (DOM), and then with water samples collected from lakes, rivers, and estuaries in France and Germany. The outcome revealed that three major cations (potassium, magnesium, and calcium) act as strong competitors. …”
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Precipitation Chemistry and Occurrence of Acid Rain over the Oil-Producing Niger Delta Region of Nigeria by John Kanayo Chukwu Nduka, Orish Ebere Orisakwe

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Kidney Disease-Specific Quality of Life among Patients on Hemodialysis by Issa Al Salmi, Pramod Kamble, Eilean Rathinasamy Lazarus, Melba Sheila D’Souza, Yaqoob Al Maimani, Suad Hannawi

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Individual-level Predictors of Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness: Urban–Rural Comparison by Onyinye Ginika Mba, Ibitein Ngowari Okeafor

“…Objectives: The objectives of this study were to compare the practice of BP/CR amongst women in rural and urban areas of Rivers State, Nigeria, and determine the individual-level predictors. …”
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An Assessment of Landslides Occurrence and its Implications on Local Community in Ibanda Sub County Kasese District, Uganda by Agaba, Chris

“…Thirdly is that the socio-economic losses due to slope failures are great, ranging from destruction of infrastructure, displacement of residence, loss of property and siltation of rivers. Fourthly, the study established that farmers have adopted some responses in regard to landslides such as afforestation programmers, and adhering to warnings given by local government to re-locate to a safer ground. …”
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Investigating the Efficiency of Coffee Husks in Bio-Retention Model for Storm Water Treatment. by Musasizi, Joseph

“…Storm water from rooftops, paved areas, bare soil and sloped lawns transports eroded soil, animal wastes, litter, salts, pesticides, fertilizers, oil and grease and other potential pollutants which flows directly into the streams and rivers. This spoils the stream water quality and thereby causing a decline in aquatic biota. …”
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Assessing inter-basin groundwater input to the Verlorenvlei estuarine lake using stable isotopes and hydrochemistry by A. Welham, J. van Rooyen, A. Watson, J. Miller, R. Chow

“…Furthermore, Verlorenvlei experiences high evaporation (evaporation best fit line: δ2H = 12.49 x δ18O - 47.68, average δ2H value of 47.1 ‰ and average δ18O value of 7.64 ‰) compared to its feeding rivers. Two sandstone and shale-dominated sub-catchments exhibit overlapping groundwater δ18O and δ2H values and water types to the sub-catchment in the nearest vicinity of Verlorenvlei, suggesting a disproportionately high groundwater contribution from these sub-catchments to Verlorenvlei. …”
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Historical and projected forest cover changes in the Mount Kenya Ecosystem: Implications for sustainable forest management by Brian Rotich, Abdalrahman Ahmed, Benjamin Kinyili, Harison Kipkulei

“…Explanatory factors of LULC change (slope, aspect, population density, proximity to rivers, roads, and towns) were used to project LULC for 2035 using Cellular Automata and Markov Chain Analysis (CA-MCA).Six LULC types (open forest, closed forest, cropland, bareland, built-up, shrubland and grassland) were successfully classified with accuracies exceeding 82.5% and Kappa coefficients above 0.77. …”
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