Two decades of cropland monitoring in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan city group: trends and future predictions by Wenbo Zhang, Dazhao Fan, Song Ji, Yang Dong, Dongzi Li, Ming Li

“…Rapid urbanization currently poses a threat to cropland areas. Therefore, exploring the pattern of change in cropland areas and its driving mechanism is of great significance in safeguarding regional economic development and food security. …”
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SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PORT OF SINGAPORE AGAINST THE COUNTRY’S ECONOMIC GROWTH by Maciej MINDUR

“…This research covers the port’s ownership and organisational structure, and its terminals have been reviewed in terms of their location, infrastructure and functions by taking into account the new generation terminal of the port of Tuas, currently under development. Over the years, the port has seen a steady increase in revenue from transhipment, which is confirmed by the dynamics of the container volume growth over the years 1972–2017, the transhipment volume over the years 2007–2018 and the number of container ships calling at the port along with their total capacity over the years 2007–2017, as elaborated in the article.…”
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Kalirin-7 is a Key Player in the Formation of Excitatory Synapses in Hippocampal Neurons by Xin-Ming Ma

“…Kal7 interacts with multiple PDZ domain—containing proteins through its unique PDZ binding motif. …”
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Using electricity tariffs and thermal comfort management to promote residential energy decarbonization by Andrea Vecchi, Michael John Brear

“…Electricity tariffs that include a demand charge contain peak loads without increasing household costs. …”
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Origin of compact exoplanetary systems during disk infall by Raluca Rufu, Robin M. Canup

“…Abstract Exoplanetary systems that contain multiple planets on short-period orbits appear to be prevalent in the current observed exoplanetary population, yet the processes that give rise to such configurations remain poorly understood. …”
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EVALUATION OF APPLE ORCHARDS VIA THE EXPERT SYSTEM CROM by Daniela DANA, Irina-Adriana CHIURCIU, Valentina VOICU, Aurelia-Ioana CHEREJI, Ioan Jr. CHEREJI, Andreea-Roxana FIRATOIU

“…Although the cultivation of fruit trees is a traditional activity in Romania and our country has natural potential in this regard, both the cultivated area and the fruit production have decreased lately. That is why the NRDP 2014- 2020 included a sub-programme for this sector, with sub-measures to redress the field and successfully respond to current challenges, including the impact on the environment. …”
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Transformation of trading patterns in global agricultural markets by V. V. Stroev, E. N. Smirnov

“…The analysis of international trade is conducted in the context of the need to ensure food security and counteract various exogenous shocks (decreasing crop yields, escalating geopolitical conflicts, food crises). …”
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Bleomycin: A worthy alternative by Gursev Sandlas, Paras Kothari, Parag Karkera, Abhaya Gupta

“…Context: Lymphangiomas are developmental anomalies presenting mainly in the first two years of life. …”
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A comprehensive item bank of internal validity issues of relevance to in vitro toxicology studies by Gunn E. Vist, Heather M. R. Ames, Gro H. Mathisen, Trine Husøy, Camilla Svendsen, Anna Beronius, Emma Di Consiglio, Ingrid L. Druwe, Thomas Hartung, Sebastian Hoffmann, Carlijn R. Hooijmans, Kyriaki Machera, Pilar Prieto, Joshua F. Robinson, Erwin Roggen, Andrew A. Rooney, Nicolas Roth, Eliana Spilioti, Anastasia Spyropoulou, Olga Tcheremenskaia, Emanuela Testai, Mathieu Vinken, Paul Whaley

“…Context In vitro toxicology studies are increasingly being included as evidence in systematic reviews and chemical risk assessments. …”
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Enhanced recovery pathway for older people with hip fracture and cognitive impairment in acute hospitals: the PERFECTED research programme including an RCT by Chris Fox, Simon P Hammond, Lee Shepstone, Fiona Poland, Catherine Henderson, Tamara Backhouse, Bridget Penhale, Simon Donell, Martin Knapp, Douglas Lewins, Alasdair MacLullich, Martyn Patel, Opinder Sahota, Toby O Smith, Justin Waring, Jane L Cross

“…We collected front-line national and international healthcare professional perspectives on best practice, current practice and explanations for implementation gaps between ‘best’ and ‘current’ practice (WP1, phase 2). …”
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Experimental study on tensile performance of horizontal joint bolted connections in fully assembled modular construction reinforced concrete by RAN Mingming, KOU Guangyun, XIONG Feng, ZHANG Dongdong, LI Wei

“…In Mode IV, when the load was increased to 134.2 kN, abrupt fracture failure of the concrete at the cross-section above the operating hand-hole of the specimen was observed, with limited cracking. …”
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Drug Delivery Implants in the Treatment of Vitreous Inflammation by Jillian Wang, Angela Jiang, Malav Joshi, John Christoforidis

“…Implants currently on the market or undergoing clinical trials include those made of nonbiodegradable polymers, containing ganciclovir, fluocinolone acetonide, triamcinolone acetonide, and ranibizumab, and biodegradable polymers, containing dexamethasone, triamcinolone acetonide, and ranibizumab. …”
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Comparative abundance and diversity of populations of the Pseudomonas syringae and Soft Rot Pectobacteriaceae species complexes throughout the Durance River catchment from its Fren... by Morris, C.E., Lacroix, C., Chandeysson, C., Guilbaud, C., Monteil, C., Piry, S., Rochelle Newall, E., Fiorini, S., Van Gijsegem, F., Barny, M.A., Berge, O.

“…The dynamics of human and animal pathogens in catchments have been widely studied in a large variety of contexts allowing the optimization of disease risk reduction. …”
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Carbon Emission of Garden Pavement by Peiyong WANG, Ruixing LU

“…In the field of landscape architecture, a large amount of practical research has been carried out in the two aspects of enhancing urban resilience and reducing emissions and increasing sinks, both of which mainly focus on the qualitative research on study of the carbon footprints of landscape plants, soils, water bodies, green infrastructures, and green spaces over their entire life cycle. …”
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Multimorbidity combinations, costs of hospital care and potentially preventable emergency admissions in England: A cohort study. by Jonathan Stokes, Bruce Guthrie, Stewart W Mercer, Nigel Rice, Matt Sutton

“…<h4>Background</h4>Patients with multimorbidities have the greatest healthcare needs and generate the highest expenditure in the health system. There is an increasing focus on identifying specific disease combinations for addressing poor outcomes. …”
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Properties of Raw Saudi Arabian Grey Kaolin Studied by Pyrrole Adsorption and Catalytic Conversion of Methylbutynol by Murad Alsawalha, Elaref Ratemi

“…This current article demonstrates how X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) was employed to reveal the major constituents of a sample of natural grey Saudi kaolin. …”
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Enhancing Acanthamoeba diagnostics: rapid detection of viable Acanthamoeba trophozoites and cysts using viability PCR assay by J. M. J. Veugen, P. H. M. Savelkoul, R. M. M. A. Nuijts, M. M. Dickman, P. F. G. Wolffs

“…Mixtures with decreasing concentrations of viable Acanthamoeba trophozoites and cysts showed increasingly lower delta Ct values as the percentage of viable Acanthamoeba decreased, as expected. …”
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Removal of Cr(VI) ions from waste water by electrocoagulation using iron electrode by Yehia A. El-Taweel, Ehssan M. Nassef, Iman Elkheriany, Doaa Sayed

“…The helical shape in the nuts increases the anode surface area allowing high chromium removal rate within very short coagulation time. …”
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Characterization of the Power Distribution Network for Commercialized STM32s Using a Resonance Frequency Measurement Method by Marie Peyrard, Gilles Jacquemod, Nicolas Froidevaux

“…The present tendency of increasing current density and operating frequency, along with decreasing operating voltage, significantly diminishes voltage margins. …”
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Assessment of genotoxic and mutagenic effects of food products by bioassay methods by M. V. Zaytseva

“…The current state of studies on application and safety of food additives in various technologies for food production is examined. …”
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