CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY, POLITICAL DISTRUST AND AFRO-PESSIMISM IN NIGERIA POLITICS; THE FOURTH REPUBLIC IN FOCUS by LAMBE EMMANUEL OYEWOLE

“…Poor governance and "bad" politics in African countries as the personalized nature of rule, the failure of the state to advance and protect human rights, the tendency of individuals to withdraw from politics, and the extreme centralization of power in the hands of few people are the basis of the crisis of politics. …”
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A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Various Disinfectants for Extracted Human Teeth - A Comparative Study by Himanshu Srivastava, Sameera Mohd Rehman Qureshi, Chintu Kumar Singh, Santoshkumar Pandurang Mastud, Amit Handa, Manish Kumar Shukla

“…Conclusions: Extracted teeth should be handled with extreme care as these are a potential source of infection. …”
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Hyper-resolution naturalized streamflow data for Geum River in South Korea (1951–2020) by Byeong-Hee Kim, Young-Oh Kim, Jonghun Kam

“…Abstract Long-term streamflow data at a hyper-resolution (less than 1 km) is essential for hydroclimatic extreme and ecological assessment, which is not available over a river basin where rapid socioeconomic growth have been experienced. …”
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FARMER-HERDERS CONFLICTS IN NIGERIA: ITS CHALLENGES AND INTERVENTIONS by M.O. Mazeli, Binta Side

“…The fight for peace in the north-central states, the fight against social insecurity and conflicts, must comprise determined action against food security, poverty, inequality, injustice, and against the most extreme and most dependence-inducing form of poverty - being hungry, insecure of today's and tomorrow's food. …”
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Citrus Production Guide: Rootstock and Scion Selection by Ute Albrecht, Fernando Alferez, Mongi Zekri

“…Rootstocks affect scion vigor, yield, fruit size, juice quality, and pest tolerance. However, tree growth, yield, and fruit quality interact strongly with climate, soil type, tree spacing, and other factors, often producing contradictory reports on rootstock performance in different areas. …”
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My Pine Is Under Attack—What Should I Do? by Jiri Hulcr

“… This guide is intended to help tree owners and Extension personnel in Florida and the adjacent southeastern region make decisions about backyard pine trees that display signs of attack by wood borers. …”
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Aditivi u mazivnim uljima by Luka Mišković

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Environmental Stresses and Your Florida Lawn by Laurie Trenholm

“…These can include nutrient deficiency, salinity, temperature extremes, over- or under-watering, soil problems, and prolonged exposure to shade or traffic. …”
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Mental Images of Nurses with and without Patient with COVID-19: A Metaphor Study by Müjde Moran, Firdevs Ebru Özdemir, Zahide Gül Yazgi Demir, Mualla Yilmaz

“…It was determined that all of the metaphorical perceptions of the nurses regarding the “COVID-19 disease” were negative metaphoric perceptions, and the meanings of the metaphors that were seen as positive metaphors such as marriage, friend, life partner, love, hope under the emotions main theme, and relationship/moods sub-theme were negative when the content was examined. …”
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2019–2020 Florida Citrus Production Guide: Root Health Management by Evan G. Johnson, James H. Graham, Kelly T. Morgan

“… Developing and maintaining a healthy root system is important for establishment and long-term productivity of trees. Roots take up nutrients and water from the soil to transport them to the tree canopy (the leaves and fruit). …”
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Melaleuca Snout Beetle, Melaleuca Weevil (unofficial common names), Oxyops vitiosa (Pascoe) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by James P. Cuda, Susan A. Wineriter, Gary R. Buckingham, Ted D. Center, Kenneth T. Gioeli

“…Melaleuca, also known as the paper bark tree, cajeput, punk tree, or white bottlebrush tree, was introduced into Florida in the late 19th century but apparently failed to naturalize until 1906. …”
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Paraná Pine, Araucaria angustifolia: An Ancient-Looking Conifer for Modern Landscapes by Gary W. Knox

“…This tree once covered vast areas in southern Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. …”
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Biodiversity characteristics of large forest plots in Qinghai area of Qilian Mountain National Park by WANG Dinghui, SUONAN Cairang, YU Hongyan, DU Yangong

“…The Shannon-Wiener index was significantly influenced by tree height, species richness, and Simpson index. …”
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Solar Irradiance Prediction for Zaria Town Using Different Machine Learning Models by Ibrahim Abdulwahab, Sulaiman Haruna Sulaiman, Umar Musa, Ibrahim Abdullahi Shehu, Abdullahi Kakumi Musa, Ismaila Mahmud, Mohammed Musa, Abdullahi Abubakar, Abdulrahman Olaniyan

“…Four machine learning models (artificial neural network (ANN), decision tree (DT), random forest (RF), and gradient boost tree (GBT).) were used to predict and compare actual and anticipated solar radiation values. …”
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Modeling carbon dioxide emissions in power plants: a perspective on smart cities and low-carbon economy by Isa S. Qamber

“…CO2 emissions contribute significantly to global warming, leading to climate change and patterns of extreme weather. The data on CO2 emissions encompasses gases generated from burning fossil fuels, highlighting the importance of reducing reliance on these energy sources.…”
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The impact of war on animal welfare: the Imperial Japanese Navy’s manipulation of pigeon behavior in WW II by Cheng Peng, Zi-qi Luo, Lin-hui Guo, Yi-fei Zhu

“…To enable pigeons to support communications aboard moving warships, the IJN exposed these land-dwelling birds to maritime environments, training them to endure challenging conditions such as inclement weather, extreme temperatures, long-distance sea flights, and night-time navigation. …”
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Transplanckian censorship and the local swampland distance conjecture by Patrick Draper, Szilard Farkas

“…It is natural to ask whether there is a local version of the SDC: is it possible to construct local excitations in an EFT that sample extreme regions of moduli space? In many cases such excitations exhibit horizons or instabilities, suggesting that there are bounds on the size and structure of field excitations that can be achieved in EFT. …”
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Resilience enhancement strategy for distribution networks considering multiple flexibility resources collaboration by MA Canhao, CHEN Lijuan, WU Zhi

“…A simulation analysis is conducted on an improved actual power supply unit network in a certain area of Jiangsu province, and the results show that the proposed strategy can effectively reduce load losses and enhance the resilience of the distribution networks in extreme scenarios.…”
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND-BASED CONFLICT: THE IMPACT ON FOOD SECURITY IN NIGERIA by OGUIKE MIRIAM ADAEZE UJU

“…The adverse effect of climate change through drought, deforestation, flood, extreme weather condition, decline in soil texture, herders/farmers conflict, diseases and health issues, displacement, low human and physical capital, decrease in income, inequitable land distribution, poor infrastructure, etc, have caused poverty and food insecurity, etc. …”
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Representations of changing weather conditions and outdoor work in the Swedish media: Legitimization of a risk discourse. by Bo Nilsson, Jenny Lönnroth

“…The aim is also to describe and analyze how an identified risk discourse is legitimized in media representations of extreme weather and outdoor work. The study is based on a qualitative analysis of 72 articles in the Swedish media, available in the digital archive retriever.com (Mediearkivet). …”
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