Social welfare in the Greco-Roman world as a background for early Christian practice by P. Lampe

“…Various social-welfare tasks are touched upon – health care; care for the elderly, widows, orphans and invalids; the patron-client system as countermeasure to unemployment; distribution of land, grain, meals and money; alms, donations, foundations as well as education – with hardly any one of them being especially tailored to the poor. …”
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Intravenous leiomyomatosis presenting as Budd–Chiari syndrome: a case report and literature review by Jingwen Gan, Xiao Ma, Jiang Shao, Jinhui Wang, Dongyan Cao

“…Method We described the case of a 49-year-old lady, exhibiting features of BCS secondary to IVL, and reviewed three other previous cases of BCS caused by IVL. …”
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Matka naszego Pana czy Królowa Męczenników by Wojciech Życiński

“…The insertion of Our Lady’s Queenship into the context of the kingly office of the People of God, while not detaching the person of Mary from the ecclesial community, help us to understand the meaning of Marian Queenship and its challenges for contemporary Christians. …”
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Field Observations During the Eighth Microwave Water and Energy Balance Experiment (MicroWEX-8): from June 16 through August 24, 2009 by Tara Bongiovanni, Heather Enos, Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero, Blaire Colvin, Karthik Nagarajan, Jasmeet Judge, Pang-Wei Liu, Juan Fernandez-Diaz, Roger De Roo, Yuriy Goykhman, Xueyang Duan, Daniel Preston, Ramesh Shrestha, Clint Slatton, Mahta Moghaddam, Anthony England

“… In order to really accurately predict weather and near-term climate, it is necessary to take into consideration soil moisture in the top meter of soil: it governs moisture and energy fluxes at the land-atmosphere interface, and it plays a significant role in partitioning of the precipitation into runoff and infiltration. …”
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A Synopsis of Corruption in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic by Benjamin Terzungwe Tough, Esther Anenge Gbaden

“…The paper concludes that Nigeria’s prosperity has been greatly hampered by extraordinary and massive corruption in the land so that there is a huge deficit in national progress, development and welfare of the citizens. …”
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Coastal moderation of Holocene fire and vegetation change on the Pacific coast of Canada by Maggie E. Duncan, Marlow G. Pellatt, Marlow G. Pellatt, Karen E. Kohfeld, Karen E. Kohfeld

“…In the coming century, climate variability is projected to increase in Northeast Pacific coastal areas, increasing the need for land managers to understand how ecosystems are expected to change in response to new or enhanced disturbances. …”
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Irrigation Management of HLB-Affected Trees by Davie Mayeso Kadyampakeni, Kelly T. Morgan, Mongi Zekri, Rhuanito Ferrarezi, Arnold W. Schumann

“… Water is a limiting factor in Florida citrus production during the majority of the year because of the low water holding capacity of sandy soils resulting from low clay and the non-uniform distribution of the rainfall. …”
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Citrus Irrigation Management by Davie Mayeso Kadyampakeni, Kelly T. Morgan, Mongi Zekri, Rhuanito Ferrarezi, Arnold Schumann, Thomas A. Obreza

“… Water is a limiting factor in Florida citrus production during the majority of the year because of the low water holding capacity of sandy soils resulting from low clay and the non-uniform distribution of the rainfall. …”
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GIS-based modeling and analytical approaches for groundwater quality suitability for different purposes in the Egyptian Nile Valley, a case study in Wadi Qena by Hanaa A. Megahed, Abd El-Hay A. Farrag, Amira A. Mohamed, Mahmoud H. Darwish, Mohamed A. E. AbdelRahman, Heba El-Bagoury, Paola D’Antonio, Antonio Scopa, Mansour A. A. Saad

“…At the same time, the need for water increases due to population growth, industrial development and the cultivation of desert land. The country depends significantly on its water supply on the groundwater. …”
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Segmentasi Pertumbuhan Padi berbasis Aerial Image menggunakan Fitur Warna dan Tekstur untuk Estimasi Produksi Hasil Panen by Muhammad Jainal Arifin, Achmad Basuki, Bima Sena Bayu Dewantara

“…This will also affect crop yields. The extent of land makes it difficult for farmers to monitor the unreachable part. …”
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Anaerobic Digesters for Manure Management at Livestock Operations by Rishi Prasad, George Hochmuth, Ann C. Wilkie

“…Stabilization of manure is important prior to successfully recycling the organic material back to arable lands. Methods for stabilizing livestock wastes include composting, aerobic digestion, anaerobic digestion, lime stabilization, and heat drying. …”
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Tourism commodification and privatization of nature: private protected areas in the Serra de Tramuntana (Mallorca) by Nora Müller, Robert Fletcher, Macià Blázquez Salom

“…PPAs are accused of reproducing social inequalities when entailing enclosure, exclusivity, land grabbing or dispossession. Yet PPAs exist in many different forms that enact these various processes in different ways. …”
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Class-aware feature attention-based semantic segmentation on hyperspectral images. by Prabu Sevugan, Venkatesan Rudhrakoti, Tai-Hoon Kim, Megala Gunasekaran, Swarnalatha Purushotham, Ravikumar Chinthaginjala, Irfan Ahmad, Kumar A

“…It enhances precision in delineating distinct land cover patterns. The findings from the experiments demonstrate that FAttNet exhibits superior performance compared to established semantic segmentation networks commonly used. …”
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Respon Beberapa Varietas Padi Terhadap Serangan Fusarium fujikuroi Penyebab Penyakit Bakanae by Darnetty Darnetty, Eri Sulyanti

“…Level of bakanae disease attack on some rice cultivation land in West Sumatra, especially in Padang Pariaman district is quite high. …”
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Planning for Recreational Waterway Access in Rural Coastal Settings by Corina Guevara, Charles Sidman, Robert Swett, Alan Hodges

“… Increasing demand for waterfront land throughout the United States is a long-term trend with a profound impact on the public's ability to access coasts and waterways for recreation. …”
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Attachment of live sharksuckers (Echeneis naucrates) to Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in Xiamen Bay, China by Fuxing Wu, Fuxing Wu, Bing Zhou, Bing Zhou, Hao Wu, Yufei Dai, Yu Zhang, Zhongchang Song

“…Specifically, we observed a live sharksucker temporarily detaching from the body of an Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin when the dolphin cleared its body out of the water and landed on one side multiple times. This reaction of the live sharksucker could be an adaptive characteristic to cope with the side breach behavior of their cetacean hosts. …”
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Pantropical Jumping Spiders in Florida by Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.

“…Their sense of sight is extraordinary for invertebrates; they can see in color (DeVoe 1975), and the large front eyes focus on objects (Land 1972). Many are marked with contrasting colors or bands, especially the males who display this ornamentation while dancing before females to win acceptance for mating. …”
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The Role of Traditional Leadership in Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Seke Community, Zimbabwe by Blessing Hodzi

“…The study also indicates that food insecurity, infidelity, drug abuse, land ownership, and patriarchy are some of the drivers of GBV in the community. …”
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ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CONFLICT: A THREAT TO BENEVOLENT INTERGROUP RELATIONS IN WUKARI METROPOLIS, TARABA STATE, NIGERIA by Rosemary Onchi Daniel, Ajiyitu Bako

“…The findings reveal that ethno-religious conflicts in Wukari Metropolis are intense and centered around competition for limited resources such as land, political positions, economic resources, natural resources, and human resources. …”
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Identification of Soil and Water Conservation Technologies Used on Different Landscape Positions in Maziba Sub-catchment by Ndemere, Julius, Mary makokha, Tenywa Moses

“…Despite the technologies that have been introduced in Maziba sub-catchment, farmers have variations in technology acceptance due to over cultivation of land, population pressure, and deforestation that accelerate soil erosion. …”
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