EVALUATING THREATS OF ARMED BANDITRY ON HUMAN AND FOOD SECURITY IN SHIRORO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NIGER STATE, NIGERIA by DR MUSA EMMANUEL UMARU, DR ALIYU MOHAMMED BELLO, DR CHARLES O. OKWUWA

“…This involves providing advanced detection equipment in the forested lands of the study area to effectively address the prevailing challenges. …”
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The Concept of “Homeland” in the Kalmyk Language (based on lexicographic and folklore material) by Galina B. Esenova, Tamara S. Esenova

“…Enkr chazr-usn ‘dear motherland’, eedzh-aavin nutg ‘mother-father’s nutg’ is the highest value of the Kalmyk (törl ek met), and is presented as ‘his space’ (evrä hazr-usn), opposed to ‘foreign land’ (khärin hazr). The postulates of behavior regarding the homeland: to cherish and love the homeland, to give one’s life for the homeland, to return to the homeland, to know its customs. …”
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Modeling compositional heterogeneity resolves deep phylogeny of flowering plants by Yongli Wang, Yan-Da Li, Shuo Wang, Erik Tihelka, Michael S. Engel, Chenyang Cai

“…Angiosperms experienced one of the most remarkable radiations of land plants and are now the dominant autotrophs in terrestrial ecosystems. …”
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Accidents and injuries related to paragliding on mount Babadağ, Turkey: A cross-sectional study by Ömer Faruk Karakoyun, Yalcin Golcuk

“…Most of the accidents occurred during take off and landing, but the deadliest phase was during flight. …”
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A 20 m spatial resolution peatland extent map of Alaska by Mark J. Lara, Roger Michaelides, Duncan Anderson, Wenqu Chen, Emma C. Hall, Caroline Ludden, Aiden I. G. Schore, Umakant Mishra, Sarah N. Scott

“…Statewide peatland mapping (overall agreement:85%) identified peatlands to cover 4.6, 10.4, and 5.3% of polar, boreal, and maritime ecoregions, respectively, and 7.3% of the total terrestrial land area. This new dataset will improve the representation of peatland carbon, nutrient, and fire dynamics across Alaska.…”
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THE REAL-TIME WATER DISCHARGE COMPUTATION IN THE CONDITIONS OF UNSTEADY FLOW (THE YANA RIVER IN THE VERKHOYANSK GAGING SECTION AS A STUDY CASE) by Yulia V. Izyurova

“…The daily real-time water discharges calculated in two ways were compared with the daily water discharges published in the reference books of the water cadaster «Daily data on the regime and resources of land surface waters». As a result, it was found that both methods can be used for automated real-time water discharge computation in conditions of unsteady flow.…”

Stakeholder’s resource mobilization and sustainability of government funded agricultural projects in Uganda: A case study of potato projects in Kabale District by moses Agaba

“…The study recommends putting greater attention on implementing stakeholder resource mobilization by defining the provision of capital, human resources, and availability of land in order to assure the sustainability of potato projects.…”
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Diet quality of Chilean schoolchildren: How is it linked to adherence to dietary guidelines? by Anna Christina Pinheiro Fernandes, Jacqueline Araneda Flores, Daiana Quintiliano Scarpelli Dourado, Tito Pizarro Quevedo, Maria Rita Marques de Oliveira

“…Consuming some sub-groups of HPF in moderate quantities (either no consumption or occasional consumption) increases the likelihood of meeting DGBF: candies and sweets (OR: 0.72; p = 0.04), pies with or without filling (OR: 0.63; p = 0.01), and salted snacks (OR: 0.67; p = 0.02).…”
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People’s knowledge, attitudes, and conflicts with carnivores in central hills, Sri Lanka by Ashan Thudugala, Hem Bahadur Katuwal, Nalindra Laxman, Vishwa Dushmantha, Ravindi Menikrama, Harsha Dissanayake, Chameera Dilshan, Ru-Chuan He, Rui-Chang Quan

“…To address these gaps, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 303 households around Dhunumadalwa Forest Reserve, Kandy, Central Sri Lanka in 2023. Our goal was to explore people's knowledge—specifically their ability to identify carnivore species and understand environmental laws—alongside their attitudes and experiences with human-carnivore conflicts. …”
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Experimental study on the impact of perpendicular and parallel bedding planes on the physical and geomechanical characteristics of carbonate rocks by Ahmed K. Abd El-Aal, Ahmed E. Radwan, Jabir Hussain, Mahrous A. M. Ali

“…Petrography revealed a total of 4 lithofacies of dolosparite, dolomicrite, foraminiferal wackestone (FW), and foraminiferal grainstone/packstone (GMF) in the Khoman Formation, and three microfacies of vuggy dolostone, sandy dolostone, and marly dolostone in both of El-Heiz and Ain Giffara formations. …”
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L’Église catholique face aux États et la liberté religieuse by Bernard Pottier

“…En 494, une lettre du pape Gélase Ier exprime un bel équilibre, tandis qu’une bulle de Boniface VIII en 1302 affirme l’autorité romaine dans toute sa splendeur. …”
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Evaluasi Usability pada Website Monitoring Kebakaran Hutan Menggunakan Metode Webuse by Helen Sasty Pratiwi, Haried Novriando

“…As a form of anticipation and prevention, the community and the government monitored forest and land fires through the SIPONGI application and the Fire Hotspot. …”
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The Malayan Landscape Paintings by Sarena Abdullah, Yuen Beng Lee

“… Landscape paintings were one of the earliest visual art renditions of the Malay land in Malaysia. Traveller artists who arrived in Malaya and Singapore during the 18th and 19th centuries illustrated various subject matters that they observed. …”
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The Malayan Landscape Paintings by Sarena Abdullah, Yuen Beng Lee

“… Landscape paintings were one of the earliest visual art renditions of the Malay land in Malaysia. Traveller artists who arrived in Malaya and Singapore during the 18th and 19th centuries illustrated various subject matters that they observed. …”
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Policies and Strategies for Green Tourism Development of the Jeneberang River Area in Makassar City by Faisal Faisal

“…The potential it has consists of the natural base potential as one of the largest rivers in South Sulawesi province in the form of water and all the biota that form a single river ecosystem, panoramic views of the area located at the estuary, which is directly connected to the sea in the Makassar Strait, richness of land vegetation along the banks, rivers in river border areas, and beaches. …”
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Multispecies occupancy models unravel reduced colonization probabilities in plants from the unique Amazonian cangas by Rafael de Fraga, Luiz Gustavo Rodrigues Oliveira Santos, Valeria da Cunha Tavares, Leonardo Carreira Trevelin, Maurício Takashi Coutinho Watanabe, Leandro Maioli, Samir Rolim, Carolina da Silva Carvalho

“…We used a set of 22 plant species distributed in a globally unique ecosystem, the eastern Amazonian mosaics of forests, iron-rich open “cangas” and iron mine lands, as a model to test whether dynamic multispecies occupancy models can be used to assess population decline. …”
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ILLEGAL TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION AND ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFICKING IN NIGERIA by Aondowase Targba

“…There should be perimeter fencing along Nigeria's land border lines with Niger Republic, Chad, Benin Republic, and Cameroon to make border policing more easily. …”
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Endovascular intervention in patients with blunt traumatic thoracic aortic injury: Early results by Hasan Toz, Yusuf Kuserli, Gulsum Turkyilmaz, Saygin Turkyilmaz, Ali Aycan Kavala

“…No statistically significant difference was found between patients regarding the locations of the landing zones (p>0.05). Conclusion: Early outcomes in selected patients demonstrate high survival rates following TEVAR for trauma-induced Type B dissections. …”
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Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants in Metema and Quara districts, Northwestern Ethiopia by Daniel Tadesse, Getinet Masresha, Ermias Lulekal, Asmamaw Alemu

“…The main threats to WEPs availability were agricultural land expansion, fuelwood harvest, and construction use. …”
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EFFECT OF CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE ON WATER CONSUMPTION OF BARLEY AND MUNGBEAN IN GYPSIFEROUS DESERT SOIL by Mohammed A. M. AL-Rawi, Mohammed H. Bahia

“…The experiment was carried out on abandoned land, so the covering (straw) was added when planting barley, and then the barley residual was kept when planting Mung bean. …”
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