Design Considerations for a Florida-Friendly Demonstration Landscape: A Case Study for Student and Extension Volunteer Involvement by Gail Hansen, Brian Niemann

“…Landscape design students in the Environmental Horticulture Department at the University of Florida participated in the planning and design of the landscape for a new professional development center on the university campus. Such large-scale projects provide a unique experiential learning activity for students and volunteers in landscape design and horticulture programs. …”
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Design Considerations for a Florida-Friendly Demonstration Landscape: A Case Study for Student and Extension Volunteer Involvement by Gail Hansen, Brian Niemann

“…Landscape design students in the Environmental Horticulture Department at the University of Florida participated in the planning and design of the landscape for a new professional development center on the university campus. Such large-scale projects provide a unique experiential learning activity for students and volunteers in landscape design and horticulture programs. …”
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Comparison of Low-Pass Filters for SPECT Imaging by Inayatullah S. Sayed, Siti S. Ismail

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DEVELOPING INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCE OF PROSPECTIVE MILITARY SAILORS by Ruslan Shevchenko, Oleh Cherniavskyi, Vasyl Shemchuk, Olena Zlobina, Natalia Benkovska, Nataliia Terentieva, Андрій Гуралюк

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ReLTER: An R interface for environmental observation in long term ecological research by Alessandro Oggioni, Micha Silver, Paolo Tagliolato, Arnon Karnieli

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A new experimental set-up for aerosol stability investigations in microgravity conditions by Graziani, Charles, Nespoulous, Mathieu, Denoyel, Renaud, Fauve, Stephan, Chauveau, Christian, Deike, Luc, Antoni, Mickaël

“…This work is part of the AEROSOL project of DECLIC-EVO supported by CNES and aims to help the understanding of cloud microphysics which remains a critical open problem in the context of global warming.…”
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Impact of Strontium and Krypton Release from Ghana’s MNSR following a Conjectural Accident Scenario by S. A. Birikorang, R. G. Abrefah, H. K. Obeng, K. Gyamfi

“…This paper provides a comprehensive insight report on an account of a research investigation carried out in addressing a radiological safety issue of Ghana’s Miniature Neutron Source Reactor (MNSR) during its core conversion project. The amounts of Strontium-90 (Sr-90) and Krypton-85 (Kr-85) effluents presumably released from the reactor hall to the surroundings and the consequential emission radiation to the working area within a 200 m radius were analyzed for a six-month working period. …”
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Repayment of the Public Debt — Financial Leeway by Changing the Repayment Plan at the Expense of Future Generations by Michael Broer

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Construction Control Technology and Monitoring Analysis of Walking Incremental Launching Construction of Small-Curvature Steel Box Girder Bridges Across Expressways by Hai Huang, Xiaomin Xue, Haitao Ma, Zhijun Zhou, Jianbo Dou, Heng Yang, Erwei Guo, Jianjun Ma

“…As urban areas keep growing, there are higher requirements for the carrying capacity of traffic operations, and there are more and more curve incremental launching projects with complex construction conditions. This paper builds upon the walking incremental launching project of a small-curvature steel box girder in Xuchang City and has developed a detailed construction method and monitoring technology. …”
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Study on Change of Landscape Pattern Characteristics of Comprehensive Land Improvement Based on Optimal Spatial Scale by Baoping Feng, Hui Yang, Yarong Ren, Shanshan Zheng, Genxiang Feng, Yuwei Huang

“…Comprehensive land improvement causes strong disturbances of land use patterns in the short term, resulting in changes in landscape structure and function. …”
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Hybrid stochastic and robust optimization of a hybrid system with fuel cell for building electrification using an improved arithmetic optimization algorithm by Fude Duan, Mahdiyeh Eslami, Mustafa Okati, Dheyaa J. Jasim, Arsalan Khadim Mahmood

“…The hybrid framework integrates the strengths of UT for scenario generation and IGDT-RA (hybrid UT-IGDT-RA) for optimizing the system robustness and maximum uncertainty radius (MRU) of building energy demand and renewable resource generation. …”
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Educational Potential of Cities – Russian University Centers as a Factor of Increasing Their Competitiveness by T. F. Kreydenko, M. D. Petrovic, V. N. Kholina

“…The implementation of educational potential of the most sustainable competitive university centers was separately analyzed in the context of the strategy of internationalization and export of education.National project “Science and Universities” aimed at formation of 100 universities as centers of scientific, technological and socio-economic development by 2030, as well as the program for the construction of 25 world-level modern campuses increase attention to cities as centers of localization of higher education, their educational potential, and, ultimately, their competitiveness.The scientific importance of the research is the development of methodological approaches to assessing the educational potential of cities – university centers and its testing on the example of 1208 universities located in 306 cities of 84 regions of Russia. …”
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Parental singing during kangaroo care: parents' experiences of singing to their preterm infant in the NICU by Pernilla Hugoson, Friederike Barbara Haslbeck, Ulrika Ådén, Ulrika Ådén, Ulrika Ådén, Louise Eulau, Louise Eulau

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Research on the Temperature Field and Frost Heaving Law of Massive Freezing Engineering in Coastal Strata by Chaochao Zhang, Dongwei Li, Junhao Chen, Guanren Chen, Chang Yuan, Zecheng Wang, Guosheng Ding, Xin Chen, Minghai Xia, Shengfu Wang, Bo Zhang, Ru He, Xin Yi

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Methodological Accounting of the Ecosystem Services Benefits of Community-based Restoration by Sony Baral, Aayoush Raj Regmi, Khagendra P. Joshi, Kishor Atreya

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Low-Complexity User Selection for Rate Maximization in MIMO Broadcast Channels with Downlink Beamforming by Eduardo Castañeda, Adão Silva, Ramiro Samano-Robles, Atílio Gameiro

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Le développement expérimental en situation de projet by Stéphane Berthier

“…This article seeks to explore this notion of applied experimental development within architecture through the examination of three detailed projects from Lipsky + Rollet’s agency which are: Student housing on Troyes campus, the Indian House at La Cité Universitaire de Paris, and the “Positive Habitat” competition in Bologne. …”
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Quantifying Baryonic Feedback on the Warm–Hot Circumgalactic Medium in CAMELS Simulations by Isabel Medlock, Chloe Neufeld, Daisuke Nagai, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Shy Genel, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, Xavier Sims, Priyanka Singh, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

“…We find that while IllustrisTNG shows higher cumulative feedback energy across all halos, SIMBA demonstrates a greater spread of baryons, quantified by the closure radius and circumgalactic medium (CGM) gas fraction. …”
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mbctools: A User-Friendly Metabarcoding and Cross-Platform Pipeline for Analyzing Multiple Amplicon Sequencing Data across a Large Diversity of Organisms by Barnabé, Christian, Sempéré, Guilhem, Manzanilla, Vincent, Millan, Joel Moo, Amblard-Rambert, Antoine, Waleckx, Etienne

“…To adapt to the diversity of projects in metabarcoding, we facilitate the reprocessing of datasets with the possibility to adjust parameters. mbctools can also be launched in a headless mode, making it suited for integration into pipelines running on High-Performance Computing environments. mbctools is available at https://github.com/GuilhemSempere/mbctools, https://pypi.org/project/mbctools/.…”
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The Facial Approximation of the Skull Attributed to Jan Žižka (ca. AD 1360–1424) by Cicero Moraes, Johari Yap Abdullah, Jiri Šindelář, Matěj Šindelář, Zuzana Thomová, Jakub Smrčka, Mauro Vaccarezza, Thiago Beaini, Francesco Maria Galassi

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