A methodology for evaluating land suitability for medicinal plants at a regional level by Marco Barbaro, Alvaro Rocca, Francesco Danuso

“…The structure of the evaluation model can be easily adapted to consider more detailed land information like climate and soil. …”
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Area and isolation influence on bird diversity in Eucalyptus plantations: An island biogeography perspective by José A. Oddi, Aldana M. Ariza, Julieta Filloy

“…Isolation from natural forests led to more functionally redundant bird assemblages in Eucalyptus plantations.…”
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Label-free optical biosensors in the pandemic era by Nava Giovanni, Zanchetta Giuliano, Giavazzi Fabio, Buscaglia Marco

“…The availability of a new generation of analytical tools enabling a more accurate understanding of bio-molecular processes or the development of distributed diagnostic devices with improved performance is now in greater demand and more clearly envisioned, but not yet achieved. …”
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Toward the Human Scale in Smart Cities: Exploring the Role of Active Mobility in Ecosystemic Urbanism by Froylán Correa, Miguel Bartorila, Mónica Ribeiro-Palacios, Gerardo I. Pérez-Soto, Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz

“…Active Mobility (AM) currently presents an opportunity to change the paradigm of the competitive and dispersed city created by motorized mobility, revaluing the role of walking and cycling in generating more sustainable urban ecosystems. This article addresses the challenges and opportunities for AM to contribute to the regeneration of urban systems and the capacity for anticipation. …”
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Innovation Ecosystem of Iran's Tourism Industry with Emphasis on Supply Chain by Azizolah Jafari, mahdi alaei kerahrudi

“…In the mentioned towers, the variety of shapes and forms in the facade was present both in the facade itself and compared to other towers around, they had different and more varied shapes and forms. The surrounding towers generally had simple and cubic shapes, and common and simple attachments were also available as facade elements in some of them. 5. …”
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Forecasting habitat suitability across large carnivore ranges with climate and land use change by Evie M. Jones, Nyeema C. Harris

“…Changes in habitat suitability were generally more dramatic under SSP5-8.5 scenarios, where high fossil fuel usage is expected. …”
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Analytical expression for approximation of the friction force of the vibration protection mechanism of the operator’s seat by Korytov M.S., Sherbakov V.S., Kashapova I.E.

“…Accounting for the friction force in mathematical models is often performed using a coefficient, according to the viscous friction model. In more complex models, it is common to use a well-known expression in which the functions of the exponent and hyperbolic tangent are present, and the independent parameters are the Coulomb and separation friction forces, the separation friction rate, and the coefficient of viscous friction. …”
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Stochastic blockmodeling of the modules and core of the Caenorhabditis elegans connectome. by Dragana M Pavlovic, Petra E Vértes, Edward T Bullmore, William R Schafer, Thomas E Nichols

“…Here, we estimate a community structure with a stochastic blockmodel approach, the Erdős-Rényi Mixture Model, and compare it to the much more widely used deterministic methods, such as the Louvain and Spectral algorithms. …”
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Disputed aspects of the reputation management implementation by Vitaliy Shkromyda

“…The key factor in this success is the company’s impeccable corporate reputation, the importance and role of which is more and more attested by the researchers in their publications, both on the theoretical and practical levels. …”
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Children’s Headache Through Drawings: A Narrative Review and a Portrait Gallery by Floriana Ferro, Caterina Gaspari, Giulia Manfrè, Federica Cernigliaro, Daniela D’Agnano, Ruben Panzica, Edvige Correnti, Maria Rosita Ruta, Francesca Marchese, Renata Pitino, Mariarita Capizzi, Giuseppe Santangelo, Antonella Versace, Vittorio Sciruicchio, Vincenzo Raieli

“…This tool provides unique access to children’s psychological and emotional states, as a direct window into their inner world and as an expressive medium that often generates more detailed, accurate, and clinically actionable information, compared to verbal reports alone. …”
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Matching Trees to Streets by Street Type: A Case Study of Street Tree Suitability and Services in a Highly Urbanized City by Heejung Nam, Seunghyun Hong, Dohyuk Im, Ayun Maeng, Sunmi Je, Wanmo Kang, Hanna Chang

“…Overall, appropriate street trees generally provided higher service efficiency compared to non-appropriate trees across four ecosystem regulating services. …”
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Understanding the effectiveness and underlying mechanisms of lifestyle modification interventions in adults with learning disabilities: a mixed-methods systematic review by Dikshyanta Rana, Sophie Westrop, Nishant Jaiswal, Evi Germeni, Arlene McGarty, Louisa Ells, Phillippa Lally, Michael McEwan, Craig Melville, Leanne Harris, Olivia Wu

“…These interventions targeted anthropometric, behavioural, cardiorespiratory, functional, cognitive, food and nutrition, physical activity and sedentary behaviour-related, psychosocial, quality of life and general health outcomes. …”
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A study on toxicity, local irritative effect of and allergic response to a novel intranasal medication containing N-phenylacetyl-L-prolylglycine ethyl ester by B. S. Burlaka, I. F. Bielenichev

“…These conditions lead to impairment of mnestic and intellectual brain functions, to a decrease in mental alertness and memory in particular, which results in deterioration in the quality of life, sometimes in disability and patients’ partial or complete dependence on other people. …”
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Factors affecting the design of the management dashboard framework with an emphasis on the components of human resources productivity by Hassan Barmaki, Farshad Faezy Razi, Ehtesham Rashidi

“…It collects information gathered from all departments of the organization, which contains various sources related to various business functions. This information is combined and replicated by providing a user interface in the form of graphs, reports, visual indicators and alerting mechanisms. …”
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Orchard-Wide Visual Perception and Autonomous Operation of Fruit Picking Robots: A Review by CHEN Mingyou, LUO Lufeng, LIU Wei, WEI Huiling, WANG Jinhai, LU Qinghua, LUO Shaoming

“…Multi-view information fusion tackles the issue of occlusions by combining data from multiple cameras and sensors around the robot, providing a more comprehensive view of the environment and enabling more reliable sensing. …”
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Green-Synthesized Ag and ZnO Nanoparticles using Cassia fistula Leaf Extract: Biocompatibility and Growth Response in Early Plant Development by A.h.m. Maniruzzaman Rabbani, Syeda Nyema Jannat, Md. Shahed Al Shishir, Md. Shaheen Alam, Atiqur Rahman, Md. Shohidul Alam

“…The Cassia fistula-mediated synthesis presents a sustainable, biocompatible route for generating functional nanoparticles capable of influencing early plant development. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Pressure Platform and Insole Devices for Plantar Pressure Assessment by Catarina M. Amaro, Maria F. Paulino, Sara Valvez, Luis Roseiro, Maria António Castro, Ana M. Amaro

“…Foot plantar pressure refers to the pressure or force that the foot generates in contact with the ground, varying across different regions of the foot. …”
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Design and Application of Bidirectional Converter Based on DAB for Hydrogen Energy Dual-source Locomotive by LUO Pan, RAO Peinan, ZHOU Fengwu, ZHANG Xiaoyong, ZHOU Shuai, ZHANG Qing

“…Compared with traditional diesel locomotive and electric locomotive, hydrogen energy dual source locomotive uses hydrogen fuel cell for power supply, which is not only safer and more environmentally friendly, but also has low operating noise, low cost and more convenient maintenance. …”
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Potential ecological risk and accumulation of heavy metal(loid)s in soils of Macao in China as a non-industrial and tourist City by Yao Ma, Boran Shao, Wenjun Li, Ying Li, Yang Wu, Ni Xiong, Bingzheng Zhou, Yibing Ma

“…Cr, Cd, Zn, and Hg occur more frequently in the lower concentration ranges than the other heavy metal(loid)s and generally show decreasing trends. …”
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Choosing therapeutic tactics in pregnant women with chronic arterial hypertension: the priorities by N. G. Pivonova, I. V. Fomin

“…Higher BP levels were generally  associated with worse newborns’ functional status and lower mean body weight; however, in Group II, this association  was not observed. …”
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