Reframing the ‘South’: Divisions of the Globe and British Geographical Imaginations in the Victorian and Edwardian Era by Daniel Foliard

“…The world was not divided along a North/South division in the 19th century. Most atlases and general maps published in London or Edinburgh in the late nineteenth century represented the earth along a longitudinal divide. …”
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A Systematic Literature Review on the Investigation and Application of Vegetable Fibers in Textiles/Apparel and Future Research Agenda by Shuyang Li, Chris K. Y. Lo, Li Li

“…Future studies are expected to improve efficiency and automation, meanwhile decreasing the cost and environmental impact throughout the whole process chain of vegetable fibers.…”
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Community structure of the benthic macrofauna along the continental slope of Santos Basin and São Paulo plateau, SW Atlantic. by Rafael Bendayan de Moura, Adriana Galindo Dalto, Ilana de Azevedo Sallorenzo, Daniel Leite Moreira, Helena Passeri Lavrado

“…The South-Southeast regions concentrate the most well-mapped areas of the Brazilian continental margin regarding seafloor geomorphology and physical oceanography. …”
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Community structure of the benthic macrofauna along the continental slope of Santos Basin and São Paulo plateau, SW Atlantic. by Rafael Bendayan de Moura, Adriana Galindo Dalto, Ilana de Azevedo Sallorenzo, Daniel Leite Moreira, Helena Passeri Lavrado

“…The South-Southeast regions concentrate the most well-mapped areas of the Brazilian continental margin regarding seafloor geomorphology and physical oceanography. …”
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Investigating the risk sensitivity of landfill centers on the pollution of water-receiving sources in North Khorasan Province by Sadegh Partani, Asiye Noruzi

“…Introduction: Pollution of water-receiving sources in waste disposal sites is the most important risk of waste disposal on the environment. …”
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Competency-Based Approach in Teaching Сardiopulmonary Resuscitation by S. A. Perepelitsa

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Understanding the impact of covariates for trachoma prevalence prediction using geostatistical methods by Misaki Sasanami, Ibrahim Almou, Adam Nouhou Diori, Ana Bakhtiari, Nassirou Beidou, Donal Bisanzio, Sarah Boyd, Clara R. Burgert-Brucker, Abdou Amza, Katherine Gass, Boubacar Kadri, Fikreab Kebede, Michael P. Masika, Nicholas P. Olobio, Fikre Seife, Abdoul Salam Youssoufou Souley, Amsayaw Tefera, Amir B. Kello, Anthony W. Solomon, Emma M. Harding-Esch, Emanuele Giorgi

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Identification and characterization of the powdery mildew resistance in cultivated emmer wheat accession Lxd-682 via bulked segregant RNA sequencing by Jiatong Li, Ningning Yu, Nina Sun, Lige Geng, Yanmin Qie, Dongfeng Zhai, Yuxiang Wang, Linzhi Li, Xueqing Liu, Xusheng Sun, Jiangchun Wang, Ruishan Liu, Guantong Pan, Shengmao Zou, Guohao Han, Yuli Jin, Pengtao Ma

“…Utilizing and identifying resistance genes and elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying this resistance are the most effective and sustainable ways to fight this disease. …”
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Reliable unmanned aerial vehicle-based thermal infrared target detection method for monitoring Procapra przewalskii in Qinghai by Guoqing Zhang, Wei Luo, Yongxiang Zhao, Quanqin Shao, Lin Li, Keyu Mei, Guohong Li

“…Background-suppressed images can effectively minimize most background pixels, while regions with high vector values in optical flow–processed images indicate object positions. …”
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Agricultural land suitability analysis of Southern Punjab, Pakistan using analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) techniques by Sajjad Hussain, Wajid Nasim, Muhammad Mubeen, Shah Fahad, Aqil Tariq, Shankar Karuppannan, Saeed Alqadhi, Javed Mallick, Hussein Almohamad, Hazem Ghassan Abdo

“…The output is a comprehensive suitability map that identifies the most suitable areas for agriculture in Multan region. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variations in Human Activity Intensity Along the Qinghai–Tibet Railway and Analysis of Its Decoupling Process from Ecological Environment Quality Changes by Fengli Zou, Qingwu Hu, Lei Liao, Yuqi Liu, Haidong Li, Xujie Zhang

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Civil Nationalism through Criminal Legislation in Iran (Study of the Process of Activities Leading to the Legislation of Criminal Laws Supporting Ethnic-Religious Identities in Ira... by Hossein Mirmohammad Sadeghi, Alireza Gharaghani

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A Formulation–Process–Product Integrated Design Method for Accelerating Pharmaceutical Tablet Development via the High-Shear Wet Granulation and Tableting Route by Zichen Liang, Xuefang Tang, Liping Chen, Yifei Liu, Shuying Zhao, Xiao Ma, Gan Luo, Bing Xu

“…<b>Methods</b>: A combination of strategies, such as a material library, model-driven design (MDD), and simulation-supported solution generation, are used to manage the complexity of the multi-step development processes of HSWGT. The process model was developed at the intermediate level by incorporating dimensionless parameters from the wet granulation regime map approach into the process of the partial least square (PLS) model. …”
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Research on the Movement Patterns of Bed-load Streaky Structure Transport and the Mechanism of Fluid-solid Coupling by YAO Jiateng, XIE Xiaoxi, WANG Hao, ZHAO Lin, XIE Haonan, ZHEN Rongtian

“…These bed surface structures once formed, exert a profound influence on the sediment transport process and the coherent structures of the water flows, indicating a reciprocal and intricate relationship. …”
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From literature to biodiversity data: mining arthropod organismal traits with machine learning by Joseph Cornelius, Harald Detering, Oscar Lithgow-Serrano, Donat Agosti, Fabio Rinaldi, Robert Waterhouse

“…Here, we explore the potential of these methods to annotate and extract organismal trait data for the most diverse animal group on Earth, the arthropods. …”
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A Novel Geometry Agnostic Delay and Doppler Tracking Technique for GNSS-Reflectometry: Application to the GNOS-II Payload Onboard the FY-3E by Changyang Wang, Adriano Camps, Xiuqing Hu, Hyuk Park, Kegen Yu, Xiaochun Zhai, Wenqiang Lu, Feixiong Huang, Mi Liao, Peng Zhang, Nanshan Zheng, Kefei Zhang, Zhongmin Ma

“…Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) uses GNSS signals as signals of opportunity as a multistatic radar. Most GNSS-R instruments conduct 1 ms coherent integration, followed by 500 or 1000 incoherent averages, leading to level-1 products [delay Doppler map (DDM)]. …”
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Gypsum Factory Site Selection in Qom Province using Different Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods and Remote Sensing Techniques by Fahimeh Akbari, Afsaneh Afzali, Maliheh Abbaszadeh

“…Then the criteria were weighted using the analytic hierarchy process method. According to the results of weighting using the analytic hierarchy process method, it was determined that the distance from gypsum mines and distance from industries were introduced as the most important (0.231) and least important (0.021) criteria, respectively. …”
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The Evidence Based Participatory Design Process Framework, in Post- Earthquake Permanent Housing Reconstruction Gillan-Zanjan (1990), Varzaghan (2012) and Kermanshah (2017) Earthqu... by Tara Jalali, Alireza Fallahi, Seyyed Gholamreza Islami, Zhaleh Sabernejad

“…Nonetheless should be taken into accountthat eradicating the gap between users and designers in reconstruction policies in all phases is possible by promoting process - oriented approaches rather than product - oriented approaches in the design process of settlements, from emergency shelters to permanent housing. …”
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Micrometric research results of vacuum dough divider components by E. G. Martynova, S. A. Velichko, A. V. Martynov

“…They showed the presence of appreciable size distortions due to the local wear of the working surfaces. In this case, a side gap between the suction chamber and the main piston and between the drum and the suction chamber is 6 times higher than the permissible one, and a vertical gap between the division box and the piston exceeds the permissible gap by more than 10 times. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Frequency Ratio, Analytical Hierarchy Process, and Logistic Regression Methods in Selecting the Location of Rural Dwellings: the Case of Keban Stream Basin... by Fethi Ahmet Canpolat, Ahmet Toprak

“…Rural housing is one of the most important indicators of change. The migration of rural dwellings from settlement centers causes the settlement pattern to loosen and disperse, similar to urban sprawl. …”
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