The Effects of Heat Stress on the Physiology and Mortality of the Rhizostome Upside-Down Jellyfish <i>Cassiopea xamachana</i>—Observations Throughout the Life Cycle by William K. Fitt, Dietrich K. Hofmann, Aki H. Ohdera, Dustin W. Kemp, André C. Morandini

“…Increasing temperatures also induced stage-specific effects. Settlement rates of artificially induced larvae were near 100% at lower temperatures but decreased at 34–36 °C; larvae were dead at 36 °C. …”
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Empirical Analysis of Vulnerabilities in Blockchain-based Smart Contracts by Dr. Kashif Mehboob Khan, Ansha Zahid

“…Conversely, due to the complex semantics of fundamental domain-specific languages and their testability, constructing reliable and secure SC can be extremely difficult. …”
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Manipulation of Phototactic Responses by Two-Spotted Spider Mites to Improve Performance of Miticides by Christian Nansen, Patrice Jacob Savi, Tora Ward, Haleh Khodaverdi, Johann Heinrich Lieth, Anil V. Mantri

“…Here, we tested the hypothesis that the deployment of specific light sources elicits positive or negative phototactic responses and can be used to enhance performance of miticide applications. …”
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Increasing civil participation in public control at the municipal level by T. N. Mikheeva, D. S. Mikheev

“…The authors are convinced that the development of democracy on the scale of such a huge state as the Russian Federation should start with a small entity — its entrance hall, street, neighborhood, settlement, and city.…”
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Challenges of the Distinction Criteria between Evident Deception and Grosser Fraud in the Unanimous Verdict of 821 from a Legal-Economic Standpoint by Seyed Hasan Hosseinimoghadam, Hossein Hamzeh Robati

“…But one of the substantial challenges that the courts and the claimant of evident deception or grosser fraud also face in dealing with the settlement of the lawsuit arising from lesion, is how to identify evident fraud from the grosser one and its criteria. …”
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Practical Steps for Urban Flood Risk Mitigation Using Nature-Based Solutions—A Case Study in <i>New Cairo</i>, Egypt by Walaa S. E. Ismaeel, Nada Ali Mustafa

“…This necessitates testing their performance under site-specific conditions and future climate projections.…”
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Understanding Local Perspectives on the Trajectory and Drivers of Gazetted Forest Reserve Change in Nasarawa State, North Central Nigeria by Banki T. Chunwate, Robert A. Marchant, Eleanor K. K. Jew, Lindsay C. Stringer

“…These efforts could ensure effective forest protection that is vital for achieving global biodiversity and climate targets and safeguarding local livelihoods. The specific drivers of changes in each forest need to be targeted in conservation efforts.…”
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Assessment of the Effect of Flooding on Agricultural Lands in Kaharo Sub-County of Kabale District South Western Uganda. by Nyakiti, Dorcas Awino

“…Other causes of flooding were location of settlement on flood plain (48%), lack of awareness and information (2%), poverty (7%), unprotected flood areas, standing crops and livestock (30%) and lastly transition in cultural practices (24%). …”
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Compression Index Regression of Fine-Grained Soils with Machine Learning Algorithms by Mintae Kim, Muharrem A. Senturk, Liang Li

“…Soil consolidation, particularly in fine-grained soils like clay, is crucial in predicting settlement and ensuring the stability of structures. …”
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Effects of Near-Fault Pulse-Like Ground Motion on Seismic Response of Dry Sand Site by LIU Hongshuai, SONG Dongsong, DONG Xinyi, WANG Tiqiang

“…Instrumentation included twelve horizontal accelerometers and one surface settlement displacement sensor. Variable-amplitude sine loads from the LEAP project, scaled to different peak accelerations (PGAs), served as the table input. …”
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Neonatal and perinatal mortality in the urban continuum: a geospatial analysis of the household survey, satellite imagery and travel time data in Tanzania by Lenka Benova, Claudia Hanson, Aliki Christou, Aline Semaan, Peter M Macharia, Jessie Pinchoff, Andrea B Pembe

“…Research must capture, understand and minimise risks specific to urban settings.…”
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Reasonable Support Parameters for Loess Tunnel Under Different Water Contents: A Case Study by Hao Chen, Yanbin Luo, Jianxun Chen, Hui Chen, Yanfeng Li, Pengkun Wang, Lele Guo

“…These results can provide guidance and specific reference for loess tunnels under different water content strata.…”
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Scale‐dependence in elk habitat selection for a reintroduced population in Wisconsin, USA by Jennifer L. Merems, Anna L. Brose, Jennifer Price Tack, Shawn Crimmins, Timothy R. Van Deelen

“…Scale‐dependent behavior is crucial to understand within specific geographic regions, as these decisions scale up to influence population dynamics.…”
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Online Education in the Republic of Karelia in the New Realities of Society Development by O. V. Potasheva, A. N. Bykova

“…Only 4.5% of the respondents admit that they did not teach online lessons, including due to the lack of Internet in their settlement.Based on the results of the questionnaire survey among parents, new risks in the development of the education system emerged, and the identified trends make us think about what can be changed and done now so that the education of children during distance learning would be a joy for children, parents and teachers.Conclusions. …”
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Landscapes, settlers, and workforce in colonial Catamarca (Northwestern Argentina, 16th-18th c.). A historical archaeology project by Félix Retamero, Marcos N. Quesada

“…The understanding of the new colonial order requires knowledge of the previous conditions upon which further destruction and construction coexisted, as well as the adaptative tools managed both of the indigenous population and of the colonizers in the specific resulting societies. In spite of the local diversity of the new societies, some common trends can be identified in the previous peasant organizations elsewhere and in the aims and methods of the colonization. …”
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OECD and deoffshorization of microstates of Europe by M. B. Alimova-Nefedova

“…General scientific methods, the technic method, the concrete-historical and the historicalgenetic methods, as well as the formal-dogmatic and the systemic approaches were used within the framework of the study.Offshores and the settlement of cross-border tax relations is one of the most vital economic problems of our time, yet no fundamental scientific research on the international relations of the OECD and the microstates of Europe has yet been carried out.…”
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Research on residents’ intention to settle and the mediating effect of green policy leadership by Hiroko Oe, Yasuyuki Yamaoka, Sitsada Sartamorn

“…The research design involved a meticulous examination of the paths leading to citizens’ “settlement intention”. Drawing insights from the outcomes of an extensive intention survey, the authors meticulously collected and cleaned a rich dataset sourced from citizen surveys conducted in City A, strategically nestled in the heart of Japan’s Honshu island. …”
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PECULIARITIES OF INVOLVING THE URBANIZATION PROCESSES OF ETHNOSES IN RUSSIA by Alexander Alexandrovich Cherkasov

“….), the other part of the ethnic groups remained on the "periphery" of urbanization, often preserving the traditional area of settlement, traditional way of life (for example, the titular ethnoses of the North Caucasus). …”
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Degradation and Migration Characteristics and Water‐Inrush Mechanism of Overburden Roof Under High‐Intensity Mining by Min Cao, Shangxian Yin, Xu Wang, Shuqian Li, Qixing Li, Yulong Di

“…This shift is accompanied by an increase in mining height and a rise in the degree of automation, leading to uneven and potentially violent settlement of overlying rock formations, as well as the formation of single or multi‐layer separation spaces above the coal seam. …”
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Combining a guided self-help and brief alcohol intervention to improve mental health and reduce substance use among refugee men in Uganda: a cluster-randomized feasibility trial by M. Claire Greene, Lena S. Andersen, Marx R. Leku, Teresa Au, Josephine Akellot, Nawaraj Upadhaya, Raymond Odokonyero, Ross White, Peter Ventevogel, Claudia Garcia-Moreno, Wietse A. Tol

“…Participants were 168 South Sudanese refugee men in Rhino Settlement who reported moderate or high levels of psychological distress. …”
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