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In recent decades, the design and construction of residential complexes in many cities have prioritized quantity over quality. This disregard for physical quality has reduced housing to a purely quantitative and market-d...

Uncover the captivating world of 'Carbon Markets' a groundbreaking book that takes you on an exhilarating journey through the dynamic landscape of environmental sustainability. In a time when the world's attention is foc...

Digital Scholar: Learning in the Age of Internet" is your gateway to a dynamic world where education and research flourish in the digital landscape. In an era defined by limitless information and global connectivity, thi...

Water availability is one of the main limiting factors that control ecosystem functions and productivity in semiarid regions. Vegetation of these regions usually presents a patchy distribution where sparse plant cover is...

Progress towards gender equality in Europe has been very significant over the last century, however, there is still room for improvement in some of the key dimensions. The EU Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 calls for ...

In arid and semiarid areas, the interplant spaces are usually covered by physical and biological soil crusts. These crusts, though representing an almost negligible portion of the soil profile, have a number of crucial r...

"Some Lessons from the Italian Renaissance for the Pursuit of Social Justice" is a fascinating essay written by Diego Hidalgo-Oñate and Cristina Zari inviting us to immerse ourselves in an era of historical and cultural...

This book offers a study of Virginia Woolf’s essays from the perspective of rhetorical argumentation. It characterises her style as a modernist writer and essayist, showing how her prose, structured, elegant, and rich ...

We investigated the longitudinal predictors of reading and spelling of words and pseudowords with different syllabic structures in a shallow orthography. Participants were 47 Spanish-speaking children from kindergarten t...

Abstract To accurately acquire deep-sea live biological samples, a hydraulic suction macro-biological pressure-retaining sampler (HSMPS) was designed to achieve active capture of seafloor biological by a suction pump. Th...

Background and Objectives: In recent decades, inadequate attention by designers to the thermal performance of commercial building façades has resulted in significant thermal inefficiencies in such complexes. This study ...

In recent years, the quality of transitional spaces in residential complexes has emerged as a crucial factor in helping residents find their way and improving their overall spatial experience. To fill a gap in existing r...

A Self-Cooling Simulated Annealing (SCSA) algorithm is introduced for the optimization of nonlinear least-squares problems. In contrast to conventional simulated annealing techniques that require a predefined cooling sch...

Background and Objectives: The driving forces of productivity-oriented design management in architecture and urban planning offices, as a novel approach to improving project performance, focus on identifying and analyzin...

The paper presents a methodology and an example of determining the floor response spectrum of nuclear power plant building structures under earthquake loads. When critical energy infrastructure facilities are consider...

Background: Plasticity in sensory perception and tolerance to xenobiotics contributes to insects’ adaptive capacity and evolutionary success, by enabling them to cope with potentially toxic molecules from the environme...

ABSTRACT Background Cleft palate (CP) is a congenital defect characterized by an opening in the palate. Two crossbred paternal half‐sibs with a complex syndrome including CP were identified. Hypothesis/Objectives Chara...

Our aim was to investigate lineages and resistome of carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella oxytoca Complex (KoC) strains isolated from 2019 to 2022 from colonization and infection samples to evaluate their potential dissemi...

A novel centrifuge-less cloud point extraction (CL-CPE) method was developed for the spectrophotometric determination of copper(II) using 4-nitrocatechol (4NC) as the chelating agent. The extraction system utilizes a mix...

This study provides an Islamic political-legal analysis of the misuse of night entertainment licensing in Medan City, with a focus on the failure of regulatory enforcement under Mayor Regulation Number 3 of 2017. Althoug...

ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to unravel the genetic architecture of growth traits in sheep through a meta-analysis of genetic parameters (i.e., direct, maternal, and total heritability estimates, as well as g...

The target of this research is removing transition metals of Cr, Mn, Fe, Zn, W, Cd from soil due to nanomaterial-based gallium nitride nanocage (B5N10-nc). The electromagnetic and thermodynamic attributes of toxic transi...

Accurate and fast characterization of nanostructures using spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) is required in both industrial and research fields. However, conventional methods used in SE data analysis often face challenge...

Amish Tripathi’s The Shiva Trilogy reimagines Hindu mythology through a socio-political lens, presenting the Nagas not as mythological monsters but as deterritorialized agents challenging the hegemonic Somras-Industri...