Historical droughts manifest an abrupt shift to a wetter Tibetan Plateau by Y. Liu, Y. Liu, W. Wang, H. Zhou, L. Tian

“…It has experienced significant climate warming and spatially and temporally variant wetting over the past half century. Because of the importance of land surface status to the interactions, determining the wetting and drying of the TP from individual changes in precipitation (Prep) or temperature is difficult. …”
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Dirac Magnons in Honeycomb Ferromagnets by Sergey S. Pershoguba, Saikat Banerjee, J. C. Lashley, Jihwey Park, Hans Ågren, Gabriel Aeppli, Alexander V. Balatsky

“…We show that our theory qualitatively accounts for hitherto unexplained anomalies in nearly half-century-old magnetic neutron-scattering data for CrBr_{3} [W. …”
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Rudolph Peters, Shariʿa, Justice and Legal Order, Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2020, 704 pp. by Ömer Yılmaz

“…Many reviews have been written about this book, which is the fruit of nearly half-century research. So I will evaluate some points the author overlooked. …”
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Causes and consequences of demography in continent-scale, full-annual-cycle population dynamics under global change by Qing Zhao, James H. Devries, Robert G. Clark, Mitch D. Weegman

“…Using an integrated population model that jointly analyzed a half-century (1961–2019) of count and band-recapture-recovery data, we found that the effects of breeding-season climate on productivity differed among regions, yet preceding winter temperature negatively affected productivity in all regions. …”
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METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE DETERMINATION OF CHEMORESISTANCE OF HUMAN CANCER CELLS TO ANTI-CANCER DRUGS by K. I. Kirsanov, K. A. Kuzin, T. I. Fetisov, E. A. Lesovaya, G. A. Belitskiy, M. G. Yakubovskaya

“…The advantages and disadvantages of the described methods, as well as the prospects for their further application were discussed.Conclusion. Over the past half century of using the experimental testing of tumor cell resistance in order to personalize chemotherapeutic treatment, the evolution of methodological approaches was based on the increase in their safety and sensitivity through the use of fluorescent compounds. …”
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Next-Generation Prosthetic Hand: from Biomimetic to Biorealistic by Ning Lan, Manzhao Hao, Chuanxin M. Niu, He Cui, Yu Wang, Ting Zhang, Peng Fang, Chih-hong Chou

“…Integrating a prosthetic hand to amputees with seamless neural compatibility presents a grand challenge to neuroscientists and neural engineers for more than half century. Mimicking anatomical structure or appearance of human hand does not lead to improved neural connectivity to the sensorimotor system of amputees. …”
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Evaluative Thinking in Practice: Implications for Evaluation from Paulo Freire's Work in Guinea-Bissau by Thomaz K. Chianca, Cladius Ceccon, Michael Q. Patton

“…In-depth historical case studies of international evaluations using evaluative thinking principles are rare, especially the ones reported by those who were involved a half-century ago. Purpose: This article describes little-known but historically significant educational reform initiative in Guinea Bissau (West-Africa) in the 1970s supported by a group led by Paulo Freire, examining what occurred through the lens of evaluative thinking. …”
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Exploring dominant processes for multi-month predictability of western Pacific precipitation using deep learning by Young-Min Yang, Jeong-Hwan Kim, Jae-Heung Park, Yoo-Geun Ham, Soon-Il An, June-Yi Lee, Bin Wang

“…Abstract Over the past half-century, there has been an increasing trend in the magnitude and duration of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) attributable to the significant warming trend in the Western Pacific (WP). …”
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Optimizing habitat connectivity among macaque populations in modern Japan by Hiroto Enari, Hironori Seino, Takeharu Uno, Yoshiki Morimitsu, Masaaki Takiguchi, Katsuya Suzuki, Yamato Tsuji, Naoto Yamabata, Mieko Kiyono, Hisaaki Akaza, Shigeyuki Izumiyama, Toru Oi, Hiroshi Ebihara, Kiyomasa Miki, Musashi Kuramoto, Haruka S. Enari

“…Abstract Nationwide depopulation in modern Japan has led to contrasting changes over the last half‐century: shrinking human communities and recovering populations of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). …”
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Time Decomposition and Short-Term Forecasting of Hydrometeorological Conditions in the South Baltic Coastal Zone of Poland by Jacek Tylkowski, Marcin Hojan

“…Time decomposition of hydrometeorological conditions based on monthly data did not reveal long-term trends. In the last half-century, hydrometeorological conditions have been conducive to erosion of coastal dunes and cliffs. …”
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Characteristics of soil in the areas adjacent to the ports of the Black Sea coast by M. S. Zambriborshch

“…Zambriborshch   Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Transport Medicine of Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Odessa   Abstract As a result, over the past half-century technogenesis was "pollution of the biosphere", while accumulating medium has become the soil. …”
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A digital archive of human activity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica by A. Howkins, S. M. Chignell, P. Gullett, A. G. Fountain, A. G. Fountain, M. Brett, E. Preciado

“…<p>Over the last half century, the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) of East Antarctica have become a globally important site for scientific research and environmental monitoring. …”
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Capturing Aesthetic Experiences With Installation Art: An Empirical Assessment of Emotion, Evaluations, and Mobile Eye Tracking in Olafur Eliasson’s “Baroque, Baroque!” by Matthew Pelowski, Helmut Leder, Vanessa Mitschke, Vanessa Mitschke, Eva Specker, Gernot Gerger, Gernot Gerger, Pablo P. L. Tinio, Elena Vaporova, Till Bieg, Till Bieg, Agnes Husslein-Arco

“…Installation art is one of the most important and provocative developments in the visual arts during the last half century and has become a key focus of artists and of contemporary museums. …”
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A Set of Molecular Markers to Accelerate Breeding and Determine Seed Purity of CMS Three-Line Hybrids in <i>Brassica napus</i> by Yanfeng Zhang, Ran An, Min Song, Changgen Xie, Shihao Wei, Daojie Wang, Yuhong Dong, Qingli Jia, Shuhua Huang, Jianxin Mu

“…CMS three-line rapeseed hybrids have dramatically enhanced yield and brought about the global revolution of hybrid varieties, replacing conventional crop varieties. Over the last half century, China has led the development of hybrid <i>Brassica napus</i> varieties. …”
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Water provision planning on the basis of human population growth forecasts: A case study of the City of uMhlathuze, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa by Thato Julius Mokoma, Surafel Luleseged Tilahun

“…The goal of this study is twofold: first to predict human population growth over a 50-year period and secondly, to formulate a linear programming model to determine the number of additional reservoir tanks which need to be built, in order to satisfy the human water demand for the next half century. This study compares the application of automated time series forecasting models like ARIMA, ETS, and BATS model to predict the growth in human population. …”
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The ecological nature of whole river macrosystems: new perspectives from the riverine ecosystem synthesis by James H. Thorp, Martin C. Thoms, Michael D. Delong, Alain Maasri

“…This is partially correlated with the paucity of applicable river ecosystem models developed over the last half century which could otherwise provide diverse, testable tenets (hypotheses). …”
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Social contribution of forensic odontology in Japan by Toshinobu Komuro, Hirofumi Tsutsumi, Hikaru Izawa, Seiko Katsumura, Hisako Saitoh, Koichi Sakurada, Keita Sato, Akira Furukawa

“…We introduced the half century of forensic odontology in Japan in chronological order. …”
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Habitat selection and nest survival in two Great Plains shorebirds by Hannah Specht, Véronique St-Louis, Cheri L. Gratto-Trevor, Nicola Koper, Cassandra G. Skaggs, Tait Ronningen, Todd W. Arnold

“…Here, we demonstrate the use of nest location and survival data collated from 20 data contributors across the Prairie Pothole Region of the United States and Canada over a half century to examine habitat selection and nest survival of Western Willets (Tringa semipalmata inornata) and Marbled Godwits (Limosa fedoa), hereafter "willets" and "godwits." …”
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Climate Variability Rather Than Livestock Grazing Dominates Changes in Alpine Grassland Productivity Across Tibet by Meng Li, Jianshuang Wu, Jianshuang Wu, Yunfei Feng, Ben Niu, Yongtao He, Xianzhou Zhang

“…Alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau, being vulnerable to environmental and anthropogenic changes, have experienced dramatic climate change and intensive livestock grazing during the last half-century. Climate change, coupled with grazing activities, has profoundly altered alpine grassland function and structure and resulted in vast grassland degradation. …”
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Drastic Population Size Change in Two Populations of the Golden-Striped Salamander over a Forty-Year Period—Are Eucalypt Plantations to Blame? by Jan W. Arntzen

“…Over the last half century the Iberian peninsula has seen the large scale planting of exotic gum trees (Eucalyptus sp.) therewith reducing space for native wildlife. …”
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