DNA barcoding the fishes of Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef) by Dirk Steinke, Jeremy deWaard, Martin Gomon, Jeffrey Johnson, Helen Larson, Oliver Lucanus, Glenn Moore, Sally Reader, Robert Ward

“…One strategy to overcome local gaps is to initiate short but intensive efforts to collect and barcode as many species as possible from a small region – a barcode ‘blitz’. This study highlights one such event, for the marine waters around Lizard island in the Great Barrier Reef (Queensland, Australia). …”
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The slow, the quick and the dead: environment, politics and temporality in the Henan famine, 1942-43 by Baker, M

“…More importantly, though, it then demonstrates that it was rapid processes that tipped much of Henan into what one observer called a ‘blitz famine’: hailstorms, price spikes and the violence of military requisitioning. …”

Libyan nationals in the United Kingdom: Geo-political considerations and trends in asylum and return

Kuuk, Skrap, and the Resistance Vernacular by Jon Mikkel Broch Ålvik

“…In this article, I offer close readings of Norwegian-language albums by two all-female groups: the hip-hop duo Kuuk (Live fra Blitz) and the electronica duo Skrap (Atlantis). …”
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Transitioning from Pandemic to Endemic Pedagogy: Redesigning Teaching and Learning by Farrag Siham G., Abushammala Mohammed F., Kuckian Sachin

“…The qualitative method includes online analysis of students' feedback through Blitz Survey and Module Evaluation Survey (MES) by the Quality Assurance Office (QAO). …”
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Background Instance-Based Copy-Paste Data Augmentation for Object Detection by Liuying Zhang, Zhiqiang Xing, Xikun Wang

“…Ablation experiments with the BlitzNet object detector on the PASCAL VOC 2012 dataset showed an improvement of mAP by 1.19% using the proposed method, compared to a 0.18% improvement with random copy-paste. …”
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A Canadian First Nations radon assessment and COVID-19 restrictions: A difficult pairing by Jared Bishop

“…The initial plan was to administer a testing blitz across communities to gauge the current levels of radon exposure in both residential and band-owned structures. …”
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The Well-Dressed Spacecraft: Textiles for Cosmic Dust Metrology by Cherston, Juliana Mae

“…I envision cosmic grains that may have traveled light years to meet, in a microscopic blitz, the commonplace textile! This work brings the first electronic textiles to Low Earth Orbit, tracking advanced fabric sensor characterization from a tabletop laser accelerator, to a warehouse-scale electrostatic accelerator, to the walls of the International Space Station. …”
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Modernist poetry and film of the home front, 1939-45 by Goodland, G, Giles R. Goodland

“…The documentary movement provides an opportunity to trace these formal changes in a historical and institutional context, and with the work of Dylan Thomas, the relations between mass and high culture, film and poetry, are investigated, as well as the representation of the Blitz, in which guilt is sublimated into celebratory transcendence. …”

Zjawiska atmosferyczne w Księdze Syracha by Jan Turkiel

“…Der Nebel ist das Sinnbild der Klugheit und die Arznei auf schlechte Wetterbedingungen alles gebunden mit dem geheimnisvollen Boten (Syr 24,3; 43, 22) Der Blitz und der Donner, ist das Sinnbild des Auftretens des klugen Menschen (Syr 32,10) Der Donner, der vergeht, kann mit dem Sinnbild der Reichtümer ungerecht erworben (Syr 40,13 zu sein) Aber kann der Donner, das Sinnbild ihrer Stimme sein. …”
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Effect of Sowing Date and Environment on Phenology, Growth and Yield of Lentil (<i>Lens culinaris</i> Medikus.) Genotypes by Lancelot Maphosa, Aaron Preston, Mark F. Richards

“…Averaged across sowing dates, the slower maturing PBA Greenfield was lower yielding whilst fast maturing varieties such as PBA Bolt and PBA Blitz yielded higher. PBA Jumbo2 is less sensitive to environmental interaction and thus broadly adapted to the diverse environments. …”
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Cerebellar agenesis revisited. by Boyd, C

“…It is interesting to note how medical records on an undoubtedly very ordinary citizen were recorded in London in the 1930s (before the NHS was set up in 1949) and how they could be made accessible to clinical colleagues in east London in the middle of World War II blitz bombing of the capital.…”

Organizing Intellectual Competitions of Students in Universities: Forms and Areas for Improvement by S. V. Zaiets, S. P. Yudina

“…It is indicated that the share of new organizational forms of Olympiads such as business games, blitz tournaments, solving situational problems, performing essay tasks, practical tours with employers’ support and participation is increasing. …”
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Indigenous peoples of Taimyr: “The right to live on their own land” by Perevalova E.V., Kisser T.S.

“…The in-depth interviews obtained during the expeditionary research, coupled with a blitz survey, reveal the problems and reasons for the difficult economic and ethno-cultural situation of indigenous peoples in their own interpretation. …”
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An innovative privacy preserving technique for incremental datasets on cloud computing by Aldeen, Y. A. A. S., Salleh, M., Aljeroudi, Y.

“…Thus, absolute cyberspace security and mitigation against phishing blitz became mandatory to protect overall data privacy. …”

libmpdata++ 1.0: a library of parallel MPDATA solvers for systems of generalised transport equations by A. Jaruga, S. Arabas, D. Jarecka, H. Pawlowska, P. K. Smolarkiewicz, M. Waruszewski

“…The libmpdata++ library is implemented in C++, making use of the Blitz++ multi-dimensional array containers, and is released as free/libre and open-source software.…”
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How Certain is Good Enough? Managing Data Quality and Uncertainty in Ordinal Citizen Science Data Sets for Evidence-Based Policies on Fresh Water by Jacek Stankiewicz, Ariane König, Karl Pickar, Stefan Weiss

“…The case study evaluates how gaps and uncertainties in official data for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 (UN SDG 6), Indicator 6.3.2 on water quality, and the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), can be served with citizen science. In two Water Blitz sampling events organised in collaboration with the NGO Earthwatch, participants sampled water bodies at locations of their choice, using field kits to estimate nitrate (NO3--N) and phosphate (PO43–-P) concentrations. …”
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Integration of real-world clinical data into the Munich Mental Health Biobank – clinical and scientific potential and challenges by J. Kálmán, G. Burkhardt, O. Pogarell, F. Padberg, T. Schulze, P. Falkai

“…In an implementation science approach, to replicate and extend the findings of Blitz et al. (JMIR Ment Health 2021), we are investigating the acceptance, efficacy, and safety of the system in our outpatient clinic for affective disorders. …”
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Mulberrofuran G, a Mulberry Component, Prevents SARS-CoV-2 Infection by Blocking the Interaction between SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein S1 Receptor-Binding Domain and Human Angiotensin-C... by Young Soo Kim, Buyun Kim, Eun-Bin Kwon, Hwan-Suck Chung, Jang-Gi Choi

“…In competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, MG effectively blocked the spike S1 RBD: ACE2 receptor molecular binding, and investigations using the BLItz system and in silico modeling revealed that MG has high affinity for both proteins. …”
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Continuous improvement CSF framework for assessing CI maturity in ISO and non-ISO certified construction contracting organizations by Hamid, Hashima

“…Finally, a conceptual framework for implementing CI based on The Kaizen Blitz approach is proposed for construction projects to enable rapid performance improvements over short timescales that is suitable considering the various construction projects peculiarities.…”
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