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Remote Sensing for Irrigation Water Management—The State of the Art and Prospects for Near‐Future Operations

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A recent UN report describes many regions as facing ‘water bankruptcy,’ a condition in which available water resources can no longer meet existing demands. In practice, this means irrigation will likely bear the greatest burden of future water‐use reductions, a complicated and fraught decision to make given its critical role in food security ...
Wim G. M. Bastiaanssen, Chris Perry, Royce Dalby, Yasir Mohamed, Xueliang Cai, Poolad Karimi, IJsbrand de Jong, Pasquale Steduto, Marat Beksultanov, Christopher C. M. Neale, David Molden, Waqas Awan, Laarousi Mohamed, Jippe Hoogeveen, Jeff Davids, Nutchanart Sriwongsitanon, P. S. Rao, Roula Bachour, Palitha Bandara, Sophea Chhim, Richard Evans, Tom Lahad, D. Nagesh Kumar, Zakaria Adawy, Devendra Singh Bundela, Kawa Hakzi, Isaya Kisekka, Nicolas Puelma, Alejandro A. Pannunzio, Benjamin Koetz, Mukhiddin Ibragimov   +30 more
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Techniques avancées par courants de Foucault multi-éléments pour l’inspection de soudures orbitales

e-Journal of Nondestructive Testing, 2023
Les récentes avancées en matière de contrôle par courants de Foucault multi-éléments (eddy current array: ECA) ont considérablement élargi la gamme de composants et de structures qui peuvent être inspectés pour la détection de défauts de surface.
Mathieu Bouchard, Olivier Bellavance, Louis-Daniel Théroux   +2 more
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Recent progress in studies of the last million years of human physical and behavioural evolution Avancées récentes dans l’étude du dernier million d'années d’évolution physique et éthologique de l'espèce humaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article presents a synthesis of recent developments in the study of human evolution over the past five years. It begins with an overview of hominin species nomenclature and diversity, followed by an examination of the proposed population bottleneck ∼900,000 years ago.
James Cole, Eleanor M.L. Scerri, Mateja Hajdinjak, Chris Stringer   +3 more
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Hydrothermal synthesis of nanosized BaTiO3 powders and dielectric properties of corresponding ceramics [PDF]

, 2005
BaTiO3 fine powders were synthesized by hydrothermal method at 150 °C or 250 °C for 7 h, starting from a mixture of TiCl3 + BaCl2 or TiO2 + BaCl2. The size of the crystallites is close to 20 nm whatever the starting mixture and the reaction temperature ...
Durand, Bernard, Mathieu, François, Bley, Vincent, Lebey, Thierry, Boulos, Madona, Guillemet-Fritsch, Sophie, Guillemet, Sophie   +6 more
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Évolution passée et contemporaine des chênes

Revue Forestière Française, 2020
Dans cette revue, nous faisons le point sur les connaissances récentes acquises sur l’évolution des chênes blancs européens, depuis les origines et la diversification du genre Quercus jusqu’à leur évolution contemporaine, notamment en lien avec l ...
Antoine Kremer, Christophe Plomion, Thibault Leroy, Alexandre Hermine, Laura Truffaut, Sylvain Delzon, Alexis Ducousso, Brigitte Musch, José Manuel Torres-Ruiz, Stefanie Wagner   +9 more
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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
wiley   +1 more source

Arrhythmic Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: Mechanisms, Genetics, and Future Directions

CJC Open, 2022
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is an increasingly recognized disorder. Many clinical trials have failed to demonstrate benefit in patients with HFpEF but have recognized alarming rates of sudden cardiac death (SCD).
Sina Safabakhsh, BSc, Abdullah Al-Shaheen, MD, Elizabeth Swiggum, MD, Lisa Mielniczuk, MD, Maxime Tremblay-Gravel, MD, Zachary Laksman, MD, MSc   +5 more
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Vital events, vital relations: the structure of relations in an identity database Événements vitaux, liens vitaux : la structure des liens dans une base de données d'identité civile

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
wiley   +1 more source

Modern theatrics of love: desires and consumption in the Indian middle class Le théâtre moderne de l'amour : désirs et consommation dans la classe moyenne indienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
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