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By the end of this century, typical daily temperatures in West Africa will be even higher than those registered on the hottest days of the year at present, according to a new study by climate ...

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Abstract: This letter proposes a hidden Markov model–Gaussian mixture Model-based tandem approach for efficient classification of human and animal footfall signals acquired from seismic sensors buried ...

As the Saharan sun rose on my waylaid team, one morning in September 2022, it seemed to burn with particular intensity. For nearly three weeks we’d been holed up in a mud-walled compound in the oasis ...

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The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. to us for three primary reasons. The microorganisms are ubiquitous and play significant roles in shaping Earth's biogeochemical ...