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Woody Plants Interaction with Aerosol Fine Particulate Matters and Copper in Budapest 布达佩斯木本植物与气溶胶细颗粒物和铜的相互作用

Journal of Environmental Geography Pub Date : 2023-07-10 DOI: 10.14232/jengeo-2023-44584

Haimei Chen, L. Kardos, Veronika Szabó, M. Diószegi, P. Honfi

{"title":"Woody Plants Interaction with Aerosol Fine Particulate Matters and Copper in Budapest","authors":"Haimei Chen, L. Kardos, Veronika Szabó, M. Diószegi, P. Honfi","doi":"10.14232/jengeo-2023-44584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14232/jengeo-2023-44584","url":null,"abstract":"Ambient particulate matter pollution is the primary concern as it has a significant impact on human health and the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Heavy metals are the most concerning component of particulate matter, and Cu is a highly traffic-related emission element whose overabundance results in toxic effects. Woody plants, on the other hand, contribute to the removal of airborne pollution in urban areas. Our aims are (1) to compare urban woody plants abilities to capture ambient fine particulate matter on leaf surface; and (2) to access the Cu concentration loads on their leaf surfaces. Consequently, our results will provide scientific knowledge for future urban planning concerning air pollution remediation. We investigated the relationship between woody plants and heavy metal pollution in Budapest. Four woody plant species were sampled at different traffic densities. Their Cu contents in the leaf and branch were measured, our results show that Tilia tomentosa and Acer platanoides are better options for ambient Cu accumulation than Fraxinus excelsior and Aesculus hisppocastanus in urban environments. At different traffic densities and sampling times, however, Cu accumulation did not vary across species. This is because, through translocation, woody plants absorb Cu not only from the air but also from the soil. Furthermore, it is also because of the long-distance transportation and long-term suspension of fine particulate matter. From the obtained results, we can conclude that woody plants are important phytoremediation elements in the urban area of Budapest. Planting T. tomentosa and A. platanoides in urban areas of central Europe will be promising for ambient heavy metal pollution phytoremediation. But environmental conditions differ from one place to another. Therefore, a comprehensive study is required in order to apply the results to different locations.","PeriodicalId":115431,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Geography","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128966791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Spatial Diagnosis and Conceptualisation of Greening Plan of Seme-Podji, Benin (West Africa) 西非贝宁Seme-Podji绿化规划的空间诊断与概念化

Journal of Environmental Geography Pub Date : 2023-05-06 DOI: 10.14232/jengeo-2023-44431

A. A. Osseni, Gbodja Houéhanou François Gbesso, G. C. Akabassi, Bokon Alexis Akakpo

{"title":"Spatial Diagnosis and Conceptualisation of Greening Plan of Seme-Podji, Benin (West Africa)","authors":"A. A. Osseni, Gbodja Houéhanou François Gbesso, G. C. Akabassi, Bokon Alexis Akakpo","doi":"10.14232/jengeo-2023-44431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14232/jengeo-2023-44431","url":null,"abstract":"Conservation and sustainable management of natural resources are increasingly recommended in decentralized territories. The most effective approach for this process is the participation of local communities because their knowledge is valuable in policy implementation. The study aims to propose a sustainable management model of a territory based on the needs of communities in order to conserve the natural resources in the Sèmè-Podji municipality in Benin, West Africa. Local knowledge and community’s needs have been used in association with GIS technics to make a diagnosis of the territory and propose a land use map for the municipality. The spatial diagnosis revealed an anthropization of the land cover, with a predominance of agro-systems, built up areas, croplands and fallow which represent 80.03% of the total area of the municipality. The marshlands which mostly serve as a refugium and support biodiversity represent 5.42%. The proposed plan showed that 84.79% (p ˂ 0.001) of socio-professional needs are explained. Therefore, the proposed actions were related to the restoration of ecological continuity, creation of new green recreational spaces, the protection of marshlands, the management of natural protected areas and the creation of fuel wood tree plantations. The current information can contribute to a sustainable and inclusive landscape planning for such municipalities, like our study site at Sèmè-Podji in Benin.","PeriodicalId":115431,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Geography","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132764409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Shoreline Change Analysis of the Eastern Coast of Ghana between 1991 and 2020 1991 - 2020年加纳东海岸岸线变化分析

Journal of Environmental Geography Pub Date : 2023-04-05 DOI: 10.14232/jengeo-2023-44339

D. A. Puplampu, Khiddir Iddris, V. Alorbu, Jonathan Otumfuor Asante, Judges Laar Takaman, Alex Barimah Owusu

{"title":"Shoreline Change Analysis of the Eastern Coast of Ghana between 1991\u0000 and 2020","authors":"D. A. Puplampu, Khiddir Iddris, V. Alorbu, Jonathan Otumfuor Asante, Judges Laar Takaman, Alex Barimah Owusu","doi":"10.14232/jengeo-2023-44339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14232/jengeo-2023-44339","url":null,"abstract":"The Eastern Coastline of Ghana is facing intense natural and\u0000 anthropogenic disturbances, which pose a serious threat to the coastal\u0000 community, ecosystem, and livelihoods. This study assessed the shoreline\u0000 changes occurring along the Eastern Coast of Ghana stretching 149 km from\u0000 Laloi Lagoon West of Prampram to Aflao, Ghana. The study utilizes satellite\u0000 images from Landsat 4TM, Landsat 7 ETM+, and Landsat 8 OLI taken between\u0000 1991 and 2020. Data pre-processing techniques using ENVI 5.3 included\u0000 calibration, layer stacking, mosaicking, and supervised classification.\u0000 Post-classification shorelines were extracted using ArcGIS 10.7, and the\u0000 DSAS tool was used to determine the rate of change over the 29-year period.\u0000 The results showed that the coastline experienced an average erosion rate\u0000 of 9 m/y and a maximum rate of 24 m/y, however, the accretion rate (3 m/y)\u0000 was much lower, reflecting general coastline retreat. Thus, some 25 coastal\u0000 communities are highly exposed to shoreline erosion. Sustaining the coastal\u0000 area may require coastline re-engineering interventions. This study\u0000 recommends continuous monitoring of the shorelines to ensure the protection\u0000 of livelihoods. Implementation of both hard engineering and ecosystem-based\u0000 adaptation strategies may be required to achieve holistic results toward\u0000 sustainable coastal management.","PeriodicalId":115431,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Geography","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129140617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Comparative evaluation of the material of the artificial levees 人工堤防材料的对比评价

Journal of Environmental Geography Pub Date : 2023-02-27 DOI: 10.14232/jengeo-2023-44452

Diaa Sheishah, G. Sipos, K. Barta, Enas Abdelsamei, Alexandru Hegyi, A. Onaca, A. M. Abbas

{"title":"Comparative evaluation of the material of the artificial levees","authors":"Diaa Sheishah, G. Sipos, K. Barta, Enas Abdelsamei, Alexandru Hegyi, A. Onaca, A. M. Abbas","doi":"10.14232/jengeo-2023-44452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14232/jengeo-2023-44452","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial levees have major importance in protecting human lives\u0000 and infrastructure as they are essential elements of the flood protection\u0000 measures. Nevertheless, the lack of the necessary information about their\u0000 structure and internal composition might cause high risks. To monitor their\u0000 stability, integrated surveys are needed, including geophysical and\u0000 geotechnical methods. Levees along the rivers in Hungary were constructed\u0000 more than 150 years ago, and they were heightened several times; therefore,\u0000 investigations are required to assure their performance in flood risk\u0000 mitigation. Our investigation aimed to utilise non-invasive geophysical\u0000 techniques, primarily electrical resistivity imaging, with the validation\u0000 of geotechnical investigations to map and compare the compositional and\u0000 structural variations of two very different levee sections along River\u0000 Tisza and River Maros. Integrating the analysed drilling data with ERT\u0000 profiles showed that the main composition of the investigated Tisza levee\u0000 section is fine and medium silt with an average resistivity 30 Ωm, however,\u0000 the investigated section of Maros levee was built of not only of fine and\u0000 medium silt but also of medium and coarse sand exhibiting higher\u0000 resistivity values reaching up to 2200 Ωm. Several physical parameters were\u0000 measured to study the nature of constituting levee materials like moisture\u0000 content, grain-size, porosity, bulk-density, saturated hydraulic\u0000 conductivity, and resistivity. It was found that most of them show a\u0000 connection with resistivity, but the hydraulic conductivity did not show a\u0000 direct connection, however the latter could exhibit the aquitard nature of\u0000 Tisza levee materials and the non-aquitard nature of Maros levee materials.","PeriodicalId":115431,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Geography","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133065261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Determining the impacts of climate change on Spatio-temporal patterns of meteorological drought using SPI 利用SPI确定气候变化对气象干旱时空格局的影响

Journal of Environmental Geography Pub Date : 2023-02-14 DOI: 10.14232/jengeo-2022-44283

Alaa Eddine Attou, Blel Azouzi, Mohamed Islem Bouacha

{"title":"Determining the impacts of climate change on Spatio-temporal patterns of meteorological drought using SPI","authors":"Alaa Eddine Attou, Blel Azouzi, Mohamed Islem Bouacha","doi":"10.14232/jengeo-2022-44283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14232/jengeo-2022-44283","url":null,"abstract":"As an associated aspect of climate change, drought has become a severe challenge in different parts of the world, especially in regions where life depends on predominantly rain-fed agriculture. The Ain Defla study area is mostly agricultural land, most of its activity depends on rain. In recent years, droughts of varying impact and severity have affected crops. Therefore, this study aimed to identify and study the regions that are most vulnerable to drought in terms of time and space. Moreover, it provides a detailed picture of the drought in the region and finds appropriate solutions in the event of its return in the future. The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and the deviation from the average (EM) were calculated annually for 38 years for 13 stations from 1981 to 2019 within the study area. GIS was used to compile digital maps to visualize the spatial distribution of rainfall (P) and the difference in rainfall (EM) and determine the aridity using SPI values within the region based on the statistical method of Kriging. The Ain Defla region was subjected to drought of varying intensity and impact during the years (1983, 1989 and 2000), which extends with a decreasing value from east to west. Some wet years were also observed (2013 and 2018). Most years were in the moderate category by 60%. It is possible to rely on rain-fed agriculture in the western regions, that were less prone to drought during the study period compared to the eastern part, an area where drought is stable on an ongoing basis.","PeriodicalId":115431,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Geography","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127551458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Impact of Urban Land Use on Rainwater Quality 城市土地利用对雨水质量的影响

Journal of Environmental Geography Pub Date : 2022-12-05 DOI: 10.14232/jengeo-2022-44124

T. M. Agaja, David Olaoluwa Towobola

{"title":"Impact of Urban Land Use on Rainwater Quality","authors":"T. M. Agaja, David Olaoluwa Towobola","doi":"10.14232/jengeo-2022-44124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14232/jengeo-2022-44124","url":null,"abstract":"This study assessed the physicochemical properties of rainwater in the urban land uses and observed the associated relationship between urban land uses and the physicochemical properties of rainwater. A total of 10 rainwater samples was collected and analysed for 15 physicochemical parameters namely: colour, conductivity, pH, total dissolved solids, turbidity, aluminium (Al3+), copper (Cu2+), iron (Fe2+), nitrate (NO3-), lead (Pb2+), nickel (Ni), sodium (Na+), phosphorus (K+), zinc (Zn2+) and sulphate (SO42-). Mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, Pearson correlation coefficient were used in the summary, analysis and interpretation of the results. The result reveal that the urban land uses and rainwater quality has a significant relationship in Ilorin Metropolis. Agricultural, industrial and institutional land uses have the least significant effect on the quality of rainwater with the significant value of 0.044, 0.035 and 0.014 (P<0.05) respectively. Residential land use has poor rainwater quality with significant value of 0.724 while commercial land use has fairly good quality with 0.585 (P>0.05). The study concludes that the urban land uses has an impact on the rainwater quality. The study recommends that rainwater be purified before drinking and sustainable urbanization policies be developed to prevent atmospheric pollution in Ilorin Metropolis.","PeriodicalId":115431,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Geography","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121174871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessing the Effects of LULC Change on Landslide Hazards in Rwanda 评估卢旺达土地利用价值变化对滑坡灾害的影响

Journal of Environmental Geography Pub Date : 2022-11-02 DOI: 10.14232/jengeo-2022-44169

Nathanael Hafashimana, R. Sebego, P. Kenabatho, R. Lekoko, J. Maphanyane

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Site Suitability Analysis for Landfill in an Industrial Area in Nigeria 尼日利亚某工业区垃圾填埋场选址适宜性分析

Journal of Environmental Geography Pub Date : 2022-08-22 DOI: 10.14232/jengeo-2022-43938

A. Olayiwola, Umar Suleiman

{"title":"Site Suitability Analysis for Landfill in an Industrial Area in Nigeria","authors":"A. Olayiwola, Umar Suleiman","doi":"10.14232/jengeo-2022-43938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14232/jengeo-2022-43938","url":null,"abstract":"This study was set against the background of identifying management strategies to combat the menace associated with poor solid waste management in urban areas of Nigeria. Therefore, it becomes highly necessary to determine suitable sites for landfill. Using remote sensing and geographic information tools and technologies the study identified the scenes of present dump sites; evaluated the conditions for selecting landfill sites; and determined suitable landfills in Ajaokuta, Nigeria. Data for the study were sourced from Sentinel-2A, 2021. Integrated GIS-based analysis using multi-criteria evaluation method was employed to scrutinise the appropriateness of the existing dumpsites for siting landfills. However, with reference to Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA) guidelines, results of buffering and proximity analyses indicated that none of the existing dumpsites could be converted to landfill sites. Moreover, a fuzzy overlay of all the criteria considered was employed to identify and propose the most suitable areas for solid waste disposal sites in the study area. Based on the official stipulated distance, new sites were proposed for landfills. The study emphasised the increasing mounds and improper disposal of municipal solid wastes in Nigerian urban centres which have become too agonising and repulsive to sights. Nevertheless, if the recommendations of this study are taken with utmost seriousness, any unexpected outbreak of epidemic and environmental pollution will be greatly avoided in the study area.","PeriodicalId":115431,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Geography","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124005644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Land Evaluation of Recreation and Ecotourism Services Using Multi-Criteria Evaluation Process 基于多准则评价的游憩与生态旅游服务用地评价

Journal of Environmental Geography Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI: 10.14232/jengeo-2022-43946

I. Valánszki, Asmaa Abualhagag

{"title":"Land Evaluation of Recreation and Ecotourism Services Using Multi-Criteria Evaluation Process","authors":"I. Valánszki, Asmaa Abualhagag","doi":"10.14232/jengeo-2022-43946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14232/jengeo-2022-43946","url":null,"abstract":"Land suitability of Recreation and Ecotourism (RE) is the process of predicting the potential use of land on the basis of its attributes. Decisions on land use have always been part of the evolution of human society. The integration of this GIS using the multicriteria decision analysis approach provides an environment to the decision-makers in citing areas using land suitability analysis procedures. The present study aims at evaluating the land use suitability for Recreation and Ecotourism development in the rural–urban in Aswan city-Egypt. This is achieved by using the GIS-based Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) on twelve various economic, environmental and urban criteria This study was carried out within the framework of an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) as a multi-criteria evaluation approach by integrating it with the Geographic Information System (GIS). Hence, based on the analysis and findings made in this research, finding suitable locations using the land suitability model for future recreation and ecotourism development is highly helpful. Results can be useful in the planning of public facilities and future land use planning in Aswan city.","PeriodicalId":115431,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Geography","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123238949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sensitivity Analysis for Effect of Changes in Input Data on Hydrological Parameters and Water Balance Components in the Catchment Area of Hungarian Lowland 输入数据变化对匈牙利低地集水区水文参数和水平衡成分影响的敏感性分析

Journal of Environmental Geography Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.2478/jengeo-2021-0007

Hop Quang Tran

{"title":"Sensitivity Analysis for Effect of Changes in Input Data on Hydrological Parameters and Water Balance Components in the Catchment Area of Hungarian Lowland","authors":"Hop Quang Tran","doi":"10.2478/jengeo-2021-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/jengeo-2021-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Extreme weather and climate changes are emerging more frequently in Central Europe, Hungary, and in the near future the increase in prolonged droughts, high-intensity precipitation events and the temporal variations of precipitation are expected, which may increase the magnitude of local water damages (OVF, 2016). As a result of climate change, these extreme weather events will be more frequent, however it is difficult to predict them, as until now insufficient amount of observations are available on smaller watercourses and on refined territorial water balances. For the future assessment of the environmental and economic impacts of climate change, it is essential to explore the integrated relationship of evapotranspiration, runoff, infiltration, surface and subsurface waters, and other hydrological processes, which can fundamentally describe regionally the water management conditions. In this research, an earlier study (DHI Hungary 2019) on the catchment area of the main canal of the Dong-ér Brook is pursued to continue the development of the MIKE SHE model in a more complex manner. Within the frame of the present study, the relationship between the individual hydrological parameters, the water balance components and extreme precipitation events (drought, heavy rainfall events) for the entire drainage basin have been examined, besides, the expected effects of the predicted temperature rise on the water balance is evaluated. Using data from 2018 as reference, the sensitivity of the changes in daily precipitation and daily mean temperature has been assessed to estimate the effects of the future climate change on hydrological parameters and water balance components.","PeriodicalId":115431,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Geography","volume":"228 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114692866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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