Risk Analysis of Groundwater Contaminant in Rural Areas Using Spatial Distribution by Herawati Herawati, Maria Kanan, Anwar Mallongi, Ramli Bidullah, Sandy N. Sakati, Dwi Wahyu Balebu

“…Groundwater is an important resource for humans, especially in rural areas that depend on Groundwaters as the main source of clean water. …”
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Understanding the political economy of reforming global health initiatives – insights from global and country levels by Sophie Witter, Natasha Palmer, Rosemary Jouhaud, Shehla Zaidi, Severine Carillon, Rene English, Giulia Loffreda, Emilie Venables, Shifa Salman Habib, Jeff Tan, Fatouma Hane, Maria Paola Bertone, Seyed-Moeen Hosseinalipour, Valery Ridde, Asad Shoaib, Adama Faye, Lilian Dudley, Karen Daniels, Karl Blanchet

“…The study adopted a cross-sectional, mixed-methods approach, drawing from a range of data sources and data collection methods, including a global and regional level analysis as well as three embedded country case studies in Pakistan, South Africa and Senegal. …”
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Construction and Application of Psychological Quality Assessment Model for College Students Based on Extensive Data Analysis by Ping Zou, Yanjun Wu, Jingdan Zhang

“…This paper combines the application methods of big data technology, collects the management data related to the psychological quality assessment of college students, saves them into the system database with certain storage logic, and realizes the function of psychological quality assessment through the design of selected psychological quality assessment data, data management and data resource management and other parts based on the data results of extensive data analysis. …”
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Research on Pedestrians’ Visual Perception Characteristics Based on USGGS: A Case Study of the Six Inner-City Districts of Tianjin by Hanwen YANG, Shang’en TSOU, Yike HU

“…The core objective of the research is to propose strategies to optimize the greening structure of urban streets by analyzing the correlation between USGGS and visual perception of pedestrians, so as to enhance the quality of the visual environment of street pedestrians, improve the urban human settlement environment and promote the organic integration of the urban ecological and humanistic environments, thus providing a new way of thinking for urban planning and construction, and promoting the high-quality and sustainable development of urban street space.MethodsThe research selects the six inner-city districts of Tianjin City as the research area, utilizes Baidu street view image (SVI) as data source, and collect SVIs and their coordinates in the six districts in 2019 by calling Baidu API, with a total of 17,326 points selected and 13,281 valid samples obtained after screening. …”
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Antimicrobial peptides and proteins against drug-resistant pathogens by Yeji Wang, Minghui Song, Wenqiang Chang

“…These bioactive molecules, whether derived from natural sources, designed synthetically, or predicted using artificial intelligence, can induce lethal effects on pathogens by targeting key microbial structures or functional components, such as cell membranes, cell walls, biofilms, and intracellular components. …”
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Thermodynamic Characteristics of the Ion-Exchange Process Involving REMs of the Light Group by Olga V. Cheremisina, Maria A. Ponomareva, Yulia A. Mashukova, Nina A. Nasonova, Maria D. Burtseva

“…The findings highlight the potential of ion-exchange resins for selective and sustainable REM recovery, offering a safer alternative to liquid extraction and enabling the valorization of industrial wastes like phosphogypsum for resource recovery.…”
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Hybrid closed-loop systems for managing blood glucose levels in type 1 diabetes: a systematic review and economic modelling by Asra Asgharzadeh, Mubarak Patel, Martin Connock, Sara Damery, Iman Ghosh, Mary Jordan, Karoline Freeman, Anna Brown, Rachel Court, Sharin Baldwin, Fatai Ogunlayi, Chris Stinton, Ewen Cummins, Lena Al-Khudairy

“…These improve the cost-effectiveness of HCL to £163,000 per QALY if it is valued using the EAG preferred source, to £121,000 if it is valued using the same source as NG17 and to £109,000 if it is valued using other credible sources. …”
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Effects of climate change on goat production and mitigatory measures in semiarid savanna ecosystems by Alban Mugoti, Casper Nyamukanza, Anderson Munengwa, Sizo Moyo, Nation Chikumba

“…Additionally, studies highlight the effectiveness of improved animal husbandry techniques, including strategic water resource management and diversified feed sources, in enhancing goat health and productivity under changing environmental conditions. …”
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Software with artificial intelligence-derived algorithms for detecting and analysing lung nodules in CT scans: systematic review and economic evaluation by Julia Geppert, Peter Auguste, Asra Asgharzadeh, Hesam Ghiasvand, Mubarak Patel, Anna Brown, Surangi Jayakody, Emma Helm, Dan Todkill, Jason Madan, Chris Stinton, Daniel Gallacher, Sian Taylor-Phillips, Yen-Fu Chen

“…Additional economics sources included NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED), Cost-Effectiveness Analysis registry (Tufts Medical Center), EconPapers and ScHARRHUD. …”
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Effects of Soil Texture on Effective Mixing Depth and Solute Loss by WANG Jie, ZHENG Hao, LI Zihan, REN Shaocong, WANG Shuoguo, LIAN Qijie, WEI Yujie, CAI Chongfa

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Biomimetic Design Concepts in African Textile Prints: Embracing Nature's Influence on Fashion and Textiles by Frederick Boamah, Benjamin Tawiah, Ebenezer Howard

“…Eight seed articles were identified after which bibliography coupling was done to identify important articles worthy of inclusion based on the main terms in the topic. The co-citation functionality in Google Scholar was used to further identify and select recent articles that meet the inclusion criteria set out. …”
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Designing the outsourcing model in central government organizations by Mahnaz Moradi, Morteza Ghasemi, Maryam Majidi, Gholamreza Amjadi

“…Outsourcing is related to the transfer of a complete functional department of the business or some activities of a functional department and keeping the rest of the activities of that department internally. …”
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Price transmission and market integration analysis of black gram (urad dal) across major Indian states by Sukhvir Singh, Amit Guleria, Parvender Sheoran, Pankaj Sood, Vishal Mahajan, Dharminder Kumar, Satbir Singh, Gurdeep Singh, Rajesh K. Rana

“…BackgroundBlack gram (Vigna mungo), a key pulse crop in India, serves as a major protein source with significant health benefits. Predominantly grown in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan, its cultivation in Punjab remains limited due to the paddy-wheat dominance. …”
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Linking soil microbial genomic features to forest-to-pasture conversion in the Amazon by Andressa M. Venturini, Júlia B. Gontijo, Louis Berrios, Jorge L. Mazza Rodrigues, Kabir G. Peay, Siu M. Tsai

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Analysing the contribution of trees and green spaces to household nutrition security in eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by Qhelile Ntombikayise Bhebhe, Qhelile Ntombikayise Bhebhe, Muthulisi Siwela, Temitope O. Ojo, Temitope O. Ojo, Simphiwe Innocentia Hlatshwayo, Simphiwe Innocentia Hlatshwayo, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Rob Slotow, Mjabuliseni S. C. Ngidi, Mjabuliseni S. C. Ngidi, Mjabuliseni S. C. Ngidi

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Regreening Practices and Effectiveness Evaluation for Rocky Slope Drawdown Zones in Pumped Storage Power Station Reservoirs by YANG Zhi-chao, MA Xiao-xiao, CHANG Shi-ju, TANG Yu-shuang, ZHAO Rui-yi, WAN Dan, ZHANG Qian-zhu

“…This study focuses on the ecological restoration of the rocky slope drawdown zone in the Henan Tianchi Pumped Storage Power Station reservoir to ensure water resource security. [Methods] To address the severely impaired ecological function of the drawdown zone, this study conducted systematic analysis of habitat characteristics, including hydrological patterns, bank characteristics, non-point source pollution, and plant communities. …”
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Establishing the best step-up treatments for children with uncontrolled asthma despite inhaled corticosteroids: the EINSTEIN systematic review, network meta-analysis and cost-effec... by Sofia Cividini, Ian Sinha, Giovanna Culeddu, Sarah Donegan, Michelle Maden, Katie Rose, Olivia Fulton, Dyfrig Hughes, Stephen Turner, Catrin Tudur Smith

“…We examined model fit by the posterior mean of the residual deviance and the deviance information criterion to select models. Pairwise MA and NMA were also carried out with a frequentist framework using the R functions ‘netmetabin’ and ‘netmeta’. …”
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The Impact of Audit Quality on Organizational Capital and Financing Capacity by Somaye Fathi, Mahdi Bahar Moghadam, Kazem Shamsadini

“…Employing audit fees as an audit quality proxy within an Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) framework, we find audit quality significantly enhances organizational capital, suggesting high-quality audits facilitate strategic resource allocation and capital formation. Conversely, we document an inverse relationship between audit quality and financing capacity, revealing a dynamic interaction where rigorous auditing may initially constrain but ultimately strengthen firms' financial sustainability by improving credibility and access to stable funding sources. …”
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Toward Sustainable Agriculture: DPA-UNet for Semantic Segmentation of Landscapes Using Remote Sensing Imagery by J. Kavipriya, G. Vadivu

“…This work presents a new architecture called Deep Pro Agri-UNet (DPA-UNet) meant specifically for agricultural field segmentation with high-resolution images sourced from Google Earth Pro in order to solve these problems. …”
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Early detection to improve outcome in people with undiagnosed psoriatic arthritis: the PROMPT research programme including RCT by Neil McHugh, Laura Bojke, Mel Brooke Turfrey, Rachel Charlton, Myka Ransom, Laura C Coates, Howard Collier, Claire Davies, Emma Dures, Philip Helliwell, Jana James, Anya Lissina, Vishnu B Madhok, Alison L Nightingale, Jonathan Packham, Catherine Smith, Eldon Spackman, Cerys Tassinari, William Tillett, Sarah T Brown

“…We found that by the time participants received their diagnosis, they were already dealing with functional limitations and were highly distressed and anxious. …”
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