Reliable Multihop Broadcast Protocol with a Low-Overhead Link Quality Assessment for ITS Based on VANETs in Highway Scenarios by Alejandro Galaviz-Mosqueda, Salvador Villarreal-Reyes, Hiram Galeana-Zapién, Javier Rubio-Loyola, David H. Covarrubias-Rosales

“…Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have been identified as a key technology to enable intelligent transport systems (ITS), which are aimed to radically improve the safety, comfort, and greenness of the vehicles in the road. …”
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Konference Bohumil Hrabal neidylický. Přehlížené a ukryté aspekty jeho díla, 25.–27. dubna 2024, Nymburk by Marek Ďurčanský, Marek Brčák

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Ethical Issues in Building and Maintaining Coalitions -- A 10-Step Decision-Making Model for Choosing between Right and Right by Carolyn S. Wilken, Katey Walker

“… A coalition is a group of organizations and individuals working together for a common purpose. …”
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Utilization of a Lightweight 3D U-Net Model for Reducing Execution Time of Numerical Weather Prediction Models by Hyesung Park, Sungwook Chung

“…We also propose a convolutional block attention module-based Half-UNet (CH-UNet), a lightweight 3D-based U-Net architecture, for faster deep-learning computations. …”
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Heat-related mortality in Mexico: A multi-scale spatial analysis of extreme heat effects and municipality-level vulnerability by Lara Schwarz, Chen Chen, Javier Emmanuel Castillo Quiñones, L.C. Aguilar-Dodier, Kristen Hansen, Jaime Reyes Sanchez, David J.X. González, Gordon McCord, Tarik Benmarhnia

“…A within-community matched design with Bayesian Hierarchical model explored effects across 2456 municipalities. …”
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L’écologisation, mise à l’épreuve ou nouveau registre de légitimation de l’ordre territorial ? by Vincent Banos, Anne Gassiat, Sabine Girard, Baptiste Hautdidier, Marie Houdart, Sophie Le Floch, Françoise Vernier

“…Our aim is to contribute to a debate, initially framed in the french context, on how dominant principles of « territorialization » may be undergoing an ecological turn. …”
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Estimation of minimum foot clearance using a single foot-mounted inertial sensor and personalized foot geometry scan by Katherine Heidi Fehr, Jennifer Nicole Bartloff, Yisen Wang, Scott Hetzel, Peter G. Adamczyk

“…This is achieved using a single foot-mounted inertial sensor and personalized shoe geometry scan, assuming a rigid-body IMU-shoe system. …”
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Impact of immigration-specific stress on safety attitudes: a national cross-sectional study on overseas qualified nurses in Japan by Xinyi Chang, Xiuzhu Gu

“…Nevertheless, such nurses may encounter various obstacles in their personal and professional lives in the host country, leading to apprehensions about their perceptions of workplace safety in healthcare organisations.Objective This study investigated the current state of immigration-specific stress among overseas qualified nurses (OQNs) working in Japan and its impact on safety attitudes.Settings Invitation letters with a Quick Response (QR) code for a survey were sent to 119 hospitals across Japan that accepted OQNs as per the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. …”
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A fuzzy logic-based risk evaluation and precaution level estimation of explosive, flammable, and toxic chemicals for preventing damages by Abdul Aziz, Md Masum Suzon, Rakib Hasan

“…The proposed system can evaluate the risk of handling hazardous chemicals and determine the appropriate precaution level to prevent accidents using a fuzzy inference system. The inventory size, explosiveness, flammability, and toxicity of the chemicals are used as input variables for evaluating the output variable risk. …”
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Cognitive Training and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Blake J. Lawrence, Natalie Gasson, Andrew R. Johnson, Leon Booth, Andrea M. Loftus

“…Forty-two participants with PD-MCI were randomized to one of six groups: (1) standard cognitive training, (2) tailored cognitive training, (3) tDCS, (4) standard cognitive training + tDCS, (5) tailored cognitive training + tDCS, or (6) a control group. Interventions lasted 4 weeks, with cognitive and functional outcomes measured at baseline, post-intervention, and follow-up. …”
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A Combination of Coconut Fiber Suture and Tamarind Seed Gel with Dehydrated Human Amnion Membrane for Wound Surgery in Rats by Raghu Babu Pothireddy, Angeline Julius, Manu Thomas Mathai, Ganesh Lakshmanan, Beimnet Asfaw Hailemariam

“…This research signifies the use of TSP gel together with the amnion membrane representing a “smart patch” with wound healing potential, which would encourage further research on the smart patch made using a combination of plant and animal biological materials.…”
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Barbora Markéta Eliášová: Nippon druhým domovem. První česká samostatná cestovatelka, její život a literární dílo by Bohumila Rázková

“…She found a second home there and she came back really very glad. …”
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Effects of Prepolymerization, Temperature, and Hydrogen Concentration on Kinetics of Propylene Bulk Polymerization Using a Commercial Ziegler-Natta Catalyst by Huiyue Liu, Gaiping Du, Yafeng Du, Dezhan Li, Jiangbo Chen

“…The effects of prepolymerization, temperature, and hydrogen concentration on propylene bulk polymerization with a commercial Ziegler-Natta catalyst were investigated, and the apparent polymerization rate constants were estimated by varying reaction temperatures, hydrogen partial pressures, and polymerization methods. …”
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Anti-NMDAR-Positive Small-Cell Lung Cancer Paraneoplastic Limbic Encephalitis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Raman Sohal, Steven H. Adams, Vishal Phogat, Abha Harish, Carlos Ynigo D. Lopez, Michael P. A. Williams, Kamal K. Khurana, Basel Abuzuaiter, Nia Jagroop, Bhavya Narapureddy

“…Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis (PLE) is a rare disease that presents as rapid onset dementia characterized by short-term memory loss (STM), anxiety, and behavioral changes. …”
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Corrigendum: Robot-assisted pyeloplasty and laparoscopic pyeloplasty in children: a comparison of single-port-plus-one and multiport surgery by Jianglong Chen, Jianglong Chen, Huihuang Xu, Huihuang Xu, Shan Lin, Shan Lin, Shaohua He, Shaohua He, Kunbin Tang, Kunbin Tang, Zhixiang Xiao, Zhixiang Xiao, Di Xu, Di Xu

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The The Influence of Perceived Convenience and Service Quality on Customer Loyalty (A Study at the Brilink Agent Bio Energy 2 Sidoarjo) by Devi Putri Pratama, Budi Prabowo

“…Data analysis was carried out using the SPSS version 25 program with the help of path analysis as a hypothesis test. Research findings show that perceptions of convenience and service quality directly have a positive and significant effect on customer loyalty through customer satisfaction. …”
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Real-World Efficacy and Safety of Tafluprost in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Patients with Corneal Disorders: A Taiwan Experience by Ju-Kuo Lin, Fu-Tsung Wei, Yi-Chun Liu, Yung-Chang Yen

“…Material and Methods. This was a single-arm, open-label, switching study on adult POAG patients treated with latanoprost 0.005% for more than 3 months, with corneal disorders but no dry eye therapy. …”
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Blade pitching in vertical axis wind turbines: A double multiple stream tube theoretical approach to performance enhancement by Antim Gupta, Ussama Ali, Hamid Ait Abderrahmane, Isam Janajreh

“…Blade pitching model 1 and 2 were found to be effective across all lower Tip Speed Ratio (TSR) values, suggesting its robustness in variable wind conditions. A peak average coefficient of performance (Cp) of 0.568 was achieved at TSR = 5 using pitching Model 1 with a maximum angle of attack of 8.5°, compared to a Cp of 0.48 for the fixed blade configuration, near to Betz's limit (Cp = 0.593). …”
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Orthographic Visualisation Induced Brain Activations in a Chronic Poststroke Global Aphasia with Dissociation between Oral and Written Expression by Jurgita Usinskiene, Michael Mouthon, Chrisovalandou Martins Gaytanidis, Agnes Toscanelli, Jean-Marie Annoni

“…We propose a method of orthographic visualisation strategy in a poststroke severe aphasia person with dissociation between oral and written expression. fMRI results suggest that such strategy may induce the engagement of alternative nonlanguage networks and visual representations may help improving oral output. …”
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Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disorder due to a Novel Mutation in Recombination Activation Gene 2: About 2 Cases by Ibtihal Benhsaien, Fatima Ailal, Khadija Elazhary, Jalila El bakkouri, Abdallah Badou, Ahmed Aziz Bousfiha

“…The genetic study in the two cases revealed a novel mutation in the RAG2 gene, c.826G > A (p.Gly276Ser), in a homozygous state. …”
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