Towards better and unlinkable protected biometric templates using label‐assisted discrete hashing by Kiran Raja, R. Raghavendra, Christoph Busch

“…The proposed approach can easily be adopted for a closed‐enrolment set in which enrolment images are known a priori whereas the challenge of learning templates for a single subject remains open. …”
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The impact of obstetric violence on postpartum quality of life through psychological pathways by Shahnaz Kohan, Desirée Mena-Tudela, Samaneh Youseflu

“…Therefore, it is recommended that policymakers and managers adopt programs to promote respectful maternal care and prevent obstetric violence to prevent the occurrence of adverse effects in parturient women.…”
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Valorization of sawdust by co-composting with food waste using a small-scale composter by Hadi Bello, Akeem Jimoh

“…Three experimental trials 1, 2 and 3 were adopted in this study with mixture of sawdust and food waste (Trial 1= 80% sawdust + 20% food waste, Trial 2 = 70% sawdust + 30% food waste, Trial 3 = 60% sawdust + 40% food waste). …”
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Nitrogen Inversion Model in a Wetland Environment Based on the Canopy Reflectance of Emergent Plants by Dongli Wu, Dongliang Zhao, Yongchao Zhu, Chao Shen, Hongxi Xue

“…To establish the appreciate relationship between total nitrogen content (TN) and reflectance spectra, both simple and multiple regression models, including simple ration spectral index (SR), normalized difference spectral index (ND), stepwise multiple linear regression (SMLR) model, and partial least squares regression (PLSR), were adopted in this study. The results showed that (1) compared with simple regression models (SR and ND), multiple regressions models (SMLR and PLSR) could provide a more accurate estimation of TN concentration in the wetland environment. …”
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Scrutinizing neurodegenerative diseases: decoding the complex genetic architectures through a multi-omics lens by Relu Cocoș, Bogdan Ovidiu Popescu

“…This review highlights the critical importance of adopting a systems genetics approach to unravel the complex genetic architecture of neurodegenerative diseases. …”
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Comparative analysis of organizationalculture transformation models by I. V. Groshev, Menin He

“…It has been concluded that regardless of which model will be adopted as the basis for the process of changing the organizational culture, the context in which the transformations take place should be taken into account. …”
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Assessing public support for air pollution mitigation and control policies: health, socioeconomic, and ideological predictors in an overburdened and vulnerable region of the U.S. by Gilda Zarate-Gonzalez, Paul Brown, Ricardo Cisneros

“…Concerns included the costs, charge and attributes of adopting hybrid or electric vehicles. Residents supported air pollution control and public space preservation, with socioeconomic factors and health state being significant predictors. …”
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Effectiveness of health literacy and relaxing music on quality of sleep and risk for antenatal depression by Meena Konsam, Samir Kumar Praharaj, Sunita Panda, Jyothi Shetty, N. Ravishankar, Sonia R. B. D’Souza

“…Methods: A four-arm parallel-group randomized controlled trial was adopted; 128 low-risk primigravid women were recruited and randomly assigned to the four groups using block randomization. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation Characteristics of Dry/Wet Spells in Longitudinal Range-Gorge Region of the Tropic of Cancer by JIN Hanyu, CHENG Qingping, REN Yitong

“…Under the background of global warming,extreme climate events occur frequently.Understanding the change in precipitation from multiple perspectives is of great significance to the utilization of water resources.Specifically,the daily precipitation data at 24 stations along the Tropic of Cancer in the Longitudinal Range-Gorge Region (LRGR) from 1961 to 2019 are used to calculate 14 wet/dry spell indices.Methods including the revised Mann-Kendall test,Pettitt,and wavelet coherence are adopted to reveal the spatiotemporal variation characteristics of the dry/wet spell indices and their correlation with the large-scale circulation index.The results indicate that:① the wet and dry spells in LRGR of the Tropic of Cancer show a significant decreasing and increasing trend,respectively,especially in the area west of Yuanjiang River and south of the Tropic of Cancer.The change in the wet and dry spell indices of most stations is mainly concentrated in 2002.② The frequency of short-duration wet spells and the contribution rate to annual precipitation demonstrate an increasing trend,and those of the medium-long-duration wet spells demonstrate a decreasing trend;the short-duration dry spells are in decline while medium-long-duration dry spells are rising,and the entire region tends to aridification.③ The extreme dry spell index is closely related to ENSO,and it has a negatively correlated co-occurrence cycle of about six years;the extreme wet spell index is closely related to the summer monsoon of the South China Sea,and it has a positively correlated co-occurrence cycle of about eight years.To sum up,the above analysis shows that dry and wet spell indices in LRGR of the Tropic of Cancer demonstrate an overall trend of aridification,which means that the drought risks are increasing.Their spatiotemporal variation characteristics and local differences may be closely related to the joint influence of the large-scale circulation index,monsoon,and channel-blocking in LRGR.…”
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Resilience in Crisis: A Longitudinal Study of Entrepreneurial Responses to COVID-19 pandemic by Yi Zhang, Xiaochen Bu

“…Methodology/Approach: The paper adopts a two-year longitudinal research methodology with two rounds of in-depth interviews to observe the immediate challenges faced by entrepreneurs and their responses at the beginning of 2021 on the one hand, and to follow up on their adjustments and the state of their businesses in 2023 on the other hand, in order to shed light on the long duration and complexity of the pandemic›s impact on entrepreneurs. …”
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Waste and residue management: sustainable hospital catering services by Hatice Baygut, Saniye Bilici

“…Conclusion Dietitians need to plan menus by adopting sustainable nutrition models. In this context, efforts should be made to plan menus in which local suppliers will be supported and food waste and non-food waste will be reduced. …”
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Latest revisions to the International Health Regulations will fail to prevent future travel chaos by Kelley Lee, Julianne Piper

“…Alongside the need to better understand what, when and how travel measures should be used during public health emergencies of international concern, improved global governance is required. Recently adopted revisions to the International Health Regulations (IHR), notably Article 43, failed to change current rules and commitments. …”
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Actors and roles in integration of electric vehicles in energy markets and power systems: Theory, glossary, and application to virtual power plant and fleet operator by Jan F. Heinekamp, Kai Strunz

“…In liberalized energy markets, however, each actor may pursue own objectives depending on particular roles adopted. Regulatory frameworks specifying those roles are generally publicly available. …”
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Articulatory-to-Acoustic Conversion Using BiLSTM-CNN Word-Attention-Based Method by Guofeng Ren, Guicheng Shao, Jianmei Fu

“…By considering the graphical representation of the articulators’ motion, this study combined Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) with convolution neural network (CNN) and adopted the idea of word attention in Mandarin to extract semantic features. …”
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Management of large energy storage power plants: optimization of charging and discharging with cuckoo search algorithm by Behnam Motalebinejad, Majid Hosseina, Mojtaba Vahedi, Mahmoud Samiei Moghaddam

“…Simulation results demonstrate that adopting this approach in managing large-scale energy storage facilities leads to significant economic impacts. …”
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The Sub 2-h Official Marathon is Possible: Developing a Drafting Strategy for a Historic Breakthrough in Sports by G. D. Fernandes, Nazir Laureano Gandur, Dioser Santos, Victor Maldonado

“…The strategy has been adopted by Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge on numerous marathon events in the past, including the 2018 and 2022 editions of the Berlin marathon (where Kipchoge set two official world records), as well as in two special attempts to break the 2 h mark for the distance, the Nike Breaking2 (2017) and the INEOS 1:59 Challenge (2019), where Kipchoge used an improved drafting formation to finish in 1:59:40, although that is not recognized as an official record. …”
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Public Administration in the Field of Using and Protecting Land Resources: International Experience and Ukrainian Realities by V. I. Teremetskyi, H. P. Shust

“…It has been concluded that in order to ensure the rational use and protection of land resources, especially in the conditions of opening the land market in Ukraine, it is necessary to adopt the experience of more developed countries and make appropriate amendments to national legislation.…”
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Social employee well-being challenges of academics in the hybrid work environment by Rudo Rachel Marozva, Anna-Marie Pelser

“…The aim of the study was to explore and understand social well-being challenges that academics face as a result of the hybrid work environment. The study adopted a cross-sectional qualitative research approach and used semi-structured interviews using an interview guide to collect data. …”
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Knowledge, attitude and predictors of diabetic retinopathy screening among patients with type 2 diabetes in Nairobi County, Kenya by Lagatt C Faith, Harun Kimani

“…Multistage sampling technique was adopted for selecting persons with diabetes attending ‘level three’ health facilities. …”
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Les procèdes linguistiques en dialecte marocain modérateurs de l’apprentissage de la natation : cas des femmes adultes by Fatima BAKAZZA

“…Cette réalité corrobore le manque de supports andragogiques en natation et de consensus entre les entraineurs sur le savoir à enseigner et la langue à adopter (le français, l’arabe ou le dialecte marocain). …”
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